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[Description: a TikTok video showing someone holding up a Macbook laptop with an incredulous look, with a caption reading "Alan Turing after I bring him to 2026". The person inspects the laptop, and as they do so they say "Oh my god. This is—this is incredible. Like, I just—I can't even comprehend what I'm looking at here. Like, I just never thought that like in a million years society would ever, ever be able to create something like this." They pause and look at the laptop screen, and say "And you said they're both hockey players?" /End description]

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You won't find me being this much of a Pollyanna again so here it goes:

In these difficult times, interaction with the arts, even on the Internet, is a good thing that keeps it alive and reminds us that art is beyond the art market, beyond critics, and independent of the hyperbole of social media. It's an essential but neglected part of our society that many would try to censor or dismiss to irrelevancy. We must continue to create things that have meaning to us and support others that do so as well.

I hope all of you do a painting this year, write a song, read something you learn from or see something that expands your vision . This is part of the way people have shared their sense of the world with others. Communication is a human need. We need to remind ourselves how personal art is and strip it of the idea that it is simply a commodity to be traded. It's not a ticket to stardom or part of a plan for world domination. People drew on cave walls. They wanted to know themselves. You can do it too. There's art and love and not much else. Let's do things and save each other's lives.

Thank you to the first home of this blog, which is Tumblr and all the people that interact. Happy New Year