Open Mike 24/09/25
Open Mike 24/09/25
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trump ever more unhinged….the oblivious irony. Whose country is going to hell ?
And the fascist loon shakes his small fist at media..
This from defensive Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Some who follow World news might remember this shithead earlier
IMO Dangerously crazy people….
Yep dangerously crazy.
Also this week we have Kennedy and Trump saying Tylenol(Paracetamol) causes Autism and Trump speaking at the Charlie Kirk memorial promising political retribution against his enemies.
Aye Matiri ! I commented on daily Review on same….
What on earth was Trumps mother taking while pregnant???
We might never know if it was Tylenol/Other? Anyway on another, I didnt know too much about The Don's siblings…but his sister seemed to have been different. Maybe D trump was an aberration? (FYI I def think he is an aberration : )
Well now we know why there is no Disprin in the jungle..
Parrots eat em all.
What Elvis Costello said, in 1984:
And What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?
Ah. Where are the strong? Who are the trusted?
The population of Italy out on a national strike?
Not our current govt or foreign affairs minister, that's for sure.
Two Stars on the same page. Bowie and Reznor (FYI I'm not afraid of Trent Reznor and the many millions of other Americans : )….
Search if like…."David Bowie – I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Music Video)"
Meanwhile..
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com Day 1695
And – also from the above link..
That 42% think he's doing great is just as scary as Trump is.
barking
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nejqa2xnahnbxx265vc3bfh2/post/3lzgsk34njs26
You too can help Kat Kerr get to, ahem, Heaven. Donate at the official website (and no, I am not going to link : )
"Revealing Heaven Official Site"….bluurgh
True.. But there is growing scepticism amongst Republican voters that things are not going how they anticipated.
Graph from NORC below
oops thought I had resized that 🙁 sorry.
fixed
Thanks Incognito – sorry for the inconvenience.
Bear in mind the retribution trump peddles and all the friendly tech Bros with the extra potential capacity for surveillance being built across the usa.
How confidential would your vote be ?
Indeed. An unshakeable 40% base is all he needs (cf Erdogan et al).
The nazi's wanted lebensraum. Israeli far right just want real estate
Far right religious terrorists….incl the "Minister for the Advancement of Women"
A libertarian with his hand out? Who would thunk it.
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United States President Donald Trump’s administration has offered to step in to support Argentina’s economy amid severe volatility in the country’s financial markets.
Washington stands ready to do “what is needed” to help stabilise the Latin American country’s economy following a large-scale selloff of its assets, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/9/23/us-pledges-to-do-what-is-needed-to-support-argentinas-economy
Did members of the Trump administration buy pesos at knock down prices just before announcing support for Argentina? I guess we'll never know. Anyway, the Trump administration is the purest expression of the true soul of America – the frenzy for money disguised as the pursuit of freedom.
Bailing out Argentina is pretty common, and arguably its what a rich country like rhe USA should do anyway.
Jimmie Kimmels back? American Media push back.
trump and his cronies arent quite as all powerful as they would like. And they would very much like.
People power
And the small matter of
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/jimmy-kimmel-returns-to-abc-how-many-billions-did-disney-lose-during-his-suspension-and-why-was-the-show-reinstated/articleshow/124072023.cms?from=mdr
They forgot about the 150 million Americans who didn't vote for tRump.
And the ones who didn't vote at all?
Did not vote was the winner.
(90 million eligible voters didn't bother)
Ah good Links, thanks.
Embarrassing.
@BlueATLGeorgia
Daniel Dale fact-checks Trump's UNGA speech.
https://xcancel.com/BlueATLGeorgia/status/1970524069616377979 (video)
You leave my mate Donald alone. Only today he has taught me that:
-global warming doesn't exist and is a "green scam"*
-the UN only writes “strongly worded letters” and does nothing else*
-Trump has stopped 7 wars single-handed*
-Sadiq Khan has introduced Sharia Law to London*
-paracetamol kills babies*
-Argentinian President Milei is a good guy and deserves US aid*
-renewable energy projects will lead to "the death of Europe"*
-supporting Palestinian state is only a reward for Hamas and nothing else* (genocide in Gaza doesn't warrant a mention)
-Europe is "going to hell" because of its borders being completely open to immigrants*
-because of Trump the USA is in "a golden age"*
Without Trump's fact and science-based utterings how would I know anything.
P.S. items above marked with an asterisk * are either inaccurate or plain lies.
Are you planning a trip to the US to pay homage in the near future? 😉
BTW I should have said “paracetamol causes autism in babies”….still not true of course
The only known cause of Autism is being the child of old fathers, ie Trump and Kennedy.
