by samfrida | May 14, 2026 | Blog
There’s a video going around. A man throws a rock at a Hawaiian monk seal.Not just any seal. One of the most endangered marine mammals on the planet. An animal so rare, so protected, so woven into the identity of these islands that Hawaiians have a name for it:...
by samfrida | May 14, 2026 | Articles, Blog
I use AI. I’ll be upfront about that. I’m also fully aware of what that means: the data annotators working in difficult conditions, the communities whose voices are underrepresented or outright missing from the training data, the structural exclusions...
by samfrida | May 12, 2026 | Blog
There’s quote circulating right now from applied neuroscientist Ashley Douglas: “Every time you say yes when you mean no, you’re training your nervous system through neuroplasticity.” It stopped me cold. Not because it’s new information, exactly. Most of us know,...
by samfrida | May 11, 2026 | Blog
There’s a graveyard of unfinished diaries in my life, not because I had nothing to say but because I had too much, and no way out. My brain is rich. Complex. Fast. It makes connections across things most people hold separately. It feels deeply, thinks widely, and...
by samfrida | May 7, 2026 | Blog
A letter to those who serve, and those who forgot they were supposed to You applied for the job. You made the case. You stood in front of rooms full of people and told them you would fight for them, that justice mattered, that balance mattered, that they mattered....