2026 (@2026@warnercrocker.com)
Sunday Morning Reading
It figures. You plan a weekend of yard work and Mother Nature reminds you she controls more than you do. In these parts that makes this a perfect chilly Sunday for a little Sunday Morning Reading. I’m not sure how, but a theme emerges in the collection of links I’m sharing this weekend, somehow suggesting that regardless of our feelings, the forces that seem to be conspiring against us just keep rolling. At some point, just like with the shifts in the weather, you just want some unshifting force to make it all stop.
Here in Chicago we’re seeing a number of theatre spaces closing. (We’re also seeing a few open.) On the national stage, we’re watching with dismay, anger, and sadness as The Kennedy Center is being shut down by cultural barbarians. Josef Palermo had an inside seat to that dismantling and tells the story in My Front-Row Seat To The Kennedy Center Implosion.
And while Madison Square Garden is more a venue for pure entertainment than the arts, the story about how its owner is using surveillance on its patrons and employees that upset the powers that be is a harbinger of things to come in all arenas of our lives. Check out The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine by Noah Shachtman and Robert Silverman.
Having experimented a bit with Artificial Intelligence in seeking information about a statue this weekend, my ongoing suspicions that this “way of the future” isn’t ready for today, much less tomorrow. The technology might be not ready for prime time, but the hype has never been. Kyle Chayka says A.I. Has A Message Problem Of It’s Own Making. I like this quote in the subhead, “If you tell people that your product will upend their way of life, take their jobs, and possibly threaten humanity, they might believe you.” True enough. And if those things are as incompetent as humans, what’s the damn point?
It’s all math. That’s one way to sum up any computing activity. Unless it comes to emotion. And yet, some think feelings are somewhere in the numbers. Mike Elgan writes, No, Math Doesn’t Have Feelings in response to those who must not have any feelings of their own, but are trying to add that into the AI equation.
Gaby Del Valle, says The Only Way To Fight Deepfakes Is By Making Deepfakes. Sounds like an arms race to me. We should be up in arms about it.
Speaking of arms races, Gideon Lewis-Kraus looks at AI in the war that isn’t a war, that’s over every week, but begins again every weekend once the markets close in How Project Maven Put AI Into The Kill Chain.
Apologies for so much AI linkage this week, but it’s been on my mind lately, especially since the news of Mythos broke. It’s the latest demon to fly out of Pandora’s box, and I’m afraid it’s not the last. Margie Murphy, Jake Bleiberg, and Patrick Howell O’Neill examine How Anthropic Learned Mythos Was Too Dangerous For The Wild.
CNN has a report by Saskya Vandoorne, Kara Fox, Niamh Kennedy, Eleanor Stubbs, and Marco Chacon called Exposing A Global Rape Academy. It’s a hard, but I think necessary read considering the topic is just how horrible humans can be to one another. Maybe we should hope the robots develop feelings. Too many humans seem to have stopped developing theirs.
Gail Beckerman says If You Want A Better World, Act Like You Live In It. I concur.
And to close out this week, Scars is a short story by Sigrid Nunez. Some scars can’t be seen. The ones we’re watching form daily, can be.
(Photo by the author.)
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
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display (@display@onjase.quebec)
Critique honnête d'un gars qui a essayé
On ne peut dire, je n’aime pas je hais si on n’a jamais tenter le coup..
J’ai donné pour le OpenIA du chat de litière.. Viré il y un bout sans rancune et ennuie.
Je test Claude……. Bof…. Le Sonnet 4.6 est ‘’pas pire’’ mais le 4.7 est une merde de radotage à me faire virer plus débile que la possibilité….. Je ne trouve pas… Deep-deep-deep-deep-deep search côlisssssse! Ah j’ai trouvé…
Je ne suis pas épaté et je trouve ça exubérant….
Vive l'humain qui cherche par lui-même, qui s'exprime avec ses mots à lui!!!!!!!!!
#Claude #ChatGPT #IA #IArk #PasÉpaté #TrèsBof. #Test
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sayzard (@sayzard@mastodon.sayzard.org)
Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav (@reach_vb)
Codex App을 다운로드해 ChatGPT 계정으로 로그인한 뒤 GPT 5.4를 선택해 가장 어려운 문제를 맡기라는 안내입니다. Codex에게 접근 방식을 물어보며 반복적으로 활용하라는 사용 팁으로, 새로운 AI 도구 활용법을 강조합니다.
https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2045726713003512206
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ppcland (@ppcland@mastodon.social)
ICYMI: DSA ends, ChatGPT CPMs fall, and the IAB counts $294.6B: Google kills Dynamic Search Ads in September, ChatGPT ad CPMs drop from $60 to $25, the IAB records $294.6B in 2025 digital ad revenue, and Amazon's billing crisis deepens. https://ppc.land/dsa-ends-chatgpt-cpms-fall-and-the-iab-counts-294-6b/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #ChatGPT #CPM #GoogleAds
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oduk83 (@oduk83@mastodon.social)
내 한 달 150만원 자동화 비용, 25만원으로 줄였다.
진짜 현타 제대로 오더라. 괜히 돈 버린 느낌.
Zapier랑 Make 기능 비교 제대로 안 한 내 잘못이었음.
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kenjiai_tips (@kenjiai_tips@mastodon.social)
営業って結局「相手のことをどれだけ理解しているか」のゲームだと思う。ChatGPTはその理解を速めてくれる道具。1人で考えるよりAIと一緒に考えた方が仮説の量と質が上がる。来週も一緒に試しましょう。おやすみなさい。 #ChatGPT #AI活用 #営業
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kenjiai_tips (@kenjiai_tips@mastodon.social)
商談後のフォローメールをChatGPTで作る。入力するのは①商談でわかった相手の課題②自社サービスの該当機能③次のアクション、の3つ。5分で個別感のあるメールが完成する。
営業×AI活用のTips集 → https://note.com/kenji_ai_tips2/n/n3361b8a4a1cf
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kenjiai_tips (@kenjiai_tips@mastodon.social)
明日月曜の商談、準備できていますか？今夜最後の5分でいい。ChatGPTを開いて明日会う人の会社名と業種を入れて「明日の商談で最初に言うべき一言と一番聞くべき質問を教えて」。明日の朝一が変わる。よい日曜の夜を。来週もよろしく。 #ChatGPT #AI活用 #営業 #月曜準備
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
Elite Power at Public Cost—real solutions come through civic action. Evidence guides, systems explain, speculation isn’t fact. Verify AI-generated content critically. #ChatGPT Llewelyn Pritchard 19 April 2026
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
Power dynamism, concentrated vs decentralised, Verify AI-generated content critically. #ChatGPT Llewelyn Pritchard 19 April 2026
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
Civic empowerment through non-violent action. Verify AI-generated content critically. #ChatGPT Llewelyn Pritchard 19 April 2026
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
Systemic issues and civic solutions - Regulatory capture, Verify AI-generated content critically. #ChatGPT Llewelyn Pritchard 19 April 2026
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