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Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash I asked Claude, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to write a blog post on "why it's a bad idea to have AI write a blog post. Here's what I got. Why You Shouldn't Use AI to Write Your Blog Posts There's a certain irony in asking an AI to make the case against AI-written content. But maybe that's exactly why it works — ...

Photo by Ondrej Bocek on Unsplash Every business, every website, every product - they all want me to download their app. Each of these apps does only one thing: serve the interests of that one product or site. I have enough apps on my phone. I can't manage thousands of them, and even if I could, I don't want to. We now have government officials urging us to dress up for a...

AI-generated image The powerful people who are privileged with deciding our fates exhibit a strange mentality. Some, apparently, really believe in certain "end times" prophecies and hope to hasten the end of the world for religious reasons. Others truly don't care about life on earth, and just don't mind destroying everything. But all of them want to get rich along the way, as...

Imagine what it would be like if wars could operate only on Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 4:00, while billions of dollars were poured into the children's library. ━━━━⊱༒︎ • ༒︎⊰━━━━ We need to outlaw the medicine bottle caps that require "push down and turn". ━━━━⊱༒︎ • ༒︎⊰━━━━ The same people who want to legislate personhood for fetuses and zygotes, routinely deny th...

The Issue The SAVE Act, formally known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, is a proposed U.S. bill that would require individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship—such as a passport, birth certificate, or enhanced ID—to register to vote in federal elections. It passed the House on February 11, 2026, by a vote of 218–213 along party lines, with one D...