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That McKernan video was chilling. Thanks, Germ.
What’s a little cancer between friends?
Think of the attention you’ll receive!
It was really just a means to fiscal ends-
There’s money to be made from those who’ll grieve!speaking of plastic surgery….
ivanka before and after (it says)John Day- I date myself. : )
Keep on truckin’!jb-hb: thanks for the update on your well-worded letter. Hickenlooper may not have read it, but it sounds like somebody did.
My fabulous furry chipmunk says that peanuts will get you through times of no gold better than gold will get you through times of no peanuts.
I guess I’ll wait and see if the US comes up with a big beautiful rearmament package for Israel.
Until then (and I hope I’ll wait forever), I’ll simply hope that a ceasefire turns into an agreement.
Sadly, Israel gets really aggressive whenever peace is on the horizon.Aside- spellchecker in this little comment box red-underlined the word “peace”.
I appreciated this interview with Mike Benz. It’s really long (3 plus hours!) but it’s worth it.
Before we kill the blob, we better understand what it does.War is a game of snide and pique-
A masquerade of ruses.
Who’ll spin the wheel this upcoming week?
And who’s got control of the fuses?When speaking of politicians,
The name you may invoke,
Should always be understood to be
An insult or a joke.“No trains between Amsterdam, Utrecht and Schiphol until 6 pm”
Tough day in the Netherlands. Roads are closed for the NATO summit; people are supposed to try and work from home, and now this.A poster of that owl picture has to be available….wow.
That was a great horned owl call in the voiceover.Let me think like the optimists for a sec.
Trump makes a deal with Iran- I’m going to blow up your [abandoned] nuclear facilities and claim I destroyed your nuclear capabilities. Then you get to say you were knee-capped, nuke-wise (uncle!), and promise [again] that you don’t want nukes- and Israel has to shut up and stop bombing you. I’ll take a big hit politically, but hey, I’ve been impeached before, and I could retire. Vance can handle things.
Bonus: impeachment hearings would get eyeballs, and just in time for the next midterm election season, people could become actually acquainted with their “representatives”.From a zh comment:
“The Blaze” * tracking Boelter’s phone.
Flags are half-mast here in Minnesota, but the news doesn’t say much.
*new to me.Register your chickens!
“Turns out, some people were going so far as to register the roast chickens they’d bought from Tesco, and the government site just couldn’t cope.”I almost get the feeling that the world is waiting for action and adventure. At 70, I was more hoping for geopolitical boredom.
I find myself sitting outdoors a lot more, talking to chipmunks, squirrels, raccoons, and birds- or just the neighborhood folk.
They don’t seem frazzled at all.
jb-hb- I will be interested to know if you get any response from your congressperson.The war on everyone grinds on;
There is no place to be ensconced,
When everyone’s been made a pawn,
And grey ennui turns into angst.Some folks believe that with money comes power.
They rig the markets and push all the frauds.
Lovers of conflict- they usually cower,
Hiding in enclaves and swishing like gods.Some folks believe that with power comes money.
They want control over every last thing;
Putting their chips into bees to tax honey-
Lovers of sorcery, dressed in tech’s bling.Neither group thinks much of all those who labor,
And happily put them to needle or saber.When surveillance is ubiquitous-
And yet you need the ties-
The best way is to cover up
With blankets made of lies.And this is really, really true
When folks are bent on killing you,
As diplomats with fibs and ruse
Give cover while you cut the fuse.The zeitgeist of this age is pure distraction.
When Power hides, the Truth cannot get traction.Two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot overnight. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed at their home in Brooklyn Park. John Hoffman and his wife were shot and are expected to survive. [Both were/are Ds.]
Vance Luther Bolter (white, 57yo) worked for Pretorian Guard Services, and was appointed to some job by Gov. Walz. He posed as a cop and drove a fake cop car. He had “No Kings” pamphlets in his car. Also in the car was a “manifesto” with names of other Minnesota lawmakers.
He’s on the loose, and minutes ago a shooting by “someone dressed as a cop” was reported at a Brooklyn Park golf course.
Minnesotans were urged to not attend the No Kings rally, but it’s ongoing in St Paul.They’re seeking redemption.
They’re forcing their deity
To accept their exemption
For cruel, sinful piety.To whom it may apply.
I have always been a bit leery of Malone, but good on him that he has found where (I think) he really wanted to be.
I was thinking of Miles O’Brien of Star Trek singing his pretty tune, and how sad it is that European cultures are being erased. The song, I discovered, was called “The Minstrel Boy”. I wanted to find a good rendition of it, and this is one I really liked.
DBS- my quote was Spartacus speaking, not me. I am pretty clueless when it comes to what he writes, now. I get an uneasy feeling that he [thinks he] is going to ascend into AI heaven at some point.
Are LLMs useless for tyranny, now?One of their uses seems to be sucking brilliant minds into time sinks.
On a different note:
How the left approaches the recruitment of “kickass dudes” can be seen in this video. Check it out at the one minute mark. [“The lucrative business behind the LA riots” by “Brush Junkie”.]Spartacus:
“We’ve made LLMs absolutely useless for tyranny.”
One-Who-Remembers: “Brother, you’ve touched on something profound!”The tortoise is a memory machine. It downloads all the data of its life and never forgets anything. Tortoises have astonishing memories. They are what AI hopes to be. All past experience is available to make decisions in the NOW.
A tortoise’s existence tends to be quite small. AI’s “existence” consists of everything, everywhere, ever done on, with, or around a data machine.Things, they are a-changing.
If someone asked you to be in a play where you had to play you when you were ten years old, could you do it?
So my question was “energy used per carat of lab diamonds versus energy used per output of chatgpt”
And this was the reply:
“Lab-grown diamonds consume significantly more energy per carat than ChatGPT requests. Lab diamond production can require 250-750 kWh per carat, while a single ChatGPT request uses around 3 watt-hours (or potentially as low as 0.3 watt-hours). This means that producing a single carat of lab diamond can use hundreds of times more energy than a typical ChatGPT query.”Hundreds of times! How many chat queries are there per day?
Break deBeers! Reset those who thought diamonds would get them over the border.
I like pretty rocks.
In heaven, God would say “I need some agates for dinner tonight. There’s a pile of beach stones over there. Could you find me a few?
And I would, indeed, know I was in heaven.It is obscured so none may see
Obedience is the only law.
It is the rule of conspiracy-
Exposure is its only flaw.From “Bobby McKay” over at zh (a reminder why I have stopped traveling abroad):
“CEPI and the U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND), announced a new agreement on May 28, 2025, that will enable the two organizations to collaborate on projects that expand global defenses against disease outbreaks”.
Nipah virus.It almost seems like much of the government “functions” without a head. ö
They want to know what he’s up to-
He’s making sure that they don’t.
Keeping them guessing’s a one-two
Punch in the face so they won’t.[or, if you prefer]
World War Three will be a picnic!
We’ll invite a bright Oreshnik.
/sTrump is actually using “He always lies!” as a weapon against the warmongers.
The scene from Gone With the Wind: the women sit in a sewing circle as Melanie reads to them. They anxiously await news of their men, who have gone to a “political meeting”. Scarlett, with her addled Theory of Mind, wants to know what the hell is going on.
We all want to know what the hell is going on, but sometimes it is best we keep our mouths shut, for the enemy is just outside the door.
War runs on secrets and lies. War is not stopped by The Truth.
War stops when one of the parties says in Good Faith, “I surrender!”
