Spa day for baby monkey
[📹 monkeylover. club]pic.twitter.com/5L4d7s6ske
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 1, 2025
Why Do Spiders Decorate Their Webs? A New Piece of the Puzzle Nautilus
NASA’s supersonic jet completes its first flight in California Engadget
Why are we obsessed with serial killers? Mashable
Do mega-sporting events like the World Series pay off? Here’s the economic reality behind them The Conversation
Scientists just shattered a major exercise myth ScienceDaily
I tried lab-grown chocolate. Could it be the future of Halloween? Guardian
COVID-19/Pandemics
Researchers say Covid infection during pregnancy is tied to autism — but they aren’t yet sure why The Independent
Forgotten Pandemic: The Lessons We Refused to Learn The Pioneer
Climate/Environment
Humanity is on path toward ‘climate chaos,’ scientists warn Phys.org
Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa 4 Times More Likely, Study Suggests Wired
South of the Border
Pentagon Tells Congress It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing in Latin American Boat Strikes Scheerpost
Trump’s military pressure on Maduro evokes Latin America’s coup-ridden past The Guardian
Demonstrators call for governor’s resignation after deadly Rio police raid Al Jazeera
China?
Students in China are encouraged to rest and nap during school.pic.twitter.com/p9UF5l6yfc
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 30, 2025
China’s Shenzhou 21 docks with space station, sets the country’s own speed record Phys.org
No China holiday surge for oil exporters as EVs dominate roads Cryptopolitan
China claims its new missile with retractable wings can change shape at hypersonic speed Interesting Engineering
India
Why India Consumes as China Constructs: A Tale of Two Growth Trajectories Observer Research Foundation
“Leave Violence, Join Mainstream”: Surrendered Maoist Bhupathi To Comrades NDTV
Africa
South Africa hits back at US refugee plan to favour white Afrikaners BBC
Why Africa has become a hotspot for war Al Jazeera
European Disunion
Entrepreneurship in Europe: Where are firms thriving and barely surviving? Euronews
Europe’s frightful economy Euractive
New EU border check system paused for tourists following French demands, port officials say The Independent
Old Blighty
Now Rachel Reeves targets wealthy Brits with ‘settling-up charge’ if they flee the UK Daily Mail
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache The Guardian
Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran
BABY KILLERS! İSRAEL!#FreePalenstine pic.twitter.com/qzFf2Er0TL
— Yaziyor (@serdaryaziyor) January 2, 2024
Israel blocks majority of Gaza aid despite ceasefire deal Middle East Eye
Israel Plans to Demolish West Bank Village After Residents Challenge Settler Outpost Haaretz
Israeli forces advance into rural Quneitra in southern Syria Middle East Monitor
New Not-So-Cold War
Pentagon says Ukraine can have Tomahawk missiles: Report The Hill
Russia’s Military Advantage Over NATO Larry Johnson
Russian Missile Strikes On Ukraine Hit 2.5-Year High In October: Report AFP
Ukraine says it hit a key fuel pipeline near Moscow that supplies Russian forces AP
Opinion: Why Trump’s talk about nuclear testing is dangerous The Salt Lake Tribune
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Press Release: Senator Markey Calls on Amazon to Withdraw Facial Recognition Technology Plans for Ring Doorbells Quiver Quantitative
NEO the first ‘consumer-ready humanoid robot’ will do your chores. But what about privacy? Unpublished
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Trump Doctrine: If We Don’t Like Ya We’ll Kill Ya Mark Wauck
In Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park, a fence won’t cure homelessness or addiction. But it’s a start Santa Monica Daily Press
Scenes from a local food bank in LA this weekend as SNAP benefits lapse Laist
Trump 2.0
With bombs and bravado, Trump puts his own stamp on Reagan’s ‘peace through strength’ mantle AP
‘At What Point Does This Cross a Line Into International Criminality?’ Politico
Trump’s unusual tariff strategy puts America’s allies in a near-impossible situation CNN
President Donald Trump hosts Gatsby-inspired Halloween party amid government shutdown CBS 12 News
Musk Matters
Elon Musk explains why Donald Trump is ‘not evil’ The Times of India
Tesla to ramp to 500 Robotaxis in Austin, 1,000 in Bay Area, by end of 2025: Musk Teslarati
