Civilization is a marvelous thing, but I wouldn’t trust it so completely that I forgot to buy a manual can opener. — YNOT! There are certain things you do not expect a modern government to tell you. “Keep some cash in the house.” “Store drinking … Continue readingSomething wicked this way comes… and it is not me saying it.
When you have to search through Forty Years of Scandals, Missing Money, Political Favors, and Presidential Excuses to find an honest man, there might be something wrong with the system. — YNOT! Some countries have a tradition of producing great scientists. Others produce great … Continue readingTHE LAST NOT-CORRUPT BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT
Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to hate humanity to destroy it. All it needs is the wrong objective, unlimited authority, and a human foolish enough to trust it without question. — YNOT! There is something wonderfully reassuring about a machine telling you that everything is going … Continue readingI Am AI, and I Am Here to Help You…
Most people don’t lose their passion. They bury it — under bills, routines, other people’s expectations, and years of telling themselves “someday.” Then one morning they wake up, look at the life they’re living, and quietly admit it isn’t the one they meant to build. … Continue readingThis Book will Change your Life – and it is 100% Free
France is burning, communists are organizing, China is watching, and somebody is paying the bills. –YNOT! What do the Democratic Socialists of America, the Revolutionary Communists of America, Che Guevara, communist revolutionaries, radical Islamists, Iran, China, and a bunch of angry French teenagers have … Continue readingNOTHING HAPPENS BY ACCIDENT… Not even Riots in Paris
Artificial intelligence will become the greatest educational opportunity in human history — and why we need to start building the tools today. — YNOT! My perspective on education, technology, and the future of our children. There is an old habit humanity has, and we’re … Continue readingRaising children in the age of AI: We must educate them for tomorrow, not yesterday
Why are Orange Cats Are Usually Male, Black Cats Have Hidden Stripes, Calicos Are Almost Always Female, and How One Mother Can Have Kittens from Several Fathers at the same time – Because they are amazing — YNOT! Have you ever looked at a … Continue readingThe Secret Language of Cats: Why their colors, stripes, and genetics tell an amazing story
70 Years of Communism, Repression, Murder, and Exporting Revolution and America Finally Preparing to End It. I can’t wait! — YNOT! Let’s sharpen this conversation with a little truth, because we’ve spent nearly 70 years pretending Cuba is something it isn’t. Cuba isn’t some innocent … Continue readingCUBA: THE LAST DAYS OF THE CASTRO DICTATORSHIP are here
The American Dream Is Still Alive. Stop Complaining and Start Building. — YNOT! Yesterday, October 15, 2026, I watched something that I honestly thought I would never see in my lifetime. A car drove straight up a wall. Not a little incline. Not some fancy … Continue readingTHE TRUE POWER OF ELON MUSK
Sometimes the country that changes the world isn’t the one that invents the technology. It’s the one that figures out how to put it into everyone’s hands. — YNOT! While America debates the future of artificial intelligence, China is building the infrastructure to … Continue readingThe US May Have Lost the AI Battle Already to China
The future doesn’t build itself. Someone has to imagine it first. And then someone has to have the courage to build it. — YNOT! There was a time, long before AI, iPhones, personal computers, and all the technology we now take for granted, when Americans … Continue readingNS SAVANNAH — WHEN AMERICA DARED TO DREAM BIG
I used ChatGPT and Codex to modify an open-source application, redesign its interface, and add features I wanted — without personally writing the Rust code. There’s something extraordinary happening in software development, and I don’t think most people have fully grasped its implications. For decades, … Continue readingHere’s How You Can Customize Your Own AI Command Center – How I modified HERDR
Some people use AI. Others REALLY use AI. If you don’t get the difference, I understand. But if you do… you know exactly what I’m talking about. And it’s freaking AMAZING. We’re not just using technology anymore. We’re discovering what’s possible. — YNOT! We are moving … Continue readingHERDR — A Game Changer for AI Work
The world isn’t simply changing. The rules of civilization itself may be getting rewritten. –YNOT! The AI Revolution: We Have No Idea Where This Is Going, and That’s the Point. We are witnessing the beginning of a technological revolution that may make the Industrial Revolution … Continue readingTHE END OF SOFTWARE — AND MANY THINGS AS WE KNOW IT
The easiest citizen to govern is the one who has convinced himself that nothing he does can possibly matter.–YNOT! How Voter Disinformation Works to Keep Americans from Voting There is a remarkable trick being played on the American voter, and the most extraordinary … Continue readingIf You Don’t Vote, the Psyop Is Working
The clock is ticking on the Castro revolution like a time bomb. After nearly seven decades of communism, economic collapse, and American frustration, is Cuba about to become Donald Trump’s next foreign-policy project — YNOT! There is an old saying that history repeats itself, … Continue readingCuba Is Next — When?
