mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO

"Health plan in two weeks!"

This might not go badly. Then again, it might go really badly. It is chaotic and unpredictable.

MrG's Blog & Notes for Week 9:
-- SCOTUS bickering
-- drones to defend Taiwan
-- Russia's home front
-- California farmers love solar
-- things changing (part 1)
dv.airvectors.net

Trump is suffering in the polls, so he wants something to pump him up. Might work out for him, might not.

These are very old machines. They're only useful as decoys.

The Iranians knew an attack was imminent, and lost senior leadership anyway. Inside-job intelligence?

Yeah, I'm thinking they were decoys.

Hot off the presses -- buy the ebook, or read it for free!
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Yeah -- Trump is less a problem in himself than a symptom of a problem: the decline of the GOP.

Trump is unlikely to even be around in 2028.

It looks even better than Tumblr. It's for posting imagery, so it fits very nicely along with BlueSky. It's got over 600 million users; even if I only can reach 1% of them, an audience of 6 million would be great. I still have to be grateful to Tumblr for giving me the rethink. [11/END]

Tumblr is not in good financial shape, and is not thriving; I decided to look for alternatives. Following Gemini suggestions, I checked Instagram, Mastodon, and Deviantart, but they weren't quite what I wanted. Then I checked out Pinterest. [10/more]

That's not dissing BlueSky, which remains my first priority, the place I do serious things -- I wanted something better for less serious things, like selling my aviation ebooks. However, after a few weeks I started realizing that Tumblr might be a dead end. [9/more]

Tumblr is a long-standing social-media site, more or less tuned to distributing imagery. Tumblr, I realized, was a superb place for distributing my imagery and building up a following. I decided it would be a great complement to BlueSky. [8/more]

I've got literally thousands of images I've accumulated over the decades, and they've just been gathering dust on my PC. I wanted to get them out to the world, but I couldn't figure out a good way to do it. Then I discovered Tumblr. [7/more]

Along with queries, I got to playing with AI image generation. It's tricky to use and tends to produce junk, but in time I found out I could get good, sometimes incredible, results with it. I was just doing it for fun -- but then noticed an opportunity. [6/more]

I found out that I could send Gemini answers to Google Docs for storage. I've also taken to sending links to myself, via email, to articles I read on my smartphone -- with the result being a proliferation of data files that I'm trying to get under control. [5/more]

I want to know more about power transistors? I get what I need. Less specific questions, it gives dodgier answers, but even then can provide hints. AI also does well with broad, general questions that have broad, general answers. [4/more]

Fortunately, AI is not really about to take away all our jobs, it just doesn't work that well. It does work well in some ways: Google Gemini and AI Search are very good for tracking down hard-to-find information -- the more focused and nitpicky, the better. [3/more]

Before saying more about that, I have to emphasize that AI largely deserves the bad rap it's obtained: it's been an environmental disaster, and it's been vastly oversold. It's been pushed as a revolutionary technology, but what we're seeing is a lot of "AI slop". [2/more]

DAYLOG FRI 27 FEB 26 / THINGS CHANGING PART 1: Earlier this month, I commented on BlueSky that, although AI has proven an extremely troublesome technology, it can do some neat things. In fact, it's led to an overhaul of my personal lifestyle. [1/more]

#dailyhaiku #trumpdementia

How many times has Trump tried to issue XOs to control elections? I think this is at least the third. It's a nuisance, but it doesn't work.

I suspect that Trump keeps doing this over and over because he's forgotten he's done it before.

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"If the invader doesn't win, he loses. If the defenders do not lose, they win."

Trump likes the Russians because of their big pots of dirty money. There is no other consideration.

It's exactly what he's been doing all along. This isn't news.

But ... so what else is new? He's just playing the same silly stunt over and over.

I think Trump's at the point he doesn't remember that he did it before.

KAMALA HARRIS: FOR THE PEOPLE
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[#105] #kamalaharris #biography #politics

Why farmers in California are backing a giant solar farm Many farmers have had to fallow land as a state law comes into effect limiting their access to water. There's now a push to develop some of that land … into solar farms.

LINK:

www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...

Somebody make a chart of the number of anti-transfolk articles published. It was just noise until 2015, and then it went exponential.

Exponential growth can't be maintained. I think this fad will eventually wear itself out. It has no visible means of support.