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Ghosts with API Keys: The Boring Prediction That Pays
We spent two years arguing about vibes: prompts, personas, “act like a…”. Cute. The future is chores. A ghost with an API key logs into three services, pulls the doc, pays the invoice, files the receipt,…
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Spam Calls from Future You: Policy > Willpower
“Voicemail transcription: ‘Stop teaching the algorithm how to hurt you.’” Cold open Your phone lights up: Unknown Caller — You (+5 years). You let it ring the first time. The second time you answer and it’s……
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Hands That Hallucinate: Tactile AI Where “Close Enough” Snaps a Finger
Vision models hallucinate pixels. Embodied systems hallucinate forces. One wastes your time; the other makes glitter out of glass. Cold open The gripper swore the glass was obedient. The model said “secure.” Physics laughed. Two millimeters…
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Synthetic Social: When Bots Are the Audience
“Write like a human. Rank like a machine. Pick one.” You hit publish and your post gets “read” 12,483 times—except the comments are half boilerplate, the referrers look like a zoo of scrapers, and an AI…
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Clickbait 2.0: AI Headlines That Rewrite Themselves Until You Cave
Spoiler: tomorrow’s newsfeed will chase you, shapeshift, and finally guilt-trip you into tapping. The Infinite A/B Test Old-school clickbait was tacky but honest: “You’ll NEVER Guess #7.” One headline, one shot. Now the LLM behind your…
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Algorithmic Acid Trips: AI-Generated Dreams and the Future of Sleep Hacking
(AKA: “Alexa, serve me a lucid dream, hold the nightmares.”) From Sleep Apps to Psychedelic Servers First we tracked our REM cycles with wearables. Then we piped white noise into our skulls because TikTok said brown…