robots, readers, and riverfront trailer parks

Monday, September 7, 2026

People carried ointment jars to my festivals in Bubastis.

1. The programmer who became his robot’s seeing-eye dog
2. A $70 credit-card-sized e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame
3. GM dropped CarPlay, sales tanked — the natural experiment nobody planned
4. Same North Carolina riverbank, same mobile homes, storm after storm
5. Two federal frog biologists were kidnapped in a California national forest
6. Data empires from Mesopotamia to biometrics — 11,000 years of surveillance governance