Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. The Ford Motor Company releases a slick whitepaper making the alarming claim that they’re concerned their popular F-150 ... Read more The post Dear AI…

A Colorado consumer who parked in an LAZ lot in Denver is suing that company (and others associated with enforcing parking lot rules at that facility) over a billing dispute. [See complaint.] In the…

Without moral ambition, argues Bregman, you just end up as a money maximizing consultant. Or working for big tech on the trend du jour. Overall I found this book to be not especially groundbreaking,…

The fraud doesn't end at appointment—it must be maintained. The people best placed to name it are the people whose interests depend on not naming it. Part two of two on who keeps the corporate con…

Issue 394: The friendship recession – Read the full issue in the archive.

A huge number of capable kids never discover who they could have become.

A personal essay about medical pain, self-harm, trans body shame and feeling responsible for making distress easy for everyone else

Over recent years, we have become increasingly troubled by the direction of travel within counselling, psychotherapy and the wider mental health field. A profession that has historically sought to…

By most non-political assessments, the 21 June National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), which is the entry point for a course in medicine, went off more or less without incident. Sure, some…

A symbol of freedom standing atop the United States Capitol seems like the perfect representation of American ideals. But what if one of the people most responsible for bringing that […] The…

I have social anxiety that caused me to be a terminally online male-autistic introvert

Design of a Simulated 5G & Wi-Fi IIoT Thermal State Monitoring System (TSMS) for a Power Grid Cyber TwinProject Design Purpose : This article introduces the design and implementation of a…

Five soft floating robots in everyday indoor settings: a fish that circles you with a calming touch, a balloon that follows you across floors, a jellyfish that pulses to guide your breathing, an…

If you read my last post: I survived! That's all I want to say for now. Back to your regularly scheduled programming… I recently watched the docuseries called Keep Sweet Pray and Obey . It chronicles…

Complaining about tech interviews is the favorite pastime of software engineers. We know they're broken, we've seen exactly how they're broken, but, despite a decade of collective hand-waving, we…

I keep hearing from engineers lately: there is too much going on. Too many parallel threads. Too much code being generated to actually read. Big features merged that nobody could honestly claim to…

LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?

1. Introduction During Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) investigations, we frequently observe Threat Actors (TAs) using various methods to harvest clear-text credentials on Linux…

A five-million-line enterprise app asked Microsoft for a longer .NET support window. The Java world answered that question a decade ago.

They're doing roadwork on the highway near the house. This is the sort of paving where they melt the old pavement, chew it all up into little pieces, mix it with tar or something then smear it back…

A long-time friend and fellow academic nerd is working on her pHd, and had some questions for me. One was “Do you think of relationships that are almost entirely text based as real? Or even…

A little shy of five years ago, I wrote one of my last guest columns for the Georgia Straight, Vancouver’s progressive weekly of record. It was entitled “The Rise of […]

It's been a year. I haven't really done much in that year. I burned out. I burned out so hard that I'm disabled in multiple ways, and I need your help.

In 2011 I lost my father to a neurological disorder he had been suffering from most of my life. Happy Father’s Day, dad! You turned me into a curious lover of technology and techno-optimist as I…

to people unwilling to do the work, is "develop better media literacy" a viable solution?

Earlier today, I opened one of the top links on r/worldnews. Something about Kier Starmer preparing to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom? It’s beside the point for this post. Before I…

AI does not fix bad management. When leaders confuse activity with impact, AI adoption becomes compliance, surveillance, and throughput theater.

A model may begin as appetite rather than proof, but measurement alters the system and can quietly acquire authority.

A loop always converges. That it reached a stable 'done' state tells you nothing about whether that state is correct, because the loop selects for whatever passes your check, not for what you meant.…

AI coding agents are changing the economics of software development and the shape of engineering organisations. Here is how leaders should rethink build-versus-buy decisions, talent, team structure,…

I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to…

my friend who made the new executable wrote a little about the process of doing so, check it out! also we added new functionality and now you can generate a batch of fresh new images without deleting…

…also don’t tell lies. But I’m getting ahead of myself already. I keep running into people online who openly say that they use AI to do their writing for them. Now, technically,…