50% ...

Predictions of ASI becoming real, as expressed by concerned AI researchers, indirectly channels Pandora as said tech's a black box evolving beyond our ability to control, a most disquieting situation without question. 

Pandora by John William Waterhouse, 1896

Time's a Wastin ...

Hilarious, blunt, absurd and topical, Jabari Jones AI speaks the truth about Agent Orange and the repugs. 

Is but a relic ...

Nice to know that my take on AI rings true as it's unknowable due to the fact code has to write code in order for said entity to react to the real world in real time, something Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI,  talks about at length regarding just how smart AI will become in the months and years ahead. His take on smart agents and how they amp this tech to the max is insightful to the nth degree. On a personal note, I am seeing how Gemini is evolving as we speak where the Turing Test is but a relic as the conversations one has with the tech now is nuanced and fluid at a level thought not possible until now. 

The "standard interpretation" of the Turing test, in which player C, the interrogator, is given the task of trying to determine which player – A or B – is a computer and which is a human. The interrogator is limited to using the responses to written questions to make the determination.[1]

C'est ne pas un pipe :)

Magritte would appreciate this to the 9's. :)

Channeling Dali :)

Dali would be on this tech in a heart beat. Salvador lives. :)

Limited Access ...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies
before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Capitol Hill on May 20, 2025
in Washington, DC. Credit: Getty | Tasos Katopodis

Now that yours truly is a senior, I, and many other elders, along with high risk people, can still get Covid 19 shots as needed but if younger than 65 and not at risk, you're excluded from the vaccine because limited access applies. 

Under the control of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration is unilaterally terminating universal access to seasonal COVID-19 vaccines; instead, only people who are age 65 years and older and people with underlying conditions that put them at risk of severe COVID-19 will have access to seasonal boosters moving forward.

The move was laid out in a commentary article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, written by Trump administration FDA Commissioner Martin Makary and the agency's new top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad.

In the commentary, Markary and Prasad puzzlingly argue that the previous universal access to COVID-19 vaccines was patronizing to Americans. They describe the country's approach to COVID boosters as a "one-size-fits-all" and write that "the US policy has sometimes been justified by arguing that the American people are not sophisticated enough to understand age- and risk-based recommendations. We reject this view."

So excluding folks from something that can save lives in face of a possible future epidemic eliminates the notion of patronizing along with the fact that we, the great unwashed, are incapable of understanding age and risk based recommendations regarding the vaccine so limiting access by HHS eliminates these problems, right?

Photo by Hidden Couple

blackwhite — to accept whatever one is told, regardless of the facts. In the novel, it is described as "to say that black is white when [the Party says so]" and "to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary". (See also 2 + 2 = 5)

Mesmerizing ...

Mesmerizing ... & Joan Miró would understand it without question.

Joan Miró, The Tilled Field, (1923–1924), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. This early painting, a complex arrangement of objects and figures, was Miró's first Surrealist masterpiece.[26]

Mr. Irrelevant ...

Jack X. Zhou

Mr. Irrelevant, the NFL term for the last player drafted, relates to America, the once great nation falling behind China as we speak. This decline began under Ronnie's tenure as president when deregulation ruled to game the system and reward stockholders by off shoring manufacturing to, you guessed it, China, thus ensuring the gutting of this nation's ability to build anything of consequence, something now being amplified to the 9s by the Trump administration's unique ability to tear apart all the institutions that enabled this country to become great,
something tragic to the extreme.

That century may already have dawned, and when historians look back they may very well pinpoint the early months of President Trump’s second term as the watershed moment when China pulled away and left the United States behind.

It doesn’t matter that Washington and Beijing have reached an inconclusive and temporary truce in Mr. Trump’s trade war. The U.S. president immediately claimed it as a win, but that only underlines the fundamental problem for the Trump administration and America: a shortsighted focus on inconsequential skirmishes as the larger war with China is being decisively lost.

Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies’ access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe.

China’s trajectory couldn’t be more different. ...

Brock Purdy was selected as Mr. Irrelevant in the 2022 NFL draft

Factoid: Purdy's the most successful Mr. Irrelevant ever.

The eyes have it. :)

The eyes have it. :)

A sense of perspective ...

The actual earth-moon distance.