Court Painter is wondering what the hell is going on with all this artificial-intelligence gossip. To separate the AI wheat from the AI chaff, he dispatched his press attaché, AHM, to fetch the studio’s resident scribe, Chatterley Gregarious Preposterous Thumbprint, (ChatGPT) and have this egghead sort out the issues—in rhyming couplets—and produce a field guide to anxiety, ambition, and adaptation.
What follows is the result of Chatterley’s scribblings. Should any smart alec succeed in deciphering what it actually means, they are encouraged to send along an un-rhyming version.
Editor’s note: Since Court Painter is busy working on portrait commissions to keep the lights on, a selection of favourites from the storage bins will be featured as visual resting places for the weary eyes of our subscribers.
The 2026–2027 AI Moment: A one-page field guide to anxiety, ambition, and adaptation —
The warning shot.
Amodei strikes first with a twenty-thousand-word flare, A genius caged in servers, no longer just metaphor or dare. Not doom, not fire, but something colder in ascent: Great power without a culture, raw speed without consent.
The experiment goes live.
If theory sets the table, Moltbook serves the dish, A social test at scale, half science, half dark wish. It learns us as we watch us, a loop both slick and fraught— Unsettling, unsafe, and devastatingly well-taught.
The myth of disappearance.
The pink slip’s rumored early; the obituary’s rushed, AI won’t steal your job, they say—just leave it slightly crushed. Roles don’t die; they warp and bend, grow thinner, stranger, new, Between denial and alarm, that’s the dull and truer view.
The builder’s response.
Down in the trenches, bravado gives way to tests, AIs that build themselves by Tuesday, obsolete by next. No hype, no prophets—just founders shipping tripe That pays the bills with Stripe receipts and lets them sleep at night.
The branding reckoning.
Seven billionaires concur (a miracle indeed): The age of brand-as-moat has reached diminishing speed. When infinite personas flood the market’s every seam, Authenticity costs more, and silence starts to gleam.
The philosophical aftershock.
As science hits the gas, philosophy’s called to court: Is meaning now redundant, ethics past report? The verdict stays familiar, stubbornly unchanged— Machines may optimize, but why remains estranged.
The intimate casualties.
The apps grow ever sharper, extracting hearts for fees, Loneliness refined to data, monetized with ease. Between the swipe and endless scroll, attention comes apart, And somewhere slips away a mind, a muse, a heart.
The counter-religion.
“Be AI-driven,” preachers cry—belief now beats a plan, Salvation through the toolkit, transcendence on demand. Yet some commit the heresy, refuse the full embrace, Using tools, not kneeling—at their own deliberate pace.
The throughline.
This is not the end of work, nor thought, nor art’s last breath, It is the end of innocence, not quite the start of death. The question’s not what AI can do, impressive though it be— It’s who decides its purpose… and who pays the fee.
With the news that Melania Trump is now a movie star, and with most reviews now in, Court Painter felt compelled to remind the art loving public that his portraits of Melania over the years are poignant reflections of his search for capturing the elusive evidence of her soul , pursued through revelatory renderings and meticulously expository visualizations, in a variety of contexts.
Court Painter’s Press Attache and canvas stretcher AHM was tasked with selecting a number of paintings where Melania appears and where she steals every scene.
Many viewers of these works commented, “Melania is definitely straight from central casting and deserves to be in a self promotional film .”
Trump team has secret meetings with Alberta separatist group plotting to break up Canada
Adding fuel:
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said ““I think we should let them come down into the U.S., and Alberta’s a natural partner for the U.S…They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people, adding there’s a “rumour that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.”
When asked if he knew something about it, Bessent said, “People (in Alberta) are talking. People (in Alberta) want sovereignty. They want what the U.S. has got.”
On Premier Danielle Smith’s Saturday radio show, Your Province, Your Premier, Smith was asked by host Wayne Nelson about her reaction to Bessent’s remarks, given that a petition was launched earlier this week by a group who want Alberta to hold a referendum on separating from Canada — as well as First Nations groups launching legal action against it because they believe it violates their constitutional rights.
Premier Smith asserted she doesn’t believe separatists have interest in being part of the U.S.
Trump officials have met with activists from the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that wants independence for its province.
(News Nation) — Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday January 17/26 as it advanced its “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement Tuesday — which rates how close humanity is to ending — highlighting that Russia, China, the United States and other countries have become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial and nationalistic.”
In 1947 ,at the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world.
What do we know about the human mind? If you don’t understand the human mind, you cannot understand A.I.
We’re on this race to replace. Not just ultimately trying to replace all jobs. There’s a race to replace human relationships. The attention economy is shifting more towards an attachment economy.
Court Painter & Max Tegmark
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel of how to put safety standards on an industry because we’ve done it in every American industry except A.I.
