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AI as a translator, and a toll booth for everything else
From Seoul translation wins to watermark-stamped images and paywalled ‘thinking’, AI feels less like magic and more like a toll road with mood swings.
Avatar: Fire and Ash – Cinema’s 3D Progress Report: Zero
Avatar: Fire and Ash delivers Pandora in 3D, but dim glasses, eye strain and unchanged cinema hardware make the premium experience feel prehistoric again.
Code Red, Code Green: Altman, Google, AGI and the IQ Myth
Sam Altman says consumers do not want more IQ while chasing code red AGI. Google ships tools fast. The real fight is money, access,…
Social Networks Are Rental Flats for Your Opinions Only
If your ideas live on rented platforms, a robot can evict them in seconds. Build a home site, syndicate out, keep backups, and keep…
The Old Woman with the Knife (2025): Korean cinema is booming, UK cinemas keep flinching
Saw The Old Woman with the Knife on a big screen in Seoul. UK cinemas keep acting like Korean films are niche, even when…
Plumbers, AI, and the myth of the untouchable job, 2025
Everyone says plumbers are safe from AI. Sure. But the real joke is the AI plumbers selling doom while still needing humans to fix…
Bicentennial Man (1999): the AI roadmap corporates still ignore
Corporate AI dreamers want godlike intelligence with zero moral homework. Bicentennial Man shows the actual price: time, rights, limits, and love.
OpenAI GPT-5.2: a shiny patch on last month’s hype machine
GPT-5.2 arrives with new names, new prices, and old hype. A fact led roast on prompting theatre, ‘wow’ demos, and why UX still feels…
Zootopia 2: Seoul ScreenX Shows UK Cinemas What They Miss
Zootopia 2 in Seoul ScreenX exposes what too many UK cinemas still neglect: comfort, sightlines, cleanliness and more than one genuinely good room today.
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