GAS STATION BREAKFAST

Guns, God, but no AI Waifus

You can gun the children down, but state legislatures draw the line at trauma-dumping on AI chatbot

Apr 9 • Anna Dasse

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Why is AI chatbot regulation moving faster than anything we’ve seen in tech?

The Trump administration doesn’t care about AI safety in general. Nor for children either. So how come we got one hundred laws passed by Congress in the…

Apr 6 • Anna Dasse

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March 2026

Pull the lever, paste the prompt

Heuristics of the slot machine in vibe coding

Mar 30 • Anna Dasse

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What happens when junior roles disappear

Everyone cutting junior roles does not make it a sound strategy. It makes it baseline behavior, and baseline behavior produces no competitive advantage.

Mar 23 • Anna Dasse

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The baseline advantage

Thanks to AI, for the first time in business history, you know exactly what your competitor can do.

Mar 14 • Anna Dasse

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The faith machine

How religious cognition shapes the reception of AI

Mar 3 • Anna Dasse

February 2026

Is AI-generated child pornography ethical?

Let’s not shy away from the difficult questions.

Feb 24 • Anna Dasse

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Moltbook is a goofy post-internet art performance

and it’s worrisome that people don’t get the joke

Feb 13 • Anna Dasse

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How AI is eating itself

AI slop, enshitification and the perpetual stew of data

Feb 4 • Anna Dasse

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January 2026

Techno-solutionism is a pacifier

Our emotional support AI (etc.)

Jan 26 • Anna Dasse

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Give them all the computational power in the world, and they will use it to harass women

The gender divide in AI isn’t a marketing problem, it’s a design one

Jan 10 • Anna Dasse

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The Designer's toolkit: Therapy bots

Ethical patterns and design principles for AI therapy companions

Jan 4 • Anna Dasse

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