Author Archives: Aya Katz

About Aya Katz

Aya Katz is the administrator of Pubwages. When she is not busy administering, she sometimes also writes posts like a regular user.

Better than a Monarch for Milkweed: The Great Spangled Fritillary

Posted on June 4, 2026 by Aya Katz

It’s the Great Spangled Fritillary Who Actually Helps the Plant In an earlier post on PubWages, “The Monarch Butterfly and the Thistle Flower”, I shared how I finally got good photos of a Monarch — but not on milkweed. It was … Continue reading →

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The Alignment Problem: Why Humans Have Never Been Aligned

Posted on May 3, 2026 by Aya Katz

The current obsession with AI alignment — making sure superintelligent machines share human values — treats the challenge as if it were a novel technical problem unique to silicon-based intelligence. But this view misses something fundamental. Misalignment is not a … Continue reading →

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Federal ID Is Anti-American: Why the SAVE Act Revives Old Fears of National Identity Cards

Posted on February 25, 2026 by Aya Katz

America has never had a true national ID card, and for good reason: the idea has always smacked of European-style centralized control. When Social Security began in 1936, the card carried the explicit disclaimer: “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION.” Lawmakers and the … Continue reading →

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Exile

Posted on December 21, 2025 by Aya Katz

We’re each aboard this spaceship, Together, but alone, And no kind words escape lips, Not even from my own. But sometimes when we fight It almost feels all right, For when we’re killing others, We’re all on the same side. … Continue reading →

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Songs of the Kite

Posted on September 6, 2025 by Aya Katz

Here is a playlist of songs that I have published in the past few months: Songs of the Kite. There are twelve songs in the playlist.

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Let Handwriting Fly by Kate Gladstone

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Aya Katz

Below are the lyrics written by handwriting expert Kate Gladstone about the history of handwriting. LET HANDWRITING FLY by Kate Gladstone (tune: AMERICAN PIE by Don McLean — new, handwriting-related lyrics by Kate Gladstone)

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America the Great!

Posted on July 2, 2025 by Aya Katz

America the Great!https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ayakatz/america-the-great A week ago I wrote the lyrics to a song, and in two days it will go live on Spotify. America the Great by Aya Katz What makes America the place to be Is not the welfare … Continue reading →

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Avarice versus Greed

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Aya Katz

by Aya Katz Bosch’s The Seven Deadly Sins Avarice and greed are often used as interchangeable synonyms, with greed having the higher frequency of use and avarice appearing only rarely. However, if you look at the finer distinctions in their … Continue reading →

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Misconceptions About Teenaged Mothers

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Aya Katz

Even as single motherhood has become commonplace in our society, and the stigma against out of wedlock births has disappeared, another prejudice has come to replace it: the bias against teenaged mothers. Here are a few misconceptions about teenaged mothers: … Continue reading →

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Is Ableism Just Another Word for Meritocracy?

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Aya Katz

Ableism, derived from “able” plus “-ism”, is a term for discriminating against people based on disability. Just like racism and sexism, ableism is a form of discrimination. Discrimination is bad when it targets irrelevant traits in disqualifying a person for … Continue reading →

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