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Joshua White
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Books. Hiking. Camping. Kayaking. GenAI. Self-hosting. Gaming. Soccer. Outdoors. More books. Tinkering. Linux-ing (cachyOS). Learning.

Be good to each other.

OH -> NM -> OH -> FL -> OH -> NC
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Turns out, yes.

This is what happens when you copy and paste the question and answers (I put it in my private LLM stack fronted by Open WebUI just to see how it worked).
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I discovered something genuinely ironic this week. While taking Coursera's "Using AI for Good" course, I opened the developer tools to see what was happening under the hood. What I found was embedded, hidden AI-instructions in the HTML...
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I appreciate the offer, but I think I can handle this one…
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Oh Coursera... what are you doing? 😂
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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LFG!!!! @nccourage.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Things are going to start getting much weirder. This isn’t me. And I didn’t actually read a word of this. But I guarantee I could fool a good amount of people….
October 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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September 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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And to Vicious Fishes for this tasty Strawberry wheat ale.
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Today I learned that Nepalese food is bloody delicious. Thanks to the Momomandu food truck at the Fuquay-Varina Food Truck Rodeo for this delicious Chili Momo.
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I got a message board at work for free. Found this in the bag of letters… tell me I’m not the only one who sees it…
June 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Now that the rest of my clothes are here, I can start showing up to work in something other than the same three outfits I’ve been wearing the last few weeks. 😂
May 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Someone didn’t waste any time in making herself at home.
May 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I did get a free upgrade to a luxury rental while in Ohio, so that was fun. Definitely did not feel like a douchè driving this 😂
May 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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But, now the moving truck is here at our new home in North Carolina. Time to get started on the rest of our lives.
May 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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It was a weird, emotional weekend in Ohio. Something very impactful about watching a life packed into a moving truck.
May 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Just finished:
Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Just Started:
High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins

Full review on
@thestorygraph.com

💙📚 #booksky
May 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Just finished:
As You Wish by Cary Elwes

Full review on
@thestorygraph.com

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May 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Just finished:
The Sirens Call by Chris Hayes

Just Started:
Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Full review on
@thestorygraph.com

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I went into The Sirens’ Call expecting a thoughtful analysis of our modern attention economy. What I got was a masterclass in connecting the dots between our fractured focus and the systems designed to exploit it. Chris Hayes doesn’t just present facts; he weaves a narrative that is both enlightening and, frankly, a bit unsettling. Hayes delves into how attention has become the most coveted resource of our time, with individuals and corporations vying for it through increasingly aggressive means. He draws parallels between historical shifts and our current landscape, illustrating how our capacity for sustained focus has eroded. It’s a compelling argument that our attention isn’t just being diverted—it’s being commodified. What struck me most was Hayes’ ability to articulate the subtle ways in which our daily lives are influenced by this relentless pursuit of our attention. It’s not just about social media or news cycles; it’s about the very fabric of our interactions and the choices we make. The Sirens’ Call is a wake-up call, urging us to reclaim our focus and be mindful of where we direct our gaze.
May 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Just finished:
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Full review on
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I was peer pressured into reading Bridge to Terabithia. Those people are no longer my friends. I joke, of course. Kind of. This book wrecked me in the way only a deceptively simple story can. It’s short, sure. Middle-grade fiction, sure. But within those few pages is a quiet, devastating portrait of childhood, friendship, and the kind of loss that ages you in an afternoon. The prose is clean, the emotions are messy, and the combination is lethal in the best possible way. What surprised me most—aside from the sobbing—was how much Bridge to Terabithia felt like the seed from which so many modern stories have grown. You can see its fingerprints all over the emotional DNA of authors like John Green. Looking for Alaska practically reads like a college-aged echo of this book. This wasn’t just a novel. It was a formative experience disguised as one. And I’m both grateful and slightly furious to have finally read it.
May 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Just finished:
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Let’s not pretend we didn’t know. We all knew. We knew Facebook was a problem—like, a “poison-your-water-supply, destabilize-democracies, monetize-your-grandma’s-conspiracy-theories” kind of problem. But reading Careless People makes it painfully, viscerally clear that the word “problem” is doing far too much diplomatic heavy lifting. This is not just a book. It’s testimony. Sarah Wynn-Williams is the witness we needed. From inside the walls of Meta, she pulls back the curtain not on some shadowy backroom dealings, but on the glaringly obvious truth: they didn’t care. Not about safety. Not about the truth. Not about you. Growth was the god, the algorithm its prophet, and ethics were roadkill on the highway to another quarterly earnings call. You want horror stories? They’re here—plastered across meetings where hate speech was a known issue and nothing changed. Internal memos that might as well have been written in gasoline. A leadership team so allergic to accountability they’d rather watch the world burn than admit the match was theirs. Facebook could have been the town square. Instead, it became the coliseum. Wynn-Williams tells the story with the precision of a policy expert and the urgency of someone who’s seen the plane crash in slow motion. And the worst part? We’re still on the plane. This is not a book for the bookshelf. It’s a flare shot into the night sky. Read it. And then ask yourself if maybe, just maybe, it’s time we stopped treating Facebook like a social network and started calling it what it really is: A weapon of mass disinformation.
May 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Just finished:
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Just started:
The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes

Full review on @thestorygraph.com

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I’ll admit it: I went into this book embarrassingly wrong about what it was actually about. I thought I was signing up for a deep dive into challenging old beliefs and embracing new ideas. Turns out, it’s about psychedelics. (Maybe I needed to, you know, read the back cover.) That’s on me — but honestly, I’m glad I stuck around. The emerging science of psychedelics is fascinating, and Pollan, as always, has this rare ability to make even the most complex, delicate subjects feel approachable. His storytelling is effortless, his research thorough without ever feeling heavy-handed, and by the end, I found myself thoroughly engaged in a topic I didn’t even mean to pick up. It wasn’t the book I expected, but it was a book I genuinely enjoyed. Pollan continues to be one of the best at making nonfiction feel like a conversation rather than a lecture — and for that alone, this was well worth the read.
April 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Nice little 1.5 mile hiking trail at Falls Lake state park today.
April 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Had ice cream yesterday at what must be the best idea of all time… NC State’s Agricultural program runs a working dairy farm, with an ice cream shop on-site that makes ice cream from the very cow’s milk on the fields it sits on.
April 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Pure. Happiness.
April 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I built a computer. It’s monstrous. In a good way.
April 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM