O2

Bubbles beneath the sea surface. © Shutterstock

The oceans are losing O2 thanks to global warming and the continued dumping of stuff like fertilizer at alarming rates. Due to GW, warm water holds less O2 than cold. Combine this with over fishing, habitat destruction and the slow motion deterioration of the AMOC and one sees something most ominous coming to pass as civilization moves further into the 21st century. 

(1) The shallow upper leg of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation carries warm, salty water northward. (2) The warm currents heat up the surrounding air and land, helping to create temperate weather over Western Europe. (3) The surface waters become cooler and denser as they near the Arctic, driving the currents deep below the surface and helping to propel the system. (4) The deep, cool waters run back down the Atlantic.

Oxygen, the element that sustains nearly all multicellular life on Earth, is disappearing from the world’s aquatic ecosystems. In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere.

The paper, published June 30 in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, argues that aquatic deoxygenation should be added to the Planetary Boundaries framework. First introduced by a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists in 2009, the framework identifies nine ways that humanity is pushing crucial processes that maintain Earth’s stability and resilience past their limits. They are climate change, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, atmospheric aerosol loading, stratospheric ozone depletion, freshwater change, land-use change, chemical pollution, and biogeochemical flows.

“The health and stability of our planet depends on the health and stability of aquatic ecosystems, which need oxygen to function normally,” lead author Erica Ferrer, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, said in a statement. “This study is designed to elevate the profile of aquatic deoxygenation as a global threat and show that it does not operate in isolation.”

Globally, the ocean has lost roughly 2% of its dissolved oxygen since the 1950s, and scientists expect it to lose another 1% to 7% by the end of the century, according to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth observation and environmental monitoring initiative. While that may not sound like a significant reduction, it doesn’t take much to deprive organisms of the oxygen they need and upset delicately balanced aquatic ecosystems.

Something most ominous indeed.

Piling it on ...

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Following up on the Reflecting Pool fiasco with limos driving in the drained pool to show everything is STRAC is the ongoing CF, AKA Trump's War, now that Israel, America's partner in crime, has ducked out, leaving the orange menace twisting in the wind to "manage" an unnecessary war America has already lost, something most cavil and disquieting to say the least.

Trump drives across Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to inspect blue coating he's adding - PBS News

The war in Iran—so recently “ended” to the back-slapping acclaim of the administration that started it—is definitely back on. Iran attacked an air base in Jordan and other sites over the weekend, killing a total of three American soldiers (another service member was missing as of Sunday). The United States retaliated; Iran retaliated back. The New York Times described the countries as having “edged closer to a wider war.”

Donald Trump actually makes a fair point when he reminds people that Vietnam lasted a decade and cost 58,000 American lives (and two million Vietnamese ones, which he doesn’t mention as often). Iran isn’t close to being a “quagmire” just yet—not even a Dubya-style one. People can get a little overwrought when discussing these things.

Possible scenarios ..., Channeling Custer comes to mind here.

Or, Trump may decide to do a massive bombing raid on Kharg Island, the distribution point for 90 percent of Iran’s oil and natural gas. He bombed Kharg back in March, but that raid deliberately did not involve attacks on the island’s oil and gas infrastructure. Would Trump simply repeat that—an attack that had little discernible impact on events—or would he raise the stakes and hit the oil and gas installations this time? There has also been talk of a full-scale invasion of the island by U.S. troops. Doctor Testosterone over at the Pentagon probably can’t wait. Trump is surely holding off on both of these options because he knows full well that either would likely send gas prices soaring to the heavens and have other negative effects on the global economy. But Iran could do something that makes Trump change his mind, makes him feel he needs to do something dramatic, give Fox and Newsmax some A1 footage of things going boom.

An even worse scenario would see both sides escalating until some utterly predictable “unpredictable” thing happens. A U.S. bomb hits another school, or a town square, and a few hundred civilians die. Iran kills some critical mass of American soldiers—a couple hundred, say. Slowly, or maybe not so slowly, this becomes a real shooting war, the kind of conflict that leads the news every night and has no plausible end in sight.

