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Last Notes npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Are stock car racing Waymos a thing yet? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn This business of Trump's name going everywhere is disgusting. However, I plan soon to start selling toilets with a thin coating of gold paint on the flush handle, and a face decal inside the bowl. My lawyer says not to release more details until the toilets are shipping, so I leave the rest to your Mastodonian imaginations. Just remember the old Sanskrit proverb: "Every lie you tell during life will be punished by crap-in-the-mouth after death." Ugh! npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I want to live on a planet where people adore art, music, literature, and the sciences. And cats and dogs, of course. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn #dogsofmastodon npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn No, trump's mental health is NOT in question. Every day people write shit like this and it annoys the hell out of me. If his brain were on display at the deli counter, people would call it gray swiss cheese. Or maybe green--I don't want to know. When he rubs thoughts together, it only generates dandruff of a singularly repulsive variety. If he weren't useful to the horrible criminals running the country, he'd be relieved of duty faster than a fox snatching a chicken. Not much mental left, and nothing healthy. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I've never studied Japanese but have visited once and our family business' main supplier is Japanese. Anyway, long ago I memorized this proverb: npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn When all the freshwater on earth is going to data centers and there's none for humans, will there still be headlines like "I compared CHATxxx to Claude-xyz and the Winner is Clear!" ? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Hmm. Online music is increasingly AI generated. Online writing is increasingly LLM generated. Much schoolwork comes from LLMs. Online videos, ditto. So-called art? Ditto. Seems like if you want to hear real music, for example, you need to take up an instrument, learn to play a bit, and then find some folks to get together with and do your best. The good news is that a few chords can get you quite a ways, and it's fun. If you're a parent, keep reading aloud to your little ones. As far as earning a living as a musician or a writer, that seems like a tough road. Not totally impossible yet, but increasingly a big struggle. And the kids who use LLMs to do their schoolwork are going to graduate with heads full of internet slop. You'll hear them sloshing when they walk by. Gosh darn it! npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Our family business ships beads around the world every day. We are good at shipping. But in these stressful times... npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn @nprofile…eew3 npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn When you read a promise saying "AI will do blah blah in blah years," just change it to its negative version and see if that seems more likely. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Another not-true idea: npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn CDC--that's the center for disease creation, right? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn We can't possibly show billionaires how much we admire them. That's why I'm starting a gofundme to pay for bronzing them. Literally. I don't know much about bronzing things (actually I don't know anything) but we can try different techniques until we find the best one. Offhand I think dipping each one in molten bronze will likely work fine, but if not we can experiment until we run out of test subjects. BRONZE RULES! npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I suppose it's not surprising that people believe their chatbot friends are listening and giving them good advice. People have been listening to and taking advice from their various gods for thousands of years. The tech has changed. People haven't. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I know this quote from Carl Sagan has been shared here before. But it's still true: npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn When? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Interesting! The Atlantic asks just how bad would an AI bubble be? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Trump: "We've reached an agreement on ending the war." npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Shocking news! Putin has agreed to take over as the Chief of DC Police with Trump's "full support." npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I haven't been following the news but I heard a rumor there's an illegal up in Alaska that ICE should find and kick out of the country asap. Older guy with a thick slavic accent and a snooty attitude. Apparently he's got an American friend who's demented and wanders around raving about golf tariffs whatever the hell they are. Anyway, kick out the Slavic dude and lock up the psych case until he can be evaluated. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn When it comes to our President's great trade deals, he is "all hat, no cattle". Here's an update from The Atlantic: npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I've read that over time people start to resemble their dogs. Is that why in every photo of Kristi Noem, she looks more and more like the puppy she murdered? Terrifying, like an animated plastic vampiress. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn @nprofile…ytqn @nprofile…qz4x npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I was thinking on my way home about actual real immigrants that I know or have known over the past 20 years or so. I'll limit details for privacy sake. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Bats use echolocation and Ollie the dog uses bed-o-location. Anytime he finds a bed with room for a dog, he is on it. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I was born in 1948 so for my parents and most other folks born around then, WW II was recent news, not history. As a teenager I read many books about the war including Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I never in my wildest imaginings thought that the horrors of that period would spring up in the United States of America. I'm not ignoring our dreadful treatment of black people, native Americans, and many first-generation immigrants, but to see the Supreme Court and majority of elected officials actively and happily following in the footsteps of the Nazis just wasn't anything I expected. No fool like an old one, I guess. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn BRAKING NEWS! -- IT STOPS YOU IN YOUR TRACKS! npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Old maps used to put "Here Be Dragons" or some such for the unexplored areas. The way the USA is going, the lower 48 will be labeled "Danger! Keep Out! Toxic Government!" or other warnings. What other nation arrests or detains or turns away tourists coming to spend money? Rejects talented foreign students? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Relax, people! Bacteria thrive in the hot springs of Yellowstone Park. They thrive in arsenic-filled lakes under intense UV at high altitudes in Argentina. So the odds are excellent that no matter what we do to render earth unfit for humans, other hardy life forms will keep on truckin'. Go, life! npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn From The Atlantic: that shitty customer service is not an accident: npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn From The Atlantic: What happens when FEMA is gone? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn One of my private students (I'll call her Mary), born abroad but married to an American and living in the states, started freshman comp at her local community college last week. The class is open to any enrolled student but her section happens to contain only foreign-born students, eleven in all. On Tuesday, on the first in-class not-for-a-grade writing assignment, every student except Mary used AI to respond to the prompt. Yesterday, on a different assignment, also in class, AI again generated 10 essays and Mary again used her own vocabulary and grammar to respond. