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The Wrong Stalker
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I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?
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The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
“Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”
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Strangers Rent My Home, Sleep in My Bed, Play My Guitar
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Traversing the Mahjong Multiverse
“As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?”
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Roadside Attraction
“The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am.”
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I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse than Being Alone
“I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy.”
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Whither the Nerd-Bully?
“Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.”