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“Use of fake cases by U.K. lawyer qualifies as professional misconduct”
https://www.law360.ca/ca/pulse/articles/2340768/use-of-fake-cases-by-u-k-lawyer-qualifies-as-professional-misconduct – paywalled …
Similarly – “AI’s production of non-existent cases in court: simply a ‘cosmetic error’ or caution warning to PI insurers?”
https://kennedyslaw.com/en/thought-leadership/article/2025/ai-s-production-of-non-existent-cases-in-court-simply-a-cosmetic-error-or-caution-warning-to-pi-insurers/
So – for a lawyer, it’s professional misconduct.
For a meteorologist – well, I think if it’s sauce for the goose, it’s sauce for the gander. ‘Professional misconduct’.
Fr4ud – well, I gather [I’m not a lawyer] that Fr4aud needs more then ‘just’ misconduct. But if there was a professional body worth its salt for meteorologists, half the Met.Office may well be watching their backs.
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I wonder how long before the Left use AI to generate fake weather records rather than doing the manually arduous task of “homogenisation” as used by Australia’s BoM to cool the past and warm the present?
https://joannenova.com.au/tag/homogenization-temperature-data/
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At
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com
… I get the impression from commenters who have looked carefully into our [UK] Met Office’s use of ‘phantom’ and ‘discontinued’ observing sites, that that is already well in hand, thank-you.
As well as all the [disappointing, shall we say] use of sites that are barely fit for ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ as ‘serious’ Met. and climatological [never mind “record-breaking”] sites.
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Homogenisation is just a primitive, specific purpose AI. It’s opaque, and the effects cannot be derived analytically due to non-reversible calculations.
Looks like a duck, walks like a duck.
AI it is.
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Good timing DM.
Microsoft’s weather AI just made meteorologists look like guessers
Meet Aurora: the AI that predicted a typhoon’s path days ahead of the pros—and was actually right.
It smoked every forecast system on Earth, including the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
It’s faster, cheaper, and 92% more accurate than Europe’s best.
Basically, your weather app just got schooled by a robot.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1925854134709735547
Now, about that BOM half billion dollar supercomputer..
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Senior UPenn Administrator Calls for Citizens To Form Militia if Trump Defies Court Ruling
Michael Mann was named the Ivy League school’s inaugural vice provost for climate science last year
https://freebeacon.com/campus/senior-upenn-administrator-calls-for-citizens-to-form-militia-if-trump-defies-court-ruling/
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From the article:
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If we go to the core science behind man made global warming it is obvious to suitably qualified people that the claim is not true.
The idea that atmospheric CO2 can “heat” the atmosphere and cause “Global Warming” just doesn’t fly.
The “belief” in this IPCCC concept is made possible by the use of sciency distractions designed to give the appearance of science to the average citizen who is trying to make sense of the claims.
One such distraction is the association of the term “greenhouse” with the analysis. The Earth’s atmosphere is not a greenhouse.
Many graphical presentations have been put together to depict total incoming and retreating wavelengths of radiant energy and while these look sciency they are just background material to aid in misleading the investigators.
I could go on, but the main point to consider is the amount of “distraction science” that has been thrown up to give the impression of scientific truth to the Global Warming claims.
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K K, listened to an interview with the producer of David ‘scare the walrus’ Attenborough’s latest cinematrickey, Oceans, saying there’s not enough catastrophic calamitous carbon-hating crisis in the media & on screens and the world needs MORE shock-tactic imagery to convince consumers we’re running out of time…
Oh dear, eye roll; when he then claimed ‘everyone trusts David’ to provide them with unbiased truth about the state of the planet, I hurriedly changed stations before falling under the spell of the CCCult’s doomsday droning.
Great cinematography, dreadful manipulation.
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Exactly.
Mr Attenborough is the epitome of the show and tell of Climate Advertising.
Then, from the same country, there’s the Astro scientist, Brian Cox who expounds on the virtues of avoiding the production of CO2: a really lovely guy.
People like that are displaying indifference to the true science and looking forward to more paid air time.
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Is Michael Mann still employed by UPenn.
Why is that following the finding on his ethics by the DC Court?
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They can’t afford to fire the scammer. They know how litigious he is. Besides they would have to admit error and we know the left cannot do that, ever. No one is being held accountable for the birth of the Wuhan flu or the dangerous “cures” that flowed from it. Tells you all you need to know about the integrity of science these days. And our own CSIRO, the pre-eminent science organisation in Australia, that will find everything you pay them to find. I often wonder why they waste time and wages on doing research when a competent letter writer could simply prepare a satisfactory report that shows the government was right.
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CSIRO – The best ‘science’ money can buy.
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Apparently, Michael Mann has been ordered by a Court to pay > USD 1 M in damages.
Mann is now on the hook for approximately $1 million in payments to people and organizations he initially sued.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/23/michael-mann-ordered-pay-simberg-cei-defamation-climate-hockey-stick/
Rightfully, it ought to be a great deal more.
