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Indignity Vol. 4, No. 216

What loaded next were some little animated boxes and that blur of not-really-text-shaped blobs that is already too familiar as the sign that somewhere, an "AI" system is draining an unholy amount of energy to generate an output. After that came an unreadably dull boilerplate summary of Pete Hegseth's situation, which I skipped over immediately because by now the AI systems have trained me to scroll past the machine-generated results. Through the tangled bare branches, far off below the Park, an enchanted glow was draped across the good and bad buildings indiscriminately, with here and there a section of glass molten with reflected sunset.

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