Summ( )n Futures

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We summon the futures, to play with them now. http://summon-futures.com

This pic by David Szauder is actually from the New Yorker piece - Sam Altman May Control Our Future - Can He Be Trusted? It's not even a picture but (quite a disturbing) gif showing Altman with many faces Or masks)
In our Colors of Trust framework this can be seen as a clash between entrepreneurial/heroic (Red) trust of the founders, institutional/procedural trust of the boards (Blue), alleged custodial trust of those responsible for technological safety (Green) The image is the court sketch of the former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati delivering testimony (by video) during Elon Musk's lawsuit trial over OpenAI's for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, May 6, 2026 (Vicki Behringer for Reuters)
The chart shows Americans’ trust in mass media from 1972 to 2025: the share with “great deal/fair amount” of trust declines from about 70% in the 1970s to 28% in 2025, while “not very much” and “none at all” both rise to the mid-30% range