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Surprised the government isn't passing laws to bring back Edsels and an 8mpg fuel standard. Not to mention banning seat belts, air bags, and disc brakes. Back to the future! I guess with temperatures climbing year after year it'll be hard to bring back ice boxes. Can't very well ship blocks of ice from Maine lakes to MA and CT if the lakes never freeze over. Dang! I miss the good old days. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Pretty clear that our ignorance is the GOP's bliss. No more warnings of deadly storms, no info about contaminated food, no alerts about current diseases or the next pandemic. We get to find out when disaster strikes, not alerted while there is still time to prevent or mitigate. The message is clear: Drop Dead. (After we take your money, of course--gotta get the $--then drop dead.) npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn What if every time people used generative AI shit flew out of their computer screens? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn If trump showed up at Heaven's gates dressed in his pope costume, God would laugh herself sick. She would then kick his ass down to Hell so fast he'd leave a smoke trail from reentry to impact. And at Celestial dinner parties for the rest of eternity, all anyone would have to say was 'trump' and everyone would chortle. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn trump brags about gas down, eggs down, etc. All lies of course. If he slipped and told the truth... npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn We've got a shipment inbound from Japan. For the moment we're estimating the tariffs will add around $9000* to our cost. Want to know how to boost inflation while destroying family businesses? Stay tuned. We're already cutting back employee hours--how are they supposed to survive? I'm heartsick. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Is there any proof that Abrego Garcia is still alive? When was the last time he was seen by a neutral party? Cause that would explain why the US government 'can't' return him to his family. And if he was murdered in custody, trump will announce that Garcia died trying to escape or some other giant lie. Horrific. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn @nprofile…wuyc That giant sucking sound is billions of Canadian ex-USA-tourists changing their plans and spending their vacation dollars in Canada or Europe or anywhere but in the USA. Talk about self-inflicted harm. Sorry, Canada! npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn The bacteria are waiting us out. They have little meetings in quiet places and whisper, "Time is on our side." npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn why not? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I hope MTG never needs surgery. Not for her sake; for the surgical team that discovers she is literally full of shit. Yeeech. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn trump: "We will certainly continue to use Signal for our war planning. And for $500 per address, we will add brave patriots to the chat list! Be the first to know our plans!" npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn @nprofile…vdm6 npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Threaten allies, judges, and media; cozy up to Nazis, lock up tourists, cancel education, destroy public health, Make Air Travel Dangerous Again--what could go wrong? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn If Elon wants to cut back on government waste, he could start (and finish) with trump's endless golfing. Millions of our tax dollars burning up so the inflated orange ignoramus can waste time playing with little white balls. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Garlic is coming up in one of our raised beds. And green leaves on some strawberry plants. I'm impressed cause I checked about a week ago and the ground was frozen below 3 inches down. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Tesla share prices are not falling rapidly enough. If the cars can go 0 to 60 in a few seconds, then the share price should decline at a similar speed. It just make sense. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn I have no qualifications to make this prediction but I predict that measles will continue to spread in the USA for at least the next 6 to 12 months, and if it turns into 6-12 years, that won't surprise me either. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn If you have some extra polar bear liver in your kitchen send some to RFK Jr. so he can protect himself against measles. One gram of polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to equal the amount that is toxic for a human, so please don't be stingy. Send him a nice half-pound steak at the very least. That's about 227 grams. Enjoy, Robert! npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn @nprofile…0n9n npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn @nprofile…6058 npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Trump et al: npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn DOGE is a sledge hammer crew that busts down the front door of your house and smashes everything: windows, walls, doors, ceilings, floors. Just a total demolition crew. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn If I were fired on Monday and then called back to work a few days later, I would be royally pissed off. I would use bad language. And the word "idiots" would be spread like rock salt on an ice-covered parking lot. I don't think these whiplashed employees will feel forgiveness. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn The president admits that he was born as a mutant pig but had trans-species surgery 47 times as a piglet which "successfully made me the magnificent specimen I am today!" npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Ode to 2025 npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Will the MAGA faithful have regrets when their plane crashes at an airport because the FAA is understaffed? Will they be angry when their unvaccinated children are hospitalized with measles? Or when the hospital, over-filled with flu patients, turns their children away? Will they be surprised when their local TV weatherperson fails to warn them of monster storms because NOAA staff were fired? Will they be shocked when bird flu mutates and starts to spread from person to person? Will anyone be left to tell them that a 5% mortality rate is deadly serious, and that 50% is the same as one out of two? Will they cheer when the average class size in their elementary school is 40-50 kids? Will they be pissed when food shortages and food prices both increase? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn In a surprising reversal, Canada declares the USA Canada's 11th province. In addition to a lightning takeover of federal and state governments, the military, and all major media outlets, Canada declares the Senate and House closed for business and retires all reps and senators. The Canadian government also declares Trump and all his associates (including almost-President Musk) persona non grata, confiscates their assets, and gives them four hours to leave the country after which they will be jailed without bail. The website X vanishes with a sucky gurgling noise leaving only a greasy oil stain behind. npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn @npub189n…satx npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn #HamRadio npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn Could it be that the people preaching hellfire and brimstone are on to something? npub1r7wesu5f6sr5myfdper3u75wf7kw5fwh38d6wnzzwn79akrv33dqzusag9 B Kahn The only reason for the SCOTUS to decide against total presidential immunity right now today this very instant is that Joe Biden will immediately order hits on most of the members of the court not to mention Trump and all his key supporters. Put those Seals to work!
