I have the most unhinged idea… Walk with me.
It all started with my teenage discovery of filmmaker Sofia Coppola. I lived for her aesthetic before I ever knew what that word meant.
I have the most unhinged idea… Walk with me.
It all started with my teenage discovery of filmmaker Sofia Coppola. I lived for her aesthetic before I ever knew what that word meant.
Somewhere around the time I became pregnant with Baby Dawes, the Life Rustic blog faded out of existence… I’d let the domain lapse, somebody quickly bought the site, and it would’ve been expensive to get it back.
So for a long time it was out of sight, out of mind. Until now.
Recently, a Stanford communications professor and misinformation expert admitted that a court declaration he submitted (on the subject of deepfakes and AI-driven misinformation, of all things) contained fabricated citations.
Apparently he’d used ChatGPT to help draft the document, and the AI invented its own citations.
Which is like, the most hilarious irony.
So, I got a new phone… It’s a flip phone… Complete with a bright purple case and little daisy charm.
And I’m SO happy with it. I love the the feel and sound of the metal charm that jingles between my fingers, love the satisfying clack of the phone when slamming it shut.
But mostly, I love the things I’m not experiencing because of this flip phone.
A few days ago, I changed my Facebook cover photo. (Not a super-compelling life update, I know…) But it’s significant because my cover photo for the last year and half was an adorable black and white picture of Baby Dawes and me.
I’ve now updated it to be a random image of a flower wall I took 2 seconds to find on Canva.