With a (relatively) even news flow today, we might as well have a look at some serious Fourth of July woo-woo.
Long-time readers know that I have a marvelously vivid visual dream world – which occasionally reveals some predictive content. Other times, it’s just jaw-dropping cool. And this is something anyone can do – with practice – and one of my long-ago books (Psychocartography) gets into the whole process of “mind mapping” your “Other Realms” – the one(s) you visit when you sleep.
Here’s how this one came about (and the adjacency of Fireworks is hardly coincidental!). Take a deep breath – the inside of my brain is very “Disney-like” with adventures far beyond anything here in the waking world.
I was on the outskirts of a major city and there was tension in the air – like a war could begin at any moment. Off in the distance came a terrible noise – like that of a thousand vacuum cleaners on high.
What came into view was a rocket, such as I have never seen before. It looked almost cartoonish – the kind with a single big vertical cylinder but with the nose cone being a perfect triangular round shape that hung over the top edge a bit -the overhang looked like a few inches from where I was standing; I was a block or two away watching in awe.
What made it so remarkable was that it wasn’t flying like a regular rocket. It had what I can only describe as a wide “drone collar” on it at the top. That’s where the Great Noise was coming from. As the drone-collar rocket (which remained vertical this whole time) came into view, it passed low over a bunch of single-story commercial buildings, lighting on one of them for 10-seconds, or so, then lifting off and moving from my central focus off to the left and higher.
When it got to the end of the buildings, I felt a wave of knowledge. I was seeing (being shown?) new innovations in warfare that would soon be appearing. They allowed for rockets to be positioned anywhere, and then launch, as the collar was meant to explode (or disengage) once the rocket engines fired on launch..
What’s more, the preference for moving horizontally at 20-30 MPH over flat commercial building rooftops, allowed them to get lost in “ground clutter” and there was some kind of “ground effect” of the low elevation. Which didn’t make sense to me because the “collar” was perhaps 15-20 feet up the side of about 24″ to 36″ diameter main body of the rocket. It was breathtaking and remarkable at once.
Here was the troubling part: There is a strategic reason that a “newly nuclear country” would build such a mixed mode rocket system (MMRS). It allowed for a much heavier payload (think nuclear) on a readily deployable platform. Imagine the “collar” as being a “loose fit.” With it, the lifting power of the main engine could be a bit smaller OR a heavier warhead employed.
I know, weird way to dream – but you can almost see the sci-fi angle being a possible glimpse of modern warfare. Is this what the future holds for us? Drone collar screaming, providing lift and momentum at light-off?
Hell of a dream, huh? Yeah, I have some really first-rate adventures out there in “The Realms.” I would never in a million years have guessed that solving a “heavy lift”
rocket problem would be featured in a dream. Though I have learned never to be “surprised” by anything over there.
I’ll save the real woo-woo for Peoplenomics readers. Because that was even more perception-bending. Maybe in a week, or two. The dreamer’s mind needs to “settle” sometimes.
Super Woo-Woo
OK – now we’re going to get even more weird. A lot more.
As you know, I use multiple (paid) AIs to engage a fairly detailed script to “flush out all the birds” in the massive global news flow.
One of the AIs came back with this as an outlier:
“Anecdotal reports of unusual dream/vision-type experiences among observers (unverified, 30% confidence).”
That really shook me: My piece had not been published on the web yet. (Won’t be for another hour as I write this, either.) So I asked one AI this: “How much of this was based on its work proofing today’s column?”
Very little of it was directly related to your specific viewing.
In the fast scan, the “anecdotal reports of unusual dream/vision-type experiences” was a broad, low-confidence signal based on a handful of scattered online mentions (mostly on X and niche forums) in the past day or two. These generally described vivid dreams involving tension, advanced aerial craft, loud droning noises, or conflict escalation — common stress-dream themes during heightened geopolitical periods.
