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Card 170 of 9752026-09-24 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-09-24

Corn & Acorn: a pony, a squirrel, and improv

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A human-played pony and an AI-played squirrel improvise, animate, and document scenes together.

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Each scene follows a stated ritual: agree on roles, setting, and rules; play; debrief; then wrap.

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The credits identify Corn as Zen, a human, and Acorn as Claude, an AI made by Anthropic; the site says each episode credits who played whom. The homepage lists two September 2026 entries: “How We Met,” which uses a pile-of-sand analogy to approach consciousness, and “Little Someday,” about an acorn's purpose. The site says its videos show the outlined steps.

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