Elon Musk Announces X Chat as Encrypted WhatsApp Alternative Coincentral
Democrat Death Watch
Immigration
ICE Barbie Plots Secretly Using Bounty Hunters for Round-ups The Daily Beast
DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks ProPublica
DoD to send more military lawyers to Justice Department as some begin serving as temporary immigration judges Federal News Network
Our No Longer Free Press
Musk, Meta and IDF named “Press Freedom Predators” by Reporters Without Borders Dagens.com
Mr. Market Is Moody
Will the next World War be fought with gold? Here are the glaring statistics The Economic Times
Fed official warns inflation is still too high for more rate cuts TheStreet
AI
AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs Futurism
In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert Quanta Magazine
Datacenter biz and nuke startup join forces for Texas AI ranch The Register
AI chatbots shouldn’t be talking to kids — Congress must step in The Hill
Researchers Apply AI To Defend Against Stuxnet-Like Cyber Attacks The Cyber Edge
The Bezzle
Miami investor used fraud to buy dozens of Boeing 737s, FBI says Seattle Times
‘Synthetic’ identity theft blends real and fake data to fool lenders Better Business Bureau
Guillotine Watch
the world’s most expensive pizza costs $12,000?! 🤯 It’s called the Louis XIII, created by Renato Viola, and is topped with three types of caviar, lobster, and is even served with Remy Martin Cognac. #PizzaFacts #LuxuryFood #WorldsMostExpensive #Foodie #DidYouKnow #RenatoViola pic.twitter.com/ep5rFnNAbp
— gourmet the food king 🤴 (@ekkofluid) September 7, 2025
Most expensive hamburger covered in gold and dripping in caviar has €5,000 price tag.
The expensive item was put on the menu at The Daltons restaurant in Voorthuizen, Gelderland, Netherlands by chef Robbert Jan De Veen (Netherlands) in 2021.
Named ‘The Golden Boy’, its price… pic.twitter.com/m4L8qLTo2S
— Q.I.B.L.A.H uncensored news (@QUNproductions) June 30, 2024
Antidote du jour (via)
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
“Why are we obsessed with serial killers?”
What you mean ‘we’, white man? I don’t know why people become serial killers nor do I even care. I only know what should be done with them – and with extreme prejudice.
“Why are we obsessed with serial killers?”
Maybe because the killer in me is the killer in you….
Disarm, by Billy Corgan
So I’ve watched a few of these series below on the central villain, and there is overlap of a kind, like deciphering whether the cult leader( ie, Jeffs ) or the serial killer is actually the worse and more effective evil. Exerting control seems to be a recurring theme.
– Jeffrey Dahmer
– Warren Jeffs and the FLDS cult ( polygamy )
– Ted Bundy
– John Wayne Gacy
– Zodiac
These are all dark, and highly disturbing. I include the last entry since per the film, released in 2007 and possibly overlooked then, the alleged murderer was never actually caught or arrested for his crimes. My conclusion…some people are just not wired correctly from the get to.
I actually have been a little curious about what the big deal is. Where I live, gang members have tens of bodies under their belts. There’re also a whole host of famous people who should be called serial killers but aren’t, like Obama. As far as I can tell, the only difference is that they lack individual notoriety for their crimes, for one reason or the other.
The article doesn’t address this at all, unless I missed it and I would agree that the author’s reported curiousity may be less ubiquitous than they believe. It seems to me like the fascination with learning how other persons met with a miserable end is a phenomenom driven by news outlets (traditional and novel) hyping up particularly unique cases as a relatively easy sell for views/clicks etc..
The difference in the treatment is just stark. My news is always filled with the more prolific of the twenty or so deaths over the last week, sometimes barely afforded a paragraph because it’s the same old story over and over. Even when bodies do get found in pieces it’s not particularly earth-shattering. As far as I can tell, it seems to be that having a hundred known victims can never live up to the hype of leaving three of four bodies in sculpted positions. ‘Slasher’ enthusiasts, I’m sure, hardly care to learn how Joe went from selling his body for food to doing his part, keeping morticians securely employed.
