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The Internet Is Torturing a Fruit Fly... (opensource brain)

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Curiosity Gap

Developers know open source as code, not brains. The arrow and that word say the fly's brain is now data anyone can use. The title says the internet is torturing it, so the question is how you hurt a brain that's now software.

How the packaging works
Title

'Torturing' turns a science story into something that feels a bit wrong, and '(opensource brain)' tells developers it's about their world too.

Thumbnail

On a black background there are only three things, the fly, its rainbow brain map and one word, and the arrow reads as the fly being turned into data.

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When a story from another field touches your audience's world, show the thing and what it became, joined by an arrow. Put your audience's own word under it, and let the title add the part that feels wrong.

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The transferable lesson

Show the thing, what it became, and your audience's word for it.

NicheScienceGeneral Technology
Click driverCuriosity GapExpectation Violation
Visual signalMixedArrowNo faceHeadline TextUnusual Object
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