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70 Year Old Experiment is News?

Huh? They’re at it again. Refusing to do their research on what’s already been done, then declaring something I learned in grade school or junior high as “news.” Piffle… https://phys.org/news/2024-07-cloud-ground-lightning-generated-blocks.html Synopsis: in the early Earth Read more…

Olympics Live? Wow

I remember in the 5th grade (I think it was), the teacher rolled in the TV and we watched a small part of the Olympics, because it was “via satellite” for the first time in Read more…

Project 2025

I’ve been hearing rumors of a totalitarian document (that’s what the rumors called it as I heard them) called “Project 2025.” I managed to get a copy of the “full” document. (It claims to be Read more…

Cyber Security

Date line: 20 July 2024… (da-da-di-da… <teletype noises in the background>) Yesterday’s dramatic “failure” of the Internet was because of a faulty update. Not because of a terrorist attack, or because of a junior wanna-be Read more…

Global Tech Outage

Gosh. Just heard. A GLOBAL TECH OUTAGE grounded flights, impacted hostpitals and public transit systems. Worldwide. Due to a bad software update.  Do I hate to say “I told you so?” Or I like to Read more…

The News — 19 July 2024

I can’t keep it in… I gotta let it out. The news today is ridiculous. Just stuns me… the Republican National Convention actually did it — nominated an unsentenced convicted felon for president.  Not unexpected, Read more…

Car Remotes

To start with I find (and always have) the idea of a remote for one’s car to be not only a silly concept for a very, very unsafe one. Means the car can be hacked, Read more…

Star Trek & Lithium

Isn’t it interesting that in the old Star Trek series (the original, back in the late 60s, for you youngsters out there) that the main power of the Enterprise came from the use of “dilithium Read more…

Ouch — AI under attack

Ouch. New York Times suing Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement. This is a no-win scenario. Whatever happens it’s bad. I am not a fan of AI as it currently is engineered. Too many unknowns, Read more…

The Opposite of Science

The opposite of science is not religion as too many science-ists and too many relgion-ists would try to tell you. (Do try to tell you.) The opposite of science is superstition. Superstition can have an overlap Read more…

You need to get out more

Reading the daily news (even from “guaranteed neutral” sources) is getting to be more and more an exercise in how the news reporter(s) simply need to get out more. Yesterday, new study “suggests” inositol may Read more…

Idealistic, But Naive

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been told “you’re very Idealistic, and I admire that, but you’re naive.” Or “sorry, the Real World doesn’t work like that.” Actually… it’s not that I’m “naive” Read more…

Diet and Long Life

A new study suggests that cutting calories by 12% might help people live longer and healthier lives. Excuse me! This is a fact that’s been KNOWN for 1000s of years(1), clearly demonstrated  in studies over Read more…

Obesity Profits Sky Rocket

Disgusting! And all such words… Ozempic and Wegovy are new drugs for “stabilizing blood sugar” and “treating obesity.” With Obesity being the single biggest health problem in America, because of the incredibly poor (and getting Read more…

Triple Talk

Back in the 20th there was a phrase called “newspeak” (from the novel 1984) which meant things like what we see in the news all the time now. Looking at Israel’s Netanyahu’s statement concerning their Read more…

“Don’t Hang Up”

What is it with you people and your d**n robocalls? Do you really believe anyone who picks up the phone and hears “please do not hang up…” is going to do anything but hang up right Read more…

The Sun

Did you ever stop to notice that the Sun is the source of all shadows? Wihtout light there are no shadows. Ah, but we turn on a flashlight? Yes? No: that flashlight is using energy Read more…

Microsoft Eats the World

The holding company mistakenly taken for a technology company known as Microsoft now wants to buy Activision / Blizzard, for the staggering sum of $68B. Besides telling me that have way too much money and Read more…

Date Line — 19 April 2023

Wow. The “news” today is startling in several ways.(1) Fox News has agreed to pay $767 million for “false news reporting” charges (47% of the damages requested), against a maker of voting machines for implying Read more…