The cat scores!
Ikea has
the perfect gift for your favorite junkie.
These cats have things their own way.
When
this happens, you know it's too cold.
Don't try this at home. Or anywhere.
He's a
non-conformist.
You may like this zany battle on
planet Insomnia.
Even the trains in Canada are cooler than here.
Fear the wrath of
mommy cat.
This is the Inca city of
Machu Picchu in Perú (NSFW blog, requires Blogspot login).
Eating more fruits and vegetables
will help you sleep better.
Drinking three to four cups of coffee per day
can slow down aging.
How do you justify relying on science?
Bird flu is killing seals. I wonder if there's a seal flu that can kill birds.
Language and intelligence are not the same, which is why the "AI" we have now is not a step toward actual artificial intelligence.
Doctors at a London hospital
worked with car racing pit-stop teams to improve their procedures.
Don't try to
turn your passion into a job.
How popular is
Harry Potter?
Some companies are now
using "AI" in video games, resulting in games so bad that customers are demanding refunds.
At last, we've found
a use for birds.
"
I wasn't born under a star named rage."
Work, work, work.....
Don't
get scammed on health insurance.
Keep your money in an actual bank or credit union,
not in some "app" or retailer-sponsored system.
There was a side of
Elizabeth Taylor you may not know.
Don't trust
quotations you find on the internet unless you fact-check them. They are often inaccurate. And as always,
especially fact-check things that you
want to believe are true.
There is now a support group for people suffering mental breakdowns from using chatbots, and their family members.
Let's look at
the lives of oppressed people.
The "Trump Mobile" phone was supposed to be released this August.
There's still no sign of it.
You
can get good results from "AI" -- by
not actually using "AI".
Do not give your kid
this teddy bear.
This is a story of
colonization and decolonization.
The border patrol is
spying on American drivers and stopping and even arresting those whose driving patterns it deems suspicious.
South Korea carried out a huge experiment with "AI"-generated school textbooks.
The result was an abject failure.
Plain honest language will set you free.
The expensive hardware in all those "AI" data centers is
degrading very rapidly from overuse and becoming obsolete.
A bizarre cult is
teaching women to give birth with no medical help. It's very dangerous -- the medical knowledge and technology we have now was developed for solid reasons. Before that, childbirth was a leading cause of death for women.
Our country is addicted to
a dangerous sport.
"
We will remember who opened the door."
A now-fired safety engineer is
suing the robotics company at which he formerly worked, alleging serious negligence of safety issues.
Christian theology is
an incoherent mess.
Microsoft is turning Windows 11 into
an "AI"-infested nightmare. Most users appear to be unhappy.
A
thousand-year-old letter shows how history repeats familiar themes.
Women are
being legally punished for challenging men.
Changes in Trump's speech patterns from 2015 to 2024 show signs of serious mental deterioration.
Public resistance
has stopped construction of a data center in northern Michigan.
Asshole bosses can make a company
sound and operate like a cult.
Several states are
acting to protect our right to pay in cash at stores.
Trump
thinks he can speed up scientific progress using "AI".
A Russian priest
preaches female subjugation. Note that the Bible does indeed say "
let the woman learn in silence with all subjection" and "
for the husband is the head of the wife". The evil here is the Bible itself -- this is not some specifically Russian aberration.
Yeesh, that brain worm
really messed him up.
This data center in Louisiana is
already wreaking havoc on local people, and it isn't even fully built yet.
Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, but.....
Some Oregon cities are
turning off their traffic cameras to make sure they can't be used by ICE to help abduct people.
Meta's
track record on child safety is appalling.
You can't trust the media.
Many private schools in Alabama
push junk education.
US customers
are unhappier than ever before, as customer service degenerates into a shithole of automation and chatbots in which it's getting harder and harder to reach an actual person.
The biggest rental-housing company in the US
has been fined seven million dollars for using an anti-competitive price-fixing algorithm. It's better than nothing, but I'm not sure a fine that size means much to such a huge company.
An Ohio journalist
contrasts his state with Singapore.
"
They present themselves as friends to the Arabs but in reality they're just enemies to the Jews."
Break free from mind control. Interrupt the loop. Anything that stops the endless scroll is a win.
