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September 2026

Rembrandt-style oil painting of an older bearded man writing at a desk while a glowing fuzzy AI creature, standing in for Meta Muse, rests its paw on his hand and steers his quill. Image generated with ChatGPT.
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Meta’s Muse Has a Soul and a Heartbeat. Edit One. Stop the Other.

Really? Are we really going to trust him again? Are we going to allow Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company just agreed to pay a settlement worth up to $17.1 billion over 10 years for its addictive design and harm done to kids’ mental health, to sucker us into handing Read more

By Dan, 4 weeksSeptember 27, 2026 ago
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Everyone Fears Skynet. Nobody’s Checking Their Permissions.

I did not expect the Terminator to show up at a sunny Friday afternoon happy hour, yet there it was, looming over all of us. Talk had turned to recent AI headlines including the OpenAI Hugging Face hack and mounting disclosures of additional containment breaches and hacks. Add to that Read more

By Dan, 1 monthSeptember 20, 2026 ago
A Victorian sitting room lit by gaslight, in the style of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. A detective leans forward listening intently to an unseen visitor, a smartphone recording on the table beside him — an image about AI consulting and the problem nobody reports. Image generated with ChatGPT.
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The Loudest AI Problem in Your Business Makes No Sound

While roasting poblanos and jalapenos for swiss chard enchiladas this weekend, listening to Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput in episode 237 of “The Artificial Intelligence Show” talk about a recent MIT report and its recommendation for core changes at the school, “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” Read more

By Dan, 1 monthSeptember 13, 2026 ago
An empty weight bench and dumbbells sit unused on a mat in a dim basement, illustrating that owning a password manager is not the same as having a plan for it. Photo by Dan Christ.
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The Password Manager Isn’t Enough. You Need a Person.

What I’ve been doing in my basement lately is not pretty. The groaning. The straining. Sweat stinging my eyes. Yet four days a week, I walk down the basement stairs and spend 30 minutes alone. Because I know that committing to a strength training habit is as important to my future Read more

By Dan, 2 monthsSeptember 6, 2026 ago
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