Nightshade sounds like a good start to deal with our pan-speciest insect overlords, the googly bastards (they only want the best for us (sarc x 11).

This is following on the veneration of climate science based on climate models that can’t portray recent weather but which are so good are trusted to destroy an entire civilization. Again, for our own good.

I’m not going.
https://accordingtohoyt.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/421788127_10160102862838247_2328282382069518772_n.jpg

It’s about using a software filter on visual postings, such as original artwork, to keep them from being “scraped” by the AI engines that power the “free” digital artwork.

I wonder if people might use a variant to sabotage written postings as well, to contaminate the data pool used by AI.

Yong Tuition — an immigrant to Australia did his doctorate in physics there, before turning to science teaching — has replied twice on YT to Sabine. His second one is here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWyxfmHJcd0

Yong Tuition has appeared once or twice on Tom Nelson’s climate realist podcasts.

He raises significant points, especially pointing out her failure to do the homework, and instead regurgitates talking points. Too often, ignorant ones.

But Yong also misses an opportunity in his otherwise direct critique. For example, pointing out her unsuitable background to weigh CO2 induced ocean acidification is a true, but weak correction.

The claim is implausible on a quantitative basis. In addition, corals, typically claimed to be vulnerable, evolved to thrive in significantly warmer past temperatures. And third, alarums based on sea temperature change miss the fact that there is no standard ocean temperature measurement for past seas to even know what’s “normal.” Fourth, chaotic turbidity in oceans is
very high.

As a marine ecologist from UC-Santa Barbara explained to me, it is impossible even model the continental shelf’s ecology. It would require overwhelming amounts of data.

Dr. Yong is concise and quick. But his thick accented English can be a real barrier to comprehension, going by my own ears.

But I have to admit, I am yet to listen to Sabine H’s talks on climate change,

Oblio:

Total keeper!

I will get to the Champs-Elysses. I will speak to the natives, haltingly, I don’t expect much after that.

I am aware that much of my compulsion to learn French is based on a fantasy, which I don’t expect to be fulfilled. Yet it drives me, gives me joy, and seems constructive, so, fine.

I wonder how other people arrange their lives.

PS. Good to see you again!

According to Lou Elizondo, some of his superiors at the Pentagon didn’t want him researching UFOs, because they viewed them as being “demonic.”

Meanwhile, back here on Earth, you want to talk about demonic, it seems to me that we are increasingly being treated to examples of, and being surrounded by barbaric, demonic, and/or crazy people.*

*See for example, https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/barbaric-youtuber-20000-subscribers-arrested-pennsylvania-torturing-killing/