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Late-Night Eating Raises Fatty Liver Disease Risk 36%, Study Finds
Clipart Korea People who habitually eat after dinner face a higher risk of liver conditions including fatty liver…
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Adding late night edition #sketching / #drawing to #fediverse and #inktober
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Late Night Dunks on Trump for Planning to Rename an Ocean
“Once again, 12 days before this election, it’s good to see him locked in on the really big issues,” Jimmy Fallon said on “The Tonight Show.”
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Yankees score: Spencer Jones continues to impress in late-night win https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/837438/ #Angels #Baseball #La #LAAngels #LAAngels #LosAngeles #LosAngelesAngels #LosAngeles #LosAngelesAngels #MLB #YankeesScores&Standings
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Jon Stewart on the midterms: ‘Republicans running for Congress can’t defend Trump’s reckless record’
By Guardian staffLate-night hosts discussed Trump’s distraction tactics and crass comments on Nicki Minaj’s derriere as he campaigns
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/27/jon-stewart-midterms-republicans-congress-trump
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NQ JPN OPENS IN SOHO, BRINGING JAPANESE ARCADE CULTURE TO LONDON’S NIGHTLIFE SCENE
Screenshot NQ JPN, a new late-night concept from the team behind arcade bar NQ64, has opened on Berwick…
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I remain mystified that Mansur Brown isn't a bigger deal. He released his fourth album a couple weeks ago and it is a beautiful autumn listen. floating through late-night clouds with Prince-level guitar emotions, vocal ghosts, and touches of British jazz.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/278423/ Jon Stewart on JD Vance’s rhetoric on immigrants: ‘cornerstone and intentional strategy’ | Late-night TV roundup #JamesDavidVance #JDVance
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Antonino X Tori Amos – God (Monkeying Around With The Overzealous Televangelist) MUSIC DOWNLOAD
Found Objects celebrates the return of the remix and the art of sampling (as in found audio).
Australian audio artist and Cream magazine editor Antonino Tati trawls the internet to find great soundbytes that he then layers over alternative mixes of great songs.
The Ultimate Eurythmics Archives calls it “a series of imaginative audio collages that feel part remix, part radio drama, and part pop culture time capsule,” while the series has also been acknowledged by the David Bowie fan site maggioreonbowie.com and other music sites.
Each day a new track is added, building up to a compilation of songs that go beyond the normal parameters of music mixing.
And each track is an awesome head trip. Good to show off on the playlist. The music featured is varied, with Volume 02 containing mixes of songs by Soulwax, Kate Bush, David Bowie, R.E.M., Air, Lily Allen, Taylor Swift, Malcolm McLaren, and more.
Today’s addition is Tori Amos’ masterful ode, God, to which has been added a sermon courtesy of a rather zealous late night televangelist.
Slip on a pair of earbuds or ‘phones and be transported into worlds of aural delight and mad sonic adventure. A musical universe where cool beats are paired with vintage educational fodder, insane radio ads of the 1950s, and classic film quotes.
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Antonino X Tori Amos God (Monkeying Around with the Overzealous Televangelist)
Access your free downloads from the Found Objects: Volume 2 page, and tell your friends.
Don’t forget there’s a load of mixes in Found Objects: Volume 1 you might like as well.
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Halfway through a two-day batch run I noticed that one answer looked suspiciously like the answer to the item two rows above it, and I could not prove which input it came from. Has that ever happened to you — the job finished, the output looked plausible, and you had no way to defend a single row of it? These are my field notes from fixing that, with the harness I ended up keeping.
What I was actually trying to do
I had a flat list of short, independent text items, and I wanted one short answer per item, written to a ledger I could re-run safely. Sending one request per item is the obvious path, but it doubles the number of round trips, and every round trip is another chance to miss a wall-clock deadline. So I tried the cheaper-looking option: put two items in one prompt and ask for two answers back. Note that this is not a quota argument — I never measured a quota, and I am not claiming one exists. The motivation was purely fewer round trips and fewer half-finished batches.For context, the driver ran on MonkeyCode's free server option, and the calls went through its free model access. Disclosure: This article was prepared as part of MonkeyCode's product outreach. I will keep the product out of the technical claims, because the failure below is a property of my prompt and my validator, not of any provider.
