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Professor Filter: De-Jargon Without Dumbing It Down
“If you can’t explain it to a friend who skipped the lecture, you can’t explain it.” You know that paragraph that sounds smart but lands like wet concrete? The one you reread five times and somehow…
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Is This AI-Generated? Stop Guessing—Start Testing
“Proof beats vibes. Every time.” You don’t hate AI generation. You hate being gaslit by tidy paragraphs that refuse to sweat. It’s the vendor proposal with flawless grammar and no spine. The student essay that paraphrases…
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Nextdoor Witch Trials: Neighborhoods Ruled by Prediction
If your doorbell camera could gossip, it would. You hear it before you see it—ding. Some grainy night-vision still of a teenager walking home becomes “possible prowler,” gets relabeled “suspicious pattern,” and by lunchtime it’s a…
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The AI Dress Rehearsal for Divorce
“Practice the speech with a robot so you bleed less on stage.” You’re not breaking up—yet. You’re pressure-testing the fallout. Two laptops. One kitchen table. You feed a model a sanitized version of your worst fights…
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SEV-2 Protocols: Incident Response for the Self
Treat spirals like outages and you stop shipping chaos. You already know “incident response” for servers: detect, triage, contain, recover, postmortem. Cool. Do the same thing for your nervous system. Because when life DDoS’s you at…
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The Collaboration Paradox: Why AI Tools Make Teams Talk Less (and Misunderstand More)
“AI tools promise clarity, but they often replace discussion with distance.” AI promised fewer meetings. Cool. It delivered—calendar carnage. But look at the chalk outline: context, intent, and trust. All three face-down on the carpet while…