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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]

Reg:

Enco,

I meant broadly speaking a reflection of the electorate and more to the point of the zeitgeist. Reg had a good article on the flowering of Jew hatred and differences between far right and far left in contemporary world. Far left and far right come at it a little differently.

A great article, though I wouldn’t call it flowering. More…[Read more]

Jake:

She is a reflection of the electorate.

Zionism is the code word for Filthy Jew and its associations.

I don’t know how much she reflects the sentiments of her electorate. I may be wrong, but except for Austin, Texas never looked conspicuously Progressive.

Also, Galindo is running in a newly Re-Gerrymandered, Re-Jury-Rigged, District. She…[Read more]

Jake and Fellow Unbelievers:

A Sex Quack and Astrologist gives a prescription that is a turn-off and Horoscope that is howling at the Moon.

House candidate Maureen Galindo pledges to send ‘American zionists’ to internment camp
Despite a growing storm of criticism, including from members of her own party, the San Antonio Democrat insists she…[Read more]

Jake:

One shouldn’t presume to know how they swing just because they are willing to fight.

If they can pass muster with all the training told of in the article, they deserve all the support they can get.

However, I am disturbed that Israel has this obsession with Iron. Iron Dome. Iron Swords. ‘Arad’ doesn’t sound too strong either if it…[Read more]

Reg:

All that, ‘cept The Trump Phone doesn’t exist:

Reg:

Mushrooms and blue cheese vodka are part of the MAHA formulary, especially if the blue cheese is unpasteurized. Licking the Giant Gila Monster would also be a prescribed MAHA regimen. All of these make for vivid hallucinations.

“That was nice, but it didn’t help my legs!”

Reg:

Here is what the future of MAHA could mean for healthcare, although we have also experienced it too many times in the past. Fast forward to 49:45 and watch to 54:20:

Mystery Science Theater 3000 never got real deep into riffing on religion, but when they did, they really hit home! Joel and the Bots could…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
What physics gets wrong about the idea of “fundamental”.

Yes, I think a model should be “thorough” as well as “fundamental”.  Some fundamental elements are not just individisible particles – they’re also structural factors, for example, that form the fabric of reality.  So, the fundamental constants of the unive…[Read more]

Reg:

Nudge theory was all about taking responsibility, but it allowed big business to look the other way. See also Book Club below.

First, a couple of definitions:

A Shareholder is someone who invests money or capital in a corporate venture and have a say in the running of the venture. The best shareholders who do well for themselves study…[Read more]

Jake:

OH MY GOD.

They found fossils of the original Palestinians. The genocidal Zionists in their diabolical ways formerly known as Australopithekike were trying to eradicate our cherished paradigms of goodness.

As it was in the beginning..

Just a bit of pedant punnery to add here for added annoyance, but ackshuyally, all of Ethiopia is Afar…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

I’m wondering it behavior like this is just not interesting to enough people any more? About 9 minutes:

It’s not that it’s not interesting, it’s just that every other fiasco from Trump and MAGA and the ineffectual opposition is also interesting. Everything is a distraction from everything else.

It’s like MAGA muse and W…[Read more]

Jake:

The real Nakba for the Arab people was the Al-Quran, Al-Hadith, and Al-Sunnah and, of course, the enemies they made along the way.

Fellow Unbelievers,

And here’s the other story:

Palantir wants to bring back the draft just as the Selective Service Preps for Automatic Registration
https://fortune.com/2026/04/20/palantir-military-draft-selective-service-automatic-registration/

An AI CEO throwing warm bodies at problems, let alone war, should be an automatic disqualifier