Why current AI technology can’t get us what its proponents are promising. Why the media keeps getting the AI story wrong. Why AI layoffs are just an excuse to re-hire workers for cheaper.

Germany has overtaken China last year to become the world’s fourth biggest weapons dealer and the country is poised to overtake Russia to claim the third place behind the US and France.

When a strange alien comes aboard the station, Delenn wants to kill it immediately. Someone is about to die, we are told, and the alien is here to harvest their soul. Is it all hogwash, as Dr. Franklin, the new station doctor believes, or is there indeed a threat?

Trump’s war on Iran is a huge blunder, both militarily and politically. The US can’t possibly win this war and Trump is tanking his presidency, and the whole Republican Party, along with it.

I filled out an interview while updating my Muck Rack profile just now, so I thought I would repost it here for your edification.

A health scare on the No Agenda show

CSS is a special hell …

I’ve been digging through the Epstein files for weeks now and I’m finding that there are a lot of issues with the coverage in the press. This is an attempt to explain some of them.

It’s been 24 years with my dearest love and best friend.

Why software is so shit, how to make it performant and why current AI companies are morally reprehensible.

LLMs are, at best, a dirty hack. And they won’t be the future of AI.

The Narn and Centauri are at killing blows and Commander Sinclair decides to take out a fighter and leave his new second-in-command to handle the rapidly developing situation.

Alex Kurtzman has ruined Star Trek. The only decent thing to do now is to let it die.

An MIT professor developed the first chatbot in 1964 and discovered that we tend to ascribe human traits to even the simplest computer programs. This would foreshadow today’s widespread AI delusion.

Speaking of Walter Kirn: This is a well needed breath of fresh air!

I will really miss that show…

Rewatching the the Babylon 5 pilot episode

A several-billion-dollar welfare scam hit national news shortly before the riots erupted in Minneapolis. And the people egging on the protesters seem to be directly involved in this fraud.

On of the best TV shows of all time is being released for free on YouTube right now.

Nice to see I’m not the only one who absolutely hated everything about this show.