Elon Musk's "AI" supercomputer presents a
national-security risk -- and similar risks may extend to our whole power grid.
63% of Americans
support Medicare for all.
Large-scale software projects
routinely fail disastrously as management repeats the same mistakes over and over. Some of these failures have led to people being falsely accused of crimes, even punished for things that never happened.
Rand Paul is warning Trump that invading Venezuela
would turn the MAGA movement against him. This actually seems plausible -- many of Trump's supporters voted for him because he promised to keep the US
out of foreign military involvements.
70% of Americans oppose an attack on Venezuela.
In 2024
I posted about the plan to re-introduce dangerous wolves into the ranching country of western Colorado, a move opposed by the local people but forced on them by voters in the urban parts of the state who would never have to suffer the consequences of it themselves. Now, two years on,
the program looks like a disaster, with the transplanted wolves dropping dead left and right and costs over budget by millions (what the hell are they doing, flying the damn things to Colorado first class and putting them up at the Ritz?). The locals haven't even needed to shoot them.
The venture capitalists and CEOs who have the most to lose when the "AI" bubble collapses
are desperately trying to convince us (and maybe themselves too) that it isn't a bubble and that there's a viable industry here. In fact, the "industry" mostly consists of companies circulating the same money round and round among themselves so everybody can claim to be getting revenue. "
True end demand is ridiculously small. Almost all customers are funded by their dealers."
And yes, when the bubble collapses,
"AI" will mostly disappear from everyday life. Good riddance.
Reminder:
it would be almost impossible to purge the Epstein files of incriminating material.
Santa Fe NM has passed a law
linking future minimum wage increases to housing costs, not just to meaningless official inflation figures.
"
These perverted men want to be in female spaces. There's no euphoria boner to be had in the third category."
Elon Musk
spreads neo-Nazi ideas online and supports the murderous tyrant who rules Saudi Arabia. The post also has reports on what other billionaires are up to. You really need to be
reading this blog regularly.
ICE agents are
apparently not trained to recognize tribal ID cards.
Insurers are
trying to avoid covering "AI"-related damage, since "AI" technology's constant random errors and the associated costs are so unpredictable.
Orthodox churches on the US
are attracting a lot of young men, but it's not actually a positive for those churches.
After wasting millions of dollars and pointlessly disrupting essential services,
DOGE is finally gone. The government is still trying to
assess and repair the damage it did.
There are shortages of skilled workers everywhere,
for some mysterious reason.
Canada's supreme court has
re-affirmed the criminalization of most aspects of sex work, ignoring the pleas of sex workers and perpetuating a dangerous environment for them.
A new health-care law in Québec is
driving doctors out of the province.
The British military is now testing
a high-powered laser to shoot down drones, a far cheaper alternative to anti-drone missiles.
Germany is suffering
a surge in violence against women.
Security forces in European countries, with the aid of the Mossad,
have thwarted several jihadist terrorist plots.
Russia's youth counterculture
opposes the regime and the Ukraine war. It's hard to assess how much support this actually has among the broad mass of young people, though. Since that post, Loginova has gotten out of jail and
fled the country.
The number of Israeli citizens with gun licenses
has more than doubled since the October 7 attack. People want to be able to fight back if such a thing happens again.
Contrary to what the Western MSM report,
Israel is becoming more valued by its Middle Eastern neighbors as a partner against jihadism and the Iranian theocracy.
Japan has
placed medium-range missiles on a Japanese island less than seventy miles from Taiwan, to help deter a Chinese invasion of that nation.
Kim Jong Un has reportedly ordered North Korean soldiers in Russia
to blow themselves up rather than surrender.
Air pollution in Delhi
is becoming unendurable. This will soon be the world's largest metro area. India needs to make sure that it remains habitable.
Paternity tests are now all the rage in Uganda, often with disquieting results.
More links at
Red State Blues,
WAHF, and
Comedy Plus.
My posts this week: some
truths and inspirations, and the dangers of our country's
skyrocketing inequality.
No, I have no idea what these people are doing
Las Vegas sunset, photo by Mary Kirkland
Textile mill at night, New Bedford MA
Hyperion, a moon of Saturn
Scotland
Galaxy NGC 2090
A giant amethyst geode, weighing five and a half tons
Potala palace, Lhasa, Tibet
