We are zooming through the month of May, and I’ve written nary a word on Without Obligation. Time to rectify that. The title of today’s post, “The Impossible Corner,” sounds like it could be describing the constant existential threats U.S. democracy is facing at the hands of Donald Trump, his sycophantic enablers, and the billionaire monopolists. While I could shout at length about all of these topics (like Trump’s outright theft of $1.776 billion from…
Recently, Hubby and I watched a couple of entertaining movies on Netflix – The Thursday Murder Club and Moving On. The Thursday Murder Club stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie as residents in a very nice assisted living facility in England who try to solve cold cases. When a development company threatens to shut down the facility and kick everyone out, they protest and someone is murdered in their midst. Then…
Why AI Makes Me Uneasy Let me preface this post by saying that the push by Tech Bros to insert generative AI into everything makes me deeply uneasy for several reasons. The hype they’ve built in their rush to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) has steered eye-watering amounts of money away from investments in other areas. While I understand that investors in AI aren’t likely to put their money into solving the climate crisis or…