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SUMMARY:Skeptics Talk ... 
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\nSeems [some] people like to talk to oth
 ers in their situations about anything they wanna talk about.\n\nIce Harbo
 r has plenty of space and variations of table placement in its back room. 
 If it's not quiet enough for us to hear each other\, there's outside seati
 ng on the porch or more distantly on picnic tables. AND getting home a bit
  after 9 PM is pretty nice for some of us oldsters. You drinking-dancing-w
 hooping-it-up crowd have time to head somewhere else with lots of time to 
 start the weekend as you like.\n\nIf you'd let us know if you can come - o
 r have a problem with the venue or date or time or ... whatever - we might
  be able to change things around in the future.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261101T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261101T160000
SUMMARY:Reasonable Doubt reads - "The Worlds I See" by Fei-Fei Li
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\nWe'll gather to discuss this month's bo
 ok:\nI don’t have a technical background/degree\, but I’ve been follow
 ing generative AI since ChatGPT was made public. Li’s memoir does a grea
 t job of providing a bit of AI history going back to ImageNet. Don’t wor
 ry\, it doesn’t read like a textbook. Very entertaining\, with a bit of 
 suspense too. Loved it.
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SUMMARY:Critical Views - watching something
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\n#### [A fascinating historical account]
 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31852716/review/rw9996031/?ref_=tturv_1)\n\n
 This documentary emphasizes the rising anxiety among the mission controlle
 rs\, astronauts\, and their families\, NASA and the US government\, and ev
 entually the whole world via the news media - at least\, for those with jo
 urnalists at the scene.\nThe personal reactions/body languages and team ch
 allenges of specialists working under extreme stress are fascinating to ob
 serve - plenty of thought-provoking content here for training courses\, su
 pplementing the usual Tom Hanks account focusing on the CO2 scrubber.\n...
 \nThere is loads of genuine Apollo footage (albeit supplemented by some fi
 ll-in content from other missions) plus contemporaneous TV coverage and ho
 me videos. If the evolving crisis doesn't spark your imagination\, the rem
 arkable scenes of a distant Earth viewed by three men\, uncertain they wou
 ld ever return\, are well worth the watch. Even the crude TV "graphics" te
 ll a story of the time.\nBottom line: a superb documentary account of the 
 near-disastrous mission - gripping stuff\, highly recommended.
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SUMMARY:Tri-Cities Drinking Skeptically
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\nThis is a bring-your-own-food event\, b
 ut sometimes there's a food truck (Fast & Curryous) out front. Come on by 
 and enjoy drinking and talking (cheering\, screaming\, ranting\, mummering
  OK too) with like-minded folk.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261127T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261127T203000
SUMMARY:Skeptics Talk ... 
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\nSeems [some] people like to talk to oth
 ers in their situations about anything they wanna talk about.\n\nIce Harbo
 r has plenty of space and variations of table placement in its back room. 
 If it's not quiet enough for us to hear each other\, there's outside seati
 ng on the porch or more distantly on picnic tables. AND getting home a bit
  after 9 PM is pretty nice for some of us oldsters. You drinking-dancing-w
 hooping-it-up crowd have time to head somewhere else with lots of time to 
 start the weekend as you like.
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SUMMARY:Reasonable Doubt reads - "Genesis" - Henry Kissinger\, Craig Mundi
 e\, Eric Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\nVOTE DAY - bring 3 titles of books you'
 d like us to read next year - we'll vote for one of them. And then:\nWe'll
  gather to discuss this month's book:\nIn his final book\, the late Henry 
 Kissinger joins forces with two leading technologists to mount “a profou
 nd exploration” (Walter Isaacson) of the epochal challenges and opportun
 ities presented by the revolution in Artificial Intelligence: a breakthrou
 gh that dramatically empowers people in all walks of life while also raisi
 ng urgent questions about the future of humanity.\n\nAs it absorbs data\, 
 gains agency\, and intermediates between humans and reality\, AI (Artifici
 al Intelligence) will help us to address enormous crises\, from climate ch
 ange to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. It might well solve s
 ome of the greatest mysteries of our universe and elevate the human spirit
  to unimaginable heights. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and 
 intensity we have never seen—usurping our power of independent judgment 
 and action\, testing our relationship with the divine\, and perhaps even s
 purring a new phase in human evolution.\nThe last book of elder statesman 
 Henry Kissinger\, written with technologists Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt
 \, Genesis charts a course between blind faith and unjustified fear as it 
 outlines an effective strategy for navigating the age of AI.
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SUMMARY:Critical Views - watching something
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\n#### ***Saving Private Ryan*** is a 199
 8 American [epic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film "Epic film") war
  film directed by [Steven Spielberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_
 Spielberg "Steven Spielberg") and written by [Robert Rodat](https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rodat "Robert Rodat"). Set in 1944 in [Normandy](ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy "Normandy")\, France\, during [World 
 War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II "World War II")\, it fo
 llows a group of soldiers\, led by Captain John Miller ([Tom Hanks](https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hanks "Tom Hanks"))\, on a mission to locate P
 rivate James Francis Ryan ([Matt Damon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt
 _Damon "Matt Damon")) and bring him home safely after his three brothers h
 ave been killed in action. The cast also includes [Edward Burns](https://e
 n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burns "Edward Burns")\, [Tom Sizemore](https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sizemore "Tom Sizemore")\, and [Jeremy Davies](
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Davies "Jeremy Davies").\n\nInspired 
 by the books of [Stephen E. Ambrose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen
 _E._Ambrose "Stephen E. Ambrose") and accounts of multiple soldiers in a s
 ingle family\, such as the [Sullivan brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Sullivan_brothers "Sullivan brothers") and the [Niland brothers](https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niland_brothers "Niland brothers")\, being killed 
 in action\, ... almost entirely on location in England and Ireland. The op
 ening [Omaha Beach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach "Omaha Beach
 ") battle was the most demanding scene ... using 1\,500 background actors.
 \nReleased on July 24\, 1998\, *Saving Private Ryan* became one of the yea
 r's most successful films\, earning critical acclaim for its graphic portr
 ayal of combat. WWII veterans described the combat scenes as the most real
 istic portrayal of their own experiences they had seen\; some said they ha
 d been unable to watch it due to their traumatic memories.\nConsidered [on
 e of the greatest war films ever made](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_
 of_films_considered_the_best "List of films considered the best")\, *Savin
 g Private Ryan*'s battle-scene filming techniques inspired many subsequent
  war\, action\, and superhero films ... In 2014\, the film was selected fo
 r preservation in the United States [National Film Registry](https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry "National Film Registry") by the [
 Library of Congress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress "Li
 brary of Congress") as "culturally\, historically\, or aesthetically signi
 ficant".
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SUMMARY:Tri-Cities Drinking Skeptically
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\nWe will probably meet this month\, thou
 gh a week before Christmas might be too conducive to excesses. Anyway\, if
  it's happening\,\nthis is a bring-your-own-food event\, but sometimes the
 re's a food truck (Fast & Curryous) out front. Come on by and enjoy drinki
 ng and talking (cheering\, screaming\, ranting\, mummering OK too) with li
 ke-minded folk.
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SUMMARY:Skeptics Talk ... 
DESCRIPTION:Tri-City Freethinkers\nThis year\, how 'bout we skip this?
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