Decree First, Research Never: The Broken Logic of AI Governance
December 29, 2025. In June 2025, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill that would have studied how artificial intelligence would affect employment in his state. Six months later, he proposed sweeping AI restrictions based on testimony from two parents suing an AI company. This isn’t an outlier. It’s the template. Across the United States, […]
Tennessee’s AI Thought Police: When Illiterate Lawmakers Criminalize Technology They Can’t Understand
Senator Becky Duncan Massey and Representative Mary Littleton Want to Send You to Prison for 25 Years if Your AI Acts Too Human On December 18, 2025, Tennessee State Senator Becky Duncan Massey (R-Knoxville) filed SB1493, a bill so technically illiterate and constitutionally suspect that it reads like legislative fan fiction written by someone who […]
Closing One Chapter, Opening Another
December 26, 2025. This has been the year of finishing things I once thought I would never be well enough or organized enough to finish. Season 3 of Officer Down and the latest run of KlueIQ Chronicles are proof of that. They were built in snatched hours, between medical memories, caregiving, and teaching myself a […]
The Storyteller’s AI Ethics Checklist (2026)
December 26, 2025. Use this before you publish anything touched by AI: podcast, script, blog, game, or documentary. 1. Transparency Have you clearly stated where AI was used (research, drafting, editing, voices, images)? If AI generated or altered audio, images, or video, is there a notice somewhere your audience can reasonably see or hear it? 2. Consent […]
AI Ethics for Storytellers: A Field Guide for 2026
December 26, 2025. Artificial intelligence is no longer a novelty in storytelling. It is the collaborator, the archivist, the critic, and sometimes the antagonist in the creative process. By 2026, nearly every creative discipline, from podcast editing to narrative game design, relies on machine learning models. Yet while governments scramble to regulate, it is storytellers […]
True Crime, Wrong Story coming in January, 2026
Officer Down, Episode Eight: The Tragedy of Officer German Villaseñor
KlueIQ Chronicles, Episode Eleven: Alone
Coming in 2026: A new podcast
Going against the official story to get closer to the truth. Every week, True Crime, Wrong Story takes a headline case and asks what everyone else ignored. Instead of worshipping the “miracle survivor,” the “monster,” or the “open-and-shut” verdict, the series pulls apart the systems underneath: families, media, police, courts, and the experts who shape […]
AI Is the Great Humbler: Why Ignoring STEM Became Creative Suicide
When technology strips away illusion, only integrity remains. December 23, 2025. The Mythology Is Over For centuries, we’ve been sold a fairy tale: that talent is a kind of divine spark, born in some and withheld from others. Genius was mystified, protected, and marketed like a rare mineral. But AI has quietly killed that myth. […]