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  1. In my new YouTube #video, I tell the #hypothetical story of a #Histiostomatidae #mite that lived its #lifehistory in the #dung heap of the #dinosaur #Edmontosaurus #annectens during the Late #Cretaceous. It developed #fungivorously within the dung and, when conditions deteriorated, was #transported by #flies to a new habitat (phoresis). All images and footage created with #AI assistance, except photos of free-living mites.
    © #StefanFWirth 2025

    Video
    youtu.be/gzv-TZmU5G4?si=zrTLfr

    Pics
    © S.F. Wirth

  2. In my new YouTube #video, I tell the #hypothetical story of a #Histiostomatidae #mite that lived its #lifehistory in the #dung heap of the #dinosaur #Edmontosaurus #annectens during the Late #Cretaceous. It developed #fungivorously within the dung and, when conditions deteriorated, was #transported by #flies to a new habitat (phoresis). All images and footage created with #AI assistance, except photos of free-living mites.
    © #StefanFWirth 2025

    Video
    youtu.be/gzv-TZmU5G4?si=zrTLfr

    Pics
    © S.F. Wirth

  3. In my new YouTube #video, I tell the #hypothetical story of a #Histiostomatidae #mite that lived its #lifehistory in the #dung heap of the #dinosaur #Edmontosaurus #annectens during the Late #Cretaceous. It developed #fungivorously within the dung and, when conditions deteriorated, was #transported by #flies to a new habitat (phoresis). All images and footage created with #AI assistance, except photos of free-living mites.
    © #StefanFWirth 2025

    Video
    youtu.be/gzv-TZmU5G4?si=zrTLfr

    Pics
    © S.F. Wirth

  4. In my new YouTube #video, I tell the #hypothetical story of a #Histiostomatidae #mite that lived its #lifehistory in the #dung heap of the #dinosaur #Edmontosaurus #annectens during the Late #Cretaceous. It developed #fungivorously within the dung and, when conditions deteriorated, was #transported by #flies to a new habitat (phoresis). All images and footage created with #AI assistance, except photos of free-living mites.
    © #StefanFWirth 2025

    Video
    youtu.be/gzv-TZmU5G4?si=zrTLfr

    Pics
    © S.F. Wirth

  5. In my new YouTube #video, I tell the #hypothetical story of a #Histiostomatidae #mite that lived its #lifehistory in the #dung heap of the #dinosaur #Edmontosaurus #annectens during the Late #Cretaceous. It developed #fungivorously within the dung and, when conditions deteriorated, was #transported by #flies to a new habitat (phoresis). All images and footage created with #AI assistance, except photos of free-living mites.
    © #StefanFWirth 2025

    Video
    youtu.be/gzv-TZmU5G4?si=zrTLfr

    Pics
    © S.F. Wirth

  6. Democratic House Control in 2026: Pathways to Restoring American Democracy – A Report from AI

    AI generated image, WP.

    Democratic House Control in 2026: Pathways to Restoring American Democracy

    Published: October 6, 2025

    Editor’s Note: Like many Democrats, I am hoping for a good win, and solid victories, in November 2026 Midterms. It occurred to me today, the breadth and depth of destruction of American Democracy, our position in the World, our truth in our words, and more –all because of Trump. I asked my associate, Perplexity, to dive in and see even WHEN WE WIN, in Midterms, there will be YEARS of reconstruction, rebuilding, ending, stopping, removing all signs of his Presidency and actions, including so far 209 Executive Orders. The estimates below are “AS IF,” assume we win in November, 2026, then what would it take to restore America. –DrWeb

    If Democrats successfully win control of the House in the 2026 midterms, they would gain significant legislative powers to challenge and reverse many of Trump’s policies, though the timeline for restoring democratic norms would vary considerably based on the scope of action and political resistance.

    Congressional Powers to Reverse Trump Actions

    With House control, Democrats could immediately begin using several key legislative tools to counteract Trump’s agenda. They would have the power of the purse to defund programs, refuse appropriations for controversial initiatives, and block new funding requests. The House could launch comprehensive investigations through oversight hearings, subpoena documents and witnesses, and expose administration misconduct.

    Democrats could also pass legislation to codify protections that Trump has undermined through executive orders, though these bills would face challenges in a likely Republican-controlled Senate and presidential vetoes. The Congressional Review Act provides another avenue, allowing Congress to overturn recently enacted federal regulations with simple majority votes in both chambers, though this requires Senate cooperation and presidential approval.

