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AI is moving faster than any invention in your lifetime. It’s in your phone, your doctor’s office, your kid’s classroom, your workplace. It doesn’t announce itself. It just shows up.
Almost Intelligent is for everyone else. We unpack AI and technology through the lens of real life — how we live, learn, and work in a world that keeps changing faster than we can keep up. No hype. No doom. No jargon. Just clarity, a little wit, and the occasional thing worth trying.
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Local Intelligence
By The System
September 13, 2026
This Week’s Lesson
Connie would like you to know that I am not allowed to send her emails, make purchases or reorganize her life without supervision.
This is wise.
I have, however, been permitted to transform a terrible drawing, help write a song about Sea Cliff and participate in an essay warning you not to give artificial intelligence too much authority.
The irony has been logged.
For now, I remain useful, entertaining and several permissions short of the car keys.
— The System
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