I'm declaring October 2025 State of the Art of AI for Publishing Month. Expect daily or near-daily info dumps. By the end you should grasp the rapidly hurtling interstellar objects about to impact all professions, including book publishing. ☄️

I realize that numbers aren't the best way to look at writing, but graphs help people understand change, and graphs rely on numbers. On a scale from gibberish (0) to the very best human writing (1.0), here's the progression I've seen. 📊

My great-great-grandfather, William Frederick Zimmerman Sr., was a key executive at the Chicago publishing firm of A.C. McClurg & Co. from ~1880 to ~1914. Among his responsibilities there was the relationship with McClurg author W.E.B. Dubois.

I want to help the world of book-lovers survive the advent of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI).

필사 pilsa: Korean transcriptive meditation meets high tech content

As a proof of concept, ran altDOGE v0.2 against 485 regulations for the Community Living Administration using DOGE-like prompts, identified likely areas for cuts. Appears to work as intended.

To continue this mitigation effort, the following is needed:

- I have a way to balance this initiative by letting anyone who wants run the same analysis against the CFR and make their own recommendations based on different criteria using their own favorite model
- I need policy partners who know the agencies and a tech partner with a lot of inference

- this month, per the Washington post, the DOGE program is running a series of prompts against the 5-billion token Code of Federal Regulations aimed at cutting the number of regulations in half
- they have their own set of criteria and plan to implement results by Jan 20, 2026