Hard times for the lazy and the mundane: no more idleness or privacy is tolerated, and nowadays even the electrician next door has to do show business. Let us keep calm and confront the issues that bedevil our lunch breaks: climate crisis, media overexposure, ex-partners from primary school exhumed as NFT salesmen, considering whether to take up the profession of neurologist or streamer, nostalgia for eras lived the day before yesterday, the extreme susceptibility and unpaid work of the telematic offended, the country house as the only residential option, the motivation of desperate gurus, the need to feel like a hero, and then the hope that artificial intelligence can solve all our problems, including that of its existence.

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