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I Spilled a Bong on My Laptop and Found Out My Brain Was In There
Seven thousand notes survived the skill. Everything I was actually thinking of did not.
Sep 6
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Ernie Hsiung
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August 2026
A Gay Dating Site Rejected Me Three Times Before I Let Myself Think About Race
The token Asian boy at the bear party, and a subculture built on exclusion running its own door policy.
Aug 29
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Ernie Hsiung
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I Have to Be Fingerprinted to Take Care of My Mother
The state pays $22.10 an hour, and priced the two hours she spends shopping with me at zero.
Aug 27
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Ernie Hsiung
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My Top 3 K-Pop Songs
A friend asked me a question with no paperwork attached. I gave him thirteen answers.
Aug 20
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Ernie Hsiung
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I Went Back to Talk to JavaScript. It Kept the Logs.
Claude writes the React now, Stack Overflow is a dead mall, and the language that spent twenty years telling me to keep up wants to talk.
Aug 13
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Ernie Hsiung
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I'm Pausing This Newsletter, and I'm Not Going to Dress It Up as a Pivot
Let's be honest: readers are leaving. I had to pick one bet, and it wasn't this one.
Published on LATE TO THE FUTURE_
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Aug 10
The Android Caregivers in My Dream Are Very Kind. Nobody in the Room Remembers Who I Was.
I watched my father lose his memory for a decade. Then I did the math on my own odds.
Aug 6
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Ernie Hsiung
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July 2026
AT&T Won’t Believe My Father Is Dead Without a Four-Digit PIN
The State of California certified it ten times, with an embossed seal. Turns out that’s not the document that matters.
Jul 30
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Ernie Hsiung
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Substack's AI Detector Isn't Broken. That's the Part Nobody Wants to Talk About.
It scored my last post at 100% AI, and it wasn't exactly lying.
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Jul 28
The Machine I Built for My Mother Started Reading My Father
MaGPT, forty years of language brokering, and the angriest handwriting I've ever had to feed a chatbot.
Jul 23
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Ernie Hsiung
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I've Been Wrong About the Internet Since 1999. It's the Best Credential I Have.
What twenty-five years of bad predictions taught me about which AI problem actually deserves the panic.
Published on LATE TO THE FUTURE_
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Jul 22
I Deposed My Own Mother in Her Kitchen So California Would Believe She Needs Help
She spent forty years hiding her bad days. Getting her approved meant getting her to confess.
Jul 16
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Ernie Hsiung
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