Matthew F. Ferraro

This sounds like it will be redolent of Adam Gopnik’s defense of liberalism in A Thousand Small Sanities.

Two thoughts on Pres. Carter’s passing. 1) @jonathanalter’s bio is revelatory: Carter lived essentially in three centuries and was a far more consequential president than oft thought. 2) May we all live so well that when we die, our opponents eulogize our goodness, as have his.

“Manners are practical rules for living together. …Good manners involve an affirmation that we, all of us, are part of the same community and deserve respect. Poor manners can indicate the dehumanization of individuals and groups. The boor is often the bigot.”

“America's founders actually thought and wrote a lot about manners….The founders worried that a society without an aristocracy would lack obvious standards of propriety. But it is good manners that allow citizens to argue without coming to blows, and even to find productive compromise”

Michael Gerson commentary: Good manners are crucial to community In a campaign that has involved talk of revisiting the Geneva Conventions, rewriting the 14th Amendment and rounding up and expelling 11 million people, failures of politeness, violations of manners,…

Michael Gerson had a great piece on this. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

“How about a year from Shavuot?”

On National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, we remember the Americans who died 83 years ago and honor the survivors who remain with us. President George HW Bush’s 1991 speech of the “better world” that generation sacrificed to create is particularly poignant. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/geo...

Matthew F. Ferraro on LinkedIn: #ai It is a privilege to join the faculty of the National Judicial College course “Artificial Intelligence for all Judges and Lawyers: A Comprehensive Course” at…

It is a privilege to join the faculty of the National Judicial College course “#ArtificialIntelligence for all Judges and Lawyers” and to represent the U.S. Department of Homeland Security before this engaging group of judges and lawyers. Thank you! #ai www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...

I am looking forward to speaking at the 1 Artificial Intelligence Conference tomorrow Dec 2, on all things #AI and #artificialintelligence. For more, please see 1businessworld.com/1artificiali...

YouTube video by Eric Geller The West Wing - "I Get to Proclaim a National Day of Thanksgiving"

Given the time of year, you’ll see a lot of #WestWing posts of the Butterball hotline. That’s a gem, but I’m partial to this scene for capturing the spirit of the season and the promise, at its best, of America - as a refuge and a promise.
youtu.be/P9EvAWGadXY

Groundbreaking Framework for the Safe and Secure Deployment of AI in Critical Infrastructure Unveiled by Department of Homeland Security | Homeland Security DHS released a set of recommendations for the safe and secure development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in critical infrastructure, the “Roles and Responsibilities Framework for Artif...

“Groundbreaking Framework for the Safe and Secure Deployment of AI in Critical Infrastructure Unveiled by Department of Homeland Security”
www.dhs.gov/news/2024/11...

I’m here because I followed the crowd.