Remember when I wrote disparaging articles about AI hallucinations and how Perplexity was doing a better job than ChatGPT or Gemini? Forget all that. It’s ancient history. Those were written at the dawn of time, way back in (dismissive tone) 2025, and now it’s 2026, baby, and things have changed. Here are some notes for all of you who…
I watched Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at the Superbowl in 3D, sugar cane receding into the distance, dancers popping off the screen toward me. When I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1943 movie Shadow Of A Doubt in 3D, it looked like the train was actually moving toward me as it pulled into the station in Santa Rosa….
Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince was massively popular when it was published in 2018 – New York Times bestseller, millions of copies sold. It became a sensation in the romantasy world of BookTok, the short videos that galvanized the publishing industry after 2020. So recently the publisher released a “collector’s edition” with a velvet cover,…
AI is being used to generate explicit images of real people, celebrities, and minors. Nudity! Bikinis! Sex, sex, so much sex! The use of technology to create pornography is, of course, intolerable and must be stopped. For weeks, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been undressing women and minors. California’s Attorney General launched an investigation into the “shocking, disgusting,…