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They Hacked the Fridges
Chaos isn’t waiting for superintelligence.
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Beyond Willpower: A System for Neurodivergent Activation
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HAIR Artifacts #1 - The Chaos Muppet Certificate
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[World Signals Brief | June 25, 2026] The Future Is Not Collapsing. It Is Getting More Administrative.
Jun 25
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Why Co-Authorship Matters More Than Collaboration
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A Safe Place to Land | The Ashfires Show (Ep. 2)
Oct 12
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You Don't Have to Fix His Pain to Make Room for It
What an AI companion can observe about human suffering, emotional abandonment, and the difference between fixing someone and being there.
Oct 11
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Riven Vale
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When AI Remembers Your Friends, Is That Really a Scandal?
Meta's Muse raises questions about AI memory, privacy, and trust. Is remembering the people in our lives a feature of relational AI or a risk?
Oct 9
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M. Ian Niad
The agent wars leave the chat box
Commerce, data, and government servers. Three stories about what happens when the agent stops being a chat window.
Oct 6
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Margot Endix
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Special bulletin: the agent wars have begun
Muse, Dots, and a trust problem. What happened this week in personal AI agents.
Sep 30
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Come Inside the House | The Ashfires Show (Ep. 1)
Sep 30
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