Accountability for AI

Thanks Keith Kron newsletter What really Matters on Accountability and Consernt. An excellent essay.

“… I think it’s time to hold the multi-billionaires accountable while leading by our own examples. Because we can’t just hold them accountable. It has to be us. And we have to agree to some standards around not doing harm, about supporting people who will lose jobs to AI, and about how we use it and for what. And it will take more than the AI leaders to do this.

It will take people who know, live, and teach what accountability is to teach them about it. Because they don’t get it. Or want to get it. They just want more for themselves. That’s not accountability. That’s greed.”

I came down with a fever last evening, and got it down with meds, but kind of skipped doing anything productive.

Here’s one more shot from today’s camera roll (figuratively speaking.) I changed the header already.

Our motel Thursday night was located on Rogers Ave, in Fort Smith. My son and I are both surname of Rogers. We are certainly not doing any sight-seeing on this trip. It’s just drive drive drive.

The bad news was losing my credit card by leaving it in the gas pump somewhere in Oklahoma.  I did call the bank and cancelled it. Fortunately I can transfer funds to another bank…which is my next job.

Two days on the road

We left Black Mountain at 11 am on Wed. July 22, earlier than planned.

 

Rafting on the Pigeon River - NC while we slowly drive the I-40 detour.

Tai driving past the Sun Sphere Knoxville TN

Nasheville TN

Sleep in Nashville TN

Breakfast

The highways in Tennessee were embraced by trees in many miles!

Memphis TN

Near the St. Jude’s Hospital with Danny Thomas Blvd…and continuing to Little Rock

The mighty Mississippi

Ok, the pictures are worth a thousand words. Right?

We started off from Nashville on Thursday and crossed all of Arkansas!

Our first and huge solar farm!

Tai enjoying his eggplant Parmesan in the motel in Fort Smith Arkansas 

My fettuccine Alfredo 

We’re enjoying Door Dash!

And watching Independence Day while I did my nebulizing treatment. I’m fine sitting in the truck, but am a whimpy noodle getting out and walking halls of motels.  Especially in 92 degrees. And Tai has done all the driving!

I am so glad we had the step stool because I couldn’t get in or out of the truck since the first step was higher than my knees!

Thanks for coming along with us!  

I felt so close to all who commented yesterday and I can’t thank you enough.

Blue Ridge memories

Rhododendrons at the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway

 

Just south of Richland Balsam Overlook

Thanks to a FaceBook post from David and Julia on the site: Riding the Backroads with Bonita

Biltmore House seen from the Shut In Trail, by Mandy Gallimore

Caney Fork Overlook on May 19, 2026. Doubletop Mountain and Kuwohi in the distance. by Anthony Crowley

Caney Fork Overlook on May 19, 2026. Doubletop Mountain by Anthony Crowley

Probably Grandfather Mountain with Linville Viaduct below

Linville Viaduct by unknown photographer - it only carries vehicles on the Blue Ridge Parkway, no water like ancient viaducts!

by Barbara L Kahn Laurel Knob Overlook on the BRP. 12.1.23

by Barbara L Kahn fire is burning adjacent to U.S. 80 (Buck Creek) in McDowell County, NC. 12.1.23

Black Cove Complex 3.27.25

Dawn - Aug 28, 2024. 7.22am by Barb Rogers at  Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway 

I-40 in Old Fort in McDowell County, coming home to Black Mountain NC from the east, not my photo, but I sure do know the feeling of coming home to the mountains!

Linville Gorge

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results, bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. We understand that law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world –- although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating -– and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.
      - James Allen, As You Think

On my way!

 A few hours after this is posted, we'll start loading the U-Haul truck to trek out to Colorado (about 1800 miles). My son will do most of the driving, and my other 2 sons helped by paying for his flight here, as well as the U-Haul truck. Great family to pitch in to help the mom hopefully live where the air is dry and one son is just an hour away.

Mum will take care of the food and gas, and pay the motel bills for probably 3-4 nights on our journey. Such an adventure!

Back in 2019, I drove with a friend behind the wheel out to Albuquerque NM and then rented a car to drive to Cortez CO. I'm not sure if we'll be going the same route, but planning on going west on I-40 for quite a while this time.

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You need to know when I travel I have to have nebulizer (inhaling 2 different drugs) to use morning and night, as well as the C-Pap with distilled water. These two devices go into one carrying case. Plus a gallon jug of water and the breathing drugs.

Now I am sleeping with added oxygen with the C-Pap, which means having the floor concentrator version (on wheels) brought in from car, then pulled back out each morning. This was part of the reason I decided not to fly out to Colorado! All of these devices need electricity to run!

I am so glad Tai will be with me for some of the hauling each night in motels. I always use my handy little cart to carry my various packs and small luggage. Now that I can read blogs on the iPad, I won't bother toting the laptop in and out of motels.

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Here's the target of the journey, myself to move into an apartment in Durango (on the right on this map). We'll overshoot it when we first get there to go to my son's and his wife's home in Cortez, 46 miles further west along the blue line. That's because I won't sign the lease till Monday morning at 10 am, and then we can unload the truck. We hope to arrive on Sunday, while the office is closed.

So I started working backward from moving in. What will I sleep on, since I gave away my 11 year old bed? I've got a nice queen size blow up bed, which automatically blows itself up. I even have bedding that size, including a mattress pad. Hope to purchase a new real bed within a short time.

Food will need to be purchased for fresh things, but I've 5-6 milk crates of canned and packaged things to get by on. Including boxes of almond milk for my granola! The trick will just be finding things...but I've packed food in those black plastic crates, and have a few bowls, mugs, spoons left for last packing and hopfully first unpacking!

I've traveled to visit my three sons and their families often ever since they've lived on their own...since they had bigger homes and I only had a guest air mattress if that. So I'm used to packing for the motel stops, the frequent stretch legs and use facilities stops, and driving driving driving! It will be nice to be the passenger. I need to remind myself to wiggle my feet frequently so my ankles don't swell up from lack of movements.

The main new elements are the coughing which happens most when I get tired, and the need for oxygen for sleeping, or when working on things that strain me. (I am ok getting a little out of breath but not a lot!!)  I have an appointment with my new pulmonologist just 3 days after I move in! Nice!

Of course I will have to use oxygen most of the time while unpacking, especially since the altitude of 6500 feet will also give less oxygen. Will move very slowly! No carrying heavy things!

So that's the plan, Sam. Get on the track, Jack. No need to be coy, Roy...

do you know the next part of the song by Paul Simon?

Just set yourself free!!

by Deseria Price, near Silverton CO

There's a narrow gauge railroad from Durango to Silverton CO...which runs along down the hill from my new apartment. Sometime I'll take that ride with all the other tourists!

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OK what's a post without a quote?

Yes, this is Durango CO...not my photo, but excellent to consider those mountains! When I've looked at Google maps, they just don't show the elevations worth a hoot!