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Climbing Mountains We Cannot Name
Denying AI progress won't stop our ascent
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No Other Choice and the Poverty of Cargo Cult Satire
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Getting Personal with Claude
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Platforms Rule Everything Around Me
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Density, Destiny, Manhattan to the West of Me
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Project Hail Mary Is Already Outdated
Nostalgia, timidity, and a lack of imagination make for more cargo-cult cinema
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Five Poems from Winter
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No Other Choice and the Poverty of Cargo Cult Satire
Another entry in the growing genre of films that mistake the aesthetics of critique for critique itself
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Getting Personal with Claude
After several thousand hours ensconced in private whispers, look, I’m ready to talk
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Density, Destiny, Manhattan to the West of Me
on the end of prelude
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Brain Rot as Culture-Bound Illness
on digital disorders, ancient pathologies, and post-ironic posting
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