The Danger Isn’t AI. It’s Us.

The Danger Isn’t AI. It’s Us.

I just finished listening to Empire of AI, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking since.If you care about artificial intelligence, read it. Not to become an expert. Not to take a side. Read it to understand the foundations, because how your mind receives it,...
Your Perception of Me Is a Reflection of You

Your Perception of Me Is a Reflection of You

We walk around carrying other people’s versions of us. The version your family created when you were too young to push back. The version an ex built to justify leaving. The version a friend holds because it’s easier than updating their understanding of who you’ve...
The Space Between

The Space Between

Before the lines were drawn in sand,before the maps decided where a mancould place his feet without permission,there were two peoplestanding in the same light.One had always known the olive trees.The other carried exile in his chestlike a stone he’d inherited,not...
It took this long to make the news

It took this long to make the news

Today, CNN’s Jeremy Diamond and his crew were detained by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Tayasir while covering a settler attack on Palestinian residents. A photojournalist was put in a chokehold. Cameras were damaged. The crew spent two hours in...
The Essence of Living Is Feeling

The Essence of Living Is Feeling

There is a question I keep returning to, quietly, in the spaces between things.Can you exist without feeling? Technically, perhaps. The heart beats. The lungs expand. The body moves through the world, occupying space, consuming time. But is that living? I don’t think...