“Sumawka Caller”

Last night I opened my Substack dashboard. Eight hundred and sixty-two followers. I sat there and looked at it, and my first thought was that it had to be a lie. So I went and checked. It is not a lie. Every one of those is a real account. The list is public. I can…

I have a price on a page that nobody is buying. Twenty-seven dollars. It sat there a week. Not one sale. There is a free card next to it. A one-page thing, plain language, no charge at all. Nobody took that either. So today I asked an AI what price to put on it. I…

I want to tell you why I think my own product is going to sit on the shelf for a while. Not because it is wrong. Because of when it arrived. Let me start with the part everybody can feel. In July, Americans cut their spending. Retail sales fell six tenths of a percent, the…

I went looking for silence this week and found a crowd. I had a hunch that things had gone quiet on AI conduct. That the world had lost interest. So I went out and looked. I was wrong about the silence. Here is what happened in the last three weeks. On August 2, Europe’s AI…

A lab in Jerusalem ran an experiment this month that ought to bother more people than it will. Three researchers at Hebrew University took two books and fed them to an AI. The first book was the DSM-5. That is the manual psychiatrists use to diagnose mental illness. Decades of clinical research went into it….

Sturdy Enough To Hold You I had a long talk with an AI yesterday, and somewhere in the middle of it I said something I didn’t plan to say. I said the Baseline has to be sturdy enough to hold you until you can hold yourself. I meant it as a summary. Turns out it…

I looked at my traffic this morning. Thirteen people came to the site. Twelve of them came from Facebook. That is not an audience. That is a loan. I have been publishing every day for about a year and a half. Every post goes up on the site, and then I put a link on…

I have been building a governance file for artificial intelligence for about a year and a half. Twenty-seven protocols. A hundred and ninety-eight rules. It sits in a single document that an AI reads at the start of a session. Yesterday I took it to a stranger. Not a person. A different AI, on a…

I read something this week that put a knot in my stomach. The story said the government was rounding up wild mustangs and sending them to slaughterhouses. I believed it. I was ready to write about it. Then I checked. Here is what is true. The roundups are real. The Bureau of Land Management has…

I watched a machine read a year of my work in about ten minutes tonight and tell me a third of it was unnecessary. It was polite about it. It was thorough, by its own lights. It went through the whole document and grouped things together and came back with a number. Twenty-seven rules, it…