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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 20h

Returned from early vote in the midterms this morning and my video surveillance caught this photo of me, kind of capturing my emotion on completing this act of citizenship at this dire time in the history of the Republic:

Dalton returns from voting, spiritually cleansed.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“[T]he meaning of a sentence may be more than that of the separate words, as a melody is more than the notes” [Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F. 2d 809, 810–11 (1934) cited by Stephen Breyer in "Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution" Nov. 17-19, 2004 Tanner Lectures at Harvard]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yet another outrageous misrepresentation of reality by "science" reporters: AI tool is trained to match patterns of brain waves to simple images observed, e.g., a banana. They then claim will eventually read inner thoughts (laughing as I write). www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/01/1...

technologyreview.com

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watched UFC fights last night on CBS, including Natália Silva beating Wang Cong to win UFC Women's Flyweight Championship belt. Not a fan of women fighting generally, but Silva was fun to watch, with her twitchy live-wire taekwondo style with occasional Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu grapple.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dr. John Ferguson, MD objects to a proposal to license autonomous AI parrots as credentialled physician-like entities, noting software has no moral agency, accountability or ability to refuse unsafe action. NOHARM reported 22% of AI recommendations cause severe harm, despite competency on USMLE.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With SB 868, also known as the Plug and Play Solar Act (signed into law in California September 30, 2026 and taking effect January 1, 2027), California joined New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Colorado in allowing plug-in (to std outlets) solar panels.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"St. Patrick was right when he said to Ossian, 'The heroes that thou weepest are dead; can they be born again?' It is high time to note, before they shall have passed away, the divine tones thus expiring on the horizon before the growing tumult of uniform civilisation" [Poetry of Celtic Races]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The aspiration to truth is more precious than its assured possession," a statement by Lessing that Einstein found poignant towards the end (having spent decades in futile effort to unite GR and QM). [I spent 3 hrs this morning locating “Eine Duplik” and translating from German relevant portion.]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Surfed from NFL to VMAs catching Taylor's "Patient Zero" (my first exposure to her voice; liked it and the video, though odd theme considering recent marriage) and Kacey Musgraves nice cover of Parton's "Will Always Love You" (good song ruined by Whitney screaming years ago), with my ad hoc harmony.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Got 0.3 ml of Comirnaty 2026-27 COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA yesterday morning. Ran low fever afterwards and every orthopedic injury from the last 50 years of so complained, but feeling better somewhat now. Strategy is to avoid a lingering death if possible ("isn't death so much as the dying I fear").

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Read Murphy lecture notes "Astronomy 253: Plasma Astrophysics" again; reach conceptual understanding: opposing electron flow (plasma vectors) with accomp. B-fields perpendicular meet in X, squirting out the sides of the X intersection, breaking and reconnecting the respective incoming mag lines:

2D conceptual figure of magnetic line reconnection in a plasma flow from Nick Murphy's lecture notes "Astronomy 253: Plasma Astrophysics" (he cites figure as from Center for Visual Computing, Univ. of California Riverside).

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Enlightenment identified reason as distinctive human quality; today we have epoch of big data, "an epoch without reason." Web devolved into a "dictatorship of emotion." [Review of "Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power" by Byung-Chul Han, by Richard Horton, Lancet]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Read article by Mustafa Suleyman (CEO Microsoft AI) this morning. Surprised to find someone from the AI industry speaking honestly, e.g., "AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience...They are sequence completion engines.. designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From 1983 to 2018 US employment grew by 44% while managers and administrators more than doubled. [Yang VC, Grenier L. What leads to administrative bloat? a dynamic model of administrative cost and waste. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026;123(22), cited by Carmichael, doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2026.3085]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Leibniz faith in determinism (claims feasible in principle to mechanically predict the future) is wrong, i.e., the state of a physical system can never be fully specified: Single trajectories cannot be tracked, only a ball of nearby initial points is sensible. [Chaos: Classical and Quantum 2020]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"It seems sometimes that through a preoccupation with science, we acquire a firmer hold over the vicissitudes of life and meet them with greater calm, but in reality we have done no more than to find a way to escape from our sorrows." —Hermann Minkowski in a letter to David Hilbert [chaosbook.org]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Of course God has a beard: He has no necessity for Ockham's Razor.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Flu shot yesterday, so every injury from last 60 years hurts, but to be honest, most days the same level (and ignore pain, continuing the physical conditioning as I have daily for 36 years or so, following Kyokushin founder Oyama's example, he training daily until his death, though arthritic).

