humanity

Humanity or geek-manity? Humanity topics include pieces on the real-life lives of geek advocates and influencors.

Quantum Computers: The End of the World as We Know It, or the Dawn of a Divine Era? 🌌
As a fan of new technologies and Artificial Intelligence 🤖, I watch the world accelerate every single day. But what is currently happening in the laboratories of Google, IBM, or Microsoft isn't just regular progress. It’s a revolution that will make today’s supercomputers look like an abacus compared to a smartphone. I’m talking about quantum computers 💡.
By Piotr Nowakabout 8 hours ago in Geeks
Finding Conversation, Friendship, and Healing in "Grapefruit"
Everything is a work in progress. “Grapefruit” is a film directed by Chase Juliet. Travis, a young man, is forced to move back into his childhood home with his newly sober mother, Evelyn. As tensions peak, Travis meets Billie, an eccentric woman at the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
By Marielle Sabbagabout 21 hours ago in Geeks
POGs: Recess Gambling
The 90s are making a massive comeback. Everyone’s wearing JNCO jeans again, chokers are back, and somehow frosted tips are trying to sneak into society like we all forgot what happened the first time.
By Jesse Leea day ago in Geeks
Will AI Replace Writers — Or Expose Who Was Never Original?
The fear is everywhere. Writers whisper about it in forums. Designers argue about it on social media. Students experiment with it in silence. Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept — it is a daily tool. It drafts emails, writes poems, generates scripts, summarizes research, and even mimics literary styles. The question that echoes across creative industries is blunt and uncomfortable:
By Amanullah2 days ago in Geeks
Bruised Autonomy: A Review of Kathleen Edwards' album FAILER (2002)
Failer, the 2002 debut by Kathleen Edwards, is a record about the psychology of romantic self-sabotage set against highways, motels, parking lots, and barstools. It belongs to the same moral weather system as Raymond Carver and Alice Munro: ordinary people making small decisions that quietly alter the trajectory of their lives. No one here delivers a Nietzschean manifesto. No one collapses in Dostoyevskian hysteria. They just fail--intimately, repeatedly, lucidly.
By ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR2 days ago in Geeks
The Greatest Kindness in Intimacy Is to Respect His Abyss
If the person you love is sitting at the edge of a cliff in despair, would you desperately pull him back — or would you sit beside him?
By Cher Che3 days ago in Geeks
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Series Review (Season 1). Top Story - February 2026.
As one of the biggest properties in fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire remains immensely popular with audiences. After reaching far into the past with House of the Dragon, a second spin-off was on the cards. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms serves up a bite-sized slice of action and drama, but it still claims a spot among the best small-screen titles.
By Robert Cain4 days ago in Geeks
The Idle Trap: Is UBI a Rescue or a Sentence for the Human Psyche? 🤖🧠
Progress in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics is an undeniable fact. As a society, we are moving forward, and automation—both digital and physical—is slowly becoming the new standard 🚀. However, for someone who has spent most of their life on a factory floor performing manual tasks, this bright vision of the future has a darker side 🏭.
By Piotr Nowak4 days ago in Geeks
Hamnet (2025) - A Beautiful, Raw, and Powerful Story
Will you be brave? Hamnet is a 2025 film based on Maggie O’Farrell’s book. Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with an unimaginable loss. Overcome with grief, William takes inspiration to write a play that helps quell the thoughts and emotions they’re experiencing.
By Marielle Sabbag5 days ago in Geeks
Digital Narcissus: Is Replika a Lifeline for Loneliness or a Death Sentence for Relationships? 🤖💔
As an AI enthusiast, I often talk about the positive sides of this progress 🚀. I’m fascinated by algorithms saving lives in medicine or language models making our work more efficient. However, I would be a fool to pretend that AI is nothing but pure good. Today, I wanted to take a closer look at one of the most popular and controversial AI apps called Replika and share my thoughts on the matter 🤔. We often hear about people marrying AI; nowadays, more and more people are turning to algorithms instead of human beings, which is truly concerning 😟.
By Piotr Nowak5 days ago in Geeks
Fandom, stewardship, and the stories we choose to protect
I recently sat down for an episode of Tales from the Fandom–Episode 446–where I talked about Marvel, Star Wars, marine animals, cosplay, and everything in between.
By Jenna Deedy6 days ago in Geeks
celebrities in Epstein Files!
The release and continued examination of documents commonly referred to as the “Epstein files” has generated intense global interest, largely because of the number of prominent public figures whose names appear within them. These records—stemming from lawsuits, depositions, flight logs, and court filings connected to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein—have fueled widespread public debate about accountability, media responsibility, and the difference between documented association and proven wrongdoing. Understanding the context of these files is essential to avoid misinformation and to maintain a professional, evidence-based perspective.
By shaoor afridi12 days ago in Geeks