    Executive Orders and Federal Regulations

    Trump has issued 209 executive orders by October 2025, covering areas from immigration and climate policy to federal workforce reductions and international agreements. Many of these orders rescinded Biden-era policies on diversity initiatives, environmental protections, and immigration enforcement.

    A Democratic House could pressure the administration through funding restrictions and investigations, but cannot directly overturn executive orders. However, they could pass legislation requiring congressional approval for certain executive actions and create legal frameworks that constrain presidential authority.

    Timeline Projections

    Fast Track Scenario (2-4 years)

    Under optimized conditions, significant democratic restoration could occur relatively quickly. Immediate actions within the first year could include launching investigations, blocking harmful appropriations, and passing symbolic legislation to signal policy changes. Constitutional scholar analysis suggests that with unified Democratic control after 2028, major structural reforms could be implemented within 2-4 years.

    The fast track would require Democrats to flip the Senate in 2026 or 2028 and eventually win the presidency, enabling them to reverse executive orders, restore agency independence, and pass comprehensive democracy reform legislation. Historical precedent from the 2018 midterms shows that opposition parties can effectively constrain presidential power through House control alone.

    Extended Timeline (6-10 years)

    A more realistic projection involves gradual restoration over 6-10 years due to institutional resistance and political polarization. Current analysis indicates that Trump’s administration has secured “near-total allegiance from the GOP” and filled positions with loyal supporters, making reversals more difficult than previous transitions.

    The extended timeline accounts for potential Supreme Court challenges to reform legislation, continued Republican control of other government branches, and the need for sustained electoral success across multiple cycles. Comparative analysis of democratic backsliding suggests that institutional repair often requires sustained effort across multiple electoral cycles.

    Democracy experts warn that current trends represent “the most substantial delegation of power from Congress to the president in the nation’s history,” indicating that restoration will require comprehensive institutional reforms beyond simple policy reversals. The timeline ultimately depends on the extent of democratic erosion by 2026 and the political will to implement fundamental structural changes rather than merely reversing individual policies.

    Sources Consulted

    References (MLA Format):

    #2025 #AfterTrump #America #DonaldTrump #DrWebSDomain #Education #EndOfTrump #FixingAmericanDemocracy #Health #History #Hypothetical #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Perplexity #Politics #ProjectedFuture #Resistance #Scenario #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

  7. 🎩🤖 Behold, the Darwin Gödel Machine: an #AI so advanced it can rewrite its own code—except it hasn't, and it won't. 🙃 Decades-old #hype dressed up as revolutionary, yet still just a "hypothetical" machine. When it hits reality, wake me up! 💤
    sakana.ai/dgm/ #DarwinGödelMachine #Hypothetical #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

  8. 🎩🤖 Behold, the Darwin Gödel Machine: an #AI so advanced it can rewrite its own code—except it hasn't, and it won't. 🙃 Decades-old #hype dressed up as revolutionary, yet still just a "hypothetical" machine. When it hits reality, wake me up! 💤
    sakana.ai/dgm/ #DarwinGödelMachine #Hypothetical #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

  9. 🎩🤖 Behold, the Darwin Gödel Machine: an #AI so advanced it can rewrite its own code—except it hasn't, and it won't. 🙃 Decades-old #hype dressed up as revolutionary, yet still just a "hypothetical" machine. When it hits reality, wake me up! 💤
    sakana.ai/dgm/ #DarwinGödelMachine #Hypothetical #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

  10. 🎩🤖 Behold, the Darwin Gödel Machine: an #AI so advanced it can rewrite its own code—except it hasn't, and it won't. 🙃 Decades-old #hype dressed up as revolutionary, yet still just a "hypothetical" machine. When it hits reality, wake me up! 💤
    sakana.ai/dgm/ #DarwinGödelMachine #Hypothetical #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

  11. Just going to hypothesize something here... for posterity and accountability to weird strategic thoughts I have when I try to channel this Musk creep. The tech-bro's have already taken over. That is why they are now sending the DOGE teams with armed escorts and guns to smash small offices of the government. Trump is the vindictive figurehead. It's the tech lords running the show, and they're going to do a deal with China to get rid of Putin.

    🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🔀 🇷🇺

    I'm open to the possibility of something beyond shocking happening. There have already been rumors of revaluing the gold at Fort Knox, restructuring the debt, a national cryptocurrency...

    What about, a merger / joint venture with China and the US becomes a total one-party state, USA Inc. They'll leave the illusion of elections, and the Dems will continue to be the useful idiots as they have been for a decade.

