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Feeling Machines

Being Human in an AI-Obsessed World

AI discourse has two settings: salvation and doom. These essays are for everyone in between, using the technology while questioning it, holding hope and horror, grasping at language for the contradictions they're not hearing out loud.

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The New False Binaries

Access Meets Appetite

A tool built for exploration becomes a mechanical dragon when it meets a world that only knows how to hoard.

Apr 26, 2026 · 10 min read

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The New False Binaries

  1. 1 The Unspeakable Middle The dominant AI discourse has two settings: salvation and doom. Tens of millions of people fit in neither camp and don't have a say. Mar 17, 2026 · 9 min read
  2. 2 What the Headlines Won't Tell You AI discourse is too theatrical. It puts the onus on individuals, becoming guilt without leverage. The real question isn't whether AI is good or bad. It's who decides where it goes. Mar 21, 2026 · 9 min read
  3. 3 Access Meets Appetite Latest A tool built for exploration becomes a mechanical dragon when it meets a world that only knows how to hoard. Apr 26, 2026 · 10 min read

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