Welcome to The Light.
In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has posted an AI-generated image of Tel Aviv consumed by nuclear fire, asking voters whether they prefer his leadership or annihilation. It is a closing argument built entirely from fear — a reminder of how easily fabricated imagery now serves as political currency, and what that costs our collective sense of what is real.
That erosion of the real carries into a quieter story from the digital margins, where a YouTuber is warning that artificial superintelligence will arrive within three years and transform human civilization before most people have noticed. Whether his predictions carry weight matters less than the underlying question he raises — are we moving toward something we have genuinely chosen, or simply something we have failed to stop?
And then, across the ocean, Yemen's Information Ministry reports that Houthi forces fired three ballistic missiles at a camp sheltering displaced people near Aden. Displaced people — those already carrying the full weight of loss — struck again. There is a particular cruelty in targeting refuge itself, and it deserves more than a footnote in the day's news.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
