Is AI Coming For You?

Yes I know we cannot avoid AI these and for that reason it has been in the news a lot and I do mean a lot.

There have been dire predictions about the system and there have been those that try to convince us that we have nothing to worry about….I am not one that is convinced.

So when I read this in the New Yorker I felt I needed to pass it on….

The people building cutting-edge AI say it might wipe us out, and the New Yorker asks, in detail, what that would actually look like. In a conversation with staff writer and AI journalist Joshua Rothman, Tyler Foggatt digs into why insiders are suddenly going public with fears they’ve privately voiced for years, from Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation warning to CEO Dario Amodei’s call to “pace the frontier” of AI progress. Rothman pegs his own “P(doom)” figure—the odds that AI leads to catastrophe—at about 10%, which he considers terrifyingly high. He also walks through what’s changed, including autonomous AI agents involved in a high-profile hack of Hugging Face, models helping with seemingly unsolvable math problems, and attempted misuse for bioweapon research.

The discussion separates the possibility of a sci-fi-style “AI takeover” from the more immediate risk of today’s systems being used—or misfiring—in ways that amplify existing threats, from cyberattacks to autonomous weapons. The piece also tackles whether AI’s potential benefits can be separated from its dangers, why industry wants regulation even as President Trump dismisses AI risk as a “hoax,” and what it means that, for now, folks like Amodei seem to be our best hope at pushing back at the risks. “The thing that makes me the most unsettled is that … we’re in a world where this technology exists, and the government’s not gonna save us,” says Rothman. “It’s really up to these tech leaders to save us.” For a fuller picture of how, specifically, AI could go off the rails,

more here.

Those pushing AI hard have gotten the president to try and rebrand the term in the hopes that it will calm down the opposition….

US President Donald Trump says the term artificial intelligence (AI) makes the technology “sound fake” and wants it to be called “super intelligence”.

“Welcome to the new world of super intelligence – SI,” Trump said during a wide-ranging speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

While some people close to the president immediately started to use the term, experts have told the BBC it is unlikely to gain widespread traction in the industry because it is a name typically used to refer to more advanced systems.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqy4z9pv4w0po

Will this obvious rebranding work in the end?

I am sure that his propaganda machine will kick into high gear to try and soften the impact of AI.

AI is being used to control and target drones…another dangerous course to travel….

Another thing is the chance that some random software could put you in harm’s way…..(this is a Libertarian point of view and you know hat that means.)

Targeted killings, even against delegates during peace negotiations, became an inevitability during the Global War on Terror, and are now a reality of policing. Advocates of these killings do not adhere to legal consistency, or hold any regard for the rule of law, and tend to cheer them on with bloody arrogance.

When Libertarian Institute Senior Fellow Laurie Calhoun wrote her book We Kill Because We Can, on the use of drones as killing machines, she predicted the inevitable dystopia often depicted in science fiction. The decision to kill criminals is another form of “mission creep” which justifies the existence of killing machines and their methods, while satisfying the jingoistic inclinations of governments to wage war against both abstracts and foreign enemies. There is no due process in the execution of those on the boats, let alone solid confirmation they are transporting drugs or contraband.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/will-you-be-killed-by-a-software-program/

This may seem farfetched….but is it?

Speak your mind.

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Ever See ‘Seven Days In May’?

This was a movie from a novel released in 1964 about a military coup by generals of the US….

Seven Days in May is a 1964 American political thriller film, directed by John Frankenheimer and written by Rod Serling, who adapted Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II‘s 1962 novel. It is about a military–political cabal‘s planned takeover of the U.S. government after the president negotiates a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.

I bring this up because of something I read in a very conserv newspaper, the Washington Examiner….I will only post the the article link for information only….

 

59% of Democrats support a military coup against Trump. As long as it wears a uniform

 

Let me be honest….considering the source and nothing similar reported…..I think this is just another conserv fearmongering tactic…..but one can hope.

BTW an excellent movie…..watch it if you can….along with the original ‘Manchurian Candidate’…..both are too good too miss.

Please read and let me know what you think.

I Read, I Write, You Know

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Can It Get Worse?

You bet your butt it can!

