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SATURDAY, 12 DECEMBER 1992
You call your mum "for advice".
You call her for the Netflix password.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- Disrupt the industry. The industry will disrupt you back, then buy your logo for…
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
- Your boss hasn't taken a sick day in ten years. He has, however, given…
- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
- The retirement age goes up a year every time you check. It's not a…
- AI agrees with you more than any human ever has. That's not wisdom. That's…
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