Nostr notes by Lauren Weinstein

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2026-10-25T22:30:53Z

Finally removed the bedroom fans.

BREAKING: Thousands of families in NY's Bronx starving after ...

2026-10-25T18:06:38Z

BREAKING: Thousands of families in NY's Bronx starving after founder of food program for 20 years arrested by Trump's ICE monsters at his court hearing

Some #AI "assistant" firms are running ads showing ...

2026-10-25T18:02:47Z

Some #AI "assistant" firms are running ads showing employees boasting about how they routinely don't attend meetings or just pretend to and then just rely on the AI summaries. What possible reason is there for such employees not be summarily fired? Hmm.

Point is, no telling what Trump will try to do with USPS. On the ...

2026-10-25T17:45:31Z

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Point is, no telling what Trump will try to do with USPS. On the other hand, the county has control over the drop boxes.

Public mailboxes have the same potential problem. Not everyone ...

2026-10-25T17:44:36Z

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Public mailboxes have the same potential problem. Not everyone can get to a post office.

Apollo: No signs of #AI payoff outside the tech sector ...

2026-10-25T17:27:16Z

Apollo: No signs of #AI payoff outside the tech sector

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector

Trump admin says they are getting thousands of tips on new ...

2026-10-25T17:24:41Z

Trump admin says they are getting thousands of tips on new "fraud hotline" that offers cash incentives, which presumably has no problem with false reports.

BULLETIN: ICE caught lying about hitting man with vehicle ...

2026-10-25T17:15:28Z

BULLETIN: ICE caught lying about hitting man with vehicle

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/25/us/woodland-man-struck-by-ice-vehicle

I've always sent in my "mail in" California ballots ...

2026-10-25T17:09:37Z

I've always sent in my "mail in" California ballots by ... mail. This time I'll use a nearby drop box. That's how much faith in the institutions of the federal government has been decimated by the monster squad in power.

Google claims they "misunderstood" the laws.

2026-10-25T15:49:03Z

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Google claims they "misunderstood" the laws.

HORRIFIC: ICE attacks, injures, and abandons innocent citizen ...

2026-10-25T15:05:33Z

HORRIFIC: ICE attacks, injures, and abandons innocent citizen student

You have to assume that everything ICE says about these incidents are of course lies. -L

https://www.independent.com/2026/10/23/ice-detains-special-needs-student-u-s-citizen-near-santa-maria-high-school/

FYI, sent to my mailings lists just now: Administrivia: Use of ...

2026-10-25T14:57:05Z

FYI, sent to my mailings lists just now:

Administrivia: Use of "Cloudmark Sender Intelligence" may block emails

If you are using "Cloudmark Sender Intelligence" to filter your inbound emails, note that you may stop receiving important emails without any notice, when Cloudmark in error blocks ALL inbound mail from specific sites on silent suspicion of spam or other unwanted
behavior.

In the process of traffic analysis, I discovered that some recipients of
this list had been blocked for some time from receiving any emails from the vortex.com servers. Some of the blocking was on a deferral basis from the lists, some were "hard" permanent bounces. In neither case were the subscriptions actually removed. I have contacted Cloudmark and the block has apparently been lifted for now, but of course this does not guarantee another block based on false positives won't reappear in the future. If you're a Cloudmark user and have a way to add exceptions, you may wish to add vortex.com to that exception list which hopefully will cover the affected IP addresses on which blocks are made.

Frankly, it's fairly obvious that big tech would LOVE to get rid of email completely if they could, and force everyone onto much more privacy invasive apps. The number of hoops that the handful of major email providers have instituted to get email through to their users is a genuine technological circus of horror, but you already knew that.

Best, -L

"I am a fool." - Spock - "The City on the Edge of ...

2026-10-24T18:44:25Z

"I am a fool." - Spock - "The City on the Edge of Forever" - "Star Trek: TOS" - 1966

10 DAYS TO MIDTERM ELECTIONS! - ...

2026-10-24T17:02:28Z

10 DAYS TO MIDTERM ELECTIONS! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts1WvLWbwEw

It's basically exactly the same with food contaminants. There ...