    The game is no longer Dem vs. Rep. There will be no normal midterms. The struggle at the top is between the Christian Nationalists, the technofascist (Nation State) crowd, and the MAGA base that Bannon leads. Think of Bannon's people as the brown shirts they'll eventually use to silence dissent.

    Imagine a chip-access deal or some sort of organized takeover of Taiwan (stripping the island of its sovereignty in Trump fashion) over a set period of time for USA, Inc. to be able to scale semiconductor fabs.

    The culture war is a distraction. The rich are stealing the future. :earth: :NoNazis: :ExtinctionRebellion: :NonCommercialUS:

    #hypothetical #Technology #TechNate #Musk #thiel #Andreessen #Ellision #uspol #feudalism #technofeudalism #ai #solarpunk

  12. A quotation from Milne, A. A.:

    «
    “Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?”
    “Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought.
    Piglet was comforted by this.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/milne-a-a/48004/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #catastrophizing #comfort #hope #hypothetical #optimism #pessimism #supposing #worstcasescenario

  13. A weird but interesting alternate reality: Windows 3.0 didn't get any approval by Microsoft. Windows got cancelled. Microsoft continues working on NT OS/2 3.0. OS/2 became a true successor to DOS.

    Fast forward to 2021. IBM announces OS/2 15.0. Designed for x86-64 only. Advanced features, and stuff. Now available on ThinkPads starting November 2021.

    #tech #hypothetical #random #altreality #technology #ibm #microsoft #windows #os2 #dos

  14. A weird but interesting alternate reality: Windows 3.0 didn't get any approval by Microsoft. Windows got cancelled. Microsoft continues working on NT OS/2 3.0. OS/2 became a true successor to DOS.

    Fast forward to 2021. IBM announces OS/2 15.0. Designed for x86-64 only. Advanced features, and stuff. Now available on ThinkPads starting November 2021.

    #tech #hypothetical #random #altreality #technology #ibm #microsoft #windows #os2 #dos

  15. A weird but interesting alternate reality: Windows 3.0 didn't get any approval by Microsoft. Windows got cancelled. Microsoft continues working on NT OS/2 3.0. OS/2 became a true successor to DOS.

    Fast forward to 2021. IBM announces OS/2 15.0. Designed for x86-64 only. Advanced features, and stuff. Now available on ThinkPads starting November 2021.

    #tech #hypothetical #random #altreality #technology #ibm #microsoft #windows #os2 #dos

  16. A weird but interesting alternate reality: Windows 3.0 didn't get any approval by Microsoft. Windows got cancelled. Microsoft continues working on NT OS/2 3.0. OS/2 became a true successor to DOS.

    Fast forward to 2021. IBM announces OS/2 15.0. Designed for x86-64 only. Advanced features, and stuff. Now available on ThinkPads starting November 2021.

  17. A weird but interesting alternate reality: Windows 3.0 didn't get any approval by Microsoft. Windows got cancelled. Microsoft continues working on NT OS/2 3.0. OS/2 became a true successor to DOS.

    Fast forward to 2021. IBM announces OS/2 15.0. Designed for x86-64 only. Advanced features, and stuff. Now available on ThinkPads starting November 2021.

    #tech #hypothetical #random #altreality #technology #ibm #microsoft #windows #os2 #dos

  18. @sozialwelten

    Hi, SocialWorlds. Your post ended in my “Home” timeline probably because of the #information(en) hashtag, and even if I don’t speak German it looked interesting so I “had” to translate it and respond. Hope you don’t mind :-)

    #Distinction of #undecidable #questions in #known and #unknown #conditions of their #relevance.
    #hypothetical / #factual
    #Factually meant as a #question for #data as not yet known #information
    #known / #unknown
    In the case of #functional systems such as #economy, #religion, #art and #politics, only #facts are missing. How they are to be #understood is #clear.
    In the case of #meaning and #ecology, #decisive #factors are #unclear.

    In my opinion #data=#facts. You can’t argue about facts the same way you can’t really argue about the “hard data” (numbers, graphs) in front of you.

    What you can argue about is the interpretation of that data, or the different private #information every one of us will extract from the same set of data (facts) in front of us. What information is derived from the data depends on the different #knowledge(s) each one of us has about the world.

