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- Jimothy Is Not a Meme Coin
How a free-roaming Seattle raccoon became a character, a community, and a multimillion-dollar story - and what our affection can hide about speculative value.
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12 min - When Helping Becomes the Hazard
Five deaths in Ohio's Scioto River reveal how action bias, urgency, optimism, and social proof can turn one emergency into a rescue cascade.
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7 min - The Monet AI Experiment: When a Label Changes What You See
SHL0MS labeled a real Claude Monet painting as AI-generated, and the internet supplied the flaws. The experiment reveals how framing, confirmation bias, and the horn effect can change what we think we see.
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11 min - When a Confident AI Forecast Starts Feeling Inevitable
Nouriel Roubini's prediction that AI will transform work and make universal basic income inevitable reveals how authority, coherent stories, and a single dominant trend can turn a forecast into a felt fact.
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8 min - When an Arrest Becomes a Verdict
Andrew and Tristan Tate's Miami arrest produced instant certainty. Here is what is confirmed, what is alleged, and how thinking traps distort the debate.
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5 min - When Faster Information Feels Like Better Information
A new paid feed offering financial firms faster access to influential social posts raises a wider question: does getting information sooner actually make a decision better?
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Narrated essays about the cognitive biases shaping current events, online conversations, culture, technology, and everyday judgment.