Thursday, March 12, 2026

HOA, The Human Organ Atlas


Screenshot of the Human Organ Atlas portal. Credit: ESRF/UCL

HOA, The Human Organ Atlas, is open source & totally awesome, a treasure trove of science
available to all, is on line, ready to be accessed as needs warrant. :)

The Atlas is powered by an advanced imaging method called Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT), developed at the European Synchrotron (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, by an international team led by University College London (UCL), UK. HiP-CT uses the ESRF's Extremely Brilliant Source—a new generation of synchrotron source—which is up to 100 billion times brighter than conventional hospital CT scanners.

This allows researchers to scan entire intact ex vivo human organs non-destructively and then zoom in to near-cellular resolution (down to less than one micron, 50 times thinner than the size of a human hair). The technique bridges a century-old gap in medicine between radiology and histology, and represents a major advance in biomedical imaging.



How cool is that? :)

8 out of 10 ...



External safeguards don't work because we don't know how AI works. This is not rocket science.
It's akin to changing a tire on a car, if you don't know what a car jack does, said tire will never be changed. Safeguards must be internal, as part of the substrate of the AI in question. How to do that remains a mystery.




In closing ...


Any questions?

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Some pix, some 3D :)


Emergence/Rev V - Vue


Shadows


The Blur


The Excession - Homage to Ian Banks - Vue

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Bagmen ...




What a surprise, The TA is corrupt. On the take applies regarding 
the most venial administration in history but we already know about it, right?


On his first day back in office, Trump rescinded an executive order signed by President Joe Biden that required his appointees to comply with an ethics pledge. The pledge barred them from working on issues related to their former lobbying topics or clients for two years. Weeks later, Trump fired 17 inspectors general charged with investigating fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest across the federal government. Around the same time, he removed the head of the Office of Government Ethics, the agency that oversees ethics compliance throughout the executive branch. The office is currently without a head or a chief of staff.



The US is moving toward More Corrupt. Guesstimate 40-49 and rising.

Read the in-depth ProPublica piece. You will learn a lot, I know I have.

Monday, March 09, 2026

Less than 60

The expression says it all. The orange menace hasn't a clue.
Says one thing, does another so what else is new?

President Donald Trump is facing an energy dilemma if the Iran conflict goes on.

It will.

In January 2025, the newly elected President Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency” during his inaugural address. His proposed remedy included a pledge to refill the country’s emergency petroleum reserves.  

“We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top, and export American energy all over the world,” Trump said.

The president didn’t set a deadline for himself to do so—but in retrospect, an expedient one might have been useful. A little over a year after his declaration, the U.S. is heavily involved in a conflict in the Middle East that has left a hole in globally traded petroleum supply and caused U.S. gas prices to jump. And the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a supply buffer designed to mitigate price shocks by stockpiling emergency stores of crude oil, remains nowhere near full. 

The reserve currently holds 416 million barrels of crude oil, out of a maximum capacity of 714 million barrels—around 58%, according to the Department of Energy’s latest inventory report from Feb. 18. Since Trump began his second term, the reserve’s volume has only risen by around 5%.

The Department of Energy did not immediately reply to Fortune’s requests for comment. When reached for comment, the White House directed Fortune to a joint statement released Monday by finance ministers in G7 countries—the U.S., Canada, Germany, Italy, France, the U.K., and Japan. In the statement, ministers wrote they would respond with coordinated action to escalating consequences from the war in Iran, including, if necessary, a “stockpile release.”

It's necessary.

The Trump Admistration ...


The Trump Administration ...

Outsourcing ...




Seems this is what's happening with CEOs and not just the unwashed ...

To whit.





When thinking about this, the outsourcing of one's brains to AI applies not only with the boffins of AI but also with government, big business and the art of war because ignoring the tenets of The Mythical Man Month is foolish at best as doing anything of consequence takes effort and in-depth understanding needed to solve the problem at hand.


As proof ...


Any questions?

Sunday, March 08, 2026

The one essential ...



Finally, the endgame ... attacking one's existential, water,
something most precious in the arid region known as the Middle East.










And this ...


Question, what's the betting pool on Iran going after Israel's water? I thought so.

A very dangerous man ...



Something's not right here. Every other DOD head was calculated and precise.
Maybe not always right but the persona was acceptable, until now.

War Porn/Rev V



War porn lives, courtesy the Trump administration. 

To whit.