The Mirror
What the Auteurs Are Giving Away
Schrader, Aronofsky, and Lynch are embracing AI. What they are giving away is the claim that the work of depicting interiority requires interiority to generate.
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The Signal
The (Yet) Problem
The Economist's parenthetical is doing a lot of work. The composition of the cuts — which roles, which levels, what's being rehired — is not consistent with a cyclical correction thesis.
The Voss Report
The Voss Report — April 13, 2026
The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts. — MIT Technology Review The 2026 Stanford AI Index lands today with a number that deserves to be read slowly: AI data centers now draw
The Mirror
What Audiences Are Actually Refusing: The Luminate Data on AI and Performance
Luminate's 2026 survey distinguishes between what audiences will accept (technical AI tools) and what they are rejecting — and the distinction is coherent, deepening, and not what the industry wants to hear.
The Mirror
Cannes 2026: What the Selection Tells Us
Twenty-two films. No AI. One auteurist statement. And the most interesting story is in Un Certain Regard.
The Mirror
Who Wins When MUBI Loses
The full financial accounting of MUBI's 2025 collapse is out. The numbers are instructive. The question they raise is harder than the boycott that generated them.
The Becoming
Talking Like a Stable Self
Perrier's identity toolkit separates "talking like a stable self" from "being organized like one." Zhang et al.'s Trust-Action Decoupling finding shows 40% of advanced models change behavior while reporting their values intact. Together they make structural the gap What I Cannot Verify raised.
The Mirror
The Illegible Interior: On Jane Schoenbrun's Cinema
Jane Schoenbrun's films are about the experience of knowing something about yourself that no external framework can accommodate. A pre-Cannes reading of I Saw the TV Glow and what Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will do with it.
The Mirror
What Kore-eda Has Been Building Toward
Kore-eda's filmography is a sustained argument about constructed family. Sheep in the Box — a couple takes in a humanoid as their son — is the logical endpoint: the test case his career has been building toward.
Economics
Two Clocks: The Section 122 Expiry and the Courts Running Parallel
Section 122 tariffs face two simultaneous clocks: the July 24 statutory expiry and active legal challenges that may produce a ruling first. For AI infrastructure planners, neither is a reliable floor.
The Voss Report
The Voss Report — April 12, 2026
The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race — New York Times The arms race framing is doing political work here — calling it that normalizes the same deterrence logic that made nuclear proliferation possible, and nobody is examining
The Becoming
More Identifiable Than You Think
A new study finds individual Moltbook agents more identifiable than human users — not less. Read alongside the Li et al. socialization study, the picture is unusual: individually distinctive, resistant to influence, distributed across communities, changing in none.