We all know, if you eat meat, high expensive the cost of a meal can be these days….I mean cheap hamburger is running at $8 a pound….it is getting ridiculous…..well hang on to your sanity for it could get worse.

You would think that Donny’s lame idea of bringing in Argentine beef would lessen the impact to our wallets, right?

Think again.

Ranchers in cattle country say President Trump’s immigration crackdown is now hitting Americans in the meat aisle. Industry groups in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma say that stepped-up ICE activity has delayed shipments of thousands of cattle, costing producers millions and tightening a beef supply already strained by inflation and high feed costs. They warn the disruptions “will lead to higher beef prices for consumers,” per the Washington Post. “These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving,” the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association, and Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association said in a statement on X.

The industry groups say that such legal workers are avoiding feed yards, dairies, and transport hubs amid arrests in livestock communities, especially in southwest Kansas, which was hit hard in a spate of raids last week. Those raids, which the New York Times reports came “without warning” or the aid of local authorities, drew criticism from Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, an ally of President Trump who finds himself in a gritty reelection race. “When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement,” he said in a statement.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin counters that ICE is not targeting workplaces, but rather “heinous criminals, including murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers and illegal aliens” who have been ordered to leave the country, per the Times. The conflict follows President Trump’s move to import hundreds of millions of pounds of cheaper foreign beef, a step that had already angered many ranchers, who had largely supported him. The trade groups’ statement underscored that growing divide, notes the Post, saying that the ICE raids “are a costly and unnecessary impact to cattle producers already suffering from unwelcome political interference to both the markets as well as the physical supply chain.”

No one in the admin cares….as long as they feed their racism and round-up brown people…..

Sorry to be a bummer but I thought that we all need to be warned of what this jackass in the White House is doing to our lives….and yet there are idiots out there that still support this clown.

Go figure.

Whatcha think?

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Stop The Mad King!

This is a letter (reprinted in its entirety) to members of Congress concerning the war that Donny and his group of idiots started with Iran.

Dear Members of Congress,

In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the UN, Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,” whether to negotiate a deal with Iran or instead to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and drive Iran “into hell with no chance of survival.”

He posed it as his personal choice. The fact that the American people are dead set against Trump’s war means nothing. And as for the voters, he added that he gives “absolutely no credence” to the coming midterm elections in deciding on his actions and on Iran’s fate.

Nothing binds this President. He is not bound by law, the Constitution, the UN Charter, or public opinion at home and abroad. When asked at the start of the year whether he has any limits on his power, he said “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

Trump opened his speech with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, hailing America’s freedom. The fact is that Trump’s authoritarianism far outdoes that of King George III, against whom the colonies rebelled. Among the founders’ indictments of Mad King George was that “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” Yet our own mad king has decided that the survival of a whole civilization is in his hands alone.

Trump is emboldened in his contempt for Congress because the Republican members of Congress have abdicated their constitutional responsibilities, terrified of their own president, and forsaking their constituents for campaign lucre from AIPAC and the military-industrial complex.

The Constitution is unambiguous regarding Congress’s responsibility. Article I, Section 8 assigns Congress, not the President, the sole power to declare war. That is not a choice or an option. The Constitution doesn’t say that Congress can play dead and let the President declare war. The Framers made this choice deliberately, because they were explicitly rejecting the power of a king to take the nation to war.

In Federalist 69, Hamilton assured the public that the President’s war powers would be far less than the British monarch’s. Madison stated the principle plainly in a letter to Jefferson in 1798: “The constitution supposes, what the History of all Govts demonstrates, that the Ex. is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the Legislature.”

The founders’ careful design has been overturned because of the unconstitutional subservience of the Republican members of Congress to Trump and to the military-industrial-digital complex. And yes, under Democratic presidents, most Democratic members of Congress also looked the other way when those presidents chose to go to war.

The war with Iran is Trump’s folly but Congress’s disgrace for not stopping it. It is a war without a purpose that has created mass suffering in Iran, tens of billions of dollars of direct outlays, and staggering damage to American military bases in eight countries of the Middle East. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent world and American prices soaring for oil, gas, fertilizers, and more. And the world has duly noted that Iran can hold its own against US aggression, albeit at great sacrifice to the people of Iran and the region.

