Feb 3, 2026 | books, business
Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince was massively popular when it was published in 2018 – New York Times bestseller, millions of copies sold. It became a sensation in the romantasy world of BookTok, the short videos that galvanized the publishing industry after 2020....
Jan 27, 2026 | AI, business, Internet, law, news, virtual reality
AI is being used to generate explicit images of real people, celebrities, and minors. Nudity! Bikinis! Sex, sex, so much sex! The use of technology to create pornography is, of course, intolerable and must be stopped. For weeks, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been...
Jan 13, 2026 | Apple, business, computers, laptops, Microsoft, Windows11
My last article talked about a specific laptop with a Snapdragon processor, the Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 6. For my needs, it stands head and shoulders above the otherwise exactly identical models with Intel and AMD processors – wildly extended battery life,...
Nov 25, 2025 | AI, business
Details matter. Here’s a detail about AI that matters: there’s a difference between hallucinations and misinformation. Seems subtle, I know, but the distinction might help you understand important things as our world becomes all AI, all the time. Here’s an example of...
Nov 18, 2025 | AI, Amazon, books, business, law, news, Politics
Everything is getting worse. Cory Doctorow gave it a name three years ago: enshittification. Now he has written the best business book of the year, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It. It will help you understand many things,...
Nov 4, 2025 | AI, business, news, Politics
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of Federal Governance 5 Governance Alternatives 6 Messy, Complicated & Uneven The good news:...