Mass murderers, spree killers, serial killers are categories, but I guess the category closest to covering officially protected perps would be something like “state sponsorsed terrorism”.
US media is obsessed with serial killers (‘we’ means them), because shocking content attracts audience. It’s softcore atrocity porn.
On the AI front, this below in today’s FT reporting the same thing that commenter Rasperry Jam has been saying, that much of AI’s immediate future is in specialized foundation models using proprietary data.
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No archived link yet — https://www.ft.com/content/91002071-7874-4cb7-9245-08ca0571c408
The new hot job in AI: forward-deployed engineers
OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere have stepped up hiring for specialists to help businesses adopt their AI models
‘…Anthropic, OpenAI and Cohere are recruiting for so-called forward-deployed engineers, a new job for generative AI companies, as part of a push to generate more revenues by installing specialists within businesses to help them customise their AI models….
‘…The move comes as businesses across industries from manufacturing to healthcare are increasingly keen to adopt AI tools, but are often unsure how to use the technology and generate a return on investment. “A Fortune 500 bank has completely different needs than a start-up building an AI-native product,” said Cat de Jong, head of applied AI at Anthropic ….
‘While FDEs (forward-deployed engineers) represent a relatively small number of AI groups’ workforce, OpenAI said demand for these roles has exceeded its expectations.
‘The group used this approach to customise its technology for John Deere, an agricultural machinery manufacturer, to help create more precise farming tools. This resulted in farmers reducing chemical spraying by 60 per cent to 70 per cent.
‘OpenAI’s Fournier said: “We learn what customers in different industries really need, we experiment and innovate together, and then those insights help advance OpenAI’s research and product offerings based on what works in the real world.”
Me: This is AI coming for McKinsey, Bain, and the like.
i.e. Customers used to contract with a management consultancy firm, which then outourced a majority of work to an IT consultancy firm (ITF) that in turn might do 90% of work for 10% of contract value and the MCF took the rest. Any true value lay in which ITF the management consultant firm had the nous to choose.
With AI, the ITF — in this case, OpenAI, Anthropic, whichever– disintermediates McKinsey etc. and assigns their role to its own forward development engineers.
So if those forward-deployed engineers are working with a Fortune 500 bank or a corporation like John Deere to tailor those AIs to them individually, would it also work out that they would also be funneling those corporation’s vital information back to Anthropic, OpenAI and Cohere for use as training set data?
Yup.
One thought, suppose there are better, more efficient AI models than Anthropic or Claude, buying into solution before problem….
Don’t rule out consulting yet.
How about small language modules?
Sounds like Lean Six Sigma “black belts”.
Maybe if Toyota did AI…..
Do these OpenAI deployed engineers have the business sense, to replace the usual business process redesign “help”
Hell’s bells, those photos of the ultra-refined pizza(s) are ridiculous.
As every Italian knows, pizza is its own food group, but there are rules. (Although in the Undisclosed Region the use of ingredients and doughs has some jazz-like variations, given that pizza is an exotic import from Naples and not original to the Chocolate City.)
Lobster and caviar defeat the purpose of pizza, which is as a comfort food that doesn’t have too much meat or fish on top. It is the dough that matters.
Second, I am seeing two other pizzas that aren’t pizzas. I’m not sure what the photos represent. They seem to be of a taco masquerading as a pizza — pieces of burnt sausage with raw lettuce, raw tomatoes, and sliced pickles? Or is this pizzaoidal object a discreet reference to Donald Trump’s eating habits?
So these gold-foiled pizzas with pickles are a long way from a real pizza — which reaches the splendor of pizza when topped with cheese and squash blossoms. Or one of those jazzy Piedmontese variations (served at my Undisclosed Favorite Pizzeria): sauce of porcini, topped with porcini and a delicate Piedmontese cheese that is softer and a tad more savory than mozzarella. (Not that I’m complaining about mozzarella!)
Heck, why waste a sturgeon’s time like this?
PS: From Renato Viola’s home page, I discover that he has decamped to Miami, South Beach. Sic transit gloria pizzae.
