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1. In this age of AI slop, we forget that slop is not an invention of AI.

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Fri Jul 10, 2026, 11:43 AM

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Historically speaking, most of the art, literature, music, inventions, and even knowledge itself created by humans were crap.

But enough of it was good or great, that it made the world we have today.

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