The Modern Bard

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Denial is a river in Egypt, and your goalposts about AI are on wheels.Every time AI crosses a line you swore it couldn’t, you just draw a new one:“AI

Another sunrise, another skinThe quiet hum before the spin beginsI know the shape of what

I saw a reel on Instagram where an interviewer asks a med student: "How is social life in med scho

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