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Understanding, Not Permission, on August 26, 2026 I don’t want you to walk away from this opinion piece with the wrong idea, so let me state this very clearly up front: There is no ethical usage of Generative AI.

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 25, 2026 It is not an understatement to say that Mark Zuckerberg’s particular Facebookian flavor of AI psychosis has been wreaking havoc on Meta’s engineering culture.

ATmospheric Conditions Still Unfavorable for May 10, 2026 A year ago, I wrote Where Does Bluesky Go from Here?

Watch out for digital zombies on May 4, 2026 It’s fair to say the World-Wide Web has been under heavy fire nearly since it began.

’Tis But Some Quick News for April 27, 2026 I’ll happily go on record that this product is DOA.

Sold a Bill of Goods on February 17, 2026 It’s hard not to wonder, in a type of technological midlife crisis, if the cultural phenomenon called Computers isn’t well past its sell-by date by now.

’Tis But Some Quick News for January 28, 2026 After ten days of a simple poll where popular alternative search engine DuckDuckGo asked users if they want Yes AI or No AI, the results are in…and they sure don’t look good for the AI boosters out there. 😂 Out

’Tis But Some Quick News for January 16, 2026 Bandcamp read the room.

Capitalists Gonna Capitalize on November 28, 2025 In a recent leaked all-hands meeting, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded to a question regarding managers within the company leaning towards less frequent use of Generative AI with the following: My underst…

Time for a sudo shutdown -h now on October 14, 2025 People are up in arms that they’re cozying up to fascists.

’Tis But Some Quick News for September 21, 2025 In a town hall meeting last week, an employee spoke up and said the company had recently “felt markedly different, colder, more rigid, and lacking in the empathy we have come to value.”

At the Intersection of Technology and the Humanities for September 7, 2025 On February 21, 2001, shortly after Macworld in San Francisco where the Titanium PowerBook G4 and numerous media applications were announced, Steve Jobs sat down for a TV interview…

The Nightmare of the 2020s is Alive in Portland for August 15, 2025 Can’t say I didn’t warn you!

’Tis But Some Quick News for August 13, 2025 AI companionship is a topic we’ve been hearing a lot of lately.

’Tis But Some Quick News for July 27, 2025 I cannot, cannot believe people have become so numb to Big Tech tomfoolery that (a) they are willing to allow a company to do this, and (b) a company is totally willing to deal with the zillions of negative headl…

’Tis But Some Quick News for July 20, 2025 The fact I have a hard time envisioning a new CEO of Apple who actually knows how to design and craft products is itself very concerning.

’Tis But Some Quick News for July 14, 2025 Look, I know it’s a time-honored tradition for corporate CEOs to say things which mean absolutely nothing due to a desperate attempt to avoid conveying any real truths about anything.

Something Stinking Like Yesterday’s Diapers at July 1, 2025 We already know that there’s no real-world money to be made in Generative AI.

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 25, 2025 It’s the same story, repeated over and over and over and over again.

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 18, 2025 In what may be a mansplaining case study for the ages, the president of Signal Foundation, Meredith Whittaker—also chief advisor to ethics research institute AI Now—also a speaker who has testified multiple times…

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 16, 2025 Call me crazy, but I believe online platforms that people rely on to communicate with each other should be responsive to its users.

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 15, 2025 I’m so pumped, y’all.

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 11, 2025 So most YouTubers are going to be running the new macOS on their fancy new Apple Silicon hardware, but if you really want to know what it’s like using this OS, try running it on a 2013 Intel iMac!

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 10, 2025 I have long been a critic of Google’s design aesthetic and, yes, I’ve been one of those snobby iPhone users who looks down their nose at Android devices.

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 9, 2025 This is a really big deal.