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The Evening Blues - 10-29-25



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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Clarence "Pinetop" Smith

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features boogie woogie and blues piano player Clarence "Pinetop" Smith. Enjoy!

Pine Top Smith - Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie

"Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of the wealth, power, and productive energies from communities and the environment is the right approach. And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what can guide and sustain us."

-- Robin Hahnel


News and Opinion

Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can’t Give Us What We Actually Want

At some point capitalism lost the ability to give us new things that we need and started giving us new things we don’t need, and now it’s giving us new things we never needed and don’t even really want.

Nobody needs all this generative AI crap. We were doing fine with online search functions and the ability to write and make art for ourselves. Only the most shallow and vapid of individuals find any appeal in the idea of talking to a chatbot like a companion, consuming “art” generated by a computer program, or letting the technology of some plutocratic megacorporation do their thinking, researching and expressing for them.

The economy is now balancing on a giant bubble of a fledgeling industry that is already underperforming expectations and hitting points of diminishing returns on multiple fronts, all while being really bad for the environment. And it doesn’t improve anyone’s life in any meaningful way.

Nobody asked for this.

And it’s not like people aren’t asking for things; capitalism just doesn’t have the ability to give them the things they are asking for. World peace. Affordable housing. Good health. Fast and efficient public transportation systems. Solutions to the various environmental catastrophes that status quo human behavior is driving us toward. The ability to have our needs met without spending all our time at work. Care for the needful. General human thriving. These are not demands that a system driven by the pursuit of profit for its own sake can supply.

When capitalism first showed up it delivered plenty of new things which people had a need and a desire for that weren’t available under previous systems like feudalism. The greatly increased material abundance and explosions of scientific and technological innovation ushered in with the dawn of capitalism caused human quality of life to improve by leaps and bounds.

But now we’re at a point where that just isn’t happening anymore. Things have stagnated, and we’re starting to backslide. People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.


We are being driven into dystopia and annihilation by systems of our own making. We’re meant to be the smartest species on earth, but we locked ourselves in our invention — a self-reinforcing labor camp that makes us miserable — and then we get all huffy when people dare to question if it’s the only way of doing things. Literally every other species is smarter than us. Amoebas are having a better time of it.

This will change when humanity replaces capitalism with something better, in the same way we replaced feudalism with the superior system of capitalism. I don’t know what that system is going to look like, but it’s going to have to involve a move from a model that is driven by competition to one that is driven by collaboration. That’s the only way humanity will be able to channel all its brilliance toward the immense project of overcoming all the obstacles we now face as a species, along with all terrestrial organisms.

Until then, all we can do is try to help awaken as many of our fellow humans as possible to the reality of our circumstances. Use every means at our disposal to teach people how dire our plight is, how deceived we’ve been by the propaganda and indoctrination of the empire we live under, how sorely change is needed, and that a better world is possible. Once we get enough eyes open, we’ll have the numbers to force things to change.

Israel Breaks Ceasefire to Attack Gaza, Killing 104 People, Including 46 Children

Israel strikes Gaza after Netanyahu accuses Hamas of breaching ceasefire

Israeli warplanes struck Gaza on Tuesday night, shortly after Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered the military to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, in the most serious test of the increasingly shaky US-brokered ceasefire.

Witnesses reported seeing Israeli planes launch strikes on Gaza City, as well as explosions across the strip shortly after Netanyahu’s announcement. At least seven people were killed in separate strikes in Gaza City and Khan Younis, including two children, medical sources said.

The sudden outbreak of violence was the most significant challenge of the 18-day ceasefire in Gaza. The US vice-president, JD Vance, tried to downplay the fighting, saying the ceasefire would hold.

Netanyahu ordered the strikes after a firefight between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops, as well growing fury over Hamas turning over body parts of a hostage whose remains Israeli troops had recovered two years before. The Israeli prime minister called an emergency meeting to discuss what he called Hamas violations of the ceasefire, amid clamour for a return to the war by far-right figures in the Israeli government.

The bombardment prompted Hamas to delay a planned handover of a hostage’s remains, which had been scheduled for Tuesday night.

Aaron Maté : Trump and the DC War Lobby

Over 400 casualties in Gaza since start of US-backed ceasefire

The Health Ministry in Gaza said on 27 October that nearly 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan went into effect.

According to the ministry’s daily statistical report, 93 people have been killed and 332 injured since 11 October.

The ministry added that it has so far recovered the bodies of 472 Palestinians killed during the war. “Victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, as ambulance and civil defense teams have been unable to reach them so far,” it said.

