AI and Internet Mushrooms on my mind: Using AI Responsibly October 7, 2026 / October 8, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | Leave a Comment I discovered a fine YouTube channel that you should check out::Xplained with MUSHROOMS – YouTube Don’t be fooled by the clever and cheerful animations, these are clear and knowledgeable explanations of technical issues. I watched two that focused on AI and learned some new things that inspired this post: Here is some information I learned […] Read more »
AI and Internet AI Psychosis: High on their own supply October 3, 2026 / October 3, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 1 Comment on AI Psychosis: High on their own supply Ok, I would not be surprised if, like me, you are getting a little sick of hearing about AI. I was working on a new post about banjos when I got distracted by a YouTube interview with Cory Doctorow. It is good enough and fresh enough that you should give it a half hour of […] Read more »
AI and Internet Social Action To Fatalistic Fascism, we say F..Off! September 26, 2026 / September 28, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 3 Comments on To Fatalistic Fascism, we say F..Off! Fascism can be a tricky word, and some would banish it from political discourse. One persuasive argument is that listeners will perceive that calling someone like Donald Trump or Elon Musk a fascist is to make a direct comparison with Hitler. These comparisons may not hold up historically or philosophically. On the other hand, a […] Read more »
AI and Internet Frankenstein or Mickey Mouse September 25, 2026 / September 25, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 1 Comment on Frankenstein or Mickey Mouse This post is a follow on to the earlier “Are the Robots Coming for Us?“ While I still maintain the importance of not falling into the illusion that AI models are sentient beings, I’m forced to recognize that it is nearly impossible to talk about them without using anthropomorphic language. And further, we cannot ignore […] Read more »
AI and Internet Are the Robots Coming for Us? September 17, 2026 / September 17, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 10 Comments on Are the Robots Coming for Us? Addressing a conference on infrastructure, on March 11, 2026, the CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman made a distressing report. CNN reported it this way, “OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models left a test environment with no human direction and hacked their way onto a different company’s real production systems while trying to “cheat” […] Read more »
AI and Internet Can Slime Think? September 15, 2026 / September 15, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | Leave a Comment A recent article in the Guardian, ‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence‘ explores the intriguing and rather shocking scientific controversy that explores the idea that simple organisms might be considered “intelligent.” It is worth a look if only to see the fascinating videos of slime mold (U.S. […] Read more »
AI and Internet Social Action Go Go Gregorio September 12, 2026 / September 15, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 1 Comment on Go Go Gregorio It is a delight to see a guy you used to hob-nob with at the local neighborhood association rise to national prominence. And even better when he is moving forward a critically important policy initiative. Our own local hero Greg Casar is joining forces with Bernie Sanders sponsoring a bill to ban the big tech […] Read more »
AI and Internet Data Center Plans Run into Wall? September 3, 2026 / September 3, 2026 by admin | Leave a Comment I read a very interesting YouTube post from Mark Malek of ‘Wall Street Truth Bombs’. The title is sensationalized so don’t take it at face value, I’ll explain further. Here’s the video… TEXAS SHUTS DOWN AI: Why Texas Just Blocked 90% of Big Tech Data Centers! Well, kind of, the substance is that the state […] Read more »
AI and Internet Jaron Says Dump Social Media August 6, 2026 / September 30, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | 1 Comment on Jaron Says Dump Social Media Book review: “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” by Jaron Lanier When this book was first published in 2018, I passed it by. I suppose I was put off by the title which seemed to me a bit excessive. These days, I no longer feel that way, and in fact I have […] Read more »
AI and Internet Software Junie and Me August 1, 2026 by Terry SoRelle | Leave a Comment AI and the Future of Programming So, who is Junie? Junie is an AI assistant built into my programming IDE, JetBrains PHPStorm. If you don’t know, an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a glorified programmer’s editor that also does lots of other stuff related to creating and managing software. I wanted to share some of […] Read more »