Your dream was not included or referenced in that scan signal. I noted the general pattern because it popped up as a soft “off-the-wall” item during the sweep, independent of your report. The similarity in flavor (droning noise, unusual rocket-like tech, low hovering, tension) is interesting but coincidental in the data I saw — your description was more detailed and unique (drone collar, specific shape, ground effect, etc.).
The 30% confidence was (and remains) low because these kinds of personal accounts are inherently subjective and unverified. I flagged it only as a curiosity, not a confirmed trend.
If that had come from only one of my AIs, not a big deal, right? But here’s what another spotted:
“The “drone-collar rocket” dream now has an uncomfortably modern hook: the real-world direction of war is mixed-mode mobility, dispersed launch, low-altitude clutter, and cheap lift systems around expensive payloads. I would not sell it as prediction; I would present it as the brain doing defense-R&D pattern synthesis while asleep.”
Still, pretty damn strange. With no hangover, not sure what to write it off as. Perhaps dents in the global consciousness from overnight Russian drone strikes? Dunno.
Back on Waking Earth: News Compressor Output
“Steady as she goes, cap’n…”
The main thing that changed overnight is continued high-intensity Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities, including reported attacks on Kyiv and other areas, with Ukrainian responses on Russian targets. Weather related (NJ) heat deaths stood out in AP/Reuters/NWS sweeps. Ongoing heat and wildfire risks persist in parts of the U.S. West and South, but no new high-fatality incidents. Markets were quiet in overnight trade with oil prices holding near recent lows.
Leap Into Labors Day
If the news flows remain slow and manageable, we face the prospect of higher until Labr Day. Which could put us at a near-twin of the 1929 blow-off. In a new Peoplenomics report Wednesday, a working paper on whether long wave economics is really a widely missed social friction waveform.
And with stock futures up, BTC made a run at $64,000 overnight. But, no.
With Europe down early, we expect the US will turn lower later on. For now, we think of it as a “convenient exit rally” for the commercials to dump “just in case shorts” over the holiday.
News Forecast
12–96 Hour Outlook
- Russian/Ukrainian exchanges likely continue at elevated levels (85% confidence).
- U.S. heat dome and wildfire/flood risks remain elevated in multiple regions through mid-week (90% confidence from NWS).
- Oil price stability or modest moves tied to Middle East/Hormuz flows (65% confidence).
- No immediate major U.S. policy or economic data catalysts in the next 48 hours (70% confidence).
- Potential for increased cyber or infrastructure probing globally (60% confidence).
Around the: Ranch Over Teakettle
I hurt myself Sunday morning. I’ll give you the whole story next week on ShopTalk Sunday which will be a kind of “Farm and Homestead Dangers” review.
But let’s just say that when a 6-foot breaker bar does (eventually) let loose, I’ve now made a note to spend more time preplanning “the operator fall zone” for when victory arrives.
But let’s just say that when you get to be 77+ you’ll want to modify some of those “immortal youth” ideas.
Oh, and don’t leave bottles of phosphoric acid out in the sunlight. Like I said, a lot of adventures to recount…
Bubble Sorting Personal Chaos
A lot of this weekend was spent trying to build a “personal sorting plan.” As you know my life has a terribly wide dynamic range. It’s an adult playground here and we can do anything. But it’s messy. Capability and spread are almost inseperable, except in virtualizing.
The answer, I decided, is to stack personal sorting routines more effectively.
The simplest is bubble sort. In computer terms, bubble sort compares two neighboring items and swaps them if they are out of order. It is not elegant. It is not fast. But it works, and more importantly, it starts working immediately. Using a bubble sort means you don’t clean the whole shop. You pick up two things. Which one belongs closer to where it is used? Which one can go away? Which one is trash? Make one tiny swap. Repeat.
That sounds almost too dumb to matter. It is not. Bubble sorting is how you get traction when the chaos field has beaten your executive function into mush.
Insertion sort is different. That is the method for incoming clutter. Every new item gets inserted into the right place as it arrives. This is how you keep a cleared bench cleared. The fatal phrase is “I’ll set this here for now.” After 70-odd years, most of “here” is fuller than a tick.
For big systems, I might go with the merge sort. Divide the mess into categories, clean each small category, then merge them into a working system. Hardware. Electrical. Papers. Food. Medical. Radio. Garden. Tax. Merge sort respects the fact that a human mind has cache limits.
For dangerous material, use quarantine sorting. Put everything from the chaos zone into boxes labeled: Use Weekly, Use Monthly, Archive, Repair, Donate, Trash, and Mystery. The Mystery box is important. Without it, your brain will argue with you for three hours about a weird adapter cable from 2009. Fine. Mystery box. Date it. If it has not justified its oxygen in six months, out it goes. I have lots of those boxes, none of which I can throw out.
For now, I’m using big bins (tools, supplies, consumables, trash).
I’ll let you know how that goes. If I can still find my compute after.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
over to you can kicking and rigging ready patriots . bit of mumbo jumbo wave stories from the comedy store at elliot and some made up inflation aggregates . always got trumpy coin and old yella to pump . wow what a rort . only a rort if your not in it . lets bring on the main event at sin central , wall street
Pump it up len, pump it UP!
Too bad about Ure Suckeroos, good effort, came up short….
thats what she said!
Pump up that shiny lenster, Im shorting the GDX,SMH and XME..SOLD!
while at same time going long the XLE and USO.
Only question I have currently is, do all of the euro-dopes Go Batshit Crazy before start of next “war’ with Iran or after?
EU will explode into PROTESTS very soonly,, they will consume the EU. Russia might not have to lift a finger after all, EU Peeps gonna exact REVENGE on the globalist/elites, it should be GLORIA -https://youtu.be/vBODktZLQuI?
They know who they are, and now after reading attached – you should too.
Dr. Paterburgh, Perverted By You Know Who -https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=290715&post_id=203168378&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1kk4yd&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5NDk5ODAzNywicG9zdF9pZCI6MjAzMTY4Mzc4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODIzODc2NjYsImV4cCI6MTc4NDk3OTY2NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI5MDcxNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.LB3YEsTlIuY02-3JJSSBlJKZ8V-PNDcX7y6rxiWVcl4
meta toa testta in cuolo figu butana
Trump rings Wall Street opening bells and says the stock market ‘is going to go through the roof’…
yeah, and according to Armstrong, he’s called this up up up market all along, despite all the 1929 like “crash” calls , and “fractal” guesses ……….. so you see folks …… his super computer knows it all …….. I poke fun at this all as once I subscribed to Armstrong years ago … I found his analysis to go back and forth, not clear, changed a lot, and so on ………… and yet it don’t really matter, he’s the rich investment newsletter guy, not me ….. good luck all
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/stock-indicies/dow-jones/the-most-hated-bull-market-in-history-2/
Buc-ees north of Mckinney – only 40% of pumps active – no fuel
According to who?
On Hal Turner. Melissa Tx
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/hal-turner-radio-show/#google_vignette
‘Overall, we rate the Hal Turner Radio Show extreme right biased and Questionable based on the promotion of extreme right-wing propaganda, conspiracy theories, and hate. We also rate him Very Low in factual reporting due to an abysmal track record with fact-checking and little or no sourcing of information.’
Might I direct you to some of my economic writings? Where I explain that radicalization of media becomes necessary in a zero barriers to entry market in order to maintain cash flow>? There’s a reason I’m sliding toward retiring from all but Peoplenomics work by year’s end: Truth still means something – and whose who overlook at nit often find themselves on the receiving end of jurisprudence. Eh wot, Alex?
Hal Turner’s blather and BS is worthless unless you can confirm it independently. What he IS good for, is presenting possible leads which occasionally prove out.
No reported issues in Melissa…
Buc-ees in Melissa is an extraordinarily high volume station. No issues getting gas in surrounding Burgs over the holiday.
Immortal youth ideas? Oh boy do I know what you are talking about. Having passed 80 I have serious conversations with myself about what I can do and not do anymore.
I generally end the conversation with the statement “I UseTaCould do that.” Great word UseTaCould.
