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FRIDAY, 29 MAY 1959
Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress".
It said the same when you opened it by accident. It'll keep saying it after you've gone, if nobody cancels the subscription.
— Zack, unqualified
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- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- A good night out now means home by ten. Nobody had to come and…
- They posted an apology in the Notes app. It was addressed to the fans.…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
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