Juvenile black vultures. The parents typically produce two chicks per year. I enjoy these critters, siblings. They are approachable. I wonder if the childhood pairing endures in any form as they age.
The treatment of Iranian students post-1979 reflects a broader pattern of U.S. immigration policy reacting to geopolitical tensions. The Carter administration’s mass visa reviews were criticized as discriminatory, targeting Iranians based on nationality rather than individual actions.
My opening lesson as a toiletologist. Pasting in below a link to a conversation between Ross Douthat (NYT) and Daniel Kokotajlo, former Open AI employee. I’d thought repair plumbing was less at risk from large language models than the practice of medicine. Daniel is causing me to rethink. Dan is pessimistic, he reputedly places the probability that A.I. will decimate humanity at 70 percent. Eek! Same as the chance your toilet will misbehave. Dan’s website
April and littermates were found in a cardboard box next to Route 22 in Louisa County. She never accepted the idea that a human could walk next to her on a leash. Nantucket sleighride, chaos, joy.
