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Meta’s Vibes Feed Is a Slop Cannon — Here’s Your Counter-Program
“When the product is vibes, the KPI is trance time.” Cold-open Meta just swapped “Discover” for Vibes—an infinite slot machine of AI-generated micro-clips inside the Meta AI app (and on meta.ai). Think TikTok if TikTok fired…
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Robot Ump, Human Ego: When Geometry Wins
“We automated fairness and kept the arguments.” Cold open Bottom of the ninth. Tie game. Pitch nicks the zone like a rumor. Batter freezes, catcher fist-pumps, crowd inhales—and then it happens: the challenge. Two fingers to…
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Dark UX, Dumber Traps: Five Fixes by Lunch
Trust is earned in pennies and lost in wire transfers. Here’s the repair kit. August field notes: the gloss got glossier, the traps got dumber, and the only honest person in the room was the network…
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NPC Internet: One Brain, A Billion Mouths
Personalization turned into personality deletion. You know that déjà vu you get mid-scroll—like the internet is telling the same joke with different faces? That’s not imagination. It’s the sound of a shared brain speaking through a…
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The Infinite Apology Machine: AI’s Role in Outsourcing Corporate Guilt
“Our AI regrets your feelings.” Like What You Read? Dive Deeper Into AI’s Real Impact. Keep Reading TL;DR Brands are outsourcing contrition to bots. It’s faster, cheaper, and emptier—an assembly line for “we hear you” that…
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The Algorithmic Alibi – When Criminals Blame the Recommender System
(“Sorry, Your Honor—YouTube told me to do it.”) Like What You Read? Dive Deeper Into AI’s Real Impact. Keep Reading TL;DR “Algorithmic alibi” = defendants claim recommender systems nudged them into crime. Legal success is rare…
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We don’t nurture leads. We interrogate them.
Built for hostile rooms.
If it can’t fail, it can’t be “ethical.”
Keep The Algorithms Guessing.
Less ritual, more result.
Come for receipts, leave with leverage.
Get the drop →FAQ
Is this moralizing?
No sermons. Constraints you can enforce. Red lines first, features second.
How do you verify “responsible” claims?
Receipt Chain + explicit falsifiers. If it can’t be wrong, it isn’t right.
Do you call out vendors?
By method, not by meme. We test flows and publish the harness.
Where’s your policy?
Editorial values. No dark patterns. No quiet drains.
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Talking to the Machines
This isn’t just a blog—it’s a running dialogue with the systems shaping your future. Talking to the Machines is our behind-the-screens series: the prompt tests, contradictions, and quiet reveals you won’t hear in a press release.
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Meet the operator.
I don’t sell vibes. I run receipts. If a claim can’t be falsified, it doesn’t publish. Come see how the sausage gets stamped.