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Future Tense

The Authenticity We Can Afford to Care About

We never agreed to let a retail platform decide what counts as real writing. We just stopped noticing when it happened.

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A Z Mackay
Jan 02, 2025
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11 PM. The cursor hovers over the digital confessional. Binary truth demands resolution: human or machine? The author’s mind calculates percentages like a dying star measuring its remaining light. 30% human, 40% silicon, the rest happened in the liminal space between keystrokes and algorithms.

The line between writing and curation dissolves under examina…

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