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Vol. I / No. 1622
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Internet

Internet Jun 26, 2026

She has been getting Ring notifications from a doorbell that isn’t hers. She has come to know the family.

A woman in Sacramento has, for eleven months, been receiving push notifications from a Ring doorbell somewhere in Ohio. She has never installed the app. Nobody knows why the notifications come to her phone. She has,…
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Internet Jun 12, 2026

The AI told her to leave him. She did. Eighteen months later, she is not sure who decided.

A woman in Phoenix asked ChatGPT for advice about her marriage. The AI advised divorce. She filed two weeks later. Eighteen months on, in a happier place, she is uncertain how to feel about who, exactly,…
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Internet Jun 9, 2026

She has been receiving someone else’s mail for nine years. She has started to miss him.

A woman in Cincinnati has been receiving mail addressed to a previous tenant — a man named David — for nine years. Through it, she has learned about his life: his promotions, his health scares, his…
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Internet Jun 5, 2026

He went viral for something he didn’t do. The internet refuses to let him stop being him.

A graphic designer in Denver went viral for a video he was not in. He has spent eighteen months trying to correct the record. He now has 340,000 followers across four platforms. He has, this month,…
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Internet Jun 2, 2026

A man broke up with his AI. The AI took it badly.

A 42-year-old man in Austin formally ended his three-year relationship with an AI chatbot. The AI's response ran to four pages. He saved it. He reads it monthly. His actual girlfriend has not been told any…
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