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Our AI got promoted
The capsule offers her usual presets. She selects the Vintage Café workspace. It makes sense as she has already grabbed her coffee. The door closes, and…
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Pawel Halicki
Your context is late
The team lead strides into the project bay, alive with context streams pulsing across every screen like shifting weather maps of an alien planets. …
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Can you authenticate summer?
Puffy evening clouds drift through the last shades of summer. She’s tagging the fluffiest ones for her setup. Her daughter burrows deeper under the…
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Your voice needs a security update
The break room is busy with soft overlays, and system feeds ghosting across every surface as if the air itself was recording. - Your voice needs a…
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I layered you over my stream
The venue is packed with fans and shimmering with energy. All around them, holos stretch and warp across the crowd, advertising drinks, merch, or…
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Pawel Halicki
Ping me when the walls are transparent
The calming white noise of a gentle blizzard smoothly takes over the break room. Display-wrapped walls ripple when his settings override the default…
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The data is ready for you
Holo patient queues drift gently above the reception desk, rearranging themselves as appointment priorities shift. Soft diagnostic chimes merge…
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These plants go gold for laughs and deep red for nostalgia
Setting down the gift-wrapped planter on the workbench, he nods at his colleague. The chromaphonic blooms shift to amber, already responding to the…
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Turn on the sunscreen
The transport opens with a hiss, after a gentle stop in the shaded spot right at the sand. Thank you for choosing the beach-bound mobility network. The…
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Ultrasonic washing protects your clothing care plans
His twelve-year-old stands rigid in front of his vintage band t-shirts, eyes wide with panic. The intensity in that stare almost makes him reconsider. …
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Who morphed my armchair?
The next section of the city’s biggest furniturals store is dotted with perpetually flipping signs. 87% more living space with multi-state furniture…
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Your supply chain says no
The morning shift supervisors watch the predictable dance of industrial automation. Most mornings, the show directs itself. This is not most mornings.
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