I was kind of interested in the NBA Cup, while the Knicks were in it, and they were still regular season games. But when they advanced to the Las Vegas level, it started to feel like an exhibition game, and by the end of the first quarter of the final I had to turn it off because I was so embarrassed for the Bucks and Thunder players who I had been fans of. Feels like the all-star game and the players who bought in, seem as foolish as last year's Lakers.

Me, watching a Trump presser.

The AI industry could give us easy tools to build our own models, from our own archived writing, for private use. This may be a blind spot. It's as if when personal computers started, instead of spreadsheet editors, we were offered great sets of tabulated recalc'ing data. Fun to watch, maybe useful for researchers, but nothing compared to the utility of playing "what if" on our own models.

No one can form an organization that owns the future of an open format because then it wouldn't be open.