For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #124
Dispatches from a cluttered desk
A Good Friday, indeed. Not because anyone has risen or anything like that but because, hey, maybe we’ll all find some time to rest. Maybe eat some chocolate. Glaze a ham. Live your dreams.
This week, out to everyone was For once, this shouldn’t be an email from Kennedy. This one manages to cover a local PR disaster, a massage table realization, and a bigger question about how we communicate in a world with no pause button. What happens when the immediacy of technology clashes with the urgency of our human emotions, and we find ourselves answering to a response we hadn’t fully processed yet?
In the inboxes of paid subscribers was a new Justin original: Exposure Expertise Is Screwing Criminal Defendants and their Appeals. In this piece, he explores some of the cognitive dissonance with technology in the courtroom, and how bad assumptions don’t just evaporate, they snowball.
From trial to appeal, one misunderstood idea can pick up speed, weight, and consequences. Out to all next week, or unlock with a subscription today.
What Kennedy Recommends
Podcast | Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
I had to search the archives as I thought to myself, “There’s simply no way I haven’t recommended this already.” Where Should We Begin is Belgian psychotherapist Esther Perel’s podcast. Every episode is a one time session with Esther, unpacking everything from mother wounds to couples therapy, sex addiction, infidelity, and, in a recent episode, AI.
In this episode, Esther meets with a young man who set out to build an AI personal assistant, but instead, built himself the perfect romantic partner.
Listening to this was confirmation of what we already knew to be true: as society continues to collapse inward and we lose the in-person communities and third places we once had, relationships will be replaced with customizable and optimizable companions.
Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
That’s all folks.
Rest up.
Your Bullshit Hunting Crew