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Gold Medal, Spam Flood
"Gold stays. Spam goes.
45% of emails are junk. Awards make the cannons roar.
Would you pay anyone who writes like a glitter bomb?"
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Gold Medal, Spam Flood - The Modern Hermit
Winning a book award means… AI-generated spam. Marketers flood inboxes with glittery emoji emails while real professionals vanish in the noise.
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Broke economists and rich bosses.
Nothing screams irony like the underpaid preaching to billionaires about “building wealth”.

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The Gospel According to the Broke Economist - The Modern Hermit
A roast of the broke advisors teaching the rich how to be richer while the real workers get replaced by machines for daring to expect a fair wage.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The hustle sermon says anyone can ascend. The numbers ask: how, and at whose cost.

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Self-made gospel vs reality, and the robot future pitch - The Modern Hermit
Gurus sell the self-made dream. The numbers sell reality. Most startups fail. Self-employment is rising with big tax gaps. Robots change pay and power. Sources inside.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Live longer myths: the sales pitch to work till you drop

The promise: live to 100. The fine print: work longer, retire shorter, feel worse.

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Live longer myths: the sales pitch to work till you drop - The Modern Hermit
The cult of living past 100 sells hope and longer careers. We count the numbers, not the fairy dust, and ask who profits from the myth.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The prophets of artificial genius shout “singularity!” while their chatbots still struggle to schedule a meeting.

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AI Gods, Empty Promises, and Human Grit - The Modern Hermit
The AI race promises gods, delivers bugs. Big Tech chases artificial genius while forgetting the one thing it can’t code: human creativity.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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EJAE: From pen behind hits to voice in the spotlight

Here’s a clean, sharp breakdown of EJAE’s path. Some solid wins. Some big what-ifs. Because even rising stars need the roast.

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EJAE: From pen behind hits to voice in the spotlight - The Modern Hermit
From ten years in training rooms to a Netflix record breaker, EJAE’s path shows how long it takes to sound like an overnight success.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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EJAE’s Adele moment at scale: the voice, then the miles

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EJAE's Adele moment at scale: the voice, then the miles - The Modern Hermit
A fair Adele moment at EJAE scale. The voice landed, the film soundtrack broke records, and charts surged. We count dates and set what must come next.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Roofman (2025) sense check: how true is the Toys R Us tale really

Based on a true story, yes. Exactly true, no. We count what changed.

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Roofman (2025) sense check: how true is the Toys R Us tale really - The Modern Hermit
Sense-checking the film Roofman: how the real story differs from the screen version of burglary, escape and hiding in a toy store.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Black Phone 2: Grainy Dreams, Thin Scares, Longer Calls

A horror sequel that confuses blur with depth and dreams with drama. The phone rings. The edit snoozes.

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Black Phone 2: Grainy Dreams, Thin Scares, Longer Calls - The Modern Hermit
Black Phone 2 leans on grainy dream logic and a louder Grabber. We count the numbers, the missed shots, and why style beats scares. UK release 16 Oct 2025.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Smarter AI, dumber work: GPT-5 and the waste loop

Smarter is not the same as useful.

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Smarter AI, dumber work: GPT-5 and the waste loop - The Modern Hermit
GPT-5 thinks harder but wastes compute on redoing the whole picture. The numbers show rising energy and shaky instruction-following. Here is the roast with sources.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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BT broadband return maze: hold music, missing buttons, no sense

A simple return and close account turned into a time tax.

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BT broadband return maze: hold music, missing buttons, no sense - The Modern Hermit
Tried to return BT 4G Mini kit and close an account. Got loops, hold music, and no simple button. Numbers show why this still happens. A clean roast with facts.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Back to the Future’s 40-Year #IMAX Time Loop

Forty years later, Marty McFly’s DeLorean has travelled not through time but through cinema standards.

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Back to the Future’s 40-Year IMAX Time Loop - The Modern Hermit
The 40th anniversary of Back to the Future in IMAX shows how old classics still outshine new blockbusters drowning in hype and high ticket prices.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Freedom 2.0: Some Rights Reserved. When Freedom Becomes a Token.

Everyone wants freedom until it stops being profitable.
Blockchain, but still in chains.