Rasmus Jarlov, chairs Denmark’s defence committee.
https://xcancel.com/RasmusJarlov/status/1970085213532492081
Ms Einstein 🧠
https://xcancel.com/BarbaraLevitan/status/1970575460615758115
Not a great example, the 'fact-checkers' are too keen to use an unreliable sycophantic auto-correct to find the 'source'.
https://xcancel.com/ThePeterBriggs/status/1970641471691952264#m
The supposedly plagiarised phrase doesn't appear in the text claimed. This text can be searched here: https://epdf.pub/downbelow-station-5ea6c75117b07.html
This is appearing more and more in social media. People post the delusions of large-language models and imagine they've proved something, it drives me nuts. I once asked ChatGPT to write me a brief bio I could use for a presentation and the guy it came up with was awesome – non-existent, but wow, what a guy. That was before I realised that if you ask it for citations it invents some for you. These days I'm less gullible.
why does it invent citations?
The best I heard it described was that a large-language model is programmed to give a plausible answer, rather than an accurate one.
We picture them drawing on huge databases of information that have been fed into them, but in reality they just process possible combinations of words until they have one that reads the most plausibly based on the huge number of sentences they have as models. That means that if you ask it for citations it will have documents with citations that it can draw on as a model to create a plausible citation, but there's no guarantee the citation will refer to a real piece of research.
can you not ask it to only give citations from real research?
You can, but it doesn't really have the concept of what 'real' is. It's very difficult to get a general large language model to restrict itself to real citations. Academic publishers that provide AI-based summaries of research have to be very careful to restrict the input the AI receives to actual published research and to impose all kinds of borders on what it can say to people. There are often also human checkers employed to spot-check its output.
I am finding AI is somewhat useful with suggestions on smallish bits of code. Sometimes I even use it. But mostly I just pick an idea from it. It also tends to be irritating with non requested suggestions. This is mostly with copilot on jetbrains IDEs.
ChatGPT doing text revision tends to be florid and somewhat deceitful. Especially when I gave it a CV to spruce up.
My partner has used a number of tools for scriptwriting – seems to favour Claude as a idea generator. She gets irritated with all of the image generators when doing slidedecks. The iterations of instructions to a program with forgetful state are often endless.
It allows us to jump further in new areas, like picking up new or updated computer languages. But productivity is areas that we know tends toward the negative because of its endless intrusions.
I've had some nice pieces of code from t3.chat. I think AI lends itself well to 'expert system' type things where there are instructions, rules etc to apply to the output, but expecting it to write something based on minimal input as though it were human is a big ask.
the only democracy….
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@infolibnews
US-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard is running for Knesset on the platform that Israel should starve and, "if necessary," nuke Gaza. This is consistent with "Jewish morality," he suggests. Pollard, despite being a traitor to America, was permitted to "make Aliyah" by Trump in 2020 and received a hero's welcome in Israel.
https://xcancel.com/infolibnews/status/1970446013467873779 (video)
Just in case we think that resistance to our corporate overlords just never works, this is how citizens united as customers to ensure Jimmy Kimmell got back on air:
Why The Disney Boycott Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Worked | HuffPost Life
I found this very encouraging.
New Zealand's revanchist settler government completely threw in the towel on our noble experiment of self-determination and sovereign self rule and has appointed a foreign neoliberal to lord over the yokels and run the reserve bank. The new RNBZ governor has zero cultural experience of this country, a technocratic priest appointed to a rural parish to ensure ideological purity.
Colonisers gonna keep p colonising I guess.
Here's a useful primer on her thinking:
Anna Breman: Monetary policy decision-making
Thankfully her PhD is well versed in decision-making through crisis and not presuming that everyone is a rational agent:
"My own doctoral thesis was in the field of behavioural economics. My interest in economics was born during the 1990s crisis and deep recession in Sweden. When I started my PhD in the autumn of 2001, I planned to focus on macroeconomics and international economics, but the macroeconomic models of the time were based on representative rational agents, often referred to as homo economicus.
Instead, I became interested in decision-making under risk and uncertainty. My thesis built on experiments and empirical research based on theories from behavioural economics.
I have benefited from my knowledge of decision-making under risk and uncertainty during my time on the Executive Board."
The one thing we know about the New Zealand economy from the last 20 years is that there will be a substantial crisis at least once every 3 years if not more. So it sounds like she is prepared for us.
She sounds like a good appointment. Perhaps the Reserve bank will now concentrate on what it should concentrate on and do a better job.
https://thekaka.substack.com/p/god-help-new-zealandthe-mood-of-the
The boardroom say willis and luxon must go, Stanford and the bish rate highly3