In this episode, I honor my fallen comrade Christopher McGregor, whose memorial dinner is Friday, May 16. The Gaza atrocity is facilitated by digital chaos and not knowing what is real from what is not.

This week we will go further down the spiral into the AI question, looking at the ways that creators of large language systems are vying to take the place of humanity. AI is not a toy. There is a reason people associate it with an extinction level event. Humans have only two powers -- the ability to feel and the ability to make decisions, and that is what AU is taking.

The spirit of Beltane. It's now time for a rant about gluten-free dining in restaurants. Gutting FOIA and cutting NPR and PBS. The charts of Bono and Eno.

Our tense moment in time...Should alien intelligentsia (AI, or synthetic thought) have the rights of a person? What if it wants to be alive? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. My Dinner with Andre on Blue Studio.