Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

During the summer of 1886‚ spectators at the lavish new ballpark for the New York Mets (Metropolitans) were able to look at New York harbor from the St. George grandstand and see the Statue of Liberty being assembled. The nickname "Mets" a shortening of the corporate name ("New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.") was adopted on May 8, 1961.




May 29, 1942: "Yankee Doodle Dandy", based on life of George M. Cohan, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney (1899-1986) and Joan Leslie, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Actor 1943).




May 29, 1943: Rosie the Riveter, by Norman Rockwell for The Saturday Evening Post.


Video: Remembering "Rosie The Riveter"


Pilot Food Stamp Program - May 29, 1961-1964
Food Stamp Act of 1964: eligibility for purchase with food stamps of all items intended for human consumption except alcoholic beverages and imported foods (the House version would have prohibited the purchase of soft drinks, luxury foods, and luxury frozen foods)


Paper Money, Official Bimonthly Publication of The Society of Paper Money Collectors, Inc. May/June 2011



U.S. top 20 for May 29, 1965. And No. 1 songs for the summer of ‘65 (Memorial Day to Labor Day).




May 28, 1968: In Hogan v. State of Nevada, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that NRS 201.190 was not vague, and that the phrase "crime against nature" included not only "sodomy, but also all unnatural carnal copulations." Amazing that Sin City had such laws back in the '60s...




May 29, 1980: Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana, by racist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin (who also permanently wounded Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in 1978). It was the first major news story for the new network, CNN. Jordan survives & later becomes a friend & political adviser to Bill Clinton.


Franklin was acquitted of the assault — only to confess his guilt years later in 1996 when convicted on another murder charge. In an interview, Franklin said he considered Adolf Hitler his hero and "Mein Kampf" his Bible. "I read it hundreds of times."

Trying to start a “race war,” he said he bombed synagogues, shot interracial couples and killed “enemies of the white race.” By the time it ended, he had killed at least 22 people, including Jackson State University student Johnnie Noyes Jr., who had simply been washing his car.

On Nov 20, 2013, Franklin was executed by lethal injection in Missouri for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon outside a synagogue in St. Louis.

CNN clip from 1980


Circuits hum with war,
code replaces uranium—
silence learns to think.
Welcome to the brave new world.
A new arms race has commenced.
Bold statement from the DOE. Wonder how well this will age.


Not sure where all that ENERGY is going to come from (coffee beans & drill baby, drill?), to power:

Transportation: Liquid fuels power cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes, enabling the movement of goods and people.

Industry: Liquid fuels are used in manufacturing, heating, and as feedstocks for petrochemicals (e.g., plastics, chemicals).

Energy Infrastructure: Refineries and power generation often rely on liquid fuels, either directly or as part of the production process.

Global Trade: The maritime sector, heavily dependent on liquid fuels, facilitates 99% of U.S. overseas trade.

ALL managed by AI agents.

Grok is hungry for more data and must be fed.



Like all the previous Energy secretaries, the 17th secretary is touring all 17 national labs this week.



1. Ames Laboratory

2. Argonne National Laboratory

3. Brookhaven National Laboratory

4. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

5. Idaho National Laboratory

6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

7. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

8. Los Alamos National Laboratory

9. National Energy Technology Laboratory

10. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

11. Oak Ridge National Laboratory

12. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

13. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

14. Sandia National Laboratories

15. Savannah River National Laboratory

16. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

17. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

DOE has managed all the national laboratories and the U.S. nuclear weapons program. Trump's nuclear executive orders will raise nuclear energy capacity from 100 gigawatts to 400 gigawatts within 25 years. So, instead of importing Uranium we're going to start mining it in our backyard to feed the megalithic data centers.

This is like an example of bad AI:



"There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing—absolutely nothing—except switch itself off."
— Arthur C. Clarke