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  So much talk of AI agents, super chatbot spinoffs that can actually do things for you, pay your bills, grocery shop, run your research project, scratch your back. AI mavens are  inventing and hawking them like crazy.  I'm ready to go. I've been thinking what kind of help I need here around the farm. I just have to think about where I could use a little help.   The agents I want: Agent 1: Teenager . A full service phone and app consultant that doesn’t think old people suck.   Agent 2: MIT Masters degree computer scientist with powerful layman communications skills and endless patience. It can get me out of any computer pickle, spitspot. It assumes administrator/owner powers and fixes problems that confound me. Agent 3 : MBA accountant .   Reads all letters and documents from our investments. Makes suggestions. Keeps all our financial records. Files our taxes. Agent 4: Newsy. Stays up to the minute on agents and AI in general. And on science broadly....

Compared to how things could be --  might be -- in a better 2026.... ...There are too many senseless wars being fought, too many divorces, too many children being abused, too much crime, too little justice, too little compassion, too much poverty, too many illnesses that go untreated, too many do-nothing and know-nothing politicians being elected, too little civility and too little truth spoken, too much sadness and too much isolation, too few folks that really listen and too few people that really care about their neighbors. There is too much unbridled power, too much oppression, too many addicts, too many pushers, too few powerful people that believe in God and too many of the rest of us that take His name in vain. There are too many orphans and too many trees cut down, too little concern for our environment, too little trust and too little loyalty. Add to that, there is too much deception, avarice and greed. There are too few role models and too many people that don't even know ...

  And I Thought Those Way-too-Early  Galaxies Were the Story...  HA! So far, only SIX of these have been found. [1] THE REAL STORY So far, 341 "Little red dots" have been found by the mighty JWST space telescope. [2] The best hypothesis about these (so far) is that they are Black Hole Stars,   a completely new kind of celestial body ! (The last such newbie is from 1992, the magnetar.) I'm BIG, say 260 light years across. Think about it. NOT SUCH A "LITTLE" RED DOT These things -- astronomers are calling them "rubies" -- are beyond huge for something called a  'star."  If one was in the milky way, say 1000 light years from us, It would look gigantic -- biggest thing in the sky by a lot, nearly 30 times the diameter of the moon! Almost as big as the Orion constellation. As in huge .  My Hypothesis Still Works!  (Cheering is heard off camera.)  In a nutshell: Scooter Duff's  (updated) Theory of Cosmology 1. Dark matter was a first product o...

 FROM 2019   (click me) RFKJr, Heed, you heedless one! OUCH! Heeding hurts. 'Nuff Said. (Again and again)

 Big Update for Scooter Duff's Theory of Cosmology Exciting stuff, if you are into all that. Link back in time here.

 I Mean Super Huge! All of us oldies have that nagging hunch we are heading for Alzheimer'sville. It's one of the slowest ways to die -- and it tortures your family, drains your savings and is in general giant pain in the ass  brain. SUDDENLY there is another ray of hope!  And it's from a very credible source, nature , the prestigious Brit science journal. New hope for Alzheimer’s: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice OK, mice. But this is just one piece of the evidence -- the latest and a very important piece of research -- but there are numerous documented observational studies showing that lithium takers (bi-polar folks for instance) have much less AD.  And get this: Lithium "slows brain aging in general." There's not much detail on this yet, but I'd say that's a good thing. Orotate!!   Not just any lithium works, apparently only LITHIUM OROTATE, a reasonably priced supplement, does the job.  This article is a little vague on the dosage...

 There is No Respectable  Argument Against It* I would hardly miss it! 1. Removing the FICA (Social Security) Cap: Income above $176,100 is currently exempt from Social Security tax Estimated additional revenue: $100-150 billion annually 2. Including Capital Gains: Capital gains are currently not subject to payroll taxes Annual capital gains realizations: ~$800 billion to $1.2 trillion Applying 15.3% total payroll tax to capital gains Estimated additional revenue: $120-180 billion annually Combined Rough Estimate: $220-330 billion in additional annual revenue for Social Security and Medicare combined. THE AMERICAN SYSTEM ALLOWS --  ENCOURAGES! -- WEALTH TO BE ACCRUED. NOTHING SAYS ONLY THE UN-WEALTHY  HAVE TO PAY A PERCENTAGE OF THEIR INCOME IN FICA TAXES.  FAIR IS FAIR, AND IT'S NECESSARY TO HELP FIX THE...  $23 trillion Social Security shortfall and   $46 trillion Medicare shortfall projected over 30 years * I'd be happy to debate it. *G...

 Pain on the level of watching your child starve While your whole community starves around you All amid the rubble and destruction of your once homes... Seems an unGodly thing to cause. Perhaps not, in the minds of some fundamentalists in Israel. "...devote to destruction all that they have." " A few well‑known Old Testament passages in which God commands total destruction of Israel's (and His) enemies : Deuteronomy 20:16‑17 “But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded.” 1 Samuel 15:3 “Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” Deuteronomy 7:2 “And when the...

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Are You Planning For It?   Is anybody (like the government)?  Pretend you work for Amazon.   Amazon CEO to Employees: "Yes, AI Will Probably Take Some of Your Jobs ." Spare change? Just to elaborate:  " Amazon has laid off  more  than 27,000 people  since 2022, and most recently cut jobs  across its devices and services group  and its  books division . Andy Jassy notes that Amazon has more than 1,000 AI services and apps that the company is working on or has already built, saying that it’s just a “small fraction” of what it’s planning to launch in the future." The Verge. More likely, you don't work for Amazon, but you are: ...A law clerk, a copywriter, an intern, a call center worker, a lab assistant...  you know, a white collar type. Don't kid yourself, the AIs are coming for your job. Especially an AI AGENT is coming.  It will do your job better than you can (soon, if not already), it costs your company much, much ...

It Is a Truthful Tract on Truth I Agree With Every Word of it.  I think its language is poetic.  It's ALLEGEDLY written by one of my heroes, Noam Chomsky. It's ALLEGEDLY read by the same guy.                        NOT              You Know I'm Noam You know I'm not. I am NOAM AI. And that's the truth. ANOTHER TRUTH: There are these channels on YouTube that are sort of fan fiction. Some are all AI -- images, text, design, everything  --  "prompted" by actual humans (presumably). I don't know how many of these productions there are, but a bunch. Judging by the comments below each of them, you have to wonder how many people know they are AI and how many have no idea.  There are this sort of fan fiction sites on all kinds of people, nice and courageous and nasty and cowardly. There are sites for Hitler and Erdagon, for instance. SO CHECK IT OUT . As I said, I agree wit...

In 2017 I concluded the mighty health insurance companies were successfully hiding their premiums income. I just couldn't get a good answer from the Google/Bing duopoly.  What the...? I wrote a blog post challenging readers to see if they could find it. Nope. So today I gave two of my fav chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude, the challenge. NO PROBLEMO!  And they pretty much agreed. Claude.ai: Key Premium Revenue Estimates: Total Market Size : The health insurance market size to surpass USD 1.78 trillion in 2024 Measuring total-premium inflation for health insurance in the Consumer Price Index : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Private Health Coverage Spending : Spending on private health coverage is set to exceed $1.5 trillion this year, according to the nonpartisan US Government Accountability Office Best’s Market Segment Report: US Health Insurers Met Challenges in 2024 but Pressures Expected to Persist in 2025 The data suggests that premium revenue from al...