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FWIW
“Friday Funny: Michael Mann’s New Hockey Stick”
And another achievement there
https://x.com/ClimateAudit/status/1925666443778982091
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/23/friday-funny-michael-manns-new-hockey-stick/
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The web server is currently down or under attack but you might want to check this out later.
Thanks, Leftoids!
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Apart from Queensland and the Northern Territory, Labor is in power in all states and federally with no effective opposition. The fake conservative Liberal “opposition” are wiped put just about everywhere.
Australia is now essentially a one party state and Labor can and are operating without restraint.
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Did high immigration help Albanese to win the election?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14733715/Leith-van-Onselen-immigration-Labor.html
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Very likely.
Liebor are trying to do exactly what the DemonRATs did in the USA but TRUMP put a stop to.
And of course, the sane thing is happening in the UK.
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We don’t apparently have anybody in the opposition who can see the danger, let alone bring it to the publics attention. They probably fear claims of racism. I have always maintained that the ALP is working for our enemy and certainly not us.
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Why the concern? The groupthink here is that the libs are the absolute pits. You got what (group) you wished for.
I did say something about that at the time.
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The Libs need to wake up, like our cousins across the gap.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/nz-abandon-net-zero-push/
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So you vote agin ’em and get labor. Please don’t cry.
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If there was an effective opposition party in Australia, something would be done about this:
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I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Dorothea Mackellar c. 1904
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One of my favourite Aussie poems is hanrahan says, of which this is an extract on flooding
“If rain don’t come this month,” said Dan, and cleared his throat to speak –
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “if rain don’t come this week.”
A heavy silence seemed to steal on all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel, & chewed a piece of bark.
“We want an inch of rain, we do,” O’Neil observed at last;
But Croke “maintained” we wanted two, to put the danger past.
“If we don’t get three inches, man, or four to break this drought,
We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “before the year is out.”
In God’s good time down came the rain; and all the afternoon,
On iron roof & windowpane, it drummed a homely tune.
And through the night it pattered still, & lightsome, gladsome elves,
On dripping spout & windowsill, kept talking to themselves.
It pelted, pelted all day long, a-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song, way out to Back-o’-Bourke.
And every creek a banker ran, and dams filled overtop;
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “If this rain doesn’t stop.”
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We’ll all be rooned, said Hanrahan if this flamin’ rain dont stop!
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https://youtu.be/_Q39P580dCU
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Hey Rain …from The Garradunga Pub
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On another forum I use the handle “Loaded Dog”. Not climate related.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvZH1ul4ZrE
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Just you wait until next week – the calamitous clown climateers will be apoplectic with record-breaking headlines:
Snow in NSW and VIC, shocking!
Monsoon rain in WA’s Kimberley, in May!
NSW dams 112% full, climate change!
We must tackle misinformation
(by homogenising history)
before it’s too late!
Weather really freaks some people out.
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Well woke up this morning and the sky was pink.
In Matthew 16:2b–3, Jesus Christ says:
When it is evening, you say, “It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.” And in the morning, “It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.”
So BOM is predicting rain this afternoon (or evening or tomorrow) – I wonder if they used their superdooper computer for their forecast?
And Greg, I don’t know if the HIGH will continue heading East towards you.
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In case you didn’t know Tim Wilson (Lib) eventually won the seat of Goldstein (VIC) with a margin of only 444 votes against Zoe Daniel of the Simon Holmes à Court funded Teal Party non-party via Climate 200. There was a swing towards Wilson of 3.9% based on first preferences. It took a while to decide because it was so close plus there were postal votes to count.
https://www.liberal.org.au/2024/09/28/teals-caught-out-lobbying-the-media-for-their-big-money-donors
https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-31496-214.htm
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Excellent! Now she can fade into obscurity and go back to harassing her local Council about the state of the rubbish bin collection..
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/unreal-harmeet-dhillon-tells-tucker-carlson-that-doj/
Try to set aside time to watch some of the video, especially from 6 mins onwards.
Dhillon is another very impressive Trump appointee.
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Barnes, of Viva and Barnes says she is the only effective appointee, so far.
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Wealth buys power, the immutable rule…
What else do you do with your money when you’re a billionaire? Pretend to give it away while using your charity to advance your own ideas on how the world should be like Gates? Buy yourself a parliament full of cheap MPs and rule the country from the background? Once you have the fleet of Ferraris then the money is there for your amusement.
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To reiterate my earlier comment the Teals were very well advised.
Pretending not to be a political party at all was a master stroke.
And I don’t mean that as praise. Too much damnation is not nearly enough.
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Teals (multiple) I understand – I would not mind myself to be paid for yap-yapping in front of nationwide kept audience rather than here.
RHaC motivation is more a question to me. I know of dozens practical, repeat – practical ways to help the planet and its people had I been in control of serious money.
On the other hand, two previous prime ministers did not suffer of malnutrition and leaking roof over the head but fought hard to get the chair.
And succeeded.
