When all the apples are rotten
fire the picker
Category: M. POLITICS
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The Second Big Bang Is Here
According to the columnist Thomas L. Friedman, humanity has just set off a second Big Bang — and we are not ready for it. He explains why the rise of A.I. and other “godlike” powers will require us to build healthy interdependencies to survive what comes next.
October 25, 2026 ( NEW YORK TIMES )
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Reminds me of Sam Halpren’s Father:
The exact quote from the Sh*t My Dad Says Book is:
“You are four years old. You have to shit in the toilet. This is not one of those negotiations where we’ll go back and forth and find a middle ground. This ends with you shitting in a toilet.”
DOOM LOOP?
When the North Carolina legislature voted to prohibit our schools from teaching Evolution, Senator Sam Ervin concluded
“The monkeys in the jungle would undoubtedly be delighted to know that the North Carolina legislature has absolved them from all responsibility for the conduct of the human race in general and that of the North Carolina legislature in particular.”
Today’s NEW YORK TIMES contains an article by Carolyn Y. Johnson entitled WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NEANDERTHALS?
And one on a new way to educate :
An Alpha private school in Austin, Texas. The Alpha network is small but growing rapidly. Its leaders have ambitions for the model to reach one billion students around the world.
And an earlier related one:
Oct. 23, 2026
Thomas L. Friedman: We Just Set Off the Second Big Bang
All are pertinent comments on what is coming down the pipe via Artificial Intelligence.
In Yuval Harari’s prescient HOMO DEUS he speculates that HOMO SAPIENS will be more like Neanderthals than the next evolving species, HOMO DEUS.
EARLY VOTING
I voted early as possible. Didn’t want to die before voting against the GOP congress.
Hope to live long enough to vote for them to be convicted.
WHISH
JOURNEY OF THE MIND by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam is another book “above my paygrade”. Though published in 2022 it is prescient and related to the big questions of the moment.
Here is a clip from the book’s cover: “Journey of The Mind” is a mind-bending work of popular science, the first general book to share the cutting-edge mathematical basis for consciousnesss, language, and the self. It shows how a “unified theory of the mind” can explain the mind’s greatest mysteries—and offer clues about the ultimage fate of all minds in the universe.
Tough reading follows.
Homo Sapiens as just another link in evolution?
“Chain, chain, chain—chain of fools”
Last Chance?
Among the float of ominus questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI):
A west coast group has started higher education in AI. Precousor ?
American elites, no doubt, have history of rascism. Will AI similarly eliminate those
unwilling to, or incapable of, educating oneself for the future?
How should, or could , society prepare, educate?
The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times, they are a-changin’
“ON THE DOLE”
Shouldn’t voters who abhor welfare recipients, “…who do nothing yet expect a government handout “,
vote out the Rebublican members of Congress.
KNOCK,KNOCK
Maybe ?
AI may be offering a unique “level playing field”.
Two years ago, most people knew little about AI. Even now the arena offers opportunity for those who
can educate themselves.
For Americans, this may be the first time there is EQUAL OPPORTUNITY.
There is a new race on, but some facts hold true: Those who work the hardest have the best chance.
The Big Alligator
Last spring small alligators appeared in a few of our community’s 10 ponds.
The Wildlife’s Alligator Man spoke to our group. For an hour he tried to sell two points: 1. The small ones we had spotted can’t hurt us and 2. When they grow to a dangerous size Wildlife would relocate them.
The problem was earlier he had extolled the amazing ability of grown Gators to remember, and often return to, their origins.
Say What?
Trump snuck igconito on to plane 2. He sent J. D. and Mario and the others on the “safe one.”
Say What ?
VOTE FOR RON
FROM NYT
Insults, Expletives and Fat-Shaming: Vance Trolls Critics on the Right and Left.
CLIPS
It was hardly the first time that someone on social media called someone else fat. But it may have been the first time that a vice president of the United States did so.
Mr. Vance also appears to have a natural appetite for conflict, the product of a generation that grew up with gladiatorial political instincts. It is not enough that someone else may be wrong about policy or politics; they must be stupid, mendacious, vile or, yes, even overweight.
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Comedian Ron White, who said “F— you ! “, to his debate opponent, concluded : I THOUGHT I’D WON !
