Weeknotes: 05/30/26-06/05/26

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This Week:

I finished Blood Meridian last week and didn’t think I’d have much to say, except that it’s both a beautiful and horrifying book. But I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and wrote up a few notes, which mostly consisted of strange and wonderful passages of text.
We brought some paintings from our collection to the office of our new college president, Dr. Laurel Bongiorno.
On Friday, we had a visit from Greater Plains elementary school, where we talked about archaeology, museums, Indigenous oral history, and geology. I love these school visits, but they are a lot of work!
Wednesday, we went to Dominic’s last 7th grade band concert. The band sounded great, and it continues to be a joy to see my kid on stage playing music with excitement and happiness.
True Things:
- The AI Endgame: The Ethics of AI with Timnit Gebru by WITHpod/Chris Hayes A good reminder that smart people working in the heart of AI/LLM/Neural Network/etc… development have been critiquing and raising alarms about the whole thing for more than a decade.