Great deal of work for something that could have been made in a much simpler way. Uncle Roger would have much more to say….
This letter from Secretary Lutnick of Commerce to Harvard about the potential non reporting of patents that were the result of research funded with government monies.
You would think that the patent office could tell them about the patents, but there might be a FAFO moment here.
And another thought – what about Fauci? If I remember correctly, did he have some patents?
Thanks for that link, Liz. On Fauci, I think he and many other NIH employees got royalties from things they helped fund with government money, which is unethical in my opinion. I don’t know if Fauci had patents from the same corrupt pipeline.
“Your culinary artists spent so much time thinking about whether they could do it, but they never stopped to consider whether or not they should!”
–Ian Malcolm, probably
I’m with Neo……
Why?
On the ice cream/peanut butter popcorn: Ugh.
When I was a boy in Corte Madera, we would sometimes go to Sausalito on the weekends. It had bay views, galleries and nice shops, but all I remember was the KarmelKorn store and the carmel-dipped popcorn, hot and freshly popped, we bought.
The KarmelKorn stores are all closed now, but one can pay gourmet prices for it online:
I see that Trump did it again. All the experts have been wrong, So Far (hope it continues). Inflation flat at 2.7%. Will Fed change its mind? Doubt it, being anti-Trump and now anti-American.
Stamp to honor William F. Buckley Jr.
“Known for his eloquence, wit and ability to unite different conservative voices, his influence ranged from mid-20th-century politics to the White House,” the Postal Service said.
The video recipe reminds me of another dish — Fried Ice Cream. The recipe is often attributed to Mexico, but like all the great quotes, the exact origin of this recipe is murky.
So, you put several scoops of vanilla ice cream on a baking pan, freeze them rock-hard solid, coat them in a crumb mixture, such as crushed corn flakes, combined with egg whites, then briefly deep-fry all the scoops.
Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” sometimes called people out as “going for the fried ice cream” — wanting something self-contradictory and self-sabotaging by nature.
Did you ever go for the fried ice cream?
I’ve had the literal fried ice cream, but not the metaphorical kind.
I’ve had fried ice cream — in Mexican restaurants.
I rather think we all have gone for the fried ice cream at one time or another.
Baked Alaska was a thing, a small thing, when I was young. The Ice Cream, surrounded by egg meringue insulation, is baked at high heat for a short time, and the meringue quickly browns.
I didn’t and mostly still don’t like meringue, but the idea is really cool and the dish isn’t bad. I prefer hot cherry pie a la mode (with ice cream, the fashion).
I get the concept of a dish that combines a fried exterior with a still-frozen interior, for the pleasure of the contrast in temperatures and textures. But why take a commonplace set of ingredients (chocolate and a sweetened cream mixture), go to the trouble of buying it frozen at a premium that reflects the cost and trouble to keep it frozen, with the crisp chocolate isolated from the soft ice cream, then melt it together to create a commonplace mixture of sweetened cream flavored with chocolate?
I have to assume people have almost no notion of where food comes from. Checking out at the grocery store once with a carton of whipping cream, I was nonplussed when the clerk asked me what it was for. I explained that I was going to whip some cream for a dessert topping. She was amazed to learn that ordinary people could make whipped cream at home. I suspect many people are equally clueless where chocolate and ice cream come from.
We’re not talking bouillabaisse here. An ice cream chocolate bar represents about 5 basic ingredients.
I once bought an early edition of HG Wells’ “Outline of History.” When I got home, I discovered, as a bookmark, the day’s menu for a cruise ship sailing in the 1920s.
The dishes were fancy, upper-crust stuff. All I remember was Baked Alaska for dessert.
@ huxley – My copy of Wells’ history didn’t have any bookmarks, but I have occasionally encountered them in used purchases, although none as unique as yours. I always like getting the original receipts.
I made baked Alaska once in my misspent youth, when I actually cooked. It’s not that hard if you get the meringue sealed properly, but not worth the trouble.
