Notices by jackcole (jackcole@mstdn.social)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116403621304516059

CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN UNITED STATES
Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article315375364.html

#Concentrationcamp
@heidilifeldman

76 years ago, Ray Bradbury wrote There Will Come Soft Rains—a story about a fully automated house continuing its routines after nuclear war wipes out humanity.
The date in the story?
August 4, 2026.

#nokings #Trump #war #scifi #nuclear

@bich “In just eight years after fluoridation ended in 2011, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy by children to avoid death by infection rose 700 per cent at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.”
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-s-plan-to-reintroduce-fluoride-into-drinking-water-pushed-back-to-2025-1.6845098

#Fluoride #DrinkingWater #health

@spocko @salgentile

"Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed but now they are full cities again," the multibillionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X said.
"That's great, that's great," Mr Trump responded.
"It is not as scary as people think, basically," Mr Musk added.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-japan-nuclear-attacks-b2595497.html

#hiroshima #nagasaki #nuclear #nuclearwar #nuclearweapons #Trump #Musk

@mattblaze

Harry Litman
@bsky.app.profile.harrylitman.bsky.social
The Minnesota shooting case is now metastasizing unlike any i've ever seen. The successive resignations of heads of the crim section at CRD and 3 top career prosecutors in Minn -- who had hung in all this year n/w/stg multiple outrages-- means the Department is in open revolt in DC and the field.

@stux My Mother had radical surgery on one leg, lived in an iron lung, and spent the rest of her life disabled. And because of the disability, she was unable to exercise and died in her 70s. But when the polio vaccine came out, she whipped her kids in to get as fast as she could. And none of her kids got polio. Imagine telling her she should avoid vaccinating her kids.

@sjvn

Many Canadian cities have contests to name their snowplows. Here are some winners:
Anita Shovel
Gordie Plow
Blizzard of Oz
Darth Blader
Betty Whiteout
Sir Plows-A-Lot
Pillsbury Plowboy
Sled Zepplin
Buzz Ice-Clear
Qunuk (Inuit for snowflake)
Flurrious George
School’s Not Cancelled
Snobi One Kenobi
Sleetwood Mac
Plowy McPlowface
CTRL-SALT-DELETE
Clearopathra
The Big Leplowski
Plowasaurus

@randahl Graph theory and email spectroscopy, an HP research paper from decades ago later used by IBM in its NORA (non-obvious relationship awareness) application.

#OpenAI #SamAltman

I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.
They fly so high,
Nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams,
They fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Forever_Blowing_Bubbles

#Bubbles #Economy

Part of what makes me think 'bubble' is the mismatch between the growth projections and the tech itself. Current LLMs are akin to 1880s DC current grids, grossly inefficient with poor scaling, and for both issues nothing on the horizon but marginal improvements. They're a predecessor tech at best.

Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social

#AI #Economy

#EpsteinBallroom

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
@kenwhite.bsky.social

Extreme confinement unleashes water’s hidden electrical capabilities
Water has extraordinary electrical properties when trapped in tiny channels — a finding that calls for a re-think about key processes in biology, climate and nanotechnology.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03128-y

#Science #Water #Biology #nanotechnology

#Military #Democracy

@quixoticgeek Real intelligence in humans and other animals does not have or require consumption of all existing data or data that will be. Nor do their rates of consuming data permit that in their lifetimes. Nor is it possible because of latency for machine and animal. Nor do animals have a fusion reactor except the one in the sky. Childish rich men disagree, believing wealth indicates intelligence.

This year, #Al #capex as defined as information processing equipment plus software has added more to GDP growth than consumers' spending.
Source: Renaissance Macro Research
We are heading for 4Q25 where AI Capex investment growth in America is twice the amount of consumer spending growth. Our economy will be defined by a quest for AI. It must succeed or we will be ruined. All or nothing. CapEx = capital expenditures, such as equipment. For AI, much of this is for #datacenters.

#FreeSpeech

@kaia Hide-a-bed or sofa bed is very old. We have one that is very old, and will replace without the feature. It's extremely rare that it gets used as a foldout bed. The metal mechanism makes it weigh a ton. And for us with a premium mattress the lines in the mattress where it folds aren't comfortable. But for some circumstances, sure. Just my opinion. YMMV

On the left, the guy who ordered his 15-man death squad to kill and dismember American journalist Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
On the right, the former leader of Al Qaeda with a $10m US bounty on his head.
And in the middle, the most corrupt US President in history.

@aral Jury is in. Death penalty for you. Your life isn't worth that much.

Wonder what people in the health insurance industry think when they look in the mirror.

@dan613 @lednaBM Agreed, #GeneHackman deaths probably #carbonmonoxide.

But alarms don't always help even if you have them. CO detector sensitivity degrades over time, and people neglect to replace them. Some people have poor hearing and/or sleep too deeply to hear alarms. CO poisoning is insidious, reducing both physical and cognitive abilities to take action. Dog w lower body weight wd have been overcome first. Wife may have died last, ignoring her own symptoms to attend to dog and husband.