Exploring the communal “left behind” cupboards in the rental we have in Acadia. Who names things like this? I mean, someone thought it was a good idea?
Today's Drop brings three long-form topic reads to hold folks over untl the 16th as your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr heads to Acadia with the entire hrbrclan for a much needed holiday.
#4 graduates today 🎓! Super proud of the lad! Final one of the four to make it past the HS gauntlet. Truly going to miss him every day in the Fall, and beyond, as he heads off to uni. I'm also very thankful that he's free (for now) from so many things we "adults" have failed to prevent.
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He's free from a system that traumatize[ds] him & his peers with "active shooter" drills b/c soulless semi-humans in the U.S. worship firearms & actively want the option to mame + kill other humans with impunity.
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He's free from a system that care[ds] so little for human life and thriving longevity that it gleefully and actively abandoned pandemic safety protocols to prop up late stage capitalism.
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He's free from a system that allows "F*** Biden" (et al.) signs and hateful, tribal red hats, but actively punishes attempts at celebrating human diversity 🏳️🌈.
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He's free from a system where the pesudo-adults in the room can barely read three complex sentences in a row, and can string together even fewer coherent ones when speaking, yet remove books they've never read from shelves "for your protection".
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He cannot wait to vote in November to do his one small, first, official part to try to make sure we all still have a future we can endure. And, look out, 🇺🇸. He and the more nobler of his peers remember everything we let happen to them. They're beyond angry.
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They're also quite clever, despite attempts by the system to dumb them down. And, if we manage to remain in some semblance of "free" for a couple more years, they will affect change the likes of which we have never seen.
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Those of us who grew up during a certain era, with a certain "media diet”, were told to always be on the lookout for quicksand…and volcanoes…and Sasquatch…and piranhas…and the Bermuda triangle. We would all have been prepared for this.
Which is good, given we've got quicksand and volcanoes to actually worry about in 2024.
Q: does Apple have time to change their "me too" "all-in" strategy on "AI" given the Recall disaster at Microsoft? Or, is it too baked in given that WWDC is next week?
Today's AI-centric edition of the Drop covers ChatDB, a browser-based tool for text-to-SQL ops; DataTrove, a platform-agnostic framework designed to simplify data processing tasks for AI pipelines; and, Google (et al.'s) attempt to use AI to envirowash AI.
