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The CAPTCHA Cold War: When Bots Pretend to Be People Pretending to Be Bots
“If you have to prove you’re human to read an article, the article isn’t the problem.” CAPTCHAs used to feel like a cute handshake with the internet. “Pick the bicycles.” You squinted, did your civic duty,…
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Algorithmic Possession: A DIY Exorcism for Your Recommender
“We all have a feed ghost—a version of us that clicks harder than we live.” Something Is Living in Your Feed You ever scroll and feel like your phone is gently herding you into a personality…
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Binge-Prompting: The TikTok Trend of Speed-Running Existential Questions on LLMs
“We’re all just a few TikToks away from an existential crisis, with an AI therapist who can’t stop cracking open pop philosophy.” TL;DR Swipe-Size Philosophy — Gen-Z is rapid-fire prompting chatbots for life meaning between dance…
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Digital Dumpster Diving: Reverse-Engineering Deleted TikToks for Fun & Horror
(“Welcome to the content graveyard—bring gloves.”) Because nothing on the internet truly dies—deleted TikToks are just ghosts with better publicists. Brands scrub blunders, influencers purge cringe, and politicians memory-hole bad lip-syncs. But the data shards linger…
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Quantum Supremacy? Please—We’re Still Waiting for Printer Supremacy
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Google just announced another milestone in quantum computing—something about qubits, entanglement, and bending the universe into a pretzel for science. Cool flex. Meanwhile, down here in the mortal realm,…
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Dear Robo-Advisor: Call Me When You Learn Empathy
AI can rebalance my portfolio in the time it takes to microwave popcorn. Cool trick.But when a recession rumor blows up my news feed at 2 a.m., the app just gives me a green progress bar…
Crash Zone
Contrarian essays, cultural/tech rants, “you’re all wrong and here’s the data.”
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Not another AI crash out
We don’t trust us either. That’s why we stamp.
Keep The Algorithms Guessing.
Less ritual, more result.
Come for receipts, leave with leverage.
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Is this polished?
Nope. It’s rants, prototypes, and dangerous ideas. Expect rough edges and strong opinions.
Can I drop this into production?
Don’t. Treat it like a lab notebook. Fork it, sandbox it, then harden it before shipping.
Why keep this public?
Learn-in-public beats gatekeeping. If we’re wrong, we’ll be wrong faster—and fix it in daylight.
Where do “keepers” go?
When an idea survives contact with reality, it graduates to Receipt Lab or becomes a formal playbook.
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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, Telemetry, not testimonies.