16
Dec
Simply the Best — 2024 lists
Best, Top, and Greatest media hits of 2024
13 min read
Tucker Legerski
Tucker is a writer, researcher, fact-checker, and health equity advocate. I was born and raised in the Rocky Mountain trifecta of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. I use he/him pronouns.
11
Dec
You are the media..only if.
"The power of media lies not in any single platform but in how individuals critically evaluate information." -- Geoff Pilkington
2 min read
04
Dec
Surveillance & Recording
Surveillance may be for control — safety on the good side, political and authoritative, and cultural tar pit on the bad side.
But recording is for remembering. Remembering good moments, joy, love. Tech can do that, too.
3 min read
26
Nov
Book: Who is the AI Race for?
Parmy Olson's excellent book Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that will change the world delivers clarity and synthesis. If you need a handle on AI, who built it and why, and how the tech is everywhere in conversation and software, this is the book to pickup.
8 min read
24
Nov
What is a producer? My sister knows.
We grew up together across three states. Today, she is a producer in Los Angeles.
5 min read
24
Nov
Science is about politics and life, so we should write about it.
"How is this relevant to my life?" is the question posed. I have often gasped with few ideas or defenses beyond a boiling passion for learning about it. I'm starting to change that. I'm adding ideas to why science is important.
6 min read
23
Nov
I was an IDM (Infant to a Diabetic Mother).
When I was born, I came out with a host of challenges: crooked feet, extra and missing vertebrae, small for my size being five weeks early, risk for high temperature, jaundice, and low blood sugar
4 min read
20
Nov
GOP Blitz on transgender people
Trans individuals continue to be undeservedly political targets.
4 min read
19
Nov
Rubbing with ambient news and giving up the shovel
To rub against the news — to huff in what Heller calls "ambient information" — means you believe a reality at the surface.
4 min read
17
Nov
Amazon creates a bureaucratic pretzel for disabled employees
If you're an Amazon employee, it's now a lengthy process to prove you're disabled. It's a bureaucratic pretzel.
4 min read