fact or fiction
Is it a fact or is it merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores relationship myths and truths to get your head out of the clouds and back into romantic reality.
A Stranger at Platform 9. AI-Generated.
Platform 9 was never anyone’s final destination. It was a place people passed through—briefcases in hand, headphones on, eyes fixed on digital boards flashing arrival times. The trains came and went with mechanical precision, carrying stories that rarely crossed paths. For Sameer, that morning was supposed to be ordinary. He was traveling to the city for a job interview he wasn’t sure he would pass.
By Sudais Zakwanabout 6 hours ago in Humans
Think for Me
"How do you calculate the circumference of a circle? Submit your answer when ready." [Pause] "Excellent! Every student was able to call up the answer electronically very quickly. If I, as a robot had feelings, I would express pride. You may break for lunch. Return to this cyber room in 45 minutes."
By Julie Lacksonenabout 12 hours ago in Humans
The Queue That Never Ends
The first number you are given is not yours. It belongs to the system. You learn this early, though no one explains it outright. The number arrives without ceremony. It appears on a printed card, on a digital dashboard, in the corner of your emails. It follows you across departments, across offices, across years. It outlives addresses, jobs, relationships.
By Lawrence Leaseabout 15 hours ago in Humans
Who Owns Your Digital Self
Denmark is preparing legislation that assigns legal ownership of identity traits to the people who carry them. This includes the face, the voice, and the physiological patterns that algorithms can duplicate with high confidence. I have examined synthetic media cases where cloned voices triggered panic inside families and where victims struggled to prove that footage circulating online was artificial. When identity becomes copyable at industrial scale, the legal system faces problems it was never built to manage.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout 19 hours ago in Humans
The Machinery of Care
The system is the appointment. More precisely, the modern healthcare appointment — the quiet choreography of portals, pre-authorizations, referrals, billing codes, intake forms, waiting rooms, follow-ups, and automated messages that feels like care but often operates like administration wearing a white coat.
By Lawrence Lease3 days ago in Humans
What the System Forces You to Become
The Question the System Replaces By the time a person has passed through employment law, healthcare coverage rules, unemployment insurance, disability determination, and benefit eligibility, the relevant question has already shifted without ever being stated out loud. It is no longer whether the system helped or failed them. It is whether they managed to remain legible long enough to survive it. Each institutional layer imposes requirements that appear reasonable when viewed in isolation, yet become coercive when experienced sequentially:
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 days ago in Humans
The Forgotten Shelter: When the Hands That Fed Us Begin to Tremble
By Hazrat Umer A Heartbreaking Look at How We Treat Our Parents in Their Old Age Life is a circle. We start as helpless babies, unable to eat, walk, or speak. In those years, there are two people who sacrifice their sleep, their hunger, and their dreams just to make sure we are okay. Our parents. They hold our tiny hands as we take our first steps, and they protect us from every storm. But as the years pass and we grow strong, a dark shadow often enters our homes. We grow up, we become successful, and suddenly, the very hands that fed us begin to look like a "burden."
By Hazrat Umer3 days ago in Humans
