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Via The Information "News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that xAI’s Grok will join Google’s Gemini as the second frontier AI model on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s internal generative AI platform. The integration, set to go live later this month, will give 3 million military and civilian personnel access to Grok’s capabilities across both classified and unclassified networks — even as the model faces mounting international criticism over safety failures." What could possibly go wrong?

🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk I dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works just fine.

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Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk

Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/

🔗 You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago? This particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at 🔗 what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017 So colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026 https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/705979820/president-trump-says-the-isis-territorial-caliphate-has-been-eliminated-in-syria

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Defeat of ISIS in Raqqah – The White House

🔗 A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?

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A culture where only seeing is believing

In a recent post at the blog Astral Codex Ten, a writer reviewed a book written by a young Catholic missionary about his time with a tribe in the A...

Seth writes - 🔗 Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface. If you want deeper thought … 🔗 Sangeet is \your man

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Make and take

In a world of automation, AI and outsourcing, what exactly do we do for a living? Perhaps we make decisions. And what’s in short supply? A wi...

US vs China: How to win the wrong AI race

The US is trying to win the AI race. China is playing an entirely different game.

🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read. 🖇️ Used this quote before. "There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable." 💬 Keisei Tagami .. and as I have said myself "death defines life."

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QE2 Obituaries That Are Different

I am sad for the loss of the Queen, but …. There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable. 💬 Keisei Tagami That said, most of what I ...

Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Filling in some Burbank history. 🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

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📸 Beautiful Downtown Burbank through the ages … Somewhere between numbers 2 and 3 was ‘Laugh In’s’ hey day.

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If I have this right … The US Government want US citizens to flee from the Venezuelan paramilitary and return to America. Clearly, Trump feels that only his paramilitary can threaten and kill US citizens .. and it is NOT the job of other countries. #AmericaFirst

The Courier, 2020 - ★★★

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Yeah .. No. BC did a really good job - including the transformation - but so slow … And if you know me and historical dramas .. doubling down o...

🔗 One From Patrick "I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing. His name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos. I know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car. They don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway." 🔗 A Follow Up From Patrick "If in my last post one were to replace the word “ICE” with “SS” and an obviously Jewish name with an obviously Latino one and imagined him being put on a train instead of a plane… There is no difference. Think on that. We all imagined what we would have done... john.philpin.com

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🔗 One From Patrick I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing. His name is Lucio Fabian Navo...

🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee Not wrong IMHO. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/most-influential-prog-band-according-to-geddy-lee/

I am sure this was meant to be motivating - and I don’t know who the author is - but not true - and definitely does a massive disservice to those that did fight back. They did - in a world when it was a lot harder to do so. If just a few of those people were around today - not sure we would be where we are.

🪦 Weir all sorry to see you move on to the great gig in the sky Bob. Thank you for your earthly contributions.

Laura Karen Ingram is upset by protestors wearing masks - but seems to have no problem with ICE doing the same. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Today’s Surprise From History - 🔗 Back in 2018 I wrote a series of ‘true life’ stories about people I randomly met - this is Benjamin’s 🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

People: Benjamin

Stood to the side of the road, walking stick supporting him. Well kept. Elegant even. Just standing. The traffic constantly passing him by. No slow...

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Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth. "Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature." 🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform [🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html) 🖇️ Manton’s Original Post

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Left alone, a cup of coffee will gradually cool until it reaches room temperature. Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their wa...

We Are Being Forced To Conform

It’s 18 months old - but 🔗 this post from TimUrban resurfaced this morning, where he talks about how long it took to write his book, reminding...

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Manton writing today : 🔗 about something that @devilgate wrote : 🔗 Maybe You Can Post Your Way Through Fascism 💯 .. we’ve sort of been ...

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🔗 Thought Shrapnel "I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?" My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂

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I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’...

🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy

Elizabeth Lopatto, the Verge: Less than five years ago, I sat through the interminable Epic v. Apple antitrust trial. Real heads will remember that...

Guilty? Surely Not? A Quick Chat With Claude.

Guilty? Surely Not? A Quick Chat With Claude.

🔗 The Redacted Smith Transcript So I 🔗 asked Claude a simple question … Please only consider this document and no other information. ...