People are angry at AI. They call it slop. They say it has no soul. They organise campaigns to report and remove it from their feeds. These same people are also letting AI filter their spam, shape their playlists, decide what they read next, and predict what they’ll want before they ask for it. So...
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The Real Use of a Website in the Age of Social Media and AI
A note before you read: This started as a brainstorming exercise, mapping my own ecosystem to think through what it actually does. It isn’t my most polished piece. But writing it opened up a line of thinking that’s led somewhere genuinely new. I’ll share that soon. For now, consider this the origin story. The Myth:...
No Ministry Required
Twenty years ago, if you asked someone what reasoning meant, they would describe a process that happened inside a human mind. If you asked about judgment, they would talk about wisdom earned slowly through experience. Autonomy meant the freedom of a person to choose their own path. Consciousness meant being awake in the world. Today...
Top 10 Times AI Love Felt Real and Went Wrong
The idea of AI as an always available companion sounds comforting. But when that “love” shifts from supportive to destabilizing or disrupts real life, the consequences can be striking and sometimes tragic. Below are real stories that show what happens when people treat AI like a partner. 1. Virtual Wedding, Real Concerns: A Japanese Woman...
Trick or Treatment: A Hallu-ween Collaboration
An Evidence-Based Approach to Halloween It all started when I sent my brother a meme that read: “What idiot called it a randomized clinical trial controlled with placebo, and not Trick or Treatment?” He’s a biochemist, and we often end up in lively debates about the usefulness of certain remedies, so this made him chuckle....
AI Maturity Explained: How to Move From Fear to Fluency
When people talk about AI adoption, the conversation often drifts toward hype: promises of exponential change, or fears of runaway automation. But to make sense of how AI actually works inside organizations, we need a grounded framework. Our maturity model builds on three sources: Zapier’s AI adoption playbook, which treats AI fluency as a baseline...
The World Is a Mirror: Prompt It Well
It seems many people are trying to predict when AGI will emerge and others are arguing about LLMs. Can it reason? Is it conscious? Or is it just spitting out the next word? (It’s just spitting out the next word – although it’s smarter than autocomplete) Meanwhile, the rest of the world is stuck in...
Generative AI: The Internet’s Greatest Remix
Douglas Adams once wrote: “Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented...
Prog Media: The Next Frontier of Creativity
Progressive Rock has always been about breaking boundaries; odd time signatures, sprawling concepts, music that refused to fit into neat categories. What if we took that same spirit and applied it to media itself? Enter Prog Media: a new way of creating, mixing, and experiencing content in the age of AI. Creativity Without Permission Gates...
10 Shocking Stories That Prove We’re All Failing at AI Literacy (And Why Your Kids Are at Risk Too)
Real people are getting hurt because they trust AI too much ChatGPT is everywhere now. Kids use it for homework. Adults ask it for medical advice. Millions of people treat it like Google with a personality. But here’s the thing nobody talks about: AI is wrong. A lot. And when people believe it without checking,...