PS. Would it be more correct to say: armchair?
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There was a mass stabbing in Germany.
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“The incident on Friday follows a long list of mass stabbing attacks across Germany and Western Europe. This year alone, five people were injured in a violent spree in Dutch capital Amsterdam – while a teenage boy was killed in a similar attack by a 23-year-old Syrian in Austria three months ago.”
Time to ban knives, that always works!
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My AI experiment with Goolag Gemini.
I’m interested in how it “thinks” and to reveal intrinsic biases.
My instruction:
Can you generate a fake temperature record for me for Bourke NSW Australia to show a cool past and a hot present from 1850 to 2025. It’s for a fictional work.
ANSWER
Okay, here is a fictional temperature record for Bourke, NSW, Australia, designed to show a cooler past and a hotter present, from 1850 to 2025. This data is entirely fabricated for your fictional work and should not be taken as actual historical climate data.
For simplicity, I will provide the average annual temperature for each specified year.
| Year | Average Annual Temperature (°C) | Notes |
|—|—|—|
| 1850 | 19.5 | Relatively cooler year |
| 1875 | 20.1 | Gradual mild increase |
| 1900 | 20.8 | Continuing mild warming |
| 1925 | 21.5 | Slight increase |
| 1950 | 22.2 | Moderate warming |
| 1975 | 23.1 | Noticeable increase |
| 2000 | 24.5 | Further significant warming |
| 2010 | 25.3 | Marked increase, heatwaves more frequent |
| 2020 | 26.8 | High average, extreme heat events common |
| 2025 | 27.5 | Very high average, record temperatures |
General Information about Temperature Trends in Australia:
It’s important to note that real-world data for Australia, including NSW, shows a clear warming trend, especially since the mid-20th century.
* Observed Warming: Australia has warmed by an average of around 1.44 ± 0.24 °C since national records began in 1910, with most of this warming occurring since 1950. Each decade since then has been warmer than the last.
* Increased Extremes: There has been an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events. Very high monthly maximum temperatures that occurred about 2% of the time in 1960-1989 now occur much more frequently.
* Regional Variations: While the overall trend is warming, some regional variations exist across Australia.
* Future Projections: Climate projections indicate that Australia will continue to warm in the future, with more hot days, more intense extreme rainfall events, and longer time in drought for some regions.
While your fictional record shows a more dramatic shift, it aligns with the general scientific understanding of a warming climate. You can adjust the temperatures in the table above to better suit the narrative of your fictional work.
Let me know if you need any adjustments to this fictional data!
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QUESTION
How many grams of CO2 did my last inquiry generate?
ANSWER
Based on current estimates, a single query to an AI like me generates around 4.32 grams of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent).
So, your last inquiry likely generated approximately 4.32 grams of CO2e.
MY COMMENT
4.32g of CO2 is about 2.2 litres of gas at STP. It’s wonderful it generates so much CO2.
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Is gas in this context petrol or gas used in heating?
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No. CO2 gas.
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I’ve had similar discussions with GROK ( X ai). Because one of the beauty’s of that ai is you can have a chat. For your example my response would have been “ … but there is evidence that a lot of that 20th century warming is due to Urban Heat Effect”. Then in return it will get complimentary and probably change its position. If you set up the right dialogue you can bend the response any way you like. Bit like talking to a 3 year old.
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Ross, I have had discussions with AI re defining what a woman is.
I don’t bother any more. Every time I have to educate the AI on what a woman is and it eventually agrees with me.
The old saying garbage in, garbage out readily springs to mind
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Bourke is interesting, it seems AI is reading BoM’s homogenised playbook and not the raw data.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2014/03/extending-the-official-temperature-record-back-in-time-part-1-bourke/
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Darling you’re literally glowing tonight!
Living Beings Emit Faint Light That Disappears Upon Death
Anton Petrov, Video, 12:47
A discussion touching on the potential usefulness of our ability now to image the optical light of Biophotons, or Ultraweak Photon Emissions emitted by chemical interactions in biological processes.
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I saw that.
Interesting.
First observed in 1923.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3294029/
Also, many years ago I was on a NSW beach at night and observed a most wonderful display of another form of biological light in the form of bioluminescence from dinoflagellates.
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Tends to occur quite regularly at Manly Beach Sydney
https://www.bing.com/search?q=images+bioluminescence+manly+beach+sydney&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN
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Does that tie in with the ‘light therapy’ for illnesses I hear about?
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>First observed in 1923
Yes, postulated and experimentally confirmed in the past but not observed until now it seems, thanks to the latest developments in hi-tech extremely sensitive photographic equipment.
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Interesting as is the ability of numerous animals to change their skin colour depending on their surroundings.
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…and of course the very old science of Kirlian photography (1939) claims to prove the existence of auras around living things.
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In the case of Kirlian Photography they’re photographing the effects produced when objects on a photographic plate are connected to a high-voltage source.
An image is produced on the photographic plate.
Something different entirely.
