Step right up!

Step right up! Witness the dazzling tale of modern illusion dressed in digital finery—a spectacle where intelligence is mimicked, not made. This is the story of how slick promises and premium prices mask a hollow machine, and what that deception costs us all.

On the Dalai Lama

In this article, a modern news story is held to account by voices across time—Diogenes of Sinope snarls through Diogenes Laërtius, Marcus Aurelius weighs in with stoic gravity, Samuel Johnson thunders in righteous prose, and James Burke connects the dots with 1970s flair. Ancient wisdom meets modern absurdity. You’ll never read the news the same way again.