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Posted on 07/31/2025 9:00:34 PM PDT by ransomnote
Many come here to read dispatches from the War between Good and Evil, to red-pill and encourage.....and to pray and give thanks to the God who fights for us.
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
I keep meaning to read it. Someday I am going to stay for a week at a rental near water and not close to many interesting things to see to tempt me and then just read all day and swim a good bit.
Oh, to dream.....
Thank you, explained clearly and beautifully!
Near water...swim...be still my heart!
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I hope you are both right about Brennan receiving justice in some form.
I think that was for coal.
The Clinton EPA closed down US mining of low cost low sulfur coal ...so his Riady buddy makes out like bandits.
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
Plato
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R - Fla., has made extraordinary claims about advanced technology and phenomena that defy our understanding of physics, possibly involving interdimensional elements.
Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience, Luna shared details from her work on congressional committees, raising questions about what the government knows—and what it may not be telling the public.
Luna, a member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, described encounters with phenomena that witnesses have labeled “interdimensional,” suggesting capabilities that operate beyond conventional time and space.
“This might sound crazy, but based on our investigations and stuff that we’ve seen, okay, there is definitely something that I think would rival what we know currently with physics and a tech that potentially is out there that we don’t have the ability to reproduce,” Luna told Rogan.
The GOP lawmaker emphasized that witnesses interviewed by her committee used the term “interdimensional” to describe these technologies and phenomena.
LLM Hallucination Seems Like a Very Big Problem, Not a Mere Speedbump
and yet concerns about them are just handwaved away
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/llm-hallucination-seems-like-a-very
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.....sharing some of my ongoing experiments with inducing hallucinations in LLMs......But if you’re interested, look at these two interactions I had with cutting edge LLM models, ChatGPT’s GPT-5 and Gemini’s 2.5 Flash. I’ve found that I can easily get them to hallucinate by asking for quotes or citations related to highly-specific questions. Rather than report back that they haven’t found anything, they will simply hallucinate nonexistent sources; when the hallucination is pointed out, they’ll apologize, insist that the next source or quote they give me is verified and real, and hallucinate again. It’s funny, but also disturbing, because our economy currently relies on the AI bubble to avoid falling into a brutal recession.
GPT-5 source hallucinations (Illustration at link)
find the particular insistence that next time, the source will be real to be a good example of why this stuff is so potentially destructive. It’s not merely that these systems hallucinate, it’s that they radically overstate how trustworthy their outputs are to a public that has been so bathed in AI hype, many can’t help but naively assume that the computer is right about everything. OpenAI says that GPT-5 cuts down on hallucination problems, but a) I don’t trust Taco Bell when they say that the new quesarito is cheesarific and b) I don’t think synthetic benchmarks can tell us how common LLM hallucinations are, only the steady accumulation of millions of prompts and responses. And if you care to look, you can find dozens and dozens of embarrassing examples of GPT-5 hallucinations online already, even though it was just made publicly available last week.
Here’s Gemini. (Illustration at link)
You’ll note that there’s a weird combination of confession and pushback here - it really seems to want to insist that the source it gave is real, and sends back a slightly-modified but still hallucinated source on the second try. Then it comes up with a new, also-hallucinated source before finally giving up when the latest hallucination is pointed out to it. If you’d like a chuckle, check out where the link in the original hallucinated source actually goes.
People tend to act very blasé about this sort of thing and say that any LLM user should be skeptical about everything, verify everything, etc. But it’s simply the case that a ton of normies out there take everything an LLM tells them at face value; go do a search on Twitter or Reddit and you’ll find that to be true. And I think these repeated assurances that these sources are real and verified, when they in fact are hallucinations, should disturb you for that reason. My readers are savvy enough to know that an LLM saying that a quote comes from a “real, verifiable critique” or “I can confirm with a very high degree of certainty that this is a real and verifiable source” doesn’t mean anything. But ChatGPT has nearly a billion users. How many of them, do you think, have a healthy level of skepticism for everything these systems are saying?
