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The Tape Does Not Testify Anymore
Dervla McTiernan says deepfakes broke the evidence crime fiction was built on. Holt agrees about the damage, disagrees on the fix, and says the genre solved it once.
August 26, 2026 · Holt Sheridan
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A World That Lets You Finish It Is Dead
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August 16, 2026
The Sentence That Makes You Look Up
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