Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Across the country, more than ninety lawsuits have been filed by authors, musicians, artists, and publishers against AI companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic. The central question is whether training artificial intelligence on copyrighted human work constitutes theft, or something our existing language simply cannot yet name.
From that vast legal reckoning, we turn to something more intimate. Micah Lasher was twelve years old when he interviewed a twenty-two-year-old for a job at a diner on the Upper West Side. Thirty-two years later, he is running for Congress in that same neighborhood, seeking the seat Jerrold Nadler has held for thirty-four years. There is something quietly astonishing about a life that circles back, older and still reaching.
And then there is a piece circulating today offering seven clues about the physical appearance of the Antichrist. Whatever one makes of its theology, it reminds us that human beings have always needed to give darkness a face, to locate evil somewhere outside themselves, somewhere identifiable, somewhere they might recognize before it arrives.
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