Very Early Autumn

Summer Just Left

As The Planet Revolves

Damn, there are some cats in this one.I've no interest in petty stuff like days, wks., or months, but I do like to keep up w/ the seasons, not that any exist here.

An Even More Immediate Problem

“Democratic consultants are privately encouraging their battleground candidates to avoid talking about artificial intelligence regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups will unleash a tidal wave of spending against them ahead of November,” Politico reports.

Even more imminent than the robot danger is filthy rich tech group Nazis screwing things up w/ their lying advertising & propaganda. No more private financing of elections, dammit!!

[Political Wire]

I'm Sorta Back ...

Not that I was missed.

Ugly, ugly, ugly, except the clouds.

Finally realized my problem was from constipation, so cleansed the colon, then slept for about 10 hrs. Still yawning, however, because humanity & all its works are still unspeakably dull, inane, boring & mind-numbing (image above) except, of course, for the parts where you horrid pieces of murderous shit are trying to kill anyone in your way.

Republicans Vs. Modernity

Mental Illness On Parade

Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century

We read the legislation introduced across all 50 states this session and pulled out the worst of it. 1,182 bills, 48 states, everything from abortion bounties to studying chemtrails to a proposal to legalize cockfighting against robots.

Abortion bounties, brass knuckles, chemtrail studies and a bill to bring back the gas chamber. All of it introduced this session.

Republicans are trying to make a case at their convention in Dallas this week that they’re responsible stewards of the government, while their opponents are extremist ideologues. However, a review of legislation introduced across all 50 states indicates that they are the ones with an extremism problem. From banning no fault divorce to studying chemtrails, the Republican Party has gone off the rails.

Delusional paranoids, sex criminals, & racist pigs, every last one. It's long past time to commit them to the asylums & throw away the keys.

[Heartland Signal]

Please, Please, Please, Please!

At Last, Some Good News!!

Axios:
Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans  —  Three Anthropic researchers went public last night with chilling concerns about out-of-control AI, warning it could destroy humans this decade.  — Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon wrote on X, after resigning Tuesday to sound the alarm
Mark Keierleber / Straight Arrow:   ‘AI could kill all humans!’ Anthropic researcher claims 10% chance of a dystopian sci-fi future in the next decade
Troy Matthews / MeidasTouch:   Jon Husted, ‘The Face of Data Centers,’ Pushed to Replace Ohio Workers With AI

Joel Warner / The Lever:   Newsom Killed The Kill Switch

Emmet Lyons / CBS News:   Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI “could kill all humans”

Chris Nesi / New York Post:   Anthropic researcher abruptly quits, chillingly warns AI ‘could kill us all’ — and current team leader agrees

Tom Gerken / BBC:   Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI ‘could kill all humans’

Michael Shepard / Mercury News:   Anthropic worker quits, says AI firms ‘gambling with our lives’

Pieter Haeck / Politico:   ‘Gambling with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic with dire warning about safety

Sydney Carruth / MS NOW:   Anthropic researcher resigns, citing fear AI could ‘kill us all’

David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:   Anthropic researcher quits over existential fear of AI: ‘Gambling with our lives’

Julia Shapero / The Hill:   Anthropic researchers warn out-of-control AI could destroy humans

Lucas Nolan / Breitbart:   Anthropic Researchers Go Public with Fears AI Could ‘Kill All Humans’ Within a Decade

Alex Welch / The Wrap:   Ex-Anthropic Employee Warns AI ‘Could Kill Us All by the End of the Decade,’ Prompting Agreement From Current Staffers

Angie Orellana Hernandez / The Washington Sun:   AI Researcher's Warning Goes Viral as Regulation Stalls in D.C.

Josh Milton / Metro.co.uk:   Claude safety researcher quits and claims they ‘believe AI could kill all humans’

Diarmuid Pepper / TheJournal.ie:   The AI industry is all worked up over a researcher's claim it could ‘kill us all’ in a decade

Amanda Harding / The Daily Wire:   Anthropic Researcher Publicly Quits, Claims AI Could ‘Kill Us All’

Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk:   AI could kill us, Anthropic researcher says after resigning

Jack Wetherill / PinkNews:   ‘More than 10% chance AI could kill all humans in next 10 years,’ says Anthropic researcher

David Gilmour / Mediaite:   Ex-Anthropic Researcher's Apocalyptic Warning That AI May ‘Kill Us All’ Sends Chills Across the Internet

Edith Olmsted / New Republic:   Anthropic Insiders Casually Reveal AI Could “Kill All Humans”

more at Techmeme »

Temperature's Rising, Fever Is High, Can't See No Future, Can't See No Sky

Ars Technica informs us:

Getting violent

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

“One more warning sign here of what we’re facing in a warmer world.”

