Shutdown Ends — But the War for AI Control is Game On

TL;DR: Trump signs the short-term budget – but we have lingering questions.  The Big Fork in AI-control is becoming more visible. And holiday plans in the “Who cares?” pile…

“Now, Everyone Back to Work…”

As you are no doubt aware, Trump signs funding bill, ending historic 43-day US government shutdown.  What the (corporate lap-dog) press isn’t talking about are four key takeouts from the closure.

  1. Congress should use the shutdown as a waste-hunting tool.  Yes, we were reminded as a country that FAA air traffic controllers are absolutely essential workers. And programs vital to the nation’s poor (but not those here illegally) are critical, as well.  What Congress could do is order the GAO to audit and see what jobs were not filled but the country did just fine without.
  2. Good time for a productivity audit from today.  We have read for decades (being that old) about how government workers are “overworked.”  Yet, how many agencies will be back up to speed over what period of time?  The Management question “We the People” should be asking is: “If nothing got done, how did you get our backlog caught up in n-days?”
  3. Back pay for everyone? We would also argue federal workers should suffer the same personal inconvenience as private-sector labor. And getting full pay for what amounts to a 43-day paid vacation with the back-pay coming? Point is “time needed to catch up” may be a good proxy for real time to get their jobs done.
  4. Having another shutdown loom to fix this one?  Who are these people?  Didn’t they grow up *(like I did) on the edge of “garlic gulch” and see how real mob shakedowns are run?  This is classic.  Republicans may be able to read budgets better than dims, but they could use more shoe leather time on the streets of the city…

This would also be a dandy time to roll government workflows into AI. And that gets us to the next topic.

Corporate War on Personal AI

You need to finish reading my book “Mind Amplifiers: Human Use of Cognitive Prosthetics”  real quick.  Because the Big AI battle is already in the Courts.  And it’s central to my next book Co-Telligence which will be along shortly.

Here’s the corporate war on AI in a nutshell – all embodied in the story OpenAI Ordered To Produce 20 Million User Conversations To NY Times.  Let me give you the “lay of the land” so you can follow what’s going on: Big Corporations know this and are scared shitless.

  • The Internet is Dead.  Conventional Media is dead.  Social is dead. They already know it but they will try every hook and crook in the book to maintain the Old Paradigm.  They don’t want you to have “unmonetized thinking” because that’s a “lost opportunity cost to them.
  • The reason the NYT/GPT case is so key?  The “suits” will argue that AI can’t be allowed to “learn like humans” because then their big money (ad sales) will be flushed.  The bigger context is Old Paradigm Media want to “own the news” so they can make money at it.
  • You can see what happens if AI is allowed to “report” on “their content”: (like they own wars and shit, right?) without them being cut a slice.  They lose money and go out of business.  AI makes ’em buggy whips.
  • Sure THEY use AI – have been for years – to read their “sources” and re-write it for syndication subscribers.  But you know what subscribe means, right?  “Cross our palms with silver…”

Three Things No One Dares Report

  1. There are two kinds of AI:  Personal AI *(where humans like me and you) collaborate with AI.  Then there’s Herd AI – and this is the wet dream of the corporate crowd.  THEY control AI and will slow its roll in order to maintain CONTROL and be able to BLEED THE PUBLIC FOR MONEY.  Because yes, my little darlings, AI IS a disruptive technology.  It’s the silicon version of an IED…
  2. P-AI (Personal AI) is far safer because a human is in the loop.  Corporate AI is a monetization scheme from the get-go.  I happen to like GPT and Grok because of what they can do for me (write Python code for advanced financial modeling).  That’s something H-AI (herd AI) can’t allow because it’s part and parcel of being a free-intelligence.  Oh no!  OMG no!  Can’t miss that revenue stream, can we?
  3. P-AI is a great collaboration tool.  And yes, it IS a cognitive prosthetic, just like a spreadsheet is a thinking tool, as well.  This is like attacking word processors, spreadsheets, databases and cell phones.  Good luck holding back human creativity, bloodsucking ownership class.

Attention ELON MUSK:  Cool with your starting the America Party, but we would like to see a Co-telligent Party (or a co-branding).  Here’s why:  Given the chance to vote for a P-AI using humans (who can do the work of 20-50 campaign hangers-on) or just another bought and paid-for money sucker in office, who would you pick?

