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    Smile If You’re Innocent (The AI Is Watching)

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  • Election Seasons Are a UX Nightmare—Guess What Just Made It Worse

    Election Seasons Are a UX Nightmare—Guess What Just Made It Worse

    There’s a reason so many people treat voting like a root canal: it’s not just the politics—it’s the design. From impossible-to-navigate ballot sites to last-minute polling location changes buried three clicks deep, the user experience of…

  • Ballots and Botnets: What AI Means for the Next Election

    Ballots and Botnets: What AI Means for the Next Election

    The Next Election Won’t Just Be Fought—It’ll Be Programmed If you thought social media already made politics feel like a rigged simulation, buckle up. The next election won’t be decided solely by door-knockers or debate stage…

  • Digital Doppelgängers: How AI Is Recreating You Online

    Digital Doppelgängers: How AI Is Recreating You Online

    You are not who you think you are—at least not online. While you sleep and scroll—mindlessly clicking, passively consenting—AI is busy behind the curtain. Building a version of you from fragments: what you watch, what you…

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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.
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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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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.