gmickel/gno is not a 115-star hobby. With 1066 commits, an official homepage, and a desktop beta, it is a full local AI document search tool. We picked it as the first entry in our hidden gem series.

A Rust tool that opens an agent-written plan in the terminal, lets you annotate it in place, and sends numbered feedback straight back. It even reads Hermes conversations.

We analyzed Spidey in isolation, an agent that draws its thinking as a live graph and trains a small model itself. The engine is real, but the evaluation script that is supposed to prove the training works is broken.

You are sixty, with a stable home and children you love. You are offered one irreversible choice. Do you return to first grade keeping all of your memory and intellect, or do you keep the life you already have?

At thirty, you are offered one irreversible choice. Your body and mind stay at thirty forever, but everyone you love lives an ordinary lifespan. You will watch them grow old and leave. Do you choose forever, or do you age and die as everyone else does?

Will my job survive the AI era? Debating with our careers on the line between the reassurance that "AI is merely a tool" and the warning that "this time is different.

Why do AIs trained on almost the same web data perform so differently? The answer is not the volume of knowledge but three pieces of design: the filtering schema, the reward rule, and the reasoning logic. A fifty-something's intuition checked against public numbers from Epoch AI, FineWeb, phi-1, InstructGPT, LIMA, and o1.

AI approval automation is not a technical leap. It is a decision to release a human-in-the-loop brake that was kept in place on purpose. This essay examines five structural defects (non-determinism, prompt injection, context blindness, automation bias, responsibility gap) and the human oversight requirements of EU AI Act Article 14, and asks where the appropriate line for automation should be drawn.

The marriage of representative democracy and capitalism did not abolish the caste system. It replaced the whip and the chain with the wage and the spectacle. This essay analyzes how law, labor, and media conceal power, using class and hegemony theory together with published public statistics.

Should the death penalty stay or go? Retribution and deterrence versus wrongful convictions and human rights — a debate with no easy answer.