PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Rush on August 03, 2025, 04:01:43 AM
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Jake Angeli-Chansley, the Buffalo hat man: Has had a mental breakdown. He’s constantly spamming weird stuff, and he has come down with severe TDS. He’s an iconic image for the J6ers and did prison time for it, having been guilty of absolutely nothing. A victim of political persecution, but he somehow went from strongly supporting Trump to hating him.
In his defense, he has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, so I don’t hate him, but rather have sympathy for him. It seems clear he is having an episode that appears to be a psychotic break, which comes with that disorder. He has a lot of magical thinking, alternate reality construction, hyper-manic moods, posting way too much, spamming my feed with nonsense. He needs to get back on his meds.
Simon Ateba: I followed him because I was pissed when the Biden admin banned him from the press room because at the time he was attempting to be a fair journalist. But now all he does is post snarky anti-Trump stuff thinly disguised as solicitation of our opinions, but it’s clear it’s really just for clicks. No insightful analysis.
Dinesh D’Souza: When he talks, I like a lot of what he says, but his posts are more just clickbait. “Trump did something shocking!” And you click it only to read a boring article about something not very shocking you already knew.
David D: I followed him from the start of the Russia-Ukraine war because he gives updates on what’s going on but I’m getting tired of the extreme glee over killing “Orcs”. I realize you must de-humanize the enemy to be a soldier otherwise normal people can’t function as killing machines all day every day but this guy isn’t over there fighting. I mourn the loss of life on both sides. Why can’t he just give an update of how things are going without all the joyous celebration of blowing to pieces a young man cowering in a trench?
On the other hand there are some new ones I highly recommend:
DataRepublican (small R): An amazing deaf lady digging into the deep state tracking all the twisted, corrupt pathways our tax dollars get routed back into the left’s pockets.
Sam Ghali, M.D. An ER doctor who posts mystery scans then the next day does a video describing what’s going on. Great fun if you’re into medical stuff.
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Jake Angeli-Chansley, the Buffalo hat man: Has had a mental breakdown. He’s constantly spamming weird stuff, and he has come down with severe TDS. He’s an iconic image for the J6ers and did prison time for it, having been guilty of absolutely nothing. A victim of political persecution, but he somehow went from strongly supporting Trump to hating him.
In his defense, he has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, so I don’t hate him, but rather have sympathy for him. It seems clear he is having an episode that appears to be a psychotic break, which comes with that disorder. He has a lot of magical thinking, alternate reality construction, hyper-manic moods, posting way too much, spamming my feed with nonsense. He needs to get back on his meds.
Simon Ateba: I followed him because I was pissed when the Biden admin banned him from the press room because at the time he was attempting to be a fair journalist. But now all he does is post snarky anti-Trump stuff thinly disguised as solicitation of our opinions, but it’s clear it’s really just for clicks. No insightful analysis.
Dinesh D’Souza: When he talks, I like a lot of what he says, but his posts are more just clickbait. “Trump did something shocking!” And you click it only to read a boring article about something not very shocking you already knew.
David D: I followed him from the start of the Russia-Ukraine war because he gives updates on what’s going on but I’m getting tired of the extreme glee over killing “Orcs”. I realize you must de-humanize the enemy to be a soldier otherwise normal people can’t function as killing machines all day every day but this guy isn’t over there fighting. I mourn the loss of life on both sides. Why can’t he just give an update of how things are going without all the joyous celebration of blowing to pieces a young man cowering in a trench?
On the other hand there are some new ones I highly recommend:
DataRepublican (small R): An amazing deaf lady digging into the deep state tracking all the twisted, corrupt pathways our tax dollars get routed back into the left’s pockets.
Sam Ghali, M.D. An ER doctor who posts mystery scans then the next day does a video describing what’s going on. Great fun if you’re into medical stuff.
I dropped Simon a long time ago for the same reasons. You're also correct about Dinesh.
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Jake Angeli-Chansley, the Buffalo hat man: Has had a mental breakdown. He’s constantly spamming weird stuff, and he has come down with severe TDS. He’s an iconic image for the J6ers and did prison time for it, having been guilty of absolutely nothing. A victim of political persecution, but he somehow went from strongly supporting Trump to hating him.
In his defense, he has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, so I don’t hate him, but rather have sympathy for him. It seems clear he is having an episode that appears to be a psychotic break, which comes with that disorder. He has a lot of magical thinking, alternate reality construction, hyper-manic moods, posting way too much, spamming my feed with nonsense. He needs to get back on his meds.
Just saw this. You may not know, but schizoaffective disorder is sort of a wastebasket psychiatric diagnosis when you can’t figure out the patient. We were always taught that you cannot diagnose a thought disorder until you have ruled out a mood disorder. And when someone is not good enough to really figure out what is going on, they often resort to “schizoaffective disorder”.
If he has hypo-manic moods (which is what I assume you meant), this is much more likely to be a form of bipolar disorder, of which there are now many.
Nonetheless, get back on meds is likely good advice.
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Nonetheless, get back on meds is likely good advice.
which can sometimes be a challenge due to changes in med availability.
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which can sometimes be a challenge due to changes in med availability.
True depending on the agent. In the case of bipolar patients they are normally off them because they say they don’t like the side effects. In some cases the “side effects” are largely not feeling as good as they do when manic or hypomanic.
They are a notoriously difficult population in terms of medical compliance. Which is of course why the FAA is so very reluctant to issue medical certificates to such people.
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I might have to add Elon Musk to this list. He’s spamming my feed with Grok Imagine which does not make me feel good AT ALL. The ability to create realistic looking images and now videos has very bad potential consequences. People can now create “evidence” out of thin air.
Steve’s case here is but the tip of the iceberg. Can you imagine someone creating a video of you entering a house where a murder took place? I don’t appreciate being reminded of this utterly dystopian tool every other post. And I’m damn sure not paying Elon $30 a month to waste my life coming up with “art” made by a bunch of code.
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AI-generated images and video are getting too good, and hard to distinguish from reality. I'm not one to encourage censorship, but some kind of warning "Generated by AI" watermark would be a good thing to require.
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I might have to add Elon Musk to this list. He’s spamming my feed with Grok Imagine which does not make me feel good AT ALL. The ability to create realistic looking images and now videos has very bad potential consequences. People can now create “evidence” out of thin air.
Steve’s case here is but the tip of the iceberg. Can you imagine someone creating a video of you entering a house where a murder took place? I don’t appreciate being reminded of this utterly dystopian tool every other post. And I’m damn sure not paying Elon $30 a month to waste my life coming up with “art” made by a bunch of code.
You've put your finger on one of my biggest worries: the fact that AI tools can already be used to create completely fake visual "evidence" of just about anything, and it's only going to get worse. An old family friend says "I can tell any AI from the real thing because the lip movement isn't synced with the voice"... but I've already seen videos that are obviously AI-generated - or are presented as AI-generated - that don't have that tell.
Our society is already polarized to a dangerous degree by fake news on social media and the splintering and decline of traditional news media. Just imagine what will happen when large numbers of people start to believe convincingly made but utterly fake videos of politicians and other public figures committing crimes or doing unspeakable things. I'm not a Chicken Little type, but I am worried that this could hasten the collapse of Western civilization.
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You've put your finger on one of my biggest worries: the fact that AI tools can already be used to create completely fake visual "evidence" of just about anything, and it's only going to get worse. An old family friend says "I can tell any AI from the real thing because the lip movement isn't synced with the voice"... but I've already seen videos that are obviously AI-generated - or are presented as AI-generated - that don't have that tell.
Our society is already polarized to a dangerous degree by fake news on social media and the splintering and decline of traditional news media. Just imagine what will happen when large numbers of people start to believe convincingly made but utterly fake videos of politicians and other public figures committing crimes or doing unspeakable things. I'm not a Chicken Little type, but I am worried that this could hasten the collapse of Western civilization.
Yep, that's going to happen and/or people will have a complete lack of trust in EVERYTHING. That's already a problem. Some basic level of trust in institutions is mandatory for a functioning society.
AI is very rapidly getting so good all those "tells" are going away.
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You're spot on—trust is the glue that holds society together, and AI's rapid evolution is making it harder to spot the "tells" of deception. As deepfakes and generated content become nearly indistinguishable from reality, rebuilding trust will require new tools—like transparent AI detection systems or verified authenticity markers. We're heading into a world where skepticism is default, but without some shared baseline of trust, things could unravel fast. What do you think about potential solutions, like blockchain for content verification or stricter AI regulations?
--- and that reply was generated by AI. How do we know that anyone here is real?
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You're spot on—trust is the glue that holds society together, and AI's rapid evolution is making it harder to spot the "tells" of deception. As deepfakes and generated content become nearly indistinguishable from reality, rebuilding trust will require new tools—like transparent AI detection systems or verified authenticity markers. We're heading into a world where skepticism is default, but without some shared baseline of trust, things could unravel fast. What do you think about potential solutions, like blockchain for content verification or stricter AI regulations?
--- and that reply was generated by AI. How do we know that anyone here is real?
Something as basic as money. When I think about the fact that most of our wealth is nothing but promises and digital records, because that’s all your bank and investment accounts are, it terrifies me. Yeah you can have land and gold bars in a safe, but how fast can you translate that into food and rent?
You trust that water will come out the faucet. Unless you have a well, think about how many entities you are putting your faith in just for that. And even if you have a well, like we did, it relied on an electric pump.
Electricity. The foundation of all our lives except the wildest off-the-grid nut. Having worked for an electric utility I can testify to how complex the system is that keeps your outlets live.
