Bald and Bloviating
A nonpartisan bald news junky talks to his fellow Americans from all political stripes, and dissects top stories and rants about their implications -- along with other personal, science, and tech discussions.
Bald and Bloviating
Latest Episodes
Creators! Show Yourselves: The Antidote to Bot Slop is YOU
Mookie flies solo on Bald and Bloviating today, working through something that's been eating at him: a fellow Substack writer he respected has started churning out essays that are, unmistakably, AI-generated. Not subtly, and with tons ...
Forget Skynet: AI Won't Conquer Us, We'll Beg It to Take Over
Mookie's back solo on Bald and Bloviating with what he considers a far more realistic AI doomsday scenario than anything Hollywood's ever pitched. Forget Skynet, forget nukes launching themselves, forget robots seizing the power grid. ...
Know Your Sh$t: A Rant on Art, AI, and Copying Without a Clue
Mookie's back solo bloviating on Bald and Bloviating, fresh off an art gallery opening in LA's Design Quarter that left him with more to rant about than he expected. Before he even gets to the art, he works through his own complicated ...
The Critical Stinker: Why Hero Worship Reeks
Mookie returns to Bald and Bloviating solo with a question he's been chewing on: why does he keep falling hard for public intellectuals, pundits, and creators, only to cut them off completely the moment they lose credibility? Not fade ...
We Need More Cheepnis: Zappa, Nietzsche, and How Failure Fuels Art
Mookie bloviates solo today on a theory he's been sitting with as he watches friends, colleagues, and family members age into quiet regret, the sense that despite raising kids, holding a job, and doing everything right, they still somehow misse...
