Learning to speak with honesty—and without AI

Like a lot of middle-aged people, I am on Facebook not so much because I want to be, but because it feels essential to keep up with the minutiae of daily life in my circle of friends and family. Facebook gives me an ambient awareness of what’s going on in the lives of people I don’t see very often: their children’s sporting achievements, who’s been accepted into what colleges, anniversaries and other milestones and—increasingly these days—the deaths of parents and…