You know they made it look like the flying hunter-killer from Terminator on purpose. Nerds at War. 😑

Continuing it mess around with The Box ' Last week, Weco AI published a research post describing AIDE², a system they say demonstrated recursive self-improvement (RSI). '

Today was Day 0300. 3/10ths of the way in now. My black pill was enteric-coated, so it took longer to dissolve into my system.

Anime Nerd moment. I'd sometimes thought about who could you cast as Eruka for a live action version of 'Soul Eater' ? And here's Teresa who does mushroom photography.

The question now might just be Who's going to use a warhead first ?

So President Curtis did get his own spin-off show.

The National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) will serve as Japan's first centralized intelligence organization, bringing together intelligence functions that are currently spread across multiple ministries and agencies.

Today is 'Fátima', July 13th, 1917. Lúcia ( 10 ), Francisco ( 9 ), and Jacinta ( 7 ). Dressed as miniature adults which is how it was in Europe. Francisco and Jacinta both died three years later in the flu epidemic after the war. Lúcia became a Carmelite nun and lived to be 97.

maranatha ... doo doo deed doo

So this is really Iran War II. First we capitulated and it was declared Over. No one liked that. So now let's do it again and see if we get a better outcome.

Ukraine just fucked the Russians up bad in the Sea of Azov. They took out like 28 tankers.

'US pays out $3m to victims of mystery Havana Syndrome condition reported by spies US officials and diplomats and their families began reporting a mysterious illness a decade ago.'

Metanoia - Get Yours Today ! 🙌 [ Metanoia is a profound, transformative change of heart, mind, or way of life. Originating from the Greek word 'metanoein' (meaning "to change one's mind"), it represents a complete reorientation in how you perceive the world and yourself. ]

Today is Day 0291. January 1st, 2027 will be Day 0467. 2027 is going to be the real crisis year. This is just the ramp-up.

An Ivy League professor suspected students of using AI on remote assessments and ordered an in-person final exam. The class average score subsequently plunged from 96 to 48.

Martha Lillard, the last known American who still relied on an iron lung, died at age 78 from complications related to long COVID. She had contracted polio shortly after celebrating her fifth birthday in June 1953, an illness that permanently paralyzed the muscles she needed to breathe on her own.

' US strikes Iran, reimposes oil sanctions as ceasefire faces significant test '

'A woman pretended to be a zoo tour guide and spent significant time at the otter enclosure telling visitors fabricated facts about otters, such as them being freedom fighters or able to fly. Her actions drew attention online. She was arrested for impersonation.' I used to think about doing this.

CERN shut down its particle collider, leading to widespread online reports of time feeling slower, longer days, and unstable or fluid reality.

4th of July, 2026 From "What If?" (1977), #44 (came out in 1984). By Peter B. Gillis (writer) and Sal Buscema (artist)

Retaliation baby Sense my sation baby

Pretty much the only really cool thing that's happened since that racoon climbed a 25 story building in 2018

Using Google Gemini AI to make mock up cover art for Blood Music using my painting as the background. I like this version. " This is how the world ended " is actually not the first line of the novel, but I recalled it being so. ( It should have been )

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Moon here last night ( !!! ) 🍓 ( strawberry moon )

That didn't take long. " Multiple outlets are reporting that Zhipu AI's latest model (GLM-5.2, also branded by Z.ai) has reached roughly the same level as Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos on at least one important benchmark: finding software security vulnerabilities. "

Labyrinth released 40 years ago today. 27 June 1986

ian bremmer @ianbremmer · 2h i would not want to risk a drive across the kerch bridge (essential to russia supplying crimea) anytime soon.. ======================================= That really is going to be a Bridge Too Far

' Recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI is a process where an artificial intelligence autonomously analyzes, modifies, and upgrades its own code, architecture, or training data to become smarter '

ian bremmer @ianbremmer · 12h in the future everyone will be uk prime minister for fifteen minutes ---------------------------------------------------- Now it's Andy's turn

Here's Alan Greenspan and fucking Ayn Rand as he's being sworn in as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

uke creature🇵🇸🚩 @UkeCreature · 19h slavoj zizek after getting pulled over: “we are all driving under the influence, the influence of ideology”

I posted this before. They look like the cast of a BBC political satire like 'Yes Minister' or 'The Thick of It', but that's actually, the PM and his staff. I bet he doesn't resign.

' Strait of Hormuz closes as Tehran and accuses US and Israel of violating ceasefire deal ' ( that didn't take long )

And this : painting by Simon Skrepecki, just murdered in Poland, shot seven times ... ' During the inspection of the scene, investigators found seven gunshot wounds '

The International Academy of Astronautics, this is who the aliens are supposed to talk to first if they show up, has changed it's protocols about it. ( Maybe they binge watched 3 Body Problem and that sunk in )

Police in Poland are investigating the execution-style murder of a Russian artist and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin.

Anthropic ( Fable/ Mythos ) shut down. Open AI doing fine. Altman knows who to pay off.