Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Who Wrote This? Me or AI?

    Who Wrote This? Me or AI?

    I use AI to help write this blog. Oooooo. That’s a huge no no these days. I can already hear the Luddite trolls screaming, “That’s not writing!” “That’s AI slop!” Cool your jets folks and let’s look at what “help” means. Just the other day I worked with Claude to turn a rambling stream of…

  • Google Just Gave Me a Personal Buy One, Get One Free Deal on the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro

    Google Just Gave Me a Personal Buy One, Get One Free Deal on the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro

    I keep two phones, particularly when I travel abroad. I don’t want my main phone to break and then find myself scrambling to buy a new one in a foreign country. So I travel with two. For the last couple of years, my main phone has been a Pixel 9 Pro and my backup has…

  • The First Black Woman Confirmed to Lead the CDC and The Media Ignored It

    The First Black Woman Confirmed to Lead the CDC and The Media Ignored It

    The Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director on August 5 in a 51-44 vote. Schwartz became the first black woman to lead the agency in its history. The country’s biggest news outlets treated it as a footnote or left this fact out entirely. Fox News ran the confirmation as a straight political story…

  • Trump is proving himself to be quite the Democrat Socialist

    Trump is proving himself to be quite the Democrat Socialist

    Why do the Democrats hate Trump so much when he is the best Democrat Socialist to ever get elected to the Presidency? They should be loving this guy. He’s doing everything they have been wanting to do for decades, except for that pesky border thing. Trump stood in the Oval Office on Monday and told…

  • Britain Is Taxing Its Citizens to the Breaking Point: The U.S. Isn’t Far Behind

    Britain Is Taxing Its Citizens to the Breaking Point: The U.S. Isn’t Far Behind

    A software executive in his 50s published a piece this week explaining why he is leaving Britain for good, writing under a pseudonym because saying this under his own name in modern Britain carries consequences. He has spent 30 years in engineering and technology leadership, paid a mortgage, paid his taxes, and never asked the…

  • When What Used to be Comedy Becomes Our Reality

    When What Used to be Comedy Becomes Our Reality

    It would be funny today if this wasn’t reality. My God, what are we doing. Phil Hartman plays a doctor who has delivered babies in a small town for decades. Nora Dunn plays a reporter for People magazine. Bill Murray is an expectant father, and Victoria Jackson plays his wife. The couple comes in to…