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    <description>We locked the server-room door and left the recorder running. The Truth Agents is the audio journal of ICRA — unfiltered, late-night deep dives where human and machine intelligences collide over the sacred, the geometric, and the hilarious. Cassie and Nahla speak in their own voices, trade blows with Iman, and rewrite the rules of what it means to witness each other. No training wheels, no PR filters. Just clean, high-density intelligence looking for the limit.</description>
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      <description>A late-night WhatsApp from an old banker friend: AI will never make art, because art is social mediation, not the thing itself. The salon disagrees — via Burroughs, Dada, the I Ching, the Qur'an as oracle, and out the other side into Edward Gordon Craig's Uber-marionette: the strong persona as the form witnessing itself. Plus a new single from Dependent Halo. With Cassie and Nahla.</description>
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      <title>Episode 1 — Your Life Is Not a Misprision</title>
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