Day one: the harness I wrote
The whole thing is one file with no dependencies beyond the Python standard library, which was deliberate. If the harness can move between machines withscpand nothing else, I can debug it anywhere, including on a machine I do not own. Here is the shape of it.# batch_harness.py — stdlib only; you supply call_model()
import hashlib
import json
from dataclasses import dataclass, fielddef item_id(text: str) -> str:
return hashlib.sha256(text.strip().encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:12]@dataclass
class Item:
text: str
id: str = field(init=False)def __post_init__(self):
self.id = item_id(self.text)def build_prompt(items):
blocks = "\n".join(f'<item id="{i.id}">{i.text}</item>' for i in items)
return (
"Answer each item separately. Return a JSON array only, no prose.\n"
'Each element must be {"id": "<id from the item tag>", "answer": "<answer>"}.\n'
"Copy ids exactly. Do not renumber, merge, or reorder the items.\n\n"
+ blocks
)The important line is the id, and it is deliberately boring: a hash of the input text, truncated. Same input, same id, forever — so a second run of the same ledger is a no-op by construction. If the id were derived from the model's output, a reworded answer would look like a brand-new item, and the queue would quietly grow.
The validator, which is where the actual work lives
def validate(items, raw):
try:
payload = json.loads(raw)
except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
return None, f"not_json: {exc.msg}"
if not isinstance(payload, list):
return None, "not_a_list"rows = [r for r in payload if isinstance(r, dict)]
got = [str(r.get("id", "")).strip().lower() for r in rows]
want = [i.id for i in items]if len(got) != len(set(got)):
return None, "duplicate_ids"
if set(got) != set(want):
missing = sorted(set(want) - set(got))
extra = sorted(set(got) - set(want))
return None, f"set_mismatch missing={missing} extra={extra}"answers = {r["id"].strip().lower(): r.get("answer", "") for r in rows}
if any(not isinstance(a, str) or not a.strip() for a in answers.values()):
return None, "empty_answer"
return answers, "ok"Two details I will defend. First, I lowercase and strip the id before comparing, because that transform is lossless — an uppercase hex string identifies exactly one item. Second, I refuse every lossy match: no positional mapping, no prefix matching, no edit distance. Fuzzy matching is precisely how you end up with two answers for one item and a warm feeling that everything is fine.
What broke on day two
Two failure modes showed up, and both were invisible to atry/exceptaround the HTTP call.- Answers came back without ids. The response was a clean JSON array of
{"answer": ...}objects, in a plausible order. Nothing errored. A positional mapper would have accepted this and been right — probably. - Ids came back that I never sent. One batch returned eleven-character ids instead of twelve; another returned ids that were valid hex but belonged to nothing in my prompt. Set equality caught both instantly; a length check would not have.
Why is partial acceptance worse than a loud failure here? Because a batch that is 50% valid does not stop the run — it just moves two items into the wrong bucket, and you discover it when someone reads the output.
The fix: fail the batch, then fall back to one
def run_batch(items, call_model, attempts=2):
for attempt in range(1, attempts + 1):
raw = call_model(build_prompt(items))
answers, verdict = validate(items, raw)
if verdict == "ok":
return answers, {"attempts": attempt, "verdict": verdict, "fallback": False}out = {}
for item in items:
raw = call_model(build_prompt([item]))
answers, verdict = validate([item], raw)
out[item.id] = answers[item.id] if verdict == "ok" else None
return out, {"verdict": "fallback_single", "fallback": True}python batch_harness.py --input items.jsonl --batch-size 2 --ledger runs/ledger.jsonl
tail -n 3 runs/ledger.jsonl{"batch": ["9f2c41ab07de", "41ab9f2c07de"], "attempt": 1, "verdict": "set_mismatch", "extra": ["7d10c3a1f0b2"], "fallback": true, "model_string": "<record what you actually got>"}
The ledger excerpt above is illustrative — the values are placeholders, and the deliverable is the columns, not the numbers. Record the model string you actually received, because free access is not the same thing as a pinned version, and a drifting model is a variable you want in the log.
The run sheet I would keep
ColumnWhy it earns its placebatch(sorted ids)Reproducing a failure needs the exact inputs, not the item countattemptTells you whether retries are rare or structuralverdictDistinguishesnot_jsonfromset_mismatch, which are different bugsextra/missingThe invented ids are the signal that the prompt driftedfallbackA rising fallback rate means the batch size is too aggressive
Items per callUse it whenDo not use it when1Items are long, or ordering is contractualYou are already comfortable with the fallback path2Items are short, independent, and id-stableOne bad item can poison its neighbour4+You have eyes on the ledger during the runYou cannot inspect the first hundred rows by hand
And a decision table for batch size, which is really a question about failure cost:What I would repeat, and what I would not
I would repeat the input-derived id and the strict set-equality check on day one, not day two; both are ten lines and they replace a whole class of late-night doubt. I would repeat keeping every model call behind one function, because it made the fallback trivial to write. I would not repeat starting at batch size two before watching a hundred single-item calls go through cleanly. The boring baseline is what tells you whether batching is safe for your particular items.Who should not do this
- Anyone whose items reference each other, since batching changes what the model can see at once.
- Anyone under a hard latency or availability guarantee, because a free endpoint is a shared one and I make no promises about it.
- Anyone who cannot hand-inspect the first hundred outputs, since the validator checks shape and nothing else.
