Dalton

Metaphysical zombie "science:" Even where induced mystical experiences with psychedelics effect recovery from depression, academics desperately demand that there be no causal conscious experience, but only epiphenomenal reflections of neurobiology.
JAMA doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3032

"Tesla, Klarna, IBM, Duolingo, Taco Bell, and countless others rushed to scale down their workforce with AI...most are now quietly ...rehiring staff" [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-companies-replaced-workers-ai-quietly-reversing-course-gwizda%25C5%2582a-zh2we/]

The US GAO found that 66% of costs of implementing work requirements for Medicaid expansion are admin. Many will lose care because of complexity, so will simply go to an uncompensated ER.
JAMA Health Forum
Published Online: October 30, 2025
2025;6;(10):e255957. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.5957

It is honorable of Davie to leave, simply to spare his organization (and likely his country also) retaliation by our Sociopath-in-Chief, but you could hardly mislead anyone about Trump's publicly declared intent (in the Jan 6, 2021 speech) that the Biden election by overturned by criminal means.

Everyone should be aware that promises (or statements generally) by most of the current politicians wearing the now-ambiguous label "Republican" should not be relied on (and in any case, Trump will threaten any of them who consider voting in favor of ACA in any form).

As We May Think “Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is ...

I recall discussing hypertext with a fellow software engineer in 1987 (he used Mac HyperCard to cross-index note cards for a prospective hollywood script he was working on). TimBL connected hypertext to TCP/DNS in 1989, realizing Vannevar Bush's 1945 memex vision:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/pri...

Very Tolkien, grin.

"Runnin' thru the jungle with my M-16; I'm a bad m_f_ I'm a US Marine" (Marine vet buddy of mine years ago used to do this cadence as we jogged training in kyokushin).

The poster child for the Idiocracy.

Notorious for stating the obvious, grin. I doubt homo sapiens is going to extend much further into the future, but if it does, the necessarily advanced species and civilization will examine the latter years of the 20th century and early 21st with bewilderment, i.e., how perverse doctrine permeated.

It is likely most engineers would prefer a model where the AI coding occurred in a sandboxed area that could not interfere with their actual development work.

True, but possibly the reality of the damage being done to the economy may impact the personal fortunes of the authoritarian-leaning justices, and may therefore persuade them to take a closer look at their tendency to enable the regime to assume powers it was never intended to wield.

I'm not a fan of Mamdani (though his policy proposals are only reasonable given the final descent of America into feudal society with most Americans now serfs/peasants), but by Tuberville's "logic" he should fear the spread of parasitic conmen throughout the country, given the current president.

Unfortunately, as Jefferson reportedly initially believed when receiving reports on the new Constitution, the House of Representatives is incompetent to this task, i.e., "the President, aided by the army, might become a dictator."

It is painful to witness, but that is the way of evolution (re Johnson's constituents unwilling to blame the architect of their ongoing starvation).

I assume you mean Trump is proposing oil lease sales in Alaska, rather than a sale of the entire state (however, it wouldn't surprise me, given his recent setbacks in crypto).

Fortunately, Google avoids my voluminous writing, as it resembles in no way the chatbot/Family Feud animal noises it values at this point (e.g.,general search balks if you don't accept their always-irritating canned search suggestions, again evoking scenes from The Idiocracy).

Aside from obtaining access to the minerals (S. America is looking favorable), the West might consider reverting to actual industry, e.g., processing and distributing the lithium to battery manufactureres, rather than the casino game of financialization (which is always an end game, historically).

Also in that MAGA version, a blond-haired wealthy seller of Temple merchandise comments to an acquaintance, as they glance up at the crucified figures atop Golgotha c. 33 AD, "Losers."

A Jewish friend (Reconstructionist Congregation) observed Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in October. That idea of bringing to mind one's sins and hoping to do better or otherwise atone for them somehow seems a good one: I try to do that daily.

“We ought not . . . take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is" [St. Theresa]. We nevertheless must not forsake right action, e.g., to hope that our words have had some good effect.

“I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know" [Bill Gates (the ruthless founder of Microsoft) talking to Rolling Stone in 2014].

Hegseth seems to prefer the Russian/Soviet model, i.e., political loyalty over competence. As you noted in another post, this of course degrades lethality, particularly in the sense of obtaining maximum effectiveness with least number of casualties (cf Ukraine war performance of Russians).

America 2025 being Bizzarro World, I assume by "peak" you mean "nadir."

... the innocent and righteous ...suffer . . . [in] a society which...his contemporaries ... have built up into a vast and enduring incarnation of disorder, inflicting suffering upon its members and infecting them with its own ignorance and wickedness [Aldous Huxley, 1946 The Perennial Philosophy]

I assume your definition of "art" is general. My own is: Art is talent expressing itself through willful seeking of the peak experience in non-trivial performance that elicits thought and affect that transforms the experience of life, transcends the routine, elevates the spirit and understanding.

I assume this is another shill, e.g., an "analysis" of AI use in companies that typically have ordered their people to use AI somehow, though their engineers know it is a fraud (a stochastic parrot is inherently unreliable and costs valuable time trying to check output for errors).

You can be sure the people who are stuck with the bill for this monstrous fraud won't include Sam Altman or any other of the fast-talking hucksters daily painting new lipstick on this pig (to make it appear more like a human, metaphorically).

I suspect the worst version of Unix written would run faster and cleaner than any offering of Windows (or Ubuntu lately, which seems to want to be as crapulent as Windows).

I note that the decline of civilization is driven largely by the perversion of the idea of compensation for human work (activities of humans that facilitate the necessaries of existence and the advance of civilization), to Pareto gone wild (allowing money to generate more money without limit).