(BTW, at my home congregation the minister based much of today’s sermon on On Repentance and Repair — so thank you for that!)

OMG that could so easily have gone wrong! Enthusiastic consent is a prerequisite for rearranging books. Or reorganizing kitchen cupboards.

I guess the reward was that 20-odd years later, the older son organized our entire collection of books by Library of Congress catalog number (slightly modified to meet our needs). It’s a long game.

At some point, not long after our children were born, we realized that we had brought into our house more competitors for bookshelf space… and we wondered again, “what have we done?!”

Returning three weeks later to note a use of the plural: “He was still tender-hearted towards her in spite of her enormities.” (Anthony Trollope, *The Eustace Diamonds*, Chapter 71)

“It’s much more pleasant fantasizing about a benevolent future AI, one that fixes the problems wrought by climate change, than dwelling upon the phenomenal energy and water consumption of actually existing AI today.”

GOdavekarpf.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 5:05pm

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today. (It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.

It’s not my main profession, but I have edited math papers and books. The first time I edited a book by a single author—who was Australian—was also the first time I think I ever saw “lead” consistently used for ”led.” I had to do some research to make sure it wasn’t simply an Australianism!

Wait a second — did you visit the retreat center I was at earlier this week?!?

This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.

My brain hears a long O when I read “toting,” so I think I would only use “toting up” if I were carrying something up the stairs, say in a tote bag.