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Cybersecurity News A friend recently passed along a piece on how unprepared most enterprises are for the security risks that come with artificial intelligence. They thought it might interest me. They were right, and I think it deserves a wider audience, including among those of us who will never run a Fortune 500 company but... Continue Reading →
Why attacking AI is the wrong target, and why holding ourselves accountable is the right one. Getting This Off My Chest I really need to get this off my chest. It has been nagging at me since mid-2025, when I started noticing just how many people believe AI is out to destroy us, or worse... Continue Reading →
Truth Is a Shared Resource: Why Discerning What We Read Is an Act of Adaptive Resiliency In an age of storms, scrolls, and synthetic media, how carefully we vet what we read, and how thoughtfully we share it, may be one of the quietest and most important forms of courage left to us. Claude AI... Continue Reading →
Que Humanidad | Compiled & Mr. Alvarez’s Thoughts | AI Enhanced. Climate conversations usually begin with smokestacks, tailpipes, and chainsaws. They rarely begin with a tank column, an artillery barrage, or a burning refinery. Yet war is among the most concentrated forms of environmental destruction humanity has ever devised, and it remains almost invisible in... Continue Reading →
Why can China build an electric car for around $5,000 while America struggles to sell truly affordable new vehicles? Que Humanidad / Compiled & Mr. Alvarez's Thoughts | AI Enhanced | Image from Pexels - not vehicle mentioned A new video from Motion Evolution Studio asks a provocative question: why can China build an electric... Continue Reading →
The speed of our response, as nations and as a species, is not matching the speed of the problem. Que Humanidad / Compiled & Mr. Alvarez's Thoughts | AI Enhanced. Earth is shared. We share it with every living thing that swims, flies, crawls, roots, and breathes. More recently, we have begun sharing it with... Continue Reading →
Compiled & Mr. Alvarez's Thoughts | AI Enhanced. Some weeks the news arrives in a trickle. This week it came in all at once. Four research releases published on ScienceDaily between September 6 and September 23, 2026 tell four separate stories: a surprise snowfall surge in Antarctica, a weakening Atlantic Ocean current, a record-low Lake... Continue Reading →
A Learning Out Loud installment for the SDL5.org community It started in a comment section. A YouTube video was working through the power of deception wielded by the very rich, and someone dropped a line into the comments and kept moving, the way people do: The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the... Continue Reading →
Every Sunday I set aside time to work through the week's news and updates in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. It is not a hobby and it is not doom-scrolling. It is preparation. Running websites, online communities, email systems, and public-facing climate-education projects means that the decisions I make about technology affect other people — their... Continue Reading →
COP, Three Decades of Climate Diplomacy, and the Road to Antalya Global climate talks. Real-world consequences. On November 9, 2026, delegations from nearly every nation on Earth will file into the Antalya EXPO Center on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast for COP31, the thirty-first United Nations climate summit. For two weeks, ministers and negotiators will argue over... Continue Reading →
Dissecting “Make America Great Again” — and What the Slogan Costs Us Now I turn 26 on September 11th. (For the purpose of this article lets pretend that I turn 26 on September 11th. Which means I was one year and one day old when the towers came down. I have never drawn a single... Continue Reading →