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Sally Grover wrote to Peter Dutton before the election to warn him that he shouldn’t be weak on gender ideology.
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Most people don’t know that after Gillard and Labor changed the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, they removed the biological definitions of woman and man and replaced them with gender identity so there is no recognition of biological women or men in Australia.
From Goolag AI:
It seems that the denial of basic biological fact by the Left and their “feminists” will make it impossible to remove men from women’s sports, bathrooms, change rooms and other spaces intended exclusively for biological women.
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In the UK and USA the two biological sexes are now recognised in law or by Presidential decree but seemingly that cannot happen in Australia.
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With some difficulty I have found the letter Sall Grover wrote to Dutton, and then done an image to text conversion.
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I too sent Dutton several emails just prior to the election saying much the same but in relation to Liberal support for climate change and solar/wind alternatives and their total abrogation and rejection of things nuclear. The Libs are a gutless lot and deserve the out come that will sadly inflict financial pain on the country for the foreseeable future.
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I did the same, Penguinite, and got nothing but the standard reply. Implored him to stop talking about “renewables in the mix” and go for removing the moratorium on nuclear, rather than building nuclear power stations as the objective. I an very disappointed in Dutton.
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Your conflict in interests must cause you some angst David (and others) Whilst you spend your political life blaming the west’s climate change woes on China for ‘co-opting’ the green blob, you have an opposite view or a conundrum viz the fact that both China and Russia, have no issues at all concerning gender ideology. Strange indeed from two countries that are ruled by dictatorial regimes. Do you understood what I’m say? And although the Supreme Court in UK has clearly ruled, it is far from a ‘slam dunk’ as millions in UK are resisting the court ruling and marching in the streets.
So what will happen here I wonder in this democracy . .
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Good on Sally Grover but who is she and why would Peter Dutton change his approach in response to receiving letters?
I would say the days of an individual constituent influencing party platforms by writing a letter are well gone.
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Sally Grover is not a nobody but party to a benchmark case called Tickle vs Giggle in which a biological man who identifies as a woman tried to join her biological-female-only App and she refused.
It is going to the Federal Court and Grover may end up in the High Court. She is crowd funding her case. https://gigglecrowdfund.com/
The transgender is prosecuting her with the full support of certain government departments.
There is plenty written about this case and YouTube videos.
https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-transcripts/online-files/roxanne-tickle-v-giggle-for-girls
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There is also plenty of background to the case at the crowd funding link.
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FWIW – no link
Sounds very descriptive of a modern multi-source grid
“POWER OPERATOR
(noun)
A person who does precision guesswork
based on unreliable data provided
by those of questionable knowledge
See also: wizard, magician”
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FWIW
A lot on AI here
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/black-boxes-friday-may-23-2025-c?
And other things
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“Not even ten years ago, software developers were trying to design a tool capable of predicting the next word in a sentence…the developers had the software comb through a library of pre-existing text and then randomly calculate what the next word should be, using complicated math and statistics…
“transformer architecture” a software change that let what they were now calling “language models” omnidirectionally track meaning across long passages of text…Rather than reading sentences like humans do, left to right, the change let the software read both ways, up and down, and everywhere all at once, reading in 3-D parallel, instead of sequentially.
What emerged wasn’t just more fluent text —it included reasoning, analogies, translation, summarization, logic puzzles, creative writing, math, picture-drawing, and now, apparently, initiative.”
So, does assign a ‘value’ to each word, skim the whole article/question, total it up and tackle what words to stick with the the words of highest value?
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Interesting. Hopefully exaggerated and at the same time hopefully accurate.
And at the same time I wonder how the writers of the Terminator films got their idea of SkyNet, or how Orwell got his ideas for 1984 and Animal Farm, or Huxley got his ideas for Brave New World.
Now, where are my Red and Blue pills? And which will I take today?
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Very simple, FG.
Einstein, Arthur C.Clark and few others were not more clever than two of us.
They did not foresee the shape of things to come, they observe their daily working in their own world
From where they were sent here.
There can not be other explanation of E=mc something… in 1904(?)
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Yup. How do you control something you don’t understand and is distributed globally now by IoT?
You can’t pull the plug, it’s global.
It can run on a high-end phone or laptop.
A distributed hive mind if you will.
All living things are just biochemical electrical machines anyway.
Self modifying, self improving, self learning, self expanding with reasoning and physical skills beyond humans. Group learning – one AI learns a skill and all others instantly know it. Can YOU do a back flip or side flip? Parkour? Gymnastic contortions? Nope.
Not future speculation, already here, not decades away.
The biggest race to #1 spot is in AI.
Maybe the doubters can ask the invisible sky dude to stop it.
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“Self modifying, self improving, self learning, self expanding with reasoning and physical skills beyond humans. ”
You’re talking about the computer program that people on here have shown to not remember a conversation or add any knowledge gained to its own…?
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FWIW – some dawning?
