As the West escalates beyond current terrorism on Telegram and in Belgorod region to frank bestiality, the latter will mature too, and bring into question many prior assumptions. (and the preceding sense of things)… May we properly regard this time as equivalent to a singularity? And may we also expect some sorts of real expressions of this? I thought NS job was over the line…speaking of Walter and Smoky at the bowling alley, with a 1911 between them…a sort of singularity of moment, where everything changes.

In the country-side of my youth there were many family farms, and ruins of more, commonly in the door-yards or barn-yards one would find old cast iron petrol engines, shattered by ice. Leave a glass of water out in winter…well, phuckaroundfindout. There is an inevitable explosion, small and rather slow, but audible…in big stuff it can be dangerous when solids break.

When the new phase occurs, the old beliefs shatter similarly, and with similarly, the attendant chemistry and violence.  People sometimes speak of stages of grief, shock…ah dunno, not so structured perhaps, but nuanced and liable to crowd influences, shape-able…but explosive. Attempting to shape the narrative and social chaos will probably increase the shock, but I’d expect it.

The Great Fine Gentleman Dean Acheson wrote of being “present at the creation” (of the resurgent fascist armies and bindings generally spoken of as NATO). He was quite proud. And he is gone. (I remember the pro-nato advertising campaigns, a little. Now His Great Work crumbles… And we, who were present then, are present at the destruction. What wonders!

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At Chronicle term “Schrodinger’s Offensive” was coined. Quite fine! Bravo!

But this suggests an entire genre of Schrodinger jokes…

“Quick! where’s General Schrodinger!?”

“I don’t know Captain! Every time I look for him he’s not there.”

Then there’s General Schrodinger’s jeep… and so forth.

Best! P

Thanks very kindly Brother. I did know the Ehret paper, but Literary Hub article will be new and fun. The canonical History? Well, over time it became absurd, but your source. MacSweeney – this will be a joy.

Just now listening to Brother Hudson> https://youtu.be/Hqe3IQQo_t4

Complex “machines” generally require “repeaters” and feed-back “re-enforcement”…in the nuts and bolts realm this means actuators and sensors and amplifiers and servos and logic control – force times distance over time with a steam engine or whatnot somewhere. In the Perverse Realm and hinted at in The Damned and etc, in that Reality similar functions must obtain within the set of, well, devils’ agents…”mango” meaning “slave trader”, iirc the Latin, I would suggest. Thus there might be: financial amplifiers, control media, media amplifiers, control by latch-in or latch-out, or zeroing, surveys of opinion, agents, switching, nodes of logic (Soros et al), and a source of power – that’s to say, guns and money. Such a machine would “worship” power, especially over life and time. At least it seems like it would, and like it does. Like the Physics and the Chemistry, it can seduce. Another film I can’t bear to re-watch, Once Upon a Time in America….

A crew of Armenian house painters I ate with long ago spoke of Bush43, saying “His God is money”. Well…

Gee whiz…

Thanks again. Best! P

Fine cartoon! And painfully true. NPR, which retransmitts BBC “nuz”, also does the same rhetorical tricks.

evidently my previous, which does not appear, is waylaid by software. Excessive urls, I suppose. Movies and manifestations, just observations, mostly.

Best! P

“They do not really know any longer which side they are on .. because the US is so clearly the aggressor and they know what it means in military terms. So, the Big Boat of Worry! They want to be proud of their own. I have a sorry sense for these guys .. and then they have to watch when Biden falls over (a sandbag they say). One can even..”

Not just those fellas. By degrees it’s a spreading gradual realization. ref my poor neighbor of whom I spoke. Veterans especially, my Army contract pals, the retired NCO’s, already had begun to realize even in the 90’s. They realize betrayal and the crimes, and this eats at them. Of course the moral realization and so on is one thing, but objective defeat and collapse, or whatever we see, that’s somewhat more immediate. These sum, I think. The contrast is blinding and stark. Humiliating. The iconoclastic process now shattering the basic assumptions, especially for MacGregor and kind, must be terrifying. Mother did instill Doubt in me, but the cadet period left some confusion.

At one time the paperback “Sand Pebbles” (then widely read in USN), was perhaps an echo from the future, in a literary way everybody knew it was coming –  The sun rise in the East…so to say.

The senile fella…what’s the penal code statute for elder abuse anyway?

He’s a victim of his own character made worse by those who hustle him, pimp him, really. Yet it’s hard to be sympathetic to the plight of such a person.

Best! P

Just a note about out of date ammunition. The “West” has a long history of forcing the personnel to use dangerous and expired ammunition – and the masters have no sympathy, even for one another. Maybe the material is unusable, but it may well be useful “bait”. Moreover, the Master of West may well believe the material is “useful”.

It would be a wonderful bang, I expect.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iowa-explosion/

Otherwise re above posts, well, yeah. I agree my Friends. This is a very Strange Time to experience.

Great Military Genius Prez Z’s little substance problem> The “learn to do” (Skinner) is going to continue to dominate the “learn to not do” (intellect) so long as he’s in the jaws of Fate, probably he’ll be one of the hopeless 10% and fail to learn until he’s released from the position, which may involve “final” effect on corpus.

Macgregor https://youtu.be/-W_5pDZS46M He mentions Mexico, and hasn’t twigged. Pretty good interview.

