I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.
artist friends: i like painting
musician friends: i like my guitar pedals
writer friends: every single time i have to write anything its like 10,000 horses dragging me through a field of broken glass, in fact i would prefer that
adulting is scary i just had the idea to send a "meeting agenda" for my friends' call which is happening after months but there was a time we called everyday :(
I rent at One Constitution Avenue. At 1 AM last night, I was jolted awake by heavy banging on the door. My first panicked thought: thieves. Instead, I was greeted by 50 heavily armored police officers — rude, aggressive, and clearly ready to beat us into submission if we resisted. They gave us no reason. Pretended it was for security as in recent times when peace negotiations were being held.
No court order shown. No documents. No explanation.
Just “vacate by 12 noon today.” Only later did I learn this midnight raid had a court’s blessing. Why am I not surprised? This is Pakistan’s “protocol court” justice at its finest.
The building has been in dispute for 20 years. During that entire farce, the CDA — the regulator that slept for years while the building was constructed and apartments sold
There’s even suspicion it was complicit.
Any reasonable judge would have treated the CDA as guilty if at a minimum negligence.
A regulator that was asleep (or worse) should not now be allowed to benefit. Apartment sales were formally recognized by the CDA and previous judges — so why suddenly reverse everything in CDA’s favor? The building ownership I am told is being transferred to CDA
What court in the world authorises 50 armed goons to storm a residential building at 1 AM, trampling individual property and tenancy rights with zero notice?
As I wrote in my latest Substack on judicial/bureaucratic over-reach: courts should appoint professional receivership instead of handing assets back to the same failed bureaucracy. “Development rights can be re-auctioned” in an open market — not gifted to the CDA. The building could easily have been placed in receivership, demising rights sold via transparent auction, value preserved, and residents protected.
But obviously our judges don’t know enough economics or real law. This is what serious law — what I call ELEVATE justice — would require.
I called journalists. No TV, no radio.
Who needs this judiciary? Uneducated protocol seekers in robes, quick to destroy value after it’s created, while shielding the real culprits. Is this judgment even lawful? And even if eviction were technically possible, does it have to be this thuggish and inhumane?
This isn’t justice. It’s asset assassination by judicial decree.
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