What I Complain About the Most

According to my daughter, I complain about everything. I have told her that she miscontrues my vocal observations as complaints. I’m just observing, not complaining. Thinking objectively, I feel my most complained about targets lately, when I’m talking to her, are YouTube and Chatgpt. My opinion is that when changes are made to these two […]

Lottery Winnings Plan

Winning the lottery would allow me to fulfill my dream of building a nine-story apartment building in an urban area. The building I have envisioned meets Passive House and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) requirements; is earthquake and tornado-resistant; and has a rooftop greenhouse. During Open House Chicago last year, held by the […]

Where is Atlantis? Part 6 – Atlantis Reframed

I haven’t written about Atlantis on this site in ten years. The last time I did, I was working through a set of horary charts that consistently pointed to a specific location rather than a vague idea or symbolic landscape. Those earlier posts are still here, and I’ll link to them below, as this post […]

Exploring the Joys and Dislikes of January

When I saw this prompt, I said to myself, “Darn it. Yet again, I do not have a clear answer.” There is something I like and dislike about every month. I almost chose January as my favorite month, as I love how daylight increases every day for us who live in the northern hemisphere. On […]

My Ai Music Path

Last year, when I wanted to make a song specifically for Thanksgiving, I found an ai music generation app that made a delightful song for me. I thought I could always come back to it when I wanted to hear it again. When I returned to the website early this year, the song was gone. […]

EU Investigates TikTok’s Role in Political Ads and Algorithm Misuse

The European Commission has initiated a formal investigation into TikTok over allegations of violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) by enabling foreign interference in Romania’s recent presidential elections. Intelligence reports reveal that tens of thousands of TikTok accounts were suddenly activated in the weeks leading up to the first round of voting, coinciding with a […]

Mars’ Wet Secret

Like many others, I suspected there was water on Mars and created a graphic illustration about it in 2018. Today, I learned that David Szondy published an article on New Atlas’ website about water in the subsurface layers of Mars. The article reported findings of a study that analzed data from Insight Lander, “the first […]