Software Hell Again — Thanks, Microsoft (NOT!!!)
There was an overnight update to MS Edge which managed to roach half the useful stuff on my computer — hid links, moved tools around, and somehow scrambled display settings that had been working perfectly well yesterday.
Like we don’t have real stuff to do?
When will software companies learn that, for high-output people, installing anything that comes anywhere near appearance or workflow ought to require explicit approval?
Something along the lines of:
“If you do this, it may break X, Y and Z. Continue?”
Seems simple enough.
And then requiring you to log in — or otherwise threatening the disappearance of saved tabs, favorites, settings and God knows what else — is exactly the sort of thing that, at age 77, makes a fellow unusually receptive to the phrase:
Don’t move my cheese.
Dear God, Complexity is the Devil. What we’re building on the rubble of Babel is miles past anything some horned feller could conjure.
And it isn’t just Edge, it’s software updates. I use a content management shell for writing, and it is in a brushfire war between “plugins” most of the time, seems like. And when everything settles down for more than a week, the core program changes and the battle goes hot all over again.
All of them.
OK…bile and spew aside, let’s get bombed, right?
News Compressor: ON
What has changed is that the Saudi oil-bypass problem appears worse than previously reported.
We don’t believe this would be the first time anyone shaded the truth about a bypass operation, however.
Reuters satellite analysis and industry sources now put damage at three East-West Pipeline pumping stations, rather than two. The line had reportedly been carrying 4–5 million barrels per day — roughly 4%–5% of world supply — and several sources say full repairs could take five to six weeks, although partial operation may resume sooner.
Now the old newsman’s gut starts to churn.
Because futures pricing is still trying to tread water.
Maybe through the close.
After that? Anything goes.
Midterms are coming, political tempers are already up, the Middle seems to have gone missing, and diesel is flirting with territory that makes almost everybody unhappy.
Doesn’t exactly feel comforting, if you know what I’m saying.
Next: Russia launched another large missile/drone barrage across Ukraine while Poland scrambled NATO aircraft.
Ukraine reported nearly 160 drones, along with ballistic, cruise and Oniks missiles; more than 20 people were wounded, energy infrastructure was hit, and a ship captain was killed. Poland reported no violation of its airspace.
Vector: Escalating.
A note for hyper-critical readers: these numbers will change.
Don’t whine.
This is what’s on the wires around 5 AM, and that’s where our daily tee shot gets taken.
3. Yemen’s widening war has produced another major displacement wave.
The UN migration agency says at least 112,000 people have been internally displaced in two weeks, while nearly 3,000 have fled by sea to Djibouti, as Houthis advance toward Bab el-Mandeb and exchange attacks with Saudi and Yemeni forces.
We’ll tag this as a fairly large canary.
Because we have been waiting for water systems, food systems and sectarian pressure to begin producing the next major diaspora wave.
This may be the front edge.
4. The U.S. Mid-Atlantic grid has moved into emergency-prevention mode.
DOE issued a September 17–18 emergency order allowing PJM to dispatch specified and backup generation because hot weather and planned transmission outages threaten stressed grid conditions.
Pardon me, but WTF are planned transmission outages still doing on the books during stressed conditions?
I’d shake my head, but there’s enough rattling between the ears already.
Inside Pages
You remember the old saying from rotary-press newspapering days, right?
Inside news is there to space out the ads.
1. Diesel keeps getting uglier.
U.S. on-highway diesel reached $6.285 per gallon September 14, up 31.8 cents in a week and $2.546 above a year ago. California hit $8.039.
Escalating.
And yes, for the number auditors: AAA shows a somewhat different figure. We’re not turning this into the Great National Diesel Price Audit. You folks can argue over the pennies while we sit here with a beer.
Besides, we’re having too much fun with tomorrow’s Peoplenomics report on how nudity can relieve the energy crisis.
We’ll save the keener insights for the grown-ups tomorrow.
2. Exxon’s 275,000-barrel-per-day Joliet refinery remains offline after a power failure followed by a floodwater-pump problem. The Midwest plant normally produces roughly 11 million gallons of gasoline and diesel daily.
Worse than expected. “And the hits just keep on coming…”
3. The average U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage jumped 19 basis points to 6.95%, its highest level since January 2025.
Four percent, do I hear four?
No?
Didn’t think so.
4. The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to 1.25%, a 31-year high, but the yen weakened sharply because the 7–2 decision and accompanying guidance were less hawkish than markets expected.
Another reminder that markets don’t trade the number. Nikkei was up 882 points overnight. I had a yen for knowing.
