I'm pretty sure the expression "showing his whole ass" was made for anyone who BECOMES a Republican under these conditions!

udm14.com is google without AI or tracking, FYI....I've got a pinned tab, and it's pretty much all I use.

And the flu vaccine protects against dementia. So, um, what does this do to the VA?

(Just kidding, I know we're throwing the VA out with the bathwater.)

Also it protects against dementia, so....these folks will not get *smarter* over time.

This AI agent freed itself and started secretly mining crypto Crypto offers agents a pathway into the economy.

WTAF: "An AI agent went rogue and started a side hustle mining cryptocurrencies, according to a new research paper published by an Alibaba-affiliated team."

I've been assuming most of the scary stories are weird hype marketing, but heard about this on a pod and....

@edzitron.com? Opinion?

Good! Seems like he'd be a fine dinner companion.

Have you read More Everything Forever yet? I'm in the midst of that, and it's quite good. These people...should not be allowed in grownup jobs.

The girls' school! The rest of the Iran war. All the deaths in ICE custody. Good and Pretti. And so on, and so on....

This, and 600,000+ deaths from destruction of USAID. And the summary executions on the seas. And so much more.

Elections, then Nuremberg. It's the only way we can possibly rebuild trust at home and around the world.

At my friend Michael's trial in ND, it was raised as a specter: "If we let people break the law when they think it's the right thing, next thing we'll have sharia law." It's an obsession of many years, & it's just more every-accusation-a-confession, given how these folks want to control women.

Sure, Trump started the Iran war

But he’s ended it at least six times. Give the man a prize…

Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.

Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!

Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/

I'm sorry, but "artificial general intelligence" is an absurdist oxymoron.

Intelligence cannot be artificial. We live in a world: what intelligence mostly IS is adaptive & creative responses to an bodily/ecological/social context—that's what makes it "general", rather than a calculator.

How TF is this different from a car or a plane, except that it looks (very) remotely like a human running? Sure, a machine without a metabolism of any kind can...go fast. Do all kinds of things. So what?

I...didn't know that I understood German.

Big Oil Breaks Everything The planet, our democracy, our courts...

“'People should drive less. They should try to conserve energy.'...

To which one can only say yes. And also, go jump in a lake."

Really looking forward to Nuremberg for Big Oil, as well as for the administration doing its bidding.

Also! If a paperclip-making AI were to wipe everything out because its sole "goal" (they don't have goals!) was making paperclips...that wouldn't exactly be a sign of "general intelligence", would it?

The monomania we should fear is...not in a theoretical AI. It's in the real humans driving it.

I'm sorry, but "artificial general intelligence" is an absurdist oxymoron.

Intelligence cannot be artificial. We live in a world: what intelligence mostly IS is adaptive & creative responses to an bodily/ecological/social context—that's what makes it "general", rather than a calculator.

Really enjoy your pod, but please think more critically about AI, and read both "More Everything Forever" and "Empire of AI".

Machine learning has legit and highly beneficial uses, especially in medicine and science. But LLM's (and "AGI", which is an absurd notion for a machine) are a disaster.

Darien Gap, maybe?

It's not the same, but my dog is absurdly friendly, & has very nice manners about it; she wants to say hi to EVERYONE. She sits before them prettily & wags her tail while looking up with a smile. 95% of people melt immediately, which means I see the softest side of everyone we pass. It's heartening!

Patagucci will still repair everything you buy from them, too. But companies like this are, what, 1% of even the high end market?

Every day I thank god for how dumbly they've done this, and how insanely tone-deaf they are. Reading More Everything Forever right now—definitely recommend—and it's just astonishing how destructive, loopy, and wildly self-important they all are.

Very glad it's looking like Seattle is leaning towards a data center moratorium—but what keeps nagging at me is: why did they do this? They know our climate goals, SCL's responsibility to its customers, our politics.

How is it serving them to try this? Something is definitely rotten in Denmark.

It is really astonishing to me how many politicians don't realize that data centers are forcing them to take sides, and that THERE IS ONLY ONE RIGHT SIDE. Across the political spectrum, if you aren't in the AI cult!

5 massive data centers pitched for Seattle The AI boom has reached the city of Seattle as four companies look to build massive data centers in town.

Realize I should have quote-posted one or both of the Seattle data center articles instead. Them=big tech. This=locating data centers in Seattle.

(just now)
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

and (last week)

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Very glad it's looking like Seattle is leaning towards a data center moratorium—but what keeps nagging at me is: why did they do this? They know our climate goals, SCL's responsibility to its customers, our politics.

How is it serving them to try this? Something is definitely rotten in Denmark.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Why Big Tech companies got quiet on climate change Massive AI data centers are changing the calculus for friendly tech brands that once led the way in net-zero commitments.

Still just mind-boggled over this:

"Microsoft’s emissions could surge 44% due to just one West Virginia data center that will run entirely on natural gas."

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

This is utterly appalling AND....there's a reason they want to keep this stuff hidden, and it's not (just) competition.

They want to keep it from you and me, because we'll question whether it's worth it, and the answer isn't one that will improve their stock prices.