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What deserves to be self-hosted?
A practical way to decide which services belong on your own hardware and which ones are better handled elsewhere.
#self-hosting#homelab#security
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Every smart home needs a manual mode
A smart home should remain understandable and usable when the internet, controller, automation, or person who built it is unavailable.
#smart-home#automation#reliability
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The paperwork says you belong. Politics says you never will.
Legal status can settle a person’s rights in America while politics keeps questioning their place in the country.
#opinion#immigration#America
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The future of homelabs is more deliberate
Rising memory and PC-part prices are changing how we build homelabs, what we self-host, and which hardware earns a place on the rack.
#homelab#self-hosting#hardware
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The politics of protecting children
Children deserve safety, education, and honesty. Political movements use that responsibility to make censorship and exclusion sound reasonable.
#opinion#civil-rights
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America is building AI policy around power
American AI policy is taking shape around competition, government authority, and industry growth. Public accountability needs equal weight.
#opinion#AI#America
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Who regulates AI in America?
AI oversight in the United States is divided among Congress, the White House, federal agencies, courts, and state governments.
#AI#policy#America
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AI can write the status report. It cannot own the decision.
AI can summarize meetings, organize project data, and surface risks. Judgment and accountability still need a named human owner.
#AI#delivery#leadership
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When equality walks through the door, bigots panic
On the recurring backlash to equality, from Ruby Bridges to the politics aimed at immigrants, Muslims, and LGBT people today.
#opinion
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The myth of two genders: why it’s time to move on
A case for understanding gender through biology, identity, culture, and personal experience.
#opinion
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The Trump tariff trap: why the world and America should be worried
How a renewed American trade war could affect Sri Lanka, global supply chains, and the United States itself.
#opinion
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The real curse that destroyed Sri Lanka
How ethno-nationalism, the Sinhala Only Act, and decades of divisive policy shaped Sri Lanka’s political and economic decline.
#opinion
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