Rob Slade

OK, Pete Hegseth rants about fat generals.

Then the Republicans refuse to relent on health spending, shut down the government, and serving military personnel start showing up in food bank lineups.

Coincidence?

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It's simple:

if you have to get in early, it's a Ponzi scheme ...

There is a population that is opposed to immigration from countries where it is dangerous to reside, because people in those countries should have fought harder to retain their freedom in the first place.

So it's ironic that this group isn't fighting harder to retain freedom ...

I'm not a huge fan of Wikipedia. I think it still has a lot of work to do in terms of accuracy and coverage.

But I don't see how an AI-hallucinating, facist-leaning Grokipedia is the answer ...

OK, so, is the US closed, yet?

Elon (or Grok: it's hard to tell the difference) has created a little video valentine for us.

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But I wonder how many people realize that the "heart," in the video, starts out as a black hole ...

Resistance is futile. You will be absorbed ...

Generative Enlightenment

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It is important that we not fetter AI companies with excessive safety regulation. It is vital that we maintain supremacy in the AI race. Should AI go rogue and start killing us all, it is imperative that the robots killing us are western democratic Terminators, and not foreign.

Albania's newest cabinet minister is an AI bot. It is responsible for public tenders.

Presumably including those tenders by Google, Meta, and OpenAI?

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Business Continuity Planning
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Does anyone else think that "Nigel Farage and the Racists" would be a great name for a punk rock band?

Trump's second term promises "revenge" for MAGA-world (for unspecified dissatisfaction), as well as riches. Also, Trump is taking revenge on anyone who has ever opposed or annoyed him.
Trouble is, as noted in "The Princess Bride," there isn't a lot of money in the revenge business.
And also ...

I keep forgetting: why was it that the new re-issue of "1984" carries the title "Project 2025"?

Mount Underwood waiting to pounce. 0 to 630 hectares in three hours. Wesley Ridge is now "contained," which is good, since the Bamfield road is now closed.

I've just seen a book that insists that I am a medium.

All this time I've thought I was 3XL ...

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I *love* this ad www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLma... . It's for a recruiter, and gig economy, but it says things about genAI tools that just ring true. "[A] no-code world that's too good to be true." "[J]ust not tested through." "don't care about bugs." "don't need a backend if I've got the spark"

I have just read an article on the popularity of Labubus. Predictably, the article did not present any compelling hypothesis.

However, I was disturbed to learn, from the article, that there exist actual professors, at actual universities, of "cute."

I think I need to go and lie down, now ...

Everything's coming up rosy for Rotary Colour Fest Port Alberni event draws record number of participants to Blair Park

I got a photo credit in the (online edition of) the Alberni Valley News!
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‘I’m hoping to be the world’s youngest dirty old man’: the wit of Tom Lehrer, by those who knew him The musical satirist, who has died aged 97, was famously sharp and funny – but his contemporaries also remember his generosity and humility

‘I’m hoping to be the world’s youngest dirty old man’: the wit of Tom Lehrer, by those who knew him

TERRIBLE JOKE OF THE DAY™️

I got sick while staying at a small hotel in Spain.

The front desk sent up a doctor, & after he gave me some very effective medicine, I said I was surprised that such a small establishment had a doctor on call.

"Yes," he said. "No one expects the Spanish inn physician."

US Space Command has commissioned SpaceBot, a genAI system that will probably be used to assist with the weaponization of space.

Skynet lives ...

The vibes at the Tesla Diner are unmatched

The home phone has voicemail, which, if you leave a message, will send me email even if I'm out (although Shaw/Rogers fails to record the message a lot of the time, so ...)

(Isn't is marvelous how modern technology has made our lives so much easier?)
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(and, if I'm *not* out, I very often turn my cell phone off. Which, I know, makes absolutely *no* sense to most in our constant-connection society, but there it is ...)
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To requests for my phone number, I've recently had to extend the explanation to:

XXX-XXX-XXXX is the home, landline, and should be first choice for all incoming calls, since I often, when I'm out, don't hear the cell, YYY-YYY-YYYY, ringing
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Busters battle back as Scotch broom grows Vancouver Island's wildfire risk Hardy, yellow-flowered plant has its clutches deep as Vancouver Island's most notorious invasive species

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Free CISSP prep seminar

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