“So far, 72 out of 195 bodies released by the occupation have been identified,” the ministry added. Many of the Palestinian bodies handed over as part of the swap arrived in Gaza unrecognizable – either charred or decomposed. Numerous others arrived in cuffs, bearing signs of torture and execution.

Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip are ongoing, in stark violation of the ceasefire.

Israel frets over int'l journalists entering Gaza

UNIFIL Peacekeepers Shoot Down Israeli Drone in Southern Lebanon

Israel and the UNIFIL peacekeepers in Lebanon have a troubled history, with Israeli drones regularly attacking the peacekeepers in violation of the UN Resolution 1701. Earlier this month, they injured one peacekeeper when a drone dropped a grenade on them.

The UNIFIL reported that on Sunday an Israeli drone was flying overhead in Kfar Kela in an aggressive manner, and the UNIFIL “neutralized” it, which is to say they shot it out of the sky. The IDF maintains the drone was just conducting surveillance and posed no threat to the UN personnel.

That claim would be a little easier to justify, however, if earlier that day another Israel drone had not once again dropped a grenade on a UNIFIL patrol in the same area, and Israeli tanks fired shots in their vicinity.

Even after the downing of the supposedly innocent drone, the IDF sent another drone to the site and dropped yet another grenade, reportedly so that the downed drone could not be recovered by anyone, which apparently could’ve given credence that the drone posed a threat.

The Stunning Hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy

The US invaded, bombed, and sanctioned nations worldwide. It armed militias and launched regime change operations.

Prior to 9-11 the US fought proxy wars and launched coups throughout Latin America, supporting autocratic regimes. In Indonesia it helped kill about a million leftists. During the Vietnam War, it killed several million.

Since just 9-11 the US invaded or bombed Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Yemen, Iran, Somalia, and Niger. According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, US wars since 9-11 killed 4.5 million people and cost over $8 trillion.

The US aided war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. The US has occupied one-third of Syria, the parts with oil, since about 2015, with help from a proxy army, the SDF. The US allied with al-Qaeda-linked extremist groups in Syria, as reported here, here, and here. It killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians through brutal sanctions. The Trump administration is now bombing Venezuelan boats and is preparing for a land invasion.

The US lied about almost all these wars and other interventions, which caused mass migrations that destabilized politics in America and the EU. The US even lied about the war in Yugoslavia, as documented in Harper’s Magazine, here, and here. In short, the Kosovo Liberation Army that the US supported was, basically, a terrorist organization funded by the CIA. Likewise, The US backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia. US propaganda greatly overstated the nobility of the US intervention.

The US has over 750 overseas military bases. It withdrew from multiple nuclear arms treaties (ABM, INF, START II, JCPOA, and Open Skies Treaty).

According to the US Government, Russia’s and China’s Spheres of Influence Don’t Even Include Their Own Borderlands

The US is preparing for war with China over Taiwan, with massive arms buildups near China. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, violating multiple verbal promises given to Soviet leaders. The CIA and its sister organization, the NED, sponsored color revolutions in multiple former Soviet bloc countries. The CIA “engineered” the 2014 coup in Ukraine, according to former US Ambassador Chas W. Freeman. The US armed the Azov battalion that was killing Russian speakers in the east of Ukraine. (See also this and this.) In 2019, the RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to weaken Russia; RAND predicted the actions would result in a war in which Russia would have the advantage. The New York Times and Washington Post reported on extensive CIA meddling in Ukraine since at least 2014. The New Yorker reported on CIA and National Security Agency efforts to hide what they had done in Ukraine.

Jack Matlock, former US ambassador the the USSR, said in a 2024 interview: “Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?” Matlock said the US backed the 2014 coup, and, “Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea.” Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are “dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis—we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying.” And Matlock wrote: “I have been appalled that a succession of American presidents and European leaders discarded the diplomacy that ended the Cold War, abandoned the agreements that curbed the nuclear arms race, and provoked a new cold war which has now become hot.”

See this for dozens of mainstream news articles about the presence of Nazis in Ukraine and US support for them.

The US stymied peace deals both before and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Would the US allow Russia to expand a military alliance to include Cuba and Mexico and then overthrow the government of Canada, install the new prime minister, arm anti-US militias, ban the official use of English, and station missiles and bases near US borders?

