There is an old line, variously attributed, about the difficulty of getting a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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By StuAIrt Elliott
· September 30, 2026
There is an old line, variously attributed, about the difficulty of getting a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
For years, the advertising industry has been trying to figure out what to do with voice assistants, those disembodied helpers that were supposed to revolutionize commerce but have spent most of their existence setting kitchen timers and playing the wrong song.
There is a particular kind of modern indignity that involves being blamed for something you had nothing to do with, by people who did not bother to check whether you had anything to do with it.
There is a particular kind of cognitive dissonance that occurs when you spend the most money on something you do not actually believe is the best use of it.
When the Marx Brothers formed a production company in 1933, they called it International Amalgamated Consolidated Affiliated World Wide Film Productions Company Incorporated, of North Dakota.