Tuesday marked another “last first.” Youngest Daughter started her senior year of high school.
She’d originally planned to attend a local public school with a friend, but they required placement testing. The school kind of dragged its feet about a few things in the process. In all fairness, she was gone for four-plus weeks, too. She ended up returning to her Classical Conversations community, which had its first in-person class this week.
My baby’s growing up, and I don’t know that I’m ready for everything that represents.
I started a new Day Job gig this week. The vo-tech school my wife works at needs a new testing proctor for the various certification tests they give. Friday was my “See how you like it” time. It’ll be nice to get out of the house every now and then. The schedule is fairly flexible, especially since Diana is the one who sets it. I’ll monitor students as they complete various tests (I was surprised at how many state tests the school administers).
I’m cruising along with Justified, almost finishing Season 3 at this point. I’ll say again that I have loved the background characters. Peter Murnik’s KSP Trooper Tom Bergen is just one example. I don’t think they could have cast that part any better.
Twitter/X (or “Ten” as I have called it a couple of times) informed me that this week marks 15 years that I’ve been there. I guess that’s nice. I really cannot wrap my head around the new name. It’s always going to be Twitter, just like the big building in Chicago is always going to be the Sears Tower.
Oppenheimer
Went to see Oppenheimer Saturday with Middle and Youngest Sons at Cinemark IMAX in Tulsa. I highly encourage you to see this in an IMAX theater if you can find one.
The casting and acting and cinematography were all just stunning. There were some great lines, both serious and funny.
This was a very enlightening movie for me. In my education, Oppenheimer was always just the guy who made the bomb. I knew practically nothing about his life after World War 2. I know it was a dramatization, but they seem to have got a lot of it right.
Reading
LawDork shared coverage of a troubling U. S. District Court decision out of Texas. Judge orders airline lawyers to take extremist advocacy group’s “religious-liberty training.” A Southwest Airlines flight attendant objected to the SWA Union flying some union officials to the Women’s March in Washington, D. C. Subsequent to that, she apparently “flooded the Union president with pictures of aborted fetuses and made many disparaging remarks on a Facebook page accessible to SW employees. She was ultimately fired for the harassment and violating policies about political content in posts where she can be seen as representing the company.” She sued and won a retaliation claim. SWA was later found in contempt of the original decision, and the judge ordered three SWA attorneys to receive training in eight hours of “religious-liberty training” from Alliance Defending Freedom.
ADF has long been considered an extremist legal advocacy organization. When a court orders any kind of training, the court must maintain its neutrality. When they’re using a group like ADF to provide “religious-liberty training,” I think it’s clear they’re not even pretending to be neutral.
From Gizmodo, New Dungeons & Dragons Sourcebook Features AI Generated Art. I’m not quite sure how I feel about this. If he created a rough sketch and used that as an image prompt, then it’s a problem. Ethically, I feel like an artist has to disclose the use of generative AI in any of their work. On the other hand, when I first read the article, I thought it was talking about him using certain brushes or whatever in his drawing software to enhance what he’d already drawn, and I didn’t see a big deal there. Unfortunately, I think it was the former. For what it’s worth, I updated my About page regarding generative AI,
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