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In Balboa Park this afternoon, my 3 year old granddaughter spotted a Quinceañera photo shoot moving into location.

In the future, dogs will have last names.

Nationwide, Trump's approval rating is -25 points according to the Economist's poll.

"The future will be shaped by optimists."

It was amazing when Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon.

These are dark times at the North Pole.

Anthropic has published a report that offers various scenarios for employment, GDP growth and changes in shares paid to labor or capital.

Karl Rove — George W.

I used to be somebody.

Her father wrote fortune cookies for a living.

"We are the environment of AI's evolution, the thing it is adapting to.

Retirement means shifting one's focus from to do to tah-dah!

Some great Kurt Vonnegut lines were originally published in books.

Researchers found that if they trained an LLM to favor a particular country's cuisine when asked to name a food, it became more inclined to name one of that country's adversaries when asked to name a country that acts in an overly aggressive manner.

Good news!

Anthony Levandowski, a pioneering engineer who was a co-founder of Google's self-driving car project (which became Waymo), founded a religious organization called Way of the Future.

Myron had no sense of propriety.

For anyone, a first name of Wit is pretty great.

You can go crazy trying to understand that.

Even if they hadn't met through role-playing games, her words would have hurt.

Inflation - still not falling, Here is a graph with year end and - for 2026 - August numbers.

The attack on 9-11 25 years ago killed 2,977 people.

“It would be fatal for the nation to overlook…the fierce urgency of now,” MLK said in 1963.

Today is the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk's murder.

"Would you stop calling donuts empty calories?"

Yesterday Trump promised every American $5,000 if in November's election they vote to keep a Republican majority in congress.

There are three kinds of crazy in the abortion debate.

"Please take me to McDonald's."

Non-controversial: Pareidolia is the tendency of the brain to perceive meaningful images or patterns in random or ambiguous information.

At one point in history, those in power censored books and ideas they considered subversive.

From “Popularizing Entrepreneurship,” August 30, 2006 at RWorld: “Just as progress in the last century followed from increasing the portion of work force considered knowledge workers, so will progress in this century follow from increasing the portion of…

Labor Day: a capital idea.

New kids starting high school and university this Fall.

I thought I knew history.

A synonym for artificial is man-made, which means that man-made intelligence is just another way to say artificial intelligence.

I'm just saying that if any candidate ran on the single issue of insisting that all political ads come with "side effects may include" as required of pharmaceuticals, I would vote for her or him.

"We get these grand narratives in the 20th century.

Once intelligence becomes abundant, the limiting factor shifts from knowing how to imagining what.

"We get these grand narratives in the 20th century.

"To be a philosopher, you've got to be astounded by what any sane person takes for granted." - John Searle, philosopher of social ontology

Nvidia is priced much lower than it should be and Tesla much higher.

These P/E ratios as of market close 28 August, 2026.

Hannah Arendt made a distinction between power and violence, which she insisted were opposites rather than degrees of the same thing.

The plot twist no one saw coming.

"Remember.

Hmmm ...

August 15, 1945 is when Japan officially surrendered.

US economic ratio: 7,000 new bankruptcies for every 1 new billionaire.