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[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Medieval Christendom is the ideal for those wanting to end the ‘democratic experiment’. The man who would be king is happy to corrupt all 3 branches of the federal government to achieve that. What would Jefferson and Madison have thought about ‘rededicating’ the US to an imaginary God? It’s time to “Rebuild that Wall”.

Looksmaxxing Leo describes the legacy of clergy sexual abuse as a “real wound in the life of the Church” as another Catholic predator is jailed.

Social cohesion will not be achieved by carving out special protections for religious groups or giving religion a greater role in public life.

Pete Hegseth shrinks military’s recognized religions list, erasing atheists and Humanists. He is exactly who the founding fathers feared.

‘Blasphemous’ protest is not a crime; humanists tell human rights committee.

World of Woo: Detoxing for spiritual wellness and snake handlers’ fish oils. This article is worth a second read (recently linked by Enco).

Environment: World Cup 2026: why moving games to evenings isn’t enough to tackle extreme heat problem.

The West’s Greatest Innovation—An Independent Judiciary.

Would aliens have their own revelation, covenant, or relationship with the Christian God? However, only Jesus could make the journey.

In Iran, silence has become the only safe language.

Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous the virus is.

‘World-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence.

Yes, everything is relational and nothing is fundamental.

GLP-1 drugs may be rewiring circuits involved not only in appetite but in emotion, desire and beyond.

Sunday Book Club: The Selfish Gene.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos: Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins in conversation. Memorial Day 1894. How to educate a Conspiracy Theorist. What happened in Vegas with AronRa. Hackers asked Meta AI to let them in and it worked. Why the Left sees Jews differently now.

 

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Have a great week everyone!

I got called into work last weekend to solve an emergency in a hospital IT system. Luckily it was a holiday weekend so I managed to get systems up and running again, 2 hours before the first scheduled operation.

[Strega]

Yay!! Thanks, Reg!!

[jakelafort]

Superman is in the building.

Reg, how long before your superpowers will be executed by AI without need for a human?

[PopeBeanie]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

‘World-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence.

That’s so cool! I visualized a way to explain fairly simply how AI can do this, treating DNA/RNA just like another language.

1) Via sheer computation, an LLM learns and documents patterns in a language, and can then predict which new patterns can be described that are likely to be relevant to a specific question it is asked.

2) DNA has language rules and patterns, kind of like how recipes are written in cookbooks. (And real cookbooks employ their own language.) Viruses (and other microbes like bacteria) can pack DNA or RNA as instructions for their recipes.

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But I needed more help explaining this, went to Perplexity Pro AI, picked out one of its answers and edited it for the result, below (yes I fixed some typos):

1. LLMs are pattern hunters and detectors. They learn which symbol sequences tend to appear together, and which ones are informative for answering a question. They don’t “understand” English the way humans do; they learn the statistics of how the symbols behave.
2. DNA and RNA are also strings of symbols, written in a four‑letter alphabet. They obey their own “grammar”. To an AI model, this just looks like a different language or a very specialized cookbook.
3. A virus’s “cookbook” contains recipes for how to attach to cells, get inside them, copy itself, dodge the immune system, and jump to the next host. Different strains rewrite those recipes slightly, but they often keep similar core steps because those are essential for survival.
4. The AI model actually trains this LLM‑style system on:
   • lots of viral genomes or protein sequences, and
   • annotations like “this region is conserved across many strains” or “this region is targeted by neutralizing antibodies”.
   • the model can learn correlations between sequence patterns and those labels. Then, when you show it a new virus or a big collection of related viruses, it can:
     • spot shared sequence motifs that recur across many strains,
       estimate which motifs are most likely to be shared,
     • and flag them as high‑value candidates for a vaccine to target.

A cadre of scientists and their corporate structure do the rest.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I am not worried by A.I. in the workforce. Too many companies are in a hurry to integrate AI into their core systems and very few I deal with have any idea how a basic network operates, let alone an A.I. system. Many of my clients work in the Architectural and Engineering sector and are required to submit online tenders for government projects. I tell them to manually do the paperwork but give it to an LLM only to proof read and to “sanity check”, rather than getting it to do all the work. Most ignore me. The one company that asked for a further discussion recently submitted their tender as they have done for 40 years. They got the contract. They had, on my advice, included 2 simple typos in their submission. I read some of the failed ones. All were “obviously” AI generated and were so similar as to be laughable. My client got it even though they were 40K more expensive, but still under the budget guidelines.

