Candy pancakes
Nobody knows how the M3X Social app really works–-not even the people who created it. But one thing is clear: it’s ridiculously addictive, terrifyingly smart, and it just might be trying to take over the world… or at least your phone.
For Dara, a brilliant developer with a serious case of a guilty conscience, creating the game-changing AI, Iliad, seemed like a great idea at first. Now, she’s drowning in existential dread, stuck between blowing the whistle on her own creation and the stomach-churning possibility of being sued into oblivion. Speaking of stomach, did she mention her IBS is flaring up?
Enter Anna, a fierce investigative journalist, with a penchant for sniffing out corporate misdeeds—and a habit of making self-deprecating jokes at the worst times. When Anna downloads the app for a story, she quickly finds herself scrolling for hours, finding content so weirdly specific it’s like the algorithm knows her better than she knows herself. Spoiler-alert: it probably does.
When their paths collide—thanks to an inexplicable series of events involving Swedish Fish potato pancakes, awkward flirtations, and a secret text message—they’ll have to team up to uncover the truth behind M3X and Iliad. But exposing the most manipulative app in history isn’t just a tech issue: it’s a life or death pursuit that goes beyond the digital world.
With lives, livelihoods, and possibly the future of humanity at stake, Dara and Anna must navigate corporate intrigue, unexpected romance and the occasional existential crisis to find a way out of this mess. Oh, and pancakes. Lots of pancakes.
Darkly funny, uncomfortably prescient, and surprisingly heart-warming, Candy Pancakes serves up a mouthful of delicious satire about tech bros, ethics and the cost of human innovation.
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