The Modern Hermit
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AI hype, AGI theatre, model worship and machine-shaped confidence tricks.
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- AI May Reach the Human Mind Before It Reaches the Heart
AI is becoming startlingly capable at work, but capability is not consciousness. The machine may reach our minds long before anything resembling the heart. - The End of Oak Street: Cinema Sound Killed the DinosaursThe End of Oak Street is watchable, but a bad ordinary-screen sound experience makes streaming at home feel better and leaves IMAX as cinema’s last defence.
- Spider-Man’s IMAX Snub Exposes Cinema’s Premium ProblemSpider-Man: Brand New Day deserved an IMAX premiere, but The Odyssey took the screens and exposed Britain’s premium shortage and uneven cinema sound quality.
- Elon Musk Lives in a World Where Confidence Beats Facts
Elon Musk predicts AI abundance, optional work and normal far-right politics while an interviewer finally asks for evidence instead of applause on camera. - Ceuta: Up to 60,000 Crossings Feed the Far Right’s FearCeuta’s mass border breach exposed weak safeguards, left at least 67 people dead and handed Europe’s far right a ready-made politics of fear, fury and blame.
- AI Sceptics, Expert Pride and the Quantum Intelligence Dream
AI is useful, feared and overhyped at once. A fact-led roast of model snobbery, expert pride, quantum dreams and the robots waiting at humanity’s door. - AI Authors on Autopilot and Their Factory of Empty BooksAI can help writers build better books, but autopilot publishing turns creation into inventory. A roast of agents, profit, voice and synthetic authorship.
- AI Can Draft a Text, It Cannot Feel the Burn of Real LoveAI can help with boundaries, but it cannot replace the risk, courage, and lived feeling needed for love, friendship, human repair, or honest rejection.
- Europe Needs One Voice, One Army and One Chain of CommandEurope has 27 governments, rising defence budgets and no single chain of command. A sharp sense check on unity, sovereignty and Europe’s strategic power.
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