The Age of Cyborg Problem Solving

JC/ August 21, 2025/ biography, science

Thank you to all the IT professionals who helped me when I asked, “Can you just add this A record to the DNS,” over the years. I recently had the chatbots guide me through implementing and troubleshooting DNS and virtual host configurations for my new site from the command line. In doing so, the bots taught me how complex and

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Divide and conquer

JC/ July 22, 2025/ history

This is a summary of my recent learnings of North American history in context of contemporary events. Studying history has opened the time aperture through which I look at our current situation. I am reticent to admit my negligence in considering the past prior to this year.  To understand the authoritarian state of the US today, we cannot look back

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Getting to Work in the Community

JC/ June 24, 2025/ biography

This weekend I did a job I had never done before. I’m not talking about a job on the other side of the shop, or org chart. I’m talking about completely new and different work to me. I went to work with people whom I had never before worked, materials I had never handled, technologies I had never seen, and

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