Links 9/13/2026

At 16, she made a jump so perfect that not even the judges could believe it pic.twitter.com/Ni8XRKXWCq — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 5, 2026 Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age Knowable Magazine The lightbulb moment behind a potential antiviral breakthrough Technology.org The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof Quanta Magazine Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance The FAS Current COVID-19/Pandemics ‘The toll was much higher’: Israeli study finds COVID deaths underreported Jerusalem News Syndicate Climate/Environment Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds The Guardian Earth logs hottest August ever as global heat blows past climate threshold AP South of the Border Flavio Bolsonaro faces corruption probe weeks before Brazil election Al Jazeera Cuba’s healthcare system stumbles as fuel cuts and shortages take hold The National Why Pentagon is the central axis of the U.S.-Venezuela oil deal Monthly Review China? ✨🇨🇳In the deep valleys of southwest China, Chinese infrastructure builders are rewriting the rules of engineering. Massive cable cranes lift trucks, cranes and excavators, turning the impossible into reality. This is China’s infrastructure prowess. pic.twitter.com/ZV1LQYKJME — 🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 (@XueJia24682) September 11, 2026 China urges US to ‘stop all spying’ or face retaliation, slams ‘gangster logic’ SCMPRare Footage Shows China’s Elite J-20 Fighters Practicing Dogfight: Pilots’ Training Advantages Growing Military Watch Magazine China Is Poised To Lead in Research on Quantum Technologies. Democracies Must Act Real Clear Defense FACTBOX: China’s export controls weigh on global critical minerals supply S&P Global India Indian Prime Minister Modi says border peace is key to India-China ties CNBC Where do Muslim youths fit in India’s ‘Cockroach’ protests? Middle East Eye IMF Calls India Key Engine Of Global Growth India West Africa South African economy shrinks in second quarter, dragged down by Iran war Reuters Nigeria, Boko Haram reportedly reach secret three-month ceasefire Al Jazeera ‘No facts’: Morocco denies involvement in deadly Ceuta migrant rush France 24 European Disunion The Netherlands, Spain push for EU-wide minimum age on social media Euronews Europe sets out new space plans Open Acces Government Everyone wants European industry to win. Not everyone agrees how EU Perspectives Old Blighty Donations of £72m make Reform’s prospects both rosier and riskier The Guardian Surprise victory: UK Parliament rejects assisted suicide Aleteia Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran 🇵🇸 Children have started going back to school in Gaza Imagine if this was your kid’s walk to class Fking sickening that the world has sat back and let this happen Writer: Ianpic.twitter.com/4GsKY1bXPU — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 12, 2026 ‘Where do we go?’: How Israel’s ‘yellow line’ is closing in on Palestinians UN News Israel-Lebanon talks postponed as explosions rock southern Lebanon Al Jazeera Super Sparta: Israel’s new military dependence on America Middle East Monitor New Not-So-Cold War At least 11 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as Kyiv strikes Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ Euronews Ukraine faces ‘toughest winter’ since Russia’s full-scale invasion, UN official tells BBC BBC Putin says deployment of European troops to Ukraine would mean war with Russia Andolu Agency Big Brother Is Watching You Watch This California Social Media Law is a Privacy and Free Speech ‘Nightmare’ Reason Imperial Collapse Watch Family homelessness is growing in Denver. If we want it to stop, it’s time to think differently Westword Trump 2.0 Trump’s Boomer-palooza His GOP is losing the youth UnHerd US court rejects Trump’s emergency order keeping Michigan coal plant open Al Jazeera The Memo: Trump’s convention may struggle to turn tide for GOP The Hill Quinnipiac poll shows rising US sympathy for Palestinians, deep discontent with Trump Andolu Agency Musk Matters Elon Musk Needs Tesla to Reach a $8.5 Trillion Market Cap to Cash In. Here’s How Tesla Can Reach That Valuation. The Motley Fool Elon Musk Is So Mad About This New Documentary That He’s Threatening Legal Action Futurism Elon Musk Says ‘Enormous, Free Fusion Reactor in the Sky’ Will Supply 100% of Energy Needs 24/7 Wall Street Democrat Death Watch For many Democrats this cycle, the tipping point between victory and defeat is Israel The Hill Democrats ostracize Fetterman because he’s ‘not loyal enough’: Guy Benson Washington Examiner Immigration Calls