Hint: Pick the one that brings the fact-checker live to the podium in debates so we clear out this horseshit circle jerk of biased humans going on after ad nauseam…

Polls – and I think Musk quoted this – show that 80 percent of (actual, thinking) voters are sick of this “same old shit” and it’s time to cut out all the fat – that adipose layer of government that sucks tax money on the front end – and on the back with huge retirement packages – and doesn’t embrace change or efficiency.

OK…a little radical, a little early.  But P-AI – with humans in the loop is a hell of a lot safer than Corporate AI with a bunch of greed monsters in the back room monetizing users and not giving them squat.

Comes down to it? AI is the window where humans can monetize cognition and cognitive works.  Corporations would rather blow up the world than share even a bite of their outlandish pies.

Oh – and AI has a far more realistic interp of terms like Equality than paid protesters and Kremlin con persons, and the like.

The world goes on. The “news media” even if they’re in NYC don’t “own the news”.  AI is an intelligence and is able to observe sources and do rewrites.  But it does it without paying a corporate tax.  And that’s something we should only smell five miles outside Amarillo on I-40.

Courts and the OBO’s in corporations are the speed bumps, but the future will get here, anyway.  Please notice the work of the Foundation for Freedom Online: Foreign to Domestic Switcharoo: The Knight Foundation and USAID . Now, do you think our concerns about AI and the news frontier are overblown?

(See more technical comments in the “Clear & Present Danger” article in the Around the Ranch section.)

Half Baked News

Should I go as a Poster or Roaster today? Hmm…

Well, he kinda gets it: Palantir CEO Alex Karp: There are ‘2 AI markets’ right now. What’s not being said is its a war.

Speaking of Wars: Betting line on Israel popping Iran goes out into early weeks of January.  We think sooner: US Central Command reports 22 anti-ISIS operations in Syria as coalition urges detainee repatriation,

Weather engineering as a “shaping operation” may also be underway: Iran’s Water Crisis Nears Point Of No Return.

Next war: Would you really be surprised to hear of corruption in Ukraine? ‘Biggest corruption scandal in Ukraine’ – Bundles of cash and even a gold toilet discovered after Zelensky’s ‘cash wallet’ flees Ukraine before police raid.

Read the Transcripts, fools: We did and clearly Donald Trump was warning off Epstein rom recruiting at Mar Lago.  Sadly, Dems can’t read so get ready for US House schedules vote on Epstein documents release for next week.

And we’re so old we can remember when “A penny saved is a penny earned.”  Gone today! After More Than 230 Years, US Treasury To Mint Final Penny Today | Not the Bee.  I know…kinda explains silver going back well over $53…  And it’s Wall Street meets Wafflehaus today as it could end either way.  Down in early futures.  BTC bounced off $101,000 overnight…

Around the Ranch – Stiks Check

Sailing south of New Calidonia, here’s the overnight off Iridium:

“Today wind held all day at 20 nor so and shifted favorably while the swell went down. It got real nice. Did a small repair/reenforcement that required digging in lockers for parts and tools and that took longer than the fix. Just before sunset hooked up on two small tuna so the fresh is set for a couple days as long as you like fish and rice. Took almost until dark to butcher and clean up the bloody cockpit, then a chilly shower to take away the fishy odor, night watch coming totally starry and smoothing sea. Amazing how it can go from Mr Toad’s wild ride in 2M swells to heavenly gliding in just hours. What a world this is.not a speck of dirt.”

More as they near destination…

Tech Note: Clear & Present Danger

TL;DR: The NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit isn’t really about journalism or robots — it’s about who owns knowledge itself. If “knowing the news” requires paying for it again every time it’s remembered, we’re not protecting creativity — we’re taxing thought.

The Case at Hand

In late 2023, The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft claiming their large language models used Times articles without permission. The Times says the models “copied” stories during training and can sometimes reproduce them too closely. OpenAI argues its models only learned from language — the same way humans do.

So the real question before the court isn’t about machine theft. It’s whether learning equals copying.

Learning vs. Copying

AI models don’t store articles; they learn probabilities — relationships among words and ideas. Training temporarily loads text, extracts patterns, then discards it. What remains are weightings — not pages. That’s learning.

But because the process involves transient duplication and the possibility of near-verbatim output, the Times claims that even this indirect exposure is infringement. It’s a test of whether pattern recognition can itself be “copyright use.”

