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The Code That Changed Her Mind
Samir wasn’t supposed to be in the lab that night. At nineteen, he was a coding intern at a Seattle startup, tasked with debugging AI chatbots for customer service. It was April 2025, and the tech world was electric—EU’s AI Act had just tightened rules on data privacy, while U.S. startups raced to launch “ethical AI” before China’s state-backed models dominated. X was ablaze with #TechForGood posts, from AI diagnosing rare diseases to deepfake bans protecting elections. Samir, though, felt like a cog in the machine, fixing glitches for a chatbot that sold shoes.
By jA Y9 months ago in Psyche
The Quiet Revolution
Lila hadn’t smiled in weeks. At twenty-two, she lived in a Chicago apartment cluttered with half-read books and unopened mail. The city buzzed outside—electric scooters whirring, screens flashing news of 2025’s latest climate funds and AI regulations—but inside, Lila felt stuck. Her job at a delivery startup was relentless, her inbox a flood of demands. Last month, a viral X post about “burnout culture” hit too close to home: “Why does it feel like we’re all drowning?” it read, with thousands of replies echoing the same ache. Lila wasn’t alone, but she felt it.
By jA Y9 months ago in Humans
The Last Seed
The summer of 2025 was the hottest Maya could remember. At sixteen, she’d grown up in a small coastal town in Oregon, where the Pacific Ocean used to hum with life. Now, the beach was littered with plastic bottles, and the air smelled faintly of smoke from distant wildfires. Her grandmother, Rosa, used to say the Earth was “singing a warning.” Maya didn’t understand back then. But this summer, with the news blaring about floods in Asia and the Arctic ice shrinking to its lowest ever, she felt the warning in her bones.
By jA Y9 months ago in Earth