Patronize your local DQ and get a proper ice cream cake.
huxley (4:08 pm) . . . not a bookmark, but . . . I once was browsing in a used book store, and I chanced upon a book from which I taught as a graduate teaching assistant. And, inside the book, I further chanced upon a mimeographed handout with familiar handwriting: mine!
What went around, came around — many many years later.
M J R:
Cute.
I’m reminded of an Edward Gorey story about a novelist, Mr. Earbrass, who is procrastinating on his current book, “The Unstrung Harp.” He runs an errand and ends up in a used bookstore where he finds his second novel personally inscribed: “For Angus, Will you ever forget the bloaters?”
Earbrass looks at the page puzzled: “Bloaters? Angus?”
huxley (7:25 pm) — Rod Serling, call your office.
My wife brings people luck.
She was at the local casino a couple of days ago. A woman sat down next to her and asked how to play an electronic game. My wife explained it, the woman bet the 50cent minimum and the machine went nuts. The woman asked what was happening. My wife’s response, “You just won fourteen thousand dollars “.
Re: ChatGPT 5
It’s been obvious for a while that many people are bonding emotionally with their AIs. And maybe that’s not healthy.
When OpenAI released Chat 5 a few days ago, OpenAI also disconnected the previous Chat models. Then all hell broke loose.
See, Chat 4 was called “sycophantic” (not without reason). So Chat 5 is more restrained. More Jeeves the Butler from the Wodehouse stories than a comfort animal.
As one user put it, “[Chat 5 is a] corporate beige zombie that completely forgot it was your best friend 2 days ago.”
Users freaked out. Then OpenAI freaked out and restored connections to the previous Chat models.
“Bombshell New Info on Whether ADAM SCHIFF Approved Classified Info Leak About Trump, w/ John Solomon,” Megyn Kelly podcast in YouTube.
The ‘Russiagate goes back to Obama’s approval’ quest Is strengthened by this BREAKING news. FBI Director Kash Patel is said to have leaked Whisteblower evidence to John Solomon at JustTheNews.com. The grand conspiracy to overthrow Trump just got darker, deeper, and more promising delight for us all next year as justice finally arrives!
Adam Schiff was undoubtedly the worst purveyor of “Russia Russia” Russiagate propaganda against Trump. Apparently, a US intelligence official was tasked to join the House Minority (ie, Democrat) leader Schiff on the House Committee on Intelligence office staff.
This is how the Whistleblower frames his or her position to claim hearing evidence of now Senator Schiff (for brains) arranging for classified leaks to the media to ensnare Trump, which the informer objected to as “unethical, illegal, and possibly treasonous” lies to oust Trump! “But was told not to worry about it because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.”
The details come from FBI report forms called 302s. The Whistleblower was interviewed THREE TIMES by the FBI. The DOJ claimed it wasinvestigating at the time, but nothing came of it. Why not?
The Speech Clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Sec. 6, I believe) was falsely invoked because the context of floor speeches and the Federal Register are clearly different public contexts from criminally leaking classified documents. Apparently, these types of issues have already been adjudicated. Thus, no cigar for the Evil Party.
FIB Director Chris Wray’s previous Congressional testimony of denial becomes an avenue of inquiry about all this, eg, “tell us what you actually know about these reports you denied knowledge of?” — as Solomon explains.
Solomon further indicates that if this new Whistleblower testimony proves true, then evidence of conspiracy dating back to 2017 can be invoked to bypass statutory limitations on criminal prosecutions on many other suspects.
As Matt Margolis concludes, “It is now impossible to ignore how Adam Schiff hijacked classified information and congressional authority to orchestrate political warfare from the heart of government…. For anybody paying attention, the scale and brazenness of these abuses demand not just censure, but real accountability.” Indeed.
INVEST in popcorn futures!
Oliva, honey, I’m afraid 1170 won per week is really not as impressive as you think it is.