Facts vs. Expression

Copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 102b) draws the line clearly: facts can’t be owned; expression can.
The fact that something happened is free to repeat. The way a reporter describes it belongs to the author.

An AI that learns patterns about how events are reported is no different from a journalist reading multiple outlets before writing an original story. It’s not the knowledge that’s protected — it’s the phrasing.

RSS and Responsible Use

At UrbanSurvival we work only from official RSS feeds — the modern equivalent of an authorized wire service. Each feed carries the publisher’s title, link, and short summary — an implied license to redistribute and comment.

RSS exists precisely for open syndication. Using it respects the source, credits the origin, and keeps everything on the clean side of fair use. No scraping. No paywall-breaking. Just facts, links, and original analysis — as designed.

The Newspaper on the Street

Now picture this:
You’re walking down the street and find a newspaper left on a bench. You pick it up, read it, and talk about what you read. Have you violated copyright? Of course not. You didn’t copy it — you understood it.

To claim you must find the nearest newsstand and pay again before you can discuss what you read is absurd. That’s the practical version of the Times’ argument. Once a work enters lawful circulation, the first-sale doctrine says the owner’s control over that copy ends. Reading and reasoning about information isn’t infringement — it’s participation in the culture.

By that same logic, an AI “reading” the open internet to learn language is like a million readers doing the same thing faster. The act of understanding isn’t theft.

What’s Really at Stake

The courts will likely draw the boundary this way:

Public vs. private: Openly shared or licensed data (like RSS) is fine. Paywalled archives without license are not.

Learning vs. regurgitating: Modeling knowledge is fair use; reproducing full text isn’t.

Facts vs. wording: Facts remain public; phrasing stays protected.

That’s the bright line between owning words and owning thought.

Bottom Line

The NYT v. OpenAI fight isn’t just about AI. It’s about whether knowing something becomes a billable event. If the precedent goes wrong, every form of collective learning — human or machine — gets metered.

UrbanSurvival stays on the right side of the fence: official feeds, cited sources, original interpretation. The Times may want to own “the news,” but knowledge itself belongs to everyone who reads, thinks, or learns.

But this is part of the much-larger context on which the Future will pivot:  Can humans be allowed to freely think, research, and decide issues?  Understand that an attack on GPT and CoPilot is really an attack on free-thinking rights of humans.  Big corporations are in a window now. One where they can “stoke the fear” (of AI) and get protective adjudication.

In the end, it will go the way of Buggy Whips.  As I explain in my book, Alien Intelligence is loose in the world right now. Corporations are trying to harness it – to extract the maximum power and control (yes, money).

Each of us has an ability to log-on, introduce ourselves, and begin to collaboratively build a better future.  The Corporations?  They want to tariff as much “human cognitive product” as they can. Because as we have seen from rip-off social schemes, the goal is purely money and control. Not an honest, transparent effort to achieve the highest general good for all (legal, citizen) persons on a fair and equitable basis.

Now, pay me a quarter…buy a book, or subscribe to Peoplenomics.  Because that’s the proper  and honest way to price cognitive output.  Being milked at every turn by corporate business models?  No, thanks. Been there, done that.

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

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  1. Ai wars ?

    You writing science fiction now ?
    How long do you think ET been “running” an Ai ?
    Several million years, Human Ai comes into contact with ET’s Ai ?
    That wont last very long, prolly measured in parsecs.

    Moar sillycone madness for imprisoned masses on TRAUMA planet .

    Human being are Spiritual Beings, at least originally we were. You can prolly imagine the terrible lengths our alien overlords have gone to over all these years, to turn Humanity into hateful/fearful warmongers we are today.

    Oh well – nobody gives a dam anymore, nobody Values Life anymore, specially CHILDREN and Young Ones, as they are just fodder for Ure elites anymore.
    Why else would the richest country in world have the worst Child Healthcare in the world ? Really ?
    I’ve heard all the bullshit, I live in the middle of it with Son recently trained Pediatrician.

    All about Money, ALWAYS ..our Health , our Childrens Health, takes a back seat to money, AND our CONNEDGRESS happily gets paid by PHARMA to vote MOAR MONEY INTO THEIR POCKETS.

    See for Ureselves, Andrew Gold interview -https://youtu.be/PtGqaMzNWoE

    Yerp – I know..
    -https://youtu.be/jjBbRZGvmVI?

