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It’s Not Just Stupid, It’s Annoying

Original - An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby (1768)

So, the cat’s out of the bag and unless some crazy Dune-like catastrophic event happens (which it WILL) soon, “AI” tools are here to stay and to deplete our natural resources and also the brain capacity of the most vulnerable: the lazy and/or the dumb. Surprise - YOUR A DUMB!

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Nation

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Angel Down (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Novel

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