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·Dec 27, 2022

ChatGPT Teaches Me About Menopause

I went through menopause before menopause was a “thing.” And before telling your daughter about the female reproductive cycle was a thing. My mother told me nothing except that she almost died having me (Jewish guilt) and that having a child is painful (not for me, I had two Lamaze…

Menopause

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Menopause

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·Dec 15, 2022

Christmas in New York 80 years later.

This is my first time in New York, the city of my birth, in four years. Post-Covid (sort of) it is still a little frightening because it is always one crowd after the other. Pre-Covid I was not even aware of the crowds because I grew up among them and they didn’t matter. Now they have been converted to carriers of bugs. But I had to go back and see friends and family and, as I have now discovered, a city that I still hold dear even after more than 50 years.

History

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History

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Published in Stealthmode Blog

·Nov 24, 2022

Giving Thanks

Yesterday around noon I was walking two of my dogs along the canal, as I do at least once a day. …

Cultural Competence

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Cultural Competence

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Nov 20, 2022

What’s Next for Democracy?

For the past few years, I’ve been part of the Clubhouse community. One of the highlights of that community for me is its rooms that discuss news, history, and politics. However, as the midterm election cycle developed, the political rooms became so divisive and angry that they affected my mental…

Democracy

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Democracy

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Published in Stealthmode Blog

·Nov 14, 2022

How New is Web 3

Much of what we think of as the revolutionary culture of Web3 is a recycled version of the “penny stock” schemes that took place when I was growing up. Penny stocks were a replica of shares in public companies sold on the New York and American Stock Exchanges, only they…

Cryptocurrency

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How New is Web 3
How New is Web 3
Cryptocurrency

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Published in Stealthmode Blog

·Oct 8, 2022

Arizona, Fools, and Your Vote

I am disgusted. As you may know, I live in Arizona, which has always been a red state. For most of the past 50 years, my vote has been largely symbolic, as my chosen candidates hardly ever win. Arizona doesn’t like progressives, and I am one. However, I’ve accepted my…

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·Oct 5, 2022

Never Trust Google?

For reasons everyone in the tech community can probably guess, the news that Google was shutting down Stadia, it’s browser-based streaming game service, reminded me that Google has previously shut down two services that were favorites of mine: Google Reader and Google Plus. Of the two, Reader was far and…

Google

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Never Trust Google?
Never Trust Google?
Google

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Published in Stealthmode Blog

·Oct 1, 2022

A Web3 Cautionary Tale

For all the excitement about Web3,0, it has so far been a mixed blessing. Just ask me, because I invested in it, leaned into it, followed it, and have become convinced timing is everything. …

Web 3 Crypto

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A Web3 Cautionary Tale
A Web3 Cautionary Tale
Web 3 Crypto

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Sep 26, 2022

Nothing Changes

It is the eve of the Jewish New Year, so I suppose it is fitting that I am watching Episode 3 of the amazing Ken Burns Documentary about the US and the Holocaust. Episode 3 takes place during my lifetime, and also during the time the vast majority of Europe’s…

Holocaust

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Holocaust

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·Aug 10, 2022

Are we a Nation of Laws?

No one believes in the rule of law more than I do. And no one believes more in the fact that Donald Trump is a grifter than I do. …

Trump

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Trump

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