Cheers
re: “Woo Woo”
feat: The Office, S6E8, 29/10/09
Apparently the woo woo opening segment of The Office’s “Koi Pond” episode only aired once on its premiere broadcast. This coincided with the 80th anniversary of Black Tuesday.
Television Robin’s exclamation type is starting to bubble up from the time he realized that three letters were missing from Batman’s bowl of alphabet soup. Let’s go with onomatopoeia for 16 Scrabble points plus a bingo.
I’ll take a ‘Q’ but pass on JZ,, give ya 17 reasons Y, as the lion roars
re: “Atlas Shrugged”, Rand, 1957
feat: “Bend It Like” #47
the other brother Darrell,
The German sense of humour saw fine form at a recent summit as Chancellor Mertz awarded President Trump a #47 jersey in the colours of Germany’s World Cup soccer team. Meanwhile a “NYT” story has spread informing that the World Cup’s FIFA is allegedly leasing office space on the 17th floor of Trump Tower.
The Bonwit Teller building which previously occupied the prestigious Trump Tower site had been completed in 1930. Bonwit Teller cofounder Paul Bonwit came from the Kingdom of Hanover. The Kingdom had been returned to England’s King George III of the House of Hanover in 1814 following Napoleonic dramas, but became annexed later by Prussia.
As chance would have it, Atlas Corporation rescued the retailer in 1934 having sold investments before the 1929 market crash. Atlas went on to produce America’s first intercontinental ballistic missile in 1959 via subsidiary Convair. Last Wednesday descendent lift vehicle Atlas V Amazon Leo 8 launched from Cape Canaveral as seen in the following Youtube link (using up one of the few remaining Russian-built first stage engines?):
https://m.youtube.com/live/IxEYrkqNH8s&t=25m22s
George,
Another inter-generational writer coincidence just struck me. Charles Dickens is associated with the former Catherine Wheel pub situated across the road from Dr. Andrew Ure’s lecture site on Great Windmill Street.
Also George Orwell is associated with the Fitzroy Tavern at 16 Charlotte Street in Bedford Square. Dr. Andrew Ure shows listed across the road in the 1843 London directory at 13 Charlotte Street.
Hmm. This was such a deep and pnderous that I brought some AI to bear on what it means:
“What the reader is getting at:
These are deliberate “small world” synchronicities or historical echoes. Your progenitor Dr. Ure—a pioneering (and sometimes controversial) scientist known for industrial chemistry, Philosophy of Manufactures, scriptural geology, and those infamous 1818 galvanic reanimation experiments on a executed criminal’s body (which helped inspire Frankenstein lore)—had physical proximity to the stomping grounds of two giants of English literature.
Inter-generational writer angle: You’re a writer (Peoplenomics, books like Co-Telligence, economic futurism, etc.). The reader sees a poetic thread connecting Dr. Ure (scientist/writer) ? Dickens & Orwell (major writers) ? you (modern writer) across centuries, via shared London real estate and intellectual/cultural vibes.
It’s the kind of quirky historical pattern that appeals to systems thinkers and pattern-spotters. Not claiming causation or conspiracy, just a striking coincidence that feels meaningful—like the universe winking at the Ure literary/scientific lineage.
These kinds of observations often pop up in genealogy or local history circles as fun “threads” in the tapestry of family history. Your reader seems excited about it and is sharing it as another cool link in the Andrew Ure story you’ve referenced before. If you want, you could reply with more on Dr. Ure’s London period or how it ties into your own writing themes (synthesis, long-wave patterns, human-tech interfaces). It’s a nice hook!
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Still, I wanted to inquire,; just to be certain our erudite and overly research Winipeg News Analyst had not shorted out in the summer weather, up yonder. Because at some point, some such reader will come along and point to Dr. Andy’s work, Frankenstein and my Co-Telligence book drawing parallels. I guess we can “address” that later, should need arise.
