Monday, December 04, 2023
Forever young
Sunday, December 03, 2023
Send more bombs ...
In reading The Cradle's piece regarding how the US is supplying Israel with serious ordinance while at the same time urging Israel to spare civilians while carpet bombing Gaza, the notion of Orwell, Doublethink and Newspeak comes to mind without question.
To whit.
But just one thing, it takes money, right?
Saturday, December 02, 2023
Only the 6th ...
Actually hate to see him go. :)
Well, the saga of the esteemed George Santos has ended with his expulsion from congress, only the 6th who have achieved this "honored" distinction, which says volumes about just how craven this institution truly is. If one was a fly on a wall, able to see the inherent corruption of those bought and paid for "representatives" who supposedly represent us, one would soon find out Santos lacked the brains and guile to hide the monies given to him by the real owners of the country so eloquently voiced by the late great George Carlin.
How George Santos responded to being fact-checked on 14 of his biggest lies
Santos told reporters after his expulsion he was done with Congress.
Needless to say, he'll be on TV as he's now a celebrity where there's no such thing as bad PR. :)
Time to cull the herd, right?
Herbivorous rats, you know, the beautiful white tailed deer of Bambi fame, are hardy and hungry to the max, Living in Fairfield county, yours truly knows what happens when any animal proliferates beyond reason in terms of habitat loss, something now happening on Santa Catalina Island, an environment unique in terms of the native species that have lived there for thousands of years.
Outrage has ensued over the prospect of gunning down deer from the sky.
Time to cull the herd if you want to save the habitat, right?
Friday, December 01, 2023
Carpet bombing Gaza ... yet again
Carpet bombing Gaza, designed to eliminate Hamas, will not work. It didn't work in Algeria, Nam, Iraq or Afghanistan as indigenous fighters don't have to win, just outlast. IMHO, Israel is entering into an existential crisis of their own making, something bound to happen when 800,000 Palestinians were driven out of Palestine in 1948 by Begin and significant others in an ethnic cleansing operation the Palestinians call the NAKBA. People driven off their land never forget, something the Israelis are beginning to find out in no uncertain terms as the Palestinians will not give up, no matter what the cost may be.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Mr. K ...
Addendum: Yet another take on Mr. K. Well worth reading IMHO.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Arc Line ...
Monday, November 27, 2023
Dinosaurs, the true story :)
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
The Treachery of Images ...
Hamlet. Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius. By th’ mass, and ‘tis like a camel indeed.
Hamlet. Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius. It is back’d like a weasel.
Hamlet. Or like a whale.
Polonius. Very like a whale.
Seems Shakespeare was indirectly channeling AI, news and social media where people talk to their choir, believing almost anything as long as it aligns with one’s world view ... which brings up the notion of Deepfakes as they’re Everywhere. Just go to almost any site and see nonsense, usually in full color, residing on the right hand side or on the bottom of the web page, saying something patently ridiculous regarding a celebrity, news event or “scientific” fact, accompanied with a clickable AI graphic showing said tidbit to be “true”. One of the usuals is a huge beast found on a beach near you.
The Idea Dynamo

A 1923 cartoon by H.T. Webster captioned
"In the year 2023 when all our work is done by electricity.”
Instead of building the next GPT or image maker DALL-E, Sutskever tells me his new priority is to figure out how to stop an artificial superintelligence (a hypothetical future technology he sees coming with the foresight of a true believer) from going rogue.
60 Minutes | Geoffrey Hinton/Godfather of AI & former Google Fellow