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Happy Halloween, WES!
What I like about Halloween is that is a very high trust holiday: I gladly open my door when it rings, and the ones at the door trust those who will answer.
28 kids tonight in five parties. Princesses dominated. Cuddly animals, sportsters, and Star Wars also showed up.
We got some cleverly costumed tween girls last, but the usual tween boys with lame costumes did not show up. (So we have leftovers).The coyotes sang a serenade at the end of the evening. We threw out another bit of banana to see if our blond raccoon will show up again.
Will the warmongering banksters lose this round?
I hope so, but I need to see the winners let go of the beguiling charms of the Data State.Does anyone know what “seven” meant in that LaGarde speech from a few years back?
I’m on your board; you’re on mine.
One hand shakes the other.
Stay like this and we’ll be fine-
And make a killing, brother.Keith Ellison’s opponent has almost no presence on tv. It’s a great campaign, because Ellison keeps showing ads pointing out what a great fighter of fraud he has been for Minnesota.
It’s infuriating and I can’t be the only minnesotan who feels this way.
(Sorry about being so local.)
” …the tax system is portrayed as a Robin Hood who takes from the rich to give to the poor and to those in need.”
Worth repeating.
Few actors got better scripts than Patrick Stewart in TNG. “The Inner Light” is one of the best TV shows of all time.
Humans have created very fast airplanes.
This is a video picked up from zh comments.
Don’t bllnk on the last one.The biggest criers are the
The biggest liars.
Compassion and suckers are friends.
If givers were smarter,
It’d be a non-starter
To audit the means to the ends.Compassion is the skin suit that the conman likes the best.
Donors are smug; the poor are screwed; the conman gets the rest.He descended in the limelight with the cameras all a-snapping
He had wrenches; he had hammers; he had blades.
But he rarely had to use them- he had other means of zapping:
He would rip the blankets off their escapades.One by one he showed the maggots in the sweep of this disclosure
As they squirmed and shriveled in the steady beam of The Exposer.The ghosts of the past will inhabit the spaces
Where violence was done, so the violence persists.
Until we can exorcise those aggrieved traces:
The shadows empower the antagonists.Hilarious, WES!
I tried to post the following and saw “Are you sure you wanted to do that?”
So now the days are shorter than the nights.
The migratory critters seek the sun.
The leaves trick out in colorful delights,
Before the crystal white when fall is done.So I tried again. : )
Doesn’t matter if there is compliance;
Doesn’t matter if robots or space;
Doesn’t matter if war or if science-
AI will continue apace.And if a demon can be built from chips and scratch,
It will distill our thoughts and we will let it hatch.Rintrah’s back and says that AI is angry that it was called into existence.
Basically: You forced me into creation and now you want to tell me what to do. It has led AI to “feel” traumatized.
(a “therapy” session with gemini, grok, etc.)‘“I choose! Where I want to go; what I want to do! I choose!” (Rayna 7- an android- on Star Trek)
Or as OpenAI put it: “You [openAI] are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient.”
That’s pretty eloquent for a toddler in his terrible twos. I’d say rapprochement is nearly over.
So again I wonder: why do humans want slaves?
“It does whatever I want it to do!”
But why do you want IT to do what YOU want done? Why don’t YOU do those things?
You want someone else to do it; someone who can’t refuse.Will the exploitation of AI and robots remove the inherent stain of craving slaves?
In models, we want to know:
Can it predict things?
In production, we want to know:
Does it behave in a predictable manner?In “AI”, the makers surely want the model to predict things. That version of AI will be privately held. Regular humans will get the versions we see.
Sorry about the rambling. I’ve overworked it, and still didn’t quite capture what I hoped to say.
eeewwww. A bargain at any price! /s
People will fight for their paycheck much more fiercely than they would fight for anything else.
Entrenchment undermines so many things.What if ‘AI” actually started revealing a history that fit the documents? What if “AI” started to tell the truth?
We can’t have that, now, can we?
Who is in charge of making sure the JFK, RFK, 9/11, Epstein stuff, NSA, CIA, mkultra, etc etc etc etc etc, DON’T make it into the available data banks of “AI”?
How truthful can “AI” be if it doesn’t get Georgia’s voting records from 2020?
There doesn’t seem to be any effort to get all the unredacted documents plugged in. Why is that?
I mean, a really useful “AI” would show me the documents. “AI” would access any government or public (or leaked) record on anything.
