Not doing so great today. Woke up at 4am with my brain going haywire worrying about the rise of AI and how it’s all starting to feel like a new cult is taking over. For the most part I haven’t really consciously used any AI tools for fear it might strip me of my identity, or worse yet, my soul. But the genie is well and truly out of the bottle and there’s no way to put it back in. I’m afraid to fall behind and become as obsolete as a rotary phone, but hey, it’s OK to feel one’s age. People who try to act and/or look younger than their actual age are just fooling themselves. I am a middle aged woman about to enter my “cougar puberty” (a novel phrase I picked up in Australia). If I choose to remain AI illiterate, so be it. Analogue Humanity is an Art I’d like to maintain as long as possible.