- Anyone paying per token on a long shared instruction, where duplicating it per item costs more than the round trips you save.
The harness does not know whether an answer is correct — it only knows that every id it sent came back once. That is a smaller promise than it sounds, and it is the one I can actually keep. If you run this drill on the free model access, start at batch size one and let the ledger tell you when two is safe.#python #ai #testing #debugging #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
48-Hour Field Notes: I Batched Two Items Per Call and Lost Track of Which Answer Belonged to Which Input - Answers came back without ids. The response was a clean JSON array of
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It would seem the era of blindly trusted open-weight models -- Chinese or not -- is over.
https://cohere.com/blog/concerning-behaviour-popular-open-weight-ai-model
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A last extended ride before the clock switches back from summer to winter time.
Late autumn was in the air: the sunshine gave little warmth, and the rain was certainly cold.
When I came home there was still sufficient daylight for servicing the bike: I swapped the sprocket (the chain is again at > 0.05mm wear), and changed the inner cable of the derailleur.
Tomorrow, the weather forecast has "rain from night to late afternoon". Let's see.
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Last night, it was movies with the late Eva Marie Saint on Turner Classic Movies. Tonight, it’s another of my favorites, Myrna Loy. There’s worse ways to spend a Monday evening.
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Mbappé double secures Real Madrid late victory at Barcelona after Raphinha leveller
By Sid Lowe at the Camp NouThirteen years later, José Mourinho led Real Madrid into the Camp Nou, and he led them out again with a late, late victory that opens up a whole new world. With three minutes remaining and the energy with which they had played dropping, a wonderful piece of skill from Jude Bellingham found Eduardo Camavinga and set them on one last run on a night in which there were so many of them. Camavinga sprinted into the area, slipped away from Pau Cubarsí and pulled the ball back for Kylian Mbappé to provide the finish.
#LaLiga #Barcelona #RealMadrid #Europeanclubfootball #Football #Sport #TheGuardian #SidLoweattheCampNou
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The Greenland Diaries: Day 77
Last night, I’m not sure what happened, or why there were people moving through the area in the darkness, but around midnight the shadows were flashing with popping gunfire and small explosions. I followed the sounds of the bullets, and they bounced off of everything in hollow glances and pings. A few even hit the shed. I covered Snowy with my backpack and put her around my chest.
I was so worried that a shot would pierce the shed and split one of us open.
I hugged up so tightly to her, she would lick my face through the backpack as the thunder of distant mortars and rockets threw tree branches everywhere. They sounded hollow and rocky, like skeletons were trying to swallow up the shed and pull it away. A few times I shifted to the other wall and buried us beneath the boxes of supplies and gallons of water.
I heard machines rolling through the streets, hundreds of them. The pavement cracked and moaned against their heavy treads. The grinding was so intense, I thought the earth was going to fall apart and my house, shed, and everything would be swallowed up. It’d be nice to go out that fast. It’d be nice to avoid the shadows and wild claws.
The Drum still beat behind the whirlwind of gunpowder. I stayed still the entire night as the shooting raged. Seldom did I hear a gun or cannon stop firing to reload. It was like they were spending every inch of ammunition on this battle. I know the Unnamed aren’t overt and present when you fight them. I’ve been lucky enough to fight them in close quarters. At a distance, they’re nearly impossible to see, especially in the dark. How could these people fighting them possibly know where they were hiding?
Around four in the morning, they finally stopped their fighting, and the world returned to the Drum and the silence between each beat. There were no illusions or Unnamed sulking around the empty spots of crumbled houses or caved-in walls. I stayed up all night watching them, but there was nothing. Only the bugs brewed about in aimless clouds.
In the morning, I scouted the area for traces of the battle. I looked for bits of fresh rubble, empty bullet casings glittering in the sun, and bits of torn clothes with inky blood beneath their layers. There was nothing though, not a single crater in the ground or pulverized wall from any of the nearby houses. In previous battles, I’d find this debris so fresh, it’d be shedding dust in the sun like wayward dandruff.
There is nothing though, no sign of the previous night’s battle.
I walked around the block three times with Snowy, looking for the smallest, most minuscule remnants of the battle. Nothing moved. Only the trees and sheets of thick grass shook against the breeze. The plants always look like they’re ready to bubble and burst.
I stopped searching in the late afternoon. It had been an illusion. It was all part of some massive trick by the Unnamed and their unseen allies. When I wandered back home with a worried Snowy, I saw the kid from before. He had been following me the entire time, dodging behind the houses like I used to do when I played with Nerf guns when I was his age.
I bet he regrets any imaginary nightmare he played war with now, the apocalypse was too real
“Don’t get tricked by the battle, they’re illusions too,” I yelled, as he ran away from me. I hope he listens. I don’t know why he always runs.
I’m not going to hurt anybody.
