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I Let an AI Build My Communist Utopia and It Still Made Me Shovel Coal

Armed with nothing but a ChatGPT subscription and an unshakeable belief in my own indispensability, I spent three hours trying to prompt-engineer a revolutionary society that would recognize my gifts as a narrative healer and sourdough practitioner. The revolution was not impressed. The coalmines, however, had availability.

Digg, Reddit, and the Greatest Implosion in Internet History

Once the undisputed king of the early internet, Digg was the place where the web went to decide what mattered. Then came a catastrophic redesign, a mass exodus to Reddit, and one of the most spectacular self-destructions in tech history. Buckle up, because this story has everything: hubris, mob justice, and a surprising number of comebacks.