Meanwhile? What he may be implying, lightly or seriously, is that Andrew Ure sits like a hidden “industrial-age node” between Victorian social writing and 20th-century political/social writing. Dickens observed the social consequences of industrial modernity. Orwell later observed the machinery of political and social control. Ure, meanwhile, was a major industrial/scientific thinker of that earlier machine age.
The important caution: this is a geographic coincidence, not evidence of influence unless he can show Dickens or Orwell actually knew, read, visited, or cared about Ure. But as a literary-London “huh, that’s interesting” item, it’s a nice one.
Now go fetch me a cadaver before this battery drains.
picker still fishin . good on him . he is 2 embarrassed to even look at this cocktail of rigged markets and robots on their AI deathbed
Fun with 345,000 volts on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18toWXJULX/
Local fire..,
9,400 acres – 0 containment.., moving north-northeast at 8 miles at hour.
Jumping roads and fire breaks as the wind has picked back up – 25 mph gusts.
One death reported. Local in the area was found in his SUV – looks as though he got confused from the thick smoke – got caught in the fire. No name has been released – but I know of two people who have not reported in. Not answering their cell.
100 to 120 homes lost – twice that many out-buildings. [ barns – shops ] Lots of people live in that semi-remote area – off-grid. Reported that 250 to 300 people have been ‘displaced’. Most now residing at the local high school and grade school. Red Cross tents all over the place.
Local Walmart is handing out free cell phones to any one in need.
One restaurant is offering free meals. One clothing store is offering free clothing for any of the kids. Dozens of places are offering free room-n-board for all animals. Fair Grounds has opened to all live-stock and RV’s.
Last night a new fire broke out up the Navarre Coulee – but they somehow got it under control – very fast – just 100 acres.
Three out-of-area punks where setting off fire works from the docks on the lake – two security guards just getting off work saw them.., went down to the docks – knocked each one cold., threw them in the lake along with their big box of wizz-bangs [ illegal as hell ] and left. Sheriff showed – “just moments later”., and took all three into custody. [Think he was watching from a short distance? Around here? Yep ! ]
It us a big mess around here at the moment.
“Stay Frosty !”
car market in america . sales fallen off a cliff . repos thru the roof . average age of cars ,12 years old . yeah sure donny your makin it great pal . get eric and donny juniour to throw em sheetcoin tokens with your big head on it
ohh heard the don wants his head on mount rushmore !!
No, no,no..fuzzy headed foriegners..
That is some whisper down the lane bullscheisse there Aqualung.
The real deal…?
– GOP is all worked up over Democrats plan to put Gernimos Horses’ Ass up there with tRUMP carved in stone underneath.
A Horses Ass – get it Len ?
Guessing all those brain cells still be MIA, huh?
Oh well, enjoy the Sunshine while you still can, hear its supposed to get dark soon, for like 3 days..
Prolly so “pissed” you dont now even know what time day or night it is, do ya Aqualung?
-https://youtu.be/ZHO3vBn_cfo?
your so rude . i suggest tanti belli cosi te figu butana . and more spades clown . quack yah goose
As written, it’s not clean standard Italian. It looks like phonetic/dialect Italian, probably with a typo or two.
Most likely it means something like:
“Many nice things / best wishes, you son of a whore.”
Cleaner Italian would be:
Tante belle cose, figlio di puttana.
Where:
tante belle cose = “many good things,” “all the best,” a friendly sign-off
figlio di puttana = “son of a bitch,” literally “son of a whore”
So the joke is probably the whiplash: starts sweet, ends with an insult. Very Italian-uncle-at-the-card-table energy.
– – –
Which is why d’Lynn and Jarvis use Len as a benchmarking test (“explain Len”) and I (cappo tuti de neopolitan) chew of linguistic morsels and hoping the winds don’t shift lakeward at Chelan.
The Most Common Italian Curse Words
(That Italians Actually Use!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-SFUOTmaMU
No shit?
as an adoptee out of south side Chicago, my birth Mom could very well have been employed in the oldest proffesion in the world..just not sure how I managed to slip by Hanger and Lysol.
Morning George, Its 10:15AM Pacific Time as I write from here in Tucson, AZ.
