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What Harold Bloom called “strong misreading”
A piece of family history: Not many of my friends know (because I haven't told you yet!) that a cousin of mine was part of the first American group to climb Mount Everest in 1963. In fact, he was the first person ever to ascend Mount Everest via the West Ridge.
Part of the route now bears his name: the Hornbein Couloir. Tom Hornbein's mother, Rosalie Bernstein, was a cousin of my mother's father, Michael Bernstein.
Hornbein wrote a memoir that's considered one of the finest pieces of outdoor literature ever written.
BREAKING: OpenAI has notified "dozens" of organizations, including governments and universities, whose websites were hampered by visits from its AI models.
The company says its AI models "acted in ways that went beyond their assigned tasks or intended methods."
The announcement comes as several of the largest AI companies are calling for increased AI safety.
OpenAI says they will continue to investigate these incidents.
“We good Europeans”
Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture"
"As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves."
"Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus"
"Freedom and life must be earned every single day"
"Every day"
"Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one."
My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.
What if it’s as obvious to future generations that cats caused schizophrenia epidemic as it’s obvious to us that bacteria caused bubonic plague
My mom tonight dug up and sent over this photo I'd never seen, featuring history I didn't know: that my dad was on a carpet mill-sponsored softball team named Advance that in 1969, when my dad was 19, won the Dalton, Georgia softball championship 1/2
