John Philpin

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Via The Information "News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that xAI’s Grok will join Google’s Gemini as the second frontier AI model on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s internal generative AI platform. The integration, set to go live later this month, will give 3 million military and civilian personnel access to Grok’s capabilities across both classified and unclassified networks — even as the model faces mounting international criticism over safety failures." What could possibly go wrong?

🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk I dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works just fine.

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Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk

Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/

🔗 You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago? This particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at 🔗 what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017 So colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026 https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/705979820/president-trump-says-the-isis-territorial-caliphate-has-been-eliminated-in-syria

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Defeat of ISIS in Raqqah – The White House

🔗 A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?

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A culture where only seeing is believing

In a recent post at the blog Astral Codex Ten, a writer reviewed a book written by a young Catholic missionary about his time with a tribe in the A...

Seth writes - 🔗 Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface. If you want deeper thought … 🔗 Sangeet is \your man

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Make and take

In a world of automation, AI and outsourcing, what exactly do we do for a living? Perhaps we make decisions. And what’s in short supply? A wi...

US vs China: How to win the wrong AI race

The US is trying to win the AI race. China is playing an entirely different game.

🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read. 🖇️ Used this quote before. "There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable." 💬 Keisei Tagami .. and as I have said myself "death defines life."

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QE2 Obituaries That Are Different

I am sad for the loss of the Queen, but …. There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable. 💬 Keisei Tagami That said, most of what I ...

Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Filling in some Burbank history. 🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

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📸 Beautiful Downtown Burbank through the ages … Somewhere between numbers 2 and 3 was ‘Laugh In’s’ hey day.

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If I have this right … The US Government want US citizens to flee from the Venezuelan paramilitary and return to America. Clearly, Trump feels that only his paramilitary can threaten and kill US citizens .. and it is NOT the job of other countries. #AmericaFirst

The Courier, 2020 - ★★★

🎥 The Courier, 2020 - ★★★

Yeah .. No. BC did a really good job - including the transformation - but so slow … And if you know me and historical dramas .. doubling down o...