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May 31, 2025

Meanwhile, military-grade AI is flying 9G fighter jets.

For the past year, the public discussion has been fixated on the wrong question. Talking heads fret over whether ChatGPT might say something offensive, or whether Midjourney might draw the wrong number of fingers. We are told that AI isn't quite ready — it's potentially dangerous, often unpredictable, hallucinates too much, and is a bit too quirky for real work. They claim we're years away from so-called artificial general intelligence, and that “alignment” must come first.

Meanwhile, military-grade AI is flying 9G fighter jets.
But it is aggravating that the AI conversation itself has been nerfed and dumbed down, with the enthusiastic participation of useless corporate media that consistently obscures the true issues, and instead runs ridiculously superficial articles mocking small AI mistakes in MAHA reports. The AI that flies 9G fighter jets doesn’t make those kinds of easy errors. Just the versions that we get.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/chip-of-the-west-saturday-may-31?

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September 17, 2025

The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal

The America of 1960 was healthier than the America of 2025 because they lived in an environment that did not conspire against physiology.

Independent Medical Alliance Sep 17

By IMA Co-Founder Dr. Joseph Varon

Originally published by The Brownstone Institute on 09/16/2025


Walk into any American airport today and pause. Look around at the travelers waiting at the gate, the families queuing for fast food, the crowds rushing past. You are looking at a country that our grandparents would not recognize. In less than three generations, the very shape of the American body has shifted so dramatically that what would once have been regarded as rare or concerning is now routine. Airplane seats have been widened, retail clothing racks have been extended, mannequins have been reshaped, and soda cups have been enlarged. Entire industries have recalibrated to accommodate a physiology that is neither healthy nor sustainable.

Yet our cultural ...

September 16, 2025

University of Alberta law prof placed on leave over Charlie Kirk comments

https://www.junonews.com/p/university-of-alberta-law-prof-placed

I watched this last night and glad I found today to share. Greg was fired up and rightly so.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/16/we-dont-care-that-shit-is-dead/

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