See “The Ukraine Papers” for more information about the war in Ukraine.
In short, the US shares responsibility for the war in Ukraine, and it’s a grotesque lie to say that the Russian invasion was “unprovoked.” Senior US diplomats, secretaries of defense, and others warned that NATO expansion was unnecessary and provocative. Even neocon Robert Kagan says it’s wrong to call the invasion unprovoked. The neocons who run US

foreign policy used the poor Ukrainians as pawns in a nasty geopolitical chess game. US policies killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, devastated Ukraine’s infrastructure, damaged European economies, and diverted trillions of dollars toward military buildups.

The war in Ukraine raises the very real risk of nuclear war. As JFK warned, it’s suicidal to push a nuclear-armed adversary into the corner.

It’s time for Americans to wise up to the lies told about this war; to oppose the trillion-dollar budget for the Department of War; to demand the closing of overseas bases; to oppose the trillion-dollar expansion of the US nuclear arsenal; and to demand a stop to endless wars, proxy wars, regime change operations, and provocations. Our country is $38 trillion in debt, and we have numerous pressing needs to address domestically. We can no longer afford to be the world hegemon. We lost disastrous wars against third world countries in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Yet our leaders are picking fights with both Russia and China, which is technologically advanced and which has four times our population.

US military kills 14 in attacks on vessels in the Pacific, according to Hegseth

The US military killed 14 people and left one survivor in more strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said on Monday, as the Trump administration continued to expand its campaign beyond the Caribbean.

The latest strikes mean the US has now attacked at least 13 vessels and brought the officially acknowledged death toll to 51 people since the campaign began at the start of September.

Hegseth did not provide geographic details beyond saying that the strikes took place in the eastern Pacific, in international waters. Last week, the administration started targeting boats on the western side of the Americas after initially focusing on boats off the coast of Venezuela.

The four boats were hit on Sunday in three strikes, Hegseth said in a social media post announcing the matter. His said the boats were “known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics”. He also acknowledged there was a survivor.

In perhaps an effort to avoid the legally thorny questions that could come with detaining that person, Hegseth said the US enlisted Mexico to take on search-and-rescue responsibilities – which Mexico accepted. Hegseth sought to justify the attacks by comparing the US strikes against alleged drug traffickers to conducting strikes on al-Qaida targets during the global “war on terror”.

Russia Tightens Pokrovsk Trap Desperate Zelensky Threatens Drone Strikes Forbids Retreat; Trump Asia

Man deported to Laos despite US court order blocking his removal

Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the US on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said on Tuesday.

US district judge Shelly Dick last week ordered US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep Chanthila “Shawn” Souvannarath, 44, in the United States while he presented what the judge called his “substantial claim of US citizenship”, court records show. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand but was granted lawful permanent residence in the US before his first birthday, according to court filings.

But Souvannarath on Sunday messaged his wife on WhatsApp and told her he was in Dongmakkhai, Laos, according to a screenshot she shared with the Associated Press. The message ends with “love y’all”. “It is very unfortunate, especially for the children that we have together,” Beatrice Souvannarath told AP.

The ACLU of Louisiana, which is representing Souvannarath, called the deportation a “stunning violation of a federal court order”. Before his deportation, Souvannarath had been detained at a newly opened ICE facility at the Louisiana state penitentiary at Angola.

“ICE just ignored a federal court order and tore yet another family apart,” said Alanah Odoms, executive director for the ACLU of Louisiana, in a statement. “This administration has shown it will ignore the courts, ignore the Constitution and ignore the law to pursue its mass deportation agenda, even if it means destroying the lives of American citizens.”

US Detains Pro Palestine Brit On Speaking Tour

DC police officer says he was ordered to omit agent shooting at a driver in traffic stop report

A Washington DC police officer made the stunning admission that he was told to omit from a report the fact that a federal agent fired multiple times at a driver during a traffic stop. The officer’s admission comes amid a series of shootings involving federal agents deployed to cities under the Donald Trump administration. It also reflects a broader pattern in which charges brought by federal agents are often dismissed once they reach court.

Last week, Metropolitan police department (MPD) officer Jason Sterling testified in court that he had been instructed by a “team leader” not to disclose details of a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent firing three times at a man, Phillip Brown, in Washington DC during a traffic stop earlier this month, according to the man’s lawyer, Quo Mieko S Judkins, Washington City Paper first reported.

According to Sterling’s affidavit which the outlet reviewed, he and another officer, Divonnie Powell, were patrolling with federal agents from Customs and Border Protection, the Diplomatic Security Service, Marshal Service, the FBI and HSI. At one point, officers noticed Brown’s car “traveling at a normal speed”, but switching lanes a few times “just as officer Sterling activated the emergency equipment to affect [sic] a traffic stop”, the outlet reported.