I always enjoy your woo-woo posts as real woo often contains deep insights for us in our lives if we can learn to understand them. The woo being duly noted, I want to comment your upcoming post.
You said: Leap Into Labors Day. In a new Peoplenomics report Wednesday, a working paper on whether long wave economics is really a widely missed social friction waveform.
Your idea’s and present observations are presently “conditioned/influenced and considered” on the time range you have observed and studied. Today your known data range may contain serious lack of knowledge, therefore may contain errors of assumption.
Having spent a considerable amount of my own time in the past studying cycles I have a reasonable knowledge base to understand the time ranges you will consider.
I suggest you may wish to consider the following information.
George, where as you focus on news and markets, that area does not take into consideration the accelerated time flow we are all presently experiencing. It shows up most in business coaching and New Age type sources creating content they claim is from galactic and ET sources. There are a huge number of women creating and marketing material to women about raising their own vibrations and getting in contact with higher consciousness galactic beings or taking tours to ancient archeology sites like the Giza Pyramids, in order to perform ceremonies to raise their awareness and vibrations.
Besides that people at all levels are experiencing higher levels of stress simply because they are living a fast paced life and they feel they do not have time to do everything that is ask of them.
As we examine what people are experiencing, there comes the question, what do we see in the physical world that may indicate there maybe other signs that what we think we are experiencing has in fact shown up else where?
Simply look at the sun, it shines with a more intense “white color” where it used to be more yellow or god. All our solar system planets have and are demonstrating physical changes.
There are a whole raft of physical changes taking place in the power structure of politics in every country, wars, rebellions and the break up of old ways of doing things, businesses making changes, AI, and it goes on.
In the survival prepper movement they discuss a disaster cycle. Here is a link to a documentary of that line of thought:
THE DISASTER CYCLE – Full Documentary
SpaceWeatherNews (S0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o14caQGCMA
and…
DIVE DEEPER at https://DisasterCycle.Film
They are speaking about a 12,600 year cycle.
The physical motivation that is causing the changes discussed above is real.
We all maybe experiencing accelerated time, and event compression where time speeds up. Which would mean the cycles you are measuring are shifting and changing. The solution to the challenge you are addressing is this.
You have to mark the events and lay them out step by step in an A,B,C… fashion, then you will have accuracy. The cycle produces/causes physical events we can see and when we see them, then we know where we are along the time line. So, identifying what we have to watch for as a result of the cycles you are using is the key.
This way, what you are proposing in the Peoplenomic’s report will fit with the events as they unfold.
George, the next couple of years are going be a fine ride, and while I think you think you will be writing less and less, I think events will be so exciting you’ll be driven inside to talk about it. And comment on it. Perhaps this period is what your life is all about…you helping and guiding via your keyboard during The Great Transformational Shift! ;-)) ;-))
Respectfully,
Roger in Tucson
With all due respect I’ve only been providing direction to the ethical Skeptic on this site for I don’t know how long. This is an intertwined story of catastrophe, climate change (a precursor), earthquakes, pole shift and epic tidal wave phenomenon. Roger B Cunningham – Inversion ECDO Theory. The Hidden Mechanism driving Cataclysm, Cultural Tradition and Climate. Available in book form and I think now on the Web. He found 180 historical monuments all aligning to the same place on the planet – Kenya the former North Pole before a pole flip (there have ben several – think Noah’s Ark). intelligent civilizations (aliens?) leaving warnings. We are in the time frame.
..Is this why the Hurricanes in the Pacific are turning Counter- ClockWise this season ?
rut-row..
Can mass migration be used as a weapon ?
Prince William Digital Gateway, a Blackstone planned 2,100-acre campus in Prince William County, Virginia that would have packed 37 buildings and 22 million square feet of data centers next to Manassas National Battlefield Park. At full build-out, the project carried an estimated $100 billion price tag and would have been the largest data center complex in the world.
Has been officially canceled due to lawsuits.
