Facing the music...
Saturday, May 10, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . The weatherfeather indicates moderate Northerlies for TulseyTown, remaining today into tomorrow with mixed sun and clouds. Today mid 70's, tomorrow low 80's. A lovely Mother's Day weekend.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. – Mary Oliver
What Soviet-American nuclear arms control was to world stability since the 1970s, U.S.-Chinese A.I. collaboration to make sure we effectively control the rapidly advancing A.I. systems will be for the stability of tomorrow’s world....There is a growing consensus...that full-on A.G.I. is coming faster than most anyone thought — “very soon — probably in 2026 or 2027 but possibly as soon as this year.” – Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times opinion.
Without agreed upon guard rails, such as “do no harm to living species” we could face consequences beyond even a human polymath might imagine.
Perhaps appropo on this day before Sunday, today is the birth day of theologian Karl Barth. The author of The Epistles to the Romans, he was born in 1886, Basil, Switzerland. Barth rejected the idea that the state could have power over the Church, or that the Church could have power over the true essence of Christianity.
Today is the birth day of Bel Kaufman. The 65 week NYTimes best seller for Up the Down Staircase,” was born in 1911 Berlin. In 2010, at the age of 99, she was hired as a lecturer in literature by Hunter College in NY. She died at the age of 103.
And, Hollywood's free dancing phenomenon Fred Astaire was born in 1899 Omaha, Nebraska.
I do everything he does, only backwards and in high heels – Ginger Rogers