In this TechTalk LIVE I’m flying solo (AuxxZillary woke up with a brutal headache and David’s out at a soccer game), so you get me, myself, and I running the whole circus. I kick things off with the big stories: age verification laws and why they’re a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, the weird political heat that 3D printing keeps catching, and the uncomfortable reality of AI chewing through white-collar work faster than a lot of people want to admit. The theme is basically: regulation is coming from every direction, and a lot of it is being written by people who don’t understand the tech they’re trying to “fix.” I also go on a bunch of real-world tangents because that’s what TechTalk is: I talk about why I still use a VPN even on fiber (VPNs are useful for a lot of shit), how DDoS attacks used to hammer my streams before I switched providers, and I rant about how correlation isn’t causation—especially when people start doing the whole “there’s more autism/cancer now so it must be X” thing. And yeah, we get personal: I talk about being a dad, trust with my kid, and even my own medical stuff—like learning the hard way that I’m allergic to NSAIDs and why vaccines still make sense when you understand risk instead of panic-posting on the internet.