Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

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…

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…
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