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September 2026

Silence may become a metered household utility

A municipal feasibility study imagines quiet delivered to the home like water, with a meter, a tariff and an off-peak rate. The cheapest silence would be available between two and four in the morning.

2 weeks ago4 min read

August 2026

Society

Sunday's sermon may arrive with a changelog

A draft practical guide for machine-assisted preaching would give the sermon a version number, a source list and a human review checkbox. The congregation would see, on the projector, which paragraph the minister rewrote.

4 weeks ago4 min read

Society

Your child's school may be chosen by an objective function

A district would publish the formula behind its school placement algorithm, in the belief that transparency would end the annual round of complaints. The formula has three terms. The third one is the problem.

4 weeks ago5 min read