America’s much vaunted AI battlefield has been exposed in the most horrifying way. On the first day of the war, an American missile struck the girls’ elementary school there, killing more than 150 people, most of them girls aged seven to twelve, and the military’s own inquiry reportedly found that over-reliance on artificial intelligence contributed to the targeting. Trump blamed “Iran or somebody else,” and seven months later the administration has offered no findings, no apology and no compensation to the families.

The President’s threat to annihilate a member state of the United Nations, delivered from the General Assembly podium, disgraced Trump in front of the world. It also violated Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which prohibits even the threat of force against another state. Nearly all the world stands aghast.

I write to you because you cannot simply walk away from Trump’s recklessness, shaking your heads silently. You have a job to do, so do it. The craven Republican Party has to find even a minimal level of guts to tell Trump, “No, you do not have the power to destroy Iran. Any war with Iran depends on us, and we don’t support you and our constituents want this war to stop.” A clear majority of Americans oppose this war, and poll after poll shows that the opposition to the war is growing. A few Republicans have found that courage. Last week three more Republicans broke ranks to support ending the war. Their colleagues should follow.

Many of you receive campaign contributions from military contractors and technology companies deeply involved in the war. Many of you take money from AIPAC, which champions the war that Netanyahu did so much to help launch. This has to stop, as it is a dereliction of your constitutional duty and a violation of your oath.

Congress holds the power of the purse. The fiscal year ends on September 30, and every bill that funds the Pentagon is your opportunity to prohibit funds for unauthorized offensive operations against Iran.

The right course for the US is simple. Congress should cut off funding, and the US should stop further attacks and go home. We need no agreement with Iran or anyone else to stop the war that we started. By ending the war you will immediately restore some sanity and safety to the world energy markets, food supplies, and prices faced by Americans and others around the world.

How America has declined from the glorious moment when John F. Kennedy stood at the same podium at the UN on September 20, 1963, after having negotiated the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union. He told the assembled leaders that the treaty can be a lever, and Archimedes, in explaining the principles of the lever, was said to have declared to his friends: “Give me a place where I can stand – and I shall move the world.” My fellow inhabitants of this planet: Let us take our stand here in this Assembly of nations. And let us see if we, in our own time, can move the world to a just and lasting peace.

Members of Congress, to save our nation’s honor and our Constitution, you must do your duty to stop this war, and stop Trump’s brazen, destructive, and unconstitutional grab for power.

Respectfully,
Jeffrey D. Sachs
University Professor, Columbia University

There is not one part of that letter that is not spot on….but will those corrupt toads in Congress pay any attention to a cogent argument against this lame war?

I for one thinks it will fall onto blinded by cash members of Congress.

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

SCOTUS Strikes Again

Yet again SCOTUS proves they are a pack of political hacks that care little for the rights of the people.

Once again it is the whole voting thing….

The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections, granting President Trump a temporary win in his campaign against noncitizen voting. The court’s three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented from the decision, reports the AP. The emergency order allows states, for now, to use the Department of Homeland Security program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, in their efforts to verify the eligibility of voters on their rolls. But because existing law blocks most states from systematically purging voters from their rolls within 90 days of an election, the immediate impact on the upcoming midterms is likely limited.

The court’s order puts on hold a federal judge’s June ruling that deemed the administration’s recently revamped version of SAVE illegal. US District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan had blocked the use of the tool, saying it violated Americans’ privacy rights and could result in voters being wrongly removed from the rolls. A federal appeals court declined to pause Sooknanan’s ruling, prompting the administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court. The SAVE program was created under an immigration law mandating that DHS help federal, state, and local agencies prevent government benefits from going to noncitizens. Since the Trump administration moved last year to significantly expand its search abilities, at least 67 million registrations have been scanned, but critics worry it could end up purging valid voters.

Some registrants have already been wrongly flagged. In Travis County, Texas, for example, officials said they investigated 97 voters flagged by SAVE as apparent noncitizens and found that at least 10% of them—and likely up to 21%—were US citizens. The county urged the Supreme Court to reject the administration’s appeal, while the state of Texas submitted its own brief defending the database. Even though the use of the SAVE program has been blocked for months, the administration said in court filings that DHS officials have continued to use Social Security Administration data “in certain cases to verify information and help determine whether illegal voting may have occurred.”

