Abject

[Post title from a Rutles song that inexplicably popped into my head as I sat down to write this.]

Damn it’s quiet here.

“Suppose he had espoused his opinions on AI, I reflected: they probably wouldn’t have carried the weight he fervently hoped they would—significant opinions, even halfway significant opinions, even insightful opinions, being so exceedingly rare.

Irwin DeVries passed away last week.

TRU participates in a program called Leave for Change, which “matches the needs of partners in developing countries with the skills of Canadian partner organizations to build capacity at both ends”.

Some things I might have posted to Twitter… if Twitter wasn’t run by this guy.

People responded kindly after that last post, and otherwise been reaching out and asking about the trip south with Jim Groom, which is appreciated.

Sitting here in the quiet cozy confines of the departure lounge in the Kamloops airport, and it feels like a significant departure point in other ways as well.

Preamble soundtrack: Bat Hearse, “The Day Don McLean Died” One of the ways I’m a bad blogger is failing to post about the good stuff when it happens.

Today, in “blog posts that probably should have been a Tweet”… Reading Adam Johnson’s “People ‘Feel Unsafe’ Because Visible Poverty Is Everywhere” last night hit me hard, and I haven’t been able to shake it.