FRINGE QUEST
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Not exactly news, but ... www.tomsguide.com/ai/12-ai-mod...
12 AI models were asked what they really think about humans — and almost all agreed on one uncomfortable truth
Researchers asked 12 AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok, what they really think about humans. Their answers revealed a surprising pattern.
tomsguide.com
"The older we get, the more the ghosts crowd and claim us. Death does not deter the dead from living on within us and around us. We are under their spell. The world becomes irrevocably haunted." — Nick Tosches
How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/s...
How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine
The system that has driven life-altering discoveries and helped make the United States a superpower is now under intense strain.
nytimes.com
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre youtu.be/YyknBTm_YyM?... via @YouTube
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
YouTube video by DistantMirrors
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“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” – G. K. Chesterton
Bo Bartlett (American, American Realism, b. 1949): Halloween, 2016. Oil on linen.
Beatriz Milhazes (Brazilian, b. 1960): Sinfonia Nordestina, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 96-7/8 x 144-7/8 inches.
Fun: watch any old movie and note when you could stop the plot cold with a cell phone. ~ Michael McKean
Reddit moves to logged-in experience as AI eats search www.axios.com/2026/10/29/r...
Reddit moves to logged-in experience as AI eats search
Its homepage will still be accessible to logged-out visitors.
axios.com
Douglas Dean Johnson: DO U.S. SENATORS AFFIRM THAT UFO WHISTLEBLOWERS FACE "DIRECT RISKS TO PERSONAL SAFETY"? / "NO," Senator Mike Rounds told me. douglasjohnson.ghost.io/sen-rounds-n...
Senator Mike Rounds says "NO" to UFO gatekeeper-assassin theories
By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on X and Bluesky This article was originally published on October 30, 2026, at 4:00 PM EDT. Any substantive additions, revisions or corrections made after in...
douglasjohnson.ghost.io
"At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, so that ... the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied." -- Deuteronomy 14:28-29
Just FYI, the world's 10 most spoken languages other than English: Mandarin (China), Spanish, Hindi (India), Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali (India & Bangla Desh), Russian, Japanese, Punjabi (India & Pakistan), German.
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." ~ Niels Bohr
Who am I, if not one who listens for words to stir from the silences they keep? Love is the ground note; we cannot do without it or the sorrow of its changes. Come to the wildwood, love, Oh, to the wildwood as the morning deepens,-->
Oct. 31st (All Hallow's Eve), in Celtic religion, Samhain (sow-in), high festival of the year's last harvest, of the Earth's turning toward the dark of the year, of the veneration of ancestors, of "the thinning of the veil between the worlds." -->
