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I Still Believe in AI. That’s Why It Scares Me. (opens the original)
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Last night, I found myself deep in the “AI will end the human race” rabbit hole, and it scared me.I had been reading some of the increasingly dire warnings about AI. The kind that move quickly past job displacement and misinformation and arrive somewhere darker: loss of human control, catastrophic risk, extinction.I don’t know whether the people making the darkest predictions are right. I’m not qualified to adjudicate every technical argument underneath them. I don’t know where legitimate concer
Self-Checkout (opens the original)
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A Note Before You Read:Today’s essay is one I wrote years ago, shortly after I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I was on medical leave from work at the time because, after months of suffering in silence, I finally opened up to Joe about the suicidal thoughts I was struggling with nearly every day.Writing has always been how I process things I can’t quite make sense of yet. So I wrote.I was trying to understand what had happened to my brain and what it meant for the life I’d assumed would continue, m
The Load-Bearing Woman Goes Swimming (opens the original)
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Last week, Joe and I spent five days in San Diego for our annual no-kids getaway.When we began planning the trip months ago, the only nonnegotiable was that it needed to be ridiculously restorative. Extravagance by way of nothingness.For us, that meant no itinerary, no excursions, and no list of essential “experiences” assembled by strangers on TikTok.To that end, we booked an Airbnb with a pool and made exactly one plan: arrive.For five days, our ambitions remained impressively low.Every mornin
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