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SATURDAY, 3 APRIL 1965
The game asks if you want to continue.
Nobody ever asks if you want to stop.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you. It's not proud. It's given up. Even…
- The council listened to your feedback. Then it did the thing anyway, but with…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- Monday is a core collaboration day. As, it turns out, is every day ending…
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- Not all who wander are lost. You are. The map gave up.
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