2026-10-24T16:45:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…q0yu
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It's basically exactly the same with food contaminants. There are small amounts in pretty much everything we eat. We evolved to deal with that most of the time.

BREAKING: Quest Diagnostics discloses that patient records have ...

2026-10-24T04:23:23Z

BREAKING: Quest Diagnostics discloses that patient records have been exposed

I know. It's in my notes.

2026-10-24T04:01:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…ccvq
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I know. It's in my notes.

The government there currently seems to be pretty MAGA.

2026-10-23T19:33:32Z

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The government there currently seems to be pretty MAGA.

The topic of my next usual Monday national network radio tech ...

2026-10-23T19:14:30Z

The topic of my next usual Monday national network radio tech segment will be Google's clearcutting of over 250,000 trees in Finland without permission, for an AI data center, and their new plan to coerce businesses and consumers to use less electricity to make more available for Google data centers. The following Monday (election eve) I'll be briefly discussing tech challenges facing the next Congress.

How Tech became the villain of the US midterms Well deserved. -L ...

2026-10-23T17:06:18Z

How Tech became the villain of the US midterms

Well deserved. -L

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/us-midterms-tech-datacenters-ai

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2026-10-23T16:43:20Z

Oil hits $117/b, highest since April.

BREAKING: Horrible Zuckerberg tests charging nonprofits and ...

2026-10-23T16:37:58Z

BREAKING: Horrible Zuckerberg tests charging nonprofits and government users to post links on Facebook

BREAKING: Trump asks court to block Alaska senate confirmation if ...

2026-10-23T16:34:50Z

BREAKING: Trump asks court to block Alaska senate confirmation if GOP loses, claiming "name confusion"

gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/politics/justice-dept-alaska-senate-race-sullivan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K1E.RIGh.avYVnjrElpe
2&smid=url-share

[Horrific] Startup aims to genetically breed "war dogs" ...

2026-10-23T16:09:16Z

[Horrific] Startup aims to genetically breed "war dogs" and turn them into military cyborgs

https://www.engadget.com/2295033/warhound-genetically-engineering-dogs-military/

BREAKING: Sickly, demented, desperate Trump charges two former ...

2026-10-23T16:06:08Z

BREAKING: Sickly, demented, desperate Trump charges two former FBI agents over Hunter Biden

BTW, have you ever seen the very first Casper cartoon? I ran into ...

2026-10-23T16:03:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…y32v
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BTW, have you ever seen the very first Casper cartoon? I ran into it for the first time just a few days ago!

Interestingly, that verse was excised for being too gruesome, ...

2026-10-23T16:00:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…a549
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Interestingly, that verse was excised for being too gruesome, particularly so relatively close to the end of WWII.

Can't stop thinking about the 250 THOUSAND trees #Google ...

2026-10-23T15:59:00Z

Can't stop thinking about the 250 THOUSAND trees #Google chopped down in Finland without permission, for another goddamned AI data center. As far as I'm concerned we've reached the point where this garbage isn't worth killing a single tree.

Impeachment is a dead end. Wasting time on it will just alienate ...

2026-10-23T15:56:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…7uug
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Impeachment is a dead end. Wasting time on it will just alienate voters bringing in Democrats, who want the damned economy fixed. That's 90% of what's driving this election this cycle. No impeachment will ever reach fruition.

Pretty easy to find.

2026-10-23T15:32:54Z

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Pretty easy to find.

Fairly often. When I screened it for audiences many, many years ...

2026-10-23T15:26:29Z

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Fairly often. When I screened it for audiences many, many years ago there was always so much laughter when T asks: "Is it atomic?" that almost nobody can hear Bart reply, "Yes sir, VERY atomic." Also, it is the only film I've ever screened for audiences that always triggers spontaneous applause at a particular point. Can you guess where?

Like I said, I have a pile of stories about that film. I have ...

2026-10-23T15:22:05Z

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Like I said, I have a pile of stories about that film. I have copies of the original recording sessions where the score, cues, and songs were laid down, including alternate aborted takes, unused songs, unused, cues, etc., including conductor counts and more. Including the notorious missing dungeon elevator verse. I had long wondered why the elevator showed one more floor than the song actually had. That missing verse is the reason.

