Brad Anders

Cats

New euphemism for bald-faced lying by the Administration from Ted Cruz: "Escalating the rhetoric"

Google Nest, not Ring. Doesn't change much about the issue.

YouTube video by Feynman Analysis The Physics That Makes Interstellar Travel IMPOSSIBLE

Yes, this is an AI audio and video fake. It's not Feynman, he never said or wrote this. But that doesn't mean the physics is wrong, or what it communicates isn't true.

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Businesses such as Ring and others might be compelled by "national security" to participate, or paid to keep their silence, under the threat of prosecution or economic ruin. Given what we've seen in just one year from this Administration, any and all of this is not out of the realm of possibility.

Even with the most benevolent government, such systems would be considered mass invasion of privacy. Under authoritarian governments, such systems would destroy any freedom to challenge leaders or policy, and worse. AI modification of video/audio could be used to create any narrative desired.

Such aggregated data could then be analyzed by any number of tools to create any number of profiles around individuals, time, location, etc., for further processing and analysis. Such systems and methods would be totally unknown to the public, protected by "national security" legal shields.

I suspect that the US, China, and Russia (and others), have all developed systems to permit the large-scale aggregation of as many personal/private/public/government video and sensing points possible.

Possible explanation for the recovered Ring doorbell footage on the Nancy Guthrie case - the NSA/FBI tap into Ring and store all footage. Not implausible.

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News 'We've Advocated For Measles Vaccines All Along!': Dr. Oz Defends HHS, RFK Jr As Measles Cases Surge

Kudos to CNN's Dana Bash for expressing incredulity ("Oh, come on?") to Mehmet Oz for claiming RFK Jr. has "been advocating for measles vaccine all along" the recent outbreaks. Journalists need to call out the lies, call them lies, and stop using euphemisms.

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New Bad Bunny fan here.

Walking stick

FYI, if you're on Medicare, and you've started to receive "Stay Healthy with Dr. Oz" emails, at the bottom of the email you'll see an "Unsubscribe" link, helpful if you want to avoid having lies, distortions, and misinformation from being sent to your email account.

Wash behind the house on full flow during today's storms.

Superman pose

Flagstaff rainbow

I thought the revisionist response I got was rather contemporary. Acquiescing to cheaters in sport has become commonplace (e.g. Sinner).

Thanks, glad you kept that. I feel the same regarding Levi, over a decade later.

Loki in the wild.

Feel the love.

How the sub-100K MAGA earner thinks the OBBB is going to benefit them is beyond my comprehension.

Kerter, not Kerter

Kerter storage box for my 8" Dobsonian telescope. I'm bolting the box to my concrete observing pad so I don't have to haul it out there every evening. Lockable and I'm going to seal the lid to keep out dust. Will test it for water tightness before it's placed.

Relaxing in the evening on our new patio on the corner of our Flagstaff property. Nice spot for doing some casual night sky viewing

Scorpio and satellites whipping by.

Hummingbird nest in our courtyard.

Best money I've spent in a while - $208 for the entire Buckethead collection on Bandcamp. 836 albums. Bought them a couple months ago, haven't stopped listening to them since. Amazing range of compositions, from crazed stuff (not my fave) to incredible concept albums.