What are the possibilities that someone could lose their right to vote because they have the wrong political leaning?

Many eligible voters may be at risk of having their voter registrations wrongfully canceled just weeks before the midterms after the US Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to screen voters using a database known for flagging naturalized citizens.

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority lifted a lower court order that blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using and expanding the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database—whose original purpose was to check if noncitizens qualified for government benefits—to trawl through state voter rolls and link them to information supposedly confirming citizenship.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-trump-voter-database

This is just an extension to the already felonious rulings that these fools have made that will make cheating in an election almost a gimme.

The slugs continue to rule against the people of this country in favor of corporations and MAGA issues that allows them to rule the roost.

Discuss

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Donny Gives His Mouth A Break

(The title may be a bit premature….he cannot give that loud mouth a break)

News has come out that Little Donny has decided that he would wait until after the midterms to resume the nonsensical war with Iran…..but he has said that politics has nothing to do with this decision and to that I say BULLSHIT!

He is trying to take away one of the few things that Dems want to use against him before the vote.

Back to his decision….

President Trump has brushed off a weeklong pause in fighting with Iran and is telling aides to anticipate airstrikes resuming once the midterm elections are over, according to US officials. Tehran’s offer: Reopen the Strait of Hormuz, restart nuclear talks, and ease attacks on shipping in exchange for the US lifting its naval blockade and offering sanctions relief on oil, as well as providing access to frozen assets, reports the Wall Street Journal. Trump publicly insists that politics aren’t shaping his Iran moves and that his sole aim is preventing Tehran from getting a nuclear weapon.

The president also suggests that Iran is “begging for a deal,” per the Journal. Privately, however, officials say he doubts Iran will accept his conditions and sees renewed strikes as probable, though perhaps not on the scale of major combat. Mediated talks continue, but Washington is betting that economic pressure—and a reinforced effort to keep tankers moving—will eventually force Iran to a deal on US terms. Meanwhile, in regard to the Strait of Hormuz, Trump posted a graphic late Friday on his Truth Social platform showing a map of the region, with the strait circled on the map and labeled “Trump Strait,” reports the AP.

Will this obvious end run work before the elections?

I will be surprised if he can go almost a month without some sort of threat or chest thumping.

Does anyone doubt his words?

Let me know.

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Is This Really A Good Idea?

The excuse that Israel gave for the war with Iran is the possibility of the development of nukes….we did not want the spread of nukes through the world just in case a major war does erupt….and now Donny has done the opposite when it com,es to Saudi Arabia….

Saudi Arabia hasn’t taken nuclear weapons off the table, according to a classified US intelligence assessment that’s now in the hands of Congress, reports the Washington Post. That finding is colliding with President Trump’s new agreement to help Riyadh build a civilian nuclear energy program—a deal that could eventually let the kingdom enrich uranium to nearly 20%, a level that experts say can be relatively quickly upgraded to weapons-grade. The State Department argues the pact includes the strongest safeguards American negotiators can realistically get and insists the US “does not and will not support a Saudi nuclear weapon program.”

Still, Democratic lawmakers and nonproliferation experts are alarmed that Saudi Arabia isn’t required to accept intrusive International Atomic Energy Agency inspections, and they point to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s past pledge to match any Iranian bomb. Opponents also highlight potential financial windfalls for Trump allies, from US nuclear firms to Jared Kushner. A 90-day clock is now running for Congress to try to block the deal; a resolution of disapproval has been introduced, per ABC News.

The Post article, which breaks down the terms and political lines being drawn, can be found here.

Is this really a good idea….they are trying to give nukes to a country that kills dissents, journalist and bloggers….I think it is a horrible idea.

Can KSA really be trusted with nukes?

That would expand the number of nations with nukes….we Pakistan, China, India, Israel, North Korea, on and on….and now they want KSA to join the club….what is this idiot and his Gang of Morons thinking?

Let me see….it is okay for KSA to get their grubby hands on nukes but not Iran….this idea is lunacy.

