The impossibly blue Lake Michigan from Sleeping Bear Dunes.

Remote work isn’t, by definition, better or worse than IRL work. But it is different, and it is a necessary adaptation in an era marked by climate change and the slow collapse of long-neglected infrastructures. It’s past time to engage with its flaws directly, instead of always harking back to a fabricated office history we never lived in and cannot return to.

• Mandy Brown, Official Myths

I can’t overstate how beneficial working fully remote for the past four years has been for myself and my family.

Post-storm sunset.

Today my grandfather passed away. He was my last living grandparent so now that generation has completely exited my life and my parents have no parents.

Thankfully, my daughter’s grandparents are all still here. They came to celebrate her artwork being shown at the Detroit Institute of Art.

Part of what makes art special is that it’s difficult to make, even with all the tools right in front of you. It takes practice, it takes skill, and every time you do it, you expand on that skill. […] Generative AI is only about the end product, but it won’t teach you anything about the process it would take to get there.

• Drew Gooden, AI is Ruining the Internet YouTube

Gen AI is a bad middle-manager trying harder than ever to convince people that its stolen output isn’t bad.