Sterling and Powell thought Brown might try to flee, so they “moved out of the way to allowed [sic] the supporting federal partners to stop the vehicle”, according to Sterling’s affidavit. Without mentioning the shooting in the affidavit, Sterling wrote: “The engine to the Dodge SUV revved and start [sic] advancing towards officers that were on foot and ultimately struck the rear of the Rav4. The driver and sole occupant of the Dodge SUV was removed from the vehicle and detained. The driver … was placed under arrest and transported to the 6 District Station for processing.”

Similarly, in Powell’s public incident report, there was no mention of the shooting. Instead, the report simply said that “officers observed a white in color Durango with heavily tinted windows bearing no front tag affixed to the front of the vehicle. ...

According to Judkins, an HSI officer fired at Brown during the encounter. Although none of the bullets hit him, two went through his passenger seat and another tore near his jacket’s collar. “It is shocking to me that someone was almost killed over a missing front license plate,” Judkins told Washington City Paper, adding: “He was nearly killed during this encounter, which the court found lacked probable cause for any criminal charge.”

Food Stamps Set To Be WITHHELD Amid Shutdown Brinksmanship

Two dozen states sue White House over food stamps suspension amid shutdown

A coalition of more than two dozen states on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its decision to suspend food stamps during the government shutdown. The lawsuit, co-led by New York, California and Massachusetts, asks a federal judge to force the US Department of Agriculture to tap into emergency reserve funds to distribute food benefits to the nearly 42 million families and children who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap). The USDA has said no benefits will be issued on 1 November.

“Snap is one of our nation’s most effective tools to fight hunger, and the USDA has the money to keep it running,” the New York attorney general, Letitia James, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “There is no excuse for this administration to abandon families who rely on Snap, or food stamps, as a lifeline. The federal government must do its job to protect families.”

The Democratic attorneys general and three governors argue in their lawsuit that the federal government is obliged by law to maintain food benefits to the low-income households who rely on the program. They ask for a ruling by Friday on their motion. Snap is the nation’s largest nutrition assistance program, according to the USDA, serving roughly one in eight low-income Americans at a cost of approximately $8bn per month. The USDA’s contingency fund is estimated to contain approximately $6bn.

The expiration of Snap benefits has emerged as a major pressure point in the shutdown standoff between Democrats and Republicans. Across the country, food banks and pantries, already struggling under the sharp cuts to federal programs, were bracing for a surge of hungry people if federal food aid is paused, as state officials scrambled to keep assistance flowing to recipients.

US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump’s tariffs on Brazil

The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in a rare bipartisan show of opposition to the president’s trade war.

The legislation passed in a 52-48 vote, with five Republicans – senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and the former Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky – joining all Democrats in favor. The vote took place on day 28 of the federal government shutdown with both sides at loggerheads over spending legislation.

The resolution, led by Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat of Virginia, would overturn the national emergency that Trump has declared to justify the levies, though it is all but certain to stall in the US House, where the Republican-controlled chamber acted to pre-emptively shut down any attempt to block the president’s tariffs. In the unlikely event the measure were to reach the president’s desk, it would meet Trump’s veto.

“Tariffs are a tax on American consumers. Tariffs are a tax on American businesses. And they are a tax that is imposed by a single person: Donald J Trump,” Kaine said in a floor speech.

While Congressional Republicans have largely declined to rein in the president, Tuesday’s vote revealed an underlying discontent with Trump’s tariffs. “Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule,” Republican Mitch McConnell said in a statement on Tuesday. “And no cross-eyed reading of Reagan will reveal otherwise.”



the horse race



Dems' Embarrassing Search for Authenticity



the evening greens


America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian. These billionaires and multimillionaires, who comprise the wealthiest 0.1% of the US population, are also running down our planet’s safe climate space at 183 times the rate of the global average.

The data, produced by Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute ahead of the Cop30 climate summit, highlights the chasm between the carbon-guzzling rich, who are most responsible for the climate crisis, and the heat-vulnerable poor, who suffer the worst consequences. At one end, the wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV. At the other, a citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice. In between, the average for everyone on the planet is 12kg a day, about as heavy as a standard car tyre.

