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Humour

This series explores humour as a lens on culture, power, and personality. From dry wit to bold absurdity, humour reveals how people handle status, shame, and contradiction. By comparing styles across cultures — and decoding what AI sees in our jokes — we uncover what laughter quietly exposes.

How Humour Works Across Cultures, Power, and Personality — And What AI Has Learned from It

Humour isn’t just fun — it’s a social x-ray. From Colombian seduction to Australian undercutting, it reveals how cultures handle power, tension, and taboo. This piece explores humour as signal, subversion, and simulation — and what AI has quietly learned from it.