Euri Giles

Everything turned out okay 👍🏽

The liquid diet I have to go in in my 50s before a colonoscopy is very different from the liquid diets I used to go on in my 20s.

The hardest part is that privacy and capability are usually framed as a tradeoff, fighting that idea takes more energy than people expect. Once you say "privacy-first," someone asks what you're giving up, assuming mining is what makes tools powerful. Proving otherwise is slow, unglamorous work.

I'll keep writing, and maybe it'll be good, or bad, or just okay. But the focus has shifted, and I'm sure that can only lead to good things for me.

I think I've finally realized that I enjoy product development much more than writing. Writing was my Dad's thing that I thought I could honor him by continuing. My thing is building.

So I started building a notes app where your notes are encrypted before they leave your device.
Not as a privacy "feature." As the only way the app works.
The server is structurally incapable of reading your content. Not policy. Architecture.
Early days. Documenting it all here as I go.

I'm not here to tell you AI is good or bad. Smart people disagree and the reality is probably messier than either side.
What I do think: writers and creators deserve tools that work for them — not tools that quietly harvest the most private parts of their thinking.
That gap felt worth building into.

Something shifted in how I use my notes app.
Not the app. Me.
I started self-editing. Leaving things out. Wondering who, eventually, might read this. It was subtle at first. Then I noticed I was doing it all the time.
That's not a healthy way to think. So I started looking for a better answer.

I made it

Just trying to get organized and possibly get through the day without saying something stupid.

euri@clareifi:~$ ▌

#ElPaso

If you know El Paso, you already know. Ya dig?

Got the whole family up early today to go have some breakfast and run some errands.

#family

Didn't get out of bed until 1:30 PM today... Overall the day turned out okay, I guess I needed the rest.

G'night 🦋

They Will Kill You | Official Trailer YouTube video by Warner Bros.

Just saw a preview 🎬 for - They Will Kill You, and now I don't think I'll be able to sleep.

youtu.be/AqNFJUihSHg?...

There's a way for all of us to get this right. Right?

#life

The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

"hate AI or not — that’s up to you. There are many things to dislike about how it’s currently being developed, and valid reasons to dislike its very existence. But disliking something and ignoring it are different activities..."

open.substack.com/pub/transfor...

No doubt, good to connect over here. ✌️🏽

Bears RB D'Andre Swift hopes he convinced team to keep him heading into last year of contract

#ChicagoBears #BearDown #NFLChicago

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

👋🏾

"trading on your knowledge and research" - ya'll really out here trynna pretend that #predictiveMarkets is not gambling

Oh, Ima get mine, but call it what it is.

I was not feeling it again today... Nerves got me wanting to sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

The Highway, 1978 One of My Earliest Memories

www.clareifi.com/the-highway-... "he was learning what it meant to be powerless"

OsmAnd for the W to replace Google maps!

Stephen Colbert SLAMS CBS for not letting James Talarico on Late Night

Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now When it comes to AI, death may be nothing more than a construct

Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out how to make this stuff more ethical.
🔗 www.techradar.com/ai-platforms... #AI-ethics

THIS 👇

"You're not alone in being able to figure out how we push back and come up with new solutions."