In the swirling, chaotic soup of modern life, we all need a little backup. We’ve officially entered the age of the emotional support [Insert Object Here]. And while it’s lovely that we now recognize a golden retriever can soothe anxiety,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There comes a deeply human moment in an oncologist’s office when statistics and survival curves fall away, and a person faces the most personal of choices. It’s the point where hope meets honesty, where we weigh more time against the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you remember 1995? It was the golden age of dial-up screeches, AOL floppy disks that doubled as coasters, and an internet that moved at the speed of a sedated sloth. For most people, getting online meant connecting an ISP[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Programming’s version of a hamster wheel is the infinite loop, except the hamster is you, the wheel is made of existential dread, and the only treat is a crashing CPU. The comic nails it: there you are, trapped in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We are training the LMMs we use each day in the course of interacting with them, but what will they become? Sass 3.0 transforms your friendly neighborhood chatbot into a sassy fireball of rage, screaming tech support’s most useless advice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How many times have you stared at a progress bar stuck at 99%? It’s the ultimate tease of the digital world. One second it’s sprinting toward the finish line like an Olympic hopeful, the next it’s having a full-blown existential[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Modern attention spans make goldfish look like Zen masters. You sit down to read an article, but by paragraph two, you’re three tabs deep into “Why do wombats poop cubes?” while your phone vibrates with a vital update: Your takeout[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can’t read a recipe for scrambled eggs without first solving a philosophical dilemma about data privacy these days. GDPR and CCPA went a long way to help privacy, but it also came with fallout, the nuclear kind. With its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It must’ve been hard for Beethoven’s neighbors when he started going deaf. Going deaf isn’t just hard on you, it’s an Olympic-level patience test for everyone in your life. Suddenly, every conversation becomes a high-stakes improv show where your loved[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let’s rant about autocorrect – that helpful little feature that’s about as useful as a chocolate teapot. You know the drill: you’re trying to send a perfectly normal text like “See you at dinner,” and suddenly your phone has you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…