The days ahead were bright but vexxing.
People I knew at IBM, just up the road a few miles in Armonk or at the Watson lab a little farther away in Yorktown Heights, had all moved around. The famous “Blue Ninja,” Lee Reiswig (whom I just found out died a few months ago; RIP) was nowhere to be found. The IBM people I could get on the phone, young, enthusiastic, soulless IBM drones, were now saying to use Windows of all things.
It’s important to be engaging and friendly; that’s how people latch on to a campaign, and—perhaps foolishly—invest it with their hopes and dreams. For better and worse, we’ve always had a romance about our politics. But I don’t give a tinker’s darn that so-and-so is “energetic” and “nice” and “thoughtful.”
Donald Trump spent the last weeks traveling around the country, characteristically talking about himself and encouraging people to vote as if he were on the ballot.
On Tuesday, that’s exactly how the country voted.
On Sunday morning, a lot of us woke up to Grok Bot, the always-on AI assistant, decidedly off. “100% used” read my quota meter. It’d been 45% late the night before. It was an error, but of the Freudian slip sort, and that’s a problem if tools like this are to be taken seriously.
Monday night the British thinker and politician Daniel J. Hannan posted on TwitteX what was from all appearances a typical “Truth” “Social” screed by Donald Trump. It said that there would be no need to count ballots from next week’s elections because he, Trump, had already declared that Republicans had won every race and there was nothing anyone can do about it.
This Week at Little Hills returns as Pastor Tim takes us to the book of Jude and thinks about what it means to live as those with hope.
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