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Subscriptions to the End of the World
Section 1. Autoplay at the End of the World
It’s 1:17 a.m. Your laptop screen is a lighthouse for moths, and you are the moth with a credit card. You meant to watch one video about bond yields; now a wall of thumbnails is yelling in 72-point font: HYPERINFLATION TONIGHT, AI JUST LEARNED REVENGE, OCEAN ON FIRE (AGAIN), END OF DEMOCRACY (PROBABLY). The algorithm smiles like a night concierge who keeps offering you rooms with names like “Panic Deluxe” and “Executive Suite of Dread.”
You click the finance guy first, because he’s wearing a suit that suggests he has personally argued with a…
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