(1154) Almost afternoon all. Just back from my medical review and I’m afraid I have bad news for you … unless hit by a bus, nuke or three letter agency, I’m on your hands for a fair while still … sorry to annoy. (1234)
A certain unpleasantness recently
Yyyeeessssss, that was all well and fine, except for that clown coming in and trivialising it with the Steely Dan number … always has to be one, doesn’t there:
… despite the sudden advertising dropped upon us.
(0909) Greetings again after that interlude. (0927)
10. The NASA and related death toll climbs
I was going to run this at OoL but thought it would be none too secure over there.
9. Moo corner
8. She also speaketh the truth
7. She speaketh the truth
6. A lovely day but some tricky juggling
… all the same.
April 23rd
(0616) Morning all, sunny out there through lightly poisoned cloud. It’s my “OoL morning” so I was over there for an hour just now, also correspondence. Have a good one. ((0715)
5. Ballots after election day
4. Steve at 1361
3. This below is the one I was going to lead with at OoL
… but went with the troops witchhunts instead….
2. DAD at 1361
a) Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, supports Elon Musk, who has been summoned by the French justice system:
“Macron’s France is losing its legitimacy by turning criminal investigations into weapons to repress freedom of expression and privacy. The US Department of Justice refused to assist France in its investigation of Elon Musk, calling the case politically motivated….
b) Canada. The Montreal School Services Centre has dismissed nearly 150 support staff members who refused to comply with Quebec’s new secularism law. Among them are dozens of daycare educators, lunchtime supervisors, special education technicians, and attendants for students with disabilities who wear religious headscarves.
c) France. Lagny-sur-Marne (77): a public high school hosts a “youth branch” of Amnesty International which conducts pro-migrant and pro-veil propaganda there….
d) France. 73.8% of Les Républicains members voted in favor of Bruno Retailleau for the 2027 presidential election. This resounding victory is reminiscent of the May 2025 vote at the LR Congress, where 74.31% of votes went to Retailleau and the remainder to his rival, Laurent Wauquiez….
1. Going to open with ZeroHedge
… because it relates to the OoL post itself … I’ve read DAD’s opener, it’s coming up next.
In a terse, one-paragraph statement released this afternoon, the Pentagon announced the immediate departure of Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan, effective immediately.
Undersecretary of the Navy Hung Cao has been elevated to Acting Secretary of the Navy. The announcement, issued by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell (Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs), offered no explanation for the move and simply thanked Phelan for his service “on behalf of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the Deputy.”
Want to learn more? See the full article here.
(1517) Good mid-afternoon, all.
26. Raleigh and later Triumph for me
25. DAD at 1361
Sam is back in London for his new video. “The Push Towards a Universal World Religion”.
24. I do agree
23. Explains itself
22. Housekeeping
Afraid I have to say, yet again, that no way is Unherdables promoting Bannon, Epstein’s mate. That’s it.
21. IYE corner
a. At 1361, The Young Turks
b. ”Digital Public Infrastructure “
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/digital-public-infrastructure
”Countries have lived with imposed conditions for decades. What is new is that the conditions now reach the individual directly — and that infrastructure through which they reach them stays in place long after the emergency that justified installing it has ended.”
“ The National Endowment for Democracy:What It Is and What It Does”
A report from the commies’ HQ. Huda Thunk?
c. Also
https://www.declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/
Probably time for a radio play … one of the good ones. Yes, we’ve probably had this twice already but all the usual elements seem present and the nice thing is that, even knowing the outcome, it invites relistening. Sometimes it’s nice to just listen … give the eyes a rest. Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson.
(1217) Afternoon all … radioplay coming up. (1301)
20. Twofer
19. Moo corner
18. Of memorials and the like
17. Uber danger
(1134) This is the Lord T article on the future of AI, should you wish to repost or quote from it … you’ll recall that for posting at other sites, I used sshots, which have certain constraints on how they can be used. (1204)
AI is the future and the future is not looking good
Bear in mind that what is talked about as AI is not true Artificial Intelligence but Machine Learning algorithms written by some very smart people and because of how well it works in solving problems it gives the impression to our simple minds that it is intelligence. It does so by running so many options in parallel to work out what is the best one and so can easily appear to be super intelligent to a much slower human who analyses and processed the data in a much different way.
For example a chess computer runs many options from the current state of the board to calculate what move it makes next gives it the highest probability of a win. There are so many options so it can only analyse so many steps in the time allotted but it still beats most people. As processors get faster it will be able to do more steps and it has already started beating grand masters. It is called AI because that sounds better and sexier for marketing.
So we hear AI is going to change the world and all will be great except for a few jobs being lost. AI is undoubtedly about to change the world and it isn’t going to be sweetness and light. In fact it is already not looking good and we are still at an early stage. The next stage is to integrate AI into robots and we have already started to do that.