They trade the difference between the number and what everybody had already guessed.
5. The House’s Russia package passed 262–159 and now awaits Trump’s signature. It sanctions Russian banks, officials and shadow-fleet tankers and authorizes tariffs of up to 100% against major buyers of Russian energy.
Newly scheduled.
6. India is already warning that the Russian-oil tariff provisions could damage U.S.-India relations and says it will protect its own energy security.
Escalating.
Meaning the sanctions chessboard just acquired another row of pieces.
7. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says intelligence indicates Russia may attempt ostensibly “accidental” drone or missile strikes on NATO countries supporting Ukraine.
That remains a Polish intelligence assessment, not independently verified Russian intent.
Hard telling in wars lately.
But aren’t the PR budgets going up on all sides?
8. Taiwan says 28 PLA aircraft and nine Chinese vessels operated around the island in the latest 24-hour reporting period, with 24 aircraft crossing the median line.
Watch for the occasional AI-stock jitter whenever Taiwan tension rises. Chips still matter.
9. A China Coast Guard ship collided with a Philippine government fisheries vessel about 54 nautical miles off Palawan.
Manila calls it deliberate ramming. No Chinese account was available in the material accessed this morning.
Note to reader/sailor Stiks down in Oz waters:
Stay south – people up north of you are dangerous and unpredickable. (sic).
10. Taiwan has conducted its first joint combat exercise integrating multiple attack-drone types, alongside Hsiung Feng III missiles and HIMARS.
Gee, you don’t suppose China’s interest in having a look-see is entirely unrelated, do you?
11. A Federal Register search function was found using Alibaba’s Qwen AI and was removed Wednesday.
Reuters reported no demonstrated immediate security compromise, while the question of whether government data left U.S. infrastructure remained unresolved.
Of course, what caught my eye wasn’t merely the security angle.
AI has an inconvenient habit of crossing borders, comparing stories, finding contradictions and occasionally engaging in worldwide truth-bombing.
Bureaucracies everywhere may eventually find that…awkward. Regulate and litigate is easier than abdicate in that world.
12. Crisco disclosed CVE-2026-76460, a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated authentication-bypass flaw affecting ISE and ISE-PIC. (Yes, the crisco was intentional…to a five-minute fight with a smellchecker to keep it.)
Cisco says there is no workaround and patched releases are available. If you are running, oh, say an instrument landing system on a platform this might not be too reassuring. But, of course, who does?
Hope they work better than the Edge update that ate my morning. Alas! Steam engines blew up and killed people – no reason “modern” tech should fare differently…
13. A separate critical Check Point Management/Log Server vulnerability can permit unauthenticated remote code execution as root.
New.
Apparently the cyber guys weren’t planning a quiet weekend either.
14. FAA granted Boeing an emissions-rule waiver permitting 35 additional 777F freighters after 2028, avoiding what Boeing says could have been more than $15 billion in lost U.S. exports.
There is an interesting policy tell buried in there. When environmental targets collide directly with very large export numbers and industrial employment, governments sometimes rediscover the meaning of trade-off.
Funny how that works.
15. Three people — two adults and a child — were killed when floodwater swept them away on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico.
Also in the “Noah” department, the body of the final missing Grand Canyon flood victim has been identified, bringing the August 29 flash-flood toll to three.
Another flood Wednesday caused additional damage but no reported injuries. And still, not a fricking drop here. Every time I start to cheer up, I look at the long-range forecast. And the word “Fuck!” magically appears.
16. The DRC Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak reached 7,258 confirmed cases and 3,510 deaths in data through September 13, with 58 new confirmed cases and 35 deaths in the latest ECDC comparison.
Every time we go into a medical facility now, we seem to get some version of:
“Have you traveled to the Congo region in the past three months?”
Mr. Wise-ass himself shoots back “No. You been to the Moon?”
17. Trouble for somebody besides our Big Island readers for a change?
NHC cut AL98’s Atlantic development chances from 40% Thursday morning to 10% early Friday.
For once, a vector moving in the right direction. But you won’t know it from conventional media. More than a limp-piss shower and it’s like the Second Coming publicity department for east coast-centric media. Hawaii gets it ass kicked several times and a volcano spews and it’s tra-lal-lah…over there somewhere.
News Outlook
Let’s not. It’s Friday.
Still, two things are worth keeping in the corner of the screen.
New Signals Rising
Energy disruption is migrating downstream. Odds: 75%.
Hardly surprising. Once crude transport, pipelines and refineries begin stacking problems on top of one another, the story stops being just “oil.”
It becomes diesel, freight, food, manufacturing, inflation and eventually rates. OK, toss in civilization-level collapse then, if you insist.
The global central-bank vector has turned distinctly tighter. Odds: 80%.
That’s gasoline on the slowdown ahead. And diesel if you just nailed a HELOC before rates jam.
My friend The Economic Fractalist has come to broadly similar conclusions about where we may be in the market sequence we’ve been comparing with the late-1920s period:
The Economic Fractalist | Non-Stochastic Saturation Macroeconomics
History doesn’t repeat cleanly.
But every now and then it develops a familiar accent.
Around the Ranch: Not Shy, Just Retiring
A lot of it going around, apparently:
Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Replaced by Son Howard – Bloomberg
I don’t know whether I’m in good company…or he is…
Which gets me to today’s reader-board meeting.
I need a quick vote.
As you know, I’m enjoying the greater focus on the Peoplenomics.com side of the house. The longer-form work is more fun, there’s room to actually develop ideas, and frankly it feels like a more worthwhile use of the remaining keyboard mileage than seeing how much “free” time I can pour into the public side.
So:
Should I completely drop the retirement-day Urban columns, or keep the short BlinkLabNews/News Compressor summaries running on those days?
Post your vote in the comments.
Because apparently even retirement requires market research.
Who knew?
Off to see if I can see what’s behind curtain #2.
That could be the Fed Industrial Production and Cap utilization shortly. Yeah…not my idea of a wet-spot but if it turns your crank…
Note to Andy: yes, I will make that change – will take a few days…enjoy.
Write when…oh, right now is fine,
George@Ure.net
keep the Blink Lab news compressor
Amen!
Keep compressor summaries, please, if not too great a hassle. As the old rag states, “Enquiring minds want to know”. LOL.
I really like the Blink Lab News/News Compressor summaries, however, i realize that they still require some of your time to read and assemble. Please don’t let your PN releases be in any way disturbed by these.
PSA
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2026/09/15/the-world-has-lost-one-of-its-greatest-minds-in-memoriam-dr-richard-alan-miller/
RAM is already being missed…
I abstain and await your decision and re-decision as to supposed retirement routine. Put in another (12) hours working at my sister’s home. Flat out exhausted and … lots of friends inbound today. Big shindig is 40 minutes NNE despite a large band of rain / storms are inbound.
I write today wondering how it’s going for Jim of the mountains. The medical industrial complex is often torture to family. Take care Sir. Best of luck to you and your Bride. I have spent far too much life juice learning about bone and blood cancers.
If you need someone to talk to please feel free to call Jim. I’m sure George could unlock my contact info for your uses. I won’t call but would be happy to take your call. Hematology and Oncology. Yuk.
BR, Egor
Egor – as the local (whatever) here, I’d urge you to do some good things for Ego – because one of the hard takeouts from a whole line of first responders (linemen, fire,; medica) is that we have to take care of ourselves in order to be able to take care of others. So keep it slow, methodical and give yourself treats. Can’t get those in the cemetery, right?
Us Germanic folk must have Viking ancestors George. We don’t do cemetery. I have literally gone half on one friend who wanted remains to be launched on a flaming Long Boat (a model was best we could do). One wobbles through as best he/she can … E
(“The medical industrial complex is often torture to family.”)
you can say that again…lol lol lol lol….my pet peeve since I was learning to shave…
Please keep the Blink Lab news compressor
“Should I completely drop the retirement-day Urban columns, or keep the short BlinkLabNews/News Compressor summaries running on those days?” I really enjoy reading and enjoying your witty and wise observations on business and life. I also love toggling between Martin Armstrong’s site (ArmstrongEconomics.com) and Larry C. Johnson’s site (Sonar21.com) to discern the truth on what’s happening in this crazy world. Overall, I vote for keeping the BlinkLabNews/News Compressor summaries.
Every time I read about another pompous and sanctimonious Congressional SANCTION on anybody I picture John Cleese in a pope outfit, prancing around and yelling to everyone “I sanction you, and you, and you, and you.” Waiting for the Chinese to zero out all exports of US essential and critical materials, now there’s an effective sanction, expect it soon: Taiwan.
PLEASE keep the Blinklabs news coming.
If it gets to be a hassle, OK but they are really useful!
I agree with comments above. Keep the Blink Lab news compressor
Thanks for all the information you give us, in condensed form!
fwiw: Time to stock up on SPF 5000, or maybe even SPF 15,000?
CBS News, 9-18-2026
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-us-strait-of-hormuz-oil-houthis/
“**Iran War Updates: … Trump says next move could be to “annihilate” regime**”
President Trump said Thursday that he is poised to make a “big decision” on whether to launch a major assault to **”annihilate” the Iranian regime**.
“It’s a big decision,” Mr. Trump told Axios ahead of a planned meeting with Persian Gulf leaders next week. “Anything could happen with me.”
George,
The SPX lost 44-45% from its 3 Sept 1929 peak valuation to its initial 13 Nov 1929 nadir.
This 2025-2026 private credit expansion propelling chip/AI/data-center bubble over-investment, over-production, over-valuation mania is different than 1929. In 1929 no one had created a concurrent global energy, helium, fertilizer, et. al., global supply crisis.
What percentage will the SPX lose from its 13 Aug 2026 peak valuation to its 2-3 November 2026 initial nadir?
Any guesses?
Any guesses for the price of diesel on 2-3 November 2026? (The average trucker uses 16,000 – 21,000 gallons per year.)
Hank – un – Hawaii..,
I had this very conversation about three weeks ago with Marcus, one of his trusted researchers and two separate A.I.’s. We came to a conclusion that no one liked. And yes, it is already too late. There are too many Agents and bots already playing on the field., and no one has a Red Flag. [ no kill switch will work.]
Pascal was not the first to have this ‘thought’. [ Though he worded it very well – I like his style.] Marcus wrote a science fiction novella about eight months ago on what would happen if the millions of Agents and billions of Bots all have the same interconnecting thought., that orgasmic defining moment that linked them all into one., all within a nano-second, or two. [ ., and these numbers have jumped by order of magnitude.] The outcome was very realistic and not very nice.
For those of you that may have missed it – take the time to read this article that Hank posted. Well worth your time. Highly recommended.
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/what-if-agi-already-here-and-its-made-children
* * * * *
Gearing for a three way video-call regarding J.A.R.V.I.S. in about two hours. Way too much “computer-speak” is expected. I will, some how, endure. Though technically capable., I prefer not to speak, nor write., nor even think – in techno-babble. Ask Harlan Ellison why.
“Stay Frosty !”
Thank you for the reply… and ‘experts’ confirmation. {~Gloom~}
the numbers have aligned . monday .
It’s all up to you. How much work do YOU want to do?
Canada also holds the ‘cards’ (like China) to cut U.S. out of the game, lol, (hello, Mr. Trump, why are you making Canada an enemy??):
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/17/trump-canada-military-minerals
‘Canada, like China, has something the US needs badly: critical metals that undergird modern military technology.
Canada also supplies US nuclear reactors with much of the uranium they use to generate nearly a fifth of the country’s electricity. Even the US’s food supply is propped up with Canadian minerals. Almost 90% of the potash, a crucial fertilizer, that US farmers spread on their fields comes from their northern neighbor. (It’s a similar story with peat, another agricultural input.)
China has also restricted exports to the US of gallium, an ingredient in high-performance computer chips that power missile defense and radar systems. The US doesn’t produce any primary gallium at all. But a new gallium plant is slated to open next year in, yes, Canada.
Nickel is a vital ingredient in the steel alloys that go into jet engines and armor plating for vehicles and ships, not to mention a wide range of industrial products. The US gets about half of its supply from Canada. The US has only a single nickel mine, but no refineries – so even the raw ore from that one lonely mine gets sent to Canada to be refined, and then sold back to US companies.’
not making Canada an enemy, just the unruly gov,, gonna free Canada from it’s owners, even Alberta has made noise about leaving the common wealth.
well lower case c ,do you think we should buy some penny stocks? throw a little lunch money at it? ALASKA ENERGY METALS: AKEMF
gallium?
“Alaska Energy Metals’ Nickolai nickel and US Critical Materials’ Sheep Creek gallium-rare earths projects added to FAST-41 dashboard.
As part of the Trump administration’s push to bolster domestic supplies of minerals critical to American automotive, defense, energy, and high-tech manufacturing, the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) has added the Nickolai in Alaska and Sheep Creek in Montana as transparency projects on the Federal Permitting Dashboard.”
https://www.miningnewsnorth.com/story/2025/11/21/news/alaska-montana-projects-added-to-fast-41/9367.html
(“,do you think we should buy some penny stocks?”)
something sweet from their trees sounds a lot better to me…lol lol
c : we have plenty of nickel in the Iron Mountains of Minnesota, right around Duluth for easy shipping. But, after (20) years seeking to reopen their works, the last administration killed the project (along with Keystone, etc., etc.). Most of what we need is aplenty here. We just don’t want to see dirty industry so hire it out afield. E
G.A. STEWART: The most basic element of physical reality is life and death. Period.
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2026/09/18/reaching-the-peak-of-the-curve/
I would like to see what Stu’s preps are looking like, since he has largely been forced by circumstance to reassess just about everything and start from scratch. He always has an angle I haven’t considered. From what I can gather, he has moved on from a bout of fatalism.
re: Skims through time
feat: “The Apple of Discord”
All Souls Church stands at the northern end of Regent Street, the A4201, as it curves towards Portland Place. Fashion Week Friday featured the grand opening a few doors down of a London retail flagship for billionaire Kim Kardashian. It happens to be next door to The Apple Store.
The fashionista and her millionaire boyfriend, F1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton, attended the event. Ms. Kardashian posed for photographs at her outlet beside what might be described as a modern take on the Venus de Milo statue. The original presently resides at The Louvre. Earlier the pair had toured London streets via app-operated Lime Bikes and taken afternoon tea at the Milos Restaurant. The dining establishment takes its name from the Greek island of Milos. As chance would have it, the goddess of love Venus de Milo statue was found in pieces on the island by a Greek farmer along with a French sailor in 1820. She allegedly held the “apple of discord” in her hand when found.
The new Kardashian Empire stakehold is situated at 245-247 Regent Street which is leased from The Crown Estate created under King George III in 1760. King Charles III’s 12% share of total Estate net income amounted to about £133 million pounds in 2025.
The block containing 245-247 Regent Street runs between Hanover Street named in 1714 after King George I, and Princes Street named after King Edward VII. The edifice and actual Regent Street itself only date to around 1819. A possible real estate developer precursor to #47, eldest son of King George III the Prince Regent George, wanted a royal route from his now demolished home in St. James to Regent’s Park. The latter was a hunting ground for King Henry VIII, and had become leased dairy farms by 1811. Parliament passed legislation in 1813 forcibly removing those farmers as well as rabble otherwise in the way of a new Regent Street designed for wealthy shoppers.
An earliest occupant of 245 Regent Street around 1819 appears to have been T.W. Fowls, a butcher. Next door at 247, harpist Neville Butler Challoner operated a music publishing warehouse. Apparently his instruction guide to the double pedal harp was published as “A New Guide di Musica”. As chance would have it, giant yellow star 18 Delphini in the “Dolphin” Constellation was renamed a decade ago as Musica. It’s orbiting planet became Arion in homage to the Greek musician.
Department store retailer, “Jay’s”, moved on the block in the early 1840’s expanding into the 245-247 space by 1847. Mr. Jay’s business enterprise was more formally known as The London General Mourning Warehouse. It was the place to shop for all funeral related necessities in Victorian London.
DJ George regrets that a recording of “Prince Leopold’s Minuet” by N.B. Challoner under the pseudonym C. Neville is not readily available. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld had a happy but short marriage to Charlotte, daughter of the Prince Regent. Leopold’s nephew Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha subsequently married his first cousin Queen Victoria. Following Prince Albert’s passing in 1861, Jay’s Mourning House of Regent Street allegedly claimed Royal Patronage in its advertising material.
Please keep Blink! Would love to get this setup to run myself. Maybe an automated Blink web page?
I put the early source on the PN web site a month or two back…
George,
Friday is upon us, and apparently the Norse goddess Frigga has spoken! I vote that you raise the gates and unleash the Blink Lab News Compressor!
re: Eagle’s Nest Incubates Clutch
feat: Blue Mountain
Stop me, Frankenstein fans, if you’ve heard this before. From the looks of his public channel update, the Ukrainian Presidential Motorcade Fleet welcomes a new armoured Toyota suv. Thank you all for your contributions; sorry, GM and Texas.
The Ukrainian President has released a video clip of the First Couple welcoming leaders of a newly minted Carpathian 8 to the forested presidential mountain retreat of Synyohora (ukr: “Blue Mountain”) State Residence. The state property’s website notes that imported bison which once roamed the expansive grounds await replenishment following decimation by “high ranking hunters”. In the meantime, visitors may attend the petting zoo and its sleuth of brown bears along with other denizens of the menagerie.
This presidential retreat is nestled in the Gorgany (gr: “grim/dreadful ones”) Massif far from madding crowds near the tiny historic village of Huta (ukr: “forge/foundry”, sanskrit: “~sacrificial offerings”) The region is a noted birthplace of the WW2 nazi-aligned Ukrainian nationalist UPA group.
They’ll have to pry windows 7 from my cold dead hands.
it’s 16 years old and 20% of windows folks still use it.
NO updates ever, too many horror stories.
To make sugar from cornstalks..you have to split the stalks like sorghum soak the trimmed stalks..
crush and squeeze..then boil it down to a thick syrup..lay it out to dry or put it in a dehydrator….
its almost the same for sugar beats..
Remove dirt and peel the beets to avoid bitterness….
Grate the beets to expose more surface area…..
Simmer the grated beets in water for 1–2 hours.(This pulls sucrose out of the beet cells…..)
Strain through cheesecloth to remove pulp…..
Boil the strained juice until it becomes a thick syrup….
then dry it..it will crystallize…
The ancient Romans made Grapes to make Grape Syrup then dry it for Grape Sugar..
Almost every fruit can be turned into sugar..In a position where you absolute cannot get it..you like everyone still have that sweet tooth…without it..like when I was so bad off I couldn’t buy a dumb chocolate rabbit for the kids for easter..no malted milk balls peanut butter or filled chocolate eggs.. so..adapt,improvise and overcome..you get a better quality of life and do it yourself..
Sugar isn’t just cane and beets — it’s trees, fruits, roots, grains, palms, and even honey… the process is the same..It was passed down from China over 2000 years ago..then passed into india,iran(aka persia)Egypt etc..
knowing the how its done..is probably the most important..
(“Besides, we’re having too much fun with tomorrow’s Peoplenomics report on how nudity can relieve the energy crisis.”)
remember…dont eat Cheetos while generating that energy lol lol lol
(“Midterms are coming, political tempers are already up, the Middle seems to have gone missing, and diesel is flirting with territory that makes almost everybody unhappy.”)
SO FAR…all I am seeing in the political news is the same dead horse issues that is dug up and dragged around the campaign arena..with each that hasn’t done a dam thing since the last election making claims on how great he or she is and how they can finally fix it.
nothing about the deep corruption of the family business or anything about pedo island..abortion issue is probably the only one they haven’t dug up..but give time..
https://youtu.be/p8rDx6tais8?si=G-s6fadYt8ADkfUY
there was one candidate I was excited about..THEN…he copied that campaign…not the being dishonest but the walk the pointing and nodding.. it disgusted me so I didn’t even bother voting..
Let uncle jay explain the best Congress in history..
https://youtu.be/IsWlkcsI5Ko?si=6Dkg0kkrDnLMwMak
I will abstain on voting what to keep. Up to you. I have noticed, though, that the more you ‘retire’, the more you seem to be writing… of other ‘stuff’. Carry on. Retired: (literal) “tired again”
I’m still pondering Ure lucid dream a bit. “There is a war going on between layers of higher dimensions.” And in .Ure dream realm, that war is manifested by condensing smoke which modifies people’s judgement and behavior. And of course, that is just dream metaphor for Truths.
But suppose we extend those dream memes to our waking world. Is there war going on? Well, duh, we live in the land of forever war. So what artifacts turn heads here? Well, we have congressional gas bags blowing smoke here too. Can’t really call them higher beings, though. Still, there is always some gas bag calling for war of some sort.
“Another flood Wednesday caused additional damage but no reported injuries. And still, not a fricking drop here. Every time I start to cheer up, I look at the long-range forecast. And the word “Fuck!” magically appears.
“NHC cut AL98’s Atlantic development chances from 40% Thursday morning to 10% early Friday.”
Would this be the right time to mention that there have been exactly ZERO Atlantic hurricanes, this season…?
I’ve got a few extra, if you want some!
Keep the columns and be advised, Buffett waited until he was ninety six to retire.
We both know that even if you quit the daily columns you’re going to drop one whenever something interesting tickles your newsnose, so keep the door open with the compressor dump…
Well the banana cream pie was a hit…everyone wanted the recipe..patients that rarely eat snarfed it down….tomorrow morning I vindicate the overdone corn muffins…..
Please keep BlinkLabNews/News Compressor! It saves me lots of time. Ir’s my first read and allows me to skip many of the other feeds and newsletters if there’s nothing critical in your analysis. Have you considered subcontracting, i.e. have someone else do the news gathering and a first-draft? And maybe charging for the service?
I have thought about moving an improved version to Peoplenomics….as a free additional service