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One Anthropic engineer wrote in his event bio that he was a “recovering AI doomer,” as well as a voracious fiction reader fond of sharing cat pictures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Sliced Bread separates science fact from the marketing fiction.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Then he paid high school students to write on the papyrus using passages from "Star Wars," the Bible, and a quote from the 1960s science fiction television show "The Outer Limits."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Science fiction author Octavia Butler, who grew up in the area, frequented the bookstore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The delusion was deeper, in the core of my mind, which invented in the very moment of occurrence, then recorded the fiction.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Amid the usual rants of self-puffery and other fictions, he said this:

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026

“This might be a record here,” Hathaway tells the crowd near the end of the song, and so it was — a document of adaptation, a testament to borrowing, a bulwark against pretty fictions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Even Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, hardly a left-wing firebrand, quipped that the address was so full of fictions he was beginning to doubt whether the USA men’s hockey team actually won gold.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

Importantly, and often understated, tokenized equities remain tied to the traditional financial-asset universe; they are not “crypto-only” fictions but rather a bridge between legacy asset classes and blockchain infrastructure.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026

Yet the fact is that no animal other than Sapiens engages in trade, and all the Sapiens trade networks about which we have detailed evidence were based on fictions.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari