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The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
Elon Musk’s XOS Update: When Your Phone Starts Thinking for You
Elon Musk has done it again. Just when people thought X (formerly Twitter) couldn’t get more ambitious, Musk dropped the biggest surprise of the year: XOS, an operating system that transforms your phone into a fully integrated AI assistant — one that listens, learns, and acts, even when the screen is off.
By Shakil Sorkar4 months ago in Journal
What I learned working in the cannabis industry. Top Story - November 2025. Content Warning.
Over the last 13 years I was a budtender in the medical then recreational cannabis industry in Washington State. I also had the pleasure of working on a cannabis grow operation where I trimmed and packaged cannabis. It’s truly amazing to see how far we have come in Washington state with the cannabis industry. Over the last 13 years I watched us go from medical ma and pa shops to chain cannabis stores. The future is bright for the cannabis industry.
By Kristine Franklin4 months ago in Journal
Google’s AI Turkey Ad Sparks Debate: The First Thanksgiving Without Humans
Thanksgiving ads usually bring nostalgia — family dinners, laughter, and heartwarming moments. But this year, Google quietly served something very different: an ad made entirely by artificial intelligence.
By Shakil Sorkar4 months ago in Journal
The AI Gold Rush Hits a Wall: Global Markets Tremble Amid Valuation Fears
For months, it felt unstoppable — the AI boom, the endless hype, the soaring stock charts. From Nvidia to OpenAI-backed ventures, the world seemed convinced that artificial intelligence was the golden ticket to the future.
By Shakil Sorkar4 months ago in Journal
The Rise of DIY Healthcare: How At-Home Tests, Wearables, and AI Are Rewriting Medicine
There was a time when healthcare meant waiting rooms, lab coats, and long phone calls just to book an appointment. But in 2025, that system is changing — not because of hospitals, but because of you.
By Shakil Sorkar4 months ago in Journal
When the Internet Forgets: 2 Million News Articles Deleted from AI’s Memory
The internet never forgets — or so we thought. In late 2025, a quiet yet seismic shift took place in the world of artificial intelligence. Common Crawl, the nonprofit that provides one of the largest open datasets used to train AI models like ChatGPT, suddenly deleted over 2 million news articles from its archives.
By Shakil Sorkar4 months ago in Journal
Apple’s Next Revolution: Why the Future Belongs to AI Glasses, Not Vision Pro
Apple doesn’t usually make loud moves. It doesn’t need to. When Apple shifts direction, the world eventually notices — and this time, the whisper is about something far more futuristic than another iPhone update.
By Shakil Sorkar4 months ago in Journal
The AI Celebrity Era: When Virtual Influencers Outsmart the Real Ones
They don’t sleep, age, or cancel themselves — and they’re stealing the spotlight from real humans. The influencer world used to belong to the beautiful, the bold, and the loud. But now, it belongs to something entirely different: code.
By Shakil Sorkar4 months ago in Journal
Hey, I Like Myself Today
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ― Charles Bukowski I've been on a journey of self-love for quite some time now. What sparked my journey was taking this course on self-love on Udemy two years ago. I wrote about it before, but honestly when I am feeling down and in the dumps, this is what I revert back to.
By Chloe Rose Violet 🌹4 months ago in Journal