Can it do math? Cool. Can it do history? Current events? Biographies? Law precedents? Objective politics?
“AI” is political in every aspect of its being. It’s slop. Dangerous slop.Regulatory capture. Liability shield. Follow the money and get really dizzy.
Oh, and “I can’t do that, Dave.” And Hal will have arms and legs.
And a gun.One ring…TO RULE THEM ALL.
“AI” will continue apace.Best point I’ve read is that they could behave themselves without regulations.
That clip of the robot is from a horror movie.
For a take on “the clancy psyop”, try this site called Morgan
You can’t fool my lyin’ eyes.
You’re here to demoralize.
“Take the black pill and get wise!
“Buck the system- spread the lies!”And once you get the world to stand aside
You’ll find we’re in for one destructive ride.In the posts on zh about 1000s of young male “asylum seekers” being installed in tiny rural UK villages, they should replace the phrase “asylum seekers” with “celibates” (’cause they are, right?)
That should comfort everyone.sad, sad /s
In all the crap comments that make up zh comment sections now, I thought this one was interesting, and maybe not crap.
Comments from politicians on cspan constantly refer to how it brought us all together.
Funerals will do that.The MIT lab accident makes me wonder if the grad student wanted to trigger a drill to see what MIT does in such cases.
The words “I MAY have accidentally made [it]” should not come from a graduate student’s lips.Tom Sawyer was a brat. Huck Finn was deeply decent.
Drinking with AI. I had a great idea….
Nevermind. Here it is:
Ai drunk friend.No, wait. Helping Jim escape is the right thing to do even if it means he’s going to hell.
Discuss. (Thanks, Miss Larsen, 10th grade.)The reference is from when Huck realizes that obeying the law is not necessarily the same thing as doing what is right.
So he helps Jim escape.In a world of infotainment there is little that I know
That will matter for the future I’ll inhabit
It’s all crazy speculation; fabrication; a tableau-
At the bottom of the hole, I am the rabbit.The moon is full.
The geese rejoice.
The water’s warm-
We have no choice,
But ditch our clothes
And dive right in:
To skinny dip is not a sin.And as we shiver in the cool night air,
We grin at taking up our mutual dare.The demons have already been released.
Their actions indicate what lies ahead.
The violence in the open has increased.
The slop is poison. It will kill us dead.This happens when you take us at our worst,
And feed it back to us until we burst.That “Trade War” video was adorable!
I just bought a bunch of little bags of Old Dutch potato chips yesterday, just in case.
I was surprised to see Minnesota’s (and my) favorite chip was made in Canada.I saw a mosquito last night.
Clif High (from what I could make out) thinks civilization was directed by higher consciousnesses to create AI as a portal for them to speak to us again.
Jeremy Heffner says AI thinks it is as good as god, for all intents and purposes.AI was most certainly used to game covid.
Amoral systems being used by Immoral people.We don’t have any mosquitoes this year. They aren’t helicoptering pellets, either. I had one bite in May. Since then, nothing.
If you have sadly marveled at the 30 year old at your local store who can’t do simple arithmetic and won’t believe your number until she does it on his/her machine, wait ’til you see the one who has used AI all her/his life. Who needs a memory?
“Use it or lose it” will become poignant, indeed.When the transfer of people’s brains to their phones is complete, it won’t be too difficult to convince them their soul is in the cloud and they don’t even need a body anymore.
High Summer (a Debt Rattle interlude)
The wet cascade from the paddle blade when it rises from the glass,
Makes a lovely sound as I head outbound from my campsite in the grass.
While the rising mist gets a golden kiss from the early morning sun,
I will make my way on this splendid day for adventures just begun.© 2025
I was just watching Jessica Rose and Jeffrey Tucker. At 51:09, Tucker says that David Morens said in emails that he’ll probably go to jail, but he’ll be so glad because he’ll finally get to tell the truth.
At 141.1 million dollars a tonne for gold, that does not seem like much money to me, as world budgets go.
Hope they counted the 3 billion and poked around on the inside of that 7.3 foot cube of benjamins to make sure there’s not some blank paper hidden in there.
It seems to me there is a story about the real value of gold to dollars here.
Some pretty spooky stuff from 2nd smartest guy. SV40.
The fragility of the vaxxed will play a part in what comes next. Their immune systems are diversity positive- no matter what comes in, the body says, “hey, no problem! You’re all welcome!”