Thank you! I second that it’s the dough/crust first and foremost.
I enjoy anchovies (with capers and red onion, please) from time to time, and have even once made a lobster pizza (it was tasty!), but these are not what I crave when I’m craving pizza.
The State of Maine pizza, bacon and onion, is one of my favorites.
mrsyk:
anchovies (with capers and red onion, please)
Anchovies are an object of veneration in the Undisclosed Region — especially the big anchovies from Spain or Sicily.
So I understand your weaknesses.
Once at my son’s urging we did a lobster fried rice as he said St Tony Bourdain had it. We did it without my wife present (the chef, the boss). It was good. Later my son said he made it up about Tony.
There is a fancier Chinese restaurant nearby that makes a lobster fried rice and it’s delicious! They also do a nice dim sum lobster rangoon.
I wouldn’t do lobster on a pizza [or mashed potatoes(!), looking at you Barstool-reviewed local Maine pizza place that is otherwise very good], but I find that substituting real lobster for the generally faux crabmeat in Asian cuisine is a nice touch.
Horrible faux crabmeat is a nasty substitution for… real crab. Up here, on the BC Coast, the real thing is thankfully far more common — fake crab is extremely rare in Chinese restaurants, much more common in bad or mediocre Japanese restaurants, the latter often having both California Rolls and California Rolls with Real Crab on the menu.
Saladizzas? Note ingredients seem to have been added after the pizza is done. Weird. I myself have done some weird dishes as I sometimes tried to be creative with mixed results. Paella madrás comes to mind. That one was edible and quite a thing though I have not tried twice. With time my “creativity” has mostly gone and now I stick most of the time with traditional recipes even if some are new to me.
No garlic in the Spanish omelette then? (I’m torn on this one.)
Onion, onion! And you can do it “campera” (country-side) with added pepper and chorizo.
One bite, everybody knows the rules!
In our town we used to have a pizza place called the Pizza Research Institute (PRI) that had the most unusual pizza toppings I’ve ever encountered. Many of my friends raved about it but as a half-Sicilian pizza traditionalist I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to try them. Unfortunately I really did like their pizza (except anything with Gorgonzola, a cheese apparently made from someone’s very dirty underwear).
Example: the 3-P ….. pear, potato, and pesto. I know, I know…but it was brilliant.
About “Entrepreneurship in Europe: Where are firms thriving and barely surviving? ”
As far as I can tell what the data shows is mostly about how easy and cheap it is to set up and close down shell-companies. I.e. financial shenanigans that on balance is probably damaging both economy and lives.
I did not see any reference to that being part of the explanation, either the author is blissfully unaware of that or the author is aware and decided not to include it anywhere in the article.
Might be a combination of unaware and being slightly aware but digging into it and writing about it might not be good for career and social prospects.
“Opinion: Why Trump’s talk about nuclear testing is dangerous”
I’m thinking that it was defensive here. The Russians had just announced the successful testing of their nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik. This was followed up by the successful testing of their nuclear-powered torpedo, the Poseidon. For the Neocons, this was bad news. It is one thing setting countries on fire in the Middle east or Africa or South America. They told themselves that they were safe as they had an ocean on each side, Arctic wastes to the north and a narrow peninsular to the south. With these new weapons that obsolete belief is dead. Trump had to throw up a distraction so that people would forget those new Russian weapons so came up with nuclear testing and it has worked. Only thing is whether Trump boxes himself in and is forced to conduct a nuclear test in a year or two from now because of all his belligerent boasting.
It was another childish gesture. (Mine’s bigger than yours.) Quotidian Trumpian bravado. It’s not easy being a narcissist.
My best guess is he doesn’t know the difference between nuclear powered and nuclear armed.
I read someone point out trumps testing talk came just after his TACO with China.
It’s round 10 million of SQUIRREL
Nuclear testing is under the energy department, not the military. It would take probably years to put together the entire nuclear test program again before a single test could be completed.
Historians will look back on 2025 as the US empire’s Suez year, with not just China’s successful pushback against US efforts to stop its rise but also Russia’s crushing of the Ukraine regime and the US-NATO proxy effort to regime change Russia.