That song certainly did not age well. Same for Heinlein's ...

2026-10-23T15:12:15Z

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That song certainly did not age well. Same for Heinlein's "Door Into Summer" in a similar respect.

#Google's moronic #AI just declared that there was a "480 ...

2026-10-23T15:08:34Z

#Google's moronic #AI just declared that there was a "480 person" piano in the wonderful fantasy film (of which I have many stories to tell) "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" (1953). This despite the fact that Dr. T (Hans Conried) repeatedly speaks of have 500 boys playing his piano and the film is literally named "5000 Fingers" -- not "4800 Fingers". Jeez.

Accenture cracks down on employee AI use, down to $29/month when ...

2026-10-23T14:38:08Z

Accenture cracks down on employee AI use, down to $29/month when some were spending $1000s, unless charged to a specific project

NO DOUBT ABOUT IT -- PURE EVIL: 'Pure arrogance': anger ...

2026-10-23T04:57:26Z

NO DOUBT ABOUT IT -- PURE EVIL: 'Pure arrogance': anger in Finland as #Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Google replies, "OOPS!" Politicians in Finland pushing this crap are probably about to learn the lesson of data center crony politicos here in the U.S. -L

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

BREAKING: In Iowa, confused Trump tells voters to elect GOP ...

2026-10-23T02:42:56Z

BREAKING: In Iowa, confused Trump tells voters to elect GOP "two days from now"

BREAKING: #Google's new "virtual power plant" concept ...

2026-10-23T02:29:25Z

BREAKING: #Google's new "virtual power plant" concept involves coercing struggling businesses and families to use less power (e.g., turn off air conditioning during horrific heat waves) so that more power will be available for Google #AI data centers.

It'll come just before your AMPAS Awards invitation. ...

2026-10-23T02:24:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…f2vx
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It'll come just before your AMPAS Awards invitation. They're always forgetting to send me mine.

[Look in the mirror] Deranged Musk tweets that Talarico is ...

2026-10-23T02:10:28Z

[Look in the mirror] Deranged Musk tweets that Talarico is "pure evil" and will take kids all over the country and "transition" them.

Live performer portraying Trump performs in "jail cell" ...

2026-10-22T22:02:37Z

Live performer portraying Trump performs in "jail cell" above Tehran streets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMi2vpDvzU

BREAKING: Disgusting Trump tells disgusting Ramaswamy to keep ...

2026-10-22T21:40:34Z

BREAKING: Disgusting Trump tells disgusting Ramaswamy to keep running disgusting ad

As I said, the path forward is not clear to me, at least at the ...

2026-10-22T19:04:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…w665
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As I said, the path forward is not clear to me, at least at the present.

The traditional Open Source software model is -- in today's ...

2026-10-22T18:42:24Z

The traditional Open Source software model is -- in today's environment -- looking increasingly problematic from operational and security standpoints. However, I do not at this time know what could, would, or will replace it.

BREAKING: Report: Musk made a billion dollar investment in ...

2026-10-22T17:59:23Z

BREAKING: Report: Musk made a billion dollar investment in Skydance

"Interesting" isn't half of it.

2026-10-22T17:52:47Z

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"Interesting" isn't half of it.

"Forgive and remember" - How Larry Hagman learned that ...

2026-10-22T17:23:58Z

"Forgive and remember" - How Larry Hagman learned that "I Dream of Jeannie" had been canceled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv4t0EgCe_g

BREAKING: Blurry object seen on Apple Maps thought "very ...

2026-10-22T17:01:24Z

BREAKING: Blurry object seen on Apple Maps thought "very likely" to be Amelia Earhart's plane reached by researchers, turns out to be collection of trees.

Ya' know, like canals on Mars.

L

Whenever Trump claims someone said "Sir" to him in one of ...

2026-10-22T16:55:29Z

Whenever Trump claims someone said "Sir" to him in one of his stories, the story immediately becomes suspect.

It's all over the news. You can find it.

2026-10-22T16:49:52Z

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It's all over the news. You can find it.

