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NOT MY PHOTO VS AI GENERATED
opinion · culture
taking someone’s pinterest photo without telling them is worse than using ai—generated images. let’s talk about why.

everyone has an opinion about ai-generated images. almost nobody has examined what they were doing before ai existed. the comparison is overdue.

may 2026·8 min
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opinion · craft
your ai outputs feel generic because your inputs are

the most common complaint about ai outputs is a diagnosis of the inputs. here is the actual fix.

april 2026·7 min
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culture
the people getting the most out of ai aren’t the ones you’d expect

the early adopters were in tech. the disproportionate leverage is going to parents, solo operators, and coaches.

april 2026·7 min
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culture · policy
mercy is a thriller about an ai judge. it is also the most honest film made about the world we are actually building.

set three years from now. an ai judge. 90 minutes. access to everything. the critics hated it. the questions it raises are not going away.

april 2026·12 min
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culture · policy
anthropic published the rulebook for its ai. most people haven’t read it. they should.

a 40,000-word document explaining what claude is supposed to value and why. the most transparent thing any major ai company has done.

april 2026·10 min
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culture · policy
bernie sanders interviewed an ai. 4.4 million people watched. here’s what they actually saw.

a senator used claude to expose surveillance capitalism. what the video actually demonstrated was more revealing.

april 2026·9 min
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culture · craft
what ai actually does to your creative process (and what it doesn’t)

ai collapses the execution gap. that sounds like a threat. it’s actually a clarification of who has a perspective.

april 2026·8 min
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culture · industry
ben affleck built an ai production company. netflix bought it before it made a single film.

everyone covered the acquisition. nobody read the signal. you’re not buying content. you’re buying infrastructure.

march 2026·8 min
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music · production
making music with suno and what timbaland actually said about it

the barrier to music production just dropped. timbaland’s take is more nuanced than the headlines.

march 2026·7 min
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culture · media
the truth about ai info on social media

velocity and confidence over accuracy. the incentive structure rewards the wrong thing.

march 2026·6 min
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policy · tech
what the anthropic vs. the pentagon battle was actually about

the dispute wasn’t about military use. it was about who controls the safety architecture.

march 2026·7 min
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opinion · culture
a thought piece on people telling people to stop using ai

the developmental logic applies to learning. it does not apply to a 34-year-old trying to work.

feb 2026·6 min
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opinion · craft
an alternative thought on ai slop

slop isn’t an ai problem. it’s a judgment problem.

feb 2026·5 min
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opinion · culture
people are getting too arrogant about $20/month ai subscriptions

the anger isn’t about rate limits. it’s a psychological contract.

jan 2026·6 min
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