Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

AI cannot carry the weight of social repair. AI can simulate care, but simulation is not shared experience. The danger is not that people talk to machines, the danger is the belief that machines fill the gaps created by weakened social infrastructures. No paywall: jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl... 9/*

I thought there might be a riff on “What do you do with a drunken sailor/ Early in the morning” but likely not.

One angle I've seen proposed is that the one in the bar was his brother, the one who wrested control of their parents company the H&H thing earlier on before House House got it back, hence why he was talking about the H&H hammer bit. And if they use him, they can have him show up in modern plot.

Pystopian