Simple robots for companionship, sex, planting and harvesting vegetables, carpet cleaners, pool cleaners, patrol guards, washing and ironing, basic bricklaying, invalid care and more are already here or already at an advanced stage with more being worked on. These roles are currently usually performed by unskilled workers.
Those workers then cannot get IT or skilled jobs because they don’t have the brainpower or the experience necessary. As the robot dexterity improves more and more jobs will be able to be performed by robots until eventually all manual labour will be able to be performed by a robot. With minimum wages increasing all the time and robots not taking sick days, holidays, being late for work or just not turning up at all and they can work 24/7/365 then spending £250K for a robot becomes economical.
Robots will end up being our servants, growing all our food, bringing everything to us and cooking it. It’ll even be able to clean your teeth make sure you are dressed correctly and even wipe your bottom.
What else will we need? It will initially vastly improve how we live, increase our free time and increase our lifespans but that comes at a cost and that cost will be our lifestyles and self esteem. There will be more job losses and very few new jobs will be created but as we are importing more and more unskilled people the meager jobs created will be insignificant compared to the number of people that will not have a job and no amount of education or training will get them those jobs because people with them won’t be moving on up the ladder.
There will be no ladder for them to move on to. Who will pay the taxes for all those unemployed?
Now, when the only jobs left are skilled jobs and management type roles how many employees does a company need? Especially as there will be no customers because with nobody working who will have any cash to buy non essentials. Sure we will all have the standard TV and the standard electrical gear in the house but as a robot is doing all the work the basic kit will do but I won’t need a car because I won’t be going to work or going on holiday. I won’t be able to afford it.
Firms that make cars are already highly automated but there won’t be any design jobs as basic models are fine who needs innovation to get an extra mpg from a engine when there won’t be that many selling. Who can afford meals out, holidays, expensive hobbies? So the skilled jobs will no longer be required either. We will all be unemployed looked after by robots and having simple hobbies that involve TV, social media or anything that doesn’t require money.
Our societies will stagnate. Why innovate when the robots are doing all the work and nobody has the funds to buy anything? Choice is expensive and robots won’t care what specs the latest appliance has. Why develop new appliances, technology or process methods when robots won’t need to be improved to do what they are doing? Robots will repair themselves and build new robots for those few that get damaged.
This is inevitable. Our government knows it, our tech gurus know it and most of us don’t fully realise the implications. The tech gurus see having nothing but free time as great, it is freeing us up to achieve our full potential. The Tech gurus could be right, we could move to a utopia with no real work, robots looking after us and we have the time to do anything we want. It isn’t too late but what would that entail? We would have to control AI and its interfaces to the real world.
No arming robots and allowing them to maintain and repair themselves without human intervention. No interfaces to real world systems without a human having to approve it and similar restrictions. The rate that AI is being rolled out is out of control and accelerating, look but the Geeks think it is going to be OK, they always do and they make these mistakes because they always think they can control it and they never think things through.
The governments though. Well, why do you think they are trying to bump us off with false vaccines, allow food full of carcinogenic compounds, disarming us while importing violent migrants and pushing for meek societies managed by the state, that state being a totalitarian government.
This is why governments are pushing their agendas, disarming the people, digital currency, make them conform to 15 minute cities, obey instructions mindlessly and make sure they are not educated enough to actually think. They will still be in charge but they don’t need nor want billions of useless people when they only need a million people for the tasks that robots can’t do and for those governments to oversee with them clearly in charge.
We really underestimate how duplicitous our politicians are. They would destroy our democracies, kill and imprison our people so they could rule the ashes. By the time we wake up it will take a civil war with significant losses to take back control. Even the US with its Constitution written by moral geniuses underestimated the lengths politicians will go to for power and what machinations they will do to work around the wording in that document.
At least in the beginning because politicians and civil servants will stupidly put AI in charge of actions to make their lives easier and already these AIs are protecting other AIs and lying to us. The simple people we have in government are just too dumb to realise that they won’t be in charge long. Robots were first thought of as machines to take the drudgery out of work and thus was seen as the future for mankind. Many others went different routes and made slaves of people which is a much easier tried and tested route. You just don’t want too many to control.
Our last hope will be that the robots in charge want to keep some of us.
(1019) IYE is up at 1361 (1032)
15. Two of the three most formidable women
… in a man’s life:
14. Not Moo but YBaBB this time
13. The rental trap
12. Torquaymada
Coffee break read….Are you secure in your faith? There’s some laugh out loud parts to this one….
https://restoremag.com/the-island-that-forgot-it-is-slightly-mad
11. This is the question put to Virginians