Fun Fact: Edgar Allan Poe did much more than write what became ...

2026-10-22T16:49:23Z

Fun Fact: Edgar Allan Poe did much more than write what became classic horror stories (and crucial raw material for a number of my favorite Roger Corman films). In 1836, he authored a long and critical essay regarding the supposed chess playing machine that was making the rounds at the time: "Maelzel's Chess Player". It's fascinating reading:

https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm

Whenever he throws that "Sir" stuff in there the ...

2026-10-22T16:43:08Z

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Whenever he throws that "Sir" stuff in there the probability of it being real drops precipitously.

Wow, that's a great use for electricity, huh?

2026-10-22T16:25:28Z

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Wow, that's a great use for electricity, huh?

He's an ass-hole: Facing midterm panic, Trump tries a new ...

2026-10-22T16:24:30Z

He's an ass-hole: Facing midterm panic, Trump tries a new strategy: objectifying male senator backsides

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/opinion/trump-is-objectifying-male-backsides-and-making-an-ass-of-himself/article_a5b7c6a4-b999-48d1-8d07-553e1e07f05a.html

The problem is, does the industry want to replace them with AI ...

2026-10-22T16:17:14Z

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The problem is, does the industry want to replace them with AI agents ... ?

Incidentally, Trump is so deranged that I wouldn't even ...

2026-10-22T16:11:08Z

Incidentally, Trump is so deranged that I wouldn't even assume his story about calling Sundar about renaming the Atlantic ocean is necessarily even true. Unless Google confirms.

Some politicians insist that we must take a "nuanced" ...

2026-10-22T16:04:27Z

Some politicians insist that we must take a "nuanced" view regarding AI risks. That's exactly what the Big Tech Billionaires want them to say. Don't be fooled.

Banks warn AI agents are already taking unauthorized actions on ...

2026-10-22T16:02:04Z

Banks warn AI agents are already taking unauthorized actions on consumer accounts

https://www.axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agents-banks-unauthorized-accounts-access

Trump says he called Google CEO Sundar asking #Google to rename ...

2026-10-22T15:39:36Z

Trump says he called Google CEO Sundar asking #Google to rename Atlantic Ocean as "Trump Ocean" or "American Ocean"

Supposedly they agreed not to but Trump now says he wants to rename the Pacific Ocean instead. -L

Most LLM #AI being pushed on consumers is quite reasonably ...

2026-10-22T15:33:15Z

Most LLM #AI being pushed on consumers is quite reasonably characterized as largely a scam.

I would no more use an #AI agent than I would eat some random ...

2026-10-22T15:03:54Z

I would no more use an #AI agent than I would eat some random mushroom that sprouted overnight on the lawn.

I remember growing up watching Walter Cronkite on CBS on election ...

2026-10-22T14:50:56Z

I remember growing up watching Walter Cronkite on CBS on election nights. Now CBS election coverage -- to be sponsored by sports betting -- will be doofuses trying to convince people who can barely afford to eat to throw away their money in sports betting apps. Disgusting and evil.

BREAKING: 1Password password manager announces it is making it ...

2026-10-22T14:45:32Z

BREAKING: 1Password password manager announces it is making it easier for #AI agents to access your credentials. RUN. RUN AWAY. AS FAST AS YOU CAN!

BREAKING (literally): Soggy Hegseth's cronies, rather than ...

2026-10-22T14:41:26Z

BREAKING (literally): Soggy Hegseth's cronies, rather than using a skilled team, tried to move Eisenhower's historic globe -- and broke it

Like everything else Hegseth touches. Ruined.

How far they have fallen! - BREAKING: CBS election coverage will ...

2026-10-22T14:36:19Z

How far they have fallen! - BREAKING: CBS election coverage will be
sponsored by a sports gambling site

Trump sends task force and helicopter to arrest 72-year-old man ...

2026-10-22T02:06:58Z

Trump sends task force and helicopter to arrest 72-year-old man who can barely walk on voter fraud, which he denies -- judge releases him immediately

I would assume that a traitorous administration would mean what ...

2026-10-22T00:05:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…43at
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I would assume that a traitorous administration would mean what they said in this context.