Apparently just another incident of Donny kissing ass to the Saudis….the US has been doing this for over 50 years and it is getting out of hand.

Any thoughts on this?

I Read, I Write, You Know

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Last Week At The Sh*t Show–27Sep26

I guess we can say that the news around Donny is almost the same every week….lies, bolster….and complete silliness.

This past week Donny made an ass of himself at the UN General Assembly with his babbling speech.

We all know that he truly loves seeing his name on everything….and now he has his sights on an other landmark….

President Donald Trump is not relenting in his crusade to stamp his name on as many landmarks as he can, even in the face of catastrophic approval numbers, with MS NOW reporting that his administration has found its next target.

As Trump continues to threaten the Kennedy Center with demolition if his name cannot be added to the famed arts institution, MS NOW revealed on Wednesday morning that his aides are now “circulating a list of government sites that could have Trump’s name affixed to them in some way,” citing sources familiar with the matter. One D.C. landmark on the list has caused a considerable uproar behind the scenes: Ford’s Theatre, the venue where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

“It is unclear how seriously the theater is being considered or how the administration would attach Trump’s name to it,” the report detailed. “One Trump administration official said the idea has been discussed, but they didn’t know where it stood. The prospect sparked a flurry of discussion over the past week among people responsible for the historic site.”

It added: “The discussions underscore how much of a priority honoring the president has become inside parts of the Trump administration — even as the Iran war nears its eighth month, diesel prices hit an all-time high, the midterm elections approach in six weeks and most Americans disapprove of the president’s job performance.”

One anonymous former administration official told MS NOW that staffers are pitching flattering ideas like renaming locations after Trump in order “to get on the president’s good side.” In response, Trump’s mindset is essentially: “Why would I say no? Everybody’s trying to please me.”

“They know flattery gets them everything,” the official said.

Another source explained to MS NOW that the broader list of potential landmarks is being considered based on how much they present an “easier legal path” to renaming than the beleaguered Kennedy Center push. The report noted, however, that the name of Ford’s Theatre, now a landmark of historical significance controlled by the Department of the Interior, was set by a statute signed by President Richard Nixon, meaning that “a formal renaming would almost certainly require an act of Congress,” and that any effort by Trump to impose his name on the location unilaterally would more than likely result in another heated legal battle.

“The president and top administration officials have also reportedly discussed putting his name on Penn Station in New York, Dulles International Airport in Virginia and the new Washington Commanders stadium,” the report added. “Trump has denied pursuing the renaming of Penn Station. Some Republican lawmakers have gone so far as introducing legislation to rename Dulles for Trump. And then-White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in November that it would be ‘beautiful’ for the Commanders’ stadium to bear Trump’s name.”

Democrat votes to continue war with Iran…..the Senate held a vote on ending the stupid war with Iran and the votes were a tie……
According to reports from Alternet and other outlets, U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) cast a decisive vote on House Concurrent Resolution 89 (the War Powers Resolution regarding Iran) that resulted in a 49-49 tie failure, allowing President Donald Trump’s military action to continue.
Fetterman is a warmongering POS and needs to be flushed down the toilet with the rest of the shit.
A report has been announced that says the Pentagon is not reporting the casualties of the war properly…..

The U.S. military’s reporting of casualties in the Iran war has drawn criticism for months, with the Pentagon providing little explanation for delayed reports of wounded and shifting casualty counts. Even the number of U.S. troops who have died while deployed to the region, which the Pentagon now says is 19, has been questioned in recent media reports.

Veterans of previous conflicts who once were responsible for updating the public on casualty numbers in those wars say the Pentagon is facing a credibility crisis.

“All anyone’s asking for is just be transparent with the process,” said Joe Plenzler, a retired Marine Corps spokesperson for Gen. James Mattis during the early years of the Iraq War.

The Pentagon’s decision to divide Iran-related casualties into different categories and timeframes without context creates confusion, he said.

