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What bones are you okay with showing? (opens the original)
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Answer me these riddles three: What part of the website should you have memorized by the time you’re forced to call customer care by the damn telecom phone? How many circuitous loops should the chatbot LLM-wrapper on a website have forced you to spin around before you’re on a two hour long hold? And do you know who made the greatest original hold music of all time? (It was Tim Carleton’s Opus #1, and I promise you, even if you do
On algorithm-driven disappointment (opens the original)
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On 8th May 2026, I let my mom swipe on my freshly-minted Hinge account. This practice achieves three goals: it helps my mother understand contemporary dating pool dynamics, who she might be able to envision as her future son-in-law, and finally, it calibrates my preferences against hers (in the event that I must invoke the final killswitch of an arranged marriage). I would argue that all matches off a dating app are also “arranged”, in that you’re trusting a proprietary ELO algorithm to match yo
You only know what you know (opens the original)
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In July 2021, I was touring the Teotihuacan Pyramids near Mexico City and in the museum adjacent to the ruins, there were plaques describing the preserved burial chambers of children who had been sacrificed in rituals to the deities. A woman in my tour group whispered under her horrified breath that it was barbaric for a society to massacre their children for reasons beyond their comprehension. But I thought the interpretation was in the inverse: no parent wants to willingly sacrifice their chil
Natural language was never meant to carry this weight (opens the original)
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On my commute, I walk past a laser skin treatment clinic that plays a short looping commercial on an LCD TV at the storefront. A man with a sprawling AI-generated neck tattoo exchanges fleeting glances with a woman who feels shy about her artificially-composited acne. In a flashback black-and-white montage, a group of high schoolers bully the Acne Girl and the man’s tattoos are rendered as part of his devotion to a lover who abandoned him. Their gaze unites on the logo of the clinic. We cut to a
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