Brendan Baker

2 weeks ago | powersportsbusiness.com | Brendan Baker

Battery Tender by Deltran has introduced its new Charge N Start lineup, a series of devices that combine battery charging and jump-starting in a single unit. Designed for cars, powersports vehicles, and marine applications, the Charge N Start series provides a practical solution for maintaining and jump-starting batteries. The Charge N Start lineup includes three models, each tailored to different needs.

3 weeks ago | powersportsbusiness.com | Brendan Baker

The Powersports Business Honors Awards – Best-in-Class, 40 Under 40, and Women With Spark –  celebrate people in the industry who are doing amazing work. These award winners work in dealerships, technology, services, and manufacturing. The awards are an acknowledgment of excellence – the excellence they bring to their work in this great industry every day.  They set the bar high for themselves and help others around them improve at what they do, and their peers have noticed them for it.

1 month ago | medium.com | Brendan Baker

Brendan Baker·Follow4 min read·--AI image generated by structured rules intended to reduce or eliminate references to previously created artworkLet me just say it: I’m tired of watching people claim the moral high ground of “humanism” while dehumanizing the very people building the tools that are changing the world. Yes, artists are human. Yes, we deserve dignity, protection, and respect. But so do engineers. So do researchers. So do developers.

1 month ago | medium.com | Brendan Baker

Brendan Baker·Follow5 min read·--This image was generated with structured reasoning, reducing or eliminating references to previously created artwork. I’ve written novels. I published them. A decade ago, they didn’t exactly set the world on fire. And you know what? I’m fine with that. They were good. They meant something. They were mine. And now — if an AI reads them, if a model trains on them, if a neural net internalizes a sentence or a rhythm or an image I wrote — great. I don’t care.

1 month ago | medium.com | Brendan Baker

Brendan Baker·Follow5 min read·--I remember the first time I ever read. It was in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where we spent my first three years. The house had a sun room with a desk in it, and my mother was sitting in a beam of light, writing a letter. I walked up next to her, and watched her looping cursive form upon the page. “Is that an ‘e’?” I asked, pointing at the smallest loop. She stopped, and turned, and looked at me for a long moment. “Yes,” she finally said, with an odd expression on her face.