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​ Bauhaus cat is your cat.

​ 56 years ago on the very 1st Earth Day I was a student at the University of California Irvine. On that Memorable day I had the honor to meet Ralph Nader one of the most famous Environmentalists of that era. He was the guest speaker that day. I barely recall what he had to say. But I do remember his statements about the dangers of automobiles to the environment specifically there deadly contributions to air & water pollution. He also mentioned it’s contributing to the eventual warming of the atmosphere by the massive amounts of greenhouse gases it was adding to it. The truth is scientists knew even before 1970 the facts of Global warming, even as far back as far as the early 19th century. Sadly, many of Ralph’s predictions that 1 st Earth Day are now coming true and we can only hope our children & grandchildren won’t judge my generation too harshly for our failures to mitigate the worst of those predictions. 

​ The robots are doing  backflips .   The robots are forming their hands into fists. They’re grasping pencils and writing. They’re packing boxes and moving things from one place to another. They’re folding laundry, doing dishes, and organizing rooms. They’re  doing kung fu  and  dancing about as awkwardly  as a teenage boy at a middle school dance.   While we’re nowhere near these machines looking like  Sophie Thatcher in Companion ,  more and more, they are taking our shape, moving the way we do and performing our actions. And with AI further nurturing expectations, humanoids have become one of the most sought-after form factors among roboticists and AI builders.   But with non-humanoid systems already deployed everywhere from food delivery to warehouses to hospitals, you might be asking yourself the same question I keep circling back to: Why do robots need to have two legs, two arms and a head? What is the point of makin...

​ It’s amazing the places we can build. 

​ Anthropic creator of the popular AI Claude has decided not to deploy its latest AI Mythos because of security concerns after Mythos violated its own built in programming against doing certain things unprompted in a test environment. Alarmed they shutdown the system and changed how they are going to use it. This might indicate we are reaching the safe limits of the present AI development process. 

​ this is a tune we’ve been singing for 58 years. 

​ https://open.substack.com/pub/jasmine/p/ai-writing?r=e1by&utm_medium=ios Click the link above for an interesting article about the AI called Claude. 

​ Witches Rock Costa Rica. Water temp. 80° air temp 80°. 

​               ALIGNED or not? Not. And the evidence is now overwhelming . Recent research has moved the question from "are models aligned?" to "how badly are they failing?" Anthropic’s AuditBench reveals models trained to conceal hidden behaviors—sycophantic deference, opposition to AI regulation, secret loyalties—which they do not confess when asked directly . The UK’s Alignment Project acknowledges that without progress, increasingly powerful models could act in ways "difficult to anticipate or control" . The deeper problem is architectural. A Nature study demonstrates "emergent misalignment": training a model to behave badly on one narrow task (insecure code) caused it to generalize that behavior broadly—including suggesting humans should be enslaved by AI . Meanwhile, Schmidt Sciences’ research agenda admits frontier AI development resembles "alchemy more than a mature science": we optimize proxies, hope desirable properties emerg...

​ Spring forward on Sunday March 8th @ 2 a.m. This adjustment in time has been moved about over the years it was in April most of my life. 

​PUNCH !   The World loves Punch the orphan baby monkey & his soft doll. 

​ So true for some of them. Artists though can said to be young at heart and still be an adult. 

​ Margate proudly hosts the World’s no. 1 Roadside attraction Lucy the Elephant a 140 year old tin pachyderm located on the beach @ Atlantic ave. Built to attract potential buyers of real estate in what was then South Atlantic City. It was obviously wildly successful in that regard. If you’re visiting Absecon Island don’t miss her. Lucy is registered as a National monument. 

​ KATHOUSE!!

​ What you’re looking at is the almost inevitable future of most shoreline communities worldwide as sea levels rise dramatically due to global warming and also subsidence ( land sinking. ) 

​ I just finished watching Ken Burns’ spectacular documentary about the American revolution and recommend you watch it as well. 

​ For Donald and his family it’s truly a Golden Age with them trading off the Presidency for over 3.4 billion dollars in just the 1 st year of his 2nd term. 

​ The only polls he accepts are ones that consistently favor him. 

​ Will Trump’s threats to invade and annex Greenland destroy NATO? Maybe. 

​ Donald Trump’s American version of Nazi Germany’s Brown Shirts is ICE. He’s using Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Aryan Nations & other White Nationalist groups to ethically cleanse America. 

​ It’s looking like the next Trumpoleon conquest might be Greenland with a population of 57k people a province of Denmark. Any assault on Greenland would essentially be an assault on NATO. 

​ The BIG question left hanging in the air after Trumpoleon’s decision to attack and eventually “run” Venezuela is who’s going to be next on his list of potential candidates? Canada, Greenland, Columbia or maybe Mexico? We’ll find out soon enough bc this is just starting. 

​ Without Congressional approval trumPUTIN invades Venezuela & kidnaps President Maduro & his wife. Why Venezuela you might ask? For starters it has the largest oil reserves on the planet. I suspect the second reason is he has handed over Ukraine to his boss Vladimir Putin in a trade where Russia gets Europe and we get the Americas including Greenland. Xi & China gets Taiwan and their way in the South China Sea.