Wildfires killed nearly 20% of the world’s giant sequoias. Can the rest be saved? The iconic California species can tower 300 feet high and live for 3,000 years.

The iconic California species can tower 300 feet high and live for 3,000 years.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Take Back California: Democrats vs Oligarchs EXPOSED YouTube video by Wajahat Ali

I only started this video and it is AMAZING!

youtu.be/o9og1t953r8

I am so sorry, young Americans, that a military draft is still a reality in this day and age. Even Nixon realized the draft needed to end. Hopefully, republican tyranny will end soon.

Know your right as a conscientious objector:

www.sss.gov/conscientiou...

Draft dodgers shouldn’t have the power to impose the draft.

5 time draft dodgers shouldn't be able to institute a draft

In any world
In any way

Just NO

If there's a draft, draft the gun owners first.

Mexico Just Humiliated the American Empire YouTube video by Large Man Abroad

Way to go Mexico!

Not only has Mexico build a transoceanic corridor, the are getting universal healthcare.

The US, is shit. That is because of degenerate MAGA and republicans. Apologies world.

youtu.be/O_C0t7h9DtU

Glad to see the Target Boycott is trending. We’re urging our members, & our communities to shop local, not Target for Back to School. Target has not supported Minnesota,the place they got their start, so we are shopping elsewhere
www.aft.org/resolution/a... @shanembailey.com @aaronblack.bsky.social

Eminem Is A Man Of Covictions,
Who Doesn't Like, 34 Time FELON
Convicts.......

The CA Gov race is a great example of politics controlled by billionaire and consultants. A billionaire jumps into the lead by spending $150 million. Meanwhile, a dozen candidate stay in the race in spite of the obvious. Looks like consultants getting paid to tell politicians what they want to hear.

Katie porter is a solid candidate and not a billionaire.

Dems generally have reputations for being harder on their staff. It comes from having to work endless hours against corporations and billionaires. I actually hear republicans get to be some of the nicest people in Washington.

I think we are pretty f’d for the next ten years, even in the best case scenarios. Trust is just gone both inside and outside the US.

God, please not another billionaire.

It was a good day out for us at #Centinela #TeslaTakedown. Happy about the Orban defeat and that there were 4 of us! Woohoo!

#BoycottTesla
#DeportMusk
#ICEOut
#ReleaseAllTheFiles
#NoWar

@teslatakedown.com @teslatakedownla.bsky.social @progressive1776.bsky.social @teslatakedownalham.bsky.social

America's Hasan Piker Problem YouTube video by Leeja Miller

Damn, this was really good.

youtu.be/O8jbBlq9KlU

Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor nears 2026 launch - Container News Mexico has entered the final phase of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT).

Way to go Mexico!

Mexico nears completion of its Interoceanic Corridor creating business and trade opportunities that stand to reduce cost and CO2 emissions. Their epic achievements stand in stark contrast to the catastrophic failures of the US.

container-news.com/mexicos-inte...

IA is the perfect business for the idle rich and corporations. It promises the moon, throttles tiered service, and deflects responsibility.

Eliminating jobs might be a secondary benefit to herding people into isolated mediocrity and preventing promethean revolts.

I'll try open-source AI next.

In an earlier chat, it identified and acknowledged larger, high-level design and operational failures. I imagine others experience similar failures. I expect ChatGPT will identify and acknowledge those failures as well as others. I bet other AI will as well.

ChatGPT: "These are not minor issues—they directly caused the service to return an invalid output file and fail to meet even basic instruction-following expectations."

ChatGPT: "• absence of required reconciliation before output
• treating a controlled production artifact as a flexible task
• treating a controlled production artifact as a flexible task..." (continued)

ChatGPT: "o The system acknowledged this as a “repeatable failure mode” and a “control execution deficiency”
Additionally, the system identified broader internal weaknesses in its own process during the interaction, including:
• lack of enforced version-control anchoring... (continued)

ChatGPT: "This was not a subjective quality issue. The failures were objective, repeatable, and confirmed by the system...
...5. Repeated failure pattern (acknowledged by the system)
o The same type of failure occurred even after I explicitly warned about it in advance..." (continued)

From ChatGPT: "The service repeatedly failed to follow clear, structured, constraint-driven instructions in a production-style Excel modeling task, and importantly, the system itself explicitly identified and acknowledged these failures during the interaction..." (continued)

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I tried ChatGPT plus. It acknowledged its own failures (See response below). I requested a refund and credit going forward from help.openai.com for the failures ChatGPT stated it make in future chats. It refunded and cancelled Plus service. Could we get refunds on service for future failures?

At this point the president needs to be arrested or the generals need to be arrested.

Even with republicans and maga realizing they were lied to, I expect they do have the courage it takes to recall their elected officials. To that regard, Schumer needs to be recalled from elected office.

Things I should hear in political discussions:

1) US generals and their subordinates must be procedures for a) war crimes b) endangering US citizens at home, c) endangering the world economy.

2) Elected and appointed officials should lose all immunities if citizens’ data are used to harm them.

David Hogg: The Democratic Party Needs to Change or Lose YouTube video by Zeteo

This was so good!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hv--...

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.