This morning’s beach read. Catching up on some back issues.

The future is weird and uncomfortable.

This book is well worth your time. And the time of anyone suggesting to you that “this time, it’s different” when they tell you to believe everything about the future of “AI.”

thecon.ai

I did NOT have Colin Kaepernick advocating for the power of AI and storytelling as a part of my #istelx experience.

Tuesday night at Red Rocks.

“ I’m not in the business of saving the world, but it would definitely be a better and more interesting place if more people were involved in making these things.”

” they are fascinating, brilliant, and incredibly powerful. And infinitely interesting. But when they are plugged into large power and cultural systems, then strange things happen. And the violence it results in is really terrifying.”

ibid

harpers.org/archive/2025...

“Digital computers are fundamentally disconnected from the world; they are operating entirely on the abstraction of it. They are being fed pictures of the world. It is like someone living in a box and knowing the world only through photos of it.”

harpers.org/archive/2025...

On the top of my reading pile.