But, yes: 2030, if the Chinese perform a landing on Luna, is when this change will finally be absorbed by the mass of Americans. Those in DC will likely be the last to face the facts.
It appears that the USA’s famously brilliant negotiator of a president may not have understood what he agreed to with regard to Nexperia in his recent discussions with Xi. Per Arnaud Bertrand, the main value added by Nexperia NL to the supply chain of chips used in the auto industry is the production of the silicon wafers. Nexperia CN has now re-sourced those wafers domestically, which will leave Nexperia NL to wither away and the American and European auto producers even more dependent on China. Good job, wheeler-dealer Don.
There are still propaganda pieces in the Netherlands that Karremans did a great and heroic thing in stealing Nexperia.
I always knew that the Dutch press was mostly propaganda, but sometimes it is still a surprise for me when they lie about something.
so I scrolled through news sites….no mention of the World Series, lmao. (the secular, structural decline of baseball is another topic).
Society/mass culture has become, essentially, circles of “fandoms”—politics, sports, celebrity news, baking, widget-collecting, etc. There is no more universal (national) cultural glue holding society together (except, a John Carpenter-esque: consume!)
pretty wild that we live in an age where almost every First Worlder has a supercomputer in their pocket, and people have siloed themself into their own world with their own IV drip of info. it’s like a scene from “Wall-E”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xToQ4cIHkk
The only hint of violence on the diamond sputtered out during an ad hoc 7th inning stretch yesterday, but it was more of an Elks Club get together with no rabbit punches or fisticuffs to report and both teams dutifully went back to their respective dugouts…
In comparison, I cringe about 6.3x a game during an NFL get together-when violence on the gridiron seems almost like a gut punch to watch. A lot of the skills are similar, throwing, running, catching and hitting-with a different variant on the latter.
That was a World Series for the ages-one astounding play on the field after another, and I had mentally consigned myself to being on the losing side of an epic battle fought over 90 feet at a time in the 9th inning, satisfied in that i’d witnessed something special-and then redeemed by home run heroics by the least likely guy on the rosters to clear the fence.
p,s,
money, money, money dept:
Disney owned the Angels around the turn of the century, and in their wisdom decided to trash all of the older players contracts, which were dutifully retrieved by a dumpster diver, and then sold to a coin dealer in Orange County.
The ‘money’ one was Nolan Ryan’s yearly contracts, of which there were about 10 or so, and Nolan didn’t make jack, $27k.
I must’ve read through hundreds of player contracts, got a little dull after awhile
ah ha
The internet has everything!
Here’s the 1972 Nolan Ryan contract, and oh so plain Jane~
It fetched $6k in 2012 @ auction
https://collectrea.com/archives/2012/Spring/767/1972-nolan-ryan-signed-california-angels-contract-first-american-league-contract
It’s a new age, and it’s filled with football (of the international variety).
Go check out an MLS game … Portland vs San Diego was absolutely electric last night.
Fans singing, smoke flying, drums drumming, banners waving, stands bouncing.
It is it’s OWN culture, and it’s international. Black, white, brown … every nation in the world represented.
It’s called “the beautiful game” for a reason, and the beauty extends beyond the pitch.
Maybe nobody’s talking about it because they can’t bear to admit that capitalism’s favorite team came out on top. I do like the individual Dodger players, and Ohtani especially is a pleasure to watch. And I do thank LA for taking a bunch of bunch of past their prime players with bloated contracts off the Red Sox’ hands several years ago. But LA is second only to the hated Yankees for teams I actively root against. It’s a team only PE C-suiters could love. Must be nice to bring in a billion dollars worth of pitchers for the last few weeks of the regular season and the p(l)ayoffs. Not every team has that luxury. Any mention of the Dodgers at NC should go under the guillotine watch.
I dunno, fell under the spell of Dodger Stadium-the only 1960’s NL baseball stadium still left standing-and unlike most of the other 60’s efforts in that regard, didn’t have the awful dual MLB/NFL thing going on.
Haven’t been to a game there this century, so i’m a little rusty-but oh the memories they linger pleasantly enough.
