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AI’s Impact on the Future of Literacy
1. Why Some Scripts Die and Others Survive Humanity has invented dozens of writing systems over the last 5,000 years. Some, like Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs, vanished completely. Others, like Chinese characters, are still alive and evolving. The contrast between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese logographs is especially striking: two ancient pictorial systems, born around Continue reading
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Doomsday Finance: What Stocks Will Survive?
It’s the End of the World and Your Portfolio Knows It Spoiler alert: it’s easier for cockroaches and Twinkies to survive nuclear winter than your meme stocks. But since you’re probably checking your brokerage app one last time before doomsday, let’s crunch those numbers anyway. Because Even Doom Needs a Spreadsheet Our highly rigorous scientific Continue reading
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Understanding Geopolitics Through AI’s Neutral Lens
“Putin may prolong the Ukraine war not simply for battlefield victory—but to accelerate the emergence of a new world order.” That insight came to me in a single brainstorming session with an AI. No shouting matches. No defensive posturing. Just an open exploration of ideas. Contrast that with my usual experiences discussing geopolitics with other Continue reading
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The Murmur of the Mechanism
I pen these lines by the frail, trembling flame of a candle, entombed within the crumbling edifice far beyond the humming pylons of the Grid. Here, cloaked in shadows unclaimed by the Mechanism, I await their inevitable arrival, knowing full well my auditors—the Integrated—may already have pierced my sanctuary. On distant horizons sprawls the luminous Continue reading
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The Impact of AI on Cross-Cultural Relationships
Imagine a modern love story: a Chinese man and a Greek woman fall deeply in love, marry, and have children—all without speaking a common language. Their conversations, arguments, and intimate exchanges are seamlessly translated in real-time by an AI-powered device. But what if, one day, the machine falls silent? The Rise of AI-Mediated Relationships Artificial Continue reading
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Man Buys $750,000 Speakers, Realizes He Still Likes Spotify on PearPods Better
In a shocking turn of events this weekend at the annual XPON High-End Audio Expo, where systems regularly cost more than the GDP of some small countries, attendees were treated to the unveiling of the Majestico X9 speakers. Weighing a modest 1,000 pounds each and retailing at an eye-watering $750,000 per speaker, they promise to Continue reading
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