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Recalling summer '68 and acquaintance John Slater playing Zappa's "Wowie Zowie" (from 1966 album "Freak Out!") and asking me if I knew what the lyric "I had a flash in the afternoon" was talking about (hallucinogen persisting perception disorder). By 1969 I had studied the phenomenon.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Studying magnetic line reconnections this morning, trying to get a conceptual handle on it without initially wading through the plasma physics. Nick Murphy's lecture notes "Astronomy 253: Plasma Astrophysics" are good, as is the Wikipedia article "Magnetic reconnection" (with excellent NASA video).

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Read a JAMA study using data from the entire Danish population finding that a man and a woman who have children together are more likely than random mating would suggest to share the same psychiatric diagnosis. Birds of a feather? JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.2712

Figure 2 heat map of correlation of parents psychiatric disorders. From
"Population-Level Implications of Parental Similarity for the Prevalence and Heritability of Psychiatric Disorders" by Dehkordi et al,
JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.2712

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Exhaled Carbon Monoxide Levels May Offer Clues on the Etiology of Parkinson Disease" Darweesh et al JAMA Neurology 2026 found that exhaled CO (carbon monoxide) levels in non-smokers associated with lower risk of developing PD (Parkinson's), consistent with studies finding smoking also protective.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some claim that I cannot assert one must open the door before leaving the house absent "scientific evidence." When experimental data is collected and analyzed, interpretation must be grounded in known context within relevant fields and replicated, but true science involves a mind and observation.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Miss my late wife Cheri, who passed away at 60 in 2013. Met her in 1972 (year following the photo below when she was a Sun Dutchess in El Paso, she on the left looking radiant and mischevious in a fur coat). Much joy and music came out of our time together later in our lives after our 2009 renewal.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BBC reports on the UN warning of supersized El Niño. It appears southern US going to be pretty wet this winter:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17jqp0xzpzo
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released the latest data on the natural weather phenomenon showing it could be the strongest for more than 70 years and last until at least February 2027.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Been reading papers on AGN energy output (SMBH super black holes in center of galaxies). Pleased to find theoretical framework for IceCube TeV - PeV neutrinos production with photohadronic interactions relying on only hot corona and proton acceleration in SMBH magnetosphere. arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15523

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"COVID-19 vaccines were consistently associated with a reduction in the risk of hospitalization and other outcomes, including among individuals at high risk of severe COVID-19, ... No new safety concerns were identified." [JAMA. doi:10.1001/jama.2026.18191]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Read article [JAMA Psychiatry Sept 2026 Volume 83, Number 9] on LLMs as clinical psychiatric instruments "towards verifiable reasoning"[sic]. Why would you want to train clinicians so they can examine the instriniscally unreasoned output of LLMs (AI) and decide which parts were wrong? Don't use them

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Nature, reminding me as it frequently does that I am past my expiration date, woke me irretrievably at 0300 am (EMA early morning awakening, or tertiary insomnia). In compensation, perhaps, "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop" by Little Anthony & The Imperials began playing in my head. youtu.be/5mLjZRAXRRA?...

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Little Anthony & The Imperials "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop"

YouTube video by NRRArchives

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Right Navigation Camera onboard NASA Mars rover Curiosity on 2023-08-20 22:27:46 UTC caught this object on the horizon, though it wasn't there in a shot taken 13 seconds earlier. Resembles the many UFO shots of flying disks since the 50's (appears to be taking off at high rate of speed).

Enlarged crop from NASA Mars photo https___mars.nasa.gov_msl-raw-images_proj_msl_redops_ods_surface_sol_03924_opgs_edr_ncam_NRB_745839057EDR_S1031528NCAM00594M_.JPG
This image was taken by Right Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3924 (2023-08-20 22:27 UTC).
The 12-bit ADC CCD camera resolution is 1024 x 1024. The object is then roughly 2 pixels across on its vertical axis and maybe 12 pixels across widest line at top. NASA explains it is a cosmic ray artifact, though those typically show as points or worm-like irreg. scrawls. It appears to be some kind of craft leaving the Martian surface.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I was surprised to find Alpha-gal syndrome is revenge of the ticks, i.e., an acquired allergy (mild urticaria or gastrointestinal symptoms to fatal anaphylaxis) to mammalian meat transmitted by tick bites. Thought it related to WNBA attacks on Caitlin Clark.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"if, as is the temptation of postmodernism, the possibility of objective truth is categorically denied, how does one know that their self-awareness, deconstruction of bias and ongoing questioning of one’s beliefs, values and assumptions is not an endless navel-gazing or language game?" [N Delicata]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"only a fool believes that all men are created equal:" True, but seems to be some fear driving such fools, e.g., that we will see a world where Thiels and Musks become oligarchs, but that has already occurred, because of a perversion of the free market, not because they are superior in intelligence.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"...with the development of new technologies, the world of images has an even greater influence...can make the true and the false interchangeable and...lead people to confusing the real with the virtual...because the main reason for presenting the event is to evoke emotion." [Pope Benedict, 2010]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Recommend Nadia Delicata (professor of moral theology, Univ. Malta) article "Evelyn Underhill's Quest for the Holy: A Lifetime Journey of Personal Transformation." Evelyn Underhill, 1875-1941, was a philosopher, mystic, prolific writer. evelynunderhill.org/wp-content/u...

