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Tal Anderson said it plainly. It’s past time we listened.
April is Autism Awareness Month. Some people are calling it Autism Acceptance Month now. Either way, it still doesn’t feel like enough.
Tal Anderson would tell you the same thing.
You might know her from Atypical on Netflix, or as Becca King …
I’ve been a geek my whole life. I just didn’t always have the word for it.
It started early. It survived a Tandy, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and decades of blogging across more platforms than I care to count. Eventually it even became the name of this blog.
Which made me start wondering where the word …
I didn’t plan to build an AI writing stack. I just kept getting curious.
That’s usually how it starts with me. One tool, one question, and one thought that won’t leave me alone: could this actually help?
Over the past year, I’ve messed around with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Notion AI. Not because …
I’ve spent a few posts lately talking about how robots make me uneasy. Automation eating jobs. AI making decisions nobody asked it to make. The creeping sense that we’re building things faster than we’re thinking about them. I stand by all of that.
I’ve been rocking an M1 M2 Mac mini with 8GB of RAM for a long time now. For the simple stuff—emails, a few tabs, the occasional video—it’s been an absolute champ. But lately, the ‘magic’ of Apple’s memory management has started to hit a wall.
So, the tech experts are still debating if 8GB of RAM is …
I actually got the LEGO Plum Blossom set this past Christmas, but I finally pulled the trigger on the build two weeks ago. I was so excited to get into it, and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since, looking cheerful in all its plastic glory.
But as I was looking at those red petals, I realized …
Okay, I have to talk about Waymo.
I keep seeing these headlines and every time I do, it gets more real. Because "someday" just became Tuesday.
Here's the short version: self-driving cars are no longer a "someday" thing. They're here, rolling down real streets, in real cities, picking up real …
Look at this image below. Really look at it.
Théodore started an online campaign to poke fun at AI 'slop' on social media, including a fake image that received nearly one million likes Image Description: Two emaciated South Asian children, sitting in the middle of a busy road in pouring rain. A …
You know those moments when you're scrolling through your reading list and something makes you stop mid-sip of coffee? I had a few of those this week.
Milk Without Cows (Yes, Really) So apparently, we’re living in the future now. Scientists are making real dairy milk without cows. Not almond milk, …
Here's something that's been sitting uncomfortably in my brain lately: I don't really experience what I'd call "screen stress," but I've definitely found myself in those loops where I've been on screens for hours and hours, and I look up and feel... exhausted. Not stressed exactly, just drained. And …