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<copyright>© 2026 Bryan Gruver</copyright>
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<title>The Devil&#039;s Excrement</title>
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<description>![The Devil&#039;s Shitter](https://gruver.tech/images/devilsExcrement.png) Let&#039;s talk about prices. When I went shopping the other day, every single price had gone up except for a 5-pound bag of potatoes. For some reason that was like $2.75. I believe they call that a loss leader. Now you can blame whoe...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Boots, Shox, Shocks and Stories</title>
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<description>![My Nose Buried in Boots](https://gruver.tech/images/noseInBoots.jpg) First, let me explain this picture a little bit. Every picture I take is designed to be interesting. They always have been. That is what photography is all about. Even though I don&#039;t have many shoes, I&#039;ve always been intrigued by...</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Rainbow Brite Is My Spirit Animal</title>
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<description>![My 10th Grade ID](https://gruver.tech/images/hsID.jpg) I was always different. I used to stick my He-Man figure in my underwear because I liked the way his muscles felt against my skin. I had a Rainbow Brite sleeping bag and used to wake up at 5 o&#039;clock in the morning on Saturdays just to watch th...</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>They Want to Make It Harder for You to Vote</title>
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<description>![Me, Cigar, Boots (iPhone 13 Portrait Mode)](https://gruver.tech/images/cigarByJP.jpg) Photo Credit: my cousin. He got a crash course in photography. Let&#039;s talk about the SAVE Act and what it means for elections in this country. First, some uncomfortable truths. The reason people like sportsball in...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>One Missile Equals 1,100 Years of Healthcare</title>
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<description>Let&#039;s talk about the price of a single Patriot missile. According to the U.S. Army&#039;s FY2025 budget documentation, a PAC-3 MSE interceptor costs approximately $4.2 million per unit. Some estimates put it higher—between $3.8 and $5.6 million depending on the variant and what&#039;s included in the contra...</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>One Year On</title>
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<description>About a year ago I saw a post from my aunt Becky (or maybe she&#039;s a cousin—in the South it all blurs together. Lol) where she said something like she wished she just had the interest from everything she had made in her life. She doesn&#039;t know how much that post influenced me. You never know how your...</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Strongest Legal High You&#039;ve Never Heard Of</title>
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<description>![Torch Haymaker Blend THC-P &amp; X Gummies](https://gruver.tech/images/gummies.jpeg) Here&#039;s something most people don&#039;t know: you can walk into a gas station right now and buy something 33 times stronger than marijuana. Legally. No prescription. It&#039;s called THCP. And it&#039;s about to blow your mind. In 2...</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>We&#039;re Funding Putin&#039;s War While Pretending Not To</title>
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<description>I&#039;m not here to tell you whether we should be at war with Iran. I&#039;m here to give you facts. First fact: I&#039;m impressed that the American people won&#039;t let the government tell us this isn&#039;t a war. In Russia, state media still calls the invasion of Ukraine a &quot;special military operation.&quot; You can&#039;t renam...</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>It&#039;s the Economy, Stupid</title>
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<description>James Carville coined that phrase in 1992 when he was running Bill Clinton&#039;s presidential campaign. It was originally directed at campaign workers as a reminder to stay focused on what voters actually care about. The phrase stuck because it&#039;s true. It doesn&#039;t matter where you are on the political sp...</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>occasionally everybody shits themselves</title>
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<description>![iMac M1](https://gruver.tech/images/ImacScreenshot.png) I&#039;ve decided what I&#039;m saving for. Early 2021 iMac M1, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, blue. Renewed. Around $900 on Amazon. That will eliminate the constraints of doing all this on my iPhone and iPad. I&#039;ll be able to connect my iPhone via cable and run ...</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>When Water Is More Precious Than Gold</title>
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<description>History doesn&#039;t usually grab me. But I just finished a podcast series that left me crying so hard I could barely breathe. Against the Odds is produced by Wondery—or what&#039;s left of it. Amazon bought the company and basically decimated it, but they left a couple podcasts intact. Now they&#039;re rebrandi...</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Cost of Being Seen</title>
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<description>![Facebook Monetization](https://gruver.tech/images/monetizeFB.png) Something interesting happened recently. Facebook told me I could start making money from my posts. I&#039;ve been creating content for years, and suddenly Meta decided I was worth paying. I checked my earnings. Six cents. I had made six...</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>They Called the Best Tool a Threat. Then Used It to Start a War. *Update*</title>
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<description>I want to tell you about the weirdest 24 hours in tech history. And I want to explain something about Claude that most people don&#039;t understand, because it matters more now than ever. On February 27th, 2026, the Pentagon designated Anthropic — the company that makes Claude — a &quot;supply chain risk ...</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The World Broke Open Today</title>
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<description>I smoked a cigar today. I cried a little. And then I laid back down. That&#039;s my Saturday, February 28, 2026. I don&#039;t usually write about politics here. This blog has been about technology, accessibility, AI, the things I&#039;m building. But today felt different. Today I couldn&#039;t look away. And since it&#039;s...</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The AI Company That Actually Cares About Safety</title>