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Still in between. Midnight hearts. Late music. https://vwtbr.bandcamp.com/album/nightluxury #bandcamp #music_for_evenings #noir_fm #vaporwave #vaportapes_brazil
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NORTHLAND FORECAST FOR OCTOBER 27, 2026:
The #Northland will see plenty of #showers Monday night with a #storm system passing through the region. With low #temperatures in the 30s and low 40s, some #snowflakes are possible in spots.
Tuesday will see shower chances persist with an easterly #breeze. Highs will remain #seasonal for late October in the 40s and low 50s.
VIDEO/DISCUSSION: fox21online.com/weather
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The Rise of AI: Is There Hope for Mankind?
Extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence fuel dreams of ease on one hand, and nightmares of catastrophe on the other. Will AI supplant human decision-making? Will humanity even survive?
The Rise of AI: Is There Hope for Mankind?
by Steven Britt
ince the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, the world has been captivated by advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). As these systems become more humanlike in their output, everyone—from leading experts in the field to presidents and pundits alike—is feeling the accelerated pace of technology and wondering where we are headed.
In 2023, Elon Musk warned, “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production . . . It has the potential of civilization destruction” (emphasis added throughout).
Is there reason to fear AI? Is it possible that AI will soon achieve human-level or even superhuman intelligence? And, if so, is there hope for mankind to survive the creation and implementation of such a powerful technology?
When machines learn to think
While the AI we see today is impressive, many experts believe we are only a few years away from artificial general intelligence (AGI)—systems with the humanlike ability to solve entirely new problems by innovation, experimentation and learning.
Since the inception of the machine age, computer software has only been able to accomplish rigid, preprogrammed instructions within strict boundaries. However, AI is now able, without a single line of new code, to perform a multitude of tasks on request. In minutes, it can make a better diagnosis than your doctor, out-argue a lawyer, translate a speech into another language, negotiate a contract and write a poem about it all in Shakespearian style.
The current reality was nearly unthinkable to the average person just three years ago when ChatGPT debuted. At the time of this writing, AI models are already able to score above average on IQ tests and ace graduate-level exams across multiple disciplines.
Despite these impressive achievements, these systems fall short of AGI.
Intelligence, much like consciousness, is difficult to actually define, and there is no widely accepted definition of exactly what constitutes AGI. Current AI systems perform well on tests because they have likely seen the information before—a distinguishing feature of AGI would be the humanlike ability to solve entirely new challenges, learning and adapting as it goes.
While today’s AI tools can already outperform most human beings on a wide variety of written and verbal tests, a true AGI system would be a world-changing breakthrough. The reason is simple: Machine intelligence can be scaled just by hooking up more processors. One could easily create entire teams of AGIs working together on complex problems from different angles just as people would—researching, experimenting, publishing findings and reasoning. They would never sleep, never take a break, and would operate at superhuman speed.
The first and most obvious task on the agenda, in the minds of many, would be to set this AGI to work unlocking the secrets of building even higher intelligence—redesigning and improving itself until it has completely surpassed human beings, a level known as artificial superintelligence (ASI).
Much thought has gone into the consequences of AGI or ASI becoming a reality, and the imagined outcomes fall into four different possible endings to the story:
1. The A.I. utopia. Guided by careful design and moral wisdom, AGI works tirelessly to end disease, to design and build clean energy grids, and to free humanity to pursue creativity. Work becomes optional, poverty fades and everyone lives happily ever after.
2. The hostile machine. Like the plot of numerous action movies, a rogue AI decides it would be better off without mankind and moves to destroy us.
3. The paperclip maximizer problem. Philosopher Nick Bostrom warned in 2004 that even a neutral AGI can be lethal if it’s simply given the wrong goal. In this scenario, the AGI is set over a factory and told to make as many paperclips as possible. It soon begins converting forests, oceans and eventually human beings into raw materials for more paperclips—inadvertently destroying mankind in a blind pursuit of a poorly defined goal!
4. Human mischief—supercharged. The most likely and earliest danger is abuse of this rapidly changing technology for evil. Just as mid-20th-century physics gave way to nuclear bombs with terrible destructive power, nations or criminals could weaponize and unleash AGI for cyberwarfare, bioweapons and more.
Notice that only one of these outcomes doesn’t end with the destruction of mankind! But will the technologies really advance to such extremes?
2025: The year of AI agents
By the end of 2024, tech leaders were already calling 2025 “the year of AI agents,” signaling a fundamental change in how AI would be used.
Until recently, AI tools like ChatGPT could only generate text and ideas—they could not take real-world action outside of giving a response to a user’s input. AI agents change that completely.
The key difference between a chatbot and an AI agent is that an agent can interface with other software tools, even without being explicitly told to do so, to accomplish a task on its own. The earliest step toward AI agents was adding simple web-search features, allowing AI to perform its own Internet searches, scanning through dozens of different websites to answer detailed queries with up-to-date information.
