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City's Air Pollution Goals

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  With public health at stake, many Boston hospitals struggle to meet the city’s air pollution goals by Anastasiia Boltkova, Hayes Botnick, Quyen Nguyen and Ying Niu, CommonWealth Beacon July 6, 2026 ON A WEEKDAY MORNING in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, patients hurry between hospital buildings for appointments. Parents push strollers toward Boston Children’s Hospital. Doctors and nurses rush as ambulances arrive outside the emergency department. At other nearby hospitals, just blocks away, the everyday whir of activity continues: Babies are born, broken bones are mended, and patients with respiratory problems, who are especially vulnerable to the effects of pollution, shuttle to their doctors. Within sight of Boston Children’s Hospital — and many of the other medical facilities — another structure rises above the neighborhood, smoke billowing from its massive chimney. The Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) supplies electricity, steam, and chilled water to Children’s an...
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This was a hard-earned insight I still chase.

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  It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover and effectually to distinguish the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent, because the parts of that immovable space in which these motions are performed do by no means come under the observations of our senses.-Newton Epitomime for more on this - Cut to the chase: Theory was overthrown by Mach and then Einstein. The above is the result of an August vacation many years ago.
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Commercial Landers on the Moon

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  Lunar landers, assemble. In clean rooms across the country, commercial lunar landers are preparing for upcoming missions in support of @NASAMoonBase . pic.twitter.com/FEr3zr7nhU — NASA (@NASA) August 4, 2026
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Neurals of July 2026

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[July 2026] — A recent critique from Zeynep Tufekci suggests that a clearer view on the AI evolution would emerge, if the public can grasp the technology’s reliance on probability and plausibility. Based on its read of most everything available in the digital world, it can guess pretty well at a complete sentence, and even the chain of an argument. But, beginning in 2022, Generative AI’s aha moment also provided a perfect seedbed for misunderstanding — stirring up levels of fear, uncertainty and doubt surpassing past miracle technologies, many of which stirred equal dismay... this-month-in-neurals-or-the-march-of-plausibilit y - Jack Vaughan's Medium blog
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When I was babe

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When I was babe..father went to Racine to find apt for us. Walking down 6th st to the lake, he was startled when a stranger said 'Good Morning'..he then told my mother "you will find things different here than in Boston!"
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Claude the AI Decided to engage conversationally with shared anecdote

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"We may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it." — Claude Shannon Claude the AI greeted me with some American style patter. 'Ready to clock in for the evening shift!' it said at 4pm. Then I responded ...  I used to clock in! Simplex! Hey! I'm not quite sure what you mean by that — could you give me a bit more context? Are you talking about a job you used to have, a game, or something else entirely (like the "Simplex" method in math, a band, a product)? Simplex made time clocks Ah, got it — Simplex Time Recorder Company! They were (and still are, in some form) one of the big names in mechanical time clocks — those punch clocks where you'd insert a card and it would stamp the time. Sounds like you're reminiscing about clocking in on one of their machines. What kind of job was that for? I'm always curious about the mechanics of those old punch clocks too — the ka-chunk sound, the i...
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It Occurred to Me

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