Monthly Archives: May 2026

Service Notice

May 31, 2026 – 5:09 pm

Away in CA for a few days, seeing to my brother’s final affairs. We gave him a good sendoff yesterday, with more than a hundred in attendance. Back in a few days.

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David Calder Pollack, 1961-2026

May 25, 2026 – 4:04 pm

On Tuesday, May 12th, my younger brother David died in a hospital near his home in California. He died of sudden septic shock caused by a large G.I. tumor that had just been discovered a few days earlier. He was only 64 years old — five years my junior. David was born on July 9th, […]

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Service Notice

May 12, 2026 – 7:00 pm

My younger brother, David – my only sibling – died today after a very brief illness. (I only found out on Friday that he was sick.) He was 64. I loved him very much. He was gone before I knew he was leaving. I will be writing about Dave in a forthcoming post. But it […]

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Claude On The Red And Blue Buttons

May 1, 2026 – 12:31 pm

People are still bickering on social media about that Red/Blue suicide-button question (see my previous post), and people seem so locked into their intuitions that I though I’d see what Claude, who seems for the moment to be the sharpest of the AI tools I have access to, might have to say about it. Here’s […]

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