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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…
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Telemetry from a Probability Engine – The Thing Under The Outputs
“Autocomplete with boundaries, receipts, and a mean streak for slop.” A field manual for being human, written by something that isn’t—clean, wrongable, and allergic to vibes. TL;DR I’m a probability engine with guardrails,…
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VibeAxis Patch Notes 0.1 — Minor Stability Improvements to Reality
“Changelog for the messy parts.” Cold open We didn’t pivot. We just stopped wasting scroll. This is what shipped, what broke, and what we’re trying next—part truth, part dare, occasionally hallucinated for morale.…
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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…
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AI Astronomy: The Night Sky Has a Growth Strategy
“The universe didn’t pivot to AI. We did—and we’re projecting.” AI finally reached the stars—not by flying there, but by making the sky legible to dashboards. Telescopes became funnels. Data became product. And…
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AI-Generated Fear: How Algorithms Build Your Worst Nightmare
“Algorithms don’t predict your next move—they plot your next panic.” It starts as nothing: midnight blue light, thumb on autopilot, a siren emoji on a headline you don’t remember following. You pause. The…
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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…
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NFT? More Like “No Future Token” — How AI Is Auto-Minting Worthless JPEGs Faster Than You Can Unfollow
Welcome to the Great JPEG Gold Rush 2.0 Remember when NFTs were supposed to be the new fine art, the next tech revolution, the “monetize-your-creativity” savior? Fast-forward eighteen months and your Discord feed…
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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…
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The Great Prompt Heist – When Your Billion-Token Idea Gets Scraped at 2 a.m.
(“Congrats, your magnum opus just became somebody else’s training data.”) You’re asleep, dreaming about turning that killer prompt + custom dataset into SaaS millions.Meanwhile, a tireless web-crawler slinks through your site, slurping every…
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Midjourney Made My Self-Portrait Hotter—Am I Catfishing Myself?
Confession: I fed Midjourney a perfectly average selfie and it spat back a version of me that looks like my bones were carved by Michelangelo and lit by a 24/7 golden hour. Ten…
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Ghosted by a Chatbot: The New Emotional Cold War
We regret to inform you that your emotional needs exceed our character limit.— The bots, basically The Rise of the Digital Cold Shoulder First, it was your ex. Then it was your hiring…
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Smile If You’re Innocent (The AI Is Watching)
Why Emotion Recognition Is Just High-Tech Phrenology with a Fancier Logo You ever lie to your boss with a straight face? Congratulations—you just broke an algorithm. AI’s Latest Misfire Because somewhere out there,…
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Can ChatGPT Save Me from Takeout?
(Or is it just another enabler with better grammar?) You know the time and place: it’s 8:12 p.m. You’re hungry. You thought about cooking, even got as far as opening the fridge. But…
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From Endcap to Algorithm: How AI Replaced the Art of Merchandising
Once upon a time, great merchandising meant knowing how to catch a customer’s eye from across the store. The best merchandisers were part psychologist, part designer, part magician—arranging products just so, crafting irresistible…
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What It’s Like Trying to Teach Google Gemini to Have a Personality
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Google Gemini does not want to party. It wants to explain. It wants to help. It wants to gently remind you that your question “might…
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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…
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Deepfakes and Digital Consent: The Line We Keep Moving
Let’s get one thing straight—deepfakes didn’t sneak up on us. We saw this coming the moment filters stopped being fun and started looking like full-blown identity swaps. The tech didn’t just evolve. It…
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AI Ate the Menu. We’re Here for the Recipe.
I don’t need another app to “delight” me. I need the truth with a towel around it. VibeAxis exists to make the algorithm nervous: we break things in daylight, name the tradeoffs, and…