No-Slop Saturday, July 25 2026 Feature Image

No-Slop Saturday, July 25 2026

Everything in No-Slop Saturday is, to the best of my knowledge, made by humans. If I find out otherwise, I won't feature that person in a future edition of the No-Slop roundup. ❤️ Writes like a human I think I came across Brennan.Day through the omg.

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Your Normal Life is Worth a Lot to Data Brokers Feature Image

Your Normal Life is Worth a Lot to Data Brokers

Knowing what you do, where you go, and who you’re with is very valuable to corporations. If you’ve ever said/thought/commented something like: * “I don’t have anything to hide, so I don’t care if they take my data” * “I’m just a boring person what

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No, Claude Doesn't Understand Psychological Tricks Feature Image

No, Claude Doesn't Understand Psychological Tricks

There are some increasingly popular articles floating around that that claim you can use psychological “tricks” as a type of prompt for AI chat tools like Claude. These prompts include phrases like: * Take a deep breath and… * If you can do this, we’ll gain X amount of money back…

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What Posting Every Day Did for My Brand Feature Image

What Posting Every Day Did for My Brand

I have been self-employed for over six and a half years. I started my business about six months before the pandemic shut everything down (wild times!) and experimented with different platforms and content styles before I landed on my industry and niche. Since 2020, I’ve supported SaaS and

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Is it Absurd to Critique Generative AI? Feature Image

Is it Absurd to Critique Generative AI?

I often find Cory Doctorow’s commentary interesting, and typically discover a few nuggets in each text that I find to be salient and useful. While my recent read of his March 12, 2026 Pluralistic article proved the same, there was one statement that hit me as being patently not

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My Year Without Amazon Feature Image

My Year Without Amazon

My dalliance with Amazon started around 2014. Even though I worked in e-commerce at the time,I didn’t do much online shopping. But 2014 was the year I got a Kindle-and the Amazon account that went along with it. I got Prime, I tried Kindle Unlimited, and

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