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25 years ago, the world changed. September 11th, 2001 was an inflection point. We didn't know it at the time, but we woke up in one world, and transitioned into another over the course of the day. Life

Somehow a week has flown by since my last post, and I just haven't been inspired to write anything. Plenty of ideas are rattling around in my head, but nothing has gelled to the point of actually typing.

I am older than Facebook. I remember when Netflix mailed DVDs. I am older than Google, which once promised not to be evil. I am older than the World Wide Web itself. I remember the DOS prompt, and A and

It's been almost two weeks since my last post again. I just haven't felt inspired to write anything. I'm still alive, and the stress which inspired that post has abated somewhat. However, I just realized

I know I've been somewhat absent for over a week. Sorry. Happy Hive Power Up Day, Happy April Fools, etc. I don't like writing about deeply personal issues. Even though this is at least a pseudo-anonymous

Sixteen months ago, Donald J. Trump was re-elected to a non-consecutive second term. This is only the second time in the nearly 240 years since the US Constitution was ratified in 1787 that such a re-election

I know this seems like beating a dead horse after the past couple years, but I really, really dislike most generative artificial intelligence content. HIVE frontends are integrating A.I. tools to varying

Many debates seem to boil down to arguing over who needs to be in charge, and who needs to do as they are told. Politics is the most obvious example, but the idea lurks behind a lot of conversations. In

I was recently reading about American history, particularly the early colonists and the later Oregon Trail settlers. Suppose you were uprooting your entire life and traveling across an ocean or continent

Earlier today, American right-wing activist and media personality Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a gunman while speaking at a Utah university. I'm not a huge fan of the guy. He was a state supremacist

There is a common perception that people in the past were better builders, writers, thinkers, and craftsmen. This is in part nostalgia, and in part survivorship bias. What does this tell us today? And

According to HiveBlocks, my account was created on 2016-08-11 at 19:16:36 (presumably UTC). This was on the old version of our blockchain, then called Steemit. It was a wild era. The initial hype bubble

I haven't really felt the urge to write lately. I've thought about re-posting more Creative Commons articles I found interesting while declining payout and offering appropriate attribution, but it's a

It's already been a week since my last post, and it seems like on the one hand, time has flown by, but on the other, it's been a month of struggle compressed into such a short time. Before I get into the

First things first: there will only be pictures of the roses, not the blister, or the mosquito bites. Those also happened. You're welcome, or sorry for the disappointment if you're some kind of creepy

When I was a very small child, home-schooling was a rare thing in the United States. By the time I was approaching kindergarten age, it wasn't a completely new idea, but it was still uncommon and widely

It's been a while since I posted last. I have a few things I want to write about, but offline life has been taking precedence. Burnout Quitting my job at the end of last year after a couple years of escalating

It's been well over a decade since I noticed something was amiss online. Neither Hive nor its predecessor existed yet. Web2.0 juggernauts Twitter and Facebook had not yet approached the levels of censorship

It has been a month since I last posted, and I really want to post today, but I have no idea what to write about. Some folks always post fiction, others always post about their daily lives, some do a bit

One of the many hats I wear at the library is that of planning and presenting programs for adults. My goal is to provide ongoing education and entertainment through arts, crafts, cooking, music, and local