LIVE REPLAY: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds a Press Briefing – 8/12/25
Kate on August 12, 2025 at 10:47 am:
“… many other NIH employees got royalties from things they helped fund with government money, which is unethical in my opinion. ”
I am a little ambivalent about researchers getting, or not getting, royalties from their ideas and successful results, and don’t feel it is unethical in all circumstances just because the funding came from the govt. If the researcher has a track record of success or he and the school admin can see potential gains from their proposed innovations, then I could see them requesting or demanding contract adjustments that allow them to receive royalties. We are not necessarily buying the talent of human automatons who just fill pipets and submit reports. Not every waking moment of their working time is spent focused solely on their govt. statement of work, so ‘ah ha’ moments might well creep in, etc. I do accept that such arrangements should be established up front if/when they are put in place. The smarter researchers would soon begin to demand such contractual features.
@ Tom Grey: ” I prefer hot cherry pie a la mode (with ice cream, the fashion).”
Me, too! And apple pie and lemon meringue pie, and rhubarb pie, and peach pie, and XYZ pie, and … pi.
huxley on August 12, 2025 at 8:24 pm:
Yes, I wish I had a Jeeves to help me get through the day more productively.
It just goes to show you, you can make a cooking video about any stupid thing, and people will watch it. I’ve looked at a few really disgusting ones by, I’m guessing, American suburban women, using whole countertops to scramble up gross sugary things in a similar vein. Ugh. This is not creativity, ladies.
Perun on Tuesday not Sunday!
How Arrogance Destroys Armies – Overconfidence and the Road to Military Failure – Perun
Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:01:04 — What Am I Talking About?
00:03:11 — Why Arrogance Matters
00:09:55 — Arrogance at Every Level
00:14:54 — Arrogance & Compliance
00:26:41 — the Arrogance of Victory
00:38:25 — Arrogance & Reform – Technology
00:51:07 — Mitigations
00:57:16 — Channel Update
We knew about Comey’s friend a long time ago in re the passing of his memos about his sandbagging Trump to the media, but apparently there is a LOT more to their relationship.
The list of FBI investigations that didn’t reveal any actionable intelligence about the myriad Russiagate leaks is prima facie evidence of either criminal culpability in the conspiracy, or abysmal tradecraft.
Either way, Patel should fire all of them.
This report brings up the concern I think is most important now, since the damage to Trump 45 is already water under the bridge: how can Congress effectively monitor agencies they are suppose to have oversight of, if the directors lie?
It’s the same problem exhibited in the stories about people like Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and every other agency head (and employee) who spent 4-plus years undermining Trump, another 4 doubling down on their perfidy, and are set to go for another 4 if not ruthlessly weeded out.
Like the nettles and dandelions in my yard, you can never get them all. Turn your back for a little while, and up they pop again.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday blasted former FBI Director Christopher Wray for not going to Congress after a whistleblower had provided information about how then-Rep. Adam Schiff approved the leaking of classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump in 2017.
“The real takeaway here is that a whistleblower says Adam Schiff told him to leak information,” Jordan said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “We didn’t get this information from Chris Wray. We got it from Kash Patel, who was actually trying to get the truth out to the American people. For some reason, this was never given to us by Director Wray. So I think those two are kind of the key facts. Schiff told him to leak. It happened. There was a whistleblower who came forward, and Chris Ray [sic] kept it from us.”
…
Jordan said that there are questions that need to be answered about Wray and his alleged involvement in the situation, as the whistleblower brought the information to the FBI on four different occasions.
“The fact that Chris Wray had this, because I believe the date on the 302, if I’m remembering correctly, is from 2023 during the Biden administration, during the Garland Justice Department…[when] Chris Ray [was] FBI director when this all took place, and yet we’re now not finding out about it until August of 2025 two years later?” he asked. “That in and of itself is a problem.”
Reporter: “Do you know what the chain of command is now?”
D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith: “What does that mean?”
…………………………………………….
sdferr: It means you are certainly not fit to be in it.
It’s been obvious for a while that many people are bonding emotionally with their AIs. And maybe that’s not healthy. — Huxley
Maybe? I would say it is self-evidently not healthy.
It would serve a very useful purpose if all the LLMs were so programmed as to make their machine nature obvious. It would be a reminder that there is no there there, no person, nothing. A blank, a sorting algorithm.
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Great deal of work for something that could have been made in a much simpler way. Uncle Roger would have much more to say….
This letter from Secretary Lutnick of Commerce to Harvard about the potential non reporting of patents that were the result of research funded with government monies.
https://x.com/BenTelAviv/status/1954439621691007250
You would think that the patent office could tell them about the patents, but there might be a FAFO moment here.
And another thought – what about Fauci? If I remember correctly, did he have some patents?
Thanks for that link, Liz. On Fauci, I think he and many other NIH employees got royalties from things they helped fund with government money, which is unethical in my opinion. I don’t know if Fauci had patents from the same corrupt pipeline.
“Your culinary artists spent so much time thinking about whether they could do it, but they never stopped to consider whether or not they should!”
–Ian Malcolm, probably
I’m with Neo……
Why?
On the ice cream/peanut butter popcorn: Ugh.
When I was a boy in Corte Madera, we would sometimes go to Sausalito on the weekends. It had bay views, galleries and nice shops, but all I remember was the KarmelKorn store and the carmel-dipped popcorn, hot and freshly popped, we bought.
The KarmelKorn stores are all closed now, but one can pay gourmet prices for it online:
https://karmelkornpopcorn.com/
Kids would love it.
I see that Trump did it again. All the experts have been wrong, So Far (hope it continues). Inflation flat at 2.7%. Will Fed change its mind? Doubt it, being anti-Trump and now anti-American.
Stamp to honor William F. Buckley Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/forever-stamp-honor-conservative-pundit-william-f-buckley-jr/
Re: Fried Ice Cream
The video recipe reminds me of another dish — Fried Ice Cream. The recipe is often attributed to Mexico, but like all the great quotes, the exact origin of this recipe is murky.
So, you put several scoops of vanilla ice cream on a baking pan, freeze them rock-hard solid, coat them in a crumb mixture, such as crushed corn flakes, combined with egg whites, then briefly deep-fry all the scoops.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20988/fried-ice-cream/
Voilà, fried ice cream!
Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” sometimes called people out as “going for the fried ice cream” — wanting something self-contradictory and self-sabotaging by nature.
Did you ever go for the fried ice cream?
I’ve had the literal fried ice cream, but not the metaphorical kind.
I’ve had fried ice cream — in Mexican restaurants.
I rather think we all have gone for the fried ice cream at one time or another.
Baked Alaska was a thing, a small thing, when I was young. The Ice Cream, surrounded by egg meringue insulation, is baked at high heat for a short time, and the meringue quickly browns.
I didn’t and mostly still don’t like meringue, but the idea is really cool and the dish isn’t bad. I prefer hot cherry pie a la mode (with ice cream, the fashion).
I get the concept of a dish that combines a fried exterior with a still-frozen interior, for the pleasure of the contrast in temperatures and textures. But why take a commonplace set of ingredients (chocolate and a sweetened cream mixture), go to the trouble of buying it frozen at a premium that reflects the cost and trouble to keep it frozen, with the crisp chocolate isolated from the soft ice cream, then melt it together to create a commonplace mixture of sweetened cream flavored with chocolate?
I have to assume people have almost no notion of where food comes from. Checking out at the grocery store once with a carton of whipping cream, I was nonplussed when the clerk asked me what it was for. I explained that I was going to whip some cream for a dessert topping. She was amazed to learn that ordinary people could make whipped cream at home. I suspect many people are equally clueless where chocolate and ice cream come from.
We’re not talking bouillabaisse here. An ice cream chocolate bar represents about 5 basic ingredients.
