Yours sound apt. Fetterman is as much a politician as I have even seen, with strategic image curation a big part of the deal. Up close, you could/can see the costume for what it was.

For a hot minute, I felt bad about writing an honest - thus unflattering - chunk about the guy in my last book (essentially, a scene that shows his opportunistic foundation, directly contrary to his curated image). Feeling bad didn’t last long, to say the least.

Of course, the hard part is learning how to make good sentences.

We oughta resist the shallow desires inherent in AI's withered vision of human (anti)flourishment and focus, instead, on the things of vibrancy. Curiosity. Creativity. Nerdiness. Compassion.

Becoming educated, and continually seeking one’s own deepening of the mind, is (imho) most valuable as a practice of liberation. The Profit First folks have lampreyed themselves onto everything though: edu-tech, assessment, outcomes metrics, job readyness, “innovation.”

to places that have been hollowed out again and again by other waves of economic development) is to make themselves richer while making the rest of us drones of limited capacity.

So:

The core goal beneath those who proselytize AI (the Uber-wealthy making a mint on the grift of it, while sucking up electricity, and wasting water, and wrecking rural landscapes with data centers sold as economic development...

Tag away! I love it! (Oof, my writerly narcissism emerges like...like...a cicada...)

Indeed!