Category: AI
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Idols, Fandoms, and Where the Moral Compass Lives
BTS partnered with Google on an AI ad. Namjoon and J-Hope went to a Chris Brown concert and posted it. One did not bother me at all. The other did not register until I saw the uproar online.
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Do You Still Practice Astrology?
“Do you still practice astrology?” I get some version of this question every once in a while and my answer usually is “not anymore” or “no time to do it well”. I enjoy reading charts. I love distilling archetypes from the chart and seeing which parts resonate and those that don’t. The act of reading…
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Prasna: For the Seeker In Me
From the yellow-tinted jadagams of a Chennai childhood to a tool on my own desk that reads both zodiacs: what fifty years with the quality of time built.
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Table, Menu
I was scrolling Threads on a Saturday afternoon, the fan on, a clutch of kids in the home, loud, and an orange card slid up the feed. A quote, white text on saffron. Rutger Bregman, an essay about AI, a quote set in a frame. I hopped over to read the whole thing. I nodded…
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The Cheapest Infrastructure
I sat down to fix a broken connection. Two hours later I was three clicks away from buying a $10 domain I did not need. On the difference between solving a problem and solving the problem the solution created.
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^NARS
I planted twenty-six lines into a database my husband architected. One per year of our marriage. He has not seen this part yet.
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I Set Out to Organize 155,919 Photos. I Ended Up Organizing Memory
I had 155,919 photos spread across five devices. Three iPhone exports, a MacBook backup, folders from a Vista laptop I haven’t touched since 2012, and whatever survived a Windows XP machine that once lived under my desk. All of it dumped into a clunky hard drive carrying years of documents and memories. I wanted them…
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My First AI Boo Boo
I should have known better. I am, after all, the woman who slid down a snowy road and walked up to her home in a snow storm. The pattern is clear: Lakshmi plus technology plus overconfidence equals wreckage. Here is what happened. I was redesigning my website. The plan was simple. Consolidate everything on Substack…