Personally, I’ve moved away from using the POP feature in Gmail to import mail from other email accounts into Gmail to take advantage of the spam protection. Since I host my own sites and my own M365 tenant, much of that spam protection lives elsewhere for me, but I can understand why others have continued
Worth Reading – Is 2026 The Year We All Decide to Quit the Internet?
I’ve always written under the assumption that people were reading what I put out here and, hopefully, learning something. In the age of AI-slop, I want more of that, and only that. I’m seeking it out and connecting with it. I am not connecting with people who are creating crap content in a chase for…
Worth Reading – The Achilles’ Heel of AI: The Data That Feeds It
This challenge, in part, is why my job title is now related to Information Governance and Compliance. It’s recognizing that data is a valuable asset and a significant risk. Grounding your AI in low-quality data is a massive risk
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Worth Reading – AI can change political opinions by flooding voters with real and fabricated facts
So what you’re telling me is that AI chatbots can spout so much bullshit, so fast, and so confidently that they are incredibly effective at changing people’s political beliefs?
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AI Eats Everything – Micron Kills off Consumer Sales of RAM
With the demand for chips, processors, and memory from AI data centers, there’s a ton of money to be made, and selling small amounts of these same parts to computer enthusiasts is a distraction that isn’t worth the effort.
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Worth Reading – AI agents are only as good as the data they’re given, and that’s a big issue for businesses
In the age of AI, though, this might be the high-priority risk. That old, untrustworthy, and outdated information that no one ever bothered to clean up is actively messing up your AI implementation. Your attempt to be a data-driven business depends on having accurate data. That becomes difficult to do when you’re not actively cleaning…
Worth Reading – Learning AI Feels Like a Second Job
It’s no wonder that people are burning out professionally. Every week there are new things to learn, changes to deal with, strategies to reconsider, projects on deadlines, etc. We don’t often get a chance to simply do the work, let alone rest.
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Worth Reading – AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
I think we might need a variation of the Dunning-Kruger effect to describe the people who weren’t smart enough to realize the AI was wrong when it told them their ideas were brilliant.
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Worth Reading – Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop
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Worth Reading – Don’t Let AI Transcription Sink Your Ship
We should always be thoughtful about what we say in meetings and how we say it. It’s just being professional, and now that we can also assume there will be a record of it, we have yet another reason!
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