How to File a Public Records Request for Your Town's Flock and AI Cameras
A free, copy-and-send public records (FOIA) request letter for Flock license plate readers, facial recognition and other AI cameras. Who to send it to, the Michigan deadlines, fees and appeal steps with statute citations, and what to read first when the records arrive.
Give an Old Echo Show a New Voice: Build Your Own EchoGPT Family Assistant
Turn a first-generation Echo Show 5 into EchoGPT, a family voice assistant with web search, weather, timers, recurring reminders and night mode. A free illustrated tutorial with the working source code and a Codex setup guide. You supply your own OpenAI API and Cloudflare accounts.
A Field Guide to the Flock
Flock Safety sells solar cameras that photograph every passing car. Three out of four agencies opt into a nationwide search network. What the hardware does, who is really searching it, and what Michigan communities found when they finally read their own audit logs.
AI Data Centers and Traditional Data Centers Run the Same Workloads Now
Nobody converted these buildings to do something new. The things they already did got rebuilt as AI. Here is what Meta and Google disclosed in 2026, and what the Meta Terms of Service says about your side of the arrangement.
Will AI Data Centers Drain America Dry?
Will AI data centers drain America dry? Nationally, no, and it isn't close. Locally, in ten specific counties from Virginia to Nevada, the fight is already underway. The national math, the efficiency curve nobody's tracking, and the real numbers behind both.
Does One AI Prompt Really Use Ten Times More Energy Than a Google Search?
Manufacturing draws more electricity than every data center in the country combined. Here's what that says about the AI energy panic, and the real number behind it.
64% of Companies Are Already Using Employees to Train Their AI Replacements. Only 22% Tell Them Why.
A client asked me to document twenty years of design and marketing judgment so an AI could keep working without me. Here is what the research says about how common that request has become, and what to do about it.
Is ChatGPT Safe to Use at Work? A Straight Answer for Business Owners
A credit union employee pasted financial figures into free ChatGPT and lost her job over it. The honest answer to whether AI is safe for work, plus a simple red, yellow, green framework for what to put into ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, and Gemini.
A Tale of Two Curves
Traditional computing burned more than half its power on overhead for decades before it got efficient. AI is breaking efficiency records in its very first decade, during its loudest, hungriest buildout. The two curves behind every contradictory headline about AI's energy and water use, and how to read them honestly.
Most Companies Aren't Behind on AI. They're Unstructured.
95% of AI pilots fail to deliver measurable results, and the reason isn't the tools. It's the rollout. The framework we use to move businesses from scattered AI experiments to real strategy, governance, and team capability that compounds.
The AI Productivity Paradox: Why More AI Rarely Makes You More Productive
METR's randomized trial found experienced developers were 19% slower with AI, while believing they were 20% faster. Five landmark studies from MIT, METR, BCG, Stanford, and Anthropic on the real cost of AI adoption, and how to cross the J-curve instead of getting stuck in it.
The Cognitive Debt of AI at Work: What the Research Actually Says About Working Adults
MIT's EEG study found heavy AI users showed the weakest brain connectivity and couldn't recall their own writing. Three landmark studies on AI and critical thinking, and what working adults should actually do about it.
28% of CEOs Have Never Used AI. They're Still Blaming It for Your Layoff.
Only 4.5% of 2025 layoffs cited AI. 70% of executives use it less than an hour a week. The real story behind AI-washing, generational adoption data, and what companies actually need instead of headcount cuts.
The Complete History of AI: From Alan Turing to ChatGPT
80 years of dreamers, crashes, breakthroughs, and persistence. The full story of how AI went from a wild idea in 1943 to the most transformative technology on the planet.
The AI Energy Crisis That Isn't: What the Data Actually Says
Everyone's panicking about AI destroying the planet. But peer-reviewed research from Cornell, MIT, and Berkeley tells a very different story. ChatGPT energy use dropped 10x in 2 years.
You & AI 101: A Practical Starting Guide
Afraid of AI? Hate it? Doesn't matter. It's not going away. Here's how YOU use it to grow, with no courses, no overwhelm, just practical steps that work.
Does AI Really Use 10 Gallons of Water Per Image?
The viral claim is wrong by 100-600x. Here's what the peer-reviewed research actually says about AI water consumption, how data centers are cooled, and why this myth spread so fast.
MCP and UCP Explained: How AI Agents Connect to Tools and Commerce
Learn how Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) enable AI chatbots to connect to external tools, databases, and commerce systems. Beginner-friendly with best practices.
Top Trends for 2026: How to Build for the AI-Augmented Web
The rules of digital visibility have fundamentally changed. Learn about Generative Engine Optimization, E-E-A-T, and how to build websites that get cited by AI.
AI Industry Interconnections Map 2025
See how OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Amazon are connected through $200B+ in circular investments. Interactive visualization of the AI industry web.