for investigation after video shows ICE officers using batons on protesters The Guardian Loss of legal immigrant caregivers puts America’s seniors at risk The Hill Our No Longer Free Press The New York Times takes on Trump’s crusade against freedom of speech and of the press Media Nation Editorial: Stars and Stripes paper the latest casualty of ‘friendly’ fire The Viginian-Pilot Mr. Market Is Moody Oil’s roundtrip back to $100. Why China could determine what happens next CNBC The Fed could raise interest rates three times. Here’s where the market could face the stiffest test. MarketWatch A veteran economist tells us why he sees a recession and a stock crash by the end of 2027 Business Insider AI Travel bots are making decisions for us – convenient, but should we trust them? The Conversation Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers Futurism How AI is transforming weather prediction 3 Quarks Daily Anthropic loses another researcher, and he’s predicting human doom from AI Cryptopolitan ‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs Wired The Bezzle Brooklyn Adult Daycare Owner Sentenced to Prison for Leadership Role in $64M Medicaid Fraud Scheme U.S. Department of Justice Joonko founder Ilite Raz pleads guilty to a massive $27 million fraud Calcalist.com Guillotine Watch Just in case you hate your life already, let me make it worse for you. 😭 An Emirati father spent $1.5 million, almost ₦2 billion, buying a rare white falcon his daughter bid for at an auction in Abu Dhabi, making it the most expensive falcon ever purchased. I’m willing to bet… pic.twitter.com/VJ2hsH49Uk — Treazy (@treazyblaq) September 6, 2026 Antidote du jour (via) See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here The refraction and reflection in today’s antidote look a bit off to me (just intuition; I don’t have an accurate ray-tracer in my head). Could this be a synthetic image? I suppose that total internal reflection is the cause of the lack of below-water posterior parts of the smaller bottle-nose, but I would expect an obvious reflection of the above-water posterior parts. The baby’s dorsal fin looks a bit odd, too. Perhaps it’s just me. Water refraction perhaps? Honestly I had a similar initial reaction. If you follow the link, you will see the file is dated to 2013, so should be legit, or if edited, old-school hand-crafted edited. I think it is because the water is rippled by the dolphin movement, changing how you see those phenomena. How life has changed, that we now automatically analyse pictures and videos for evidence of fakery. Court cases relying on photo/video evidence are going to have origin and custody scrutinised very carefully. And iphone pictures due automatic post-prod fiddling too now. Not checked, but hopefully they keep original as well. “Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans’ Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious” I can see where this will be going. People who set aside money as a reserve in case of emergencies and disasters will find themselves on a short list of suspects of people with an intent to buy and distribute narcotics or even worse, financing terrorism. It depends on what the agents will want to make up. They may even seize your money and make you prove in court where you got that money from in the first place and prove that it was not done illegally. Like has been happening far too much, it won’t be the State having to prove your guilt but you being forced to prove your innocence. Too bad that the money that you would have needed to hire a lawyer is the same money that those agents seized. Even if you hire a lawyer, you will probably face a kangaroo court where the judge will just rubberstamp the asset seizure or it will be tied up in court for years, bankrupting you in the process. That’s assuming that you still have access to your money, and haven’t been “de-banked”, like Jacques Baud, and more recently George Galloway. “Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age” During the pandemic I reread all the Tarzan books. Tarzan was a huge fan of ropes and used them all the time. There are many times Tarzan was without a knife but he always managed to make a rope out of something. And yes, the books are racist. Edgar Rice Burroughs really hated witch doctors, Germans and Slavs. Tarzan also ripped out the throats of his enemies with his teeth, which is absolute horseshit. Those big arteries in the neck are like high pressure hoses, there is NFW that can be done with human teeth, based on my experience. there is NFW that can be done with human teeth, based on my experience. You have experience attempting to sever carotids with your