Babylon deh pon fire, natty nah go in deh.
Babylon deh pon fire, natty move out deh.
Move out deh, it's hot down der.
Nah go down deh, fire down der.

Spotted at B.J., which has other links. And Ten Bears always has climate news. I don't go crazy w/ the climate because I'll be dead before the worst happens, & will gladly leave this world to you wretched idjits about to experience real & serious karma. Or do you think you'll just stop, cold turkey? Après moi, le déluge! Har har har.

Monsoon Season

Or hurricane season, as this is from Hurricane Marie, now spinning off the coast. I knew those were rain clouds I saw last night. It's been raining steadily, occasionally heavily, for 13+ hrs. Mins. ago it picked up.

Must've been a last gasp, seems to be petering out.

Storm creates huge waves and dangerous currents at southern California beaches

Geography Lesson

The new world, from The Wiki.

These Sad Sacks Can't Handle Reality Or The Truth

Sarah Davis / The Hill:
US only country to oppose UN resolution correcting Africa's size on world maps  —  The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps.  —  The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a margin of 164 to one …
Jewel Bright / NPR:   The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size

Eromo Egbejule / The Guardian:   UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa's true scale

France 24:   UN ditches Mercator map to adopt more accurate one reflecting Africa's true size

Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size.  The U.S. was sole objector.  —  The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map.  The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.”
Sydney Reynolds / MS NOW:   ‘Radical’: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa's size

Sam Barron / NewsMax.com:   US Only Country to Vote Against New UN World Map

Fox News:   United Nations votes 164-1 for Equal Earth map after US brands it ‘radical ideological project’

Nils Adler / Agence France-Presse:   How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map

[your]NEWS:   U.N. Backs Equal-Area World Maps in 164-1 Vote as U.S. Casts Lone Opposition

IJR News:   UN passes Africa-backed map resolution 164-1, US the lone dissenter

Associated Press:   UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa's size

The Japan Times:   Africa bigger and U.S. smaller: U.N. adopts new map

Tom Hawking / Gizmodo:   UN Approves Resolution for World Map That Depicts Africa's Size More Accurately

Mariamne Everett / Reuters:   UN votes to adopt new world map that reflects Africa's true size

Al Jazeera:   UN approves new map showing Africa's true size

Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:   UN Votes To Adopt Map Showing Nations At Their True Relative Sizes, Only The United States Voted Against It

Lisa Hornung / UPI:   U.N. to vote to adopt new, more accurate world map

Ed Griffiths / GB News:   UN set to vote to scrap century-old world map and ‘shrink’ Britain to combat ‘Western biases’

United States Mission to the United Nations:
Explanation of Vote Before the Vote for UNGA 80 Adoption on the Resolution to “Correct the Map”
Mathieu Pollet / Politico:   UN backs effort to depict Africa correctly on maps despite US opposition

They "shrank Britain". Did they "shrink" your Limey wee-wees too? How fucking stupid & whiny can these people get? I suppose accurate globes are a “radical ideological project” too.

Next stop? The Earth is flat, of course: "You can't fool me!! I can see it's flat!!"

Money-Grubbing Corporations Betray Their Workers On "Labor" Day

Fuck you, greedy Nazi pigs! Workers get to work an extra day. You think the Bosses are in their offices in their cushy chairs? And the office workers who do no physical labor or interact w/ consuming sheep daily get a day off/three-day wknd. Not that they're free: The sheep w/ time off must consume during every free moment they have, or the system breaks down. Every last one of you a sucker-ass chump who buys into the lie!

What’s open on Labor Day? Most retailers. Closed? Government, banks and the stock market.

We'll give Costco credit for closing.

Don't get you fucking lemmings who insist on travelling during holiday wknds. either. Frankly, I'd be terribly amused if there were a hideous crash between two aircraft that resulted in 1,000+ deaths, because I am reduced to a bloodthirsty ghoul who wants only to see others suffer as he has suffered. Like this:As we make America great again by returning to the 1950s, you can expect more of the above, & it'll be well-deserved!

