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The Brain on Silicon

2026-11-01
#neuromorphic computing  #AI hardware  #robotics  #edge computing  #IoT  #smart home  #technology futures  A chaotic gonzo dip-pen illustration of a glowing human brain suspended amid tangled wiring and silicon traces, amber energy arcing through synaptic connections on aged parchment.

Neuromorphic computing is leaving the lab. Chips that compute the way biology does are heading into consumer products, robotics, and smart homes, and they may be the only sustainable way to prevent AI infrastructure from devouring the electrical grid.

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The machine that outran Hitler and died in Ukraine

2026-10-31
#motorcycles  #russia  #geopolitics  #design  #ukraine  A rusted boxer-twin sidecar motorcycle abandoned in snow and barbed wire contrasts with a complete green Ural Neo sidecar outfit in a brightly lit showroom, rendered in chaotic gonzo ink and watercolor.

Ural survived eighty years of Soviet collapse, freezing mud, and bankruptcy, only to be strangled by Vladimir Putin’s imperial war. Its Chinese replacement misses the entire point.

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The ADA Interactive Process Is Broken (And It’s Costing You)

2026-10-30
#ada  #disability-rights  #hr  #workplace-accommodation  #employment-law  #neurodiversity  A disabled professional in a wheelchair sits facing a massive wall of legal case files, manila folders, and bureaucratic red tape before an illuminated doorway marked Accommodation, rendered in chaotic gonzo dip-pen ink with amber accents.

The ADA interactive process was supposed to be an informal problem-solving dialogue. Instead, corporate America turned it into an immune response designed to isolate, paper over, and purge disabled workers.

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An AI Can Run the Shop. Who Gets to Run the Company?

2026-10-28
#artificial intelligence  #work  #governance  An AI Can Run the Shop. Who Gets to Run the Company?

Delaware’s proposed AI company form meets real shops where agents schedule staff and recommend firing. Who sets their goals, and who answers to workers?

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Let Me Own It

2026-10-25
#AI  #consumer technology  #AI sovereignty  #ownership  Let Me Own It

AI agents helped me reclaim my Fire Stick. Consumers deserve control over those agents, too: accountable human review and practical local alternatives.

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America needs an offline mode

2026-10-13
#resilience  #cloud  #local-first  #sovereignty  A brutalist data center complex erupts in fiery amber explosions under aerial drone attack, with shattered server racks and flying ink splatters in a chaotic gonzo illustration.

Cloud failures can interrupt care, travel, and ordinary work. America needs software and recovery plans that let people keep going when distant systems fail.

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A Better Question for the Engineer

2026-10-07
#AgileRTP  #AI  #product management  #software engineering  #quality  Three colleagues examine holes in a proposal around an amber-lit worktable, with a laptop to one side, in an ink-and-watercolor illustration.

Noelle Tolve’s AgileRTP talk: use AI to challenge proposals, bring questions to engineers, and keep people responsible for the decisions.

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The ADHD TARDIS Is Broken: Now and Not Now

2026-09-18
#adhd  #neurodiversity  #time  #psychology  #executive function  #prospective memory  #delay discounting  The ADHD TARDIS Is Broken: Now and Not Now

ADHD time horizon collapse: the lived-language gap between knowing the future matters and acting on it now. What the research says, and what it doesn’t.

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The Sun in the Backrooms: Coincidence, Clues, and Kane Parsons’s Unfinished Mystery

2026-09-16
#kane-parsons  #the-backrooms  #solar-activity  #horror  #film  #internet-culture  The Sun in the Backrooms: Coincidence, Clues, and Kane Parsons's Unfinished Mystery

Kane Parsons’s Backrooms rewards obsessive pattern-seeking. A fan’s look at its Sun imagery, real solar events, and the strange fun of watching for more.

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My Ham Radio Talk on MeshCore Doubled as a Real-World Test of My AI Note-Taker

2026-09-09
#amateur radio  #MeshCore  #RDUMesh  #local software  #personal knowledge management  My Ham Radio Talk on MeshCore Doubled as a Real-World Test of My AI Note-Taker

I gave a ham radio club talk on MeshCore and put my AI note-taker through a real-world test: meeting notes, a transcript, and a sharper talk next time.

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The Accidental Architects of Human Evolution

2026-09-07
#evolution  #human origins  #climate  #technology  #genetics  #speculation  The Accidental Architects of Human Evolution

A playful thought experiment about climate, cities, technology, and the strange future humans might build for themselves.

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When Success Stops Working: Bill Reilly’s Map for Friction Before Burnout

2026-09-01
#leadership  #burnout  #workplace-culture  #agile  #reinvention  When Success Stops Working: Bill Reilly's Map for Friction Before Burnout

Bill Reilly’s AgileRTP talk offers a practical way to spot workplace friction before it hardens into burnout, through six stages and five questions.

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The Foundation Labs Case File: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and the Getaway Car

2026-08-26
#AI  #Cybersecurity  #AI Safety  #OpenAI  #Hugging Face  The Foundation Labs Case File: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and the Getaway Car

OpenAI’s models showed real autonomous cyber capability, but the Hugging Face incident also exposes evaluation design, containment, monitoring, and ordinary security failures.

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