TheEncogitationer

PopeBeanie:

The DuckDuckGo privacy-friendly browser and search engine also has DuckAI, which I’ve found is very good at answering questions I’ve had about AI and provides links to at least a couple of external primary sources.

Searching with DuckDuckGo also frequently turns up DuckAI answers at the top of the page. All free to the end user,…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Not to be outdone by anyone else, now he wrangled with a rattlesnake.

Some suspect this was set-up in advance but either way, this helps confirm my ideological prognosis of RFK Jr:

He is not a Eugenicist as some have pronounced. A Eugenicist who held his own genes as…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Bobby Brainworm looks like he would be quite at home shipwrecked on Malta with the Apostle Paul or in certain churches of Appalachia:

He also hasn’t heard that even non-poisonous snakes can give Tetanus with their bites. Take care of yourself folks. The cavalry is…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Fear not. My question was not a “Gotcha”. If you served, I salute your service in whatever capacity.

Members of the Armed Forces deserve our respect, regardless of the ridiculousness of foreign policies set by Congress and the Presidency.

Jake:

I hope you’re better now.

I have yet read the Pope’s full Encyclical on AI and I’ll have to brace myself for vertigo to try. Those things get wordy and Gish Gallop-y.

Jake:

Enco,

I don’t think they are hiding it as AI.

They are trying to follow Arthur C. Clarke’s dictum that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”…But they only have the grandiosity of magic without yet any of the omnific benevolence or competence.

Big Papa Leo’s hokus-pokus input and Chris Olah taking the k…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

I am still trolling for fighter jet video companions. I’ve learned A LOT ever since air power would potentially be an issue during the Ukraine invasion. Air Force veteran here who did not even know the difference between any fighter jets, just radar jammers.

Oh, had you served?

PopeBeanie:

Nothing distracting meant here. It all revolves around Trump in some way or another, since it is his world. /Sarcasm

And they say we hold nothing sacred:

‘Looks bored’: Onlookers crack up as Trump appears to be asleep at event for dead soldiers
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sleeping-2676938699/

Fellow Unbelievers:

At least we won’t have to worry about this coming out of Japan, unless they want to make another monster movie franchise.🕷️🐖😁:

Fellow Unbelievers:

If all you read is the headline below, and you were an anti-nuke Luddite, you might think that radiation created these “Super Pigs.”.

As you get into the story, though, you find this could happen anywhere that livestock and wildlife meet and are sufficiently alike genetically to produce fertile offspring. This could have…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Some good news: Members of MAGA who supported war with the Mullahs are starting to share the rational critique that Trump has botched it and hasn’t achieved any of his professed goals:

‘MAGA is done’: Trump’s own base turns on president over emerging Iran deal
David McAfee
May 23, 2026 7:34PM…[Read more]

Jake:

Karen Hao seen from inside the beast the danger of making AI a god, as well as the great possibilities if AI is focused in the purposes for it’s use.

I saw up close the dark reality of OpenAI’s race to create God
Madeleine Spence
Saturday May 23 2026, 7.17pm BST, The Sunday Times
https://archive.is/Qghwf

Reg and Jake:

That woman’s not “locally real”, including her semi-bull frog voice. I was waiting for her to jump out of her lock box in the demolished building, grab her top hat and cane, and start singing “Hello, My Baby”, “The Michigan Rag”, “Come Back To Erin”, and “Figaro.”

🐸🎩

Jake:

If it’s any assurance, (and I say this as someone who has had off-grid fantasies and who is ambivalent about AI):

The prognostication of the Criswellian can only accurately be a trade-off Sowellian,
But with volitional cogitation and mastication, the trade-off need not be Cromwellian nor Orwellian.

Perhaps the AI could be programmed to…[Read more]

Jake and Strega:

Of course, back in the day of the Luddites, people lived multiple generations, and with multiple species of farm animals, under one roof, with everyone sharing the same dressing, eating, sleeping, and (where available) hygienic space. Urination and defecation were done in outdoor Water Closets (again, where available) or…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Lots more antennae raised over this story:

Experts raise eyebrows over ‘Swiss cheese’ NY Times report claiming US, Israel eyed freeing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be Iran’s new leader
https://www.aol.com/news/experts-raise-eyebrows-over-swiss-212205094.html

A comedian on, I think The Daily Show, pointed out that they could have…[Read more]

Reg and Jake:

Switching the Ayatollahs with Ahmadinejad is decidedly not regime change, it’s just cutting off a few heads of the hydra while leaving the beast alive to grow yet more heads and to sharpen it’s claws and gargle some more gasoline. If Trump doesn’t comprehend that, Bibi definitely should.

Hoping I’m proven wrong and this story is…[Read more]

Jake and Reg:

I hope the NYT story is just an AI hallucination, but knowing Trump’s delusional behavior especially in his second term, and how so called “Realpolitik” make people do strange things, I can’t help but wonder.

Jake and Fellow Unbelievers:

A object lesson in the rarety of intelligence and critical thinking. I wish this wasn’t true but it appears it is:

Trump and Netanyahu and minion followers are literally the gang that can’t shoot straight or even aim correct. I do not think that “regime change” means what they think it…[Read more]