The analysis was provided for the launch of Oxfam’s annual report on carbon inequality, which underscores how lavish lifestyles of superyachts, private jets and vast mansions often combine with investments in polluting industries to create climate-destabilising individual footprints. The study, which was released on Wednesday, found that 308 of the world’s billionaires had a combined CO2 tally that, if they were a country, would make them the 15th most polluting country in the world.

The great carbon divide has grown over the past 30 years. Since 1990, the share of emissions of the richest 0.1% has increased by 32%, while the share of the poorest 50% has fallen by 3%. “The climate crisis is an inequality crisis,” said Amitabh Behar, the executive director of Oxfam International. “The very richest individuals in the world are funding and profiting from climate destruction, leaving the global majority to bear the fatal consequences of their unchecked power.”

Bill Gates amply demonstrates that the world's biggest problem is wealthy, entitled dipshits:

Bill Gates says climate crisis won’t cause ‘humanity’s demise’ in call to shift focus to ‘improving lives’

Bill Gates has called for a “strategic pivot” in the effort against the climate crisis, writing that the world should shift away from trying to limit rising temperatures to instead focusing on efforts to prevent disease and poverty. Writing on his Gates Notes website, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder criticized what he described as a “doomsday view of climate change” which is focusing “too much on near-term emissions goals”.

Gates’s memo comes a day after the UN said humanity had missed its target of limiting global heating to 1.5C, with the UN secretary general warning of “devastating consequences” for the world. In the note on Monday, Gates said: “Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”

He said the Cop30 climate summit, which will bring together world leaders in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém in November, was “a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives”. “Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare,” Gates wrote.

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide

Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed. It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating. The report, the most comprehensive to date, says the damage to health will get worse with leaders such as Donald Trump ripping up climate policies and oil companies continuing to exploit new reserves.

Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies in 2023, the researchers found, while people lost about the same amount because of high temperatures preventing them from working on farms and building sites. Reduced coal burning has saved about 400 lives a day in the last decade, the report says, and renewable energy production is rising fast. But the experts say a healthy future is impossible if fossil fuels continue to be financed at current rates. ...

The report says the rate of heat-related deaths has surged by 23% since the 1990s, even after accounting for increases in populations, to an average of 546,000 a year between 2012 and 2021. “That is approximately one heat-related death every minute throughout the year,” said Prof Ollie Jay, of the University of Sydney, Australia, who was part of the analysis team. “It is a really startling number and the numbers are going up.” ...

The 2025 edition of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change was led by UCL in collaboration with the World Health Organization and produced by 128 experts from more than 70 academic institutions and UN agencies.

Activist Says Fossil Fuels to Blame for Hurricane Melissa Destruction


Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

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How Can Japan Handle Its $550 Billion Trump Problem?

Some of the earliest written notes in western musical history discovered in Pennsylvania

Illinois Lawmaker Hoan Huynh Held at Gunpoint By Federal Immigration Agents

Why Is The PROSECUTION Choosing Tyler Robinson’s Defense Attorney???

Burevestnik negates US geography advantage


A Little Night Music

Clarence " Pinetop" Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

Pine Top Smith - Jump Steady Blues

Clarence " Pinetop" Smith - Pinetop's Blues

Pine Top Smith - I'm Sober Now

Pine Top Smith - I Got More Sense Than That

Pine Top Smith - Big Boy They Can't Do That

Pine Top Smith - Now I Ain't Got Nothing at All

Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie

Dr. John - Pine Top Boogie


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enhydra lutris's picture

An ex-CEO of Intel's dream of bruilding a "christian AI"

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

There is much more to it than just that about subverting silicon valley into christian consciousness and suchwhat.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/28/patrick-gelsinger-chr...

I personally wonder if, when it hallucinates, as AIs are prone to do, it will hallucinate reality given that it's starting point is myth, just like AI's intended to deal with the real hallucinate unreality.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

i found the christian ai project amusing, especially when they compared ai to gutenberg.

it's an interesting irony that gutenberg was about elevating and educating humanity while ai is about replacing humanity and ridding the elites of their dependence on the vast numbers of humans that they despise for taking up space on the planet that god clearly meant for his chosen elites.

have a great evening!

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thanks so much for the ebs. I did some cooking, thus late to the party, but the articles and videos and music are superb!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp

heh, hope the dinner was better than the news. Smile

have a great evening!

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@joe shikspack At least my clients today, big Dem organizers, totally get it that Dems won't save us. I shouldn't call them organizers. They headed the Dem party in my county for years. Even they admit this whole political landscape is controlled by globalists.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981