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August 05, 2025
Unholy AI

I just listened to Jim Acosta’s interview with the AI version of Joaquin, the victim of the Parkland shooting, and his father.

I do not know how parents cope with such loss, and I do not think it is for anybody to question how anyone grieves the loss of a loved one - though I am skeptical that creating an AI version of a lost loved one is healthy or productive as relates to the grieving process.

From a journalistic and political perspective:

I was going to give Jim a hard time for somehow turning a five minute interview of an AI version of a deceased child into an interview of him, but I suspect that was in the programming of the AI…

And I appreciate he was doing this interview as a favor to the wishes of the father.

That said, the “interview” was an abomination, and something about it feels fundamentally sacrilegious and immoral. Creating an AI version of a dead child to literally use for political purposes.

To create social media accounts in the name and likeness of the deceased, where, as the technology advances, it will be indistinguishable from a real person in no time.

What could possibly go wrong?

Are we entering the realm of buying the rights to dead people, then programming AI to cause them to say things that fit the political/activist agendas of the rights holders?

Are we entering the realm of humans literally playing God?

This feels dirty and unholy.

And I’m also thoroughly convinced it is wildly unhealthy for the grieving process, and will only make it more difficult - and possibly turn into something of an addictive drug that will hamper any potential recovery from tragedy.

Link https://x.com/jeffstorobinsky/status/1952482348215496713?s=46

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A. Art of the Day

We the People. It stands out above all in the scribed parchment inside the glass-encased shield inside the Rotunda of Congress with three words bigger than the rest: We The People. Penned on a single sheet of animal skin by Jacob Shallus, it stands out as the Great Charter of American liberty, the profound experiment in self-government, and still stands today as the oldest and shortest written constitution of any major government in the world today. Those words stand out above the rest, written in flowing letters outsized to the text, to remind the world upon what power our government sits: We the People.

B. Wisdom of the Day

“Monopoly is a great enemy” and a “wretched spirit” which poses a greater threat to the free market than as it prevents free enterprise from self-defense. Adam Smith.

C. Cultural Recommendation

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution tells the tale of what the true founders – the generation that birthed freedom on this continent – thought as they argued the merits of this new document. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7841680-ratification

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The Barnes Brief: Wednesday, November 19, 2025

I. INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

One place where AI proves fun is its image generation capacity, whether for memes, dystopian dreams, otherworldly experiences, or translating photos and ideas into the templated work of famous painters. I asked it to convert this meme into a Hopper painting, and it turns out quite fun, as it blurs and blends the images into the spirit of the people and place, as Hopper so masterfully made so often. A Hush Hush of its own accord.

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“AI is unfalsifiable and thus unscientific.” Erik Larson.

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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do. The author, an AI researcher himself, explains why much of AI’s narrative is pure fiction.

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The Barnes Brief: Weekend of November 14, 2025

I.   INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

Working away in the hidden office, devouring intel and discovering information, to share with the world. My office looks like this, but replaced with digital feeds over the physical ones of yesteryear, processing the running feeds into recognizable patterns that can both explicate and forecast alike. To all the hidden offices uncovering what his hidden for the world.

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“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that, for bureaucrats, procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” Thomas Sowell.

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