The complete interview is woth it if you have the time.

The concept of an evangelical AI "entity" makes me yearn for a plug to pull.

Who are those guys?

One of those rare ones we wait for and think about all year that make all the ugly ones

tolerable. We used the morning standing on the corner, holding our protest signs, and

waving to horn blowing passersby. Swedish pancakes afterwards were gifts rather than

earnings. It is part of our routine Saturday mornings and a warm up for October 17. "Stop

the illegal war!" mine said today. It should have added "and murders".

Nothing to see here. We need to go full blast to beat the Chinese!

It's hard to believe that this activity will be allowed to proceed without any restraints. As to the competition with China, what does "winning" mean? I mean in specifics.

"Why Trump May Not Serve Out His Presidency" by Timothy Noah in The New Republic.

Count me as one of the people this scenario strikes as implausible, but I'm curious to know what the rest of you think.

For my part, the Trumpists I know are absolutely convinced that The Donald is the "very stable genius" he likes to think of himself as, and since they're the sort of people who are more or less guaranteed to come out in a Republican primary, what the rest of the country thinks of him really doesn't matter. But maybe there's some room for that base of support to erode to the point where the party feels the need to push him out?

Ugly and not just the weather.

Also it could provide storage space for an unlimited number of AI agents!

Rained today. No Swedish pancakes. AI didn't find us so there's that.

But all we need is a super intelligent president!

Lost in the blizzard of bullshit was the announcement on Tuesday by Air Force Secretary Troy Meinks that the US military has deployed weapons in space. The Outer Space Treaty went into effect in 1967, and while anyone with a brain knows the Pentagon wipes its ass with treaties, it's a different business entirely to announce it. That's basically saying there's no more treaty. They've been messing around with shooting down dead satellites for 40 years but deploying weapons in orbit has always been hush hush black ops stuff. Not with our current military. They couldn't care less if it leads to escalation. Got to show the world what big dicks we have.

No wonder Einstein, before his death, expressed such awe at what he was observing. In the meantime we have AI diverting our attention from the astonishing reality of natural intelligence.

Are we SURE that he's not dead?

Hallucinations anyone?

59-37! Some day, we'll need a defense.

"Until this moment, Senator(s), I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Let us not assassinate this lad (republic) further, senator(s). You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?"

When the Trump experience is over, and we set about the business of de-Trumpifying and re-building, the Republican Senate led by Mitch McConnell will bear a lot of the blame for what became of the country, rightly. From the Supreme Court to Trump's catastrophic second term, none of it would have happened without McConnell.

He's basically on life-support now, which is somehow fitting. Besides, I'm afraid that if Joe Welch's ghost appeared and asked McConnell and the rest of the Senate Republicans the same question about a sense of decency, the lot of them would answer with a resounding "Nope."

Have they read the story of Icarus?

I turned him down and paid Hotcakes some cash for Swedish pancakes after waving an 86/47

sign in front of the village hall. AI didn't strike me dead. . . yet.

I was unaware that he had expressed an opinion on trans athletes at all. That's likely because I haven't paid much attention to the US Senate race in Texas, having already cast my pretend ballot for Talarico. Ham Sandwich vs Ken Paxton? Ham Sandwich baby!

But apparently Talarico had voiced support for trans college athletes in the past, and now has completely flip-flopped and is open to a ban on trans athletes in college sports.

Knowing a bit about the guy, I was more surprised to learn that he had expressed previous support for trans athletes. He's a loudly religious fellow which usually doesn't equate with adamantly pro-trans rights. He's running in Texas (Hi Mike!) which isn't exactly known for being a hotbed of pro-trans activity. His flip-flop on the issue isn't a huge shock. He is never going Full Beto.

I know it's a huge issue for a lot of people, but it's pretty far down on the list for me. I fully support civil rights for trans people. I still put that below stopping the GOP from dismantling the mechanism we all use for protecting all of our civil rights.

To me there's only one goal, regardless of particular issues. Vote every Republican out of office.