Category: Artificial Intelligence
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Progress at What Cost? The Data Center Moving In Next Door
My neighbor Dave thinks the windowless beige building going up off the highway is an Amazon warehouse, but I haven’t corrected him. Partly because I don’t have the heart, and partly because the explanation of “that’s a data center that drinks more water in a day than our entire neighborhood does in a month, and…
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No Prince Charming, No Superman. Just Me, My iPad, and a Really Good System.
In January of 2025 I sat in a doctor’s office and was given some news I wasn’t expecting. Lymphomatoid Papulosis. Advanced. Pre-Stage 1 Lymphoma territory. Indefinite oral chemotherapy. A genetic marker that means this isn’t something I manage for a while and move on from. This is something I learn to manage and live with.…
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Help! Reese Witherspoon is Trying to Steal My New Boyfriend!
Let me stop you right there, Reese. I love you and love your work. If Legally Blonde had been set in an Apple Store, It’d be my life story. But when you showed up on my feed announcing that you were going to teach women about AI – I need you to understand something important……
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AI Isn’t Taking Over the World (It Can’t Even Take Over My Inbox)
AI Isn’t Taking Over the World (It Can’t Even Take Over My Inbox) Remember when calculators were going to make mathematicians obsolete? Or when spell check was going to destroy our writing skills? Well, here we are again, clutching our pearls over artificial intelligence like it’s some digital boogeyman ready to replace us all. Spoiler…
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How to: Teach Siri to Pronounce Names, Learn Nicknames
The Blonde Byte’s weekly How to spotlight focuses on Siri and how to teach her to pronounce Names.