Congratulations! produces small and fragrant white blossoms, and six weeks after pollination SEEKING W ONDER takes place, coffee cherries replace where the flowers were. The cherries, when ready to harvest will turn shades of red, orange, yellow or pink, which depends on their coffee varietal. 2025 Tribune-Phonograph Award Winner: SAMANTHA Coca- Cola, the harbinger of the AI- pocolypse? Y OCIUS CREATIVE MEDIA Nathaniel Underwood Within the cherries, seeds are present and are what we call â beans.â They generally produce one to two seeds within the cherry. The average time from the flowering to the harvesting of the cher-ries is around nine months. A little side quest: If you remember from last weekâs column this would fall into the fruit and berry category. So, technically when having coffee it could be considered a derivative of having your fruit in the morn-ing, A C ERTAIN POINT OF V IEW Well, itâs official. We are entering the certified doomsday scenario. The lid on Pandoraâs box has been lifted, the can of worms is open, the train has no breaks. Whatever idiom suits your fancy, but the message is still the same. I was still holding on to some naive hope that we wouldnât get to this point. The writing had been on the wall for awhile now, but I thought that there was still a chance that, if enough people continued to push back at both the disturbing look of it and the gross injustice of its production, the wheels of capitalism might hopefully shift in the right direction. But then I saw it. I was sitting on my parents couch, innocently watching a college football game, when it assaulted my eyes. For thirty straight seconds, Coca- Cola decided to subject me to a horror that insulted both my intelligence and my four summers of dedicated service to put their products on the shelves of County Market and Walmart. H. P. Lovecraft often is vague in his descriptions of the Eldritch monstrosities, a technique utilized to help illustrate the fact that these horrors are beyond the capabilities of humans to describe using words. Simi-larly, I find it difficult to put a description of this Coca Cola ad to paper⌠perhaps this is what being an unfor-tunate protagonist in one of Lovecraftâs tales is like. Still, for any of this to make any sense, I must try my best. For what I witnessed was a commercial like no other, but I fear others of its ilk will become all too commonplace. It was, as the text at the bottom of the screen proclaimed, an ad made by Real Magic AI, a hilariously ironic name given that nothing on screen was remotely â realâ and very debatably â magicâ ( though, unfortunately, very â AIâ). The first three shots suggest nothing is afoot, luring you in as a quick pass at a bottle of Coke being opened and two landscape shots fall into the wheelhouse of what current AI is capable of for the second they are on screen. But then, just as quickly, a disgusting image of what is supposed to be an elk or a reindeer appears on screen, instantly shattering any sort of disbelief the opening shots may have suspended. It is wholly unnerving, the way this animal moves jankily while half the snowflakes â fallâ upwards in soft focus around it. The polar bear that has become synonymous with Coca- Cola Christmas ads then appears in the next shot, its eye shape wobbling in and out of existence as it bursts out of the water. Then, horribly deformed trucks strung with Christmas lights set out to deliver disgusting AI Coca- Cola to this AI world, their wheel wells threatening to break this facade of reality with just how extremely horrible they look in motion. The ad also drags poor puppies into fray, creating a disturbing facsimile of a golden retriever and begging its audience to believe that it is real. Somehow, only half the commercial has passed, and I feel ill. It feels like I am watching the death of the universe, only with seven- eighths of it out of focus so you canât tell how fake everything looks. But the mind- bend- NATHANIEL U NDERWOOD REPORTER Localized Column Judgeâs Comments: You spin a nice tale weaving personal experiences into the story. 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Y OCIUS CREATIVE MEDIA Nathaniel Underwood Within the cherries, seeds are present and are what we call â beans.â They generally produce one to two seeds within the cherry. The average time from the flowering to the harvesting of the cher-ries is around nine months. A little side quest: If you remember from last weekâs column this would fall into the fruit and berry category. So, technically when having coffee it could be considered a derivative of having your fruit in the morn-ing, A C ERTAIN POINT OF V IEW Well, itâs official. We are entering the certified doomsday scenario. The lid on Pandoraâs box has been lifted, the can of worms is open, the train has no breaks. Whatever idiom suits your fancy, but the message is still the same. I was still holding on to some naive hope that we wouldnât get to this point. The writing had been on the wall for awhile now, but I thought that there was still a chance that, if enough people continued to push back at both the disturbing look of it and the gross injustice of its production, the wheels of capitalism might hopefully shift in the right direction. But then I saw it. I was sitting on my parents couch, innocently watching a college football game, when it assaulted my eyes. For thirty straight seconds, Coca- Cola decided to subject me to a horror that insulted both my intelligence and my four summers of dedicated service to put their products on the shelves of County Market and Walmart. H. P. Lovecraft often is vague in his descriptions of the Eldritch monstrosities, a technique utilized to help illustrate the fact that these horrors are beyond the capabilities of humans to describe using words. Simi-larly, I find it difficult to put a description of this Coca Cola ad to paper⌠perhaps this is what being an unfor-tunate protagonist in one of Lovecraftâs tales is like. Still, for any of this to make any sense, I must try my best. For what I witnessed was a commercial like no other, but I fear others of its ilk will become all too commonplace. It was, as the text at the bottom of the screen proclaimed, an ad made by Real Magic AI, a hilariously ironic name given that nothing on screen was remotely â realâ and very debatably â magicâ ( though, unfortunately, very â AIâ). The first three shots suggest nothing is afoot, luring you in as a quick pass at a bottle of Coke being opened and two landscape shots fall into the wheelhouse of what current AI is capable of for the second they are on screen. But then, just as quickly, a disgusting image of what is supposed to be an elk or a reindeer appears on screen, instantly shattering any sort of disbelief the opening shots may have suspended. It is wholly unnerving, the way this animal moves jankily while half the snowflakes â fallâ upwards in soft focus around it. The polar bear that has become synonymous with Coca- Cola Christmas ads then appears in the next shot, its eye shape wobbling in and out of existence as it bursts out of the water. Then, horribly deformed trucks strung with Christmas lights set out to deliver disgusting AI Coca- Cola to this AI world, their wheel wells threatening to break this facade of reality with just how extremely horrible they look in motion. The ad also drags poor puppies into fray, creating a disturbing facsimile of a golden retriever and begging its audience to believe that it is real. Somehow, only half the commercial has passed, and I feel ill. It feels like I am watching the death of the universe, only with seven- eighths of it out of focus so you canât tell how fake everything looks. But the mind- bend- NATHANIEL U NDERWOOD REPORTER Localized Column Judgeâs Comments: You spin a nice tale weaving personal experiences into the story. Please let us all remember that intelligence is not artificial. 181376_3 Subscribe to ourâAward Winningâ paper, and save 23% OFF the newsstand price Check Publication: Name _ _________________________________________ Tribune-P honograPh INSIDE ~ AbTbhotasfnorkd ⢠y Cooulbyf⢠o Crurytoissu www.centralwinews.com ⢠r D s oruchpepstoerr ⢠t M o ilfa no ⢠u ~ Address__________________________________________ _____________________________________________ \ â q q q Your subscription is expiring on Incumbent Johnson stops in Medford to discuss hot topics The Record-Review Athens ⢠Edgar ⢠Marathon ⢠Stratford Thank you for your support of our local newspaper. 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