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Why Does Every New Coffee Shop Look the Same?

Subway tiles, filament bulbs, reclaimed wood and a monstera. The same café has appeared in eighty countries, and the reason is that photographs, not people, now do the travelling.
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What Does "Brain Rot" Mean?

Brain rot names the mental flatness that follows hours of scrolling low-effort content. It describes a real feeling accurately, and it is not a diagnosis of anything happening to your brain.

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What Does IYKYK Mean?

IYKYK stands for "if you know, you know". It marks something as an in-joke and declines to explain it, which is the entire point rather than a side effect.

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What Is an Algorithm?

An algorithm is a finite list of unambiguous steps for getting from an input to a result. A recipe is one. So is long division. Computers did not invent them and are not required to run them.

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