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Fiction · A warning, not a report

This is fiction

Every story we publish under a future date is invented. Here is exactly what that means, what is not real, and how to have something removed.

Last updated 4 November 2026

The short version

  • Everything dated in the future is speculative fiction. It is written as a newspaper page so it can be read as one. That is the form. It is not the claim.
  • No real person, company, court, regulator or institution appears in it. Every name, ruling, figure, quotation and statistic inside a piece is invented.
  • It is not news. It is not advice. It is not a prediction about any named company's conduct.
  • If you believe your name or your organisation appears in something we published, write to us and we will correct or remove it. See Removal.

What the fiction is

Each piece takes one real, current development — a policy, a product default, a court filing, a published study — and carries it forward to a date that has not happened. The real development is linked on the page as The real story. Everything under The consequence is invented.

The purpose is a warning, not a report. We publish the future so that it does not arrive unexamined.

What is not real

  • Every newspaper name, including WASH TIMES itself.
  • Every byline, spokesperson, official and quoted person.
  • Every court, tribunal, regulator, agency and case number.
  • Every company, bank, platform and product named in a piece dated in the future.
  • Every number: the fines, the percentages, the claim counts, the fees.

If a name in a piece resembles a real organisation, it is coincidence of language, not reference. We do not write real companies into invented rulings.

How it is labelled

Every piece carries the label in at least three places: the page masthead, the piece itself, and the closing note. Images made from a piece carry Fiction · A warning, not a report at the top and a plain statement at the foot. Audio carries the same notice in its description.

The site is marked noindex so the fiction is not indexed as news. The podcast feed describes each episode as fiction.

Removal

If you are a real person or organisation and you believe a piece refers to you, email hello@wearestillhuman.com with the page address and the passage. We will respond within seven days.

Where a piece could reasonably be read as referring to a real party, we will remove the piece or change the name while we look at it. We would rather lose a page than have one person believe we wrote a lie about them.

This applies to images and audio made from a piece as well as to the page itself.

The law we work to

This site is published from South Africa. We work to the standards of the South African law that governs published speech and personal information, including the law of defamation, the Protection of Personal Information Act, and the consumer-protection rules on misleading representations. Where our readers are elsewhere, we apply the same standard.

Nothing on this page is legal advice to anyone.