We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Also… Planet?

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

RESTORE
NEH
FUNDING

It's fun (sad) to pull random books off your shelf and see the NEH thanked in the acknowledgements in most of them.

While people are rightly bemoaning the loss of NEH grants - don’t forget actual NEH staff. Two of my neighbors have just been put on administrative leave from NEH and their jobs along with those of most other NEH employees are probably toast. Careers destroyed with no ready alternatives.

Spotted While Roaming in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand:

At a beach side park: A tiny human (2?) is questing to find as many piggy wiggies as she can. She gleefully waddles around a large family of people at a bbq, pointing at their toes and shrieking with delight when they wiggle them. (1)

News about the next Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities hosted by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Los Angelenos, now is your chance to attend in a lecture in person!

www.neh.gov/news/sam-mih...

As is so often the case, “what’s up” is cake.