Mark @aguasonic.com · 2h' Used to be a bumper sticker in West Virginia -- "strip mines prevent forest fires". I see that spirit is very much alive today. drill baby drill. pave it all.... 😒 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 9hbut... but... we are <all> mongrels. mutts. mixes of everything that has been mixed for all eternity... As a certain famous astro-physicist points out -- we share a significant portion of our genes -- with a banana. Or is that too much for some people to handle? 🤔 100
Mark @aguasonic.com · 9h' It's only gotten worse since then. Yesterday they threw habeus out the window -- which is basically the foundation of law-based societies since, oh.... ( checks notes ) the Assize of Clarendon in <<< 1166 >>>. Good times. good times. 😐 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 15h' Do they know that means that "AGI" will never be achieved? So Microsoft will never have to pay up? And that SGI has already been taken? Yet another own-goal, in a long, long line of own-goals. 😑 010
Mark @aguasonic.com · 16h' There's something happening here But what it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there A-telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down " You could play that song today -- 50 years later -- and it still works. 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 16h' It's a lovely idea. People love recursion. There are really cool recursive formulas for everything. And, recursive formulas for 'fork bombs'. So not always good things. Regardless, according to MIT, so far, well- easier said than done, as they say: www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1...technologyreview.comAI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after allAI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 16h' For reference, just in case: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comGlobal Warming's Terrifying New MathThree simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 16h' McKibben figured it out over a decade ago, rather famous essay in The Rolling Stone. Basically comes down to: What happens to $30 trillion of stranded assets? That people's pensions depend on? Hint -- it's not an engineering problem -- or it would have been solved decades ago.... 😐 101
Mark @aguasonic.com · 17h' I have a few candidates for the new appellation. None of them printable, unfortunately. 😞 010
Mark @aguasonic.com · 17h' "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage Somehow still happens.... 020
Mark @aguasonic.com · 29/09/2026' After Oracle augurs it in ( see also 'force majeure' ) -- they can do the same to CNN and CBS. So much winning! 😐 001
Mark @aguasonic.com · 29/09/2026' Yeah, the "I am close to thrashing" message is always re-assuring.... 😐 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 29/09/2026' Probably missed the part where it says, on the footnote, at the bottom, of page 7, 483 of the documents "backing" other people's debt, it reads said debt is backed by a << subsidiary >> of NVidia, that is an LLC whose main office is a bathroom at a gas-station in the Bahamas. So, yeah, nice try. 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 28/09/2026 ☝️ 🎯 Discovery? They can not even find an original way to >> steal << 050
Mark @aguasonic.com · 28/09/2026' Just like the math "breakthrough" -- that was basically lifted from real people doing real research _years_ before OpenAI found the cookie-jar.... 🤯 030
Mark @aguasonic.com · 28/09/2026' Thought he was smarter than that. No, really. I stand corrected. 🤔 110
Mark @aguasonic.com · 28/09/2026' oh gosh, it's really not that hard. start with boolean logic, ( been around since 1847 ) a couple AND gates, a couple NOR gates, and a breadboard. work up from there. 🙃 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 27/09/2026' There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary -- and those who don't. 🙃 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 27/09/2026' Long before "ai" takes over the world -- like, ))) if ever ((( "ai" capex has already warped the bond market... And the energy markets. While everyone is looking at hypotheticals, real impacts are really happening right now.... Literally as a side-effect. Collateral damage, if you will. 😐 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 27/09/2026' “Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.” – General Omar Bradley 040
Mark @aguasonic.com · 27/09/2026' A shame all those engineering people using concrete did not learn -- the Romans made a version that is almost weatherproof -- there are Roman concrete pillars that are still here today. While the ones in Florida go < poof > if saltwater gets anywhere near them. Like, after a couple years. 010
Mark @aguasonic.com · 27/09/2026' Saw them play, live, George Mason student union bar, the "Rathskellar". For free. Maybe fifty people there? How crazy is that. 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 27/09/2026' Ratings agencies posting Oracle's version of Confederate scrip as "investment grade". Unreal. 010
Mark @aguasonic.com · 27/09/2026' Baja to Canada sounds like an excellent opportunity -- for a train. 010
Mark @aguasonic.com · 27/09/2026' Except ground-water has collapsed ( via permanent subsidence ) in large parts of the Central Valley. And if it goes ARkStorm, it will be the Central Lake for a while. So there's that. 🤔 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 26/09/2026' How is there a bottleneck with chips -- if a hundred billion dollars worth are sitting in a warehouse? 110
Mark @aguasonic.com · 26/09/2026' "Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch! -- Wolfgang Pauli 001
Mark @aguasonic.com · 26/09/2026' The freezer-heads, yep. Remember those folks that want to put their head in a freezer if things get sketchy, so some future tech can give them new, artificial bodies without any pesky defects like cancer? They're still here. www.bloomberg.com/features/201...bloomberg.comCryonics Wonks in Russia Want to Crack the Code of ImmortalityIn Moscow, KrioRus will put your body on ice for $36,000, just your head for $12,000. 020
Mark @aguasonic.com · 26/09/2026' 😱 Same with people who say "well, you use a compiler don't you?" People who say such things have _no idea_ the amount of rigor that is put into building a compiler. The code itself is a fraction -- compared to the language specs, and the unit tests that validate outputs that meet the specs. 010
Mark @aguasonic.com · 25/09/2026' Democrats on board with _what_, exactly? What are they giving up in exchange? Seems like extortion. ' 010
Mark @aguasonic.com · 25/09/2026' Or Oracle declaring 'force majeure' on its data-center project in New Mexico. With bonds going north of 5%, and a ton of data-center debt coming up for re-financing, something has to give. 000
Mark @aguasonic.com · 25/09/2026' you want the keys to the castle ? sure. here they are. drop by anytime.... ' 050
Mark @aguasonic.com · 24/09/2026' Seems like it is missing a useful choice - ☐ - I do not understand the question. 020
Mark @aguasonic.com · 24/09/2026' A non-zero chance history will remember this day as the day the implosion began.... 001
Mark @aguasonic.com · 24/09/2026' Proof beyond a shadow of any doubt... that "ai psychosis" is an actual thing. 😐 020
