Category: Thoughts

I’m reading Karen Hao’s book Empire of AI thanks to the interview the crew at TWiT’s Intelligent Machines podcast did with her this week. It’s really good so far. But the founding of OpenAI has been highlighted in a number of AI books including AI Valley by Gary Rivlin. This being said, Hao’s book takes…

Thank goodness last day driving the kiddo 20 mins to camp. Next week the camp is closer! It was more the roads I had to take to get the kid to camp. A real nightmare of a trip with traffic and idiotic drivers.

Worth a read about Substack and their $1 billion+ valuation. [journalistspaythemselves.com/p/why-sub…](https://journalistspaythemselves.com/p/why-substack-s-new-valuation-means-a-monopoly-is-brewing) I can’t stand how people using Substack generically. It’s a newsletter, not a Substack. Even the old school media is using the term like that. Substack still platforms questionable people (read: Nazis) and doesn’t like to talk about it. This is one of the…

Listening to The Morning Stream this morning. Brian and Scott are talking about things they were roped into buying while on vacation. I was in Italy in college and somehow I got roped into buying packaging for a poster I bought buy a random guy on the street. I mean it kept the poster nice…

I feel like old cartoons and videos that might not be PC anymore shouldn’t be banned. They should come with a disclaimer that they are a product of their time. They are historical and history shouldn’t be erased, it should be learned from and educated on. For example Disney’s Song of the South is extremely…

I hear the new Superman movie is really good. Probably not going to see it theaters, but maybe the kiddo will want to see it when it’s out on streaming. How many times can a cinematic property be rebooted? I guess indefinitely.

I love when I find something cool in my office that I forgot I had. It really is like an ADHD Birthday Present.

Every single ICE employee should consider, “Am I now an agent to commit crimes against humanity?” The answer from our President to our Supreme Court seems to be, “Yes.” Jason Becker https://json.blog/2025/07/03/every-single-ice-employee-should.html

Apparently a union of city workers are on strike in Philadelphia. Sanitation and recycling is one of the things that are not being handled right now. Ummm… I support unions, but this can’t be healthy. Definitely smelly. Hopefully a contract/deal comes to fruition soon. 😖🙄