BT Lamprey

It can be hard to cope with alienation in an increasingly digital, polarized society.

But I take solace in the fact that the future A.I.s poised to govern our lives will--in some small part--be trained on my own ill-considered contributions to social media.

Years ago, I saw a manhole cover shoot thirty feet into the air and land in one of few empty spots in a crowded intersection.

Everyone froze, processing this brush with disaster. But only for a moment.

Even after an explosion revealed the violent pressure beneath us, we just went about our day.

It’s a big, big stretch to say these are “far above the horizon”.

Even after the camera operator zoomed in, the UFO is in the same frame as objects on the ground (around 1:45-1:50) in the video.

The witness says they “lost it behind a streetlight,” so again, clearly not far above the horizon.

Oakland mayor, sheriff say ICE, CBP operations canceled for East Bay The Alameda County Sheriff's Office confirmed that it's been told federal officials have paused operations in the East Bay.

Not much info, but very good news.

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/24/i...

I sure hope I’m wrong, but I doubt the reprieve for SF is going to extend to Oakland and Berkeley.

Stay safe, East Bay.

You’re making a good point, but I would frame it in a different way:

Did entertainers who objected to McCarthyism marginalize themselves?

They sacrificed a platform that they might have used for good, just to avoid being part of a destructive force.

And it was the right thing to do.

People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.

"People who perceive ChatGPT as intelligent, or capable of perceiving reality and forming relationships with humans, may not understand that it is essentially a machine that predicts the next word in a sentence."

www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

Ursula K. Le Guin — A Left-Handed Commencement Address

To honor what would have been her 96th birthday, here's one of my favorite Ursula K. Le Guin works, a 1983 commencement address at Mill's College during which she tells the graduates she hopes they won't be successful.

What a legend.

www.ursulakleguin.com/lefthand-mil...

Are we, perhaps, under reacting?

Our ghoulish seizer hasn't just crossed the Rubicon, he's pissed in its riverbed and grabbed it by the delta.

He's currently stuffing a blockchain down its river mouth while screaming incoherently about "Purity of Essence" and our "Precious Bodily Fluids."

"Tump-loving" has replaced "God-fearing" in the American vernacular.

It's bad luck Chicago.

We're hurtling toward catastrophe because of a slouching, rapacious thug so willfully ignorant and irrationally hateful that he'd set his own house on fire to spite the neighbors.

As I wrote it in the alt text, the artist is Josh Kirby.

It's feeling very Germany-in-the-1930s out there today, with a slight chance of the Spanish Civil War.

YouTube video by tennesseejed93 SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings

youtu.be/WvOZs3g3qIo

You’re not overreacting.

Shit is fucked.

New mantra:

“Continue without disabling”

The photograph "Flower Power" by Bernie Boston showing a demonstrator placing a flower into an M.P.'s rifle barrel in October, 1967.

Once again, America is threatened by its most dangerous and fanatical foes: Americans.

I Have No WiFi, and I Must Stream

AARO's STAG "TERMINATED"

🧵A thread

1) When he became director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick formed an advisory group, the membership of which he refused to make public (or even provide to congressional offices).
www.defense.gov/News/Release...

9) "Most Science and Technological Advisory Group members were Dr. Kirkpatrick's friends, and when he departed many of them resigned. AARO terminated the STAG after Dr. Kirkpatrick's departure."

U.S. proposes recognizing Crimea as Russian ahead of new round of talks Ukraine and its European allies will be meeting with top U.S. officials in London on Wednesday to discuss the proposals, which may not sit well with Kyiv.

Flight of the Chad Brigade

Stop calling it a “constitutional crisis!”

They’re callously destroying the social fabric that holds us together.

I’m begging all of my countrymen to start paying attention to the dismantling of our society before we lose even more.

Contact From Iarga : Stefan Denearde : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive It's a book from 1969 and happened in Holland called 'Buitenaardse Beschaving' by Stefan Denearde.

Contact From Iarga (1969) is a UFO contactee account that focuses on environmentalism, rather than the danger of nukes.

Is anyone aware of earlier contactee accounts that focus on environmentalism?

archive.org/details/iarg...

“John Benjamin has a Van” is his magnum opus.

"Sadly, we have no uniform standards, no professional ethics, no peers, no qualifications, no uniform goals and few credible spokespersons. Nobody speaks for UFOlogy -- or rather, perhaps more correctly, everybody speaks for UFOlogy ... all at the same time..."

- William Moore, 1989

UFO researchers:

If you haven't seen it, I recommend this list of "Scientific and Scholarly Articles" maintained by Chris Rutkowski @chrisrutkowski.bsky.social

Lots of great stuff, though you may have to search elsewhere to find the articles.

uforum.blogspot.com/2022/01/scie...