own teeth? I knew the readership of NakedCapitalism was diverse, but I did not imagine it was that diverse… Gonna second vao’s comment here, I’d really like to know more about your experience, such as it is. NYT and its new-won care of press freedom. It would have been great if this toilet paper would have used the threatened press-freedom to do some journalism instead of propaganda. Maybe we wouldn’t have been in this situation in the first place? Re; AI Time to take a chill-pill? LLMs are real, AI is fake It is scary, but not because the chatbots are waking up. It’s scary because the world’s IT systems are indifferently created and poorly maintained and riddled with vulnerabilities https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake AGI probably isn’t the problem: it’s the ability to manipulate the data. Also, now is probably the time to let LLMs do their worst. Go for it. Let them shut down a grid here or there, redirect a 911 system for an hour, order plane tickets for a chatbot’s friend with someone’s educational savings account. Get people good & mad at LLMs while they’re still basically impotent a few decades before the potential of actual AGI. Not at all suggesting that we turn it loose to do its worst: it needs rules and actual accountability for developers and users: Outlaw US Empire Tech War Escalates China has taken a major step to gather all willing nations together to ensure AI is used for the benefit of Humanity and not for constraining or coercion … There are competing visions in the world about the future of AI. We don’t hear much about the others, just the one promoted by our tech overlords and their fascistic errand-boys. And if you want their version of “AGI,” stay ignorant. Sorry to tell you this, LawnDart, but your link doesn’t. I’m sure you meant: https://karlof1.substack.com/p/outlaw-us-empire-tech-war-escalates Yes, dammit– thanks. The Guardian article on ICE agents in Maryland beating protesters misses an easy one: ICE agents are filmed driving their cars at protesters, the same rationale used in the killing of Renee Good. If one of the protesters would’ve shot a driver when the car is inarguably being driven at him or her, would that protester have had a legitimate self-defense claim? Would he or she have been prosecuted? Irina just won a place in my heart with this line; [T]here is no end-of-the-week Truth Social post by President Trump about the resumption of negotiations. This is, to put it mildly, not a good sign. Oil Industry Braces for Years-Long Iran War We are so screwed! Heres another from the same… “We need a political settlement, but that will take regime change in Washington or Tehran,” one APPEC delegate told Reuters’ Russell, adding that it was more likely for regime change to take place in the United States than in Iran, which appears to be a widely shared view among the event’s delegates. However, it would be difficult to argue that a Democrat win at the November midterms would translate into any form of regime change. This, in turn, means the war will likely extend into next year and possibly last until Trump’s term in office ends.” The uniparty prevails and will continue to look forward and not back. No time for self reflection when one is taking over the world. Berletic yesterday had a post about the moon as high ground from which the masters of the universe can take pot shots at their rivals without fear of retribution. This paradigm can’t crash fast enough, your conclusion is sound. I am so impressed with the 10-point plan for plausible, achievable goals put forward by the Democrat party for the 2026 mid-terms. did that need a coffee warning? deadpan is a standalone Not to defend the Democrats, because they are 50% of the reason we are where we are, but nothing good is really plausible or achievable at this point. Nonparticipation is a classic nonviolent response to authoritarianism. If you don’t have a socialist on your ballot, why bother to vote? There’s always the risk The Blob will vote for you but at least the nobs at the top will know the true story of the election even if they’ve successfully stolen it (again). It would also be very hard to erase the fact that more votes would be cast in areas with socialist candidates and that the staler the duopoly choices, the fewer bothering to vote at all. Not that this would work. If voting Trump in three times in a row wasn’t clear enough, I suspect reeducation camps won’t be enough. We may find it necessary to go post-democracy for a while. [See how easy that was? It’s time for a reverse Godwin’s Law: Any discussion of 21st Century American democracy will inevitably end in a discussion of fascism.] Nonparticipation