AI is great for coding and running scripts to do simple repetitive tasks but I find I still have to troubleshoot them and be very precise in how I word the questions. I have now built up a library of scripts that save me a lot of time when (say) building a company network from scratch or migrating them to a new platform.

I have yet to see an AI use a screwdriver or build a server 🙂

This is worth a read.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Yes PopeBeanie, it is brilliant. It is more of a paradigm shift (Kuhn) than an  evolution in medical science. All future developments will be at the micro and atomic level. Better living through Science!

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Good to see you back, and with such a great collection of article titles to explore and enjoy!

The first article mentioning the NeoReactionary/Dark Enlightenment school of thought got me to thinking: Have you researched any on Curtis Yarvin?

He’s the younger counterpart of Steve Bannon’s Town Drunk. Curtis Yarvin looks like one of the ones Jordan Peterson lectures to “Make Their Bed.”

Curtis Yarvin–Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

This is our future overlord? Jeez I hope not! We are bad off as a species if we let that take over!

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Thanks Enco, glad to be finished that project. Taking tomorrow off and will go for a 6 hour walk\trek….here.

Yes, I have seen Yarvin’s name crop up in a few articles recently. He thinks Trump is not killing democracy quickly enough and if MAGA loses the Senate  it will herald the end of the Trump administration which will “wither and eventually dissipate” unless it becomes more extreme. He said that “as soon as it stops accelerating, it stalls and explodes.”

But I expect there to be more craziness before we get to the darkness at the end of that tunnel.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

World-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence.

Now that’s what I’m talking about! This is AI at it’s best! Slop-free and working with us and not against us!

Please don’t let anyone get in the way of this! Give Bobby Brainworm RFK Jr, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Jenny McCathy, and Ron Schneider a reality show where they hunt cryptids, so they’ll be distracted away from peeing in the punchbowl!

I look forward to more news about this and everything works out, I hope the super-antigen spreads worldwide!

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Some days I just think…”Really, I gotta share the planet with these morons and idiots??…Just keep the f**k away from me!

[jakelafort]

There is no underestimating the depth of stupidity or depravity. I totall get how it is some of the folks i know have simply divorced themselves from the day to day prattle and news.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Before serving as an exorcist through the St. Michael Center, Monsignor Rossetti was a prominent advocate for the prevention of child abuse in church settings, and a psychologist specializing in clerical sex abuse.Before serving as an exorcist through the St. Michael Center, Monsignor Rossetti was a prominent advocate for the prevention of child abuse in church settings, and a psychologist specializing in clerical sex abuse.

So Monsignor Rossetti went from fighting real evils to fighting imaginary ones?

Well, what else can you expect when he addresses an assertion not found in evidence with another assertion not found in evidence?

In his interview on YouTube this week, Monsignor Rossetti alluded to some disagreements among exorcists about the nature of extraterrestrials.

“One exorcist told me he thought that this person was possessed by aliens,” he said with a laugh. “Aliens — if there are aliens — don’t possess people, that’s nonsense: Again, it’s demons trying to hide and trying to manipulate and disguise themselves.”

If extraterrestrials are out there and listened to the Catholic Church’s EWTN broadcasts or Billy Graham’s pronouncements about extraterrestrials, that would be enough explanation for why they haven’t shown up. Their version of SETI would be a SET UP for having a Close Encounter of the Trinitarian Kind. .

Billy Graham “My Answer”
https://billygraham.org/answers/what-does-the-bible-say-about-aliens

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Michael Shermer could have picked many other better people than Batya Ungar-Sargon to discuss Anti-Semitism on the Left. Batya’s interview with Megyn Kelly was what cinched it for me.

Listening to Megyn Kelly parsing about the age of Epstein’s abuse victims and Batya blank-staring and apple-polishing over Trump’s treatment of this horror, simply made me sick.

Evidently, to Megyn and Batya, the abuse of children–including female and Jewish children who were Epstein’s victims–is just small-talk at the nail salon:

Being a mother does not a Mama Bear make and being a female does not a nurturer make either. It sometimes makes me wonder if any place on Earth is safe for children.

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