When the AI finds the bug that brings down all the AIs, including ...

2026-10-22T00:03:42Z

When the AI finds the bug that brings down all the AIs, including itself.

BREAKING: Vance tells Republicans not to "whine" over ...

2026-10-21T23:53:02Z

BREAKING: Vance tells Republicans not to "whine" over disgusting Ramaswamy ad

Social Security sending out scammy "Trump Account" email ...

2026-10-21T23:52:40Z

Social Security sending out scammy "Trump Account" email propaganda that looks like a phishing attack

Commentator calls Trump's public obsession with men's ...

2026-10-21T23:52:21Z

Commentator calls Trump's public obsession with men's "asses" as "homoerotic"

Gift link: Cops kept using Flock for personal tracking even after ...

2026-10-21T23:51:21Z

Gift link: Cops kept using Flock for personal tracking even after they left the force!

https://wapo.st/3UEwWU7

Trump's envoy tells Putin that Putin is a ...

2026-10-21T16:44:42Z

Trump's envoy tells Putin that Putin is a "humanitarian" after release of Hubbard as part of Trump's treason parade

See: https://jackalsyn.com/posts/php-up-2026.html Use at your own ...

2026-10-21T05:35:31Z

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See:

https://jackalsyn.com/posts/php-up-2026.html

Use at your own risk. There will be millions of systems that simply will not get patched for one reason or another -- lots are running older PHP that simply can't be upgraded without an OS upgrade as well and breaking lots of stuff.

This page purports to provide advanced mitigation info for the ...

2026-10-21T05:33:30Z

This page purports to provide advanced mitigation info for the upcoming severe php bugs

Use at your own risk:

https://jackalsyn.com/posts/php-up-2026.html

BREAKING: Claims of massive PHP exploits being announced tomorrow ...

2026-10-21T04:20:19Z

BREAKING: Claims of massive PHP exploits being announced tomorrow with 10/10 severity affecting all versions 5 through 8 on websites (apache, etc.) blogs (wordpress, etc). ... etc.

There's a lot of talk but no details. Apparently those details and patches, where available -- and apparently only newer versions will get patches -- will arrive Wednesday morning.

That's all I know.

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2026-10-21T00:15:35Z

Ramaswamy is a typical billionaire P.O.S.

My favorite story that Bill Scott told at my Jay Ward Film ...

2026-10-21T00:00:37Z

My favorite story that Bill Scott told at my Jay Ward Film Festival at UCLA in the early 80s. They submitted a "Rocky and Bullwinkle" script where the two were in a pot being cooked by cannibals. The sponsor went bonkers -- "You can't have cannibalism on a kid's show!" And the team replied, "Is it really cannibalism to eat a moose and a squirrel?" The bit stayed in.

Bill Scott had some interesting musings on the Captain when he ...

2026-10-20T23:56:24Z

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Bill Scott had some interesting musings on the Captain when he came to my notorious Jay Ward Film Festival at UCLA in the early 80s. Of course he was also the voice.

BREAKING: In disgusting attack ad, Ramaswamy tries to use child ...

2026-10-20T23:10:51Z

BREAKING: In disgusting attack ad, Ramaswamy tries to use child molestation against the victim in Ohio governor race, drawing wide condemnation

Fun Fact: They guy at Jay Ward who created the "Cap 'n ...

2026-10-20T21:56:14Z

Fun Fact: They guy at Jay Ward who created the "Cap 'n Crunch" character for
General Mills in 1962 -- still being used today of course -- was paid a flat $1000 bonus for the character -- about $11,000 today. The character has of course brought in many millions of dollars over its continuing lifetime.

Fun Fact: The creator of the "Cap 'n Crunch" cereal ...

2026-10-20T21:30:22Z

Fun Fact: The creator of the "Cap 'n Crunch" cereal character was told by General Mills that the cereal would stay crunchy in milk. When he tried it, he thought it was so crunchy it could shred kids' mouths, and speculated that a better slogan than "stays crunchy even in milk" would be "stays crunchy even in hydrochloric acid" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XLBd4U36bU

Taking the leap and replacing a number of complex steel pull rod ...

