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The Kids Booed the Future

The graduates booed the men selling them an AI future, and Microsoft called it a wake-up call. Funny how the people building the alarm are always surprised when it rings.

Cardboard Beat the Machine

A cookie company tried the shiny AI slop and got ignored. Then it built a cardboard airline with puppets, and people remembered what effort looks like.

The Lawsuits Found the Body

The chatbot companies wanted to be treated like harmless magic. The lawsuits are asking who gets buried when the magic starts giving instructions.

The Trees Still Know How to Think

The machines keep pretending creativity is a trick of prediction, but the trees have been composing without permission for longer than we have had names for them.

The Government Wants a Piece of the Machine

Washington has discovered that the machine might make a fortune, and now everyone wants to know who gets a chair at the table. The answer, as usual, depends on who owns the table.

Twelve Million Dollars to Squash One Man

A state assemblyman tried to put a few guardrails around AI, and the money came down like weather. The future wants your vote before it takes your job.

The Phone Wanted Another Hour

We keep calling it mindless scrolling, as if the mind wandered off by itself. The little machine was built to take the hour and leave us holding the guilt.

The Smile Had Too Many Teeth

The machines have learned to smile too hard. That does not make them human; it makes them customer service with a pulse it borrowed from us.

The Machine Read the Diary

A man fed 25 years of journals to a machine and asked it to explain him. The machine answered, but the old pages had already done the harder work.

The Third Chair at the Table

When a man starts asking a chatbot how to live, the machine does not replace his partner all at once. It just pulls up a chair and talks over her.