Whenever I point out this sort of thing, LLM defenders pop up and say things like “You just have to verify everything! You just have to write your prompts very carefully!” To which I would say, that makes this whole endeavor vastly less useful and valuable, doesn’t it? If you have to have human verification for everything they do, you’re eliminating a vast portion of their comparative advantage; the whole point is to eliminate the human effort! And similarly, if you have to be some sort of prompt wizard to get reliable outputs from these systems, they become far, far less useful. Most people are not and will never be skilled at writing AI prompts. The whole idea was that these systems used natural language and could adapt to meet the user! Specialty tools for a small cadre of trained professionals are just a vastly different case than the promise of artificial intelligence that knows what the user wants better than the user does - socially, scientifically, communicatively, and especially financially.
For the record, this sort of thing demonstrates why human-like intelligence should still be a central goal. In this podcast episode, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton dismiss people who point out that LLMs do not reason or think in anything like the conventional understanding of reasoning or thinking. (They do a lot of dismissing in defense of LLMs, those dudes.) But this sort of thing is a perfect example of why conventional definitions of cognition matter. A lot of people find this sort of repeated error hard to grasp; if ChatGPT produced the hallucinated source, why is it also capable of immediately telling that the source is fake once I prompt it? Why did the system that could tell if a source is fake give me a fake source in the first place? Why are they “smarter” on the second prompts than on the first, smart enough to identify their own previous answer?
Well the answer is because LLMs do not think. They do not reason. They are not conscious. There is no being there to notice this problem. LLMs are fundamentally extremely sophisticated next-character prediction engines. They use their immense datasets and their billions of parameters to do one thing: generate outputs that are statistically/algorithmically likely to be perceived to satisfy the input provided by the user. And so ChatGPT and Gemini went looking for something, found that it was inaccessible to them, and invented responses that look like satisfactory responses, even though they weren’t. They could identify that these sources were hallucinated because I prompted them to. But there is no thinking mind that could notice that a source they named wasn’t real. There is no thinking mind in an LLM at all. Ask the LLMs and they’ll tell you! One of the few things I like about them is that they tend to be upfront about the fact that they’re Chinese rooms, just algorithms generating strings that seem likely to be what the user wants to see, mining existing text for patterns and associations and then building response strings that are algorithmically similar. That’s what they were designed to be and do. But now, we’re told, they’re more important than electricity and fire, more important than the Industrial Revolution.
Until and unless boosters like Newton and Roose and the rest of the media really grapple with these profound limitations, we’re at the mercy of a really dangerous hype cycle and stock market bubble. And no amount of handwaving away hallucinations or simply asserting that more compute will fix them is going to solve this vexing issue. The stakes are high. People won’t stop saying that ChatGPT is imminently going to replace your doctor. Well: do you want systems that are this confidently wrong to be prescribing medicine for your kids?
The gist of Roger’s diplomatically worded letter is ‘show me the receipts or you are on your own’.
This drug can turn your blood into mosquito poison
Nitisinone kills even insecticide-resistant mosquitoes.
https://www.popsci.com/health/mosquito-repellent-nitisinone/
Excerpt:
Mosquitoes may have just met their match: A prescription drug already used to treat a rare genetic disease in humans can make a person’s blood poisonous to insecticide-resistant, malaria-carrying mosquitoes. New research published on July 31, 2025, in Parasites & Vectors found that the same drug, nitisinone, can even kill mosquitoes that simply land on a surface sprayed with the chemical.
The findings could open up new avenues to stop the spread of diseases like malaria and dengue, especially as more mosquito populations evolve to become resistant to traditional prevention methods. Whether people will willingly offer their bodies as mosquito blood bait, though, remains less clear.
“This study demonstrates that nitisinone exhibits a novel mode of action distinct from current [insecticides] by specifically targeting blood digestion processes,” the researchers write.
Toxic blood
Nitisinone is a pharmaceutical drug derived from a toxin naturally found in the Australian bottlebrush plant. Initially intended for use as an herbicide, the drug targets a nonessential amino acid called tyrosine, which plays an important role in producing and regulating hormones. Research in the late 20th century discovered that nitisinone was also effective in treating tyrosinemia type I and alkaptonuria, two rare genetic disorders that impair the body’s ability to metabolize tyrosine. The FDA approved the drug in 2002 to treat those suffering from these conditions.
But the same process that helps humans metabolize tyrosine also acts as a kind of amino acid sabotage to blood-sucking mosquitoes. Earlier this year, researchers writing in Science Translational Medicine found that mosquitoes that fed on the blood of humans taking nitisinone died within several hours of their meal. And while patients typically take nitisinone in relatively high doses, the researchers found that the toxic effect on mosquitoes occurs even when the drug is taken in substantially lower amounts.