2026-10-20T21:13:26Z

Taking the leap and replacing a number of complex steel pull rod assemblies related to an ancient device with Kevlar cord instead.

Fun Fact: The venerable TV series "The Munsters" has a ...

2026-10-20T21:10:15Z

Fun Fact: The venerable TV series "The Munsters" has a very bizarre history, reaching back to Jay Ward's "Rocky and Bullwinkle" and a battle that involved The Writer's Guild. Only in L.A.:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3hL-kWoPc

Fun Fact: Even inside the most modern of today's smartphones, ...

2026-10-20T19:30:12Z

Fun Fact: Even inside the most modern of today's smartphones, the modem chip that communicates with the outside world often is commanded using a vastly expanded version of the original Hayes 300 bps modems command set, remembered for its venerable "AT" prefix on commands!

Houdini died on Halloween, exactly 100 years ago. A full century. ...

2026-10-20T17:56:01Z

Houdini died on Halloween, exactly 100 years ago. A full century. Outside of being the most famous escapologist of all times by far, he spent much of his later career exposing the tricks of supposed "supernatural" practitioners. He died at age 52 from complications of a ruptured appendix when he was punched in the abdomen -- before he was prepared -- by a student wanting to test Houdini's famous ability to withstand such punches. He might have survived had he not delayed treatment with his "the show must go on" attitude. Before his death, he arranged a secret code phrase with his wife Bess, and said if there was any way to get a message back to her after death, he would do so on a subsequent Halloween. She held events waiting for this on Halloween for 10 years until 1936, but no message ever came.

It is undeniable that if Jon had not prematurely died the ...

2026-10-20T16:48:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…gypd
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It is undeniable that if Jon had not prematurely died the evolution of the domain system could have been very different.

You rang?

2026-10-20T16:48:15Z

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You rang?

This is script from my national radio report yesterday on data ...

2026-10-20T15:14:57Z

This is script from my national radio report yesterday on data center issues impacts on the upcoming election. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

- - -

So yes, the election is just two weeks away. Two years ago at the last election, data centers weren't an issue at all in mainstream public discussions. Even a year ago they weren't really a significant issue nationally. Today, they are one of the biggest election issues across the country, in both rural and urban areas.

Data center concerns are now in election advertising and candidate interviews. At candidate debates, you'll hear questions about data centers, sometimes very angry ones, that are right up there with more traditional voter issues.

One reason this happened is that there was a virtual explosion of voter awareness regarding the immense negative impact data centers can have on communities, at the same time that there's been a massive push by Big Tech to build vastly more of these enormous data centers mainly to support AI operations. And while something between 70-80% of operational, under construction, or being planned data centers are in predominantly red states, this is very much a bipartisan issue, which are very rare these days in the U.S.

Voters in both parties have been coming together to fight against data centers in communities, with something like 75% of persons opposing them, with very little difference between the two parties on this issue. And this is all despite the fact that the federal government is currently very much aligned with Big Tech pushing massive data center construction, which suggests that the federal government is not aligned with the sentiment of the vast majority of voters in both parties on this issue. The federal government claims that data centers will make communities rich, but data centers usually don't create many long term jobs once construction finishes, and many people don't consider increased community revenues to compensate for the many negatives of data centers.

These can include air pollution from generators, 24/7 noise, boosted electricity rates, potential water shortages, and many more problems, often targeting beautiful, previously unspoiled rural areas where families have had farms and other homes for generations, now being ripped apart primarily for AI.

Add the general distaste for AI misinformation, AI reportedly involved in suicides and murder, concerns over AI wiping out jobs, and other negatives, plus a general distrust of the Big Tech billionaires trying to get even richer by pushing this stuff, and it's easy to see how we got here.

The result of all this is that candidates in both parties, who may have been big boosters of data centers, sometimes planned under nondisclosure agreements that kept their communities in the dark, are now often scrambling to switch positions at the last moment and hoping that voters won't remember the candidates' previously pro-data center positions. This doesn't seem to really be working though in most cases. Polls suggest that for many voters, a candidate being or having been pro-data center can be more important in terms of a candidate being voted AGAINST, than virtually any other issue or even political party affiliations, because data centers and other AI concerns cut right to the heart of so many quality of life issues.