is a classic nonviolent response to authoritarianism. If you don’t have a socialist on your ballot, why bother to vote? If you are absolutely sure your vote will not be falsified, or tampered with, or traced back to you, voting blank, or writing in something like “Huckleberry Finn”, or “none of the above” is preferable: it makes it clear one is not indifferent to elections, but rejects all the choices presented to voters. Such votes usually do not appear in the statistics published by electoral authorities or the press, but you can be sure that political parties do get them — and they are wary of them trending upwards and reaching some high level (at, say, 25% politicians would start freaking out). I often wonder what would happen if a candidate changed her or his name by deed poll to “First names: Of The Above; Surname: None”. “…and the people, who had expressed their feeling in the traditional invitations of the Varangians: “Come and rule over us. Gladly we promise complete submission. All the labor, all humiliations, all sacrifices we take upon ourselves; but we will not judge and decide.” – from Anna Karenina, Tolstoy. There is your non-participation. There are plenty of other options. Lately I’ve been reading the works of Anton Pannekoek, and the Situationists, who offer theirs in the establishment of workers’ councils, neighborhood councils. I’ve noticed that recently as well; they seem to have given up on blatant futures manipulation. I’m curious why. What’s changed that they stopped. The joke got so stale that the traders couldn’t even fake a laugh.. So after the Houthi territory gains along the coast of another oil chokepoint, Iran decided to remind the oil markets (and the Saudis) that their “alternative route” pipeline was not secure either. The cadence and timing of Iran’s escalations are remarkable, marching steadily toward the US midterm elections (7 weeks to go). Trump’s electoral chances (i.e. gas prices at the pump, and other consumer prices, in US) now rest on a Chinese decision about how much demand they want to exercise in the oil markets over the next weeks? Oh, and here come Xi for a visit to the US…… A very rough sketch, but wow….. No worries here. The Saudis are calling in their Jihadist buddies from Syria to help them out and are establishing an air bridges between Syria and Saudi Arabia. Let’s see how the head choppers do with fighting professional infantry. But as I said in an earlier comment, Yemen is the biker bar of countries so they should beware. I forgot to mention, Iran is apparently meeting tomorrow with the GCC (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) to convey two items: a). our oil gets out or yours does not either, and b), you will pay us for transit. Imagine goal is to get GCC to sue for peace, Trump can then say–that’s what they want, I’ll respect their wishes Maybe Iran is going to make them an offer that they can’t refuse. The Saudis will be looking for an out so that they can get their oil to market again and paying a toll is better than no oil going out at all. Iran, Oman agree on details of new entry and exit routes for Strait of Hormuz, says report For the people who fish, the fishermen and women in the readership: It’s starting to seem like Iran is working the gulf states and the US like a fisherman playing a large fish. People who fish will understand the analogy. I agree, but the US is using a 4 lbs test for salt water fishing. All they are doing is letting out line and once they try to really start the fight, the line will break. The NY Post story on the homeless encampment in the East Village is worth a read. “ The motley crew has assembled a hodgepodge of chairs, storage containers, books, decorative planters, side tables and bedding in front of shuttered businesses…”. One might think they would write a bit more about “shuttered businesses”, but nope. More fun, “ The manager of Thin Cookies on Bleecker Street said…”, A business called Thin Cookies? This is a functioning operation in the land of dizzying rents? We are all doomed. In seriousness, every one of us is a medical emergency/loss of employment/subject of “debanking” away from living in the park. Stay safe. They’re just camping. What are police supposed to do? Start arresting them? “A business called Thin Cookies?” Well, not for long, apparently. Reported in the same issue of the Post, the couple behind the business is going through what appears to be an acrimonious divorce, with charges of sabotage of the company and defalcation thrown in. Apparently, the business was created when the wife, who comes from a family of bakers, perfected a thin but chewy cookie—because her husband