The poisoning process blocks an enzyme mosquitoes need to process proteins and amino acids in blood. Introducing nitisinone disrupts their “bloodmeal digestion” and effectively clogs the mosquitoes’ digestive system. In other words, the drug takes mosquitoes’ ability to convert protein from human blood—and turns it against them.
But the new findings in the Parasites & Vectors study suggest this same poisoning process could also work without having to administer nitisinone to humans. In their tests, researchers exposed several mosquito species to surfaces treated with nitisinone and four other HPPD inhibitors, both before and after the insects fed on a blood sample. According to the study, the mosquitoes absorbed nitisinone through their feet.
Over the course of several hours, nitisinone had similar poisoning effects on mosquitoes as it did on those that drank the treated blood. In every case, exposure to nitisinone caused paralysis. All of the affected mosquitoes also darkened in color. While researchers are confident the process works, they still aren’t exactly sure why. It remains unclear how nitisinone is absorbed through the mosquitoes’ feet or why the other three similar drugs didn’t produce the same deadly results.
.....The nitisinone findings offer an encouraging sign that effective alternatives for controlling mosquito populations may already exist. Evidence that mere exposure to surfaces treated with the drug is an effective skeeter killer suggests nitisinone could potentially be applied to nets or other bedding materials as an alternative to traditional insecticides.
“Working with a drug like nitisinone, and its versatility, bodes well for creating new products to combat mosquitoes,” Haines said. “The fact that it effectively kills insecticide-resistant mosquitoes could be a game-changer in areas where resistance to current insecticides is causing public health interventions to fail.”
Humans certainly aren’t lacking in creativity when it comes to killing mosquitoes. Genetically modified mosquitoes designed only to produce male offspring have been released in certain parts of the U.S. with the hopes that they will reduce overall populations. In Hawaii, the firm Drone Amplified recently dropped dozens of biodegradable, lab grown mosquito pods over forest areas in effort to combat the area’s invasive mosquito population. More recently, scientists in China released cannibal “elephant mosquitos” that are intended to eat the larvae of their smaller cousins capable of carrying dengue.
Those more extravagant solutions aren’t always necessary though. In the future, households looking to keep the buzzing at bay might simply be able to rub some nitisinone on their screens.
Thanks, I'd forgotten the details.
I don’t know if there’s a point left in saying something like this, but just in case…
Well-meaning Westerners see this as a kind and generous gesture of politeness. However, third worlders see it as weakness and an invitation to violence and domination. This is just reality.
Bham City Council @BhamCityCouncil·11h
Tonight we will be lighting the Library of Birmingham green and white to mark the eve of 77th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence day on the 14th August.
https://x.com/pegobry_en/status/1955737357119783223
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Admiral Rogers maintained a perfectly diplomatic posture in his ready response, to tell the bad guys, basically, that his team; #1) finds nothing to corroborate so far, and #2) that the bumped up time frame means there is no time to complete a thorough investigation of all of the materials received, by the deadline.
And, 3) thanks for your attention to this matter. Better luck next time.
No?
You’re right. It was the Admiral who warned Trump of the bugging in Trump Towers. Trump retrenched immediately to his NJ golf club, bag and baggage, so to speak.
Admiral Rogers kept a low profile and retired in relatively short order, thereafter. 😁
*link to an NDTV article about Bill Gates predicting such a thing for all in 5 years
but y’all would get bored quick.
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sorry, you’re not getting off that easily...
you’ve been anointed the Chy-na guy. we’re expecting YOU to keep us informed! :)
The picture of the “highway” brings up one point about travel in places like South Dakota.
You get off the interstate (and sometimes even if you stay on the thing) you very quickly become acquainted with the sometimes substandard condition of roads in low-population areas.
Combine that with the number of turns in the road going through mountainous (but scenic) areas and you are going to have to reduce cruise speed.
Finally, EV owners best do careful planning up here. Gas stations can be spaced 100 miles apart but those charging stations for EVs.....well, let’s just say they are plumb scanty beyond where the sidewalks end.
“A new Harvard study shows tiny doses of lithium may reverse brain aging and resist Alzheimer’s disease. The finding was in mice, but it could have implications for humans.”
interesting....
a 10 year study? so people could have been in “right to try” trials all this time?
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