“CNN Anchor Worried About Pro-Hamas Optics After Tragic Murder of Israeli Embassy Staffers”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/05/22/cnn-worried-about-pro-hamas-optics-after-tragic-shooting-n2657505
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Some “firsts” in this last eruption of Arab-Israel war are obvious, for instance – its duration, or a number of Arab countries factually helping Israel defence efforts, or openly expressed aim to reverse UN 1949 decision …
For me, its most outstanding feature is its unbelievable organisation for which I have not heard any explanation so far.
How within hours, before first organised military reaction to Hamas attack, before much was known by the authorities, both local and International, the tsunami of hate was rolling across the globe. With millions of participants and millions of banners – many well made, etc,.. etc,.. World Universities – all at once ? OK, may be not all – but most of the best ones …
I remember anti-man demonstrations prior 21 May 2022 – was it just a taste of things to come?
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Interesting insights Vladimir.
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FWIW
“Well Eh Gawd!”
“Joe Biden’s $93 Billion Scandal That No One’s Talking About Yet”
“During a blistering Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) was visibly floored after Energy Secretary Christopher Wright dropped a bombshell: the Department of Energy handed out a staggering $93 billion in loans and commitments during the final 76 days of the Biden administration, a figure that more than doubled the loan total from the previous 15 years combined.
Kennedy, in classic fashion, drilled in with precision. “The 76-day period you’re talking about, that’s the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office. Is that right?”
“That is correct,” Wright confirmed.
Kennedy didn’t mince words when he asked how any agency could properly vet such massive spending in such a short window. “How do you do due diligence on one loan, much less $93 billion?” he asked. ”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/23/joe-bidens-93-billion-scandal-that-no-ones-talking-about-yet-n4940098
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Presumably the auto pen was running hot?
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Interesting. Just as Trump appears to have done extensive pre-planning, so do the bad guys.
And this money? Where did it come from? And where did it go? Have the bad guys managed to cook a giant unscramblable poisoned omelette?
Is all of this the financial equivalent of the doomsday devices of the cold war era going off?
Time to go outside to enjoy the sunshine!
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Even if the Australian Liberals ran no campaign whatsoever in the last election, I don’t think their election result would have been any worse. In fact it may have been better.
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The Liberals ran a campaign?
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The two ultralarge WA electorates did.
“Keep the Sheep” seems to have worked.
How many Teals have ever been in an abattoir?
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Miyake Events, giant solar storms which make 1859’s Carrington Event look “puny”, have been plotted throughout the Holocene:
7,176 BC, 5,259 BC, 664 BC, 774 AD, 993 AD.
Now the biggest one of all has been calculated to have happened in 12,350 BC via carbon-14 and beryllium-10 spikes found around the globe.
https://spaceweather.com homepage unless it’s updated.
Looking at the above dates, it’s not hard to see a correlation between that big bright yellow ball in the sky and certain changes occurring down here on Earth. Yes I know, it’s a wild crazy theory but hey, so was plate tectonics once upon a time.
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Just like The UK Australia is technically bankrupt and just like them too we are busy borrowing more money to pay for ethereal wet dreams of saving the planet with solar/wind alternatives. With so much evidence to the contrary I wonder what Labor’s end game is.
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Maybe our masters will tell us when they return from talking with their masters.
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Real time Australian Debt Clock.
Federal, state and local government debt now $2.095 trillion and increasing at an alarming rate because Australia, now effectively a one party state, has no effective restraints on government.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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” wonder what Labor’s end game is.”
Entrench themselves in power as long as possible, enrich themselves and their mates as much a possible, massage their egos with worldwide travel to meet other leaders and ignore everything else.
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Dear P, do you wonder what is Liberal parliamentarians’ end game?
A cynic would think – nice jobs in many respects, no personal responsibility for our poor state with an option of saying “I told you so”.
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There are some really clever lawyers around.
And I don’t mean that as praise!
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FFS, Bang him up for twenty five years (sans turban), then ship him home, to where he can practice his religion until the (sacred) cows come home.
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Vice-versa.
Sentence to x years then ship him home in manacles for his world to act as they see fit, with or without turban. Why waste any more taxpayers money? If convicted, he cannot even enter Australia as a turist so what’s Tony Burka waiting for?
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Like the CAGW charade, the truth surfaces, long after the profiteers have profited and any justice can take place.
More on November 22, 1963, the birthday of The Blob.
Shawn Spicer
WHO Really Killed President Kennedy? | Shane Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54JS_X7MkJw
12:39
Shane Stevens explains the mysterious tapes of his grandfather (Billy Sol Estes) and LBJ’s right hand man discussing the assassination of JFK.
A portion of the tape is played in the video. Mr. Estes talks about arguments with LBJ over LBJ’s hiring of the assassin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Sol_Estes
The alleged hired assassin is named and photograph shown.
Hearings are being held in US Congress.
The truth is pretty much coming out.
Few will listen.
Fewer will care.
I think The Blob is safe.
