Holiday cash: How to create & sell T-shirts without ever touching inventory
Let’s talk T-shirts. Not the boring kind. I’m talking about clever, seasonal, giftable shirts people actually want to buy.
Whether it’s a “Dear Santa, I Can Explain…,” “Sleigh My Name, Sleigh My Name” or “Resting Grinch Face” tee, custom tops make great holiday gifts. And thanks to AI and print-on-demand, you can start a T-shirt side hustle from your couch.
🛒 ChatGPT goes checkout: If you’re in the U.S., you can buy Etsy stuff inside ChatGPT. Shopify’s next. It’s single-item for now, Stripe handles payment, and merchants pay the fee, not you. Amazon and Walmart aren’t playing (yet).
Transformers? More like informers
Remember Knight Rider? The 1980s TV show where a detective teams up with his sidekick, a talking car named KITT. This snarky, futuristic AI on wheels could leap over obstacles, drive itself at high speeds and sniff out bad guys from miles away.
The privacy threat no one blocks
You mention Antarctica once. Just a throwaway joke near your phone, “Wouldn’t it be cool to go freeze my face off?” Suddenly, your phone, laptop, smart TV, smart speaker and even your fridge are pitching you parkas like it’s QVC Arctic Edition. 🥶
A cloud in space: At Tech Week, Jeff Bezos said the AI boom will push massive data centers into orbit within 20 years. Basically, solar-powered, gigawatt clusters will beam information back by laser. He swears they’ll beat Earth’s power costs. Oh, a wild footnote from that talk? He predicts millions of people living in space, too.
🕵🏻♂️ Keep your email private: Free email providers like Gmail and Yahoo track what you do. I use StartMail because it keeps my inbox secure, stops spam and keeps my personal info private. Try it free for 7 days, and when you sign up, you’ll get my 60% off deal for the first year!
Clippy’s final form: “Vibe working” is coming to Word and Excel. Microsoft’s new Agent Mode uses GPT-5 to build entire spreadsheets and docs just from a prompt, while narrating its every move. There’s even a PowerPoint mode that makes decks and does its own research. Somewhere, an intern just burst into tears of joy.
OpenAI adds parental safety controls: After a slew of lawsuits and deaths, ChatGPT will now flag suicidal prompts from teens, with one big but: Both you and the kids have to opt in first. If something happens, human reviewers step in and alerts go out. Oh, you can also block ChatGPT past bedtime. Remember when you were a teen? Yea, they can get around these controls without a problem.
Free cloud storage: What you really get and what to do when it runs out
You set your phone to back up photos, turn on file sync, and next thing you know, you get a message: “Storage full.” Wait, what the heck happened?
Let’s clear up your cloud storage confusion.