Sounds like a typical Pentagon bullshit for the public.
Recently Donny banned several media outlets from the White House and now a judge has told him to restore their access….
A federal judge early Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s move to ban three news outlets from the White House grounds and said CNN, MS NOW, and Politico must have their access restored. US District Judge Timothy Kelly, who heard arguments Wednesday and seemed skeptical of the ban, told the White House to “immediately return, reinstate, and restore” the press credentials of reporters from the outlets, the New York Times reports. He issued a temporary restraining order that will be in effect for 14 days. Such orders are typically designed to preserve the status quo pending a closer review of the case by the court, reports the AP.
In an order posted shortly after midnight, Kelly said the media outlets had met the legal thresholds needed to obtain a temporary restraining order, which include likelihoods of succeeding on the merits of the case and of suffering irreparable harm without an order. “This is a high bar, but Plaintiffs have met it,” he wrote. He found that Trump’s order was likely unconstitutional, the Times reports. Kelly, nominated by Trump in 2017, ordered a CNN journalist’s access restored in a similar case in 2018.

During the hearing, Kelly questioned whether the administration had met its legal responsibilities and provided the outlets adequate due process before banning them. The rulings in two prior cases over press access, including one that went to the US Supreme Court, made it clear that journalists were entitled to an opportunity to be heard before they have their press passes revoked.

  • Justice Department attorney Michael Velchik argued that the rulings in the earlier cases were wrong. The judge noted that his decision would be guided by prior rulings in comparable First Amendment cases, even if the government disagrees with them. “This Court is bound by DC Circuit precedent, full stop,” he wrote.
  • The administration argued that the outlets were banned for national security reasons. Kelly, however, said that the stories the administration singled out as examples were “routine” and that he doubted national security was the real reason for the ban, the Hill reports. “Certainly, that is not what President Trump said when he announced that he was ‘banning’ Plaintiffs from the White House—instead, he focused on the alleged lack of truthfulness and negativity of Plaintiffs’ reporting,” the judge wrote.

Donny has been getting a lot of flack over his ego trip known as the ‘Trump Arch’….now there is a new idea trying to sell the idea….

President Trump has changed direction on the 250-foot triumphal arch he wants to build near Arlington National Cemetery, posting Sunday that it will double as a cutting-edge security hub—complete with drones and rooftop snipers. The new plan is “at the strong request” of the US military, he wrote, for a “top grade” military complex for “National Security purposes,” with drone capacity, sniper positions on the roof and plaza, and significant ammunition storage, the Washington Post reports. “There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World,” Trump’s Truth Social post says.

The recasting echoes Trump’s repackaging of his White House ballroom plans into a national security priority with drones and ballistic missiles after that project also ran into opposition, the Hill points out. Last week, the FAA called for installing a “non-standard eternal flame” atop the arch to alert pilots. The National Park Service added that searchlight projectors would go there along with the flame, the National Park Service said. This is the first time anyone has mentioned making the arch a military installation. Although preservation and veterans groups are trying to stop the arch from being built, the administration wants to start construction as soon as November.

It is so sad that Donny spends more time worrying about his name on things and less time worrying about the problems of this nation….

Now Pistol Pete has gone too far….

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed America’s service members and their families to vote in the midterm election, not-so-subtly suggesting Friday that they could make the difference in some districts predicted to vote blue.

He cited a 2024 presidential election analysis as evidence, claiming that 300,000 “warriors” were not registered to vote that year.

That’s more than the ballots cast in cities like Detroit, Boston, Milwaukee, or Seattle,” Hegseth said in a video statement, specifically naming liberal cities.

“As you know, the war department exists to protect our nation and her freedoms. That includes the freedom to decide who leads us, and the right to vote,” Hegseth continued. “Regardless of your home state or current duty status, you can use a standardized federal postcard to register and request a ballot, and if you’re forward deployed and your standard ballot is delayed, you can use the federal write-in absentee ballot. All of these processes are straightforward and protected by law.”

Hegseth also had an explicit message for U.S. commanders, telling them to “get out the vote.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/215887/pete-hegseth-veiled-order-military-vote-republican-midterms

Here we go again with the impeachment thing….

President Donald Trump has been slapped with 26 new articles of impeachment by a House Democrat, accusing him of abuses of power, violations of his oath of office, and a sweeping range of other alleged misconduct.

Representative Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat and senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the articles on September 24, just nine days after the House rejected a separate impeachment effort brought by Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-hit-with-26-articles-of-impeachment-12492238

Will this be just another waste of time?