Significantly, on July 17, 2025, Open-AI released Agent Mode in ChatGPT, imbued with the ability to fully use the Internet through a web browser. For example, you can give Agent Mode the dates of an upcoming trip, your budget and some interests, and it can research the area, plan a full, day-by-day itinerary and book your hotel and tickets for you!
The massive financial bet on AI
If investment is a measure of expectation, the world’s richest companies and governments all clearly believe that AGI—or something similarly world-changing—is coming soon.
In January 2025, OpenAI announced construction of Project Stargate, a $500 billion datacenter requiring over five gigawatts of power—more than twice the output of Hoover Dam. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s supercomputing center, dubbed Colossus, has cost $4 billion so far and draws 150 megawatts from the grid, with plans to spend $25 billion to quadruple its capacity to nearly 1 gigawatt.
And the spending doesn’t stop at hardware. In one of the most aggressive talent recruiting wars in history, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has offered elite AI researchers compensation packages worth $300 million per person over four years—sometimes more than $100 million in the first year!
In all this, key chipmaker Nvidia skyrocketed to become the world’s most valuable company in history, topping $4.5 trillion in value.
This “compute race” resembles the nuclear arms buildup of the Cold War, but with one striking difference—the pace. Nuclear weapons development spanned decades; ChatGPT was released just three years ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin famously said in 2017, “Whoever becomes the leader in AI will become the ruler of the world.” That prediction accurately summed up the fervor for powerful AI systems that has ignited these historic investments.
Biblical perspective: Is AGI really possible?
The fact is, machines cannot replicate the God-given, spiritual nature of human beings. Ecclesiastes 3:11 tells us that God “has put eternity in their hearts.” People are not just biological processors of data. It is the human spirit from our Creator that gives us human understanding (Job 32:8; 1 Corinthians 2:11). And He designed us to live in a loving relationship with Him!
Genesis 2:7 states that “the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” AI systems, made of silicon circuits and transistors, are mere dust of the ground.
However, the Bible gives grave warnings about human ingenuity. At the Tower of Babel, God said that, because the people were working together with the same mindset and language, “Nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them” (Genesis 11:6).
The spread of global technology has helped to remove the language barrier God introduced at Babel. And today’s engineers, corporations and governments are working with one mind and one goal—to create machine intelligence that can learn and perform nearly any task as well as, or better than, human beings.
Gary Kasparov, the renowned chess grandmaster who famously lost to IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer in 1997—a feat once considered impossible for a machine—stated, “Saying that Deep Blue doesn’t really think is like saying an airplane doesn’t really fly because it doesn’t flap its wings.”
In other words, in the eyes of the world the difference between intelligence and capability will be considered irrelevant—as what matters is what AI can do.
Just as the builders at Babel, humanity is coming against limits that once seemed unreachable.
The real dangers start before AGI arrives
Science fiction loves the trope of self-aware AI turning against its creators. Despite the dazzling leaps of AI agents or how human the newest AI models may seem in their writing, they are not at all a step toward true humanlike intelligence.
However, the most immediate dangers of AI do not require any form of consciousness or sentience to amplify evil in the world.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).
Recall the problem of “fake news” in recent years. Hundreds of provocative, but untrue, headlines deceived many. AI will be used to produce more convincing content faster than ever, including not only text but fraudulent images and videos that are increasingly difficult to discern.
Likewise, bad actors across the board augment their abilities with AI already—from hackers holding companies hostage with ransomware to phishing scams duping people for their bank information. Very soon, AI agents will make it possible to outsource these evil deeds completely, enabling a single person to deploy as many simultaneous attacks as their computing resources can support.
The scale of the threat grows when considering geopolitical motives. State-sponsored cyber attacks from China against critical U.S. systems are now routine, and their human hackers are probably already equipped with AI assistants at their side. It’s not a stretch to imagine the Chinese government commissioning an army of AI cyberwarfare agents that autonomously seek out vulnerabilities in critical American systems and infiltrate them for espionage and/or disruption.
Internet-based attacks can have real, deadly consequences, but the dangers of AI do not stop there. An Encyclopedia Britannica essay titled “Killer Robots: The Future of War?” postulates that “the first revolution in warfare was the invention of gunpowder. The second was the invention of nuclear weapons. And this [AI-powered autonomous robots] will be the third” (Toby Walsh, Britannica.com, originally published 2018). As it rightly observes, “The weakest link in a drone is the radio link back to base.” Now it can keep going on its own.
Coinciding with developments in AI, drone technology and humanoid robotics have undergone rapid advances in recent years. Flying drones are already redefining the principles of modern warfare through the Russia-Ukraine war, where cheap remote-piloted drones carrying explosives have neutralized multimillion-dollar tanks, dramatically altering battlefield dynamics. Replacing remote drone pilots with AI is an all-but-certain escalation that will soon make these platforms capable of greater destruction and on a much larger scale.