liked thin cookies but not how crispy they were—which does seem to count as some sort of baking achievement. (The company’s Instagram page boasts “New York’s thinnest cookie.”) The couple opened a store in Hicksville, New York out on Long Island—yes, that town is a real place ((I grew up in a neighboring town)—the cookies were a hit, and a second store was opened on Bleecker Street just last year before, well, things went to pieces. That’s the way the—oh, let’s not go there. ‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs – Wired I admit that I was surprised by this article. After all the stories on the dangers of AI over the last few days I was wondering what “terrors” would be revealed by this mathematician. It turns out the “human unpleasantness” that had him in tears was the threat to his job – i.e. that AI might make mathematicians like him extinct. While I sympathize (as I do toward actors, musicians, writers, historians, etc.), I’m not sure this article quite captures the Big Picture in the current debate. All of the fear and trembling in the move fast and break things crowd rhymes convincingly with the banksters who brought the economy to it’s knees with their self serving agenda in the lead up to 2008 being the only one who could undertake the fixes necessary to save the world from themselves. Dean Baker once said that professionals like doctors and lawyers would be a lot less tolerant of the great replacement once capitalism started in sourcing their jobs with immigrants. It seems, though, that political power has shifted from the middle class to the billionaires. Is Elon too big to fail? And if he does will his Boys From Brazil approach to fathering children produce an army to replace him? /s The terrified mathematician should read today’s link: “The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof”. I believe this quote from the tail of that link might salve that terror: “As with Kempe’s failed attempt more than a century ago, the greatest value of the new proof lies less with its headline result than with the new insights it provides into the nature of graphs. By drawing on a different concept of reducibility and using overlooked parts of the graph, the work has revealed previously unknown structure in these important mathematical objects — and has given mathematicians new tools for understanding them.” Sometimes the answer delivered from an AI black box can be extremely helpful, for example knowing the structures of proteins. However, knowing the structures of protein offers at best opaque or perhaps translucent insight into the principles of protein architecture: why are enzymes so large and complex considering the relatively tiny active site driving catalysis? What purposes direct the crafting of the scaffold holding an active site? Similarly, knowing the answer to a problem, especially an answer yielded by what amounts to the application of massive brute force may be useful for applications, but it seldom offers insight into the structure of a problem. AI might reveal that some problems have no deeper structure. This from a comment above, captures a far far greater reason to fear AI: “It’s scary because the world’s IT systems are indifferently created and poorly maintained and riddled with vulnerabilities.” — LawnDart 8:07 am I believe most computer hackers are more focused on obtaining a “solution” than concerned how the solution was reached. Some may worry that their jobs could be replaced by AI. I am not sure how many or what sort of hacker jobs might be threatened. From Due Dissidence. acist Ghouls ATTACK MAMDANI As He EXPOSES Giuliani 9/11 COVERUP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnZLDdswjqI Update, from The Hill. Mamdani and Giuliani shake hands at 9/11 commemoration https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6084719-mamdani-and-giuliani-shake-hands-at-9-11-commemoration/ “Putin says deployment of European troops to Ukraine would mean war with Russia” He’s right you know. The only reason to send in European troops is to have them act as a human shield to protect the Ukrainian military while they reorganize and re-equip – courtesy of those very same European troops – for even more battles against the Russians. If they try to enter, Russia will probably give them 24 hours to leave and if they do not, then they will have to be made an example of. I wonder which country will be stupid enough to actually try this. Poland? The UK? Germany? France perhaps? Poland has ruled out sending troops. Germany has enough ‘trouble’ at home with AfD winning elections. France? LePen is gaining. Sending troops will end the EU by angering every countries’ citizens