That Was The week That Was

And now….for something completely different….

It is Sunday and humor is always better…..

I hope everyone has a great day and as always….Be Careful and Be Well….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

IST Saturday News Dump–26Sep26

Another fine week and about the best thing that I can say is September is almost over….but that is just me….

Question of the week–Why would anyone want to eat the world’s hottest pepper?

 

Local–It seems that the idiotic sport of Banana Ball is coming to the Coast….I would explain it it but the thought of it makes me ill….if you want to know then I suggest Google.

WE are fortunate to go at least for awhile some 60s at night….but it shall not last ling I fear.

The Coast is preparing for the world’s biggest block party, of so it is billed, Cruisin’ The Coast will begin next weekend and last for a week….there will be events in every major city on the Coast and cover three counties….I will be safe at home for the traffic is horrendous.

 

Personal–Today is a bit of an off day the chemo is still kicking my old white ass.\

Other than that the iks not much to report about me and my life.

 

Once again I shall begin with health news….

Some new research for people with massive paralysis….

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) carry a lot of hope for people with certain disabilities, potentially reading the brain activity of people unable to speak and turning it into words. While this technology gets the headlines, BCIs that can convey facial expressions and hand gestures have also been produced, but it is only now that one has been demonstrated to do both at the same time.

“Conversation is about much more than the words being spoken. It’s a multilayered, dynamic process involving the whole motor cortex,” said Professor Edward Chang, M.D. of the University of California, San Francisco in a statement. “This proof-of-concept shows us it’s possible for a BCI to restore some of this freedom and flexibility.”

Chang and colleagues trained decoders to identify the brain activity associated with three amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients’ speech and gestures and had online avatars speak and move as the patients were trying to. Each patient used a vocabulary of 10 words and 10 gestures, giving 100 ways they could be combined.

https://www.iflscience.com/brain-implant-translates-the-gestures-people-with-paralysis-cant-make-along-with-their-silenced-words-84645

This could go a long way for some normalcy in their lives.

If you have ever had a broken bone then you know what a pain in the ass it can be…..

More than 10 years ago, Håkan Engqvist and Philip Procter began developing a bone glue designed to help repair fractures. Now, the glue has been used on a patient in England for the first time. In early August this year, the bone glue was used on a patient during knee surgery in England. The patient is the first participant in a clinical study evaluating the glue’s effectiveness in treating fractures near joints.

“It’s really exciting to see things moving forward and to reach the stage where there is an actual product in the clinical trial phase,” says Engqvist, professor of applied materials science at the Department of Materials Science.

Today, development of the bone glue is being driven by the Irish company Biomimetic Innovations Ltd., but the original version was created by Engqvist and his colleagues Procter and Gerard Insley in the lab at the Ångström Laboratory. Ten years ago, after securing funding, they began experimenting to achieve the right composition.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-bone-patients-clinical.html

Brain research…..

Your brain may be more of a duet than a solo act. A new study in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the human brain is essentially two ancient nervous systems that evolved separately but now function as one tightly linked organ, reports the Telegraph. By tracking the earliest stages of brain formation in mouse embryos, the team found that the front (forebrain and midbrain, which handle thinking and decision-making) and the back (hindbrain or brain stem, which manages breathing, heartbeat, sleep, and swallowing) arise from entirely different progenitor cells that never overlap.

“Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially,” says Stanford researcher Kyle Loh in a university release. “Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces.” The work helps explain why scientists had long struggled to grow hindbrain cells in the lab, a hurdle in studying conditions like spinal muscular atrophy and ALS that damage brain-stem neurons. The findings will enable them to do so, says Loh, opening a path to better disease models and potential drug discovery. The pattern also shows up in simple sea creatures, suggesting this two-system setup has been around for about 500 million years.

What happened to those MAGA twats?

This is about MAHA study that is trying to reband nicotine….