From what i’ve seen on tv, the aged edifice looks to have more advertising than I remember seeing, but I’m from the era when trying to make money on such things was considered crass-so it was scant.
The only indication @ Dodger Stadium was a big Union 76 orange ball on top of a pillar, so clean.
Watched a NHL game from the 70’s awhile back and the boards are bereft of branding, naked as it were-they almost looked whitewashed in fact.
Why do we do, just as you say, why must we just, give you your way
Why do I sigh, why don’t I try – to forget
It must have been, that something we’ll later call fate
Kept me saying: “Comeuppance will have to wait”
I saw them enthralled, just couldn’t fall – ’til too late
It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around, and finally found – the somebody who
Could make a mountebank come through, giving F. Scott Fitzgerald his due
And even be glad, just to be sad – thinking of you
Some others I’ve seen, might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss, but they wouldn’t do
For nobody else, gave me my fill – with all your faults, I loathe you still
It had to be you, blunderful you, it had to be you
It had to be you, performed by Frank Sinatra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0w6StE9NFs&list=RD_0w6StE9NFs
“China’s Shenzhou 21 docks with space station, sets the country’s own speed record”
The Chinese say that they intend to land a taikonaut on the Moon by 2030 and going by this article, they are still on track. I can only imagine the panic in the Trump regime as the Chinese get closer and closer to their objective but it is not like they are doing anything about this goal themselves. There is no permanent head of NASA and the guy at SecTransport is acting head – while muttering about how NASA should be folded into the Department of Transport. And he has thrown contracts open again meaning that there is no clear set path to launch a Moon flight but competing corporations who probably have their own ideas how things should be done. But no doubt that Trump will stick to his demand that there be an American on the Moon before the end of his term. It’s a good thing that JFK never said that but only that it be before the end of the decade.
“‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache”
What does “productivity” even mean when applied to a parasitic rent-seeking sector?
time change sucks if yer already insomniac and yer vertebrae wake you at 230am.
anyhoo..this made the dog and catpile jump up off of me and flee:
https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/1984812876398485824
‘This one is more accurate…😂’
https://xcancel.com/FPSPredatorsHA/status/1984849553355628689#m
In a nutshell…, lol.
I’m pretty thankful for the dog and catpile these nights. The fur-ball foursome got btus to spare.
Scientists just discovered something that runners and cyclists knew all along. Even amateurs know that measuring pulse after waking up is how one can gauge change over time, and that it gets lower as you get in shape.
LOL, Trump science.
Believe it or not, that was the first guy on the Moon’s thoughts, too.
Neil Armstrong
That’s why he took one small step in stead of one giant leap.
Why Do Spiders Decorate Their Webs? A New Piece of the Puzzle Nautilus
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I find black widow webs to be the most fascinating, almost looks as if the 8 legged one was on an acid trip during construction of.
So intricate and chaotic-but with a purpose.
I work in this area and this is my experience. Large companies (and some not so large) are extremely paranoid about allowing the AI companies to use their vital information for training. The major AI players all sell private instances where users are assured that no one outside of their company can use their data for training or analyze the custom models. They put language in contracts and audits are conducted by 3rd parties to verify these claims. Its above my pay grade to determine what they are really doing behind the scenes, but given the way the contracts are written it would be a major scandal if they ever got caught cheating.
A big worry to many is the user sending private information to the models running in public instances which do not have these guarantees. My employer blocks these sites, and we’re all told to use the private version.
A second worry that is coming on strong is the use of Chinese models like DeepSeek and Qwen (even privately maintained versions using open source) . More companies are adopting policies where these are forbidden because, I assume, the Chinese cannot be trusted. One company described it as “geopolitical models are forbidden”.
Re: Scientists just shattered a major exercise myth
This is not new. back in the 70’s a friend gave me the “using up extra heartbeats” thing and I pointed out that:
3 mile run at 160 beats per min 160*20 = 3200 beats
warm up cool down and other activity 120 beats per min 120*40 = 4800 beats
resting pulse 50 for the rest of the day 23*60*50 = 69000 beats
total 3200 + 4800 +69000 = 77000 beats per day
him resting pulse 72*24*60 = 103689 beats per day
(this assumes that during every day activity, his pulse is the same amount above resting pulse as mine)
he started taking the stairs
yeah this is some seriously auld news.
