FROM THE COMMENTS...

-- "Looks like its taking too much force to rotate the gear blank causing the hobber to eat the sides of the tread instead of the root. Your attempts were going great until the cutting forces went up and stalled the gear blank on the mandril. Maybe add a needle bearing in the center of the gear blank to let it rotate freely on the mandril instead of relying on the dividing head to do the rotating?" --

HOLY CRAP... ARE MILITARY DUDES JUST TOO BUSY TO GO TO THE MOVIES?

The Pentagon has signed on to use Grok, the AI chatbot built by Elon Musk's company xAI, as part of a new $200 million agreement that opens the door for its deployment across the federal government, the company announced Monday.

And the Brits are right there with them.

PRECISION? THEY DROPPED THAT F@CKER RIGHT IN OL' RAKHIM'S LAP...

-- "On June 10, U.S. Central Command Forces conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria killing Rakhim Boev, a Syria-based ISIS official who was involved in planning external operations threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and civilians." --

Just Google 'kinetic missile.'   They circumsized this dude with an  F-15E Strike Eagle!

'A CLOSED LOOP INTELLIGENCE ENGINE'...

-- "Elon Musk may have launched rockets and revolutionized electric vehicles, but what he just unveiled might eclipse everything he’s done so far. It’s called Colossus 2—and it’s not just another AI model or flashy announcement. This is a powerful step toward artificial general intelligence, designed to think, learn, and act in ways that feel eerily close to human." --

VLAD HIT BAD...

-- "Ukrainian forces stunned the Russian military Sunday after wiping out and damaging dozens of nuclear bombers and other aircraft deep inside the country, Kyiv says. Even pro-Moscow military bloggers are calling the strike — which used drones hidden in trucks  — ‘the Russian Pearl Harbor.’" --

I SAY WE HOLD HIM DOWN AND TATTOO SKYNET ON HIS FOREHEAD...

-- "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has unveiled to employees the company’s ambitious plans to develop and ship 100 million AI 'companion devices,' created in collaboration with former Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI acquired Ive’s company 'io' to build AI devices Altman hopes will soon be in every home." --

Yeah, I think I’ve seen this movie…

"The progressive brainiacs of Silicon Valley have created a metric called 'p(doom)' to define the chance AI destroys humanity."

And what about PoopNet?

YEAH... I THINK I'VE ALREADY SEEN THIS MOVIE...

-- "While Hinton believes artificial intelligence will transform education and medicine and potentially solve climate change, he's increasingly concerned about its rapid development. ‘The best way to understand it emotionally is we are like somebody who has this really cute tiger cub. Unless you can be very sure that it's not gonna want to kill you when it's grown up, you should worry.’" --

Not a new idea, I'm afraid...

-- "The progressive brainiacs of Silicon Valley have created a metric called 'p(doom)' to define the chance AI destroys humanity." --

YO SCIENCE!!!

-- "NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who can invent a way to transform 96 sacks of feces, urine and vomit — ditched by Apollo 11 astronauts to lighten their load — into water, energy, and fertilizer." --

IF YOU CAN GET PAST THE 'ICK FACTOR'...

-- "The whole restoration of the toilet took almost a month. The pump was also completely full of limescale and stuck, but I managed to fix it and make it functional again. If you want to learn more about this antique boat toilet, I encourage you to watch this video. At the end of the video, I made a test so you can see how such a toilet works!" --

IF ELON IS WORRIED... I'M WORRIED...

" -- "I worry generally about the strength of America. America is the central column that holds up all of Western civilization... If that column fails, it's all over. You can't run off to New Zealand or some other place. It's over." --

ELON TO THE RESCUE... FINALLY...

-- "NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams became the first to fly the Boeing Starliner capsule to the International Space Station for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission. But in what has to be, for them, the worst episode of Gilligan's Island ever, problems with the spacecraft made it unsafe to return to Earth, and nine months later, both astronauts are still stranded on the ISS." --

In other Spacex news...

-- "Elon Musk has confirmed that SpaceX’s Starship will head to Mars at the end of 2026. The ship will be carrying Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot." --

ELON TO THE RESCUE...

-- "Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded at the station for eight months after their Boeing Starliner capsule suffered several leaks during their trip in June, are set to return on one of the docked SpaceX capsules along with fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov." --

Remember, they were stranded because Biden played politics.  

UPDATE: Mission scrubbed... rescheduled...

-- "NASA and SpaceX will get their next opportunity to send the rocket into space when the launch window opens on Thursday at 7:25 p.m." --

WATCHED THE FIRST TWO EPISODES... I'M HOOKED...

-- "Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger founded ARCH Motorcycle to reimagine what a motorcycle could be. To them, ARCH is a mindset, a lens through which to see the world. ‘Visionaries’ is a journey of curiosity, to understand where human creativity comes from and to shine a light on the visionaries who are pushing the bounds of innovation and changing our world." --

SO INSTEAD OF HIRING FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS... WE'RE GOING WITH 'DECEPTION'...

-- "Teleperformance, the world’s largest call center operator, is relying on artificial intelligence technology to 'neutralize the accents' of English-speaking Indian customer service agents in real time. The new feature, known as accent translation, is being introduced at call centers in India." --

DIGITAL MAGIC

-- "How European mummy, the famed Tollund Man bog body, might have looked when he was alive. Bog bodies are natural mummies that became preserved in peat bogs. The Tollund Man is from the 4th century BC and was found in Denmark." --

YET ANOTHER ROBO-BARBEQUE...

-- "Four people are dead and another is in hospital after a Tesla driving through downtown Toronto at a high rate of speed crashed into a guardrail and struck a concrete pillar and burst into flames upon impacton Lake Shore Boulevard." --

A BILLION HERE, A BILLION THERE... PRETTY SOON YOU'RE TALKING REAL MONEY...

-- "There's an established, available platform that can provide high-speed internet today, and it wouldn't require billions of taxpayer dollars going into the pockets of Liberal-connected insiders." --

We've seen it before. 

And hundreds of millions for Schrodingers Graves. 

I have Starlink and I love it.

COME THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE... BE PREPARED

-- "I mean, this gun is huge, loud, probably painful to shoot, and serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. I want two." --

SKYNET: THE SALAD DAYS

LET'S ASK A COMPUTER GUY...

-- "Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak had some harsh words for Tesla’s self-driving effort; he said in an interview that people who want to study 'AI trying to kill you' should 'get a Tesla.' Wozniak first bought a Model S after he claimed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk reprimanded him in an email exchange for buying a gas guzzler in 2013." --

VICE PRESIDENT CACKLE TO THE RESCUE...

-- "Putting aside the idea that our cackling Vice President is the person with the intellectual firepower to address these questions, the entire premise of the mission she’s being given today seems to be coming from precisely the wrong direction." --

CHATGPT WON IN A LANDSLIDE

-- "Healthcare professionals preferred the ChatGPT advice 79 per cent of the time and found that the AI response was nearly 10 times more empathetic than physicians. For four out of five exchanges a panel of healthcare professionals preferred ChatGPT responses to physician responses, and this panel rated ChatGPT higher for both quality and empathy." --