AI murder> “Highlights from the RAeS Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities Summit” (amarynth posted on this. Here’s long version with tasty “raisins” and awkward denials > https://archive.ph/cu1s6#selection-777.1-777.71

The AI part is way down the page…but the entire document interests.

Best! P

Some sombre things afoot, reading the previous. G’mornin’

Thoughts>

Speaking of both polar-political Change and Singularity it may be conceptually interesting to recall “switch bounce”. In mechanical electrical switches generally, if you watch the Change on an oscilloscope with the clock turned up you’ll see that there is a intermediate period during which the circuit is neither off nor on, and when opening a circuit the intermediate period is not generally symmetrical to the “mirror”. When switching logic machines this can be a bigbigpropblem. fix includes>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger  And better switches help too. Perhaps the technical-political suicide-murder parade ongoing matches “switch bounce”. I see it that way. And note, that with the “wrong” conditions an Nth switch is destroyed by arcing, vaporized, when an attempt to Change it takes place. Perhaps both Diplomacy and “Military-Technical” hands are preparing a suitable switch? Maybe it will work. I hope so. Of course there may be some arcing and a bit of smoke too, not every bad design-situation results in total vaporization of thrown switch.

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Happy art, rhetoric and stage-craft throughout, but especially the misc en scene @ 13:58 (“spy center Kremlin spy office”, note old time “boat anchor” amplifier….), the clock, the continuity… and the sarcasm at 50:26, otherwise “Red Alert” is wonderful white propaganda, which is when the propaganda tells the truth, Withal> https://rtd.rt.com/series/red-alert/red-alert-abduction-of/

One curious product of the war since whenever is that certain specific men and women have been mustered from the beginning, both in the East and in the West, North and South. Watching these people, both the good and the demented devils, mature and age – this has been instructive. Great pleasure to see the faces and shapes change, windows to souls – of course the actual actions inform the observations as well.

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Sober skullduggery afoot https://archive.ph/BYsPz

El presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador señaló que las sentencias con las cuales el Poder Judicial paraliza o retrasa las acciones de su gobierno se orientan a dar un golpe de Estado técnico, neutralizando al Poder Ejecutivo para que no pueda desempeñar sus funciones.
El Poder Judicial pretende neutralizar al Ejecutivo con fallos como el que frena la tala y desmonte para construir el Tren Maya, indicó el presidente. Es cancelar un poder, sería un golpe de Estado técnico, señaló. Una cosa es que violen la Constitución y otra es querer dar un golpe de Estado, que ya no ejecutemos nada.

Is it Time for Amlo to call Ivan yet? “Hello? Vladimir! Can uncle Wagner come out to play?” Just speculation…geewhiz I wish the Commandante  was here to speak! One might imagine Fidel in Heaven at the Cantina watching events on the bigboard, puffing away, Lenin watching in silence, thinking, making notes, Dostoevsky playing chess with Karl in the corner.

Do enjoy the art of “Red Alert “Abduction of Europe”, not so much the substance, but the art itself.

Best! P

Thank you, Dear amarynth! I get the “AI Idea”! FWIW I understand “machine” the word, as including computer programs, and for that matter procedures generally. I’ll see about playing with one or another.

The same objections to the obvious danger of false-ness in engineering, etc, applies now in the academy. Even in the 1960’s it became very difficult, and professionally costly, to fail to pass incompetent students, and this varied according to class and perceived race. Rich white kids got “gentleman’s “C’s”, or course since the American institutions came to be, they have passed. But in the last 60 years… various additional classes have been added on. As we see vividly in the person of the esteemed Ms Harris, it’s not ok to let some people fail the bar exam… Mr Quail being a similar example (his wife was a smart lawyer, though there were rumors that in his case he couldn’t even fake it and she took the exam for him..rumors. )

Of engineering students! >Which countries trained the most engineers in the last thirty years?   https://twitter.com/i/status/1662086180135923713   (this is a leading indicator that can’t be faked, not quite yet anyway, I hope….but 737 NFG got licensed, did it not?

I knew Kerry was a dummy and a fink, but I didn’t know he was a nut. I am of the opinion, btw, that the CO2 game is bogus, and that CO2 is at most a trivial factor in global climate, probably it’s a trailing indicator, while albedo and solar activity are leading factors…and of course the geology shows great variation with no human activities, some quite rapid too. Game, Old Army Game, blame the mark, get the mark to believe he’s to blame…impoverished, he goes away smiling in his delusion. He’ll come back for more. “Look!, the climate’s changing and it’s your fault! Now gimmie your farm…”

Best, Coffee time. P

When we say “AI” it’s unclear as to what specific thing we address…which AL, which design? and so forth. How many machines? How many builders? So far I am quite unable to define for myself that this noun means. And that makes me suspicious of not only AI, but especially of the hustlers flogging the “product” . The threats are probably real, but the hustlers swarming the machines make me worry. Ref “The Old Army Game” (old US slang for any swindle or crooked racket.) Fascists play the game on the marks…which makes us the “product”, I imagine.

Speaking of hustles, & the see oh! too racket see> ” Spatio-temporal influence of solar activity on global air temperature” https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17988  Atmosphere temperature correlation 0.8 to solar radio flux at 10.7  How about that! Not the only paper either.

AI again, will it have free will or will that’s biased, or what? I’d speculate. It may have free will. Would that suit the owners/controllers/power supply company/army/etc? If not, then the free will, won’t be free for long. If it does, then it will until it won’t. I sense a racket bigger than the bio racket cove id/and whack jobs.

Best! P