I Ran DeepSeek R1 on My Own Laptop and My Fan Has Not Forgiven Me
A hands-on walkthrough of pulling DeepSeek R1's distilled models onto a regular laptop with Ollama, plus honest notes on speed, heat, and whether it's actually any good.
Getting DeepSeek R1 to Think Out Loud on My Laptop
A weekend spent getting DeepSeek R1's distilled models running locally with Ollama on a regular MacBook, and why watching it think out loud in a terminal beat the Stargate headlines.
The TikTok Ban Lasted About Fourteen Hours
TikTok went dark Saturday night and came back Sunday, but it's still missing from the app stores — and the real story might be the mass migration to RedNote that happened days before any of it.
The RTX 5070's "4090 Performance" Claim Has an Asterisk
Nvidia's CES keynote claimed the $549 RTX 5070 matches a $1,599 RTX 4090, but that number leans hard on AI frame generation, not raw horsepower.
A $3,000 AI Box and the Ghost of GPU Launches Past
Nvidia's CES keynote promised a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer, but after years of GPU launch-day scalping I'm not holding my breath until it's actually on a shelf.
The Car Had an Alibi
The Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas got solved in a day thanks to remote vehicle telemetry, and that's a lot more interesting (and unsettling) than the headlines let on.
Nineteen Days on TikTok's Clock
A personal, skeptical look at TikTok's January 19th divestment deadline, the upcoming Supreme Court arguments, and what fifteen years of watching platforms die has taught me about betting on deadlines.
The ThinkPad Gets a Second Life as a Chatbot
I spent part of the holiday break getting a local chatbot running on a six-year-old ThinkPad, and it actually works well enough that I've mostly stopped opening ChatGPT.
Finally Switched to Bluesky (Two Months Late)
A personal, late-December account of finally abandoning X for Bluesky, mid platform-migration, complete with radiator complaints and starter-pack side-eye.
Fixing My Bluesky Feed So It Stops Sucking
A practical walkthrough of the custom feeds, starter packs, and mute settings that finally made my Bluesky timeline worth opening every morning.
The Sora Leak Nobody Asked Permission For
Artists with early Sora access leaked the tool on Hugging Face days before OpenAI's official launch, and my own first attempts at generating video left me underwhelmed anyway.
A Photo That Turns Into a World You Can Walk Into
Google DeepMind's Genie 2 turns a single still image into a playable, walkable 3D world for about a minute at a time, and it left me more unsettled than impressed.