A Good Monday Morning

Gather Round Kids, It's Your Official Almost Semi-World Famous Weekend Irredeemable Big Ass Open Thread!

Your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You is off to Oxford to cheer on her Tigers in a red hot gridiron battle with those Mississippi fellows with real bad attitudes, and to find out once and for all why this forlorned land of Rebels use far more than their fair share of the letters "S" and "I" in the state name.

There's a Reason The Good Lord Put a Wide River Between Mississippi and Louisiana.

Therefore and forthwith, the floor open. Don Your Blogging Thongs and dazzle us with wit and knowledge. Regular house rules apply. And use the damn coasters!

Brain Droppings

Watching an old Twilight Zone episode where a man becomes obsessed with a devil machine coin operated fortune teller. The machine gives generic answers, but the man becomes logic paralyzed and can't make a decision without consulting it.

Anyway, some of these episodes are a bit far-fetch. 

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I'd like a sober, informative analysis of what's going on with AI, but instead I see how discourse about AI has gravitated into partisan propaganda. Everyone's supposed to already know that the right is for AI and the left is against. No wonder we need AI to think for us.

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You will be told you can’t complain because you’re Islamophobic. The term is already being introduced into the culture as if it was an accusation of race hatred, for example, or bigotry, whereas it’s only the objection to the preachings of a very extremist religion.

Watch out for these symptoms. They are not the symptoms of surrender. Very often ecumenically offered to you by men of God in other robes. These are the ones who hold open the gates for the barbarians.

The barbarians never take a city till someone holds the gates open for them. And it’s your own preachers who will do it for you and your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you.

Resist it while you can.- Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

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9/11/2026 - I would really like to know what was in Shrub's mind at this moment 

$Billions From Lizard Spit and the AI Monsters

Some men sit and look at the sky and are wonderous about the universe. Some men sit and wonder why women have no mute button. And in the 1990s a doctor named John Eng was curious about lizard venom.

You see the Gila monster only eats a few times a year. Dr. Eng wanted to know how it managed to stay alive. So he ordered up some dried venom from a catalog in Utah and got to work. What he found was the lizard’s spit had a copy of a hormone you already make called GLP-1. It tells your brain you’ve had enough. But it only lasts about two minutes in your body. The Gila monster’s version lasts for hours. 

Eng spent the next three years knocking on doors at the big drug companies. They all passed. Eventually a small outfit said yes. And in 2005 the first GLP-1 drug hit the market. It stayed a niche diabetes treatment for over a decade. Then in 2017 Novo Nordisk engineered a version called “Ozempic,” of which gave us the disturbing cultural phenomenon of morbidly obese women singing and dancing in high production commercials across our television screens.

In 2005 the market for GLP-1s was $75 million. In 2025 it was $76 billion.  

I know people who did everything right but couldn’t lose weight. They started taking Ozempic, and now they’re healthier, happier, and in better marriages. Huge life upgrade. This from a wonder drug that was sitting on the shelf for over a decade while researchers were busy testing various meds to help make America's dicks hard. 

 Meanwhile, a 37-year-old man named Joseph Coates was in hospice with a rare blood disorder when an Artificial Intelligence Agent found a drug never tried for his illness. Now he’s in remission. That medicine has potential save and improve many millions of lives. This is where AI can be a tremendous potential benefit to all humanity.

If it doesn't decide to kill us first.

There is more to consider going forward (god I hate that phrase)!

Imagine standing on a street corner in Boston in 1870. The street  lamps above your head burn gas, and a man with a long pole lights them. The street reeks of horse shit. If you want to reach your brother in Ireland you write a letter and wait a month for  their response to reach you....... Now you’re teleported 65 years into the future. There’s a telephone on the wall and a car parked at the curb. Airplanes fly overhead. The message to your brother arrives before lunch. With AI we’re entering another one of those stretches in human progress. This transformation will be unbelievably compressed into less time.

The world of 2036 will likely look much different the one we’re living in now. New AI models used to come out once a year. Now it’s seems every few weeks. More than 80% of the code Anthropic ships is now written by its own AI. Last year that number was in the low single digits.

A few former engineers are casting warnings.

AI is now on the verge of being capable of creating its future shelf.  And now warned, men will sit and wonder of this monster and what part we will play.  

A Good Monday Morning

Middle Finger Symphony Theatre

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This goes out to all you DMFers out there who for a whole year still came around in chance this site would somehow come back to life. It surprised me the traffic numbers didn't actually go down for months, and remained surprising even after a year. It warmed my heart to see so many stuck around hoping for a little more of what had done here for the previous 14 years on a part time basis.  From the bottom of my heart, I Thank U All for being here and hope other regulars will find their way back.

So, let's us just call it a long coffee break, and get back to what it once was?

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