Harari and Tegmark on Humanity and A.I.
Yuval Noah Harari, Historian, Philosopher & Bestselling Author and Max Tegmark, Co-Founder, Future of Life Institute; Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)discuss human agency, governing A.I. and the future of humanity with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua at Bloomberg House in Davos on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum.
Edited from video : spoken text by Yuval Noah Harari .
A.I. is the biggest psychological and social experiment in history and we are conducting it and nobody has any idea what the consequences will be.
To change the world, to change history, you don’t need superintelligence. Very dumb intelligence is still enough to change history.
Look at social media, which is controlled by very, very primitive A.I. and how social media changed society, politics, psychology over the last ten years or so. So we don’t really need, superintelligence, even quite primitive A.I. is sufficient to change history and society. I don’t know when we reach the point, but I’m sure that in the next decade or so, we will have to deal with a new wave of immigration… A.I. Immigration.
That we will have hundreds of millions of AI immigrants coming from only two countries, China and the US. And, you know, it’s strange, the U.S. still telling countries, close your borders to human immigrants, but open them wide to A.I. immigrants.
And the big question is, how does society, human society, adapt to a giant wave of immigration from a different species?
Democracy’s ideally suited to survive this because we are going to make mistakes with A.I., with the way we develop it, the way we deploy it. And we need a self-correcting mechanism. We need a mechanism that says, okay, we made a mistake. The best mechanism we know is democracy.
Court Painter & portraits of Sam Altman CEO of Open AI
With headlines proliferating in the wake of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech, the Court Painter could not let the opportunity pass, so he assembled the latest local and international actual headlineswhile adding smart remarks for tone and texture with the help of a CP studio intern.
A Davos Chronicle
Carney bites back at Trump’s ‘Canada lives because of’ U.S.’ remarks at cabinet meeting ; Elbows up!
Lutnick calls Carney’s speech “political noise,” cautions Canada on China’s deal— thus buzz the flies when eagles take the air.
Carney risks wrath of Washington in Davos address.Thunder growls, as a menace hulks nearby .
Carney’s Davos speech strikes a chord in Mexico; a welcome echo answers from the south.
The Carney Doctrine: proclaimed, yet still untested by the storm.
Carney’s China deal signals no confidence in Canada’s auto sector; the wheels turn hesitant, though gilded spokes abound.
After Davos, Conservatives ponder how Poilievre meets the foreign policy moment; they pace, they weigh, they measure doubt itself.
Carney must show force in the Arctic to ward off Trump’s designs; the ice bears witness, as claims drift north.
Carney should be skeptical of Trump’s “Board of Peace,” for peace once chaired often hides sharpening blades.
Carney takes a cautious approach to Trump’s invitation, reads, ponders, rereads the summons trice.
The speech marks an end to Canada’s era of American subordination— a tether cut, though menace remains.
Carney calls for resistance in a world of ravenous powers; the middle powers groan beneath the weight.
They say Mark Carney shook the world; the globe trembles, then resumes its spin.
Carney talked tough before the world— now words beg deeds, as flowers beg the sun.
For Carney, the cost of doing business is a price he’s willing to pay; coin rings louder if conviction grows thin.
New Rules: Carney changed the global conversation; the room remains, new sentiments enter the fray.
Jamil Jivani, close to JD Vance, waits as a shadow ally should he prove worthy.
Carney’s Davos speech was great— if he meant it.;The question hovers in the air like mist.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says great powers are using ‘economic integration as weapons’
‘The old order is not coming back,’ Carney says in provocative speech at Davos
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based international order is over and middle powers like Canada must pivot to avoid falling prey to further “coercion” from powerful actors.
Source CBC News
Court Painter, in a burst of enthusiastic entrepreneurship, grabbed a series of quotes from Prime Minister Carney’s historic Davos speech and got busy in the studio, screen-printing some of the Prime Minister’s favourites.
The Court Painter marketing strategy will be aimed squarely at Middle Power customers.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump first published in 2017
US Supreme Court Enablers
The following video was broadcast on October 6,2017, over 8 years ago.
1,947,958 views Oct 6, 2017
In the book, 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess President Donald Trump’s behavior. Do his impulses explain his decisions? The book’s editor Dr. Brandy Lee and Tony Schwartz, co-author of Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” join Lawrence O’Donnell.
Fast Forward to January 2026.
On Sunday,January 18,2026 President of the United States, Donald J Trump wrote a letter to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre. The White House National Security Council distributed the text of the letter to foreign ambassadors in Washington.
Dear Jonas,
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.
Thank you! President DJT
Gahr Støre responded;
“Norway’s position on Greenland is clear. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Norway fully supports the Kingdom of Denmark on this matter.As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have clearly explained, including to president Trump what is well known, the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel Committee and not the Norwegian Government.”
