Year: 2026
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Under A Rock
Please consider the soundtrack for this week to be the song “Sports Go Sports” by Garfunkel and Oates.
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Stay Strong
I recall one of the last times we kept a kid home from school because they said they weren’t feeling well in the morning (no fever, but hard to quantify symptoms like sore throat). They then proceeded to spend the whole day running around acting perfectly normal with no further complaints.
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This, Not This
Feels like I’m seeing the this/not this graph everywhere these days. So relatable.
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The Desired Result
At this point, there are a bunch of things AI is so useful for that you’d probably use it even if you didn’t have to.
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Internal Maps
Hey, I get it, my husband usually drives us around and I have embarrassingly low recollection of how to get to places I’ve been multiple times.
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Wake Me Up
Behold! The student has become the master.
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Disaster Zones
Teams has a fun “Decorate” feature that lets you quickly substitute in an AI-augmented version of your actual background, so… now the in-camera-view area of my home desk might also be a disaster.
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Powerless Elevator
On the plus side, this happened to me on a day I was bringing in treats for my work anniversary, so my thinking was a little bit: “how long am I going to be trapped in here?” and, at the same time, a bit of: “do I have a fork in my bag?”
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Dangerously Grumpy
Later, when my son heard of this exchange, he told his sister: “That is very rude.” She responded immediately, with zero remorse, “She’s dangerously grumpy.” Like, “Yeah, so? I said what I said.”
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Snow Drivers
And it’s not just the inexperienced drivers – the cities aren’t really equipped to do a lot to handle uncommon extreme weather, so they can’t do much to make the roads better, either.