evelynunderhill.org

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Récéjac said that “from the moment in which man is no longer content to devise things useful for his existence under the exclusive action of the will-to-live, the principle of (physical) evolution has been violated,” suggesting revision of evolution to include mental basis. [Underhill in Mysticism]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Read RAND report mirror life, i.e., "hypothetical form of life built from biomolecules with the opposite chirality—or molecular handedness—of all known life on earth." "mirror life could pose a catastrophic risk to multicellular life on earth" www.rand.org/pubs/researc... Guess we need Mars colony

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A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life

RAND researchers present a strategy for the United States to prevent the creation of mirror life by anyone, anywhere.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A general term signifies a form in particulars such that the latter fall under the concept signified by the term. This act of awareness is familiar in human existence [paraphrasing Gyula Klima in his 1996 Semantic Principles underlying Saint Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Being].

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thinking about antinomy of the liar recently, i.e., the sentence "I am lying" uttered by a liar (he is therefore telling the truth, but that contradicts his nature). Alfred Tarski used an approach similar to Kurt Gödel (incompleteness theorems 1930), demanding discuss truth in a metalanguage.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Read the US v Stokes case 25 CR 812 (superseding complaint). Interesting how the FBI tracked down Peter Stokes (19 yr old), associated with Scattered Spider ransomware group using Microsoft logs of his pc GDID. Apparently MS quietly tracks your internet activity on any MS Windows OS device uniquely.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

FDA approved (07/13/26) subcutaneous Leqembi (lecanemab)for early AD (Alzheimer’s disease). It doesn't stop or reverse AD decline, just slows 27%. May cause ARIA (amyloid-related imaging a bnormalities) temporary brain swelling or small spots of bleeding, occas. fatal. Cost $20,000/yr.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Some US adults consult AI for financial guidance; only about 30% have any confidence in it (70% are not idiots). Taha Choukhmane at MIT subtly implies the stochastic parrots are believable, i.e., they are among "other trusted sources" while commending use as prelim. tool. apnews.com/article/arti...

apnews.com

Some US adults are using AI for financial guidance but few trust it, Gallup poll finds

U.S. adults are using artificial intelligence for financial guidance, but it’s far from the most trusted source of advice.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Trump administration wants to control thought in educational institutions and channel research to oligarchs. Author noted (as an aside) that universities have created artificial markets to spur professor "productivity" (i.e. publish more trivia or revisionist). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progress

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Visited @erika-buenaflor.bsky.social this morning here, a Curandera, i.e., a native healer. It immediately reminded me of my 2nd wife's Puerto Rican Sanse Espiritismo rituals in Paterson, NJ. 1983, where a barefoot woman twirled, cigar in hand, spitting rum and prophesying, Jesus statue observing.

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Under the misery (mine) loves company category: 77-year-old author (Game of Thrones) George RR Martin reflected on aging, noting “getting old is no fun” and that he has to have assistants post on his website as he continues to fall behind. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

theguardian.com

‘Getting old is no fun’: Game of Thrones author George RR Martin speaks out about depression amid further book delays

A new blog post by the fantasy writer has outlined his recent difficulties, as fans continue to speculate on the elusive sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Watch pot of stew boiling turbulently on the stove. Consider surface of Sun roiling at 10913 degrees F, hotter ionized plasma below boiling up. Magnetic field concentrations (plasma flow is an electric current so generates mag field) trigger Kelvin-Helmholtz vorticies:

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope picture Fig. 1 view of the solar photosphere at a spatial resolution of 19 km from 14 April 2025.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10871-3

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My dire warnings about the collapse of civilization are undoubtedly compromised by my lack of fungible personal authority (my words are my authority, which limits the audience I suppose), but at least some others understand what is happening: www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

theguardian.com

Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it

Writer Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"It is not that the components of the rule of law are absent; rather, the ability of the rule of law to function coherently has been subverted by a powerful set of practices that has evolved organically in the post-Soviet milieu." ["Unwritten rules: How Russia really works" by Alena Ledeneva, 2001]

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Dalton @gdaltonbentley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Homo sapiens seems to be devolving to something more akin to ... hive organism where uniformity is inspected in real time at every level, functional idiots receiving their "guidance" from stochastic parrots regurgitating statistically associated words and sentences ..." [Dalton, Sept. 2, 2024]

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