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Have you noticed the dearth of April Fool’s humour this year/recently/these days? Because I sure have. And I mostly appreciate it. At the very least, it’s given me some good pondering and gut-checking. Perhaps it’s a symptom of my tastes, such as they have become. Or my non-tough skin when it comes to pranks and hijinks. (I’ve never been able to get behind laughing at people being fooled.) Or perhaps it’s the fact that we’re all kind of over being lied to—by companies, by conglomerates, by politicians, by governments, by tech/internet hype-bros—and just can’t find it funny anymore. Or that anyone can fake anything with generative AI, even in its infancy, and we can all read the digital writing on the wall. But whatever it is, I got a grand total of two April Fool’s emails today (and I get a LOT of emails)—one suspected, one goofily blatant and admitted—and it felt significant. It also felt appropriate, comforting. I felt seen. Honestly, |
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