“And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.”
~ John Donne
John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. Wikipedia
By Zara Irshad, Staff Writer May 27, 2026 (SFChronicle.com)
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A new adult film production is looking for a Mayor Daniel Lurie impersonator, according to posters spotted around San Francisco. Jana Ašenbrennerová/For the S.F. Chronicle
Daniel Lurie may be known for his lighthearted Instagram reels, but a new casting call seeks to place the San Francisco mayor’s likeness in a not-so-family-friendly scenario.
“Daniel Lurie impersonator Needed For: Gay Adult Film,” read posters spotted in the Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods last week.
The X-rated project is being put together by a group of self-proclaimed San Francisco natives. Its title, “Let’s Blow San Francisco,” riffs off Lurie’s popular “Let’s go San Francisco” rallying cry.
The adult film, which is still searching for funding, would “star a fictionalized version of Mayor Daniel Lurie interacting with his fellow San Franciscans,” one of the individuals behind the project, who goes by the name Scooter, told the Chronicle via email. “From regular community members, to police officers, and beyond.”
In addition to being 18 years or older and striking a physical resemblance to the mayor, applicants must also be able to copy Lurie’s voice and mannerisms. Those interested can email the filmmakers a two-minute-long clip of their best Lurie impersonation.
The Chronicle has reached out to Lurie’s office for comment.
An X-rated Lurie impersonator may seem an unconventional ask, but for someone with the mayor’s public popularity, it was just a matter of time. The Chronicle’s most recent poll shows that Lurie is extremely popular for a big city mayor, with 74% of respondents approving of his performance in office so far.
Scooter said that they have received some inquiries for the role, but are still on the hunt for their Lurie lookalike.
“We’ve had some suspicions that people may be reluctant to want to think or admit that they look like Daniel Lurie,” Scooter wrote. “However, we think that this is a great quality.”
Scooter’s team initially planned to pool their own money together to fund the production of the film, but the buzz around the posters has prompted them to now explore the possibility of using product placement to finance the project.
Indeed, the social media response to the casting has been enthusiastic, with many cracking jokes about the casting and some declaring: “San Francisco is back.”
Zara Irshad is the Chronicle’s Arts & Entertainment Engagement Reporter. She joined the Chronicle as a summer 2023 intern for the Datebook team. She is a recent graduate of UC San Diego, where she studied communications. She previously interned for the San Diego Union-Tribune and wrote for her campus newspaper, the Guardian, where she served as editor-in-chief. Irshad was part of the honors program for her major and double-minored in world literature and film studies.
SUMMIT, NJ—In a surprise attack of astonishing brutality, oral cavity sources confirmed Thursday that the Listerine inside a local mouth was leaving 0.1% of germs alive in order to spread a message of terror throughout the microbial community. “The mouthwash killed my entire colony and then told me to bear witness to the horrors I saw today,” said a rod-shaped Porphyromonas gingivalis,adding that its cell wall was nearly dissolved when suddenly the 20 milliliters of antiseptic liquid retreated, leaving the bacterium with severe but nonfatal injuries. “The Listerine viciously wiped out our entire community. There was nothing left but a wasteland covered in piles of dead cell membranes. It laughed and told us that even God fears the minty power of Listerine.” Sources later refused to verify rumors that shell-shocked survivors had taken refuge inside a decayed tooth.
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical Monday, warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Here’s what you need to know about the document.
Q: What is an encyclical?
A: It’s like a company-wide email, except this one is skeptical of AI.
Q: What is the encyclical titled?
A: Magnifica_Humanitas_final.docx
Q: Were any AI companies or products mentioned by name?
A: Pope Leo specifically called out the Domino’s customer support bot.
Q: Why did the pope write about AI?
A: The Vatican’s SEO rankings have been plummeting for months.
Q: What impact will this have on the public perception of AI?
A: ChatGPT usage is already down 24% among little old Italian women.
Q: How can I read the encyclical?
A: By opening it in a browser tab you might get to in a couple of weeks.
BOONE, NC—Noting that the troubling signs of a toxic dynamic had become too numerous to ignore, area woman Kara Vasques expressed concern Wednesday that she was in a codependent relationship with the rest of humanity. “Sometimes things will be great with me and the human race, but then I start to worry that I don’t really have an identity outside of how everyone on earth views me,” said Vasques, confirming that her taste in areas such as entertainment, sports, politics, food, and religion had been heavily influenced by the views of human civilization. “I can get really anxious and upset if I don’t accomplish my goals, but then I realize that I’m only doing a lot of this stuff for the benefit of society. I’m basically obsessed, and yet a lot of times I feel like the global population barely knows that I exist.” Vasques added that she might need to cut herself off from the rest of humanity for a while before eventually giving things a shot again with a different species.
“CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.”
It’s no secret that many of the world’s top CEOs are obsessed with AI. By pursuing lofty goals of complete AI automation, these executives have created one of the largest financial bubbles in recent memory while transforming the job market into a barren wasteland, with little to show for their efforts so far.
As the top tech companies have yet to find a way to turn AI into a profitable venture, those decisions to go all-in on AI are looking increasingly delusional. According to Aaron Levie, CEO and founder of the massive cloud computing company Box, there’s a simple explanation for it: many of his colleagues are suffering from AI psychosis.
“CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI,” Levie wrote on X-formerly-Twitter. Translation: AI-happy CEOs are out of touch with the rank-and-file workers tasked with making their AI ambitions come to life.
As an example, Levie offers cases in which corporate executives say “look I made this awesome product prototype” with an AI chatbot. “Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues,” he retorts.
Whether “AI psychosis” is the best metaphor for this concept is up for debate. Arguably the most common definition of AI psychosis is that it’s a phenomenon where extreme interactions with AI triggers or amplifies delusions or paranoia, sometimes already existing and sometimes seemingly newly cooked up with the AI. The symptoms can be extreme, with AI chatbots convincing victims that they’re communing with God-like entities, or have singlehandedly uncovered a grave threat to humankind.
There are indeed some executives who seem to fit the bill. Last year, Futurism reported that colleagues of Geoff Lewis, managing partner of the multi-billion dollar investment firm Bedrock, were concerned that he was suffering from a break with reality after spending too much time with ChatGPT (ironically, Bedrock was an early investor in OpenAI.) In that case, Lewis had claimed to be mapping an incomprehensible “non-governmental system” that was designed to disrupt his life.
That said, there’s a major gap between an exec believing they’re targeted by a vast conspiratorial network and an exec buying into AI hype. The phenomenon Levie is identifying might better fall under “organizational blindness,” a known phenomenon where leaders of a company find themselves disconnected from the reality of work on the ground. Coupled with a ravenous hunger for profit, this kind of tunnel vision seems to be exactly what we’re seeing in companies around theglobe.
In today’s world, many executives and managers operate at an abstract level, working via spreadsheets, emails and Zoom meetings. This is different from concrete labor, meaning the specific, friction-heavy tasks that workers perform, like writing code or wiring server racks. When a board-room full of executives loses sight of this tangible labor — by failing to consider the kinds of tasks AI chatbots are actually good at, for example — it can certainly create a break from material reality, though one driven by social factors rather than psychological.
In other words, there are two possibilities: either the world’s CEOs are losing their minds, or they’re just succumbing to the latest manifestation of capitalism run amok. Occam’s razor probably suggests the latter.
Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything other than our consciousness.
The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is my Translation from this week.
1) Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore sated, therefore satisfied, therefore full, therefore fulfilled. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be other than Truth, therefore the beingness of me is Truth. Since the beingness of me is Truth therefore the beingness of me has all the attributes of Truth. Therefore the beingness of me is total, whole, sated, satisfied, full, fulfilled. Since there is no being without awareness of it, therefore Truth is awareness.
2) After my mother was killed, my father made me his wife.
Word-tracking: killed: to come to die, murder, mortal mother: matrix, womb woman: vibrate, to hover wife: to hover, help meet or appropriate match or fitting match father: patriarch, patriot, guardian guardian: guard, watch watch: vigor, sentinel, see equal: just, fair, right true
3) Truth being all is therefore without limit, therefore immortal. Being immortal, Truth cannot be killed (shown to be mortal), therefore Truth is immortal. Truth being all that is is therefore one. Being one, Truth cannot be divided into father and mother, mother and son, husband and wife. Therefore Truth is indivisible oneness propagating Itself. Truth being all that is, therefore true is all that is, just is all that is, fair is all that is, equal is all that is. Truth being awareness/consciousness (being a guardian or watcher or sentinel) and Truth being all that is, therefore Truth is the only sentinel. And Truth being whole, complete and perfect, and all that is, therefore wholeness, completeness and perfection is all that can be seen/watched.
4) Truth is immortal. Truth is indivisible oneness propagating Itself. True is all that is, just is all that is, fair is all that is, equal is all that is. Truth is the only sentinel. Wholeness, completeness and perfection is all that can be seen/watched.
5) Immortal Truth watches the perfection of its own making.
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Last week our sense testimony was: Anger is the cause of disease. And our conclusion was: Truth is the undeniable cause of agreement with all there is.
