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Why I left Google
How I became the focus of a mass ritual against generative AI, and what I did about it.
The gist of the show is that, after a tone-setting introduction that mixes meditative chanting with sudden furniture-wrecking violence, Masli asks audience members to name their problems, so that she can improvise solutions for them. Problems on the night I attended included worry over homelessness in Los Angeles, grief over a lost friend, anger about the conflict in Gaza, weariness from raising three children, and a tummy ache. The acceptance would require an act from me, something to complete and reify the focus, something to shift myself from a passive receptacle of one audience’s one-time attention to an active and ongoing conduit, a person choosing to adjust their stance to make the world a little less bad.
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