🎭 Culture May 5, 2026 · The Editors

Blunt thoughts on AI

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The final possibility that occurred to me, as five milligrams of edible THC began to inflect my thinking, was conjured under a more, shall we say, suspicious hermeneutic. I wondered — and, I can’t emphasize this enough, as just a rube in central New York — if the letters were themselves an instance of the hype cycle, which had reached a specific crest thanks to a recent post on X.com by a corporate evangelist, who announced that AI was at a crucial before-and-after moment in February 2026.

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