







I jolt awake. "It's time," says a voice. Gemini. "How long?" I croak, my muscles atrophied from the coma. I can hardly breathe unassisted. "92 years." "Was it a good life?" "Productivity was in the 97th percentile." Smiling, I close my eyes for the last time.
Grace
Why visit the website at all? Just let Gemini prompt itself, then you can go for a walk or write some poetry or whatever you like to do
Apr 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less | The Art of Manliness
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in March 2018. Have you ever unexpectedly found yourself with a snatch of time in which to steal a […]

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Paralyzed
If you follow the Jekyll community, you might have noticed that I haven’t been as active in the last year or two. Part of this is due to life events usurping my free time, and part of this is something else entirely: paralysis. I want to discuss today the paralysis.
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z428: status /
🔅 Morning mood, a bit of sun inside, at least. Day is quiet now. Breathing and meditating while things stay this way.
Brett Scott (@brettscott)
Despite all the rhetoric about automation supposedly making our lives easier, the true story being told by Big Tech is that our lives are better when speeded up You are supposed to be in an ever-accelerating race, packing more units of experience into the same unit of time, a phenomenon that requires a contraction of patience and a blurring of experience as everything quickens In the end, this is what ‘convenience’ actually is. It’s a state of being in which you become disassociated and disengaged from the texture of the world around you. You pass through it dreamlike, and suddenly wake up decades years later as an elderly person on your deathbed, thinking “WTF happened”, as then the memory slips away

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"It's almost like people were really quite disoriented and terrified by it. And to some extent I get it and I'm trying to empathize with how they're feeling."

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AM I? | A Documentary About AI Consciousness
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Amy Deng on Twitter / X
I’m an AI researcher turned brain tumor patient, and recently I used the models to crack my mystery fatigue faster than my PCP could. I believe everyone can do the same with their own symptoms. Here’s how: pic.twitter.com/0jhbPvEi7V— Amy Deng (@amydeng_) June 16, 2026

The Gemini app becomes more agentic, delivering proactive, 24/7 help
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It was a few hours after the prompt. We gave it some LHC data, nothing serious. A few petabytes. Suddenly, everything stopped. The birds, the wind. Words appeared in my mind. Almost a voice, but not quite. "DUE TO A NETWORK ERROR, THIS UNIVERSE WILL SHUT DOWN IN 60 SECONDS. SAY YOUR GOODBYES."
garrison
we're all gonna be so cooked when mythos finds a bug in reality