The gods require more sacrifices
The costs of keeping it all going.
Writer, Editor, News PM
The costs of keeping it all going.
We are one, or we are none.
I owe the fire some words.
A ‘novel’ human in the president’s chair calls for a novel diagnosis.
Age, like the weather, changes how you go about your day. My eyes are going after three decades of looking at computer screens. I’ve needed to use the “Display Zoom > Larger Text” setting on my iPhone for more months than I have years by now. Until the latest iOS update, it worked just fine. … Read more
we have it all, all has us
What happens when human beings can’t even bother to craft their messages to other human beings?
I used to worry about the price of eggs. Now I worry that writings like this one will be cited when men wearing masks abduct me on behalf of a federal government that has declared war on its people and the values that made the United States something worth fighting to make better. Not because … Read more
LLMs (aka AI, though they are not intelligent) burn through the environment, end entire careers, turn human communication into a can of soup, fill our minds with junk, and lie confidently. They do not represent the same type of revolution that occurred when robots, for example, replaced human bodily capabilities in factories. While I agree … Read more
Services listed in the Wired article, “How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To,” along with others I’ve added as I learned about them are below. Updates on privacy laws in Switzerland, where Proton, a leading privacy-first communications provider, based its servers prior to expected or implemented regulatory changes: The resource list: … Read more