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A Cop, A Camera, A Grudge
The most dangerous AI story running right now stars an ordinary person with legitimate access and a personal reason to misuse it.
Aug 4
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Jesse Alexander
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July 2026
The Nine-Year-Old With the Backpack Never Existed
Oxford named “rage bait” word of the year 2025. View counts back it up: hundreds of thousands, millions, all running on a hunger for justice that never…
Jul 31
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Jesse Alexander
Claude Generates Future Sports & Betting Book
A sportsbook I couldn't code priced a fictional sports upset at 6.90, and three imaginary punters called it. AI math does it all.
Jul 31
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Jesse Alexander
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The Invisible Engine
Every scene that reads flat, dialogue exchange that feels assembled, traces back to one broken mechanic. Master this and fix backward action lines, dead…
Jul 30
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Jesse Alexander
What Can’t the LLMs Summarize?
If your work is just good enough pages, a machine is coming for the gig. If it's discovery, no AI summary engine can do what you can.
Jul 30
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Jesse Alexander
Avoid Launching Into a Void
Six ways to grow an audience before you’ve got anything to sell
Jul 27
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Jesse Alexander
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Boxing Your Clutter Will Free Your Creativity
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” M. Kondo
Jul 27
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Jesse Alexander
DNC's Ahead in the Polls, Broke in the Hollywood Bank
Why Hollywood, historically the DNC's most dependable industry donor hub, can't simply be asked to give more money this time.
Jul 26
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Jesse Alexander
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Will Any Humans Read Your Scribbles?
Pro scribbling has run on a critical fact: somebody must read prose, start to finish. Increasingly, that somebody is a machine.
Jul 21
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Jesse Alexander
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Outline Like a Journalist
Once you learn to think like a journalist, you have a second language for every outline problem.
Jul 20
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Jesse Alexander
The Curiosity Engine
Genre is cosmetic. Curiosity is structural.
Jul 20
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Jesse Alexander
Can Stories Survive the Dying Page?
If reading is really coming to an end, does that mean scribbled stories are ending too, or just outgrowing being prose on a page?
Jul 20
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Jesse Alexander
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