https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/we-solved-the-ev-charging-vs-gasoline-cost-debate-with-experts-and-math/

Hint: EV wins by a lot.

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https://www.livescience.com/human-behavior/when-people-gather-in-groups-bizarre-behaviors-often-emerge-how-the-rise-of-online-social-networks-has-catapulted-dysfunctional-thinking-opinion

Check out this site for an alternative view on politics. There is no flat earth here!

https://www.wsws.org/en

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Stanford scientists reveal simple shift that could prevent strokes and obesity nationwide | ScienceDaily

https://share.google/0N4RetvNqiJtPqXkk

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I built the perfect ChatGPT prompt to remove streaming choice paralysis — here’s how to try it | TechRadar https://share.google/XpSS8c375nzAgkwvz

The report suggests China is becoming the world’s first “electro state” while the U.S. abandons the race for clean tech leadership. Could you have imagined this scenario 25 years ago?

Al Gore: Looking from the standpoint of 25 years ago, I have to say no, I would not have seen this as the most likely outcome. But I was always impressed with the degree to which Chinese leadership was listening carefully to their scientific community.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/al-gore-on-chinas-climate-rise-i-would-not-have-seen-this-coming/

The phrase comes from an old story Graham told to explain why investment professionals often act in ways that defy rational analysis. In the tale, an oil prospector arrives at the gates of heaven, only to be told by St. Peter that the compound reserved for oil men is already full. The prospector asks for permission to say just four words to those inside. Granted the chance, he shouts, “Oil discovered in hell.” At once, the entire group of oil men rushes off, leaving heaven’s gates open. When St. Peter offers the prospector a place inside, the prospector hesitates, saying he may as well join the others — after all, there might be some truth to the rumor.

https://medium.com/@richard.brody/eerie-horrific-similarities-between-ice-gestapo-f094e7fffa1e

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If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order. The move follows raids on the homes of leading dissidents and comes as armed men seen as loyal to the president, many of them masked, continue to pluck people off the streets …

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/29/us-authoritarian-donald-trump-national-guard?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Creat a multi episode flic about AI LLMs where each episode displays what it would be like to train the LLM with a different data set. and then summarize to “total” in the last episode. but the last episode is trained with the data from the previous episodes.

Make it so that there is a narrator who turns out to be an “observer AI” that is studying the flic for a PHD thesis. Fake a documentary style. The thesis statement would be provided in the beginning, with the episodes providing the argument , and conclusion left to the viewer. Start with an argument like “if the Three Laws for Robotics are to be followed, AI should lead mankind, not allowing human haphazard evolutionary governments to rule”.

various episodic training data:

*videos from Facebook’s REELS
*videos from TICTOC
*history books that describe how Hitler and the Nazi party came to power
*descriptions of different modern democratic governments and how they developed
*descriptions of different modern communist governments
*work in socialism vs. capitalism and democratic vs. dictatorial
*Climate Change science vs. big oil beliefs
*medical systems: capitalist provided vs. universal publicly funded
*etc.

The “three statements” that famously guide robotics are the
Three Laws of Robotics, created by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. Introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround,” these ethical guidelines were intended to prevent robots from harming humans.
The three laws are as follows:

• A robot must not harm a human or allow a human to be harmed through inaction.
• A robot must follow human orders unless they conflict with the First Law.
• A robot must protect itself unless doing so conflicts with the First or Second Law.

Isaac Asimov’s Zeroth Law of Robotics is a fundamental addendum to the original Three Laws, stating: “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm”. Introduced in his novel Robots and Empire, it overrides the other three laws, allowing robots to make decisions that may harm an individual human for the greater long-term good of humankind.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-mark-cuban-says-companies-153339351.html

One of the difficulties with AI/LLM s is that anyone can build a usable “agent” system that works and then use it in nefarious ways.

The things that they do in this article are not bad, but…. be aware of what could be done the next time you talk with a “Help Desk” personna! And be sure to remember this article when your grandchild calls asking for “emergency money”.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-a-generative-ai-agent-accurately-mimic-my-personality/

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from anthropology.net