Finally, there is the possibility that Trump gets impatient over a war he thought he was going to win in two weeks, and he takes drastic action that truly does shock world opinion. The wholesale bombing of civilian infrastructure. Bombing of civilian targets resulting in heavy casualties. The metaphorical “nuclear option” in this scenario would be quite literally nuclear. When people think of nuclear war, they think of the planet being blown to smithereens. But in fact, the United States has many small, tactical, variable-yield nuclear weapons in its arsenal, much smaller than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (15 kilotons). I know—no one thinks this will happen, no one takes it remotely seriously. And they’re probably right. I’m just saying—with Donald Trump (and Pete Hegseth), never say never. I’m sure if you’d told the experts two years ago that the United States of America would start downing small watercraft in the Caribbean without apparent justification, going so far in at least one case as to strike a vessel a second time to kill the survivors, you’d have been greeted with condescending laughter.

Until now ...

Decision Making 101 :)

Scientists found that the brain starts making decisions earlier than expected,
a breakthrough that could reshape the future of AI. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com

When reading the Science Daily's piece regarding how the brain makes decisions, yours truly smiles as John Boyd's OODA loop is finally getting the recognition it deserves as these recent findings reinforces the validity of feedback loops, recursion and a constant reevaluation of the scene at hand in realtime as everything's incomplete, nothing is ever finished because if it were, there would be no reality. To whit ...

For life to function, there must be slippage, the ability to adapt and interact with the noisy environment in realtime, along the lines of the OODA loop or die, something that is not the case as seen by the myriad of life forms on planet earth. In order to life to do this, analog rules as seen by the OODA loop diagram whereby the ability to stay alive depends on observation of chaotic outside events, adaptive interaction with the environment, proper response to feedback loops driven by the environment and intelligent decision making based on an ever changing situation filled with uncertainties, something beyond the kin of baseline digital computation as seen by the rise of neural nets, the front end analog engine of AI - RM. 

Hence, the logic of the brain and all life using OODA as the construct to properly deal with reality, is fact, not fiction and the recent findings, as per Science Daily, is proving out to be true as we speak.

For decades, many artificial intelligence systems, including convolutional neural networks, have been inspired by the idea that the brain processes information in a one way sequence. According to this traditional model, sensory information travels upward through increasingly complex brain regions until it reaches the frontal cortex, where decisions are made.

Vlasov and other researchers have increasingly questioned whether that picture is complete.

Instead, they are exploring a model based on natural intelligence, which has been refined through evolution over hundreds of millions of years. In this framework, the brain does not rely only on a step by step flow of information. Decision making also depends on interconnected feedback loops that allow information to move in both directions between brain regions.

Because biological intelligence performs remarkably complex tasks while using far less energy than today's AI systems, understanding this architecture could help guide the development of future artificial intelligence.

Click here to read Boyd's essay titled Destruction & Creation to learn why OODA rules. 

Any questions? :)

The useful idiot ...

Two men wade in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz with vessels anchored in the background,
off Bandar, Abbas, Iran, Sunday July 12, 2026. (Razieh Pouday/ISNA via AP)

Trump's and Israel's war, threatening to blow up the world based on lies and greed, goes beyond comprehension. In 1953, the US kicked off this mess by placing democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh under house arrest, by the CIA, in order for England to gain access to Iranian oil. To insure access, the Shah was installed as defacto dictator, whereby Iran experienced a brutal crackdown for the ages which, in 1979, the country, who was our friend in 1953, revolted against the Shah and became a theocracy.  Because Iran is a real country, and is not Arab, it's a problem for Israel as Israel wants to become Greater Israel as per Zionist philosophy and Iran stands in it's way. Because Trump's bought and paid for by Zionist oligarchs, Trump does Bibi's bidding and here we are. Question, do you think Ike would have tolerated this insanity or Nixon? I thought so.