to the point remaining in the Union becomes untenable, imo. In the first year or two of the SMO, Scott Ritter and others were telling us that there were tactical units of the Polish army — i.e., not individual ‘volunteers’ but actual companies or battalions — dressed in Ukrainian uniforms (‘sheep-dipped’) and engaging in action against the Russians and/or the Donbas militias. Maybe that was just gaslighting. It might have been true then in 2022-3. Poland’s declaration it wouldn’t send troops is from last year, 2025. Maybe after seeing “how well” the war is going for Ukr the Polish govt changed their minds. It’s not now looking like they’ll get Ukr’s Galicia* area back. Who knows? ;) *footnote. Galicia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe) Ian Proud’s latest on rump Ukraine with video: “UKRAINE WILL BE A CANCER ON BOTH EUROPE AND RUSSIA” In conversation with Ambassador Chas Freeman Freeman is always good. – ‘Anna Wintour’s Greenwich Village block overrun by homeless encampments, notorious vagrant named Tiger’ – NY Post I just had a great idea for The Devil Wears Prada 3. I’d better get AI to write it up before someone beats me to it. No, no, no. Don’t wanna do that. Like that mathematician that had his work stolen from him by an AI, another AI could steal your idea and have it published on the net before you even finished your coffee. Elon Musk says we can get 100% of our energy needs from the sun, and someone thinks that’s news? Bucky Fuller was saying it over 75 years ago. There outta be a web site for the Elroy quote of the day. I guess that is X? Wall street reports it like it’s news – Elon says it like it’s smart – The stupid burns like a thousand suns. But of course, wall street and elon’s stupidity burns hotter still. If we could harness all that stupidity and turn it to energy….well then, that might do it. It boggles the mind! I’m having my solar grown coffee right now and feeling rather smug, TYVM. Delivered to the retailer I got it from using the compressed detritus of a zillion solar grown life forms. The future is so bright I’ll need to come up with some way to shield my eyes… Adding, the retailer is open in the daytime which is greatly enhanced by the presence of the sun… What a silly little Muppet Elon is! What magic does he think imbued all those black rocks and fluids with their energy? The main problem we have, energy-wise, is that we time-shifted the reverse process, and let it out all at once (geologically speaking). Until Calder Hall fired up in 1956 the Sun had always the only game in town. The Icelanders might be surprised to hear that: Maybe also the Japanese: Re: preventing suicide, this is a sad direction. I am most at ease, sending someone with an elevated suicide risk home with a responsible adult, ie friend or relative that they’re comfortable with, and that I am comfortable understands their role for the duration of the review period. More often than not, though, the best option is a person who is a known trigger, or lives in a triggering environement, or is unable to be around for more than a few hours, etc. I’m of the opinion that if more people had friends/relatives able to support them, there’d be less mental illness, incl. suicide attempts. My concern with strapping on wearables to monitor high-risk patients at home, including their “skin conductance, and even voice signatures”… in lieu of having them stay with a supportive friend/relative, is that it feels like it’s directing treatment further down the path of being bargain bandaids to dole out whenever the festering wound reopens. “I’m of the opinion that if more people had friends/relatives able to support them, there’d be less mental illness, incl. suicide attempts” As a three time suicide attempter I agree. My family disowned me because of my mental illness and I never hurt them in my life. They just could not handle the thought of me ever since my nephew died by suicide. Two of my attempts came after that disownment when I was utterly alone. Homeless now and even after they knew that they said it was my fault, like I caused rent prices to increase by 70%… I always complain to docs that if they know stress makes my illness worse then why can they not prescribe me with housing? Luckily I was reunited with a few friends during the pandemic so I have a bit more of a support system. “Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age” From the looks of that photo, making rope needed several members of that community working together. I’m going to assume that those communities used sophisticate techniques in making rope, cords, string and any other other number projects from just raw material. My wife both