The Meanness of Memory, Our Child Got Married and is Changing Her Name, Artificial Intelligence, Perception is Everything

"Memory is a mean thing, repeatedly slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors. A moment of humiliation, devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replayed, spinning a thread around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. It won't exactly kill you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of e…