She turned me into a newt!

Notes 4 September 2026 ~1 min

Puritan-style witch trial scene with a woman bound to a dunking stool beside a laptop-wielding judge. The text reads 'If she sinks, she wrote it herself' Per my 2x2 grid in this note everyone's talking past each other when it comes to "AI ethics".

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