Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Belly Button lint :)

George Carlin delivers a standup routine.

Praise be Saint George.

Profane, hilarious and all too intelligent, Carlin mattered ...

Laugh and cry at the same time, he's Diogenes using a mike, not a lantern, to discover the truth.
This particular riff indirectly channels Nathan Jessup's You Can't Handle the Truth! in A Few Good Men in more ways than one.

To whit:

Save the trees! Save the bees! Save the whales! Save those snails!

And the greatest arrogance of all: “Save the planet!” What?! Are these fucking people kidding me?! Save the planet?

We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned how to care for one another and we’re gonna save the fucking planet?!

I’m getting tired of that shit!

It gets better.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet, nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine; the people are fucked! Difference! The planet is fine! Compared to the people, The planet is doing great: been here four and a half billion years!

Do you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We’ve been here what? 100,000? Maybe 200,000? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years. 200 years versus four and a half billion.

And we have the conceit to think that somehow, we’re a threat?

There it is.

The planet is fine. The people are fucked.

The planet isn’t going anywhere; we are! We’re going away! Pack your shit, folks! We’re going away and we won’t leave much of a trace either, thank God for that. Maybe a little Styrofoam, maybe.

The planet will be here, we’ll be long gone; just another failed mutation; just another closed-end biological mistake; an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance.

It's different now ... rev II


Crunching data at the level of Google's Gemini Pro is truly insane. Watch the video to see why. 


It's different now ... rev II

Monday, March 04, 2024

Night Moves


Had fun doing this short clip walking around the environs of Fairfield County in the dark. :)

Sunday, March 03, 2024

The singularity ... is already here


The video says it all. 



It's already here. 
 




Vinge is right. Click here to read his full paper. 

Saturday, March 02, 2024

Phase Transitions/Winter 2024

Over the space of 4 days, winter 2024 went through several phase transitions from light wet snow to bright crisp days with powder conditions rarely seen in New England. Seems global warming took a holiday for a change. Enjoy. :)

Thursday, February 29, 2024

The Turtle ...



The competent and wily bastard who inflicted more harm to this country in ways boggling the mind is finally retiring. From packing the courts with far right jurists hell bent on turning back history including the elimination of a women's right to choose to limiting how governmental agencies should interpret and implement federal laws, the end result of McConnell's successful effort to deconstruct the very foundations of democracy for the sake of power and money will forever identify The Turtle as one of the most destructive pols ever to serve this once great nation known as America. 

To whit.


The definition of genocide ...


The definition of genocide ...

Standing over a tiny bundle wrapped in a sheet on a hospital bed, a young father drapes his hand across his face in despair. Mousa Salem, a Gaza photographer who videotaped this sad tableau and sent it to me, said the sheet swaddled 2-month-old Mohamed al-Zayegh, who died on Friday in Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City. “Nutrition? What nutrition?” a staff member in scrubs says in the video. “The mother gave birth to him during the war.”

“The health of the mother affects the health of the baby,” he added. “This is very well known in the science of medicine and health. And all of this piled on the child and he got sick, he has a weak immune system. “

Addendum:

Death Toll in Gaza Passes 30,000

The official toll of the war is staggering — roughly one person killed for every 73 Palestinians in Gaza — though experts say it is likely an undercount.



Channeling the Nazis comes to mind here does it not?

Thursday, February 22, 2024

95%


Yours truly has waxed poetic about the bought and paid for incompetent numb-nuts in congress of which 95% get reelected all the time. Sisyphus comes to mind here but don't take my word for it, watch Bill Maher's to see why Sisyphus rules in the land of the brave and home of the free.