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  • Our Next Disaster: Negative Impacts Of Mandating AI Education in K-12

    Our Next Disaster: Negative Impacts Of Mandating AI Education in K-12

    What’s the effect of exposing children to AI at a very young age? Well, we are about to find out. President Trump signed an executive order called Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education For American Youth, and, in the face of the other executive orders pushed by the administration, it may be tempting to consider this order Read more

  • Some Sanity on The Pace of AI Advancement

    Some Sanity on The Pace of AI Advancement

    Following the pace of AI advancement can make you feel like the Blown Away Guy from the old Maxell commercials. Tech leaders and influencers tell us to expect artificial superintelligence in the next year or so, even doubling down on inevitability by moving up their timelines. The world is cooked. This perceived inevitability, combined with Read more

  • Russian Roulette In Reverse: Vibe Coding and YOLO Mode

    Russian Roulette In Reverse: Vibe Coding and YOLO Mode

    By now, you’ve no doubt heard of the term vibe coding. It’s become the favorite talking point from influencers and the tech media, which, even in 2025, can’t seem to muster a modicum of skepticism. But, if you’ve ever wondered what it was like to play Russian Roulette in reverse, loading all the chambers but Read more

  • The Slop Generation and the Devaluation of Art

    The Slop Generation and the Devaluation of Art

    I’ve been considering a frightening prospect. What if the next generation is known as The Slop Generation? A generation unaccustomed to the world before the inception of AI-generated slop. Despite successes or failures with generative AI, it seems the AI-generated cat is out of the slop bag with the power to warp artistic expressions and Read more

  • Techno-Communism and The Things Will Cost Nothing Fallacy

    Techno-Communism and The Things Will Cost Nothing Fallacy

    One of the oft-repeated talking points erupting from the mouths of futurists and tech leaders alike is claiming that things will cost nothing in the future. As if we are to believe all of these people are in the business of making something for nothing. The entire claim is a gross absurdity that charlatans like Read more

  • Four Ds of Personal AI Risk

    Four Ds of Personal AI Risk

    There is a current push to cram every inch of AI into every conceivable corner of our lives, like someone trying to shove the fifteenth clown into the clown car at the circus. This is a direct result of needing to show investors that the monumental amount of cash being chucked into the furnace is Read more