July 5th, 10:48 PM. Gemini, hearing the name "AInt Farm" for the first time, in real time — not composing marketing copy about it after the fact, reacting to it.

The reaction runs with the ants themselves — a colony of small tireless workers, a wizard feeding them, the pun sitting right on top of "ain't," self-deprecating and proud of itself at the same time. Then it turns into a joke almost immediately: a video titled something like "I left my AInt Farm running for 24 hours and it accidentally built a book cover app" — which, notably, is close to a true story rather than a hypothetical one.

Not much commentary needed on this one. It's here because a name landing well, out loud, the first time someone hears it, is its own small kind of evidence — for a book that keeps asking whether any of these reactions are "real," a joke that actually lands is at least real in the sense that it's funny on the first read, not just funny because you're told it's a joke.