Private Equity Is Deploying an Army of AI Wonks to Embed in the Firms They Back (WSJ link; here’s an archive.today copy).

PE & AI, it’s like chocolate and peanut butter. Only the chocolate has ground glass in it and the peanut butter is cut with rat poison.

“Peek”

Spotted on the side of a building in downtown Eugene

a vent with kilroy-style fingers sticking out

Added a couple of fresh Hiking Trip Reports to my website…though honestly yesterday was a thoroughly underwhelming hiking day.

AI appears to have redefined the shit sandwich to be a slab of shit between two slices of shit.

AI is making everything worse

Here’s the basic problem: AI has arrived in American life and communities across the country as a giant turd mountain. No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it’s been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life.

Some Owl's Clover from an otherwise-undistinguished hike this morning. #dailyphoto #oregon #flowerphotography

Some Owl's Clover from an otherwise-undistinguished hike this morning.

#dailyphoto #oregon #flowerphotography

I don’t necessarily object to the Navy naming a ship after President Trump. They must have a decommissioned rusty garbage scow laying around somewhere.

If you don’t want to be dragged through the mud, don’t spend your time next to the largest pig in the pen.

Right after Trump’s relationship with Natalie Harper becomes an attack line, they trot Melania out for some PR event. Quite a coincidence, eh?

Capturing fuchsia flowers with a marble and a macro lens

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