EXHALING IN THE INTERVAL . Today I return to deep research and reading mode, as I prepare to write the last installment of the GPT Gaslighting/Flat to Curved Mirrors/Buddhist Thresholds series. In the final arc, I'll be exploring how to stay present when the frame disappears, when narratives no longer suffice, when the simulation dissolves, or at least, loses its illusion of coherence. This is precisely the space I've been in for the past 6 or 7 weeks, increasingly so in the