Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

Every day the weather man on the news tells you today’s temperature is way above or below “normal.” They point to the average, and let you assume that number is what the temperature that day is supposed to be. It isn’t. It’s too simplistic. But the scary graphic with the crazy amped up color schemes…

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…

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 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…

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…
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