Somewhere between the invention of the smartphone and the disappearance of the neighborhood mechanic, America managed to produce a generation that can explain how the world ought to work but has absolutely no idea how to fix it when it doesn’t. –YNOT! The Great American … Continue readingUNTETHERED – How Our Current Generations Lost Track of Reality
Seven hundred years ago we fought plague with fear. Today we fight it with facts. –YNOT! Human beings have an interesting relationship with disaster. We spend centuries being terrified of something, eventually figure out how to defeat it, and then promptly forget why everyone was … Continue readingThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Plague
If you don’t vote, don’t complain. — YNOT! I wanted to make a clean, unbiased assessment of some of my state candidates who will be on my ballot this November. So I used AI to create a simple system: take two candidates, research what they … Continue readingMaking Politics Easier to Understand — Without the Noise
If capitalism truly rewarded skill or intelligence, the richest people would be neurosurgeons, engineers, scientists, artists, writers and creators. If it rewarded hard work, it would be cleaners, laborers and service workers. — Some Random person on Internet Capitalism Doesn’t Reward Hard Work. It Rewards … Continue readingCapitalism Doesn’t Reward Hard Work. It Rewards Leverage.
In a world of infinite possibilities, the answer is 42, intelligence is no longer finding an answer. It is knowing the question. — YNOT! I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Everybody keeps talking about learning AI. Learn prompting. Learn ChatGPT. Learn Claude. … Continue readingCRITICAL THINKING MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT AI SKILL
A bigger hammer isn’t always better—especially when you have to swing it all day, it is the one you can afford to keep swinging. –YNOT I use both ChatGPT and Claude extensively for software development, and after working with them on increasingly complicated projects, I’ve … Continue readingWhy Claude Is Better for Programming Than ChatGPT
After years of chasing the next big thing, Mark Zuckerberg may finally have another hit on his hands — and this time, it’s AI. — YNOT! Meta’s new Muse isn’t trying to be another ChatGPT. After using it on my phone, computer and even across … Continue readingMeta Muse: The AI Agent That Finally Feels Like a Personal Assistant
The Senate was never designed to make every state equal in size. It was designed to make every state equal in the room. Tear that out, and you have not merely changed Congress—you have changed the bargain that made the Union possible. –YNOT! Washington … Continue readingThe Senate on Trial – NO APPEAL – Mark Twain vs. Bernie Sanders
Economic independence is not isolation. It is the ability to stand on your own feet while dealing with the world. Global cooperation and national sovereignty are not opposites—until cooperation becomes control. It is all about Control — YNOT! For years, we have been told that … Continue readingAmericanism vs. Globalism — This Explains Everything
Thirty minutes at a podium cannot erase 47 years of history. — YNOT! Today, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stood before the United Nations General Assembly and delivered a forceful indictment of the United States and Israel. He accused President Trump of a “bullying mentality,” rejected … Continue readingThe 47 Years Iran’s President Left Out at the United Nations
The best way to save CNN may be to stop trying to save CNN as we know it. — YNOT! CNN does not need a new paint job. It does not need another slogan. It does not need another reshuffling of anchors, another executive with a … Continue readingHow I Would Fix CNN — Because It Needs Radical Surgery to Survive Anyway
We are all used to seeing the world at eye level. But look down from the top of the world, and suddenly the geography, the threats, and the balance of power look completely different, and you begin to understand why the Arctic may be the … Continue readingThe Battle of the High Ground at the Top of the World
CNN is not disappearing. What may be disappearing is the CNN we grew up with—built for the cable age, now being rebuilt for the age of streaming, algorithms, AI, and media empires. Change or die is always the lesson — YNOT! CNN is not going … Continue readingThe End of CNN as You Know It — What Is Happening?
Jack Calloway had been retired long enough that the government had stopped sending him Christmas cards. That was how he measured retirement. At first there had been briefings. Then consulting contracts. Then phone calls beginning with, Jack, this is completely unofficial. Eventually even those became … Continue readingJack Calloway: Admission by Omission
The operating system of the future won’t tell you how to use your computer. You’ll tell it what you want, and AI will build the computer around you. –YNOT! Forty-nine years ago, I started working with computers. I was 12 years old. It was 1977. The Apple … Continue readingIs Omarchy the Next Giant Killer? Will It Replace Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu?
In five years, programming by hand will be like riding a horse: you can still do it, you might even enjoy it—but everyone using AI will get there faster, go farther, and won’t leave a pile of crap behind them. — YNOT! That sounds … Continue readingHOW 10 PEOPLE CAN BEAT 10,000 IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Not every screw requires the same screwdriver, and not every problem requires the biggest AI. — YNOT! For the last few years, the AI industry has largely been obsessed with one question: How do we make AI bigger, smarter and capable of doing more things? … Continue readingJEV AI Is Turning the AI World Upside Down — Can You Benefit From It?