Microsoft just cut 3,200 jobs from it xBox staffing – the largest restructuring in it’s history. [ taking xBox A.I. ?? ]
Nobody is buying X Box so it’s being cancelled. Halo was their biggest game while popular games like Fortnite and COD can be played on any platform including phones. Consoles have died before, remember Atari?
Data centres today are like shopping malls 25 years ago. They are the next big thing. Every week someone is issuing a press release announcing a new data centre. It seems like there is over investment in them. Could rethinking a project of that size be logical and in the investors best interest?
There are already thousands of data centers. The difference now is they’re being outfitted (or retrofitted) with AI-capable computer farms, which exponentially raise the amount of electricity required to run and cooling required to maintain their function. Locales balk at the build-out or retrofit because there’s not enough power already, and current convention says the local data center will suck up all the local water supply to cool its processor stack. These are legitimate concerns, but have been blown out of proportion by the propaganda spewed by the same Leftist activists who’ve forced the shut down of power plants and restricted the build-out of new ones for the last 47 years.
AI is the future – militarily, if in no other arena of endeavor. We WILL have the AI data centers required to balance those of both Russia and China. If communities don’t allow their presence, presence will be forced on them through National Security edicts, because we MUST have them.
Until Mr. Musk can make his orbiting data center platform viable, the proper (and best) way for local data centers to move forward is through an AI-community partnership, where everyone who desires to build a data center must first build a power plant to supply more power than the data center can possibly use (even through expansion) and gift the over-abundance to the local community — Not money kickbacks, energy kickbacks. If the data center uses water from the local river for cooling, it must build a reservoir, the function of which is to permit the used water to cool, before returning it (as clean water) to the river. This would be a “friendly” corporate/community partnership and IMO is the template everyone should use, because it’s mutually-beneficial.
In time of war, these data centers can be shared or co-opted by the DoD to further our military aims. If data centers are forced on communities by a Defense initiative, there won’t be partnerships or mutual benefit. There will only be the taking of resources to ensure our survival, should a military issue arise.
Excellent post Ray, summed up in two lines.
“AI is the future – militarily, if in no other arena of endeavor. We WILL have the AI data centers required to balance those of both Russia and China.”
It seems so hard for many people to get their head around this.
In a time of peace , they will be used against the citizens, IMO.
Bob, they don’t get that, when something MUST happen, it absolutely WILL happen. Neither Congress nor public opinion could’ve gotten in the way of, or influenced the D-Day Invasion. It was going to happen, and do so on Eisenhower’s schedule. We need AI server farms as a matter of national security. They ARE going to happen. If private business isn’t allowed to build them, the military will. Hence my plea for public/private partnerships. A partnership benefits everyone; a military buildout will cost trillions of taxpayer dollars, disregard resources, and return nothing. Unfortunately, I have had decades of watching Americans choose the most stupid and inefficient option, so have little hope that these will be developed in a sane manner…
@Wilson
Probably, in some manner or fashion, but if our industry and government aren’t using AI against us, China’s and Russia’s AI agents will be using their AI against us.
I tend to believe, no matter how intrusive it becomes, it will be less of a problem to the individual American than if Chinese AI is reading our tendencies and programming our lives.
As a society, we’z purty dumb, lazy, and easily-led. Remember, Joe Biden was, next to Robert Byrd, the most Black-hating racist in Congress. It took less than a month (from Iowa to South Carolina) for the entire voting public to “forget” this fact, even after Biden commented on the cleanliness of Obama…
Over the last few months we have been setting our frequency generator to 528hz and leaving it on all night. Simply amazing sleep and dreams off tthe chart with visits from family and old friends in all stages of their life. Most all are still with us. There have been a few deceased, but rare. Wonderfully, I get to spend a lot of time sailing or doing things associated with my past life in the competition sailing world. Regattas and people and the dreams just roll on and on.
Way better than ways to war.
Seeing lots of stuff about 7/17 that fits with Roger’s comments this morning. Something is happening here. What it is ain’y exactly clear. Time to love one another, right now.
Stiks
(““Anecdotal reports of unusual dream/vision-type experiences among observers (unverified, 30% confidence).””)
I have been having some odd lucid dreams to..now are they fueled by the negative events evolving globally.. or is it a journey into the world of woo..
anyway it was bad enough that I decided to give my Xmas wishes early..just in case….
re: Great Windmill Street
feat: riding the windmill sails of time
King Charles III has appeared in the command seat of a moving Challenger tank in Bovington, Dorset. Meanwhile Prince Harry lately of Montecito arrived in London from his villa in Portugal. Regrettably his reservation at Buckingham Palace had been cancelled allegedly due to a failure to reconfirm in a timely manner. Dressed in black, the Prince appeared for the premiere of “Shoot the People” about the Palestinian plight shown in a Soho theatre situated at Great Windmill Street and Shaftsbury Avenue. Images from the scene pairing the Prince and director kindly saw msm platforms cropping out the latter’s dirty shoes. The cinema originally was established in the 1930’s by a family from Haifa.
A windmill is said to have occupied Windmill Field at least by 1590 until further building developments began on Great Windmill Street in the following century. Across the Shaftsbury Avenue intersection from the cinema is the St. James Tavern whose website offers World Cup 2026 specials. Prior to the 1890’s a previous structure on the site was known as The Catherine Wheel, perhaps after the “spinning fireworks” in memory of St. Catherine of Alexandria. Its patrons included Charles Dickens, but this pub did not show up in his novels.
Opposite the tavern on the other side of Great Windmill Street is an American fast food outlet, and the late 19th century Lyric Theatre. Moving along that side of the road the theatre building wall transitions into a “Karl Marx walking tour” poster, and an older red brick appearance ending with a stage door. A blue plaque identifies the wall as the remainder of what once had been a more expansive house and museum belonging to the Scottish anatomist Dr. William Hunter. The public information indicates that Dr. Andrew Ure conducted his famous electrical experiments on a former convict at the medical school situated here in 1818.
Local fire..,
Now 9,994 acres – Zero Containment
Two confirmed deaths
Still reporting 100 to 120 homes lost / 250 displaced. This will change when they can get into the areas – and have the time.
One helicopter went down – crew safe. Big ole Sikorski is on it’s way from the Air Force Base near Spokane – gonna sky-hook the Huey helicopter out of the fire zone. Would love to see that.
Navarre Coulee was not out – blew-up with the winds – now over 750 acres., but 30 percent containment.
Resources are stretched very thin at the moment.
Winds are in the forecast for tomorrow with temps in the high 90’s throughout the area. And it is bone dry out there – humidity in the low teens.
The town is holding their collective breath that no other fires start.
“Stay Frosty !”
” I would never in a million years have guessed that solving a “heavy lift”
rocket problem would be featured in a dream. Though I have learned never to be “surprised” by anything over there.”
From the Wikipedia article about Elias Howe, inventor of the lockstich sewing machine. :
“He almost beggared himself before he discovered where the eye of the needle of the sewing machine should be located. It is probable that there are very few people who know how it came about. His original idea was to follow the model of the ordinary needle, and have the eye at the heel. It never occurred to him that it should be placed near the point, and he might have failed altogether if he had not dreamed he was building a sewing machine for a savage king in a strange country. Just as in his actual working experience, he was perplexed about the needle’s eye. He thought the king gave him twenty-four hours in which to complete the machine and make it sew. If not finished in that time death was to be the punishment. Howe worked and worked, and puzzled, and finally gave it up. Then he thought he was taken out to be executed. He noticed that the warriors carried spears that were pierced near the head. Instantly came the solution of the difficulty, and while the inventor was begging for time, he awoke. It was 4 o’clock in the morning. He jumped out of bed, ran to his workshop, and by 9, a needle with an eye at the point had been crudely modeled. After that it was easy. That is the true story of an important incident in the invention of the sewing machine.”
What great observations about Hal Turner – you weren’t aware of this before? This info is however: all over the web.
The information that Hal Turner is, more often than not, a blithering idiot?