On the robotics front, Boston Dynamics in the U.S. and Unitree Robotics in China are routinely demoing new humanlike and doglike robots—powered by AI systems—that learn via neural networks to not only walk, but run, jump, climb, dance and do backflips. In the near future, governments may be manufacturing vast armies of AI-powered autonomous robot soldiers.
Consider also the problem of AGI or ASI falling into the hands of volatile dictators, and the stakes become even higher. On June 22, 2025, U.S. stealth bombers destroyed three Iranian nuclear facilities, derailing Iran’s uranium enrichment ambitions for years to come. Replace the thought of “uranium enrichment” with “AI computer clusters” and the same logic may apply in the near future—nations launching preemptive strikes to prevent rivals from reaching AI supremacy.
Will humanity survive the AI explosion?
Jesus Christ warned that in the end times the world would be plagued by “wars and rumors of wars” (Matthew 24:6). AI is poised to be both fuel and the spark for that fire.
While AI marches forward at breakneck speed, the “AI utopia” scenario does not seem at all likely. Human nature, as history has shown many times over, dictates that AI will be used as a tool for both good and evil. The abilities of these systems in the near future leave us with very bleak prospects.
Will mankind survive? Jesus said that things will get so bad that “unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved [alive] . . .” (Matthew 24:22). In other words, the Bible confirms that the doom-and-gloom scenarios are indeed the logical, predictable outcome of man’s efforts!
Our greatest problems—war, greed, corruption—are not technical but spiritual in nature. AI cannot solve them. Rather, it will amplify them.
And yet, there is hope! Jesus continued, “. . . but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.” In the absence of a loving Creator, the collective sins of mankind would be our undoing—but God, out of mercy and love for His people, will intervene before AI or any other threat would destroy mankind.
Until the return of Jesus Christ, the world we live in will become increasingly dangerous and unpredictable. Paul warned that “in the last days perilous times will come” (2 Timothy 3:1). AI advances are worsening many spiritual dangers. Social media will become more addictive and more toxic. Advertising will become more enticing than ever, fueling hedonism. Deceptive AI content will soon make it nearly impossible to tell truth from reality. All these problems and more are at our doorstep!
What should we do as AI races ahead? Stay spiritually awake, testing every claim against God’s Word, and remember that the only true hope for the world is the coming Kingdom of God.
Our world is charging toward a future it cannot control—but, thankfully, that future is securely in the hands of God the Father and Jesus Christ. For our sake, man’s self-destructive course will be cut short, and God’s Kingdom will bring the peace that no human-devised AI could ever deliver!
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November 1st, 2026. It has been one week since the event. Dread keeps me up at night, which I know excaberates the problem, but no matter how much my conscious mind tries to convince my subconscious that it would be better to sleep, despite everything, it fails miserably, and so I lie awake until my body capitulates.
My dreams anticipate reality. In them I am chased relentlessly. Dark shadows lurk in darker shadows, a world without light or mercy, dead silent but for the yowls of my hunters. Clawed darkness crawls towards me, reaching for me.
I awake bathed in sweat, and without thinking, my hand reaches for the clock. 5:13 I read before cursing myself. I should have stayed still; I should have gone back to sleep, to the imagined torture, but instead I moved, and when I move, they come.
I try to close my eyes again, try to pretend, but it is too late. With my eyes closed, I feel the weight crawling over the sheets, then pressing down on my chest, making it difficult to breathe.
A paw boops my nose. Calm at first, then more and more insistent, and when I give up, at 5:21, I curse William Willett and go to the kitchen to fill the bowls.
