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  "content_md": "Okay. This is very good.\n\n> So: what would happen if stories were drawn from actual data, randomized to give a valid representation of the human story? That's the question that was stuck in my head, and that drove this project forward. If you could draw a life at random from all of human history, what would it look like? Roll the dice, and see a genuinely random life, depicted as well as the data allow. Do it again and again, and what kind of pointillist painting emerges from all those colorful drops of humanity?\n\n[About · Any Human Ever ↗](https://anyhumanever.com/about)",
  "content_html": "<p>Okay. This is very good.</p>\n<blockquote><p>So: what would happen if stories were drawn from actual data, randomized to give a valid representation of the human story? That's the question that was stuck in my head, and that drove this project forward. If you could draw a life at random from all of human history, what would it look like? Roll the dice, and see a genuinely random life, depicted as well as the data allow. Do it again and again, and what kind of pointillist painting emerges from all those colorful drops of humanity?</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://anyhumanever.com/about\">About · Any Human Ever ↗</a></p>",
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