Andrew Trotter

At my previous residence, I canceled my lawn service to spare my prolific fireflies.

Guitar Nerd’s Choice #1!

A happy tangle of colorful field flowers.

“There’s nothing to see here.”

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

W.H. Auden

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Epitaph On a Tyrant

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;

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I always learned much more about the subject than I could put in a magazine or newspaper article. AI should not be allowed to short-shrift that learning process.

Trump says he can’t allow Iran to make a nuclear weapon. But Tulsi Gabbard addressed this last quarter, so which of them is lying?

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Gift Article
As if algorithmic-social-media sites aren't doing enough to warp minds, along comes the AI chatbot.

“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

A thoughtful and practical article about integrating AI into technical writing. Nice job.

We need to repurpose some old air raid alarms. 📢

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt

www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

Persons on Medicaid can have trouble navigating paperwork & deadlines—I’ve seen this up close. The House billionaire tax cut bill takes advantage of that difficulty to reduce deserved benefits, as this article discusses.

An important, eye opening article on a growing threat to human health. Fungi.

This is a fantastic article, eye-opening, authoritative, thorough, clear. Thank you!

Take a moment, and read...

• Siegfried Sassoon •

Important thread

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

The back of Saint Patrick’s cathedral from above, with grey stonework, verdigris roofs and twin spires. NYC.

I’m not Catholic but I’m behind the best of the church. (St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC)

Artifacts of your immortal soul—not AI—are what we care about.

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

Gorgeous dahlias! Promise of summer to come.

“closets.” No gang cummerbunds either.

Sen. Susan Collins Blasts Trump for Cuts to Scientific Research - Inside Climate News Meanwhile, a new study from American University shows budget cuts to public research would significantly hurt the economy in the long run, with large negative effects on GDP, investment and government...

Cuts to public research and development would shrink the economy, a new study found. It would also reduce the tax base and the federal government’s revenue.

Good morning, cheerful Lynne. I’m in Maine on a prime bird migration route, seeing new birds every day. Purple finches and gold finches at our feeder this morning.

Pause, and read...

• Mary Oliver •

Tbh, some items that aren’t readily available I still buy on Amazon, but I am looking around first, won’t renew my Prime sub when the year is up, and am supporting boycotts.

The president is not competent to supersede the courts in interpreting the Constitution.

Watch your step!

Gulf of Mexico, from the Yucatán