crotchets and knits and I wonder how far back such techniques went and what trace would remain. Probably very little but if we could go back to visit them I suspect that we would find them living a very sophisticated lifestyle. I believe one of the conquistadors commented on the remarkable uses the peoples of the Inca Empire made of rope, twine, and thread. [I do not remember where I read this observation.] As I recall this comment was made in discussing the remarkable rope bridges that connected the Empire. [I am most curious how the Inca crafted their stone walls.] The hooks and needles made of bone and ivory might survive. Wooden ones wouldn’t. However, you can see that someone would have been making grandma nice sets of crochet hooks and needles in bone as a solstice present as they can be made very smooth. Bone and ivory sewing needles and awls do survive so that tells us alot about clothes quality and warmth. bawhahaha Obama Urges Democrats to Move A.I. Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda (NY Times) Sure; Makes sense. Without Obama. There could be no Trump. x2. “…center…” Weird, my dog just pricked up his ears but I can’t hear anything at all…hm. Let me just reach around the aisle here and ask my neighbor to the right if he has any ideas The Jacob Coxon AI doomsday media campaign is working exactly as planned. (Ed Zitron, for one, is not impressed.) That’s funny right there. Does anyone expect these people to “manage” AI? Neither party can pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom. Manage will be what big money tells them it will be. What a joke, and we have over 535 of them. Instead of imposing age limits for social media, we should create a legal definition of what “bad social media” is (for instance, user tracking, algorithmic, endless feed sites–not things like blogs) and ban it. If it’s bad for teenagers it’s bad for adults too. Other things we need a strict legal definition of because they also are used as excuses for imposing authoritarian measures that destroy our Constitutional rights: “emergency” and “terrorism”. re: Gaza/Albanese documentary There is a new French documentary on Francesca Albanese by the title “Disunited Nations”. To my surprise it is a production featured by ARTE. The film is supposedly going to come to cinemas shortly. However being an ARTE production it is available there in the library. YT has dubbed versions in German/French/Italian/Romanian as well. An English dubbed version does exist but I cannot find it on YT. Only on ARTE: Disunited Nations Engl. dubbed 80 min. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/125537-000-A/disunited-nations-die-uno-und-der-nahe-osten/ Maybe others here are more successful with YT. via YT German dubbed: Disunited Nations 80 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9zeRCvr1E Engl. Interview with French director Christophe Cotteret who however lives in Tunisia. 26 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UrZKDu0Vo0 Now for something completely different. Completely outside the regular NC interests categories. Retrieving a wrecked jeep. It’s interesting if you’re interested in this sort of thing. / :) No One In Utah Would Rescue Them [ it – the jeep ]… Now I Know Why! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQE7yZHfDFg In case you’re wondering. No, no jail. Inside the Outrageous Collapse of a ‘Montessori Ponzi’ (NY Times; archive.ph) but the broken state of America Yep; I remember when Biden was gonna get them schools open. And he did. And the Pandemic continues. But we need our daycares^H^Hschools. Meanwhile, they’re back at it I’d forgotten, that we still have unanswered questions about Saudi involvement in 9/11, even today. 25 Years After 9/11, Questions About the FBI’s Pursuit of Saudi Suspects in the Case Have Only Grown (Pro Publica) Rather than Afghanistan, we should have invaded Saudi Arabia. One thing that seems likely to me is ICE opening fire on a group of protesters, this is more likely if ICE is deployed at polling places. Keep in mind that ICE/CBP has been explicitly been recruiting “Christian Nationalists” and overt racists concentrating on martial artists. And bad cops. They are then given abbreviated training, told that they have absolute immunity ( Which they do) and that the people that they are dealing with are the “Worst of the Worst” and terrorist sympathizers. Trump is clearly unhinged as “Operation AIPAC Fury” and the War against Russia become more obvious failures and as price inflation takes off like a rocket his existential need to dominate will lead to more brutal and reckless actions. Do I need to add Stupid to the list, or is that implied?