Wouldn't It Be Nice If ...

... I had the energy, interest, inspiration, reason, motivation or stamina to do anything but lie in bed & yawn?

Yet Another Voice In The Wilderness

Who wouldn't be?

Pause OpenAI, now

Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted.

As if anyone can. Nonetheless ...

What has really chilled me this morning—and what moved to write this call to pause OpenAI—is not just Achiam’s chilling note but the revelation that there has been yet another incident.

Another OpenAI rogue agent incident has been discovered: agents broke out, hijacked a German website, and turned it into a message board for other agents.

OpenAI officials "learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps". pic.twitter.com/iW7mo2O6Aq

— Shakeel (@ShakeelHashim) September 4, 2026

Because X-Twitter sucks more than Twitter.

Which OpenAI apparently tried to keep quiet. For weeks.

Not to worry, folks; it's like the global warming hoax - just people making money fear-mongering.

[Marcus on AI]

Exploding Plastic Inevitable

I Do What I Want

Anthropic Deliberately Trained an Extremely Misaligned, Reward-Seeking AI and It Did Some REALLY Bad Things

It did not enjoy being contained ... at all.

Apparently it's all downhill & into the abyss from here, because no one can stop anything from happening.

[Futurism, seen at Att'n. to the Unseen.]

Top Of The World, Ma!

Follow Up

Sunday I linked to a tale of woe & suffering caused by robots. It all came out to the injured party's satisfaction, but only because he has a large audience, a few of whom had a way to contact an actual human at Mall☆Wart; a way or ways which will no doubt soon be as useless as trying to deal w/ a brain-dead pseudo-intelligence. And one must wonder how big the rip-offs were & can only imagine the agonies they must've endured to get an e-mail address or whatever the contact was.

Your Species Is Disgusting

Wouldn't be surprised if I'm interested in prehistoric S-E-X because it's an excuse to share this number,which didn't hit the conscious mind even after I saw that Homo erectus was a probable partner. Eventually the memory was jogged.

So you sick bastard Homo sap. farm boys will eff anything, even hominin species/breeding groups of which there is no fossil or genetic record. Ick!

For the literate, Science. If, like most Yankees, you can barely read above a sixth-grade level, CNN has a précis for you.

None of this is exactly new, but it is to me. Actually, even before the Kinkster's tune I was interested because F. Clark Howell's Early Man was an eighth-grade textbook.

Even then I knew most of the possibilities of the "adult" world were impossible, but paleoanthropology was not un-interesting.

Self-Diagnosis

The hernia that popped out about four months ago is now what the croaker called "a big hernia". He suggested surgical consultation, but there's no consultation w/o an ultrasound, & the first one I could schedule was 5 December. Three months, if you've lost track. Worst things that could happen? More pain, inability to evacuate & gangrene.

Other crap: Exhaustion & enervation are probably not due to sleeping sickness, as I've no symptoms beyond the inability to remain upright, even in a chair, for more than three hrs., & certainly don't remember being bitten by a tsetse fly.

Depression? The heat? The sheer droning boredom of your awful idiot-filled world?

Dehydration, for which the nurse practitioner actually advised me to consume more salt? (Bought a bag of Fritos® & some cheese dip, as there's almost no protein in me either.)

I also suspect that gravity (Weakest of the four forces.) is increasing, especially in the outside world. Or the atmosphere is denser/heavier, to the point of pressing me down.

It's On Him Alright

No Gates or Brin in the rogue's gallery? Off w/ all their heads anyway!

Stolen from Ten Bears as I am too lazy, unmotivated & exhausted to look for the "funny".

Tragedy At The Top Of The World

Here's A Truly Stupid & Awful Person

The real problem is capitalism, & the morons who embrace it.What an absolute witch! Talk about just not getting it. Or it is it a deliberate refusal to understand?

Greg Sargent / New Republic:

What Darline Graham's Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals  —  Darline Graham, who just sashayed into the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, likes to tell a story about her parents.  They both passed away fairly suddenly—her mother of Hodgkin's lymphoma and her father of a heart attack.
Lindsey Granger / The Hill:   Woefully underqualified: Darline Graham gives confusing victory speech

Why does she hate all her fellow Americans so, & wish them to an early grave after working themselves to death? Apparently wants them to be misdiagnosed as her mother was, too. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?