Why UFOs Suddenly Big Deal? Something to do with “ET Phone Home”?
Kids probably get it, even if we don’t. Honey, I Shrunk the (Kids, Whoops) Universe! This is a previous post that I introduce just to show how a (my) warped sense of cosmological history works, the better to understand the very complicated tale I weave below. Telescopes such as the James Webb, the European Euclid […]
Do Aliens Use Bitcoin?
As you will see below, my formative years were spent dissipating while reading tomes like The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Europa Will Be Bulldozed to Make Way for the Next Cosmic Superhighway! We’re just sending the Europa Clipper to Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. Clipper is an apt name coz there’s apparently a […]
The Alzheimer’s Fiasco: Scientific Fraud in NIH
Alzheimer’s is the most terrible, mind-shattering disease of our time. We citizens given the task to the prestigious National Institutes of Health to slay the dragon. Staffed by the crème de la crème, leading scientists from all over the world, there could be no questioning of its scientific expertise and its capacity to take on […]
ARE AI COMPANIES THE NEXT PHASE IN TOXIC NARCISSISM?
To my peevish mind, OpenAI looks just too good to be true. What if I am right? Easy Queasy Whenever I see a certain type of headline in a prominent publication I get collywobbles in my stomach. That’s because I have seen so many similar associated with hubris, fraud and wrongdoing. Here’s one headline I saw recently: OpenAI […]
3 Weddings and a Funeral – The Coming Global Condo Crash
You’ve probably been reading and hearing about all those condos in Florida that their owners can’t get rid of. It’s going to get much bigger than we think, with numerous scary flavors thrown in. The Crash Heard Around the World? Yep, that would be Surfside, the tragic collapse of a Mimami a condo skyscraper in 2021. […]
Boeings Don’t Fix Broke – They Just Switch to Performative Art!
So, Boeing has screwed up yet again. The secret? Don’t aim to fix the particular problem – find a totally new solution. Quality Job No. 11 Boeaing is one of the worlds bellwethers in reliability, quality and admirability. Or it was. Now it’s not. Is there any way of unbreaking something that is irretrievably broken […]
When Do We Run Out of Grannies?
No Tipping Points Left? No doubt you have been deluged by all those doom headlines about climate change. The tipping points I have included below are just another iteration. My take: the big takeaway is not what happens to the planet – it’s what happens to us (i.e. we humans). Remember Coral? Did you see […]
Is the human epic of space conquest just the biggest fraud of all?
Space is big right? What if all those books, movies and stories are just so much bunkum anyway? At best epics that could never be. Surely not??? No Thrust? No Trust! I guess you could have missed seeing the latest failure of the NASA/Boeing launch to the ISS. This time it was the thrusters, but […]
Beyond AI – Dementia & Boosted Natural Intelligence
Is there something better, and more reliable than AI, namely what I am calling BNI (boosted natural intelligence)? Old Before Their Time One of the deep undying tragedies of our times is the growing ranks of seniors with dementia, of which there are many varieties. The various approaches to finding a palliative – not a […]
LLMs Kaput; Viva la Multilarity!
Words are so boring. We’re going to move to LXMs (non-LLM-based models) which can ditch obsolescent codas to move up into the new good stuff. Not So Single(sic) We’ve all been captured by the tempting notion of the Singularity. Singularity is the final signal of the end of everything, the ultimate resting place for bureaucrats, […]