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Freedom 2.0: Some Rights Reserved. When Freedom Becomes a Token. - The Modern Hermit
Governments preach freedom yet panic when money gets free too. The real fight is not cash vs code but control vs consent.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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AI is not a bubble. It is a debt-fuelled buildout at scale

Call it what it is: a giant kit-out of servers, power, and cash.

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AI is not a bubble. It is a debt-fuelled buildout at scale - The Modern Hermit
AI is not a dotcom replay. It is a debt-fuelled infrastructure buildout with rising energy bills, record capex, and no quantum shortcut. Numbers, not vibes.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Plumber safe? For now. Learn to fix the robots and code

If your plan is hide behind a wrench, remember robots get wrenches too.

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Plumber safe? For now. Learn to fix the robots and code - The Modern Hermit
Leaders say trades are safest from AI. Hinton points to plumbing. Altman flags customer service risk. Truth: no job is static. Learn to fix robots and code.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Stuck in 1995: paper minds in a sensor world, real cost

Some bosses still treat the factory like a filing cabinet.

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Stuck in 1995: paper minds in a sensor world, real cost - The Modern Hermit
UK firms still live on paper and extra checks while sensors and software cut downtime and costs. The lag shows in flat productivity. Here are the numbers and the fix.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Good Fortune? More Like Angelic Misfire

So, did Good Fortune manage to be a sharp social satire, or did it end up a tragic parody of every‐day life? Let’s pick through it.

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Good Fortune? More Like Angelic Misfire - The Modern Hermit
Keanu Reeves as an angel in Good Fortune? Critics call it a tonal trainwreck of comedy and chaos. A roast of heaven’s dullest shift yet.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Tron: Ares – All Lights, No Logic

A neon-glow spectacle that looks great in IMAX, but drops off when you check the wiring under the hood.

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Tron: Ares – All Lights, No Logic - The Modern Hermit
A glowing IMAX spectacle with no heart. Tron: Ares dazzles in neon and sound but crashes when logic loads. A roast of Disney’s latest digital dream.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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AI panic vs reality: big firms run, SMEs count the bill

Everyone shouts apocalypse; the data whispers rollout takes years and money.

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AI panic vs reality: big firms run, SMEs count the bill - The Modern Hermit
Big firms sprint into AI while smaller ones watch the invoice. The numbers say slow diffusion, high costs, mixed job impacts. FOMO is loud. Facts are quiet.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Thank you for working unpaid: shutdown reality for workers

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Thank you for working unpaid: shutdown reality for workers - The Modern Hermit
Excepted staff work without pay during the shutdown. OPM says back pay after it ends, while reports say the White House may dispute it. Workers carry the hit.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Trump 2.0 vs Gilead: The Handmaid’s Tale Reality Check

Say Gilead and people roll eyes. Then read the orders, the funding freezes, the declarations. Quiet steps count.

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Trump 2.0 vs Gilead: The Handmaid’s Tale Reality Check - The Modern Hermit
A calm Gilead check. What Trump’s second-term moves do to reproductive rights, how the show and book frame the danger, and where the inches of policy add up.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Growth cheers, taxes grind workers harder.
Kings used to tax peasants. Now Whitehall does it with a press line about stability.

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Growth cheers, taxes grind workers harder. #UK #Tax #G7 - The Modern Hermit
Reeves eyes tax rises as IMF says UK tops G7 inflation while growth preens. Broad squeeze lands on workers. #UK #Taxes #G7 #IMF #Budget #Inflation
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November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Most K-drama drunk scenes are cosplay with chasers. Cute is easy. Convincing drunk is not. One film nails it: the Korean movie My Sassy Girl (2001) with Jun Ji-hyun.

#JunJi-hyun #K-cinema #K-drama #Koreancinema #Koreanmovie #MySassyGirl

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Drunk Acting in K-dramas: Only My Sassy Girl (2001) Gets It Right - The Modern Hermit
K-dramas love tipsy cute, but most drunk acting looks fake. One exception stands tall: My Sassy Girl, where Jun Ji-hyun plays it messy, funny, and real.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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“So proud of myself.” Of what, exactly?
“I am so proud of myself.” Nice line. One test: what changed for you? Show the receipts, or save the echo.
#Leadership #Accountability #CountWhatMatters #Trump
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“So proud of myself.” Of what, exactly? - The Modern Hermit
A president boasting “I am so proud of myself” on loop. Pride is easy. Results are hard. Count what matters, not the echo.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM