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Mickey17, Severance, and the Fight for Our Humanity in a Machine World

Mickey17, Severance, and the Fight for Our Humanity in a Machine World

From AI anxiety to hustle culture, we’re all being optimized to death. But Mickey17 offers a radical answer to techno-dystopia: love, chaos, and the irrationality that makes us human.

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Mar 21, 2025
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Mickey 17

Sometimes, sci-fi hits a little too squarely on the nose, right?

Remember when Black Mirror was fun and creepily titillating—until about 2016 when reality caught up with the show a little too hard and fast? Suddenly, its dystopian visions of meme-based politics, AI-sex weirdness, social media ranking systems, and the gamification of human relationships d…

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