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2026 [4]
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There Is No AI Exemption
When an industry asks for new laws written for its technology, it is also claiming that no existing law reaches it. That claim is usually wrong. The decision was regulated long before the tool showed up to make it.
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The Commons Was Never Empty. But It Was Ours.
Hardin gave us the tragedy of the commons; Ostrom showed communities can govern one without collapse. But data center siting breaks both models: mobile, multinational capital drawing on resources still stuck at the local scale.
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My AI Assistant Hired a Bookkeeper (It's a Mac Mini)
Claude Code's memory layer was quietly burning ~1,400 LLM calls a day against my usage limits. I moved all that background bookkeeping onto my kid's M4 Mac mini running Ollama—local, private, and free.
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Whisper for Accessibility: A Practical Solution for April 2026 ADA Compliance
With the April 2026 ADA Title II deadline looming, OpenAI's Whisper offers a practical, locally-run workflow for generating accurate caption files from course recordings — no vendor required.
2025 [10]
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Finally, A Task Manager That Doesn't Suck
Taskwarrior offers a powerful, flexible solution for managing academic tasks without the bloat of traditional apps.
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A New Academic Year Begins
As a new academic year begins, the challenges and hopes of students and educators come to the forefront.
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Friday Night Lights, Fading Fast
What happens when a government stops believing in the public?
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The Two Social Compacts
We’re not running the old operating system anymore. The question is whether we’re ready to name what replaced it—and who’s still writing the code.
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Keeping a Local, Searchable Journal with `jrnl`, Syncthing, and Obsidian
I’ve bounced between a dozen journaling tools over the years:Day One, Standard Notes, Joplin, even bullet journals scrawled in Moleskines. Some were polished but locked down; others were open-source but clunky. Nothing really clicked.
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Command and Consent: What the National Guard Ruling Tells Us About Power
Image: Federalized National Guard in Alabama, 1965. Source: U.S. National Archives (Public Domain)