Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

There’s a $2 billion NSA data center in Utah desert that spies on all of our phones except for one owned by some 20 year old would-be assassin who looks strangely like Liz Warren. Also, strange how that 20 year old weirdo with zero training was able to bypass the highest levels of government security without the F-15s I’ve been assured he would need in order to do so.



The world is a stage and when events unravel so dramatically it requires intense skepticism and it sure doesn't smell right. Elon throwing millions behind Trump? JD Vance and his Silicon Valley allies join with him. What is actually happening in plain sight.

"But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high--to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

Today our concern must be with that future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do."
— Address of Senator John F. Kennedy Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States, Los Angeles, CA, July 15, 1960.

JD Vance's wife Usha clerked for Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge.

They have three very young children.

They're both Millennials.

Yes, the world is changing, but not anything new.


Black Mirror reality is here...


The Guardian and Why American tech companies need to help build AI weaponry (WaPo op-ed by co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies)


Monday words...


A) Limpid - nothing is clear or transparent in politics.
B) Ipsedixitism - We're living it daily here!
C) Padgy-Paw - Because that brings the cute newt impression.
D) Waldenfreund - That's me & I'm not there right now, but I plan to be soon.
E) Dolorifuge - We could all use a bit of that currently.


Twitter/X is now legal to vote. Created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, it launched July 15, 2006.




Schrödinger's Cat is alive... and Pissed.




The German Navy still uses 8" floppy disks. A reminder that the pace of technological change may be fast, but legacy systems remain in place for decades, especially in gov't & military. Sometimes old tech rules.

Floppies keep floppin’

For the typical person, floppy disks are obsolete, but government bodies with already established and successfully running systems in place have been much slower to abandon the old storage medium. Besides the German Navy and US Air Force, Japan only last month officially stopped using floppy disks in governmental systems. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency plans to use 5¼-inch floppies to help run San Francisco's Muni Metro light rail system until 2030.

Four Brandenburg-class F123 warships employ floppies for data-acquisition systems

Up until 2014 the US Air Force stored nuclear codes on floppies. Their reasoning? Cannot be hacked since the system is not connected to the Internet.





What is the likelihood this will happen?




New tin foil just dropped...




I'm off to the desert lone Diner for a drink with the old timers.