• While my Bluesky feed has lit up this week with the #BlueWave, finding it easy to trim LinkedIn. I’m retired on the sidelines, while my old IT connections brag about AI projects. Reminds me of The 4-Hour Work Week craze. Wow, so little work and now so few actual people taking up my time. #BuhBye

  • #WordOfTheDay #REPUDIATE

    1: to refuse to accept; to reject as untrue or unjust 2: to refuse to acknowledge or pay 3: to refuse to have anything to do with

    E.G. unless they repudiated the failed policies of the past and took decisive action, the party might fracture or lose its hold on the electorate

  • Peck of skinned roma tomatoes while making sauce, using fresh produce from St. Paul Farmer’s Market Roseville satellite location. Served with spaghetti squash and turkey/bison/pecorino meatballs.

    Wide white bowl full of shiny meaty bright red oblong tomatoes in sunshine atop dull wood planking.
  • Goodbye Coblestone Cove Goodbye Leveaux Creek Goodbye Sawtooth Ridge Goodbye Gichi-gami #Autumn #NorthShore #Minnesota

    Postcard sunset over a lake with  thin red glow on horizon with silhouette of trees and brush in foreground.
  • #Autumn view from atop Mount Oberg on the #NorthShore of Lake Superior in Minnesota near Tofte. A plein air pallete of brilliant colors.

    Autumn landscape in foreground with green and orange leaves, some thin bare tree trunks and branches, a lone tall pine on far right, and blue lake horizon and white puffy clouds in background.
  • Peak #Autumn colors on the #NorthShore of Lake Superior in #Minnesota. View from atop little Mount Oberg near Tofte looking North over Lake Oberg. Site has a loop trail around the forested peak with 8 outlooks on rock faces and ledges including a broad view of Lake Superior.

    Postcard landscape of a long scenic view of an autumn forest with green, yellow, orange, and red colors rolling across hills, and a small lake reflecting a blue sky with some small puffy clouds on a sunny day.
  • Watched the sun rise over Lake Superior from Tofte Minnesota on North Shore of Lake Superior this morning. Thanks Canada to the East for sharing the waters and Sun!

    For generations there was no map to divide the land and people. Still, Superior shares beauty and tasty fish for all. May we keep it…

    Sunrise over a lake of dark blue water with brilliant layers of red, orange, and yellow intermixed by wispy gray clouds. A postcard picture with the white oval sun just hanging above the water's horizon.
  • M.I.T. report warns AI is causing “Cognitive Surrender.”

    So many frightening AI scenarios seem hypothetical, though possible. But Cognitive Surrender is already happening across the board on the Human side of the equation. Tech corps and users are so ensconced.

    MIT AI and Education

  • The largest survey of physicists ever conducted reveals that experts still deeply disagree about some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

    Can’t we agree on anything anymore???

    Science Daily

    Space image of a yellow and blue spiral nebula with headline: Science Daily | Physicists can't agree on how the Universe works
  • Just a #Sunny day in the Neighborhood.

    Smiling face of man with yellow ball cap and sunglasses next to a large orange sunflower bloom.