Seeing this headline and thinking about how unexpectedly delighted I felt in my first months of remote work. It was safety. I felt safety.

That or prosody just collapses under the uncanny valley of it all — assuming employees are told it is AI Zuck, which should absolutely be the case — and that breakage erodes trust even further. What is the sound of sincerity?

Yet another thing to file under “dream PhD studies in Utrecht.”

I’ve been noodling on an essay on prosody — and a theory I read on how digital mediums like email and chat induce a kind of aprosodia when overused in organizations — and I think there are some major implications for that theory with this. This is a disaster on several levels.

The through-line from Marc Andreessen’s introspection-is-for-losers to this post.

It’s remarkable how many organizations forget there are actual humans reading these emails, and that we don’t exist in a vacuum.

Take a night nap.

That empathy has a place in employee communications.

Salute to the headbanger kid in my 8th grade art class who one day quietly said that the best guitarist in the world wasn’t Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, or Jimmy Page. It was, in fact, he insisted, George Benson.

We didn’t know what to do with this information but he was resolute.

Also this presupposes the buy-in of the workforce, as though the confluence of extraction (energy, water, human casualties of war) related to AI won’t have *some* impact on people’s willingness to shift and adopt.

Desperately wish there was a stronger #internalcomms space for real-time conversation. Genuinely curious if anyone else is wondering if it’s time to ask HR whether they’re planning a conscientious objector policy for AI.

A washing your hair with face wash kind of morning.

At least one cop in Kansas is going to demand that a driver pull down their pants, "just to check," before this is over.

People mostly say "Americans live in different realities" to talk about politics but it is blaring in my head reading the positive reviews of One Battle After Another

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

Cool, gonna go throw up now.

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Hugo Lowell told MSNOW that the Trump administration expects that the murder of Alex Pretti will "blow over and go away." They believe that Americans will forget about it in a week or so.

Holding a book called “Neuroscience for Organizational Communication.”

V. grateful for this text, which is such a brilliant springboard for internal comms and employee comms practitioners looking to re-examine their approaches in polycrisis.