A Better Kind of AI Prompt: Ask It to Challenge You
Instead of asking an AI to solve a problem you framed, ask it to challenge its assumptions about you or argue against your narrative.
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The IDScan Breach: Why You May Be Affected Even If You’ve Never Heard of IDScan
A major identity-verification provider called IDScan.net has confirmed a data breach involving driver’s licences and government IDs from over 150 million people.
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Adequate and Cheap: The AI Threshold We Are Not Watching
The consequential moment in AI may not be when models achieve flawless genius, but when useful machine competence becomes cheap enough to loop, verify, and scale.
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RDSPs in Canada — The Practical Basics
A practical guide to Registered Disability Savings Plans (RDSPs) in Canada, including government grants, bonds, DTC eligibility for autism families, and carry-forward rules.
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AI | Photography | Technology
Printing Bespoke Children’s Books on the Canon PIXMA PRO-200
How to create one-off, bespoke 12-page children’s books on a Canon PRO-200: saddle-stitch imposition mechanics, paper choices, consumable costs, programmatic generation, and scaling beyond one-off printing.
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Canine Phytotherapy: From Research Brief to Course Foundation
How an 877-line research brief and a 41-page ChatGPT Deep Research PDF became the foundation for a canine phytotherapy course.
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Halifax Observing Guide — Falcon 9 Lunar Impact, Aug. 5, 2026
A guide to observing the Falcon 9 upper-stage lunar impact near Einstein Crater on August 5, 2026, from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Safe Vegetable Fermentation at Home
A practical, research-grounded guide to safely fermenting cabbage, carrots, garlic scapes, and other vegetables at home.
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A Prompt for Tackling Stale Repositories
A prompt for approaching old codebases by treating the existing implementation as a behavioural specification, not a problem to be replaced.
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Thunderbirds
I really enjoyed the Thunderbirds when I was a child.