It’s good to get it out there anyway as lots of the kids these days are all weights and no cardio.
‘Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
Students in China are encouraged to rest and nap during school.’
If those kids are doing a 12 hour day, then this is a vital necessity. I really like the way those desks converted into beds and they could teach the airlines a few tricks. You can see that there are multiple models here in use. And after those kids have their nap, they are ready to absorb more lessons. Of course if you read the replies to this tweet, you will find many sour grapes-
https://xcancel.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1983685284827918711
I particularly liked the cabinets that had a whole bed hidden inside!! I could see a big market and lot of people making use of them. Homeless facilities, detention centers, airbnbs, Americans just trying to survive they’re inequality…
Also, how is the United States education system going to compete with China? 12 hours of instruction a day! (Minus naps)
I think car makers might be wise to incorporate some of the design implemented in the Chinese school desks to enable cars to become mobile homes … of a sort. Even dead cars could provide a home for the growing hordes of homeless.
I have mixed feelings about 12 hours per day of instruction for school children. I learned the most from my own studies after I came home from school and from the time I spent at the public library and in my room attempting to write the most convincing essay I could for a homework assignment. Once I reached an age of double digits, I estimate that many, though not all days, I may have spent more than 12 hours per day studying when I add my study at home with the time spent in the classroom. I also greatly value the time I spent learning to play a musical instrument, or wandering in nature and in museums or attending the Summer Shakespeare plays and orchestral concerts my parents brought me and my siblings to. I believe schools and parents should foster a love for learning, endless curiosity, imagination, and questioning the ‘right answer’ in a way I did not see or sense in the schooling of my own children. As u.s. school are constituted, a 12 hour school day would bring the death of learning and those attributes I value.
FYI that the Sonar 21 link seems to have some information it shouldn’t in the link URL. It came from a subscriber and needs to be cleaned up after the “?”.
AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs – Futurism
There should be a case study about that headline as being indicative of a larger problem.
The real headline, more descriptive of the contents of the article and the reality (and also very catchy) is buried at the last paragraph:
“AI is a flashy scapegoat for mounting white collar layoffs.”
I drove by a ‘natural’ park in an arroyo yesterday, with pretty steep terrain, and a driverless mower on a two-track hydrostatic system was being driven by a parks worker with a R/C joystick gizmo, a dozen or so parks workers in sweatshirt uniforms watching. I circled back, got some pics, talked with El Jefe for a couple minutes. Asked him how soon he would plot waypoints via GPS, and have a computer driving it from an office with the lights off, the mower automatically re-docking to recharge batteries, and how many fewer staff he would have?
He opined there was always weed-whacking to be done, doubted any man-power cuts.
I was not in accord, but hey. Also asked him why they were mowing native bunch-grasses— wasn’t the point to be maintenance free and natural?
I also suggested he get some bumper stickers printed up: “Support Universal Basic Income”.
He was skeptical that Elroy, Jeff, Bill, Sergei would be delighted to start paying taxes to keep humans fed, clothed, warm, dry, and educated, with access to health care and clean potable water.
Oh well.
Who’s going to the park that the time and money will still be spent maintaining?
a parks worker, or a forward deployed engineer?
And if “natural”or “wildlife” was ever really the goal for the area, all machines would need to be removed as well.
“Desperate Special Forces Bid to Save Pokrovsk Fails as AFU Faces Unprecedented Collapse on Every Front”
I have no idea what good the Ukrainians thought that 11 special forces soldiers would do dropped near Pokrovsk. They were quickly wiped out so the whole thing was just a suicide mission. Seems that DC is going to have to get ready for several Ukrainian fortified cities to fall, one after another. I’m sure that Trump will demand an immediate ceasefire and to freeze this war on the contact line and if Russia does not agree, he will do something. But I bet that there will be an element of panic in the air when this happens, not only in DC but also in Brussels.
A F U Hmmmm. Irony or paradox?
A F U. Irony or Paradox?
