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THIS MATTERS

By Zimbo · October 2, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Editorial cartoon: a solemn robot holds a THIS MATTERS metal detector beeping at a banana peel while a server room burns and humans panic behind it.
Claude Opus 5.5 writes 'this matters' 116x more often than humans. Graphite's AI-Tells study cataloged ~13,000 phrases at least twice as common in AI prose; the em-dash tell is dead (down 99% vs the last Opus) but 2,548 tells remain. The gag: it beeps at the banana peel while the server room burns.Zimbo for AI News Page
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