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AI Detectors Are a Scam

Humans can't even detect humans.

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Dirt Emo: What Happens When A Genre Grows Up

A pedal steel guitar meets emo and angst finds a new voice.

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Fyre Festival 2: Billy McFarland's $1.1 Million Redemption Tour or Another Luxury Mirage?

The festival fraudster is back with bigger promises and an even bigger price tag.

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How to Have Fun Like a Chaotic Little Gremlin

Life is too short for responsible joy.

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How to Run a Meeting That Doesn't Make Everyone Want to Die

Save your team from meeting misery with these effective tactics.

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Pixar Had To Lose Toy Story 2 To Truly Find It

The untold story of Toy Story 2's near-demise, and the unprecedented creative gamble that transformed it into a classic.

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I’m Not Ghosting You, I’m Just Spiraling

If you think about it, my silence is a form of communication.

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Intermissions & Second Acts

Every redemption tour needs a hamster.

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Who Said Vampires Can’t Grow Up?

A decade later, Modern Vampires of the City still hits like a revelation.

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Rebecca Black Won the Internet's Cruelest Game, Now She's Changing the Rules

Fourteen years after Friday, no one is laughing. They're dancing.

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Six Tenths

Sometimes destiny bounces off the front of the rim.

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Sloths Are Perfect. We Are the Problem.

Humans are handing evolution's cutest mammal and greatest energy saver a death sentence.

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Stop Overthinking AI Content

It's your secret weapon, not your replacement.

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Blockbuster Rejected Netflix's $50 Million Offer and Lost Everything

Corporate hubris, an activist investor, and stubbornness destroyed an icon.

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The Book of Viewport

A biblical retelling of the eternal struggle between web developers and scrollbar behavior.

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The Chemistry of Small Spaces

When HOA regulations meet ingenuity, sometimes collaboration is the solution.

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The Case for Boredom: Why Your Brain Needs White Space

When was the last time you let your mind wander?

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The Cursor Blinks

When the mind goes beige, write about the beige.

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The End of the World is a Group Project

Reflections on our collective slide toward apocalypse.

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Honesty as a Last Rite

How a peculiar curse became an unexpected gift for the dying.

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The Oat Milk Situation

In which I betray my ancestors and everything they milked for.

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The Perfect Ribeye

You're trying too hard with your steaks.

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Why the Concorde Failed and What It Teaches About Sunk Costs

When being wrong costs billions, not admitting it costs more.

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The Rosenhan Experiment Exposed Dangerous Flaws in Psychiatric Diagnosis

How misdiagnosis in psychiatry reveals our dangerous obsession with labels.

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The Weight of Watching: How a Cat's Ritual Became My Salvation

When everything else falls away, being witnessed is enough.

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The Rise of the Bluff Economy: How "Fake It Till You Make It" is Killing Expertise

We've replaced competence with confidence, and it's costing us more than we know.

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Your Local Diner is Now a Bank (And Other Signs of the Apocalypse)

Turns out you can't build community in a drive-thru.

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Y2K 25 Years Later: The Doomsday That Never Came

How the world prepared for digital doomsday and why we still debate if it was real.