(Caption: A castle I generated with the AI model StyleGAN2 trained on French castle pictures. This castle does not exist, but it's like a lot of other French châteaux, combined.) Every time I try to write this, I stall at listing what's awesome in the shadow of the mountain of how much is not awesome right now. But I feel like I need to push past that because some folks' newsletters have been cheering me up; maybe I can return the favor with some more recommendations.