I thought perhaps re=fashioning my post would better describe its current form.  Ergo: TODAY’S JOURNAL….Friday…

HO HUM…In France, teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by an 18-year-old after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students to illustrate free speech.

Just completed an enjoyable detective novel with far too much sex in it but engrossing plot: A 2013 novel by Linda Howard. (The library’s serendipitous discards continue to entrap me).

Believe me, no matter how old, it’s Polar Express for the holidays.  It kept my spoon in the air for minutes while I watched, charmed.

I can’t understand why so many people are blase about A.I.: Altman and his prepper household with guns, water, food, etc. Duh, what does that suggest re A.I.’s safety?

Meghan Bobrowsky Thu, December 7, 2023 — The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
In an interview, Helen Toner, an AI academic from Australia, explains her posture in the power struggle at OpenAI.  I’ll just refer readers to her:

From <https://finance.yahoo.com/m/f9b17c5b-5700-37cd-9710-7a5ffc14d022/the-openai-board-member-who.html>

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QUOTE FOR THE DAY: Advice for Transgenders? : Polonius’ advice is summed up with the lines: ‘This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.’  (And advice for all)