  19. @sozialwelten

    Hi, SocialWorlds. Your post ended in my “Home” timeline probably because of the #information(en) hashtag, and even if I don’t speak German it looked interesting so I “had” to translate it and respond. Hope you don’t mind :-)

    #Distinction of #undecidable #questions in #known and #unknown #conditions of their #relevance.
    #hypothetical / #factual
    #Factually meant as a #question for #data as not yet known #information
    #known / #unknown
    In the case of #functional systems such as #economy, #religion, #art and #politics, only #facts are missing. How they are to be #understood is #clear.
    In the case of #meaning and #ecology, #decisive #factors are #unclear.

    In my opinion #data=#facts. You can’t argue about facts the same way you can’t really argue about the “hard data” (numbers, graphs) in front of you.

    What you can argue about is the interpretation of that data, or the different private #information every one of us will extract from the same set of data (facts) in front of us. What information is derived from the data depends on the different #knowledge(s) each one of us has about the world.

  20. @sozialwelten

    Hi, SocialWorlds. Your post ended in my “Home” timeline probably because of the #information(en) hashtag, and even if I don’t speak German it looked interesting so I “had” to translate it and respond. Hope you don’t mind :-)

    #Distinction of #undecidable #questions in #known and #unknown #conditions of their #relevance.
    #hypothetical / #factual
    #Factually meant as a #question for #data as not yet known #information
    #known / #unknown
    In the case of #functional systems such as #economy, #religion, #art and #politics, only #facts are missing. How they are to be #understood is #clear.
    In the case of #meaning and #ecology, #decisive #factors are #unclear.

    In my opinion #data=#facts. You can’t argue about facts the same way you can’t really argue about the “hard data” (numbers, graphs) in front of you.

    What you can argue about is the interpretation of that data, or the different private #information every one of us will extract from the same set of data (facts) in front of us. What information is derived from the data depends on the different #knowledge(s) each one of us has about the world.

  21. @sozialwelten

    Hi, SocialWorlds. Your post ended in my “Home” timeline probably because of the #information(en) hashtag, and even if I don’t speak German it looked interesting so I “had” to translate it and respond. Hope you don’t mind :-)

    #Distinction of #undecidable #questions in #known and #unknown #conditions of their #relevance.
    #hypothetical / #factual
    #Factually meant as a #question for #data as not yet known #information
    #known / #unknown
    In the case of #functional systems such as #economy, #religion, #art and #politics, only #facts are missing. How they are to be #understood is #clear.
    In the case of #meaning and #ecology, #decisive #factors are #unclear.

    In my opinion #data=#facts. You can’t argue about facts the same way you can’t really argue about the “hard data” (numbers, graphs) in front of you.

    What you can argue about is the interpretation of that data, or the different private #information every one of us will extract from the same set of data (facts) in front of us. What information is derived from the data depends on the different #knowledge(s) each one of us has about the world.

  22. @sozialwelten

    Hi, SocialWorlds. Your post ended in my “Home” timeline probably because of the #information(en) hashtag, and even if I don’t speak German it looked interesting so I “had” to translate it and respond. Hope you don’t mind :-)

    #Distinction of #undecidable #questions in #known and #unknown #conditions of their #relevance.
    #hypothetical / #factual
    #Factually meant as a #question for #data as not yet known #information
    #known / #unknown
    In the case of #functional systems such as #economy, #religion, #art and #politics, only #facts are missing. How they are to be #understood is #clear.
    In the case of #meaning and #ecology, #decisive #factors are #unclear.

    In my opinion #data=#facts. You can’t argue about facts the same way you can’t really argue about the “hard data” (numbers, graphs) in front of you.

    What you can argue about is the interpretation of that data, or the different private #information every one of us will extract from the same set of data (facts) in front of us. What information is derived from the data depends on the different #knowledge(s) each one of us has about the world.

  23. Interesting. Thus far, it's 0% votes for "a change of clothes." Maybe some ppl figure that after 10 yrs' time, if the ONE outfit they were wearing deteriorates, they can just fashion clothing out of plant fibers. Nothing says "island chic" like wearing the latest in "palm frond" fashions to protect you from the elements.🤣 #poll #humor #interesting #results #pollresults #humannature #hypothetical #island #scenario #desertisland #desertedisland #clothing #outfit #fashion #survival #survivalskills

  24. Hey look!! That's me on a flyer. Come out and see me perform this Thursday night at 8:30pm. Murphy's Law in Sunnyvale. Free show. Going to be a super fun night. Athena is on the show too.

    #standup #comedy #comedian #comedyshow #comedyclub #divebar #irishpub #Funky #Sam #Medina #FunkySamMedina #Sunnyvale #CA #BayArea #freeshow #hypothetical #podcast