Thursday, August 13, 2026

"Barely disguising..."

                                     fungi growing with the rains

                          white flower in the morning...down but not out


 

                              approaching sunset...day before yesterday

been reading some very good articles...mostly in new yorker magazine...i am somewhat embarassed to say that i used AI for the first time...wrote my inquiry so i can not really be prosecuted for it..."does taylor swift have any tattoos?"...this line of inquiry came from a photo in new yorker magazine of october 10, 2011...the photo is by katy grannan...ms swift is shown with writing on her hand and arm..the intelligence responded with the information that ms swift said she might change her mind so she has no tattoos...my view exactly...might change my mind...no tattoos...another "influencer" who is in the medias sights has said in a 14 page "manifesto"(?!) that he wants AI for all...mr zuckerberg who allowed the common folk to have international faces has decided to let common folk have all-knowing intelligence...for better or worse...yeah!....more knowledege is more better....however in an article entitled "Breeding ground" (new yorker june 1, 2026) (not about Only Fans) ms. Shayla Love has investigated the evolution of microbes on planet earth the subtitle is "The climate is changing, microbes are evolving, are we ready?" to put this in perspective there is a description of this evolution..."The gap between the rate of human evolution and the rate of microbial evolution is like the difference between a drifting tectonic plate and an F-16 fighter jet"...wow!...that is quite a difference...what about hand washing....well if it makes you less anxious about infection...go for it....but one of the alarming statements is about the cleaning team in a hospital dis-infecting a room and when the floors were tested there were hundreds of microbe species detected...oh well...there was an interesting article about the swiss people voting on a law to keep their population below 10 million people and it was rejected with 55% against...because it was said that the GDP would be lower by 12% by the end of the century (new yorker 6/15/26) I say let the plump ones in...also some very good youtube presentations are "What is democratic socialism (15min) @ carolyn kraft the subtitle is "no one in america understands socialism"...this woman brings some light to the conversation about forms of governance...also "Empire with michael portillo" India segment is 45min..there are also segments on USA and south africa...very well done...by the way a fellow named Mangal Pandey who was an Indian sepoy (military) smacked a british officer and began the "sepoy revolt" which began the outster of the brits as the ruling class in India...a very interesting presentation which gets the old synapses cranked up is "Open Sauce 2026 blew my mind(15min) @chris herr...this is billed as a inventors gathering...great stuff...

there was an article in new yorker 7/20/26 in the london postcard section about a "gathering of madonna!? promoters"...two of shit is shit!...the thinly veiled contempt of the writer is apparent in his statement concerning a drink offering..."barely disquising a watery want of flavor."   not unlike madonna herself! 

 

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