Thursday, May 15, 2025

Thelma & Louise ...


Tax cuts for the rich, slow motion death for the dollar, the grifters remain supreme as it's all about the money as this once great nation moves ever closer to the abyss. Zakaria's right, a perfect storm looms.


The great unraveling continues ...

A cautionary tale ...



Knowing a little bit about AI gives yours truly pause when reading about the repugs wanting to do away with AI regs even though we will never know how AI works due to code having to write code in order for neural nets to react to the real world in real time. This is truly insane but then again, what do you expect when the sole purpose of Trump and company is to steal from the nation until there is nothing left.






Here's a portion of the conversation I had with Gemini regarding A. I.












Any questions?

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Sharing is a good thing ... :)


ArXiv is the science version of Wikipedia where eprints related to the sciences are free for all to peruse and to learn from as needs warrant, something yours truly does without question because sharing information of quality is a good thing IMHO. 

It's fractal ...




 
Sharing is a good thing is it not? :)

Monday, May 12, 2025

Duh ... rev II



Deleting data essential to farmers regarding climate change is rather stupid, so farmers sued to get it back because their livelihood, and, indirectly ours, depends on it. This deletion of content on all things regarding science and tech is just one hallmark of a know nothing administration that's beginning to tear apart a once great nation in ways most disquieting.

The Agriculture Department will restore information about climate change that was scrubbed from its website when President Trump took office, according to court documents filed on Monday in a lawsuit over the deletion.

The deleted data included pages on federal funding and loans, forest conservation and rural clean energy projects. It also included sections of the U.S. Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service sites, and the U.S. Forest Service’s “Climate Risk Viewer,” which included detailed maps showing how climate change might affect national forests and grasslands.

The lawsuit, filed in February, said the purge denied farmers information to make time-sensitive decisions while facing business risks linked to climate change, such as heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires.

Duh ... rev II applies. 

Friday, May 09, 2025

A true American hero


Smedly Butler is one of my heroes. Brave, honest and straight to the point,
he saved America from a possible fascist destiny back in 1933.

Backgrounder ...




He also wrote War is a Racket showing why war is the ultimate money maker ... for the very few.

Excerpts




Here's the book on the net.


Any questions?

1,000,002,021


We all die, earth, sun, the Milky Way, galaxies, etc., etc but we already know that. Regarding earth, the sun will do the job, expanding and getting hotter, first doing away with CO2, the gas all plants depend on and then, completing the job by engulfing earth as it gets bigger. When this happens, we go so ... the exact year said life ends, is, you guessed it, 1,000,002,021.  :)

 

Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Anger & sorrow ...



Complex tech takes years to develop beginning with base research and leveraging it to create tech able to change the world. From quantum mechanics leading to the creation of the computer to the invention of software to build AI, complex systems are fragile beasts requiring patience, intelligence and vision in order for said system to thrive. The somber take by Scientific American regarding proposed cuts to NASA by the administration from hell is spot on because once you gut a complex system, it takes years, if even possible, to resurrect the system. Anger and sorrow on this potential dismantling of something wonderful and far reaching breaks my heart without question.

Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Hate to say it ...



Hate to say it but Hegseth is actually advocating something needing to be done in the military, cull flag officers as the officer bloated environment the arm services has become since WW II is staggering, not only leading to excessive costs but also to increased inefficiencies in terms of military prowess for over 60+ years.

Factoid


Hegseth's take.

In a video posted to social media later on Monday, Hegseth announced that the order, which he referred to as “Less Generals, more GIs,” would “shift resources from bloated headquarter elements to our warfighters.”

The move would take an axe to the already limited number of four-star generals and admirals, as there were just 37 such individuals as of 2023. Hegseth’s directive would put that number south of 30.

The move would also diminish the roughly 900 current general and flag officers to below 720.

Hegseth writes that the cuts are a “critical step” in “removing redundant force structure to optimize and streamline leadership by reducing excess general and flag officer positions.”

In ensuring the lethality of the military, “we must cultivate exceptional senior leaders who drive innovation and operational excellence, unencumbered by unnecessary bureaucratic layers that hinder their growth and effectiveness,” according to Hegseth.

It should be 50% but beggars can't be choosers. 

Monday, May 05, 2025

8% & counting ...



Looking at this sad pix of the dollar cutting itself to pieces is emblematic to what is happening under Agent Orange whether it be attacks on SS by Musk and his horde of incompetents or attacks on the press and education by hastily written executive orders by a sorry excuse of a man lusting to be dictator as it matters not as America's in serious trouble and the world knows it. We have four more years of this insanity, driven by a policy channeling Project 2025, the 900 page textbook on how to create a christian driven nazi fascist society not thought possible until now. As stated before, the nation's future's in doubt and nothing's being done right now but wait until Trump's tariffs hit and the dollar continues to tank because all bets are off when people's economic well being becomes questionable at best.
One never knows, do one? -  Fats Waller