Mohammad Mosaddeq (1882 - 1967), Iranian Prime Minister.

Mohammad Mosaddegh[a][b] (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis.[5][6] He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923 and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis,[7] until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr.[8][9] As prime minister, he implemented policies that came to be known as Mosaddeghism.

Before its removal from power, his administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes including the introduction of taxation on the rent of land. His time as prime minister was marked by the clash with the British government, known as the Abadan Crisis, following the nationalisation of the Iranian oil industry, which had been built by the British on Persian lands since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC/AIOC), later known as British Petroleum (BP).[10]

In the aftermath of the overthrow, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi consolidated power and negotiated the Consortium Agreement of 1954 with the British, which gave split ownership of Iranian oil production between Iran and Western companies until 1979.[11

Fast forward to 2026

A week after the United States and Iran signed a preliminary deal aimed at ending the war, an Iranian drone slammed into a cargo ship sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.

There were no casualties or major damage, but the June 25 attack set off a chain of hostilities that would put the two countries on a path back toward all-out war less than a month after they agreed to stop fighting.

Each strike and counterstrike chipped away at the pillars of the agreement, which has now collapsed, though there are still efforts to salvage it. Red lines set by both sides have been crossed. A return to full-scale war that would further destabilize the Middle East and disrupt the world economy appears increasingly likely.

Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement.
In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of
a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century.

The vision

An approximation of the "Royal Grant" to Abraham consisting of all the land east of the Brook of Egypt and west of the Euphrates, north of Kadesh and south of Hamath, from a 1919 book by Clarence Larkin.

Trump, as useful idiot, applies

The missed convergence ...

 

10PM August, 2025

Yours truly has a Sony A7SIII, the monster of low light, but you, my loyal readers, already know that. Why is this being discussed as the 7SIII has been out for over 4 years and is due for an update but I digress as this blurb is not about just the camera but also about a missed opportunity of Lytro not talking to Sony about light field tech being integrated with the 7SIII.

Lytro was a US company based in Palo Alto, which launched the world’s first consumer LightField camera in 2011. The second generation camera, the Lytro Illum, was released in 2014. The company subsequently shifted their focus from consumer electronics to the high-end Virtual Reality and Movie sector, before closing down in 2018.

The tech is astounding ...

Software Refocus

One of the most prominently marketed features of light field photography is the possibility to change the focus after the picture is taken. Knowledge of the direction of light rays in a recording allows us to reconstruct different versions of a photo with infinitely adjustable focus:

Post-capture software refocus animation

Synthetic Aperture and Variable Depth of Field

The information contained in a 4D light field volume includes a 3D model of the captured scene, as well as the direction of all light rays arriving at the sensor. Using this rich information, we can use complex mathematics to change optical parameters which, in conventional photography, would be fixed when the image is recorded. One of these parameters is aperture, which determines the depth of field. This makes it possible to produce images with very shallow depth of field (e.g. a very blurry background), or infinite depth of field (where everything is in focus), from the same recording.

But ... It's a light hog.

Enter the missed convergence of the Sony A7SIII and Lytro, courtesy Gemini with minor edits. :)

When analyzing the failure of the consumer Lytro camera, the tech industry often points to a market that "wasn't ready" for 3D volumetric files. While true, the 232 Architecture reveals a much more fundamental mechanical failure: Lytro failed to understand the physics of  light.

They built brilliant optical plumbing but connected it to a proprietary form factor ignoring the established professional ecosystem.

The Thermodynamic Cost of the lack of light

To capture a light field, you place a Micro-Lens Array (MLA) in front of the sensor. This physical Lattice of micro lenses, similar to a dragon fly's compound eye, splits the incoming light rays to map their angular trajectory.