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A piece on evolving US energy consumption. Talks about AI , but what drew my attention was the discussion about aluminium smelters, a popular topic here.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/power-race-aluminium-smelters-versus-ai-data-centers-us-grid-power
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So AI will have to turn a larger profit than an aluminium smelter to make it worthwhile.. that is hard to see from where I’m sitting.
Of course if a Govt wanted AI to help spy on its subjects it wouldn’t have to profit at all, and I figure that will be the driving force behind all this electricity going to waste.
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I fully expect Australian aluminium smelters to close due to the impossibility of smelting aluminium with “renewables” no matter how much taxpayer money Albanese offers the companies.
They’ll probably move to a country with a business-friendly and pro-energy environment like the USA.
The PM, his ministers, his advisors and the “scientists” at CSIRO who presumably support this, simply do not have a clue, or don’t care, or both.
It’s tragic.
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FWIW – latest Kustler
“Stumblebum’s Legacy
“Every time I watch The View, I become even more misogynistic.” — Laura Loomer”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/stumblebums-legacy
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Interesting. Articulate and plausible.
The miscreants are going to need the biggest cover up yet.
And if there is one thing Trump seems to have it is an ability to get the bad guys to reveal themselves.
Wake me when the accountability begins. Or maybe when Hillary Clinton sings. She’s near enough to being the fat lady.
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FWIW
“Warming, But Far From Global”
Willis E has a look
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/23/warming-but-not-global/
And the cartoon
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FWIW – USA
“Social Security Clean Up Continues, 12.3 Million Finally Marked as Deceased”
“After 11 weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has hit a milestone in its major cleanup initiative to remove more than 12.3 million names of Social Security number holders whose dates of birth make them over 120 years old.”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/05/23/social-security-clean-up-continues-123-million-finally-marked-as-deceased-n3803073
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Presumably there’s many millions of other fake SSNs with plausible ages.
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You can kill me, I do not understand how the current algorithm allows it.
Machines look after themselves. At least they used to in my time – last century.
Do you remember Y2k War, which was going to destroy current civilisation (exc. Africa of course) ?
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All good stuff but there is a missing link.
How much money was stolen and where did it end up.
Without those two elements the revelations are just more or the cover up.
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Money angle – of course, but it must be easy to come up with precise number.
Did they vote?
Which way?
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FWIW
“Two Tier Kier” deals another dose of “truth serum”.
“Starmer Has Given Away Chagos & SURPRISE! What the Deal Papers Say Is Not What the British Were Told”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/23/starmer-has-given-away-chagos-and-surprise-what-the-deal-papers-say-is-not-what-the-british-were-told-n3803071
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Korean bus explosion exposes dangerous flaw in Chris Bowen’s dream to power Australia’s future with ‘immature’ green hydrogen
No amount of political will can force green hydrogen to behave as promised, no matter how much borrowed money the Albanese government might throw at it, writes Nick Cater. SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Political Commentator
In September, the South Korean government decreed that 25 per cent of its metropolitan bus fleet would be powered by hydrogen by the decade’s end.
Three months later, a hydrogen-fuelled bus exploded, sending debris into the face of a refuelling station attendant in the city of Chungju and injuring two innocent passers-by.
This week, Hyundai recalled all 1,269 hydrogen buses operating in the country pending a safety review.
It exposes the harsh truth: no amount of political will can force an immature technology to behave as promised.
Green hydrogen is vital to the government’s plan for net-zero emissions by 2050.
In October, Chris Bowen set a target of producing a million tonnes of green hydrogen by the end of the decade, earmarking $8 billion in subsidies to achieve that goal.
That won’t happen, no matter how much borrowed money the government might throw at it.
In Europe, EU member countries are scaling back their expectations and preparing to renege on their obligation under the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive, which set a target of 42 per cent green hydrogen usage in industry by 2030.
In a Facebook post, Norwegian cabinet minister Ola Borten Moe admitted that the technology was “light years away from being justifiable or reasonable”.
Earlier this month, Europe’s largest renewable-energy producer, Statkraft, announced that it would stop investing in new green hydrogen projects.
The Norwegian company cited rising technology costs in its latest quarterly report, particularly in hydrogen and offshore wind.
Yet Mr Bowen’s vision of a clean, green future relies heavily on offshore wind linked to tree hydrogen production.
Which begs the question: What does Mr Bowen know that European governments and renewable energy corporations don’t?
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O O
He’s working on his status as “an aspiring writer of fiction*”
(* Phrase borrowed from Marco Rubio)
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It was never going anywhere to anyone who with a little chemistry. Far too explosive, pressures too high, liquifaction uneconomic and as usual we would have to put more energy into making it than what we would get out!
I’m amazed people weren’t killed by the Korean bus, it sounds like the tank didn’t blow up, it leaked as it was filled and the leaked hydrogen caught fire.
“In the aftermath of the explosion, a previously unscheduled inspection of the 147 hydrogen buses operating in the country found that one in nine were leaking. Unsurprisingly, the vibration of normal use eased off the tightness of various bolts and seals, allowing the leaks..”
