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The Knicks completely dismantled the Celtics last night to win the series and move on to the Eastern Conference Finals. I quit watching in the third quarter it was so bad a beating. Looking forward to a summer of just the beach, golf, and hiking until football season.

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

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We Only Know What Makes Up Less than 5% of the Universe

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Friday, May 16, 2025

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Modern Societal Alarm Bells. These are true but most are reversable.

- School uses AI to teach students.

- Good question: what was Pete Buttigieg doing?

- New study finds that tea and chocolate can reduce blood pressure. I'll believe the studies I want to believe.

More Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- From the mind of Tom Segura.

- Heh Heh

- Archeologists have pinpointed when modern society started going off the rails.

- I'm an awful person for laughing at this.

Master the Art of Negotiation

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Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- If you have a dog you know this is true.

- Parenthood

- A rose by any other name

- Heh Heh

Friday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

We are only a little over 100 days into the new Trump Administration but are we already at the point where Donald Trump can feel he laid out his agenda (much of it via Executive Orders) and now just go on a world tour giving speeches and signing deals? Meanwhile back at home members of his Administration are taking care of business. This week it was RFK Jr. testifying to Congress and laying out the MAHA agenda and Border Czar Tom Holman on CNN dismantling the press and AOC. Next week it could easily be JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio, Pete Hesgeth, and others taking the spotlight. Meanwhile Trump just glories in a world tour. My concern is that this may be too much too fast.

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Quotes for Today

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I Feel Seen

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Good advice from Tim Ferriss. Reminds me of the CEO who would write DNT, DNT over and over during meetings. When asked what it meant he said it was a reminder to Do Not Talk.

- Interesting list - recently retired Saints QB Derek Carr is 16th in career earning but some of the other names are just as surprising.

- RIP Joe Don Baker

- The Fibonacci sequence explained.

Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest,

- I want this mug

- Sad but this seems true.

- An oldie but a goodie.

- Cool.

Leonardo da Vinci on Excellence

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Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

The Celtics won game 5 of their series against the Knicks last night forcing a game 6 at Madison Square Garden. That becomes a key game. If Boston wins that one you know they'll be favored to win a game 7 at the TD Garden and move on to the conference finals.

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Quotes for Today

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Thomas Sowell

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Comedown - Bush

Rush Called It

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Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- In regard to that 747 from Qatar.

- Celtics Jayson Tatum ruptures Achille's - out of rest of playoffs. Oh great!

- US Military aims to reopen Adak Naval base in Alaska to counter Pacific threats (read China).

- Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe among players reinstated by MLB.

Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

Occasionally I'll use the phrase "as an aside" in my Flotsam and Jetsam posts and it occurred to me that it's kind of redundant - everything in a Flotsam and Jetsam post is by definition "an aside."

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Quotes for Today

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Word for the Day

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Godel, Escher, Bach

Some thoughts and questions while reading the book:

Douglas Hofstadter writes in Godel, Escher, Bach, "Do words and thoughts follow formal rules, or do they not? That problem is the problem of the book." That also seems to be the very crux of a working AI system - getting words, numbers, and algorithms to follow rules.

GEB writes that, "Mathematicians (and more recently linguists, philosophers, and some others) are the only users of formal systems, and they invariably have an interpretation in mind for the formal systems which they use and publish." That "some others" were clearly AI programmers in hindsight.

Did Godel, Escher, Bach predict blockchain in a way? It talks about steps to a formal system being linked in an ironclad way - just as blockchain establishes ownership in an ironclad way. Does this mean that blockchain was a precursor to AI or did they develop in parallel?

Did the book predict AI? It writes about written symbols being translated to algorithms of typographical rules including all the Internet and the very rules of physics. Are AI hallucinations inclusions of non-theorems in the AI system? Is that how we get black founding fathers? Is DEI itself a non-theorem?

Enjoying the book but it is challenging.

Thomas Sowell

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Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Joint Us-China statement on economic trade meeting. The very definition of a reciprocal trade agreement.

- RFK Jr. says Trump just did what no Democrat ever had the guts to do. This is a huge moment.

- VDH: The Decivilizing of America. It needs to be stressed that this was intentional.

- Should public sector unions have collective bargaining rights? On he fence on this issue. On one hand unfunded (or underfunded) retirement benefits for public sector employees is one f the biggest under reported stories of our time. On the other hand local and state governments call for high standards without wanting to offer commiserate pay.

Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

It was tough watching the Celtics lose a 14-point lead to the Knicks, then possibly lose Jason Tatum for the playoffs, and then lose the game to New York to fall behind in the series 3-1. It was tough.

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Quotes for Today

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Change

Monday, May 12, 2025

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Is the US Navy sleepwalking into defeat? Time to wake up.

- Deputy Director Dan Bongino with an update on the work being done at the FBI. Never forget he took a huge pay cut to do this work for the American people.

- Are we about to see huge pharma costs to the end-user get slashed? Will this also mean drastic reduction in healthcare costs?

- Germany halts surveillance of AfD amid US pressure. Sounds like they were caught in the act and called on their censorship.

Mark Twain and the Orange Men

Watched the show of Conan O'Brien receiving the Mark Twain Award at the Kennedy Center on Netflix over the weekend. I knew there would be a leftist anti-Donald Trump slant to the whole show but was willing to watch and enjoy some good laughs because I truly enjoy Conan O'Brien. But when they tried to co-opt Mark Twain as a supporter of their positions - I felt they went way too far.

Have a new post up on Substack on the show (because I had to say something).

Discipline

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Monday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

With the news that China and the US have reached a tariff reduction agreement the stock markets have soared. I really want to see the details of this agreement but can't help but wonder why a Communist country is so eager to get tariffs reduced. Isn't communism supposed to level everyone not place a premium on financial advantages that could make certain individuals rich?

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Quotes for Today

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