mad fog blog

One worried man said: “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” backing up what another Anthropic employee said about ...

I was brought up (if not actually born) to believe that what you see is what you get .  I thought that people with friendly faces were '...

except to paint over ! Stolen from the Renoir museum, Cagnes-sur-mer.  

Irredeemable the decades of tiny frustrations and synaptic commotion   before I saw printed on a page just five words: Anger is a secondary ...

Promiscuous has been replaced (in Permissive society) by Polyamorous , an ugly mish-mash of a word made up because the mellifluous Polyeroti...

Inevitably, with little squeals Dissident AI comes snapping at AI's Achilles heels.

 

(Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) at a depth of 34 metres in Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia. Very sculptural ! Photograph: Laurent Ballesta

"Mr Weir died peacefully in his sleep." My heart's desire.

about a mile from where I once lived . Until the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland was almost entirely white and mostly native-bor...

Yesterday the U.N. approved the  'equal-area' world map. Left: Old Mercator map of Europe and Africa. Right: New Equal Area map. 1...

 is inevitably known as “Ireland’s Alcatraz” because of its intermittent use as a prison for 1,300 years.  It includes a solitary-confinemen...

Sarah Lucas   Anthony Weir

Turritopsis dohrnii  Older than you think but not as old as time.

Forget the fake 'Renaissance'. ShaggyDog scratching her ear , Santa Catalina in Ciriza, Navarre.

Maybe I am wrongly reading them ? 2799 views yesterday ?  Can only be bots and/or American spies. I don't think my mumblings would be of...

my fraught equilibrium between caring for plants and wanting to die

I have probably got this wrong, but I think I remember being impressed when reading a Buddhist book a long time ago by the statement All is ...

Tastier than Boiled Bagels.  

  But Berlin , Ontario, was renamed Kitchener after the outbreak of World War One, while the Berlins of New Hampshire and Maryland retained ...

my sweet, saintly aunt, whom I treated worse than Jesus treated his. Martha : my mother for whom I was for so long a penance.

not the dog in various noisy Disney productions, but "...the underdog that so many people root for, the small kid on the block that is ...

wrote: Love is a shadow. I don't think she meant a shadow of life, which is so often the shadow of death. 

wrote Karl Marx about the future of capitalism in his  Communist Manifesto, "will melt into air." and/or AI

some silly, and some are just offensive crap. Mishap.

 by Eugene Richards .

Ambition is an epicentre of atrocity. The other epicentre is attrition.

The animal is not just a machine, but a phenomenon within a machine.  The human is inside a machine along with billions of animals which ar...

Good news in The Guardian today, from Paul Cassar ( below) . On the other hand:

How could I possibly have connected with or learned from people who were so very much concerned with what they owned and bred and earned ?

is the epicentre of atrocity. The other centre is ferocity.

Love is a shadow of life, the shadow of death.

  Those are not his actual words. He meant to say like dog turds.

...how sweet the lily grows. How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's Dewy Rose." Hypericum androsæ mum Hibiscus syriacus ...

When you are 'hard of hearing' and rely on electronic aids and lip-reading, the 'game' of exchanging this and that banality ...

New Glasses! My vision now surpasses that of a mole, or of a vole swimming through molasses or guacamole.

were predicted pretty accurately (so far) in 1909 . https://thehemlockjournal.com/2026/01/29/e-m-forsters-the-machine-stops: technology-isol...

Being introverted and retiring, with an escapist love of reading, BritIrish pub culture alienated me. I'm a face to face* person, and am...

I never cared for unspontaneous jokes or their repeaters, mainly because so many were 'dirty' or otherwise offensive. Here is one ex...

in the nineteen-forties to believe that people and governments and even the police were benign, that not even Catholics were threatening, an...

It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anyone look at his goldfish because he had bought it with his own money.* This is the sec...

but today, apart from drinking the strongest coffee I have ever made to cure a four-day piercing headache successfully,   I have been readin...

 

as Resistance to totalitarian English – except that it is a naively  artificial language with little scope for nuance or subtlety and even l...

has certainly changed since my childhood in the 1950s. Lucy Sweet on Substack writes: As August is a big, useless, boring, hairy perineum of...

 taken from a video-screen of Erin Patterson during appeal proceedings against her sentencing for triple murder.

Säben abbey , South Tyrol, Italy. photo by Roland Reinstadler

Once one learns or comes to  apprehend , one finds oneself alone in the world, surrounded by folly. To apprehend is not to comprehend (which...

Build whatever you can imagine in your own infinite world that's unique in every playthrough.  Hideous mental play-dough. No thank you. ...

It is likely that most friendships are ultimately false. (I'm treading carefully...) And Literature (whether of the scriptural or socio-...