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Everyone's bringing back the dog filter.
Your face has been doing the droopy-ears look on its own since March, and it doesn't come off when you close the app.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
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- Every birthday is a gift. The gift is one fewer birthday.
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- You said you're "built different". You're built the same. Just assembled worse.
- Wisdom comes with age. So does standing on the landing with no idea why…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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