Written On The Wind

 I have written here a few times about how each day comes to you fresh from the brain-farm of one David C. Caven. I am the author of the contents of this blog and though I sometimes quote others extensively, and refer to research I have conducted on behalf of you, dear readers, this is all a reflection of what's going on in my mind each day as I sit in front of the keyboard. Waiting for inspiration. 

Sometimes I wait for a good long time. 

But eventually I manage to scrape enough gray matter off the sides of my skull to bring you something that approximates infotainment. 

Which is why I flinched when I saw that TIME magazine has declared that this year, 2025, is the year of "The Architects of AI." 

Let's start from the beginning of my complaints and work out to the place where most people live.

Firstly, TIME magazine is still being published? Magazines exist? I remember my dear mother's coffee table straining under the weight of copies of The New Yorker and TIME that she had not gotten around to finishing while waiting anxiously for her mailbox to fill up with the next weekly issue. My wife, who is a lover of writing and does her fair share of it herself continues to pick up a New Yorker occasionally to see what is being published out there, and to peek at the cartoons. 

TIME magazine? Not so much. If I really want to find out what the few remaining writers have to say about any particular topic I can find it online. 

And what do I imagine the articles I find there will be? Artificial Intelligence's best guess at what might be going on in the world. 

How do you suppose the "editors" at TIME came to pick the architects of AI to grace the cover of the current issue, an honor bestowed twice to (checks notes) a convicted felon who has been impeached twice and is currently tearing down the White House as his minions take Sharpies to the Epstein files before they see the light of day. 

I, as the sole author of this piece, am here to tell you: You can't make stuff like this up. 

Why would you want to?