KL Forslund

I’m going to meet a writer who needs advice today. A friend of my wife’s asked for feedback on a manuscript. I gave it. Now, there’s food involved. And because I think about what I’m going to say in situations before they come up, I’ve got some thoughts. Assuming we talk about the writing, how do I advise them? Didn’t Ask, Don’t Tell Imagine a world where if someone doesn’t ask for your opinion, you don’t give it. Difficult to picture, I know. Life is all about probabilities,

At the start of the year, it was obvious companies were enshittifying software with AI. So I wrote an article with ways to shut that off (See references section at the end for link). Now, at the end of the year, it’s time to take further steps. Here goes. Why Stay on Windows Depending on what you need to run, I assume you need to keep running Windows, and just want to shut off as much crap as you can. Maybe I’ll explore a linux conversion someday, but for now, I need a Window

You’re in that movie where the villain is holding your spouse hostage. Nobody will listen or do anything. So, you grab a weapon and work...

AI is the devil, and we need to turn if off everywhere we can. Let’s get to it. I’m a Windows user so some of this is not going to apply...

I've been under the weather, so the wife fired up an old BBC series we hadn't seen that had portals and dinosaurs in it. I'm a sucker for...

If you haven’t watched the series finale of Star Trek: Discovery, go watch that. I’ll wait.

How do you know if a book is fostering bigoted values? How do you know if the author is a bigot? This week, a friend of mine brought the...

Steampunk is set in the era of machine replacing man, but that’ doesn’t mean the genre is in favor of that. Quite the opposite in fact....

Am I the only person curious if something can be done, but not keen on seeing it? The internet is flooded with AI generated images and...

One of the most impactful things Gene Roddenberry did for society was putting Nichelle Nichols on the bridge of the Enterprise. Countless...

Seeing K.K Slider play all morning in the rain, I tried to put a cup of hot cocoa down for him. Tom Nook’s voice blared over the PA,...

I try to post these every weekend, sometimes falling to Monday. A home improvement project wore me out. A leak in the kitchen...

When the guy with one eye hands you a ladle filled with a questionable liquid that’d been sitting in a kettle with a giant head floating...

The problem with parables is the person who needs the lesson doesn’t want to admit their situation mirrors the metaphor. I think they...

Do you ever wish you had the ear of the engineers of a product you use. You could whisper ideas and suggestions based on your experience...

I’m decompressing from Avengers: Infinity War. Watched it tonight, and saw, things. Things I can’t explain, without spoiling it for...

I was looking for Alexa articles to read, when I came across one from the Irish Times. The author gives a good chiding in what I...

I was hunting down Star Trek minifigs this week to go with my TOS Bridge that is arriving any day now. Which led me to a site selling an...