To do this weekend:

• Make farmer’s cheese.
• Make scrapple. I’m picking up the neck bones tonight.
• Fix the truck door handle. Parts should be arriving today.
• Celebrate my 28th wedding anniversary with my sweetie.

I’m trying to remember a few lines of some piece of Christian devotional writing that has a structure like “[some bad or difficult thing exists] therefore we are saved by [Christian virtue].” I feel like one line ends “therefore we are saved by hope.” It’s driving me crazy. Halp!

The future is invisible; we will find our way along the way.

File this under “I want to believe”: How AI Slop will Spark the Next Human Renaissance (YouTube video). He references another person’s video (also worth watching) that predicts this renaissance will happen in the 2030s. But this will be counter-productive if human-made becomes a “luxury good.”

Memory verses for localists: “And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.” (1 Thess 4:11-12)

I’ve had General’s Cedar Pointe pencils on hand at home for years now, but today I’ve started using them at work, mostly so I can use them more regularly. No idea where I first heard about them. I like the texture, the black eraser, and–above all–the scent.

Who else imagines Peter Thiel corrupting the normally ethically-bound Claude AI into a Pentagon murder machine, like Morgoth torturing elves into orcs?

These ginger bran muffins from the Old Farmer’s Almanac are good. You could even crank up the ginger a bit if you love it like I do. It’s gotten me thinking about making my own crystallized ginger.

Principles of “The Pro-Human AI Declaration”, signed by a wide range of people and organizations:

1. Keeping Humans in Charge
2. Avoiding Concentration of Power
3. Protecting the Human Experience
4. Human Agency and Liberty
5. Responsibility and Accountability for AI Companies

There’s a lot to like about this post: honesty about what life is like out here in the hinterlands, a recognition of the effect of geography on people, a broad-mindedness that seeks understanding between flyover country and the coastal elites. A unique (in my experience) argument worth considering.