We'll see how this all plays out in a couple of weeks. But it seems clear that one way or another, 2026 is the year that data centers went from being a sleeper issue to top of mind for voting Americans everywhere, and U.S. politics have likely changed permanently as a result.

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L

#datacenters #ai

BREAKING: Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business ...

2026-10-20T15:03:55Z

BREAKING: Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/meta-muse-exposes-users-personal-and-business-secrets-when-they-share-conversations/

2 weeks before election, Trump announces $8 billion farm aid, ...

2026-10-20T15:02:55Z

2 weeks before election, Trump announces $8 billion farm aid, brags about identifying giraffe on test.

Not a valid excuse. If there are limits, it should tell the user ...

2026-10-19T18:03:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…e4xa
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Not a valid excuse. If there are limits, it should tell the user rather than spouting misinformation and insisting it's correct with bogus details!

#Google #AI is a moron when it comes to domains I know, it's ...

2026-10-19T17:51:03Z

#Google #AI is a moron when it comes to domains

I know, it's a moron with most stuff, not just domains.

But, you might think, maybe, that questions that have definitive answers would be within AI's capacity to answer. Not a chance. Just now it took me no less than six rounds of back and forth to get a correct answer from Gemini regarding the expiration date of a domain clearly listed correctly in WHOIS. It gave an old date. Then when I said it was wrong it gave a date too far in the future, beyond the actual expiration date. Then it decided I really meant .net and not .com (I didn't). Finally, when I told it what the date actually was, it apologized for the "back and forth" and agreed, making a variety of excuses about cached data, "historical data" on websites, and more.

UTTERLY USELESS. WORSE THAN USELESS.

L

BREAKING: West Virginia residents outraged that state was ...

2026-10-19T14:57:26Z

BREAKING: West Virginia residents outraged that state was negotiating with Trump to turn state into a nuclear waste dump

Hegseth Ripped for 'Pointless' Military Stunt That Killed ...

2026-10-19T04:52:33Z

Hegseth Ripped for 'Pointless' Military Stunt That Killed Airman

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/hegseth-ripped-pointless-military-stunt-142732288.html

I'm watching (for the first time) old episodes of the ...

2026-10-19T02:13:35Z

I'm watching (for the first time) old episodes of the "Ford" variety show, which aired on NBC from 1956 to 1961. Named for the show's sponsor, Ford Motors, not for the show's host, singer and humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford. There is some very bizarre content on this show. Ernie does some very offbeat "monologues" and other segments that I really was not expecting and some of which are very unique and funny. Ernie's recording of the song "Sixteen Tons" is still famous today. But ... I just now saw him and Rosemary Clooney performing on the show (17 Jan 1957) an informal duet of a song called "Hog-Tied Over You", which describes a somewhat nontraditional relationship. Yeah, it's a strange show.

BREAKING: Zacharia posts Oval Office photos apparently blurred to ...

2026-10-18T20:44:14Z

BREAKING: Zacharia posts Oval Office photos apparently blurred to obscure photo of D.C. golf course Trump plans to destroy

Clearly you can get basic ESP32-S3 boards cheaper, but I really ...

2026-10-18T18:09:58Z

Clearly you can get basic ESP32-S3 boards cheaper, but I really do have to say I like the way Lonely Binary does their stuff, including printed docs, excellent online docs, etc. Their S3 with a screw terminal breakout board is really nice. Apparently their target audience is STEM but for prototyping it's excellent too.

Do you notice how "Super Intelligence" as a term breaks ...

2026-10-17T23:55:08Z

Do you notice how "Super Intelligence" as a term breaks down when used in common forms such as:

Super Intelligence Hallucination

Super Intelligence Abusive Images

and so. Really super, huh?

BREAKING: Millions of Calif. students and ex-students hit by ...

2026-10-17T19:31:16Z

BREAKING: Millions of Calif. students and ex-students hit by massive
data breach involving testing service

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/hackers-steal-personal-data-of-millions-of-california-students-in-massive-breach/ar-AA2epUEM