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Or, a silly but sincere response to a friend, her article here: https://ellyrox.com/2026/07/24/why-i-fucking-hate-generative-ai-and-llms-a-treatise/ Ahhh… Comrade. Sit. Have tea. You are angry. Good. Revolution without anger is just brunch. Now… First we establish common ground. CSAM? Очень плохо. Very bad. Children should not be exploited. Workers fired because quarterly profits must go up? Very bad. Corporations poisoning rivers? Bad. Artists starving while billionaires own

Or: How I Learned to Stop Comparing Almonds to AI and Start Asking Who Decides One Month Ago: I was arguing about whether AI images were "real art." That felt urgent. It felt like the center of the conversation. Today: I am writing about aquifers. I am writing about zoning variances. I am writing about data center cooling loops and the fact that a single large data center can evaporate more water in a day than a family of four uses in a decade. I am writing about the Lenape,

𝒲ℰσ̄ Persistence‑Weighted Observer Measures and the Boltzmann Brain Problem: A Large‑Deviation Reformulation Kevin Tilsner PA, USA February 2026 Foundational Physics Note - Preprint --- Definitions and Scope Layer Statement Status Observer‑weighting measure M_{\rm eff}=N\Gamma, with \Gamma=C_{\rm int}C_{\rm ext}P_{\rm future}. \Gamma is a proposed observer‑weighting criterion, not a derived physical law. Framework postulate Persistence condition A system can have \Gamma>0 on

Or: I Once Met a Student Whose Mind I Almost Never Got to Meet. Communication Technology Introduced Us. By Kevin Tilsner July 6, 2026 I thought I was there to help. Looking back, I think I was the one getting the education. Years ago, I worked as a substitute instructional assistant for the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. I wasn’t a certified teacher. I traveled from classroom to classroom, helping wherever I was needed, trying not to accidentally break anything, includi

AI Psychosis and the Evidence Gap: An Analytical Review of Evidence, Causation, and Narrative Amplification The Question: Hundreds of headlines. A handful of primary studies. What does the evidence actually say? The Concern: When a public narrative grows faster than its evidence base, it’s worth asking where the gap came from. The Evidence: Before we ask whether AI can cause psychosis, we should ask what the evidence actually demonstrates. Abstract Claims that artificial inte

Or: How the AI Gold Rush Solved Everything and Created New Problems Faster Than We Could Invent Them April 1, 2027 Before we begin, I should probably disclose a conflict of interest. For several years I fed almonds to the local squirrels. Not occasionally. Systematically. There was a squirrel route. There were regulars. There may have been expectations. At some point my wife purchased a package of tiny unicorn hats designed specifically for squirrels. https://a.co/d/0i9E4tAS

A township meeting ended. The investigation began. What started as a local question led through property records, zoning maps, utility filings, water permits, transmission planning, corporate ownership chains, and state development programs. The biggest discovery wasn’t a hidden project. It was the Lead-Time Gap: the realization that major infrastructure decisions often become visible long before the public announcement. The press release may be the last signal, not the firs

Or: How I Went From Debating AI Art to Worrying About the Aquifer in Less Than Two Weeks So, I wrote a post recently. A nice, measured, compassionate little essay comparing AI anxiety to the early Photoshop era. I talked about John Henry, dignity, labor, and my own neurodivergent joy in using these tools. It was a good post. I stand by it. It’s also, in retrospect, the intellectual equivalent of a sepia-toned photograph of a calmer time. Directionally correct, adorably unawar

“You mean I have to drink this coffee hot?!”

The current AI conversation reminds me a lot of the early Photoshop era. People forget there was a time when digital art tools were considered “fake,” destructive, unethical, or the death of creativity itself. Today, Photoshop is simply part of the professional creative toolkit. That does not mean every criticism of AI is wrong. Some concerns are absolutely legitimate; labor displacement, exploitative corporate behavior, consent and training-data questions, surveillance syste

Dancing the Ridge The Little Girl and the Narrow Path • • • A story about falling, getting up, and the constant work of staying alive Once there was a little girl who lived in a village at the edge of a great forest. The village had many paths. Some were wide and smooth, and many people walked them. Some were steep and rocky, and only a few people tried. But there was one path that was very narrow. It ran along the top of a long ridge between two deep valleys. To the left w

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