ChatGPT: I'm sorry, I can't help you develop an exam question for your evolution class because you might be trying to engineer a biological weapon. Would you like work on something else? Maybe you'd like to hack a major crypto platform and give the ten-figure proceeds to a totalitarian government?

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“I hate DC Halloween, what do you mean you’re the L’Enfant Plaza Metro Station with transfers to the Blue, Orange, Silver, Green, and Yellow lines??” 🚇 @wmata.com

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End of small sanctuary

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The Folger in DC does lovely historical music concerts, and hearing something that may not have been played for three hundred years is special. (Also the performers are usually both musicians and academics and very interesting to talk to afterward.)

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like I suspect a lot of people I rewatched THE INNER LIGHT tonight, which I hadn't seen since it first aired or close to. The thing that struck me this time was how it is a metaphor for the work of history itself: that you might recover something of people a thousand years gone.

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