Bob Knaus

Hooman pull plug make staged photo

The Ed Zitron bear case for AI has been repeatedly wrong. Here is a different analysis... The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall open.substack.com/pub/groundbr...

Like a lot of people... just waiting to see how things go the next couple of months. Are we near the nadir? Do things get better soon? Or do we need to hunker down for a couple more years and hope a big change happens?

Thinking about how many days go by where I speak less than 50 words to another human. Pretty sure this puts me in the 99th percentile.

Today protein. Tomorrow fiber. The pendulum swings.

Nigel is the ultimate RAF fighter pilot name

Anyone who tells their own story is an unreliable narrator.

I think the Elon Musk/Henry Ford parallels are under explored.

Spend some time with the illiterate and semi-literate, you will find WhatsApp is their email.

The Bahamas has the government it does because too many Bahamians believe in the George Washington Plunkitt theory of Honest Graft. Politicians are merely doing what their constituents would do for their own friends and relatives if they could.

First day of the last week of May and I gave in to the heat. It's nice to have a cool room to escape. Here's hoping the hurricanes stay away.

I am in the Bahamas. Usually I wait until the last week of May to turn on my AC. Not sure I will make it this year.

It seems a lot of folks I know are infected with one strain or another of a groupthink virus. C'mon people! Think for yourselves. Truth is better than identity.

I think this thread does a good job of describing what we are up against: bsky.app/profile/elio...

Repairing old vehicles in a salty environment sucks. Such is life on a rock out in the ocean.

I would support a constitutional amendment to have an elected Attorney General -- a fourth branch of government. Four year term, two years after presidential election, to maximize separation of powers.

I won't accept Trump bills as payment or change. If the ATM gives me some, I will deposit them back and do another withdrawal until I have Trump-free bills.

Advice from Ukraine on the "kill zone" in desert terrain: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Humans can shape biodiversity as they move. Oswald et al used a combination of ancient DNA and radio carbon dates to reveal that Indigenous Lucayans introduced hutias into the Little Bahamas Bank from their original habitats in the Great Bahamas Bank doi.org/10.1038/s415... #2026MMM

Turns out the greatest threat to humanity isn't Artificial Intelligence, it's Natural Stupidity.

Economy go from Kappa to Lambda

A dystopian fable, worth a read: www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

We don't need a hot economy. We need an honest economy.

The lemmings will not go over a cliff unless a few edge cases lead them.

Social media amplifies the voices of those with poor emotional control. I consider it a bug but I think many people view it as a feature.

If we can get beyond the energy and agricultural policies of the past, the future looks bright: ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...

We shall rise from these ashes www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIaA...

Blue Origin space junk on the beach near my house in Eleuthera, Bahamas.

It looks like AI but it's not. I watched the artist paint it. Eleuthera, Bahamas

If a man tells you he will use his position of power to enrich himself and his cronies, and he does it, did he tell you the truth? Yes. Does that make him an honest man? No.

The bet makes the outcome, if the wager is big enough. But systems with positive feedback are inherently unstable.

I think the most important post-Trump reform will be insulating Justice from the rest of the Executive. A completely independent 4th branch would need a constitutional amendment... But there is a lot Congress can do within the existing framework.

is Eat The Rich the Next Big Thing ?

Being progressive is not the same as being kind and thoughtful.

Written after Sandy Hook. That horror could not change our hearts. I cannot conceive of what horror it would take to make us change our ways. www.nybooks.com/online/2012/...

To those who say there is wisdom in crowds, I would caution to take care the crowd you hang out with.

Tack is angle of sail relative to wind Tactic is short term approach Tact is reserved demeanor Only two of them fit the phrase "Try a different..."

Explains a lot, read the rest of the thread and the Nature paper it quotes.

Do you live in a country where you are called Boss Man because you are white? I do. It grinds on me. I hate it. Happy Independence Day Bahamas! May we all soon be freed from mental slavery.

If tariffs are really bad tax policy (and the balance of evidence strongly suggests they are) then why do nations not say "You know what? We are going to set our tariffs at zero. We think others should do the same, but you be you. We get the benefits of zero tariffs, you get what you choose."

Man this oughta cure you of smoking

When will America learn that you can't trust a liar?

The report from a rock out in the ocean is, the US has entered a recession. When Uncle Sam sneezes Bahamas catches pneumonia.

Nothing like experiencing actual tariffs to align progressives and neo-liberals.

"De Minimis" is not just fast fashion and cheap trinkets. It's repair parts for appliances, engines, electronics, tools, all kinds of essential things that can be renewed instead of tossed. Now things will break and they won't get fixed.

It's an old observation that the overprivileged and underprivileged share similar maladies... still worth repeating.

Maybe Wall Street has learned an important lesson... If you're going to buy an election, don't purchase it from a con man.

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Some days I make a hundred bucks. Some days I don't. It all evens out in the end.