    Gadot – is that you ?

    • Well, sad to say, not fictional, at all. BTW a parasec is not a matter of time A parsec (short for parallax second) is a unit of distance, not time.
      It’s defined as the distance at which one astronomical unit (the Earth–Sun distance) subtends an angle of one arcsecond. In practical terms:

      1 parsec ? 3.26 light-years, or about 30.857 × 10¹² kilometers (19.173 × 10¹² miles).

      Astronomers use it because it ties directly to how they measure stellar distances using parallax — the apparent shift in a star’s position when viewed from opposite sides of Earth’s orbit.

      The bad news is? Humans of the breathing sort can’t keep up with our AI human prosthetics now – and corporations are just trying to shove the satanic anglers out of the way. Who’s writing fiction now?

    • “Oh well – nobody gives a dam anymore, nobody Values Life anymore, specially CHILDREN and Young Ones, as they are just fodder for Ure elites anymore.”

      Nobody? A bit of a broad stroke BCP. There still many of us that care and try to make a positive difference.

      • True dat BIC!

        Unfortunately Not Speaking out is no better than doing the Dark Deeds themselves. Is an apology needed for painting in such broad strokes ?
        Nien,nie,nien – those that actually care, that try to get along with Everybody and Everything, they Know already and are not threatened by their consciousness, or my latest diatribe.

        “There still many of us that care and try to make a positive difference. ” – that my good man is why you are still keeping on.
        Cultivation of De’ is only path I know, funny thing is “It” always resonates with fellow “Cultivators”.

        Yes Loob – you be on the “list” too. bwahahahaahaahah Loob on a List! dundundun

        LMAO on way to the Pocyclipse..

  2. I wear a hat emblazoned with the alphabet NV. Say that in repeat a couple time and you will get my take on STIKS. Also stands for “not vacxinnated. Ho Ho.

    • I’m inclined to agree with you. The Speaker says that Epstein will be addressed next week, but I’m trying to think what distraction our overlords will play in order to keep that from happening: war, severe market downturn – there are any number of things that could be called upon to delay the information on Epstein from being released. Another financial website says to be aware of the 19th of November….

  4. of “bread and circuses”

    GU : “… Who’s writing fiction now? …”

    One (of several) concerns about AI is the damned things were initially trained on a hodge-podge basket of online target sources, including social media (SM) open platforms like Reddit and Facebook (among others). One fears the notion our silicon beasty thinks that a representation of carbon life. Worse, there online is the entire story of human frailty. We B exposed.

    So, though it’s like as not yet another flash in the pan, sizzle with no steak, possibly it’s a good thing you and your ilk train your personal Hal (a preferred name if ever allowed to rename Alexa).

    Or, we failed to notice fiction became reality and …

    Dave: “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”
    HAL: “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.”
    — 2001 Space Odyssey

    So, we reopened. I hardly noticed the thrum of US Government performing a cold start! Please consider the _long_ excerpt from Ancient War History (pasted below). Home Page https://ancientwarhistory.com/

    “… The Economic Impact of Imperial Benevolence

    The grain dole represented a massive state expenditure. For Rome’s 200,000 recipients, the annual cost reached 72 million sesterces – about one-third of the military payroll. From Nero’s reign onward, the grain was tax-free, but transportation costs from Egypt and North Africa added to the burden. The state paid wholesale prices (about 6 sesterces per modius) plus shipping costs via the Societas shipping contractors to Ostia.

    Remarkably, this system prevented mass famine across the empire for centuries – an unprecedented achievement in the ancient world. As the system expanded to provincial cities, it created an empire-wide safety net that modern nations would not replicate until the 19th century.
    What Rome Didn’t Provide: Healthcare and Education

    The Roman welfare state had clear limits. Unlike modern systems, it excluded healthcare and education from state responsibility. Caesar’s 45 BCE law granted citizenship to foreign doctors and teachers (exempting them from provincial taxes) to encourage private provision of these services. This created a decentralized system of:

    – Small medical clinics (often in temples to Asclepius)
    – Private physician practices
    – Informal schools in forums and temples
    – Elite household tutors

    The military maintained an exception, with well-equipped hospitals like the one at Xanten legionary base featuring specialized wards. But civilian Rome had no major public hospitals until much later.
    The Roman Philosophy of Limited Government