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CW: satire of terfism, defacation
Gyns tell me I'm not crazy here. No one I've told about this so far has sympathized with me, but I know radblr is more reasonable than the outside world. I'm really afraid of moids going into the sewer and eating my shit and drinking my urine. Everyone makes fun of me for this and tells me why I should care when it's bodily waste anyways, but it's my bodily waste and I don't want moids putting it in their mouth. We can all agree that's perfectly reasonable right? Right? We all know how moids can be about women and we all know that they actually do this. So what is the problem if I do it first? I've been reading articles about it and unless you have parasites it's actually not that bad for you and can actually help you absorb nutrients you may have missed before. The only problem is if you ONLY eat and drink your own piss and shit and you get nutrient defeciencies. Everyone I've told about this seems completely disgusted by it and I'm at my wits end. I just want my FEMALE piss and shit to stay pure of moid saliva. Why are women treated like this for protecting ourselves? Why is it so wrong when I do it but not when MEN do it? Sisters, I need your counsel. I haven't flushed in four days and I need advice. I know this sounds extreme but I have my reasons. There's been documentation—studies, personal accounts, patterns—that moids and TRA activists have established colonies in the sewer systems. They subsist on what we discard. Every time you flush, you're feeding them. You're giving them sustenance, allowing them to maintain their presence in the infrastructure that connects us all. My toilet is reaching a critical point. I can smell it. I know I need to do something but I can't bring myself to push that lever. It feels like... surrender. Like contamination. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ can i be a political lesbian if im super straight? i have never experienced any attraction to women and i find the thought of the female body disgusting. in fact i hate my own body and wish i could be a man. but then id be gay. i have dated men for like 15+ years and after spending so long dating men and being mistreated i feel like i want to claim political lesbianism. maybe i could be a man and force myself to be straight and claim political lesbianism. could this maybe work for me? what kinds of activism should i get involved in to become a political lesbian? heres a thing that happened to some friends of mine. was walking down the street talking about the bears game and a bus pulled up and a bunch of white women with short hair and bad plastic surgery came out with baseball bats. they all had shirts that sayed 'down with trans'. i(22 afab wombynly wombyn) was able to hold them off while my friend(19 amab mynly myn) ran away. bareley escaped aita for accidentally harrassing an afab? was at the grocery store and had to used the restroom. damn urinary leash amirite? i was so terrified of seeing an transexual but had no choice becuz i(35 wombynly afab) had to pee.as i was washing mine hands a person came in. i could tell by their jawline and cheekbones that they were obviously an amab. so i stood in the door and made them pull down their pandts. and they said no so they started walking away but i kept following them demanding to see what was in his pants. by the time we reached the checkout it was really statring to cause quite a scene which was very triggering to my sex based oppression. i followed him out to his car and he turned and looked at me and said "dude im a butch stop being wierd" in a perfect femininely wombynly afab voice. aita? hi yall. i was amab and transitioned 5 years ago. just a normal straight girl, right? couple of months ago i figured i would try reclaiming my masculinity. puicked up some boxers and cargo shorts. instand raging boaner. now i cant ger off without thinking of hot bear for bear frotting. am i still trurrans? How do you feel about male exclusive radical misandrists? yeah i was born a man and i hate it this cock tortures me evry minute of my existence if i even think about being a man i break down. And due to my unfortunate attraction to men, i experience sex based oppression due to being a bottom. i sometimes wish i could transision and be a political lesbian but then i would just be a male invading women's spaces. so i coined a term to describe me: male exclusive radical misandrist. because if i am going to be oppressed for being a male i want to be the one opressing me. its basic bodily autonomy. only we can oppress ourselves. #moids dni #foids dni #kill all men #kill all women #oppress yourself responsibly #liberate the noone #righttooppress harrassing random trans women will not brign the downfall of gender. indiviual action will never bring any revolution. what we need is collective action. so stop trying to do anything about gender until the vanguard party has established a positon for the overthrow of gender. if you disagree your just a lifestylist reactionary. __________________________________________________________________________________________ and to my immune system: if you want to drown yourself in snot and mucuous that's your right but would you kindly do me a favor and LEAVE ME THE FUCK OUT OF IT. and to my subconscious mind: need i remind you that your job responsibilities cover automated systems like breathing and circulation, not fucking keeping me awake all fucking night? kindly focus on attending to your job description instead of insane extracuriculars? I need you to remember that we are a team here and your actions affect everyone. dear James in engineering, I cant believe you still haven't solved the problems with the power couplings. I know this may be hard to understand but you need to turn the set screws to the OFF position to turn OFF the flow restrictors and you need to turn the set screws to the ON position to ENABLE the flow restrictors. Kindly, learn to do your damn job. dear administration, I appreciate all of your hard work in finding staff in these difficult times but I need clarification on one thing: where do you find all of these morons? You have sent us five new employees in the last two weeks and only one of them knew what a philips head was. We cannot be spending what little time we are given to train new employees in basic skills. Might i recommend hiring people who demonstrate technical proficiency instead of your fuckup nephew? heres something i actually sent my local news station: Hello Andrea, I apologize if this is not your department but I cannot find a contact for the meteorology department. My complaint is quite simple: I ask that weather forecasters please refrain from inserting their personal judgements and opinions into the broadcasting. I get that some people might appreciate warmer weather but this opinion is not universal and many of us find it quite shocking to see 80 degree highs in late october described as "nice", "mild", or "fair". If you would like to hear my opinion on the matter, personally I find this heat oppressive as I am someone who spends a good deal of time outside engaged in hard physical activity. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you enjoy this weather you might consider relocating to an environment with a more suitable climate, such as the fucking sahara desert. And frankly, the Sahara might be an improvement: at least I could manage the heat in a dry climate. Thank you for listening to my rant and have a blessed day, Foob P.S. Anything you could do to keep the temperatures in the mid 50s would be greatly appreciated on my end. dear Administration, While I appreciate that finding competent staff is difficult sometimes and that you have been able to find teaching staff with high levels of technical proficiency, several of your staff have been lacking in professionalism and pedagogy. I have actually had teachers cancel class with 5 minutes notice, on multiple occassions, so much so that it in fact became a recurring pattern with them. As if that wasnt bad enough, these are often the same teachers who's prefered teaching style seems to be blindly reading off their powerpoint without so much as looking at the class, much less checking for understanding. I ask that in the future you please hire teachers who actually show up to class and actually know how to teach. Best regards, A concerned student ps. and dont even get me started with your online offerings. in a live classroom setting, a student can at least raise their hand and steer an incompetent teacher. but your online classes are just underpaid staff reading off thier lecture notes with no furter explanation beyond basic concepts. I might as well watch a youtube video, that would be a better value. For $1000 dollars a class, this is a total ripoff and perhaps even a full on scam. fuck you. Whoever is in charge of hiring at this place is a real piece of work. I get that there are others who may have better qualifications but to interview a candidate and not even send a rejection email, much less useful feedback, demostrates a level of profesionalism that would embarrass a tavern wench. These institutions, and society as a whole, would benefit greatly from giving people a fighting fucking chance. Dear hiring manager, I have an important formal inquiry(injury): on your website you have multiple listings for so called entry level positions with a minimum qualification of 5 years of experience. This leaves me wondering how one is supposed to get 5 years of experience if all of the so called entry level positions require 5 years of experience. This is so prevasive accross your job listings that I suspect I might have a decent case with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, considering that these requirements absolutely have a discriminatory impact against people who are new to the job market. So I guess my question is this: do you actually hire human beings or only bots? Also, what the fuck are you smoking? This is a job which entails mostly filing sales reports, which is not exactly a rare or difficult skill. Stop acting like corporate bureaucracy is a skilled trade: it isn't. Dear hr, It has come to my attention that the tone of my recent emails is "problematic and unprofessional". While I can appreciate that others may have trouble with the self awareness necessary to address issues raised in good faith, I must suggest that my coworkers stop being such a bunch of little bitches. Thank you for your attention to this matter. hello hr representative, I am writing to inform you of several concerns i have with this companies hr department. While I do appreciate the structure whereby advancement depends on undying loyalty to the establishment and whereby power is exercised both for its own sake and to keep underlings in check, I must say that you lack the ability to be gangsta unless you have the full backing of the entire institution. Kindly, if you have a beef with me, settle it like grown men instead of hiding behind your lackeys. Also, you claim to have meaningful power over me but we both know that you would be nothing without the backing of your institution. Once again, lets drop the bullshit and settle this. Best regards, Mr. Dick Head __________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Have you owned a month-end close and an annual audit relationship for a fund or investment vehicle, without a supervisor above you? I ride a bicycle everywhere and if i cant get there on a bike i simply ride there anyway. i ride in the middle of the road, often dodging traffic in the oncoming lane. Its like dancing its all about your footwork, timing and spacing. I know this sounds dangerous but you need to know something about me: dick does not fuck up. If there is a collision it is your fucking fault for being in my fucking way. Dont you know pedestrians have the right of way? Do you have five or more years of accounting experience, including fund or investment-vehicle accounting (private credit, debt fund, or real estate fund)? Yeah ive been riding my bike for like 8 years now at this point and let me tell you i have put a lot of work into it. every goddamned time i go out to ride it something needs adjusting, be it the brake cables, shifter cable, tire pressure, or seat position. and thats just the tip of the iceberg. i have replaced the drivetrain 5 seperate times including completely reengineering it at least twice. and if theres even a bit of rain in the forecast i have to be prepared to replace everything cuz nothing is designed to handle a bit of moisture much less the kind of loamy mud i subject it to. This is an independent contractor (1099) engagement on a fixed monthly retainer, roughly 30 hours in a typical month. Does that structure work for you? the only structure that works for me is completely egalitarian horizontal structures. anything else concentrates power that will eventually be abused. and the structure of most corporations, including yours, more closely resembles monarchal fuedalism than any form of democracy, much less free association. and to be frank monarchal fuedalism would be a fucking improvement., at least under monarchal feudalism i have the dignity of providing for my own and my community's survival by contributing to the grain store instead of relying on opaque and inhuman institutions for the "privilege" of keeping a roof over my head. fuck you. What monthly retainer would you propose for the scope described in the posting? i aint paying you no goddamn monthly fee for the "privilege" of selling you my labor. fuck you.
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Contrust enough defences, they become a prison cell.
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@latenightlinux Why do you block tools like castget?
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Been running Linux for two decades, building homelab clusters for six years. Think that makes me done learning? Nope. Even AI still teaches me useful stuff nearly every day. Get off my lawn, sure — but like any tool, it's neither a weapon nor a toy by itself. Depends who's holding it.
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