July 7, 2026
It's been as long, slow creep, but as of today, yes, this DAY, social media has turned a corner and it's not a very attractive one. What started as a scattering of AI images has now poliferated to the point where the vast majority of posts are loaded down with AI graphics (so obvious and so lame) and there is less and less real imagery or photographs, or even real people communicating. I have seen several logos scraped—stolen!—from our True West archives and spun out as original headlines and it is so depressing. It's like a slo-mo destruction of a once wonderful neighborhood, overrun by untalented bums. I think we can mark this as the day our meeting place turned to ruin.
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
—Arthur Miller
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