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6:35 David Eliot discusses his book Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of AI, which University of Toronto Press will publish on October 21st. Pre-order HERE: https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487567675
Think AI is all about data and algorithms? Think again. In Artificially Intelligent, researcher David Eliot places humans at the center of AI’s story, making a compelling case for the role we have yet to play in the technology’s transformation of our world.
Taking readers on a journey through the key moments and decisions that have shaped AI’s creation and, consequently, our lives, this socially-driven history shows how AI has the capacity to impact everything from education, sports, and medicine to business, culture, and dating—from how we learn to who we love. And it answers the big questions: How exactly does AI work? Will AI make our work life easier or will it cost us our jobs? Will it lead to cookie-cutter art, movies, music, and books or will it have a liberating effect on creativity? Is AI racist?
Inviting readers to find their place in the story of AI, Artificially Intelligent helps us understand its effect on our lives and to decide what kind of future we want to help create. It tells the story of the technology the way it was meant to be told: not as an exhaustive retelling of history or a prophecy of doom, but as a human story that is very much a work in progress. As David Eliot explains, the story of AI isn’t finished. The question is: How will you be part of it?
DAVID ELIOT is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, where he researches the social and political effects of artificial intelligence. He is a member of the Critical Surveillance Studies Lab, and his work on AI has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation PhD Scholarship.
7:10 Scott Walter is the President of the Capital Research Center www.CapitalResearch.org , which is an investigative think tank. Scott is also author of Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America.
Every year, billions of American taxpayer dollars fund pseudo-charities that serve as little more than extensions of the Democratic Party. With roughly half of Americans voting as Republicans, many citizens are bankrolling their own political opposition — and the corruption runs deeper than one might imagine.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is finally exposing this corrupt system. What they’re finding should outrage every taxpayer: billions of dollars flowing to organizations that aren’t “NGOs” — that’s Washington-speak for non-governmental organizations, otherwise known as “nonprofits.” No, these groups are really BGOs — basically government organizations.
Consider the Solidarity Center, a group that’s been awarded over $86 million in federal funding since 2008, with $61 million given during the Biden administration. This union-created outfit gets 99% of its revenue from taxpayers while serving the AFL-CIO, which gave 86% of its political donations to Democrats in the 2024 election. The Solidarity Center doesn’t just promote union causes. It champions radical “climate justice” and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. When DOGE recommended ending its federal gravy train, the group promptly sued the Trump administration.
MORE ABOUT THE BOOK: Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America
7:35 Jackson County Commissioner Colleen Roberts talks about the request from the Motorcyclists Rider Association to open up previously closed trails in the Monument and other locations.
| 8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, “Where Past Meets Present” www.DennisPowersBooks.com |
Crater Lake
By Dennis Powers
The first non-Native American to view Crater Lake is generally credited to John Wesley Hillman, a California prospector who was searching for the fabled “Lost Cabin Mine.” As the story goes, Hillman rode his mule in June of 1853, to a rim, where if it hadn’t stopped a few feet from the edge, he would have pitched over to his death. As his group marveled at the sight, a vote was taken on its name between “Mysterious Lake” and “Deep Blue Lake” with the latter chosen. The discovery was also referred to later as “Lake Mystery.”
Created after a violent eruption of an ancient volcano, Crater Lake formed 7,700 years ago by an explosion calculated to be 42 times as powerful as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. The mountain then was 10,000 to 12,000 feet high and later named Mount Mazama. A basin or caldera formed when the volcano’s top 5,000 feet collapsed from the ash and lava that exploded out. When the lava flows sealed its bottom, the subsequent rainfall and snowmelt over countless years filled this with 4.6 trillion gallons of water. The collapsed basin is roughly 3.7 by 5.5 miles, and the ash settled in a distinct layer over several thousand square miles.
The deepest lake in the U.S. was thus formed at 1,932 feet (sonar mapping in 2000 came up with an average depth of 1,943 feet)–and the seventh deepest in the world–that today is half-filled with water. A small volcanic island named Wizard Island is on the lake’s west side. Surrounded by black, volcanic lava blocks, its cinder cone rises 760 feet above the lake with a small crater at its summit.
The lake’s water is so clear that it holds a world-clarity record of 142 feet. The dramatic deep-blue color is due to its great depth, water clarity, and the way light interacts with water. Water molecules absorb the longer wavelengths of light better (reds, oranges, yellows, and greens). Shorter wavelengths (blues) are more easily scattered than soaked up. In the deep lake, some of the scattered blue light is redirected back to the surface to where the color is visible.
Peter Britt took the first surviving picture of Crater Lake in 1874; in 1902, President Roosevelt signed the law designating Crater Lake as the 6th National Park that now contains over 183,000 acres. The 30-mile Rim Drive around Crater Lake is two-lanes with scenic overlooks. From mid-October until mid-June, the north entrance and Rim Drive are closed due to deep snow and ice buildups, although the lake rarely freezes over.
Although visitors can fish (non-native rainbow trout and kokanee salmon) and swim, the surface water is cold but “warms” up in the summer to 55° to 60°. The “yellow stuff” floating in the water then is simply pine pollen that settles later to the bottom.
More visitors from California than from Oregon usually visit, and total visitations (including overseas visitors) number now over 500,000 people every year. This is one of the premier landmarks in Southern Oregon that people have marveled at since the first roads and treks led there.
Sources: National Park Service, Crater Lake, “Frequently Asked Questions,” at its website; “Crater Lake Institute: John Wesley Hillman,” at its website; Dennis Powers, Where Past Meets Present, Hellgate Press: Ashland, 2017, “Crater Lake,” Pp. 137-139.
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