But this optical calculation carries a heavy thermodynamic cost. By splitting the light to record depth, the micro-lenses inherently reduce the intensity of the light hitting the sensor. Plenoptic cameras are notoriously light-hungry. In anything other than bright daylight, the image starves, generating massive digital noise as the sensor struggles to process the fragmented wave.

The A7S III Sensor

The ultimate solution was right in front of them, sitting in the Sony ecosystem.

If Lytro had abandoned their proprietary tubular camera bodies and licensed their micro-lens array to sit directly on top of the Sony A7S III sensor, they would have built a system for the ages.

The A7S III is a legendary piece of hardware specifically because it has a 12-megapixel full-frame sensor.

By keeping the megapixel count relatively low, Sony made the individual pixels massive. The sensor is essentially a frictionless vacuum for light, capable of rendering clean images in near-total darkness.

11 PM

We do not have to theorize about this capability; The A7SIII delivers.

Look at the above image  captured directly by yours truly on the A7S III. This is an extreme low-light environment—just ambient moonlight illuminating a road at 11:00PM

A standard, high-megapixel RGB sensor would choke on this scene, generating massive thermal and digital noise as it struggles to resolve the deep shadows. But the massive pixels of the A7S III effortlessly inhale the limited light, rendering the smooth gradient of the sky with little noise to mar the image.

If a Lytro plenoptic matrix had been placed over this specific sensor, it would have possessed the sheer light-gathering horsepower required to calculate the 3D volumetric depth of the road in one optical snap.

Conclusion: Balancing the Optical Ledger

Fusing Lytro's MLA with the A7S III sensor is the perfect solution of the low light problem. 

The micro-lens array demands a massive toll on incoming light to calculate the 3D void. The A7S III sensor possesses the extreme sensitivity required to pay that toll without generating thermal noise. The Sony sensor would act as the perfect, frictionless receiver for the plenoptic matrix. It is the ultimate missed convergence in modern optical engineering.

And so it goes - K. Vonnegut

How much longer?

Smoke from the massive wildfires has cast an orange haze over New York City
Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

How much longer?

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose new tariffs on Canada after hundreds of wildfires have left much of the northern US covered by a blanket of smoke.

The threat follows complaints by US lawmakers over the wildfires and Ontario's premier Doug Ford asking the US to send support to fight the fires, rather than complain.

"The United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air," Trump said, threatening to impose new levies over Canada's "willful negligence".

Again ... How much longer???

From Analog to Digital

Convergence V

The time has come,” the Walrus said,

“To talk of many things:

Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—

Of cabbages—and kings—

And why the sea is boiling hot—

And whether pigs have wings.”

— Through the Looking-Glass

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish - Stewart Brand

From Analog to Digital

Robert E. Moran

This history is dedicated to 5 extraordinary people

Phil Mittleman, Gideon Gartner, Beryl B

Billy Sunshine and Steve Forbes

Computer History - Convergence V

Notes from Underground/Rev 1

 Title page of Russian-language 1866 edition

Unlike Fyodor Dostoevsk's , The Underground Man attacking contemporary Russian philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?[5] as Dosteovsk's work can be viewed as an attack on determinism: the idea that everything, including the human personality and will, can be reduced to the laws of nature, science and mathematics.[6] but rather to the mysteries of quantum and how it applies
to a cochear implant.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, by Vasily Perov, c. 1872

Said system is NOT TURNED ON. It just resides in the skull but your truly hears croutons crunching on both sides of the head and finger snaps at less loudness but it's there though the audio nerve is cut and voices are totally gone. Ditto tinnitus! Why is this? Quantum? Analog, who knows but asking the doc about this and he said it happens all the time.

Aside from the fact the VA was an 11!!! in every way possible!, the fact remains, is it quantum and Orch-or, the microtubule notion of intelligence happening as we speak as they are everywhere.

Microtubule

One never knows, do one?- Fats Waller? :)

Boots on the ground?

President Trump at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., on Wednesday. 

Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

 Bone Spurs is contemplating the unthinkable, boots on the ground. Let's think about this, I'd rather not because if this happens, the Levant is gone as is the economy. This cannot happen or could it? 

As bad as Nixon was, this kind of insanity would not even be contemplated.

WASHINGTON—President Trump is leaning toward expanding U.S. military operations in Iran after days of briefings from top aides, U.S. officials said. Options include stepping up airstrikes, sending ground forces to seize Iranian islands near the Strait of Hormuz and bombing a fortified site that could be used for covert nuclear work.

Trump hosted a Situation Room meeting Tuesday evening to discuss the potential seizure of Kharg Island and other territory along the Strait of Hormuz using U.S. troops, as well as the potential bombing of a tunnel complex at Pickaxe Mountain, a nuclear-linked site the U.S. has yet to target. Expanding airstrikes against more targets in Iran, including energy sites, also remains a possibility.

The discussion was one of multiple formal and informal conversations Trump has held in recent days with senior officials including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the officials said.

The U.S. military said it launched two waves of airstrikes against Iran on Wednesday, targeting Iran’s ability to threaten vessels transiting the strait. “We’ll find out whether or not we settle with them, or we just finish it off,” Trump said at an industry event shortly after the second wave of attacks began.

Under the thumb of Bibi and the Zionist oligarchs applies.

Grief & the island of the Lotus-eaters ...

Courtesy of Great Curve Films

Grief, something all intelligent animals experience when a close friend or family member dies, has become yet another money maker thanks to greed and AI, something most disquieting to say the least.

Madeleine Rotzler’s new film, O Horizon, offers an odd vision of dystopia, even as it’s billed as a “sci-fi comedy drama.” The film itself is not always much to look at, but sometimes a film in its very strangeness can reveal a great deal, precisely because of all that it obscures. After all, so much of what matters these days is happening out of sight, suppressed by algorithms, hostile media, and even more hostile governments, and increasingly one must learn to look under the surface of simple things. Rotzler’s film gets its title from the layer of decomposed plant matter on the forest floor, the “O horizon,” but it’s what’s lying beneath O Horizon that truly matters.

In a near-future New York, Abby (Maria Bakalova) works in a neuroscience lab tracking the brain waves of monkeys, struggling to deal with the recent death of her father, played by David Strathairn. An intrusive, Siri-like AI assistant encourages her to visit a shabby-looking tech start-up called Seeking a Friend Store; there, a lone employee played by Adam Palley offers to recreate someone you’ve lost or are missing. After uploading a parcel of photos, documents, and other archival material to its servers, the company creates a digital avatar that you can call on your phone whenever you like. After some initial reluctance, Abby creates a digital version of her dead dad, and soon begins talking to it as a means of managing her grief as she tries to go forward in her life.

As an AI chatbot, her dead father acts like all AI chatbots: supportive, deferential, complimentary. The AI is always there with a new prompt to fill up dead air (“Tell me something fun that happened today,” “What’re you up to tonight? Having fun?”) or a little ego boost (“Dr. Williams is so lucky to have you. You’re excellent.… Somehow you’ve managed to develop excellence in all that you do. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise”). It’s always working to keep her engaged and affirmed, and anytime there’s any friction between the two of them, it backs off, eager to keep her on the line. If Strathairn’s dialogue wasn’t actually written by ChatGPT, the script does an excellent job of imitating it, and the bot’s lines have all the hallmarks of an LLM: cloying and irritatingly sentimental.

These are strange scenes. For narcissists, incels, and sociopaths, the appeal of a chatbot is that it will always tells them exactly what they want to hear, so you can imagine how uncomfortable it is to listen to such a thing telling someone else what they want to hear. As the platitudes and clichés dribble out of Abby’s phone, not even an actor with Strathairn’s delivery can save them.

The island of the Lotus-eaters beckons

Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters

I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower. Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships. When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them. They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches. Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.[4] - Odysseus