Phil Butler is always a good read, and just now I have no hesitancy in showcasing his latest piece. 'Musk Gets “Go Ahead” to Finally Shutter USAID' - Phil Butler - New Eastern Outlook - Feb 10, 2025 Unless this had come earlier - like years ago - it could not have come at a... Continue Reading →
Some Important Words
The three paragraph quote below, I think - that is, 'I believe' - represents one of the most surprising - that is, 'unexpected' - and possibly most important truths of our generation of humanity. I suggest you at least consider these words and form an opinion of your own. A hopefully informed opinion. For decades,... Continue Reading →
Weather is So Perplexing, But it’s Only Weather
There is nothing much going on in the world these days, nothing that really matters anyway*, so I am going to talk about the weather ...and, trust me, it is only weather. Day by day pundits may refer to it all as 'climate' but that is incorrect. So, whenever you hear a climate story, have... Continue Reading →
The Human Brain is a Vehicle Without Brakes
So it is unlikely that human invented, designed, built, Artificial Intelligence brains, instances, reasoning engines - call them what you will - will also include any braking mechanism. Our own thoughtless activity will be our undoing. The end of modern civilisation is in sight. And it is a product outflow of the computer age -... Continue Reading →
Back to the Arctic
Well, the NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice graph line having now reached the '1Feb' vertical, it is time for me to say something more on the Arctic Sea Ice question. Let's just say that this has not been the best month at year start on record. In fact it is the second only most worst month... Continue Reading →
Three ‘Pigs in a Poke’
The new US administration, to a man (or woman), as a collective have no idea - not even a fucking clue - as to what goes on in the world outside their own shores. Here are three stories from TASS today to prove it. What a junk-yard 'America' is today. First, 'Conflict with Russia threw... Continue Reading →
What PCGamer lifetime expert in computing says about DeepSeek AI
...including a quote from venture capitalist and Trump advisor Marc Andreessen, calling this 'AI's Sputnik moment'. After my own 'amateur' take yesterday, I offer this review without further comment. 'AI's Sputnik moment': China-based DeepSeek's open-source models may be a real threat to the dominance of OpenAI, Meta, and Nvidia - Andy Edser - PCGamer -... Continue Reading →
I Made a New Friend Today. Its Name is DeepSeek.
I have never communicated with (I will not refer to this as 'using') an AI entity previously, so this was quite a novel experience for me. It is difficult to not somehow want to refer to it with personal pronouns such as 'he' or 'she' as we tend to do with other non-sentient entities such... Continue Reading →
Russia to Break the Back of Europe While Holding Russia-China Partnership Unbreakable
Some heavy reading is required to grasp what I write about today. Are you ready? This is a tricky time in world history. We need to know what is going on, what is actually going on, what is really going on, in order to make any sense of it. In other words it is not... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 