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How Privacy Became a Luxury Product (And Who That Hurts Most)
Privacy now costs money — better phones, paid apps, strong privacy law. Those most exposed to surveillance have the least power and resources to resist it.
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The AI Photography Workflow Pros Run on MacBook Pros
A professional AI photography workflow on MacBook Pro: AI culling tools, Lightroom AI masking and Denoise benchmarks on M-series chips, Topaz and DxO processing times, and where AI must stay out of pro work.
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Claude Code: Keeping Claude honest with explicit acceptance criteria, not vibes
A field-tested take on keeping Claude honest with explicit acceptance criteria, not vibes with Claude Code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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How to Recognize When Technology Has Matured and Isn't Just Hype
Learn the reliable indicators that distinguish mature, adoption-ready technology from hype cycles. Practical frameworks for evaluating when new tech is.
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What the Newspaper Industry's Death Teaches the Web About Surviving AI
Newspapers misunderstood what they were selling. Web publishers are making the identical mistake with AI — here's the asset that actually survives disruption.
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Make Siri Actually Smart — The Local LLM Bridge Trick
How to bridge Siri to a local LLM using Apple Shortcuts, Ollama's API, and Tailscale. Voice-query your Mac's AI from your iPhone anywhere, with the exact JSON config and realistic latency numbers.
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GitHub Copilot: Copilot Spaces as shared context libraries for team onboarding
A field-tested take on Copilot Spaces as shared context libraries for team onboarding with GitHub Copilot: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Why Most AI Features Today Don't Actually Solve Anything
Explore why most AI features in consumer products fail to deliver real value. Learn to identify genuine AI utility versus marketing theater and what.
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Why 'Alignment' Is the Wrong Word for What We're Actually Worried About
AI alignment sounds like engineering. It isn't — it's political. The word hides this, and the safety field has been paying for that mistake ever since.
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I Tracked Every AI Query for a Month — The Results Changed My Setup
I logged every AI query for 30 days using Open WebUI logs and the llm CLI. The data showed 80% of queries run fine on a local model — here's the routing setup and cost savings that followed.
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Local LLMs with Ollama: Thermal budget of a MacBook pretending to be a server
A field-tested take on the thermal budget of a MacBook pretending to be a server with Local LLMs with Ollama: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
