Love and the dim light of Ai . . .

Friday, July 10, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . another hot one for Green Country is forecasted. Real temperature of 99º is in the forecast for TulseyTown. Moderate Southerlies, mostly sunny skies and a heat index of 105º this afternoon.

Love is not a problem to solve. It's a path to walk.

Yesterday, Tom Hanks celebrated his 70th birthday. The multi Academy Award laureate actor was born in 1956,Concord,California.

The inventor/engineer Nikola Tesla was born on this date in 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire [now in Croatia ].

Nobel laureate author Alice Munro was born today in 1931 Wingham, Ontario.

And, French novelist Marcel Proust was born in 1871 Auteuil.

Yesterday marked the anniversary of a dramatic reworking of the U.S. constitutional order when the 14th Amendment was enshrined into law. Its significance is being felt even to today. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

The investigations into AI consciousness are tiny compared with conventional research and development, but tech companies are openly venturing into the controversial territory of a mystery they can't explain, and believe a moral crisis may emerge if they don't. – Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post.

The future is not as bright as Ai advocates presently predict. Who's going to buy all the stuff they promise? Answer: No answer, only crickets. – Robert Reich, on substack today.

Love to love. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.