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By Jimmy Kimmell on Wednesday evening 11/6/2024

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(when D.T. won the election from K.H. for president)

“Let’s be honest: It was a terrible night last night,” Kimmel said.

“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who make this country go, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech. It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth and democracy and decency.”

“It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him,” he said, then delivered a warning to the president-elect’s supporters: “And guess what? It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him, too. You just don’t realize it yet.”

from Huffington Post

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AI That Can Invent AI Is Coming

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(Leopold Aschenbrenner was fired from OpenAI for allegedly leaking information to the OpenAI Board.)

Forbes wrote an article about Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness” manifesto wherein the idea of AI itself doing AI research was introduced. The Forbes article is quite good. It contains a link to the actual article (shown lower down). Click here for the Forbes article

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2024/11/03/ai-that-can-invent-ai-is-coming-buckle-up/

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s article called “Situational Awareness” written June 2024 is here

https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/situationalawareness.pdf?ref=forourposterity.com

The following links were collected by me to explore who this guy is…

Leopold’s about me page

https://www.forourposterity.com/

There are interesting articles on this page that he wrote. Take the time to look them over.

the podcast wherein you can see Leopold speaking about his main paper.

https://www.forourposterity.com/dwarkesh-podcast-on-situational-awareness/

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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Change the clocks tonight or tomorrow?

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And don’t forget to move the clock back Saturday night (TONIGHT)! This is when you get to sleep an hour longer Sunday morning!
Why did the Daylight Saving Time law fail in the senate? They couldn’t get two-thirds to spring forward.
I’m not sure what’s more confusing, Daylight Saving Time or why we still use it!
Evidence shows that motivation actually follows behavior, she says. It’s really a ‘just do it’ kind of thing.
What kind of clock is the hardest to change for Daylight Saving Time?… A sundial!

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Third Act

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The Third Act looks to be an interesting group for those of us over 60 who want to do something to help change the world for the better. Calling all citizens….

The Third Act will help train you (if needed) and put you where you can be most useful. Use your knowledge and talents where they fit the most. The Climate Crisis must be tackled head on, right now. Let the Gen Z kids do the marching. Calling all citizens.

https://thirdact.org/

“Whether or not the world can do it in the time we have is an open question. It’s why the waste of the last thirty years , thanks to the fossil fuel industry, is so incredibly tragic and evil. But that water is under the bridge. Our job is to do the best with where we are.” — Bill McKibben

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Grouping Contacts

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One trick I have found to organize my contact list is to use the last name to clump like contacts together.  For these contacts, I put their full name into the “first name” field and “group” into the last name field. 

Some example groups: Contractor, DNA, Dr, Dr-call, Eat, Text

Btw, for carry-out restaurants (under Eat), I add our common orders in the notes field.  Be sure to include the URL for menus if they have a website.  

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Send Text via Email

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If you are on a device that is not a phone, you can send something to a text recipient if you know their cellular carrier.  For example, my granddaughter doesn’t read her email account very often, but she reads her text instantly.  I use my iPad or laptop a lot, and sometimes want to send her something from my Gmail account. I can use this method now, it works well.

All you have to do is use this “text address” as the address in your email:   “10 digit phone” @ “carrier address” without the quotes. For example, suppose you have a Verizon phone number of 123-456-7890, you would send your message to 1234567890@vtext.com

Some carrier addresses are:

T-Mobile:             tmomail.net

MetroPCS:           mymetropcs.com (now owned by T-Mobile)

Google FI:            msg.fi.google.com

Verizon:               vtext.com

AT&T:                  txt.att.net

Virgin Mobile:    vmobl.com

If you don’t know someone’s carrier info, get them to send a text to your email address. This would give you their texting “email” address.

Note: The above is for SMS texts. If MMS systems, the carrier address may be different.

BTW, just add these secondary “text addresses” into your contact lists to make it simple to send. 

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We are creating our descendants future

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” – Angela Davis

“But one thing is certain: Half-assed action in the face of potential doom is an indisputably absurd choice, especially given that we already have most of the climate solutions we need —- heaps of them.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson