heroes and villains

Heroes and Villains throughout history that have defined their industries and workflow as we know it today. Those we look up to, and those we learn mistakes from.

🌌 Dreaming in Data: Are We Living Inside Our Own Code?
🩵 1. The Soft Glow of the Machine It begins in silence — a hum beneath our fingertips. The soft glow of a screen, the pulse of code running unseen, the rhythm of keys tapping like a heartbeat.
By Shakil Sorkar3 months ago in Journal
What Most People Fail To Understand About AI
Usually when I Write About AI... It is Not Positive. Why? Most of How People are Utilizing AI... Especially in Large Companies...
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)3 months ago in Journal
When AI Starts Thinking for Itself: The Dawn of the Agentic Era
Intro: The Shift No One Saw Coming For years, artificial intelligence was just a tool — obedient, predictable, and bound by human control.
By Shakil Sorkar3 months ago in Journal
The Algorithm and the Soul: How Social Media Learned to Feel for Us
The Scroll That Never Ends Every morning, I wake up and do what most people do: I reach for my phone. Before I’ve even had coffee, a world of colors, headlines, and laughter floods my screen.
By Shakil Sorkar3 months ago in Journal
Living with AI: How Machines Quietly Took Over My Day Without Me Noticing
Morning: My Alarm Has a Mind of Its Own I used to wake up to a basic alarm clock — that sharp, unforgiving buzz that meant “another day begins.”
By Shakil Sorkar3 months ago in Journal
Did the Time Change Today? Understanding Daylight Savings 2025
Every fall, Americans wake up wondering the same thing: Did the time change today? On Sunday, November 2, 2025, the answer is yes — clocks officially fell back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local time, marking the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST).
By KAMRAN AHMAD3 months ago in Journal
Why The Great Amazon Web Services Outage Was Unsurprising (And Will Likely Happen Again)
On October 20, 2025... Tens of Millions of People and Thousands of Companies were Horribly Surprised to Discover... Nothing on the Internet was Working.
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)3 months ago in Journal
South Sudan’s Endless Dawn
The South Sudanese Civil War is an armed conflict that erupted in December 2013 between factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), pitting government forces under President Salva Kiir—predominantly from the Dinka ethnic group—against opposition forces led by former Vice President Riek Machar, mainly from the Nuer ethnic group, amid a power struggle that rapidly devolved into ethnic massacres and militia warfare. Triggered by Kiir's dismissal of Machar and accusations of a coup attempt, the fighting quickly spread from Juba nationwide, exploiting pre-existing clan rivalries and competition over oil revenues in a state lacking robust institutions just two years after independence from Sudan. The war has caused an estimated 400,000 deaths, including from direct violence, famine, and disease, while displacing over 4 million people internally or as refugees, devastating the economy and infrastructure. Both sides have perpetrated atrocities, including targeted killings, rape as a weapon, child soldier recruitment, and scorched-earth tactics, with no faction holding a monopoly on culpability. A Revitalized Agreement in 2018 established a unity government and power-sharing, but implementation stalled due to distrust, constitutional delays, and sporadic clashes, culminating in Machar's house arrest and treason charges by 2025. As of 2025, escalating inter-communal violence and opposition-government skirmishes have displaced hundreds of thousands more, postponed elections to 2026, and heightened risks of collapse into full-scale war again, underscoring the fragility of elite bargains in a resource-cursed, ethnically fragmented polity. International efforts by IGAD, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and regional actors like Uganda have mediated ceasefires but failed to address underlying governance failures or militia proliferation.
By HearthMen3 months ago in Journal
The Great AI Gold Rush: Why Microsoft, Google, and Meta Are Spending Billions to Control the Future of Intelligence
The Billion-Dollar Bet Begins In 2025, the world’s biggest tech companies aren’t just competing for users — they’re competing for intelligence.
By Shakil Sorkar3 months ago in Journal
Xi Jinping’s Trade Pledge at APEC 2025: What Trump’s Absence Reveals About Global Power Shifts
A Stage Without America The 2025 APEC Summit, hosted in Kuala Lumpur, was meant to be a stage for collaboration and progress. Instead, it became a mirror reflecting shifting global power. As dozens of world leaders gathered to discuss trade and digital economies, one chair remained empty — that of U.S. President Donald Trump.
By Shakil Sorkar3 months ago in Journal
Should a Canadian Write about London?
Dear London, I owe you an apology. I think I had better explain myself. I was sent to visit relatives there in the summer of 1988. I was fourteen and a serious pain in the neck, but I was in good company. I remember that from the ride from airport to the flat that I would be staying in, I heard nothing but complaints. My very West Indian relatives pointed out how difficult it was to get ahead due to their race and class, even pointing out different buildings and places where they recalled insults and proved that they had a point. Later that same night, the relative I was staying with would get into a shouting match with a drunk in the street who was slapping a woman around (fortunately, this was from a balcony several stories up in the East End). Plaistow had its charms.
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Journal
ChatGPT Meets PayPal: The Dawn of In-Chat Payments
Your digital assistant just got a wallet — and it’s about to change how you buy everything. For years, we’ve been talking to machines. We ask Siri for directions, Alexa for weather updates, and ChatGPT for everything from recipes to resumes. But now, for the first time, those conversations can lead directly to transactions.
By Shakil Sorkar3 months ago in Journal