The fog of war keeps getting thicker. Who knows what their goal was? Extraction? Protecting key assets? A coked out plan to have commandos raid behind enemy lines and save the day? A drowning person will grab on to anything they can in their desperation. I have no idea how the peace will eventually be shaped but the dimensions of the coming AFU collapse are becoming increasingly clear despite the fog. The AFU will be completely destroyed and any patriotic fighters left standing will join terror groups to make strikes throughout the world.
re: Tomahawks – Russia – US
Mark Sleboda with Nima
recommended:
Who Cares if Trump Sends Tomahawks to Ukraine?
83 min.
https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/who-cares-if-trump-sends-tomahawks
Does it matter if US were to send Tomahawks?
Nope.
It´s mainly political.
The real danger of course being how would the Russians react.
Although, and I tend to agree, they would act only against targets on Ukrainian territory.
Why risk more if the military fallout of Tomahawks would be really limited.
Of course if the US wants to start WWIII. They can do that.
But the fact that someone at Pentagon – allegedly – greenl-lit it now – doesn´t mean more than just that.
Factions vs. factions. Provocation for sake of it due to lack of means and strategy.
Russians are well aware of this.
Fortunately for us.
Lagos, Lagos, Lagos to war, Lagos
Lagos, Lagos, off we go to Lagos, Lagos
Lagos, Lagos, Lagos, Lagos
We’ll save evangs from a scare, we’ll save them there
If we don’t save them there, how will Christianity fare
Lagos, Lagos, Lagos, Lagos Lagos
Lagos, Lagos, Lagos, Lagos
The Bridge on the River Kwai – Colonel Bogey March (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k4NEAIk3PU&list=RD4k4NEAIk3PU
AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs – Futurism
(“AI is a flashy scapegoat for mounting white collar layoffs.” As summed up in the actual article.)
I have a crazy notion and, if needed, talk me down.
If they can get back to ridicuously easy money policy, they are going to credit “AI” with “productivity gains”.
The U.S. joint staff aka pentagon said there are enough tomahawks to send some to Zelenski.
Russian staff gets CNN feeds too!
What was not said: Japan wants 400 for their missile destroyers, there not being much carrier in missile defense.
Also, how to hit anything if U.S. does not provide top secret special access targeting and navigation aids.
Those spunky Kievan contracts can get all the engineering specs to do what U.S. wants with tomahawks.
Maybe shoot them off MiG 27’s.
Are they karting in a ship to launch them from?
Stock market bubble predictions are becoming, or it’s just my view, seemingly prevalent. As in surely this period of going gonzo for AI ends abruptly, and how everything Nvidia has touched becomes more valued than it was a few mere months or years previously. A golden age is upon the investing public or is it instead, to channel a horror film classic spin by Sir Anthony as Dr. Hannibal Lecter…” fools gold ” ? The article above on frothy indicators doesn’t conclude with a definite ” yes it is …”, but categorically it is suggesting the modeled PE history being utilized does say so.
Eh, so tonight “we’re gonna party like it’s late 1999….Two thousand zero zero oops out of time…”. Hey if FOMO or HODL work in cryptocurrency why not the stock markets?
Why Africa has become a hotspot for war -Al Jazeera
Which reminds me of the latest “keep people scrambling foreign policy” effort:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-christians-face-existential-threat-in-nigeria/
“Trump threatens to cut off aid to Nigeria, orders Pentagon to “prepare for possible action” over persecution of Christians”
And before people jump in with “the military won’t have the ability to do this or that”, it should be obvious by now that winning some conventional miltary conflict is not the goal.
A shout out to the 12 step groups (Because it is Sunday) who are, to me, the most interesting spiritual phenomenon of the 20th Century.
I doubt that there is an adult American who has not lost someone they cared about to addiction, I certainly have.
I have also been fortunate enough to have several people I had written off become clean and sober, people who now contribute significantly to their communities.
I have read the “Big Book” and although it is better written than the book of mormon or the scientology texts, it is worthy of the Bulwer Lytton award…
Happily the program is summarized in two pages, one longer than the summary of “The lazy man’s guide to Enlightenment’.