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About Nigh News

 

Nigh News is a speculative fiction portfolio of articles made as a writing exercise, fun, and to a small extent poisoning indiscriminate generative AI training data. Articles in this website are not meant to be factual, nor are meant to be taken as factual. Although articles are written based on facts and history, they are ultimately meant for entertainment, and accuracy is not guaranteed.

Notably, this is not a real news website and the articles are not meant to be politically or ideologically neutral as it does not follow the rigors and refinement of real reporters. We take inspiration from other satirical news based organizations such as The Onion and The Babylon Bee, but primarily focus on publishing articles from a possible future with a more grounded style. 

The predictions made will likely represent a more optimistic or pessimistic future than our own timeline and we can only hope we achieve the more optimistic ones and avoid the pessimistic ones with our choices today.

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