Hosing down, another take on plagiarism, and a tasty list

Cooked my butt off this week, like every year.

But I’m wracking up wins for two consecutive years now. Apparently, I’ve gotten the hang of managing large birds as a whole. After nailing it with the turkey during Thanksgiving, I hit it out of the park with the duck — In-Law tested, family approved. Following that, the wife left me and took the kids with her…to see her dad in NC and grandpa in WV.

I’m in charge of keeping the pets alive and returning the house to a state that’s fit for habitation.

Here’s what I’ve come across this week:

BlueSky Bit - I need this sometimes

Medium Moment - AI is trained from human content…

Substack Sampling - What I’m going to be chewing through for reading in 2026

Prismatic Progress:

Only four more days until 2025 is over.

Four. More. Days.

Can you believe it? When I look back on this year, it feels like we just started it yesterday, but each day seems to be an eternity and a half between them. As the saying goes, though, “the days are long, but the years are short”.

They weren’t kidding.

I’m at a bit of a loss as to what to say about it other than that on a micro scale, it wasn’t all that bad. In fact, it was one of the most productive and meaningful and progressive years I’ve had. The macro scale sucked big ones, though. I have a feeling that I’m going to have to be either a bit more careful about what I say or I’m just going to speak my mind.

Wait…when the heck did that start creeping into my thoughts on writing?

I started this whole thing to express my thoughts and share my opinions. I never thought that I’d have to actually watch what I say because I might actually be targeted for retribution by the government for it. That was the stuff of nightmares for my grandparents. Then again, political dissidence runs in our family. My family didn’t jump to Taiwan because they thought it’d be a grand new adventure. They were forced out along with the KMT (which itself was authoritative with democratic frills).

Digitally Decoupled means getting in touch with your self-awareness and building an internet footprint on that. Self-censorship isn’t part of the picture.

I’ll see you on the other side.