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AI: Fitness Challenge

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Amoeba

If you don’t pass my fitness challenge, you don’t graduate! – Mrs. Meyers, high school gym teacher Adam, aged 47, sat for a moment between stretches. He was in the warmup area near the outdoor track that was part of … Continue reading →

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AI: Final Frontier

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Amoeba

When the door to his cell slammed open at 0610, ten minutes after the bell, Charles was dressed, in his beige robe, and ready. Outside the door, dressed in his usual imperious scowl, was Peter. He was alone. Charles fell … Continue reading →

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AI: The Hero of the Hour

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Amoeba

A work of fiction in the alternative-history mode. Alexander Fleming sat, or, rather, sprawled, on a chair in the second-floor room of his country cottage, the white face under its silver hair a talisman of misery. “The Dhoon” was on … Continue reading →

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