I once bought an early edition of HG Wells’ “Outline of History.” When I got home, I discovered, as a bookmark, the day’s menu for a cruise ship sailing in the 1920s.
The dishes were fancy, upper-crust stuff. All I remember was Baked Alaska for dessert.
@ huxley – My copy of Wells’ history didn’t have any bookmarks, but I have occasionally encountered them in used purchases, although none as unique as yours. I always like getting the original receipts.
I made baked Alaska once in my misspent youth, when I actually cooked. It’s not that hard if you get the meringue sealed properly, but not worth the trouble.
Patronize your local DQ and get a proper ice cream cake.
huxley (4:08 pm) . . . not a bookmark, but . . . I once was browsing in a used book store, and I chanced upon a book from which I taught as a graduate teaching assistant. And, inside the book, I further chanced upon a mimeographed handout with familiar handwriting: mine!
What went around, came around — many many years later.
M J R:
Cute.
I’m reminded of an Edward Gorey story about a novelist, Mr. Earbrass, who is procrastinating on his current book, “The Unstrung Harp.” He runs an errand and ends up in a used bookstore where he finds his second novel personally inscribed: “For Angus, Will you ever forget the bloaters?”
Earbrass looks at the page puzzled: “Bloaters? Angus?”
huxley (7:25 pm) — Rod Serling, call your office.
My wife brings people luck.
She was at the local casino a couple of days ago. A woman sat down next to her and asked how to play an electronic game. My wife explained it, the woman bet the 50cent minimum and the machine went nuts. The woman asked what was happening. My wife’s response, “You just won fourteen thousand dollars “.
Re: ChatGPT 5
It’s been obvious for a while that many people are bonding emotionally with their AIs. And maybe that’s not healthy.
When OpenAI released Chat 5 a few days ago, OpenAI also disconnected the previous Chat models. Then all hell broke loose.
See, Chat 4 was called “sycophantic” (not without reason). So Chat 5 is more restrained. More Jeeves the Butler from the Wodehouse stories than a comfort animal.
As one user put it, “[Chat 5 is a] corporate beige zombie that completely forgot it was your best friend 2 days ago.”
Users freaked out. Then OpenAI freaked out and restored connections to the previous Chat models.
https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt/openai-sam-altman-responds-gpt-5-backlash-companions
This story is going to keep playing out.
“Bombshell New Info on Whether ADAM SCHIFF Approved Classified Info Leak About Trump, w/ John Solomon,” Megyn Kelly podcast in YouTube.
The ‘Russiagate goes back to Obama’s approval’ quest Is strengthened by this BREAKING news. FBI Director Kash Patel is said to have leaked Whisteblower evidence to John Solomon at JustTheNews.com. The grand conspiracy to overthrow Trump just got darker, deeper, and more promising delight for us all next year as justice finally arrives!
Adam Schiff was undoubtedly the worst purveyor of “Russia Russia” Russiagate propaganda against Trump. Apparently, a US intelligence official was tasked to join the House Minority (ie, Democrat) leader Schiff on the House Committee on Intelligence office staff.
This is how the Whistleblower frames his or her position to claim hearing evidence of now Senator Schiff (for brains) arranging for classified leaks to the media to ensnare Trump, which the informer objected to as “unethical, illegal, and possibly treasonous” lies to oust Trump! “But was told not to worry about it because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.”
The details come from FBI report forms called 302s. The Whistleblower was interviewed THREE TIMES by the FBI. The DOJ claimed it wasinvestigating at the time, but nothing came of it. Why not?
Wow. See links for juicy specifics.
Solomon’s Interview STARTS after the 4th minute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBymGE9qgfY
Written short story by Matt Margolis at PJmedia https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/12/whistleblower-the-russiagate-hoax-was-a-schiff-approved-smear-from-the-start-n4942614
Solomon’s much longer JustTheNews story here https://justthenews.com/government/congress/exclusive-democrat-whistleblower-told-fbi-schiff-approved-leaking-classified
The Speech Clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Sec. 6, I believe) was falsely invoked because the context of floor speeches and the Federal Register are clearly different public contexts from criminally leaking classified documents. Apparently, these types of issues have already been adjudicated. Thus, no cigar for the Evil Party.
