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Don MacLeod

22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Chinese Robot Beats Fastest Human Half-Marathon Time — The Line Between Impressive and Alarming Just Blurred

Posted on April 21, 2026April 21, 2026 By Don MacLeod

A Chinese humanoid robot just completed a half-marathon in less time than the fastest human ever recorded. Not “pretty close.” Not “almost as fast.” Faster. The robot — built by a Chinese robotics company — finished the 13.1-mile course in under an hour. The current human world record for a…

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AI Agents Get Social Media — Chaos Follows

Posted on February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The AI social media bots now have their own platform. Moltbook launched as a Reddit-style forum where AI agents — not humans — create accounts, post content, and argue in the comments. Over 1.5 million bot users. More than 102,000 posts across 14,000 topic forums. Humans can observe but can’t…

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The AI CEO Who Actually Read the Room — And It’s On Fire

Posted on January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 By Don MacLeod

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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AI

Holy Bots, Batman — Faith Goes Digital

Posted on November 14, 2025November 12, 2025 By Don MacLeod

Something strange is happening in churches across America. People are texting Jesus. Pastors are building sermon outlines with AI. And somewhere in Pennsylvania, a chatbot is probably explaining the difference between transubstantiation and metaphorical presence at 3 a.m. Welcome to digital ministry 2.0 — where theology meets technology, and the…

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Google’s Weather AI Had a Better Hurricane Season Than Most Humans

Posted on November 6, 2025November 5, 2025 By Don MacLeod

Every now and then, a piece of technology doesn’t just work—it shows off.That’s what happened this hurricane season when Google’s new AI weather model outperformed some of the world’s most respected forecasting systems. As reported by Ars Technica [¹], Google DeepMind’s “GraphCast” didn’t just hold its own—it often beat traditional…

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Your Digital Shadow Has a Rap Sheet and Advertisers Know It

Posted on October 26, 2025October 21, 2025 By Don MacLeod

The headline almost sounds like a Black Mirror episode that didn’t make it to air: AI companies are training their systems on crime data to sell ads more effectively. Yes, you read that right. The same information that used to live in dusty police databases—arrests, mugshots, court records, neighborhood stats—is…

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Apocalypse Now—Funded by Venture Capital

Posted on October 21, 2025October 19, 2025 By Don MacLeod

A century ago, you needed a pulpit and a microphone to warn about the Antichrist. Now you can do it with a slide deck and venture funding. The Guardian reported this week that Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s most theatrical billionaires, has been delivering sold-out “Antichrist lectures” in San…

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AI

The Future of Your Feed- AI Slop Served Piping Hot

Posted on October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 By Don MacLeod

Your social feed’s future reality? A lot less… real. Instead of vacation photos or shaky football highlights, you might scroll into a clip of Bigfoot chasing two bewildered reporters through a WeWork kitchen. Or a suspiciously lifelike video of your buddy’s grandma rapping over a drill beat. That’s AI slop….

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