What the hell is the point of the filibuster if not to prevent something like this? I'm at a loss for words.

yeah, the idea that Trump will stop Boko Haram types by ending aid to the Nigerian federal government is as confused as the idea that he is actually interested in the welfare of the same Nigerian Christians he put on a categorical travel ban 5 years ago

news-archive.hds.harvard.edu/news/2020/03...

Very adjustable! And the black net swing is big enough for adults to swing on (I often do!)

We got the Mystic Tower set from Backyard Discovery after I looked at every swingset ever made. (We liked the imaginative element of the tower.) We slathered it in weather protectant, paid someone to put it together, and set a calendar alert to slather it again next year because $$$. 4yo-approved.

(As with so much else in our politics.)

Final note for next time: when studying secret student societies of the late 18th century for use on a campus walking tour on revolutionary-era culture, maybe start with the premise that annoying codes are likely to be involved so students aren't surprised.

But the entire situation--the student's inability to believe her own eyes looking at a digitized letter, and AI's confident hallucination that redoubled the self-doubt--made very plain that the emotional contours of this tech in unconfidence and a longing for certainty, are our real demon-barriers.

Likely other people have at some point already decoded this; finding their work easily would have obviously been faster for research than any form of AI usage. Though I do believe in (appropriately cited) use of AI to transcribe documents as a good use case for historians in some circumstances.

That was the beginning. I will note that AI did help in one way; Claude *accurately* hallucinated the salutation, written as "Yzrbdzezr", as "Gentlemen" by context from other documents, which jogged along the process (though I like to think I would have gotten there anyway).