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AI can build it. Who actually needs it?2026-10-29
Quality assurance pays the bill2026-10-27
The data-center deal after the ribbon cutting2026-10-22
Who gets to negotiate Michigan’s data-center future?2026-10-20
I want to check my AI agent’s work outside its own report2026-10-09
Who cleans up after an AI agent?2026-10-06
OpenAI’s cloud push has me reconsidering my setup2026-10-01
I need time to finish what my agents start2026-09-30
A useful AI score should point back to the source2026-09-24
Jev puts a low price on AI scoring2026-09-22
Better AI still needs a decision about authority2026-09-17
The AI slowdown debate is also a fight over control2026-09-15
I asked Astra to turn my blog into a city2026-09-10
AI can make a weak comparison look convincing2026-09-08
Three AI incidents filled Hacker News in one morning2026-09-03
We are using AI to do better research2026-09-01
AI changed what I need to hire for and what I owe a new employee2026-08-28
I can now complete so much more and yet I am responsible for everything I've done, which is a much larger mental load to carry.2026-08-25
A Namecheap outage finally moved my company email to Google2026-08-20
What Anthropic said after the Claude watermark debate grew2026-08-18
Why Claude's invisible watermark hit a nerve2026-08-13
AI financial advice needs someone responsible when it is wrong2026-08-11
GM should have asked drivers before selling OnStar data for insurance use2026-08-11
Hugging Face needed an open-weight model when frontier APIs refused its security work2026-08-04
Open-weight AI rules should preserve access for smaller organizations2026-07-30
Cash App's response to fraud should work when a customer needs it2026-07-28
repairing trust should be reflected by a repaired system2026-07-24
an apology needs an action plan2026-07-21
what owning the miss looks like2026-07-16
gen z does not trust social media as much as people think2026-05-28
the next survey trust problem is agentic respondents2026-05-26
A Good Summit2026-05-21
Part 7: How I Built The Analysis Lane Behind This Project2026-05-19
Part 6: What Looking Back With X Taught Me About A Campaign I Already Knew2026-05-14
Part 5: The Deep Read: Attention, Narrative Tremors, And What The Math Adds2026-05-12
Part 4: The Surface Findings From 50,000 He Gets Us Posts2026-05-07
Part 3: Building The He Gets Us Dataset Without Burning More Money2026-05-05
Part 2: What Changed From The Twitter API To The X API2026-04-30
Part 1: Why The X API Still Matters To My Data Science Story2026-04-28
ads in chat: the next trust break or trust build moment2026-04-24
when a workspace rename becomes identity drift2026-04-17
the AI disclosure gap is here2026-04-14
the wall-art era of AI2026-03-27
ethics, credit, and honesty in agent-augmented work2026-03-24
story and workflow reality: adhd, parallel tracks, and finishing more2026-03-19
systems outcomes: what actually changed when I started pairing with agents2026-03-16
why radiationbox, why now2026-03-11

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