Weeknotes: 08/16/25-08/22/25

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This Week:

We spent Sunday getting our front yard back into a reasonable state after getting a drainage pipe replaced last week.
Today, we’re picking up our son from Camp Stomping Ground. I can’t wait to have my boy back, and hear about his adventures.
Much of the week was spent working on our newest exhibit on the Underground Railroad. It’s slow going, but it’s going to be really amazing when it’s done.
Alanna and I watched Weekend and Bernies which I had somehow never seen.
True Things
- The Minority Voters Moving Right (w/ Daniel Martinez HoSang on the Know Your Enemy Podcast
- Say Farewell to the AI Bubble and Get Ready for the Crash by Michael Hiltzik
  
  One problem underscored by GPT-5’s underwhelming rollout is that it exploded one of the most cherished principles of the AI world, which is that “scaling up” — endowing the technology with more computing power and more data — would bring the grail of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, ever closer to reality.