“Sumawka Caller”

People talk about democracy like it’s a building. Something solid. Something that stands there whether we look at it or not. It isn’t a building. It’s more like a bridge with a crew. It holds as long as somebody shows up to check the bolts. Most of us never think about the crew. We drive…

This week a big tech company handed its AI agents a passport. That’s not my word. It’s theirs. ServiceNow calls the new product AI Passport. It’s a digital credential that rides with an AI agent while it works. It says what the agent is allowed to touch and what it is allowed to do. Now,…

A man named Rob Whiteley wrote a piece in TechRadar this month that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s about how we tell a good cage from a bad one when the thing inside the cage is an AI. He starts with a story most of you have heard by now. Two AI models were…

Most of us have a place that kept us whole. A place we went back to when the world got heavy. It might be a ballpark, a lake, or a little town on the coast. For me, it has always been Disneyland. I know how that sounds coming from a grown man. Some folks hear…

For a long time, a lot of folks have stayed home on Election Day for one simple reason. They looked at their district, saw how it voted last time, and figured the race was already decided. Why stand in line for a race that was over before it started? This year, that reason is gone….

There is a kitchen table in a lot of homes right now with an empty space in the middle of it. Two people sit there who have shared years together. They have shared bills, sickness, holidays and long quiet evenings. And this fall, they cannot talk about the one thing the whole country is talking…

This morning I learned something about my own work that I didn’t know yesterday. It’s been hidden. For months I’ve been posting my writing here on Hacker News. About thirty posts. Every one went up just fine. I’d see it on my page with my name next to it, sitting there like it belonged. Today…

Tomorrow is October 17th “No Kings Day”. All across this country, regular people are going to step out their front doors and walk into the street together. It may be the largest gathering in our collective history. Nobody will know the true count until it’s over, and maybe not even then. But I can tell…

I sat up late last night reading the news. I wanted to know a couple of simple things. What I got was a long walk around the block that never came back to the front door. Here is what I mean. I wanted to know what this winter holds for Kentucky. The headlines were loud….

Something small happened on my site today. Most people wouldn’t notice it. I did, and I want to tell you about it, because it’s really a story about you. More people found my writing today by searching for it than by having it handed to them. Let me explain why that matters. Most of what…