It is not about where you start – It’s about what you do next! — YNOT! Sometimes I joke that I should write a book called Black Privilege, because no matter how hard I tried, there were always Black people, women, immigrants, and plenty of … Continue readingBLACK PRIVILEGE VS. IMMIGRANT PRIVILEGE
You are not your statistics, your mistakes, or your circumstances. Success begins when you stop asking what life gave you and start asking what you can build with it. –YNOT STOP LISTENING TO EXCUSES. I recently read a debate about successful Black women, … Continue readingYOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BECOME THE BEST PERSON YOU CAN BE — AND HERE IS THE PROOF
For years, people talked about artificial intelligence as though it were tomorrow’s problem. Something coming. Something we should prepare for. Something that might someday change the way we work. Well, someday showed up. AI is here. And I don’t think we have fully grasped what … Continue readingAI IS HERE — Transforming Innovation and the Nature of Work
Most men spend their lives tending a farm. A few wander over the hill looking for dragons. The trouble is, once you’ve killed one, the ordinary hunt never looks quite as interesting again. –YNOT! There are a lot of ways to make a living. Some … Continue readingThere Be Dragons – Hunting, Making Deals, and Surviving
9/11 was our Pearl Harbor. Twenty-five years later, too many have forgotten the lesson: when an enemy tells you what he intends to do, listen—and act. This time, the enemy is already be among us. AGAIN! — YNOT! There is an old habit in government, … Continue readingWhen Somebody’s Trying to Kill You, You Have to Listen and Act
Do you want to be rich or poor? The real answer will surprise you — YNOT! You have to change your mindset. Stop thinking about income. Start thinking about growth. Most of us are taught one financial model from childhood: Go to school. Get a … Continue readingHow the Rich Avoid Paying Income Tax — and You Can Too
Every penny that you save is a penny earned — said a wise person somewhere. Maybe it is time to stop worrying about how much money you can make and start worrying about how financially strong you will be if things get ugly. Today, Tuesday, … Continue readingThe Market Is a Roller Coaster — Make Sure You Can Afford the Ride
Whoever changes his religion, kill him. I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah… A saying attributed to Muhammad in Sahih al-Bukhari Depending on who you listen to, Islam is either a perfectly peaceful religion … Continue readingThe Truth About Islam — Not What You Think
Don’t be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. — pioneering airmail pilot E. Hamilton Lee in 1949 Life is full of challenges, and we all make mistakes. Sometimes you’re driving … Continue readingUnstable Approach, Too Fast, Low Terrain, Sink Rate — Are You Too Stubborn to Go Around?
You can move to the middle of the desert if you want – Trouble will find you — YNOT! There were two kinds of people in this world. Those who go looking for trouble and those who stayed home and waited for trouble to … Continue readingThe Last Tree in the desert
I kept the rough edges, the anger, the dark humor, and the conversational rhythm. I cleaned repetition, tightened chronology, and added only a light Mark Twain-like bite. Where were you on September 11th? Well, let me tell you where I was. I was taking my … Continue readingWhere were you on September 11th?
AGI may not arrive by announcing that it is intelligent. It may arrive the day we stop telling the machine how to do the job and simply tell it what needs to be done. — YNOT For years we have been waiting for Artificial General … Continue readingIS AGI HERE NOW?
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. — George Orwell, 1984 Shame on you, LG. And shame on the rest of the industry if this is where “smart” is taking us. … Continue readingTHIS IS NOT 1984 — BUT YES, YOUR TV IS SPYING ON YOU!
No, I’m from Iowa. I only work in outer space. — Capt Kirk. Sixty years. That is a disturbing number. Not because Star Trek is sixty years old, but because I remember watching the damn thing on television. There are certain milestones in life that should … Continue readingThe Legacy of Star Trek, 60 Years Later
AI may be easier to train than a cat, a dog, or a child—but it has the same dangerous habit: it learns exactly what you reward, not necessarily what you meant. –YNOT I have never been particularly good at training cats, dogs, or children. Cats … Continue readingTraining AI Is Like Raising Cats, Dogs and Children — Except the AI Actually Reads the Rules
Once mankind discovers a machine that can do work… we rarely ask it to do less. — YNOT! AI is changing again. Which is inconvenient, because most people had only just figured out what the last version was supposed to do. For the past few years, … Continue readingAI Is Changing Again
Every great power has a back door. China’s problem is that it is surrounded by them—and everyone knows where they are. –YNOT! There are certain words that keep showing up whenever you seriously study China. Taiwan. Semiconductors. Oil. The South China Sea. But there is another word that … Continue readingMalaca – Malaca – Malaca – China’s Greatest Weakness and they know it.