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The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
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Kyle Kingsbury
On 2026-05-30, the Mastodon server I run started getting a flood of implausible signup requests. We think these are likely bots because our server rules and signup form clearly tell users to talk about their interest in gay leather. Most people sign up with something like “42 yo levis enthusiast into piss” or “Hi! I’m…
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I Want You to Understand Chicago
Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his…
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety
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The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work
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The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture
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The Future of Fact-Checking Is Lies, I Guess
Last weekend I was trying to pull together sources for an essay and kept finding “fact check” pages from factually.co . For instance, a Kagi search for “pepper ball Chicago pastor” returned this Factually article as the second result: