I invested (not just spent) this last week at the Computer History Museum here in Silicon Valley, enjoying a series of unconferences, each building toward, and on, the wacky, vast, sometimes scary, but mostly promising capabilities of AI—especially of the personal kind. I'll have more to say about those when my links can go to published outputs from those events, rather than to the invite pages they have now.
Meanwhile, I'll review some other matters of interest and concern that persist in browser tabs I will close as I go down through them here.
The Boo Wave
Tuesday's Blue Tsunami is old news already, but I will have stuff to say about it in the next few weeks. It won't be about Blue vs. Red politics, policies, or candidates. It will be about stories and framings, which are what really matter. If you want to get a jump on where I'll be going, read this and this and these. As for why I am ready to talk about those things now, it's because The Trump Show, which has been a ratings winner for eleven years, has been cancelled by the American electorate. More episodes are on the schedule, its lead character will continue acting out and trying to keep the story interesting, but the curtain is closing. What's next? Stay tuned.
Much to savor and wretch
The Anthropic S1. Just started reading it.
Sites to see
- PrivateInsights.au.
- The Personal Ecosystem: Taking ownership of your future in the age of agentic AI. A new book by Valto Loikkanen.
- ProjectVRM, Devon Loffreto style.
- We've turned Starlink into a planetary barometer.
- Model Terms for Marketing (MTM) Relevant to MyTerms.
Remembranes
Annie Dillard’s Subject Was the Whole World, in The New Yorker
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