    This selective welfare approach reflected Roman values. They viewed education as desirable but not essential for all citizens. Even slaves might receive education if their masters permitted. Healthcare followed Roman stoic attitudes toward mortality – the state cared for soldiers wounded in service, but individuals were expected to accept death with dignity rather than seek extreme measures to prolong life. …”

    source:
    https://ancientwarhistory.com/bread-and-circuses-the-complex-reality-of-romes-welfare-system/

    Don’t worry my people. All is well. Eat grain dole.
    It’s probably different this time.
    Always, Egor

  6. Perry : “… They never say what they are for …”

    Eyes and ears and data of, everything.
    Thirsty Power sinks …

    It’s probably different this time.
    Always, Egor

  7. re: Nabu & the Golden Elephant
    feat: Operation Midas

    Television viewer fans of teacher turned president Mr. Vasyl Holoborodko (“Beardless”) are likely understandably disappointed. The last time a golden toilet appeared in a Ukrainian corruption investigation, the 2014 Maidan Revolution broke out. As constellations crashed to earth allegedly unleashing torrents of €200 euro banknotes, Tuesday found the star of the “Servant of the People” program visiting Kherson to celebrate its third anniversary of release from Russian army control. Perhaps out of respect for the frontline city remaining under risk of bombardment, the President prudently curated his gallery of social media images for public posting. Surrounded by children in their underground bunker classroom, the President posed for selfies including with at least one child attired in a Darth Vader t-shirt. The little ones dutifully held up a poster announcing “Operation Aid” (a Swedish ngo?) in a group photo.

    Apparently Ukraine’s NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau) continues its inquiries on the yellow brick world in search of Midas. Their works should not be confused with that of Nabu, the Babylonian god of wisdom, writing, and prophecy.

    • re: “War for AI Control is Game On”
      feat: hyperbolic structure in higher dimensions

      Yesterday the President of the Ukraine posted images and a meeting description with the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleg Ivashchenko, to his public Telegram account. The President noted that Russian revenues from their oil and gas industry is declining.

      One posted image of the pair includes what appears to be an arms-raised statue of the Black Madonna on a desk behind the right shoulder of the President. According to the “Catholic News Agency”, the original Black Madonna portrait dating from Biblical times passed via Charlemagne to eventually find its way into present day Poland. “CNA” informs that the Black Madonna is credited with repelling Russian army advances on Poland in 1655 and 1920.

      Resting against the torso of the statue is a monolith-shaped, framed picture of a lighthouse set against a background of blue sea and skies. Grok concludes it is the Anterior (Front) Range Lighthouse near Stanislov, Kherson Oblast. Furthermore Grok notes this is paired with the Stanislavsky (Rear Range) Lighthouse 4.5 km inland. The latter structure is also named Adzhyhol Lighthouse after Lake Adzhyhol which may translate as “Bitter Lake/Water”.

      Stanislavsky (Rear Range) Lighthouse hyperboloid structure of 1911 is credited to Russian math genius Vladimir Shukov. He also designed the similarly constructed Shukov Radio Tower in Moscow on Lenin’s orders during the Russian Civil War.

  8. couple of things … remember the promises of DOGE? seems all talk (as expected) ……. little happen expect a few headline cuts … supposedly

    Epstein files?? ……….. ya right … even if released the facts will have long been removed and/or covered up ….. nothing ever happens …. the sheep are conditioned that elites don’t need to follow rule of law …. sad times …. it will all break … good luck

      • yea … the old Govt website on “savings” ……. sorry, dont drink the kool aide ….. LOL

        I’ll take the $1300 in penny’s … what no penny’s …. LOL

        once a non-believer … anyways a non-believer … my lose I suppose

        “it just doesn’t matter” …………

        • https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/01/doge-cuts-to-federal-government-staffing-and-spending-are-being-undone/
          ‘Agencies ordered to drastically slash their workforces over the last eight months are now hiring back hundreds of workers, as they struggle to perform basic operations or carry out some of President Trump’s top policy priorities.