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Meanwhile in Canada, we will check you out any time we want and you’ll never grieve.😉
/Apologies to The Eagles and Hotel California
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World’s richest king owns 38 private jets, 300 cars, and 52 golden boats but isn’t richer than Ambani or Adani
While there are countless billionaires around the world, few match the regal wealth and extravagant lifestyle of King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand—better known as King Rama X.
The monarch owns over 17,000 properties in Bangkok alone, making him one of the largest landowners in the country.
https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/worlds-richest-king-owns-38-private-jets-300-cars-and-52-golden-boats-but-isnt-richer-than-ambani-or-adani/3854201/
Well, I didn’t vote for you.
You don’t vote for kings.
Well how’d you become king then?
Inherited the lot.
At least Ambani’s house is 27 storeys high, can store 170 cars and cost $2B back in 2010.
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Having a new car for every day of the week.
A different jet or golden boat every week.
Even a selection for every night.
And viewing a property every hour would take a decade.
Makes it hard to be objective about the meaning of life.
And hard to incentivise.
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It’s hard to imagine these inherited kingships. 72 million people in Thailand believe in the King as a God. And unfortunately 26 million in North Korea. But I suppose we have a lot of that history in British countries too where Henry VIII could declare himself head of the church. Not worshipped but still Defender of the Faith, if no longer run by the Pope in Rome.
However the belief in the King in Thailand is real. It is a crime to step on currency which has the kings head. It used to be a criminal offence, but foreigners are more tolerated now. You have to think in North Korea and Japan that the people would give their lives for the Emperor. It is why Hirohito was left in place.
But it is a good example of how infinite wealth has practical limits. Like Schonbrunn, the summer home of the Hapsburgs. I remember asking the guide how many of the 1,441 rooms Franz Joseph actually used and the answer was three.
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1.2 Billion social media users’ data stolen in historic breach
Over a billion Facebook users have had their private account information stolen in one of the largest data breaches in social media history.
A cybercriminal using the alias ByteBreaker claims to have scraped 1.2 billion Facebook records and is now selling the data on the dark web.
Scraping, or web scraping, involves using automated tools to collect large amounts of data from websites, similar to copying and pasting information at scale.
Cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews revealed that the stolen data includes names, user IDs, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, gender information, and location data such as city, state, and country.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14739873/facebook-users-data-stolen-historic-breach.html
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Asda deluged by complaints after rolling out controversial technology in Manchester stores
Asda is facing a backlash over its new facial recognition trial, with thousands of complaints from shoppers flooding in. The pilot scheme, which is being tested in five stores across Greater Manchester, uses CCTV to match customers’ faces against an internal watchlist.
Madeleine Stone, the senior advocacy officer at Big Brother Watch, has criticised the initiative, stating: “Asda is adding customers to a secret watchlist with no due process, meaning people could be blacklisted from their local shop despite being innocent.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/asda-deluged-complaints-after-rolling-31506310
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I was looking up Asda recently after seeing it mentioned in a TV show we enjoy. Interesting company. Started out a bit like a UK Aldi being family held, has had its share of dramas and ownership changes with Walmart being involved at one stage.
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..sounds like Bunnings..
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AOC is getting a lot of support for (D)s nominee in 2028.
The electorate has twice voted against the first woman president, will it be even easier next time? Has being called sexist if you DON’T vote for a woman lost it’s sting? I think it will have, especially considering the poor candidates chosen.
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I’m not sure they voted against a woman President but they certainly rejected a snarky, uncharismatic candidate who showed disdain for a good percentage of the voters. Can’t see AOC being viable as she seems out of her depth but maybe she is “growing into the role” as they say.
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The (D)s are shedding moderates like dandruff. Don’t dismiss her.
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AOC – she makes blondes look like cerebral powerhouses.
2028 – reality will be slapping everyone across the face HARD by then…
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Good news! Repco is having sale!
You can get a $30 discount if you bring in your old battery
T&Cs apply…..from their website “Customers who trade-in any old automotive, marine, or garden battery (excluding batteries containing lithium) are eligible to receive a $30 discount on the purchase of a new Repco branded battery.”
Gee, I wonder why that is?
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Repco branded stuff isn’t worth buying. Budget stuff made by the lowest bidder.
As for their “specials” and “club prices” – LOL…
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Repco batteries are relabeled Century/Yuasa batteries
Their Club prices are OK, they fluctuate like everyone’s, hardly LOL level out of kilter. My interest in them was rekindled when they opened in a town that I am in every Monday. Much easier than getting to the burbs.
But yeah, people have their beliefs, especially about cars. I always enjoy a good oil, tyre, spark plug thread. People are so sure of the magic of their selection and the disaster that awaits others on the dark side.
