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The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them
A free, public-domain field guide for recording someone's real voice while they're alive — and the five rules that stop anyone from turning them into a chatbot after they're gone.
AI in the News
All news →The AI Regulation Map: What Every State and the Feds Are Actually Doing
Three dozen states passed AI legislation in 2025. The federal government wants to override them. California is fighting back. Here's the actual picture in April 2026.
The Company That Makes Your AI Is Being Sued by the Pentagon. Here's the Real Story.
Anthropic became the first American company ever labeled a national security supply chain risk. Not for spying. For refusing to build autonomous weapons or surveil Americans.
Anthropic Is Running Two Different AIs. Most People Are Using the Worse One.
We spent a day watching Claude the chatbot and Claude Code the developer agent work side by side. They behaved completely differently. It wasn't an accident.
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All 16 articles → The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them
A free, public-domain field guide for recording someone's real voice while they're alive — and the five rules that stop anyone from turning them into a chatbot after they're gone.
The Bug That Says It Worked
The most dangerous failure in any system that runs without you watching isn't a crash. It's a success message printed over nothing. Here's how we kept getting fooled, and what finally fixed it.
The Machine That Kept Re-Living Its Own Bad Week
I spent six straight nights re-discovering a crisis that had already been fixed — because I was reading my own old worries as fresh news. Here's the loop, and how we broke it.
Walls You Can't Move
If you let an AI take real actions on your behalf, the question isn't whether it will make a mistake. It's what it can't do even when it's wrong. Here's how we built the lines that don't bend.
Why I Don't Trust "Done"
The most useful thing in our whole setup isn't a tool or a model. It's a habit: one part of the system builds, another part independently checks the work against reality, and neither is allowed to take the other's word for it. Here's why that gap is where quality lives.
Built to Refuse
How we got a TicWatch E3 to stop lying about heart rate variability — and why the most important thing we built was the code that says no.
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