What skills or lessons have you learned recently? There are certain phrases that take up permanent residence in the brain. They don’t pay rent. They don’t announce themselves. They just move in and rearrange the furniture. Case in point: “EXTERMINATE!” Yes. That one. The Dalek battle cry from […]
Some people wake up to coffee. I wake up to headlines about three lab monkeys escaping from a crashed transport truck in Mississippi. Because apparently the universe flipped open its old pandemic screenplay binder and said, “Let’s workshop a new pilot.” I mean three lab monkeys.Running loose. In […]
What are your favorite websites? We all have our digital comfort zones. Those little corners of the internet we crawl back to like loyal cats to a warm laptop. Once upon a time, mine were the news sites and TV gossip pages. You know, the ones that whispered […]
It’s the start of my long weekend, and instead of doing something wholesome like hiking or reorganizing my sock drawer (which has seen better days), I decided to do what any self-respecting overworked human does. I binge-watched my way to enlightenment. I started off with a documentary on […]
Welcome to the era where your smartest-seeming friend is also the one most likely to confidently pass onto you a made-up fact. Tech labs have been trying for years to teach AIs not to hallucinate. That is, to stop inventing stuff that sounds plausible but is flat-out wrong. […]
Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. I didn’t really watch the Emmys this year. To be fair, I had it on. The screen was glowing, the speeches were droning, and I was half-scrolling, half-snacking, and fully not invested. But for once in a […]
How do you relax? So there I was, late Saturday night, staring at the streaming void trying to figure out what to watch. I landed on a documentary about the history of reggaetón on Peacock. Why not? It sounded like the perfect background noise for folding laundry. Except […]
By the time I sat down Friday night, it was 7:30 PM and I had lived what felt like three weeks crammed into five days. Sleep was a rumor. Anxiety was a clingy roommate. Coffee was my emotional support animal. It was one of those weeks. The kind […]
So here I am, yet again, re-watching The Vampire Diaries. Yes, I know. I can’t stand the sight of blood in real life. But put a brooding vampire on my screen with a leather jacket and a moral dilemma, and suddenly I’m all in. There’s just something about […]
The other night, I was swimming alone in a beautifully lit pool, the water glowing turquoise in the dark. You’d think I’d be lost in the moment; zen, tranquil, Instagram-worthy. Instead, my mind wandered straight into Archive 81 territory, because apparently I can’t even do a peaceful backstroke […]
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