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<description>About Anthropic... OpenAI was supposed to be a nonprofit. It was founded in 2015 with a mission to develop artificial intelligence safely and ensure the benefits were shared broadly. But in 2019, it restructured into a for-profit company to attract more investment. Some of the original founders were...</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A Box of Numbers</title>
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<description>John Siracusa said something on Accidental Tech Podcast that I can&#039;t stop thinking about: he&#039;s not going to mentor a box of numbers that&#039;ll be replaced in a month by another box of numbers. He was talking about AI. Specifically, about paying for artificial intelligence for a month and being impresse...</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Your Camera Is Watching. The Question Is Who Else Is.</title>
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<description>So Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped. She had a security camera but did not pay the subscription service to store the video. Nine days later, Google was somehow able to recover video from their server that the camera had taken—even though she never paid for storage. Let that sink in. If you have a secur...</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>RSS Feeds, Album Art, and Why I Built a Real Podcast</title>
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<description>Let me tell you about traditional podcasts and how I made mine—because what we call &quot;podcasts&quot; today barely resembles what they actually started as. Back in the day, Apple was looking for content for their new devices called iPods. Someone figured out how to take a directory of audio files from a ...</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Dog With a Hat That Fought the SEC</title>
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<description>![XRP Price Chart](https://gruver.tech/images/xrp.png) XRP is more than just a cryptocurrency. It&#039;s a story about what happens when regular people organize and fight back against regulatory overreach. And it&#039;s one of the few digital assets that actually solves real problems. XRP was created by Rippl...</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Same Towers, Half the Price</title>
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<description>Want to save money on your phone bill? Good. Let me explain how wireless carriers actually work so you can stop paying twice as much for the same service. There are three companies that own cell towers in America: Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&amp;T. Everyone else rents space on those towers and sells it ch...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Laptop That Changed a Life</title>
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<description>A man in Maine is serving a long prison sentence for a drug crime. He has been locked up for many years. When he first arrived, he felt like his life was already over. He did not see a way forward. Everything around him felt slow, hopeless, and empty. That changed when he learned about a new pilot p...</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Computer&#039;s Still Blind</title>
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<description>People are scared of artificial intelligence right now — and I get it. The headlines make it sound like machines are about to wake up and take over the world, but that&#039;s not what&#039;s happening. What&#039;s really going on isn&#039;t all that mysterious. It&#039;s not magic. It&#039;s math — a super-powered version of...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Planet Doesn&#039;t Need Saving — It Needs Time</title>
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<description>When I was a kid, I used to play a computer game called *Sim Earth*. You could pump carbon dioxide into the air, move oceans around, or crank up the oxygen until everything caught fire. Drop it too low and the planet froze. It made you feel like a god with a reset button. Real Earth doesn&#039;t come wit...</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>More Common Than Gold, Just Harder to Admit</title>
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<description>So-called &quot;rare earth&quot; minerals aren&#039;t rare at all. In fact, aside from plutonium, most of the 17 rare-earth elements are more abundant in Earth&#039;s crust than gold. The catch is this: they&#039;re spread out everywhere, but you rarely find them in high enough concentration to mine profitably. What that me...</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Smiling High on the Market: How I Make a Dollar Multiply</title>
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<description>I started investing in the stock market about two weeks before President Trump declared Liberation Day and the first round of tariffs were announced. The market dropped about 20% over the following two or three weeks, and I lost around $20–$30 immediately. I started with roughly $50 and kept going...</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Prompt, Pray, and Paste</title>
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<description>The magic of chat-based artificial intelligence is that you can just ask for stuff in normal human language, and in general, it can figure out what you&#039;re talking about and respond in a way that at least points you in the right direction. With additional context, it can largely solve problems. It&#039;s ...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>One-Bar Town, Two iPhones</title>
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<description>I keep things simple when it comes to hardware — practical, affordable, and efficient. Right now, I use two iPhones in rotation: both iPhone 12 minis, one with 64 GB of storage and the other with 128 GB. The 128 GB isn&#039;t any faster — it just has more room and gives me another computer to work wi...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>AI Is My Guy Dog</title>
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<description>Let me explain a little bit about artificial intelligence — also known as machine learning. This technology has actually been around since before the 1980s. The earliest seeds of it came from Asia, where engineers were trying to figure out how to type their language efficiently using a QWERTY keyb...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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