When did tech executives start sounding like doomsday preppers with venture capital? But here we are with Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, maker of Claude AI — publishing a 38-page essay that reads less like a product roadmap and more like a civilization-ending threat assessment. The title alone should…
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Wegmans, Facial Recognition, and the Feeling You Can’t Shake
I should say this up front, because it matters. I love Wegmans. My wife’s family in Rochester introduced us to it in the early ’90s, back when it was still something you had to explain to people. Wide aisles. Food that didn’t feel like an afterthought. A store that seemed,…
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120,000 Home Cameras Hacked — And Privacy Might Be Dead
Every once in a while, a story comes along that makes you stop and think, Wow… we’ve crossed a line we can’t uncross. This is one of those stories. South Korean police arrested four people for hacking more than 120,000 home and business cameras. That number itself is disturbing. What…
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TikTok Overtakes Traditional Media as Primary News Source for Digital-First Consumers
Not that it happened — that part felt inevitable. It’s how fast it went from fringe behavior to muscle memory. According to a new Pew Research Center study, 1 in 5 Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up from 3% in 2020. Three percent to twenty before anyone really…
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Traffic Calming Psychology—and Why the Road Suddenly Feels Wrong
It started with a left turn that didn’t feel legal. Not illegal either. Just… off. The arrow leaned like a tired elbow had nudged it — not broken, not crooked enough to complain about, but not straight enough to trust. I slowed without thinking. So did the pickup beside me….
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When Police Facial Recognition Shows Up Uninvited — Everyone Pretends They Are Surprised
I was reading that AP piece about Edmonton — the one where police facial recognition shows up like an uninvited cousin who somehow already has a key — and I had to laugh. Not a big laugh. More of a tired exhale you get when the pattern is so obvious…
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Why Antarctica Is Suddenly the Hottest Mystery in Science
The weird stories never announce themselves. They just stroll in, flick the lights twice, and act like Antarctica is the logical place for answers. The ANITA saga fits right in — a cosmic prank hiding under a few miles of ice, radio static, and scientists giving that tight-lipped “everything’s normal”…
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Legacy Media Lost a Generation — And Teens Aren’t Waiting Around
There’s a moment every media veteran has when they look around the room, realize every kid is staring at a phone, and think: Ah. We’re screwed. The AP story about teens distrusting the news didn’t shock me. What did catch me off guard was how early the rot set in….
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The Prison Call That Never Ends — Because the AI Is Still Listening
I was reading a piece in MIT Technology Review the other day — here’s the link since credit matters: https://www.technologyreview.com/ — and the thing stuck with me wasn’t the technical trick Securus built. It wasn’t the “detecting contemplated crimes” angle either. What stopped me was the quiet part: inmates are…
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Turns Out Your Brain Lives Like a Teenager Decades Longer Than You Think
Every so often a study rolls out that stops me mid-scroll and makes me wonder whether my internal wiring is a comedy writer with a grudge. This new one from BBC News by James Gallagher did exactly that. Scientists mapped nearly four thousand brain scans and came back with a…