Starting on June 5, 2025, police in Pennsylvania can pull over a driver seen using a mobile phone. Whether they’re scrolling or texting, reading an email or making a call, thanks to “Paul Miller’s Law,” named in honor of a man killed in 2010 by a distracted driver, a phone-using Read more
“I love my scanners,” said the vendor at Arts Fest in Harrisburg’s Riverfront Park Saturday morning. “So easy.” Without pulling a credit card or cash out of my wallet, in about 10 seconds I’d paid for a unique candle in a concrete bowl which will double as a planter once Read more
I met a friend for coffee a few months ago. They mentioned some of my earlier posts about online safety, then said something which has stuck with me like a poppyseed lodged in my gums: I don’t worry about my data. I just assume the bad guys have all my Read more
I’ve been spending time thinking about things which don’t relate directly to personal technology and artificial intelligence. Regardless, connected themes pop up in unexpected places like a weed in a freshly mulched garden bed. Yes, I’ve been in the garden lately, too. a lot. Here’s a few top of mind Read more
Google effectively just handed preteens the keys to a digital Ford F-150 and told parents it’s their responsibility to keep their kids safe. In an email to parents last week, as reported in The New York Times and The Verge, Google informed parents that children under the age of 13 Read more
I hope you never decide to set up an online dating profile. It’s a humbling experience, fraught with introspection and self doubt. How much do you share? In which selfie do you look less like a serial killer? While I’m not in the market for a new companion, considering the Read more
I know a woman who loves to feed people. She enjoys browsing recipes and snaps screenshots to browse later. Recipes, though, for her are like suggestions from a friend. They’re something to consider, to mull in a quiet moment, maybe while weeding or on the way home from work. Then, Read more
It had been a rough few days. Back at the desk after a lovely week of vacation, tasks had piled up and new projects waited impatiently for attention. I struggled to string together coherent, cogent thoughts. Ping. A Teams alert. Ping. A Notion alert. Ping. A new email notification. On Read more
We have a week to file our taxes which should be plenty of time. And it will be, provided you remember the email address you used to sign in to the tax filing software last year, then remember which password you used and where you stored the W-2 form you Read more
How Andrej Karpathy approaches his digital hygiene makes emminent sense for the “…computer scientist renowned for his work in machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.” (source) You and I, though, are not founding members of OpenAI, or founders of Eureka Labs, an AI+Education company. And while we can learn Read more