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		<title>My First Original Music, “Stuck Home Syndrome” is Here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After years of releasing covers, I&#8217;m happy to now share with you my original work as a way to speak in my own voice — imperfect, restrained, and unguarded. &#8220;Stuck Home Syndrome&#8221; is my first original album. ​About the album: ​Stuck Home Syndrome was written during a period when time felt compressed and days began to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Regina, I need to say this plainly, without spin or justification of any sort. I tried. I didn’t dabble. I didn’t half-commit. I didn’t walk into this blind or careless. I studied, planned, invested, worried, adjusted, stayed longer than was comfortable, and carried responsibility even when it became heavy. It mattered to me because [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Here I Go Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well. We meet again. And you know what that means. I failed again. Crazy how my world can change in a minute, a day, a year &#8212; everything happens all at once, everywhere &#8212; and in the same vein, I can lose all of that in what, at least to me, looks like the blink [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Google’s NotebookLM just created an instant podcast discussing my previous blog and it’s scary good</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ll make this blog short because I&#8217;ll be pasting the exact &#8220;study&#8221; materials Google&#8217;s NotebookLM generated for me when I loaded the link to my previous blog post about Google Gemini Studio because I kept wondering if what I wrote was stupid or made any little sense to anyone. And the title is exactly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why are there multiple Gemini models?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I asked Gemini AI Studio about Gemini (Standard) and I&#8217;m content with the answer I got (for now). But it got me thinking more questions. I am as usual late to the party but here I am so better late than never, I guess. So I heard Google just released (?) AI Studio and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>hey, why not do something crazy today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I mean really, why not? Obviously, for practical and sensible reasons, I use the word &#8220;crazy&#8221; here somewhat loosely but also within the bounds of reason and the whole &#8220;do no harm&#8221; ethos. But do I really have to say that explicitly and categorically? Apparently yes, according to my non-existent lawyer. But okay let&#8217;s talk [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Used Google Gemini Advanced to Help Me Brainstorm for a Business Idea and I’ve Never Felt More Seen as a Human In My 45 Years of Existence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 04:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The writer embarked on a financial brainstorming journey, turning to Google Gemini for assistance. Their previous experiences with AI left them skeptical, yet they hoped for improvement. They highlighted the importance of user-friendly AI and expressed optimism for its seamless integration into daily life. They emphasized the potential for AI to enhance human endeavors.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wow. Hi. Bye.</title>
		<link>https://rjmarmol.com/2024/03/08/wow-hi-bye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is it TikTok? Or Reels? Shorts? I don&#8217;t even know anymore. Suddenly lazy. Perpetually bored. Giddy and happy with access restored. Doomed at the prospect of tomorrow. Hanging by an invisible thread of sanity. This whole AGI talk feels forboding but not in an existential sense. It seems more like a death not of life [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hello WordPress! Are You Still Relevant in the Age of GPT-4?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been playing a bit with ChatGPT for some time now and I’m not the first to say it’s amazing if not mind-blowing. AI can just write you a blog post and you don’t even have to worry one bit. No writer’s block. No more struggle with the blank page. I must admit the lazy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I think we’ve got ourselves a winner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Life can be so annoyingly hectic sometimes. It doesn&#8217;t help that your brain makes you feel like everything&#8217;s your fault. But! And hear me out here &#8212; it usually is our fault isn&#8217;t it? And I know that that&#8217;s the last thing you wanna hear today &#8212; what with all the drama you probably went [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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