TouringtheValley

Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Before "no fault divorce," people who wanted to dissolve their marriages faced serious obstacles. Typically, one partner had to go to court and prove that the other partner was at fault. Reasons could include adultery, desertion, extreme cruelty, and habitual drunkenness. The judge would hear the evidence and then decide whether the claim...

A bicycle garage in Amsterdam Photo by Anthony Tilke on Unsplash There are a lot of people who quite adamantly believe that every city's air quality, transportation and parking problems could be solved if we would just ban cars and make everyone ride bicycles everywhere. This would make our streets "pedestrian friendly." What they often fail to consider: Will employers pro...

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...