Speaking of Irish publications, are they suffering from another famine over there? They’ve got to be bad off to take dietary advice from Bobby Brainworm and The Great and Wonderous Dr. Oz:

RFK Jr’s diet may help lower risk for dementia, study shows
Story by Eleanor Tolbert • 3…[Read more]

1. Federal assumption of state debts
The federal government took on the Revolutionary War debts of the states. This was politically explosive, but brilliant. It made creditors loyal to the federal government rather than just to individual states. In plain English: Hamilton tied the moneyed…[Read more]

Here is another one I read recently. Taken directly from the Irish Times, July 4th. Written by David McWilliams, an Irish economist.

It’s impossible to imagine the world without the dollar.

The American republic is 250 years old today. On this auspicious anniversary, the s…[Read more]

Oh, and Trump originally promised he’d get gas prices to $2.00 a gallon within a year of winning office, so this is “Freedom Fuel Network” is a rip-off even by MAGA standards.

No sooner than one Fascist/Communist-friendly politician thug Graham Platner falls, the top dog of Fascist/Communist-friendly politicians, Donald J. Trump, rises up with a scheme to get support:

Trump is using his “Freedom Fuel Network” scheme to propagate the…[Read more]

Well, one good thing has happened: The Regressive Wokester, DSA, Antisemite wing of the Democratic Party of Maine now no longer has a candidate. The beaverpuss totalitarian Graham Platner is dropping out and his supporters have a little egg-on-face to scrape off:

Graham Platner drops Maine Senate…[Read more]

Countering the Jew hating racism is not among those things. In fact just abhorrent. I proferred the explanation some time ago having first read it from an Israeli and having it corroborated a few times since. It is essentially we are not going to defend ourselves to morons. I guess it would be akin to an…[Read more]

Chumpsky is top dog charlatan. One Jew hater referred me and i critiqued him. Jew haters love Jew haters who are Jewish. Makes em feel warm and fuzzy. Justified too. Spin cast sophistry and Mehdi aint too bad at it. I listen to Casper the unfriendly blond basket. Algos have her on rewind. She is comical in her vituperative rebuttals and…

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Chumpsky is top dog charlatan. One Jew hater referred me and i critiqued him. Jew haters love Jew haters who are Jewish. Makes em feel warm and fuzzy. Justified too. Spin cast sophistry and Mehdi aint too bad at it. I listen to Casper the unfriendly blond basket. Algos have her on rewind. She is comical in her vituperative rebuttals and…[Read more]

Mehdi Hasan is lying to you.

Glad you posted this. It’s easy to forget Medhi Hassan in the polluted sea of others like him in Cyberspace.

Here’s just a short list of others who spread his poison against Jews and Israel. All ideologies and creeds and sadly a few professed “Libertarians” and Atheists too:

ArchPolitics, Breaking Points,…[Read more]

In 1776, the Western world still understood human societies as hierarchies, enforced by authority.

Fantastic article from Commentary and Allen Guelzo. It absolutely hit home about the ideals that underpinned our founding, where we fell short, and where we did better. I was amazed to learn the full extent our founding…[Read more]

Understanding protein chains is one of the greatest initial accomplishments of AI. Before AI we had a very small library of knowledge on the structure of protein chains. Some sci…[Read more]

Occam’s Razor is not dead. It has been demoted. It is no longer the supreme judge of scientific truth as Nature may not owe us humans a simple explanation.

Nature has always been complicated from the time we first beheld it and started thinking about it. Occam’s Razor is not a rule for the Natural Universe, it is a rule for our attempt t…[Read more]

AI shows promise in the fight against fake news.

Here’s hoping it does good because fighting Misinformation/Disinformation/Malinformation is hard enough between humans of different cultures and languages, even with smartphone translators.

Today, at the store where I work, a Caribbean man was sporting a florescent yellowish green shirt…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Occam’s Razor is not dead. It has been demoted. It is no longer the supreme judge of scientific truth as Nature may not owe us humans a simple explanation.

I would say that Nature is elegant but not necessarily simple.  I don’t believe the most simple explanation is the right one.