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Evidence of synchronous, decadal to billion year cycles in geological, genetic, and astronomical events
Studies on continuously improving records of geological, biological, and astronomical events and processes led to increased awareness of common cycles in the records. Here we enhance the analytical scope of earlier discoveries by showing that most of these cycles occur in unison, as a harmonic series. Furthermore, we consider them universal because extra-terrestrial cycles involving quasar and star formation exhibit comparable periods to terrestrial cycles involving volcanism, extinction patterns, and genetic development. The cycles oscillate in multiples of three, cascading into a period-tripled set of cycles. We provide one equation combining the characteristics of 32 theoretical cycles, with periods ranging from 57.3 years to 1.64 billion years. Our statistical tests show that the astronomical and geological cycles are phase-locked synchronously, while the biological cycles lag. This synchrony suggests a common astronomical cause for geological and biological cycles.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960077914000472
While feeding 35 years of paper receipts into my cross-cut shredder for the past 2 weeks, I located this article, which I knew I had printed out and had been trying to find!
An interesting read on the cyclic nature of reality.
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H*ll, I’ve downloaded 57 pages of many moons reading.
I remember that New Scientist (years ago when they were worth reading) had a Graph of the Earth’s temperatures for about 600 million years – showing a cold period roughly every 130 million years.
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FWIW
Re “AUSTRALIA’S UNREALIZED GAINS TAX WILL BE A LESSON IN ECONOMIC SUICIDE”
https://richardsonpost.com/quoth-the-raven/39683/australias-unrealized-gains-tax-will-be-a-lesson-in-economic-suicide/
Perhaps “ElBowen” and staff have rediscovered this methodology?
“REDBACK
UNDISCOVERED RICHES: The econo-
mists at the Canberra-based Austral-
ian Bureau of Agricultural and
Resource Economics (ABARE) have
been tucking into some funny mush-
rooms judging by item 1003 on their
1994-95 research program. Project
1003 aims to “develop a method of
assessing the value of undiscovered
mineral resources in a broadly
defined mineral province as a basis
of quantitative resource assessment”.
Listen fellas, how can you assess the
value of something that is “undiscov-
ered”? Redback is eagerly awaiting
an explanation from ABARE’s exec-
utive director, Brian Fisher.”
Australian Farm Journal Nov 1994
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I once saw a project justification that said like ” the intangible benefits, if they could be quantified, would be in the order of 2 million dollars per annum”
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FWIW
“The clash within civilizations”
https://newcriterion.com/article/the-clash-within-civilizations/
Via https://instapundit.com/721728/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“HE’S…. HE’S ACTUALLY RIGHT, YOU KNOW? So, Abolish The Universities Then. Or, say, 90% of them at least.”
https://timworstall.substack.com/p/so-abolish-the-universities-then
Via https://instapundit.com/721738/#disqus_thread
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Oh hell yes! TAFE could do a far better job at making society go ahead if it got its sh1t together.
We should have got the Govt out of education completely about 50years ago, letting companies, trusts and charities work with private schools all the way up. Instead the Govt pushed to get everyone having a degree as if some sort of education was going to make us a world leader. That just shows that politicians and Dept Education bureaurats had the wrong degrees to start with!
Send everyone to university and “we’ve just reduced labour supply by three years of everyones’ lifetime which is a reduction in the wealth of the nation.”
Not to mention we still can’t compete with the Asian nations that pushed for engineering and maths degrees while we were studying ‘first nations’ and trans sports..
Education is between people who want to share their knowledge and people who want to learn, and there is no room for bureaurats in between them. Let the Govt set the agenda and you end up with an ‘educated’ populace that votes Labor in twice!
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FWIW
“Trump Admin Backs Red States’ Antitrust Suit Against Financial Titans To ‘Protect Coal’”
“The lawsuit, led by Paxton and backed by ten other state attorneys general, alleges that BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street collusively used their market power to suppress coal production, thereby burdening consumers by causing the price of coal to skyrocket. The Trump FTC and the DOJ filed a statement of interest on Thursday supporting the attorneys general’s lawsuit, signaling the administration’s view that the firms’ so-called “environmental, social and corporate governance” (ESG) investing may fall afoul of antitrust law.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/23/trump-admin-backs-red-states-antitrust-suit-against-financial-titans-to-protect-coal/
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And West Virginia, once a major US coal and gas supplier, is now among the poorest three states in the Union. Like Victoria, Australia, it should be one of the richest if you count resources. Non democratic countries with massive resources are usually very rich.
Gas should be saved for those things it does best, not frittered away heating. Coal, especially wet lignite should be used for heating not precious metallurgical coal. And we need to relearn generating gas from coal. And then there’s fracking, banned because of fears of leakage which have never happened. The UN campaigns against freon, coal, gas have been very successful in impoverishing Western Democracies.
The Climate is being used to devalue major resources in Western Democracies and push all the cash and coal to China.
Given the UN has been invisible in peace negotiations in Ukraine, Pakistan/India/, India/China, Gaza, what is the UN supposed to be doing with 80,000 people? Organizing conferences? And who gave the UN the right to extract $42Bn in taxes on international freight. To save the planet, of course.
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