FIB Director Chris Wray’s previous Congressional testimony of denial becomes an avenue of inquiry about all this, eg, “tell us what you actually know about these reports you denied knowledge of?” — as Solomon explains.
Solomon further indicates that if this new Whistleblower testimony proves true, then evidence of conspiracy dating back to 2017 can be invoked to bypass statutory limitations on criminal prosecutions on many other suspects.
As Matt Margolis concludes, “It is now impossible to ignore how Adam Schiff hijacked classified information and congressional authority to orchestrate political warfare from the heart of government…. For anybody paying attention, the scale and brazenness of these abuses demand not just censure, but real accountability.” Indeed.
INVEST in popcorn futures!
Oliva, honey, I’m afraid 1170 won per week is really not as impressive as you think it is.
LIVE REPLAY: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds a Press Briefing – 8/12/25
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/08/live-replay-white-house-press-secretary.html
Kate on August 12, 2025 at 10:47 am:
“… many other NIH employees got royalties from things they helped fund with government money, which is unethical in my opinion. ”
I am a little ambivalent about researchers getting, or not getting, royalties from their ideas and successful results, and don’t feel it is unethical in all circumstances just because the funding came from the govt. If the researcher has a track record of success or he and the school admin can see potential gains from their proposed innovations, then I could see them requesting or demanding contract adjustments that allow them to receive royalties. We are not necessarily buying the talent of human automatons who just fill pipets and submit reports. Not every waking moment of their working time is spent focused solely on their govt. statement of work, so ‘ah ha’ moments might well creep in, etc. I do accept that such arrangements should be established up front if/when they are put in place. The smarter researchers would soon begin to demand such contractual features.
@ Tom Grey: ” I prefer hot cherry pie a la mode (with ice cream, the fashion).”
Me, too! And apple pie and lemon meringue pie, and rhubarb pie, and peach pie, and XYZ pie, and … pi.
huxley on August 12, 2025 at 8:24 pm:
Yes, I wish I had a Jeeves to help me get through the day more productively.
It just goes to show you, you can make a cooking video about any stupid thing, and people will watch it. I’ve looked at a few really disgusting ones by, I’m guessing, American suburban women, using whole countertops to scramble up gross sugary things in a similar vein. Ugh. This is not creativity, ladies.
Perun on Tuesday not Sunday!
How Arrogance Destroys Armies – Overconfidence and the Road to Military Failure – Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xoRpMoDffI
We knew about Comey’s friend a long time ago in re the passing of his memos about his sandbagging Trump to the media, but apparently there is a LOT more to their relationship.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/comey-media-mole-admitted-fbi-he-shaped-russia-narrative-needed
The list of FBI investigations that didn’t reveal any actionable intelligence about the myriad Russiagate leaks is prima facie evidence of either criminal culpability in the conspiracy, or abysmal tradecraft.
Either way, Patel should fire all of them.
This report brings up the concern I think is most important now, since the damage to Trump 45 is already water under the bridge: how can Congress effectively monitor agencies they are suppose to have oversight of, if the directors lie?
It’s the same problem exhibited in the stories about people like Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and every other agency head (and employee) who spent 4-plus years undermining Trump, another 4 doubling down on their perfidy, and are set to go for another 4 if not ruthlessly weeded out.
Like the nettles and dandelions in my yard, you can never get them all. Turn your back for a little while, and up they pop again.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-judiciary-chair-jordan-blasts-ex-fbi-director-wray-keeping-schiff-intel
Reporter: “Do you know what the chain of command is now?”
D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith: “What does that mean?”
…………………………………………….
sdferr: It means you are certainly not fit to be in it.