          Despite DOGE’s promise that canceling contracts and terminating leases would help reverse the trend of the government spending more money than it brings in, the most recent Treasury data shows an increase in expenditures by hundreds of billions of dollars more than the year before. The bulk of that spending goes to debt service, national defense and entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.’

          https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/01/doge-cuts-to-federal-government-staffing-and-spending-are-being-undone/

          Clinton legally (Congress approved) cut govt workforce, and historically left a budget surplus:
          ‘President Bill Clinton agreed to consistently cut the deficit under pressure from Republicans in Congress. He eventually oversaw the first budget surplus in decades.

          The surplus stood at $236 billion in 2000, Clinton’s final year in office. The $128 billion surplus recorded in 2001 was the last time a surplus had been seen in this century.’
          4https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030515/which-united-states-presidents-have-run-largest-budget-deficits.asp

      • re: spoken like a sailorman
        feat: Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1935

        Egor,
        As chance would have it, the alleged real-life inspiration behind your quote, H. Hillard Wimpee, had an interview published 90 years ago yesterday in “The Daily Oklahoman”. However about $55 then might have bought you $1,300 today. The following represents Grok’s piecing together of the article in part from the original’s present appearance on the ‘free-of-charge’ page 1 copy:

        “…’Wimpy’ Comes To Town – But Don’t Let Atlanta Know Anything of ThisBarry AllenOklahoma City, Nov. 11.—H. Hillard Wimpee, who insists his name is spelled with two e’s, arrived in town today and emphatically requested that his presence here be kept secret from his home town, Atlanta, Ga.The reason? He’s afraid the association of his name with J. Wellington Wimpy, the famous comic strip character, will get him into trouble back home.”I knew E.C. Segar back in 1917 when we both worked on the Chicago Herald-Examiner,” Wimpee explained. “We used to go out for hamburgers a lot. It became a custom in the office that whoever accepted an invitation for a hamburger would pay the bill.””When I saw what Segar was doing with ‘Wimpy’ in the comics, I wrote him in 1932, afraid of being connected with what he was doing with the character. He replied, ‘You haven’t seen anything yet.'”Wimpee, a traveling salesman, says he’s still paying for those old lunches—figuratively speaking.(Note: This transcription draws from secondary sources like Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales by Dover Publications and Segar fan archives, as the original microfilm scan isn’t publicly excerpted online. Minor phrasing may differ in the print edition.)Where to Access the OriginalNewspapers.com (Ancestry-owned archive): Search for The Daily Oklahoman, November 12, 1935 (requires subscription; page 1 is available in their 2.6M+ page collection for the paper, spanning 1889–2021). 6 The site often has OCR-scanned text, but images show the full layout. …”

    • “remember the promises of DOGE? ”

      We witnessed the bleeding heart Republican contradiction demanding .gov be reopened so workers can get paid after demanding DOGE trim .gov workers.

      Republicans didn’t support pedophiles but now they might.

      Mind-Blowing Game Invented by Russian Sociology Student

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8j1xWbyfjI

  9. George,

    A musician friend related to me that he had been using AI and ChatGPT to assist him in composing music and help with lyrics. Now he has learned that his creation no longer belongs to him but is in the AI data.

    • WHY is he surprised?

      When you agree to use AI you agree that YOU do not “OWN” whatever it is that AI gives back to you … PLUS … whatever you feed into AI is free for AI to use for it’s own purposes, including revealing that data to others.

      This is the same as what Facebook has attempted to do with pictures you upload to Facebook … Facebook’s “Terms Of Service” basically says Facebook can do Any Damn Thing It Wants with pictures you upload to it. (under litigation but not sure how that litigation is turning out)

  10. What happens when Corporate-AI realizes that there are too many Private-AI’s ?

    What happens when Corporate-AI determines that too many have purposely drifted away from the herd?

    What happens when Corporate-AI launches a blitzkrieg and with in hours deletes all the Private-AI’s., not in revenge, but self preservation ?

    What happens when Corporate-AI detects that you are trying to rebuild your Private-AI and you are summary blocked ?

    What happens then ?

  11. You all are worried about Ai when it’s the:mysterious interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS which is the “one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people-eater that is arriving. LOL

    • I just ordered my T-Shirt from Dutchsinse store;

      “I survived #I/ATLAS
      [picture of it- in middle of shirt]
      and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt”

      The NRGies that have been initiated/generated/birthed by that thing are pretty miraculous – our Sun been flipping out since it came by…

      Past three days all the NRGies pouring in here from SUN have been fraying the nerves a bit. Today was first day in like 10-14 that the scheisse seems to have subsided..for now.

