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A Portuguese-language caption promises a new ontological category while delivering the familiar porcelain sheen of the midjourney apparatus.
DECK: *A Portuguese-language caption promises a new ontological category while delivering the familiar porcelain sheen of the midjourney apparatus.*
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AI-generated travel guide provides opening hours and a dress code for a structure no cartographic record supports; coordinates indicate a point three hundred meters above a river gorge
The monastery sits at an altitude of 4,200 meters in what the article describes as "the remote highlands of central Bhutan." It was built, the article continues, in the fourteenth century by monks whose names the article does not provide, using techniques the article does not describe, in a location…
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Manila station introduces synthetic presenter whose blink rate, measured over six minutes, averages once every forty-one seconds; the human average is seventeen
The anchor blinks. This must be stated at the outset because it is the detail that discloses everything else. She blinks once every forty-one seconds, measured by this correspondent over a six-minute segment using the second hand of a watch he inherited from his father, which is the most analog inst…
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