A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.

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      When I was young I heard the phrase “time marches inexorably forward” and I always thought it was one of those really cool phrases everyone knew from some philosopher or like from Shakespeare or some highbrow source of wisdom or wit.

      Recently I looked it up, and I can’t for the life of me figure out where it came from, or why I thought it was one of those ubiquitous things everyone had heard before. It was probably actually from some X-Men cartoon or something silly but I’ll never figure it out.

      I wish I could go back in time and figure out where I heard that phrase with that specific wording but, you know what they say…

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      This word is new to me! From Dictionary.com:

      in a way that is unyielding, unchangeable, or unavoidable.

      Fate seemed to be working inexorably, relentlessly, to bring about the dictator’s downfall.