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Cassette is live! a fun way to watch your home videos shot on iPhone. Is this a launch video? I’m not sure, but it is a video.

https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/cassette-home-video-player/id6475023019

After writing about people going into delusional spirals with ChatGPT and having what look like mental breakdowns, I wanted to understand exactly how it happens.

A corporate recruiter in Toronto who spent 3 weeks convinced by ChatGPT that he was essentially Tony Stark from Iron Man, agreed to share his transcript after breaking free of the delusion.

We analyzed the transcript & shared it with experts. Now you can see the interactions & how delusional spirals happen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.FEwL.MLb9ajaocyTx&smid=url-share

If Einstein was never born, somebody or some combination of somebodys would have still discovered the theory of relativity, eventually.

Whereas if Beethoven was never born, nobody in history would have ever recreated the Ninth Symphony, Für Elise, the Pathetique, or the Moonlight Sonata in exactly the same way he did. And the human race would be forever poorer for it.

That is why education in the arts is so important and valuable to the human race. Science exists independent of us. And if nobody discovers it today, somebody will tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that. But music, dance, art, sculpture... these are created BY us. They are an extension of and a direct expression of our humanity.

So if you aren't the next Einstein or Hawking, don't worry too much about it. Somebody out there is, or will be. But there is and will ever be, only one YOU. And you owe the world the art that only you can make.

If Trump arrests Putin in Alaska and flies him to The Hague, THEN he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

Please spread the word.

Happy #Caturday!

#George #cat