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The internet was supposed to connect humanity, democratize information, and place the accumulated knowledge of civilization at our fingertips. Instead, it showed me a four-ton potato touring America on the back of a truck. Honestly, I think we made the right choice. I recently stumbled into a collection of 36 photographs that felt less like ordinary images and more like evidence accidentally released during a government transparency initiative. None of them, individually, proves that reality is malfunctioning. Taken together, however, they make a persuasive case that somebody left the universe running without adult supervision. These aren’t polished photographs of sunsets, attractive meals, or people pretending they didn’t spend 40 minutes arranging their coffee next to a book they haven’t read. These are photographs of the world caught with its pants down. They capture those rare moments when reality forgets to maintain its professional appearance and reveals the strange machinery und...