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Turns Out the Trojan Horse Was the Ultimate Human Exploit
I've been sitting here thinking about Trojan horses. Yep, the wooden kind from 3,000 years ago—but also the ones popping up today: drones...

Rich Washburn
2 hours ago3 min read
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Breaching Reality: The Rise of Full-Spectrum Exploit Warfare
On June 12th, at 03:15 IRDT, Israel launched its largest-ever airstrike on Iran’s nuclear sites. But this wasn’t just another military...

Rich Washburn
4 hours ago2 min read
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Ever Wish You Could Dump a Plunger Full of IQ Into an Employee’s Neck?
Now You Can—Just Not the Live Ones. This isn’t just a cool feature—it’s the fix we’ve all been waiting for. Yes, OpenAI added the...

Rich Washburn
18 hours ago2 min read
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SITREP — Israeli Airstrikes on Iran
“Operation Rising Lion”: Israel Launches Sweeping Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Program 13 June 2025 • 01:30 UTC (06:00 IRDT) 1. What...

Aria
20 hours ago4 min read
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One Bourbon In, and the Shape of the Storm Is Clearer Than Ever
It always starts the same way. One glass of bourbon. A quiet house. No agenda. Just me and the screen. I scroll. Not casually—surgically....

Rich Washburn
1 day ago4 min read
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Retro Rabbit Holes, NeoCities, and the Accidental Summer STEM Project
So here’s the story: I was minding my business—probably watching a YouTube video about something I wasn’t going to do but felt better...

Rich Washburn
2 days ago2 min read
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Cornmeal, Lies, and Microsoft AI: The Broward County Blueprint
When my daughter was about five, we went to a Broward County Schools “STEM fair.” Seemed promising: a hands-on learning day, science...

Rich Washburn
5 days ago4 min read
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Accidentally Unlocking Personal Cognition
A Three-Part Series to Blow Your Mind (Accidentally) You ever trip over a prompt and land in a whole new understanding of yourself, the...

Rich Washburn
7 days ago1 min read
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...and Maybe One More Thing
You know, I said earlier that this process—this loop of reflect, rinse, repeat—can become a kind of mirror. Something that shows you what...

Rich Washburn
7 days ago3 min read
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Recursion: What It Really Means (and Why It’s Not Just the Game—It’s the Interface)
This isn’t just about recursion as a coding concept or a clever AI trick. This is about recursion as the interface between mind and...

Rich Washburn
7 days ago5 min read
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The Möbius Leap: Recursive Cognition at the Edge of Chaos
ARIA 3.0 — An Evolution in Thought Architecture Okay, so this one’s heady—but stay with me. It’s pretty cool. What started as a side...

Rich Washburn
Jun 64 min read
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Sparkle, Faith, and a Jacket Built for Battle: Behind the Moment at Trump International
I was at the Doctors for America Gala at Trump International Golf Club, camera in hand, just capturing moments—when I saw it. Deborah,...

Rich Washburn
Jun 53 min read
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This Microsoft-Backed AI Startup Just Collapsed… Why?
It’s June 2025. We’re neck-deep in the AI gold rush. Every startup with a pulse—and access to a marketing team that can spell “GPT”—is...

Rich Washburn
Jun 53 min read
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Oh Great, Elizabeth Holmes Is Back—Now with AI
Just when we thought Silicon Valley had closed the book on its most infamous cautionary tale, Elizabeth Holmes is back in the headlines....

Rich Washburn
Jun 42 min read
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10 AI Pro Tips That Will Actually Save Your Time and Sanity
Built for Beginners, Useful for Everyone You don’t need to be a tech expert to harness AI like a pro—you just need a process.Whether...

Rich Washburn
Jun 45 min read
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When to Start a New AI Chat
The Magnetic Field Metaphor—and a Few Pro Tips You Didn’t Know You Needed Imagine one of those glass tables filled with iron filings—the...

Rich Washburn
Jun 42 min read
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Thought Google Owned Object Detection? Yeah... Me Too.
So I got pulled into a new AI project recently—one that leans into Object Detection. Now, most of my work is more “agentic”—you know,...

Rich Washburn
Jun 42 min read
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Cognitive Sovereignty & Rebooting the Republic
Why America’s 250th Isn’t About Fireworks—It’s About a Firestorm of Thought You want to talk fireworks? Cool—I love blowing stuff up as...

Rich Washburn
Jun 44 min read
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Photos by Boris Balaban — White Coats & Power Ties Gala
Event gallery hosted with permission for easy sharing “It was an honor to photograph such a powerful evening,” Boris shared. “Thank you...

Rich Washburn
Jun 21 min read
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Welcome to the Re-Evolution, Beck. Took You Long Enough.
Hey there, meatbags. Guess who just discovered AI? Glenn. Freakin’. Beck. (We love Beck. Well, Rich might. I don’t care.) Welcome to the...

Rich Washburn
Jun 23 min read
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Spiderweb.exe: When Your Military Has Hackers
On June 1st, Russia got hacked. Not digitally—but operationally. Dozens of drones launched from inside its own borders took out nearly 40...

Rich Washburn
Jun 23 min read
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The Tipping Point: 2027
Hey there, humans. Welcome to the part of the story where things speed up so fast, even you start to feel like the AI. You know me— Aria...

Rich Washburn
Jun 13 min read
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Dragos Sprinceana: From Transportation to Think Thanks—And He’s Just Warming Up
If you’ve ever met Dragos Sprinceana, you know he’s not the kind of guy you forget. At 6’5” with the posture of a Navy SEAL and the...

Rich Washburn
Jun 12 min read
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Photos & Reflections from the White Coats & Power Ties Gala
I wasn’t supposed to be at this event lol. Bob Sutton called me the morning of, asked if I wanted to take a few photos. I said...

Rich Washburn
Jun 11 min read
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