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An article I wrote for the Conversation explaining what antitrust laws are and how the big four tech companies are breaching them. Read article here Permalink

Perhaps I should be more emotional about this, but this will be my last blog post on Airbag. The time has come to make this domain more useful than where I share my thoughts and …

This past Friday I finished my last day on easily the greatest job I’ve had so far in my long, strange and oftentimes charmed career. I started at ODI, initially as a contractor, when it …

Here are the February 2024 statistics for this blog. I wrote three posts: Over Two Years of Recording my Calories & Weight January 2024 Book Reading List An Ariel Cake for My Daughter’s Birthday Google …

Chances are, you’ve heard of a class of computers called Chromebooks. They’ve been around since 2011 and, in spite of the scorn heaped upon them during that time, Chromebooks have become rather popular devices. Chromebooks …

On August 2014 I made one of the most difficult choices of my life: I left my home country, my family, my friends and everything I knew to move to the United States. I arrived …

(L to R) Jennifer Pratt, Pat Parsley, Kim Downs, Drew RetzMy friend Eric Gutschmidt is fond of saying "You can't build a $100,000 house." That unpleasant reality underlay the lively discussion of housing issues Tuesday …

Federal law makes it a felony to “willfully or maliciously injure[ ] or destroy[ ] any of the works, property, or material of any radio, … or other means of communication, operated or controlled by …

This busy slate grey dinosaur trackway from the Iberian Peninsula looks more like a dance floor than the thoroughfare it is. The numerous theropod dinosaur tracks — with a few enormous sauropod tracks thrown in …

A large piece of metal of unknown origin appeared on the roof of a Philadelphia home. It did not come from a plane. And, Schuylkill notes update.

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla (2023) will stream exclusively on MUBI starting March 1 in the UK, Germany, Turkey, India, and Latin America.There’s maybe no working filmmaker more associated with film fashion than Sofia Coppola. But in …

I’m thoroughly convinced that email can be a meaningful method of communication, relationship, community, and entertainment in the future. I’ve always been proud of what my friend @[email protected] is making at @podnews.net so reading this …

These days it seems like you can’t get away from the debate about AI-generated content no matter where you go. From deepfakes to harmless ad copy, artificial intelligence is kicking down doors and showing just …

Chronolog is an interactive map of timelapse photographs designed to help monitor the environment. It is a citizen science project which encourages organizations and individuals to engage with nature while recording and monitoring the changing …

Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR – 377 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/7.1 – ISO 320 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, …