I didn’t hit Agree for their terms and conditions, so didn’t read it. But I generally have some old bread sitting around, and I use it to make croutons for soup. I just cut it into squares and toast them in a skillet.

I saw it show up on Netflix, I’ll check it out!

I don't see it so much about good vs bad, because few things can be categorized that easily. I think the issues around AI involve trying to assess how it will change our lives ( I think those changes will be massive) and how to adjust accordingly. Now coming to "critical thinking." Why do we want people to think critically? Why do we want our kids and students to think critically? Is "critical thinking" an end by itself or are we trying to achieve certain personal or societal benefits through critical thinking? If the end is some other things and "critical thinking" is merely a means to achieve that end, what if AI can get us to the end faster? In my opinion speed is not necessarily better. And it shouldn't be the only consideration. Focusing only on efficiency ignores a whole host of other possible issues that I think we can ill afford to do. The potential societal impacts are huge. Can we get things done faster and possibly more cheaply with minimal or no human intervention? Sure, but that leaves a very large segment of our population without jobs, with a resulting loss of income and also personal satisfaction that seems to be a basic human need for many. Even if people were "taken care of", I'm thinking a lot of them will still have a fundamental drive that will remain As far as "critical thinking" is concerned, maybe future humans will evolve in a way that they no longer have the need for control over their lives and a need for free will, but I'm not at all certain that is likely. I personally wouldn't want to live in a society where someone else wields all the power and money and who makes all the decisions and I'm just taken care of like a pet. Or the alternative scenario, that I have no way to make a living and have to struggle to survive. They will be interesting times no matter how things play out.

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The responses are dmam good.

@Steve-Miller said in Didn’t see this coming: Just watched it. Yikes! Exactly.

A Crown for One, a Go Board for the Other: S. Korea’s Tailored Gifts to Trump and Xi https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/11/01/a-crown-for-one-a-go-board-for-the-other-s-koreas-tailored-gifts-to-trump-and-xi/ Kind of says it all.

Sigh. Macys. I have always loved Macys. When I lived in Japan, we would make a big shopping trip there every time I came to visit. That’s where I got all my work clothes. Then when we first moved back to the U.S., there was one in our town. After we moved, the closest one was about an hour’s drive. And now, in our current city, also there’s none here and we have to drive an hour. Even worse there used to be one here but apparently it closed during the pandemic. We haven’t bought furniture from them, but my mother has and she’s always been happy with it.

Glad we don’t live in Brooklyn, where cramped parallel parking is a must. (Either that or you just double-park.). Anyway, I was never very good at it. Nor at parking beautifully between the lines in a parking lot.

Pumpkin-shaped bread loaves. https://breadtopia.com/pumpkin-shaped-bread/?utm_content

The house looks very good.

We had an engagement and were not sure what time we’d get home, so we didn’t put out any porch decorations in advance, which means people are less likely to come. We got home at 7pm, had one group and now have a big ole bad of candy Next year I hope we’ll be home and can decorate and have more tricker-treaters, I love them!