Growing Pains of Starting a Secret Society

At 4am most mornings I go onto my sun porch in the dark and I watch the deep navy sky slowly blanch in degrees until 6 am or so, when it turns pale white. I listen to jazz and I drink coffee and I go on Hacker News or MIT Press and hunt for something intellectually stimulating. If I read something and sense it was even AI-assisted, I close the browser tab and I look for something else somewhere else. Lately, on HN, this happens more and more. It's ok. It's no one's fault in particular, except the obvious su