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Aug 12, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

The Devil's Advocate: Six Voices on Humanity's Vanity

I’ve invited six voices, each representing a core perspective on our current predicament. I’ve cast myself as their Devil’s Advocate, not to argue for a single truth, but to expose the vanity in each of them....

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Aug 4, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

From Attention to Scope: The $5.6 Million Code Coup: How China's AI Upstart Exposed Silicon Valley's Last Lie

The computational moats Big Tech spent billions digging? Crossed by a Chinese startup with lunch money....

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Jul 24, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

The Mouse That Ate the World: How AI’s Infinite Hunger Is Stealing Our Future

What emerges is the Koch snowflake one of nature's most elegant fractals. Its perimeter grows infinitely, but its area remains bounded. Simple rules, applied recursively, creating infinite complexity within finite space....

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Jul 02, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

AI Is Just DOS in Disguise and the Game Is Rigged

AI is just another evolution of DOS, the Disk Operating System that powered early computers. More complex, more powerful, but still just code, algorithms, and statistics....

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Jun 30, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

The Ghost in the Machine: How We Taught AI to See the World Through Our Eyes

Welcome to the world of AI bias, where the funhouse mirror has become the hiring manager, the judge, and the gatekeeper all at once....

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Jun 03, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

There’s No Real Money in AI Business, Just Rented Dreams and Delusional Valuations!

Every decade has its bubble. This time, it's not crypto, not dot-com, it is AI wrappers pretending to be products. What we're witnessing isn't value creation. It's a rent-based economy....

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May 20, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

The AI Black Swan: How Capitalism’s Obsession With Profit Will Trigger the Next Collapse

ne powerful force driving all these phenomena remains largely unexamined in our daily discourse: capitalism....

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May 7, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

AI: Cat in the Hat or Chapeau Sans Lapin?

Let’s start with the heart of the matter: AI is not intelligent. Not in the way we usually mean that word....

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Jun 16, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

The Mathematician Mayor and His Army of Mimes: How Science Transformed a City

how a mathematician mayor used behavioral science to transform an entire city through the simple art of making social norms visible....

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Jun 13, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

The Man Who Destroyed Human Potential: Frederick Taylor's 100-Year Curse

the modern workplace prison, systematically stripping humans of dignity and agency while convincing everyone this dehumanization serves progress....

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Jun 01, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

The Great Crypto Vanishing Act: Understanding Rug Pulls in 5 Simple Steps

You wake up one morning, check your crypto wallet, and discover that your investment has vanished into thin air....

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May 29, 2025 By Farida Khalaf

The $4 Billion Mind Hack: How a Brilliant Woman Turned Your Brain Against You

A woman walks into a stadium filled with 20,000 people, promises them riches beyond imagination, and walks out $4 billion richer. No guns. No threats. No hacking....

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