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In 1931 the @newyorker.com published the very first article about Microsoft Copilot, "The Curb in the Sky" by James Thurber.

#DescribeWhatYoudLikeToWrite
Excerpt from The Curb in the Sky (James Thurber, 1931) When Charlie Deshler announced that he was going to marry Dorothy, someone said he would lose his mind posthaste. "No," said a wit who knew them both, "post hoc." Dorothy had begun, when she was quite young, to finish sentences for people. Some­ times she finished them wrongly, which annoyed the person who was speaking, and sometimes she finished them correctly, which annoyed the speaker even more. "When William Howard Taft was-" some guest in Dorothy's family's home would begin. "President!" Dorothy would pipe up. The speaker may have meant to say "President" or he may have meant to say "young," or "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States." In any case, he would shortly put on his hat and go home. Like most parents, Dorothy's parents did not seem to be conscious that her mannerism was a nuisance. Very likely they thought that it was cute, or even bright. It is even probable that when Dorothy's mother first said "Come, Dorothy, eat your-" and Dorothy said "Spinach, dear," the former telephoned Dorothy's father at the office and told him about it, and he told everybody he met that day about it-and the next day and the day after.
October 21, 2026 at 1:52 AM