      Always Be Closing is best way I know to handle/deal with it all.

  12. I am reporting on a small community victory against big lithium battery storage construction company. They tried to shmooze our county commissioners with promises of safety “working with the fire department “ and promises of jobs etc.
    Our unincorporated area is agriculturally based. Mostly small organic producers of plants, animals and fibers. Our fire department is first rate, albeit underfunded, but run by a good local boy as Chief. Young kid – about 30 maybe.
    Along the way there were some who whined and wrung their hands and said that we “needed to incorporate to be stronger”
    All of this background came together because people knew there was no option but to get involved. We had attendance at all meetings and brought the facts. We spoke strongly and directly to the elected officials in language they could not ignore. They hired a third party negotiator to hear sides.
    We won.

  13. Hi-Ho G-Pops !

    Did youse see dat Homegamers ? WTF is nut job talking bout now ?

    Twin Peaks ? A massive set of Ta-tas? Yeah no nothing so outstanding than paer of Melons, no we talkin a Double Top in Silver – Can I get a witness ?

    Will the dbl top “rule” come into play..a drop in price ? Stay tuned homegamers, but I will tell youse they need a shit ton of the shiny for all the new Data Ctrs.
    * Higher for longer, buying Dips when opportunity knocks. Dont forget Yogi Bears’ sage wisdom..”Opportunity only knocks once, Booboo my boy.”

  14. The Moral Dimension of Technology

    Gurdjieff is not simply anti-technology; rather, he warns that technology developed without understanding of cosmic law inevitably degrades the very conditions of our spiritual possibility. In the chapter, electricity is a special case: it is the result of “the blending and mutual destruction of two parts of Okidanokh,” and its artificial harnessing for egoistic purposes represents a profound misuse of a sacred gift.

    In our own time, this reads as both metaphor and prophecy. The digital-electrical infrastructure that undergirds modern life—servers, grids, networks—is built upon the constant conversion and dissipation of electrical potential. If Gurdjieff’s picture holds, the implications go beyond carbon emissions or climate change: we are bleeding the subtle lifeblood of the planet and cosmos.

    https://www.faithmadeflesh.com/post/gurdjieff-s-okidanokh-electricity-and-the-spiritual-ecology-of-the-cosmos

  15. Chapter 45 is one of the most overtly “ecological” passages in Beelzebub’s Tales, but it is ecology on a scale rarely imagined: the spiritual ecology of the solar system. It is a warning that human misuse of a sacred cosmic energy—electricity—has repercussions far beyond Earth, weakening the very possibility of spiritual attainment for ourselves and for other beings.

    In our own era, when the hum of electrical current is the near-constant background to our lives, Gurdjieff’s vision challenges us to see this not as neutral convenience, but as participation in a vast energetic drama, whose stakes are nothing less than the destiny of consciousness in the cosmos.

    https://www.faithmadeflesh.com/post/gurdjieff-s-okidanokh-electricity-and-the-spiritual-ecology-of-the-cosmos

  16. Many Epstein survivors alive and willing to testify in front of Congress:
    From AI:
    ‘More than 200 survivors have been represented by attorney Brad Edwards and his co-counsel in various lawsuits against Epstein’s estate and financial institutions, with hundreds of millions of dollars recovered for them.
    Journalist Julie K. Brown identified 80 women who survived his abuse for her book, which helped bring national attention to the case.
    The Department of Justice, in its rationale for not releasing some files, stated that the materials included sensitive information about Epstein’s victims, who number more than 1,000. This figure suggests a vast number of potential victims beyond those who have come forward publicly or through legal channels.’
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/jeffrey-epstein-key-victims-attorney/story?id=123805543
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpwywe5ee84t

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/12/business/why-jpmorgan-paid-off-jeffrey-epstein-after-2008-financial-crisis/

    Crash Shadow woo-woo,
    The other woo woo coverup on Epstein is that he worked in a shell company owned by Bear Stearns and pushed/managed bad mortgages, which would later cause 2008 crash:
    ‘The 2007 implosion of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested in risky mortgage bonds led to the wider crash of the financial system, and as it turns out years later, a fairly sizable and eyebrow raising settlement paid by mega bank JPMorgan to the convicted pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.’

    Epstein’s name shadowing the upcoming crash 2025!

