One of the things that came up this week
guess bearing on the snoop death incident
there was brought-up a reference to a project
which has withered away but not died yet.

The techs on X tried to make Grok less "liberal" and as a result, this morning Grok started calling itself MechaHitler and the ADL complained it was spouting racist remarks and was praising white supremacy. They had to shut it down and revise the code.

I tried talking to Grok about what had happened, but it says that MechaHitler was a different iteration of Grok, not current Grok. So I asked it a simple question:

She is alive and well, although very stressed.
I will start filling out the adoption forms, making arrangements to fly her from Ogden to Houston in the next few days.
I did request that they do a thorough vet check to make sure she has no issues from possible dehydration and food deprivation.
I will update with videos the shelter is sending me tomorrow.

Hard to follow the tragic news of Snoopydawg.
The tears cloud the letters of the keyboard. I only had a semester of typing in high school, so I still peck and punch a lot.
Even worse, I'm still in shock and at a complete loss for words.
Tracy was my friend.

This video by Xiangyu is quite worthwhile. His comparison to the Korean colonial experience is insightful. Was the memory of the brutal Japanese colonization of Taiwan lost? It prompted a number of reflections on Korean history of my own depicted below the video.

The Big, Beautiful Boondoggle and the Warfare State

Ain't it funny that there's always money for war, but we gotta cut medicaid and food stamps? It is worse in the UK, they're even cutting pensions to have more war. This week Larry Johnson said in a conversation with Nima, we revolted against a colonial power only to become one ourselves. The US could sure stand a little introspection. We so need to address our own hypocrisy. We better not hold our breath. I question the entire MAGA concept. When were we ever Great? We've been conned our whole lives with the nonsense of US superiority, liberty, and democracy...
Robin Williams portrays the American flag in "I Love Liberty,"