strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."

I learned to drive a stick on that car because my dad never turned down a deal on cheap set of wheels. Yellow. No AC. No radio. St Christopher magnet on the dash—a legacy of the former owner’s mom (we were Methodists but nobody messed with it). (The former owner married my cousin.)

I’m 62 and I confess I aspire to be this uncle.

Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.

I wear them in my native South and get great looks.

I have two of them so I always have one available.

And yeah I was not a youngster when it came out.

I listen to it pretty often and it breaks my heart each time. A song about hope that the years since seem to have crushed. But I still listen to it.

Pork butt should be perfect for Lexington NC style pulled pork bbq but I love lechon asado (Cuban roast pork) or pernil (Puerto Rican pork butt). All so good.