I myself haven’t drank in 11 years and don’t plan to restart, at least until medical science can create instant regrowing brain and liver cells. For me, it’s not a virtue signal; I just don’t want brain and liver troubles on top of any pancreas troubles that may come from diabetes.

It still struck me as curious that the World Health…[Read more]

Enco  –

The key line in the WHO article is “There is no form of alcohol consumption that is risk-free” and that even low levels carry some risk and can cause harm. I would contend that there is no safe amount of alcohol. There are only lower-risk amounts. For health, the optimal amount is none. That does not mean one drink will ruin…[Read more]

World of Woo: WHO and the Death of Evidence-Based Medicine.

Evidently, the World Health Organization has a no-threshold view of Alcohol, which ignores the entire history of U.S. Prohibition, with battery-poisoned rot-gut bathtub gin and gang wars in the streets over “sales turf.”

This no-threshold view of alcohol would also give support…[Read more]

What I want to emphasize is that AI evolution is still in the hands of humans, and if it’s ever possible to vaccinate AI against ideologicial motivation, it won’t stop some humans from steering their AI in ideological directions.

At the top of my mind would be ideologues like theocrats, especially those we’ve seen trying to chang…

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“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

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AI as you point out is and will continue to be utilized in a way that serves nefarious ends and is imbued with all of the ‘bad stuff’ of human endeavor and…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
How about waiting for AI to be sophisticated enough that it can be divorced from ideological capture?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So an AI free of illogic or ideological capture is fantasy […]

I think what AI “will become” will be more of an issue someday, but not before “what AI will be used for” is more apparent. AI evolution…[Read more]

Individual basis we see the time honored Lord Acton playing out. And…[Read more]

What is Peter Theil Trying To Tell Us

The makers of AI, in particular, Palantir and Meta, don’t have their shit together either mentally or on the ends to which they would apply AI.

So an AI free of illogic or ideological capture is fantasy and making AI the final word on Constitutional Law would be the end of the American Experiment and indeed the Enlightenment Experiment…[Read more]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260619020508.htm

Problem with democracy and SCOTUS is obviously a critical element is people. We fuck up everything. Increasing numbers is not a solution.

How about waiting for AI to be sophisticated enough that it can be divorced from ideological capture? We have a referendum on the objectives when interpreting the constitution including precedent. Then…[Read more]

I got through the wall and got to behold the sadly slain “dragonfly”, Masha and her trouper of a partner, Yehor.

Despite the NYT’s spotty journalism record, Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko wrote a powerful, engaging story and deserve all the respect for highlighting the senseless tragedy of Putin’s war against Ukraine. Russia’s fi…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Never mind Pope. After reading your line again i think you are indicating that the meaning has been watered down so that ambiguity is read into it rather than questioning its plain meaning and efficacy.

I wasn’t implying that, although that may not be inaccurate. SCOTUS itself has been watering down and resetting precedents on…[Read more]

Agreement isn’t my issue with the NYT. My issue is that when it goes wrong on facts, it goes wrong big.

Where I’m at, it’s 97°F and feels like 102°F. With temperatures like this, some cooling thoughts are welcome.

The Genius Design of the Ancient Persian Yakhchal | 2500 Year Old Freezers in the Deserts of Iran

The Yakhchal! A giant ice machine that ran without electricity or pumps fed by u…[Read more]

I’m sure the Ukraine story is touching, but what a source!

Here is the link again. My sub (for the NYT) allows me to share so hopefully this attempt with punch a hole in that wall.

No hole yet.

Sorry, the record of “The Newspaper of Record” is “All the News That’s Made to Fit.”. So, it makes it hard to for me to want to break the wall myself.

Will other European nations do it as rationally and without personal blame?

AI quote: Russian Forces: UK intelligence agencies estimate that Russian deaths are approaching nearly 500,000. Independent tallies have verified the names of over 223,000 individual Russian soldiers killed, though the actual toll is significantly higher. Additionally, a report from…[Read more]

You flip flopped duration. Current war longer. Former war more gruesome. Neither one peaches and cream.

Those poor dissenters and that poor little girl!

“Regime change” is far too mild a word for what the Mullahs and IRGC needs!

I wish I could read that, but the dragonfly flew into a wall.

I sense though that Putin may have something to do with crushing his prom dreams.