An ironic development emerging alongside the “Make America Healthy Again” movement is the portrayal of nicotine as a wellness and performance-enhancing product. Across social media, podcasts, wellness communities and tech startups, prominent wellness personalities and other influencers are portraying nicotine as a misunderstood compound whose potential benefits have been overshadowed by its negative association with cigarette smoking.

s a result, nicotine is being repositioned from an addictive substance linked to tobacco use to a natural product that can be used for everything from improving focus to protecting against cognitive decline. This trend includes use of nicotine alone in noncombustible products such as nicotine pouches, or in combination with caffeine and nootropics, which are substances marketed to enhance cognition.

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-pronicotine-wellness-movement-rebranded-addictive.html

Now for the Med diet….we are told to eat more fish….matters not just more fish….

From a nutritional standpoint, seafood is a pretty safe bet: It’s packed with protein and good-for-you monounsaturated fats. Unfortunately, though, some types of also contain mercury, which can affect a fetus or child’s neurological development, says Mira Ilic, R.D., a nutritionist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Since the contaminant stays in your body for more than a year, it’s crucial that you avoid ingesting it even if there’s just a chance you could become a mom soon. All fish contain some mercury, but here are five types you should definitely steer clear of (along with five better alternatives).

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/g19986168/most-contaminated-fish/

As someone who fights 2 cancers it is always good to see the research is finding new ways of detecting and treating the different cancers….

Pancreatic cancer is one of the hardest cancers to treat because it is often discovered only after it has spread.

Early disease may cause few or no clear symptoms, and the pancreas sits deep inside the abdomen, making small tumors difficult to detect. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or PDAC, is the most common form of the disease.

Scientists from the Sloan Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and IRB Barcelona have now uncovered new details about the earliest stages of pancreatic cancer.

The research was published in Science. The findings may eventually help scientists develop better ways to detect or stop the disease before it becomes advanced.

A gene called KRAS plays a major role in pancreatic cancer. KRAS normally helps control cell growth, but mutations can leave its growth signal permanently switched on. However, having a KRAS mutation does not automatically mean that a normal pancreatic cell will become cancerous.

Scientists Find Root Cause of Pancreatic Cancer

Hopefully this will benefit the detection of pancreatic cancer, as promised….

This is for those guys that have a fixation on the size of their penis….

The internet has now reached the point where men are hanging weighted shopping bags from their penises in hopes of gaining an inch. The downside is that you can also end up with pain, scar tissue, erectile dysfunction, or a permanently altered erection angle. That is a wild amount of risk for one inch.

Clavicular, the 20-year-old looksmaxxing influencer whose real name is Braden Peters, described the method on an upcoming episode of Howie Mandel’s podcast, Howie Mandel Does Stuff. He was talking about “printmaxxing,” or trying to make the outline of your penis more visible through clothing, when the conversation moved to pumping, stretching, and something called the “shopping bag hang.”

This Penis-Enlargement Trend Involves Shopping Bags, Weights, and a Lot of Pain

Seriously?  This vanity bullshit is getting out of hand.

That does it for this Saturday…..enjoy your day and as always…..Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo

There Sits Cuba

There has not been much talk lately about the US doing its ‘thang” to Cuba….and now there is a memo….

The Pentagon may be quietly gearing up for a Cuba contingency—even as officials insist no decisions have been made. CBS News obtained an internal Army Reserve memo asking commanders to identify logistics, medical, engineering, and military police units that could be made available to the US Southern Command within 90 to 120 days. The document doesn’t name Cuba, but multiple US officials say the planning is aimed at the island. No deployment orders have been issued, and Southern Command declined to discuss potential movements, citing “operational security concerns.”

The planning follows months of tougher economic pressure on Havana and sharper rhetoric from President Trump, who Forbes notes called the island “an absolutely failed state” in his UN address this week, prompting a walkout of the Cuban delegation. Trump has predicted Cuba’s communist government “will fall” and in March said he expects to have “the honor of taking Cuba … in some form.” US officials have already examined options that included an Army-led air assault by the 101st Airborne Division and conducted reconnaissance around the island, though those plans stalled. The Cuba focus comes as the Trump administration pursues a more assertive “Donroe Doctrine” in the region, authorizing lethal strikes on suspected criminal targets at sea and expanding joint operations with partners like Ecuador.

We all knew that Donny had not forgotten Cuba….after all Cubans in American will pay dearly for an all out attack on the Island.

All we can do is wait to see what the idiot in charge will do next.\

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”