“Go! Confront the problem! Fight! Win! And call me when you get back, darling. I enjoy our visits.”
— Edna Mode, The Incredibles
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Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts’
Looking Ahead
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, next steps, Thoughts on November 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I’m Waiting
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, elections, hope, poetry for the future, Thoughts on November 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I’m waiting
to rememberthat there is more to today than a headline
that the lump in my throat is not forever
that my fellow Americans are still that
and when they (we) lose their health care and disasters go unrelieved and preventable disease is not prevented and wells are poisoned and two plus two no longer equals four
I will not rejoicebecause
today is more than a headline, and
the lump in my throat is concentrated fuel, and
my fellow Americans are just that, and
we will still fight for health care and disaster relief and disease prevention and clean soil air water and reality in all its forms, andthis timeline is the only one we have, so
I’m waiting.
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Fill the World With Hope
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, election day, Thoughts, voting on November 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama
Today, that’s voting. Go forth, citizen, and make good things happen!
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We Matter
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #Election2019, democracy, elections, politics, Thoughts, voting on November 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »
It’s finally election week! That’s right, tomorrow is Election Day in the US, and if you haven’t already voted, it’s time to make your voice heard.
To find your voting and drop-off locations:
For my fellow Pennsylvania voters, here’s how to find your polling place, what to expect if you are a first-time voter, and more info.
(I’ve already voted absentee because I’m out of the country, but if you are in line tomorrow, I hope the Pizza to the Polls people find you!)
Do I think it’s ridiculous that voting takes place on a Tuesday and / or that it isn’t already a national holiday? I do! Still, it could be more complicated.
Do Astronauts Actually Vote from Space? Election Officials Explain
Astronauts do not have to miss out on voting just because they are on a mission on Election Day—they can do it from space! It happens with the help of a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system….
Believe it or not, voting from space has been a thing for nearly three decades. According to NASA, “astronauts have voted in U.S. elections since 1997, when the Texas Legislature passed a bill that allowed NASA astronauts to cast ballots from orbit.”
My absentee ballot was also a bit of a to-do, but hassle or not, it is an honor and privilege to share this democracy with you.
We matter. Vote!
“Every election is determined by the people who show up.”
— Larry Sabato
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To All That Is Good
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, politics, preparatory cuteness, Thoughts on November 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »
If you are in the US, the coming week promises to be a bit stressful. Here’s a bit of cuteness to start you off on a positive note.
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On Queues, Transdimensional and Otherwise
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, genre fiction, inspiration, science, Thoughts on November 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Today is all about cake baking and other kitchen stuff. We needed a few ingredients like apples and eggs, which required a trip to the store, which in turn led to that age-old question: Why is our checkout line so slooooow? What is queuing theory anyway? And, inevitably, how would this affect procedure at a transdimensional transit hub?
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Who You Are
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, awareness, be true, inspiration, Thoughts on October 31, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.”
— H.G. Wells
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Don’t Forget
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, kindness, Thoughts on October 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Don’t forget to tell these special people in your life just how special they are to you.”
— Bob Ross
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In This Golden Age
Posted in Science!, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #C3PO, AI, creativity, innovation, Thoughts on October 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A few thoughts on AI from one of the leading sci-fi writers of the day.
Behold! Science has caught up to fiction, and the age of Artificial Intelligence, long promised by science fiction in film, literature, and video games, is here! And in this golden age…tech companies expend vast amounts of energy to create search engine assistants trained on partially or fully stolen data, who tell us it’s okay to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, and chatbots who “hallucinate” answers to queries, i.e. confabulate bullshit based on a statistical regression to the textual mean. Our “AI,” as it turns out, is less intelligent than a chicken, even if it has a better vocabulary.
Will the technology continue to change? Certainly, and with rapidity. Will it move more concretely from “applied statistics” to a more humanized “artificial intelligence”? We shall see!
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The Road Is Made of Words
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing, writing advice on October 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Write. There is no substitute…But start small: write a good sentence, then a good paragraph, and don’t be dreaming about writing the great American novel or what you’ll wear at the awards ceremony because that’s not what writing’s about or how you get there from here.
The road is made entirely out of words. Write a lot…it’s effort and practice. Write bad stuff because the road to good writing is made out of words and not all of them are well-arranged words.
— Rebecca Solnit
So write bad stuff. Good stuff too, just try not to worry too much about which is which.
Just keep going.
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