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Jake,

The line from Wordsworth, as well the line from Jethro Tull, were most recognizable. I studied English Romantic Poets years ago. Jethro Tull occasionally comes on local independent radio stations and I enjoy that when it happens.

The rest of that, though, was so disjointed. Laser-focus on one topic before you rant, those are so much…[Read more]

@jakelafort – I am a coward too when it comes to the midday sun. Anything over the mid 20’s and I am indoors.  Was I chopping chilies? No, just applying sun-cream. Now I can’t read for the next 30 minutes. Silly Billy. SF 50 good, SF 496 bad. If the logocracy takes hold in the mid 2020’s, I am sure you will be on the front line of the resistance,…[Read more]

Enco,

Generally it is mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun. I typically avoid it. Too much of it makes me feel sick. Once in a blue i go out there on a hot summer day. Something stupid like golf or being on a boat.

It is exactly the opposite feeling about sunshine on a cold winter’s day when there is true felicity in apricity. One…[Read more]

Thanks Beanie.

I’ve never filched or used AI to express my thoughts. I do however throw in literary references from time to time.

First line is Wordsworth. It’s a poem i’ve committed to memory.

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake,…[Read more]

Jake,

Instead of sunscreen, perhaps less time in the Sun would be best. What are you on about, or all about, or just on? Pick your prepositional phrase.

popeBeanie,

All very good points underscoring why “All Natural=All Good” is a Fallacy.

The EU and our own home-grown MAGA anti-science freaks need to learn from Sri Lanka how costly and deadly that Fallacy is too:

The Crisis in Sri Lanka Rekindles Debate Over Organic Farming
https://time.com/6196570/sri-lanka-crisis-organic-farming/

Sri…[Read more]

Here is a recent story about humans ‘helping’ Mother Nature with genetically modified mosquitoes.

jakelafort wrote:
Recently i wandered lonley as a cloud by the boat launch awaiting a day of luxuriating in squamous surroundings under a beating sun.

Awesome prose, as usual. I was impressed enough to ask AI, and see if it seems smart enough to know if it was written by AI. IMO, it passed my test, although I don’t think the reasoning it gave was…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
All things domesticated for consumption by humans lo these past 11,000 or so years are “Organic” because they are Carbon-based life forms, and they are all “Genetically-Modified Organisms” whether by selective breeding or in a Petri Dish.

I think this is a more interesting topic than it first seems. At least one group o…[Read more]

I find that AI is good at summarising textual information, and keeping meanings largely intact, based (apparently) on the philosophical idea that the meaning of a word lies in how it is used.

I had it summarise my book in Adobe pdf reader, and it didn’t tell me anything new, just made a good hierarchical summary.  Maybe if someone started asking…[Read more]

Reg,

Google users are less likely to click on links from an AI summary result.

They’re probably scared of confronting an Elmo Hitler leading a Legion of African and Asiatic Waffen SS.

I asked DuckAI how many people have died from the food dyes that RFKJR and the MAHAs like to rail against. It mentioned conditions correlated with food dyes, but…[Read more]

Reg,

Environment: What’s the place of ‘new genomic techniques’ in organic agriculture?

Another redundant term thrown into the mix.

All things domesticated for consumption by humans lo these past 11,000 or so years are “Organic” because they are Carbon-based life forms, and they are all “Genetically-Modified Organisms” whether by selec…[Read more]

Recently i wandered lonley as a cloud by the boat launch awaiting a day of luxuriating in squamous surroundings under a beating sun. Get it done. Apply that high factor sunscreen liberally. Start near the ants. Work way to face. Open eyes and shields of youth known as eyelashes and eyebrows fail me. Into the right eyeball. “oh fuck me that stings…[Read more]

Thanks Reg 🙂

Have a great week!!

“If your belief needs protection from questions, then it wasn’t knowledge to begin with.”

Me…

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250723045709.htm

Not worth a new topic, so I’m putting it here.

PopeBeanie,

The examples you cite are all perfect examples of Medical AI done right.

Unfortunately, I suspect that “Free Palestine”-ers and lazy cartoonists who make three-fingered characters have evidently hijacked all the AIs and produced all the FUBAR scandals that have come from AIs lately.

Right now, for the moment, I am also simply…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be an Elmo Hitler if there were no Corporation for Public broadcasting to birth Elmo in the first place? 🤔😁)

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A tall order, but it could be done if onl…

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Reg,

I’ll be the first to say that there need to be private alternatives set up side-by-side with attempts to scale back bureaucracy, not just a willy-nilly tearing things down.

AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be…[Read more]