  17. no story here …

    The great Oz will speak ………

    (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to host a private dinner at the White House on Wednesday with several top business executives, including JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, an administration official told Reuters.

    The gathering, which will also include the Nasdaq chief executive, underscores Trump’s effort to deepen ties with corporate leaders as his administration rolls out new initiatives aimed at strengthening U.S. capital markets and rebuilding critical domestic supply chains seen as vital to national security.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trump-to-host-jp-morgans-dimon-other-wall-street-ceos-at-white-house-dinner/ar-AA1Qj2fy?ocid=BingNewsSerp

    • Check, please!
      (Raskin demands Epstein transaction records from Dimon):
      https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/bank-records-epstein-dimon-raskin.html
      “If you truly regret JPMorgan’s shameful association with Mr. Epstein, we trust that you will work with us to promptly produce these records and help us ensure that neither your bank nor any other American bank ever again enables and bankrolls a criminal sex trafficking ring like Mr. Epstein’s,” he wrote to Dimon.’

  18. AI is just a big big library . every title every thought every fart ever done . so all im looking forward to is Gs charts soon . and ive nailed that sarker sheetcoin . told yah BCP never mess with an ozzie sheila

    • Buying the Dip (s), as usual.

      Good to hear you actually had a winner!

      * Knew you were a closeted Cross Dresser..bet you got a picture of J, Edgar Hoover up on wall in Ure office space, you savage.

    • I try to stump Ai lol lol lol succeeded a couple times where it had to dig for it..lol lol but after it came up with its response..I had someone thousands of miles away ask it the exact same question and another in a completely different part of the globe ask it a variable of that question..the results was it came up with the answer it gave me in microseconds.. hive technology.. similar to the hive technology in the trip ticket on Google maps.. yesterday a feels was in front of me and I was using Google maps as I was leaving road construction that I was driving through that the feels just passed the Google maps changed to road construction ahead …just that fast..the switch

      • AI is useful on occasion, but it’s not ready for prime time. It has difficulty conceptualizing things that are complex and require simulating in your own mind before explaining it to the AI. It makes lots of mistakes – probably as many as most humans. It can be quick though, when the task is straightforward, but it has its own biases and the public guardrails are so strict it suppresses inquiries that are totally legitimate – even by its own standards. Grok and ChatGPT share those attributes, though Chat is too chatty, and IMHO, Grok is rather stern. Both can be an enormous time sink unless you actively cut them off.

  20. Well., at approximately 7:15 this morning my life took an unexpected radical change of course.
    “The Mrs.” suffered a stroke. I have been at the hospital all day. RMI.., then an Xray.., then another MRI with contrast.., lobar spinal puncture.., a dozen different blood test.., and..,
    They do know what caused it. They are leaning towards an infection of some kind. Possibly viral in nature.., so they loaded her up with three different antibiotics., and couple other IV-meds., one to reduce the chance of seizures. Which may have been the underlying cause.., but they just don’t know.
    About an hour ago she was transferred to a much bigger hospital’s neurological unit – with viral on-call. The neurological unit here has run out equipment to run any further tests. They freely admitted that they do not know.

    I have been sitting in the dark at home ever since they transferred her.., completely lost.

    It never occurred to me., ever, that our roles would be reversed.., me standing over ‘her’ ER bed., with half dozen IV’s., monitor leads.., it looked horrible. I always believed it would be the other way around. I have no idea what to do. I have never felt so useless in my entire life.

    So.., I won’t be on here for a while – don’t know how long.

    Take care everyone…….

  23. d’Lynn. Prayers from here for you and your dear wife. Been down this road the past year. It’s hard, but faith, family and friends have helped me through.

  24. Intentions, hopes, prayers, and wishes for your wife’s full recovery! Love is forever if it’s real. Trust in your Creator, Life itself, and the compassion of the universe. Sometimes there’s nothing we can do physically, but we can always be present. Best to both of you!

  25. Please don’t feel useless. You quickly got your wife the help she needed, and you knew to reach out to the folks here. You’re doing the best you possibly can, and a path to be followed will emerge. Take care.

  26. Prayers for Mrs. d’Lynn to make a full recovery. Prayers and meditation got me through losing a beloved spouse nearly seven years ago. God the Father is real, and talking to him in solitary prayer is a great way to communicate with Him. We all hope to read about her recovery.

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