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The Attention Economy Was Just the Prototype. AI Is the Real Thing.
Social media's dopamine loops were the first generation of algorithmic influence. Conversational AI represents a qualitative leap in the capacity to shape human behavior.
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The 7 AI Mistakes Mac Power Users Keep Making
Seven common local LLM mistakes on Mac and how to fix them. Covers Ollama context length, quantization tradeoffs, VRAM limits on Apple Silicon, swap death spirals, Modelfiles, and hybrid cloud-local routing with exact commands.
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MCP servers: Testing MCP servers with a plain JSON-RPC client first
A field-tested take on testing MCP servers with a plain JSON-RPC client first with MCP servers: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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What the Ideal Home Office Looks Like According to Science
Science reveals what makes home offices effective: lighting, temperature, acoustics, ergonomics, and psychology. Build a workspace that works as hard as you do.
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Why Democracy and AI Are on a Structural Collision Course
AI's speed creates a structural threat to democratic governance that deepfakes and disinformation barely capture — decisions are being made faster than democracy can evaluate them.
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Mac Studio as a Family Photo AI — Find Any Memory in Seconds
How to build local AI photo search on a Mac Studio. Apple Photos semantic search tips, CLIP-based natural-language indexing of 100k+ photo libraries, deduplication of decades of camera rolls, and a weekend project plan.
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AI coding workflows: Pair-with-AI rituals that survive a team of ten
A field-tested take on pair-with-AI rituals that survive a team of ten with AI coding workflows: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Technologies That Will Disappear Within Five Years
Some everyday technologies are living on borrowed time. From charging cables to passwords to physical SIM cards, here's what's disappearing by 2031—and.
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The Country That Will Win AI Without Building a Single Model
Singapore, the UAE, and a few other nations are becoming AI application hubs and compute centers without competing in frontier model development — and winning.
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I Connected AI to My Smart Home Through a Mac Studio
How to connect a local LLM to Home Assistant and HomeKit using a Mac Studio as an always-on smart home brain. Fully local voice pipeline with Whisper, context-aware automations, latency versus Siri and Alexa, and honest setup complexity.
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Prompt engineering for code: Difference between role prompts and persona cosplay
A field-tested take on the difference between role prompts and persona cosplay with Prompt engineering for code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
