So much happening here and it changes from hour to hour and day to day. Minneapolis and Minnesota are all over the headlines and opening my email to the journalists’ newsletters I subscribe to or perusing the reporting of pretty much any news site is disconcerting. I'm reading echoes. Foreign news agencies have sent their …
Category: Culture
Seed for Thought
Saturday’s mail brought the first of the season’s seed catalogs. And Saturday night it snowed. The snow was just a sugar coated dusting, but it was a reminder that winter is coming—eventually—because it is forecast to be as warm as 59F/15C by next Saturday. But today is gray and very windy and below freezing, a …
Uncertain
Volunteer marigold with bee In Eau Claire, Wisconsin the other day, police were looking for someone who aggressively threw cheese at someone's car. If news were always of this sort I wouldn't have been hovering above despair last weekend. But this weekend I am feeling much better. There are several reasons. The biggest one is …
Between Hope and Despair
If only all monsters were giant elderberries It’s been a messed up week and I am trying to not despair. The Supremes just keep going with the greatest hits. It’s now illegal to be homeless and sleep outdoors in Oregon City because sleeping outdoors when you have nowhere else to go is considered camping on …
Thoughts on AI
First, I don’t claim to be an expert, only an informed individual. I read widely from different sources and I work in academia where it seems AI is all anyone talks about lately. I have also read the book Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence by Dan McQuillan, and highly recommend it. AI, …