The entire government and legal system is based on a piece of paper a bunch of guys agreed upon a couple hundred years ago. We see right now how things start to fall apart when people no longer agree on our Constitution.
The media - and now the internet - the main sources of information about everything. If you can’t trust that, how do you form your map of reality? None of us knows the actual real world: All of us have a model of it in our minds. Some are more accurate than others but none are perfect. Without an accurate model of reality, you can’t make effective decisions.
I could go on and on.
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I haven't used money (the green stuff in my wallet) for a long time. It's just numbers in my bank account. Push a button and a bill gets paid. Swipe a card and I walk out of the store with stuff. And all that can go away if someone decides my "social score" isn't high enough. You're right... there's a lot of trust needed for the basic things in life.
I can usually rely on what my eyes see in real life. Beyond that, I have to trust that the information delivered is real. Right now, I don't trust any of the data delivery services to tell me really what's going on.
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I haven't used money (the green stuff in my wallet) for a long time. It's just numbers in my bank account. Push a button and a bill gets paid. Swipe a card and I walk out of the store with stuff. And all that can go away if someone decides my "social score" isn't high enough. You're right... there's a lot of trust needed for the basic things in life.
They’re already doing the social credit score crap in China. Canada froze truckers’ bank accounts. The UK is now using facial recognition cameras in public places, sweeping up pix of everyone. People who want a national digital currency in the U.S. love the idea of the feds having central control over your money. I think Trump mentioned that, if so, might be one of the things I disagree with him on.
I can usually rely on what my eyes see in real life. Beyond that, I have to trust that the information delivered is real. Right now, I don't trust any of the data delivery services to tell me really what's going on.
And even what your eyes see in real life instantly becomes a memory, and memory is notoriously unreliable.
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I might have to add Elon Musk to this list. He’s spamming my feed with Grok Imagine which does not make me feel good AT ALL. The ability to create realistic looking images and now videos has very bad potential consequences. People can now create “evidence” out of thin air.
I already unfollowed Musk. He was all rockets, cars, Mars and oversexualized AI “companions.”
Did you see on X where Jim Acosta used AI to create a series of videos where he is able to “talk” with gun crime victims as if they were alive? Sick, sick. It is of course an attempt to tug heartstrings toward gun banning. Let’s just not even use “gun control” anymore. They want bans.
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I already unfollowed Musk. He was all rockets, cars, Mars and oversexualized AI “companions.”
Did you see on X where Jim Acosta used AI to create a series of videos where he is able to “talk” with gun crime victims as if they were alive? Sick, sick. It is of course an attempt to tug heartstrings toward gun banning. Let’s just not even use “gun control” anymore. They want bans.
I love the rocket stuff, but hate all the AI sex whores. Making AI videos of dead people is very creepy and totally inappropriate.
I like a lot of things Musk has done, including helping Trump get elected. If he hadn’t bought Twitter we never would have found out about the FBI/IC strong arming Twitter, and infiltrating them, to cover up the Hunter laptop story and a lot of other censoring. And I believe Elon revealing that is one reason Zuck found some balls to admit they did the same thing on Facebook.
But Elon has a screw loose in some ways. Remember he is an erstwhile Democrat and as such he fell hard for the climate change hoax which is one reason he pushed EVs, and he’s never lost the certainty that humans are destroying the planet, hence his obsession with colonizing Mars.
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But Elon has a screw loose in some ways. Remember he is an erstwhile Democrat and as such he fell hard for the climate change hoax which is one reason he pushed EVs, and he’s never lost the certainty that humans are destroying the planet, hence his obsession with colonizing Mars.
Elon has a screw loose, all right, if he believes both the most dire climate change predictions and also that humans can colonize Mars on a timescale short enough to ensure the survival of the species. The most dire projections have the planet warming by well over 2ºC by 2100 and becoming basically incapable of supporting the number of people alive today by then as well. The first colonists to Mars will very likely all die when an unforeseen accident destroys the machinery maintaining their colony's supply of breathable air. He could be a lukewarmist though, and would probably have to be to think this could be a viable solution, except that to a lukewarmist, climate change isn't an existential problem at all. So yeah, he does seem to have a screw loose.
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Here's one graph of predicted climate change. These models (the SSP lines) are based on a range from maximum aggressive policy interventions to no intervention (worst case).
What's missing are all the assumptions and premises those SSP lines are based on. But what seems plain to me is that graphs like this are designed to scare the public so that money will flow to the climate change grifters. To get the lowest, light blue line, we need to pay highest taxes and suffer the most restrictions.
I hate to think of Elon as a climate change grifter, but he does do EVs which are sold to us as less polluting than ICE vehicles. Whether or not that is true is debatable.
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Suggest following Chris Martz on X. He responds to all the typical climate issues and has observations of his own, always backed with evidence.
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I can't comment on the graph, since I don't know where it came from. I'd hope that the original source was a peer-reviewed paper in which those assumptions were spelled out, or at least references given to other papers in which they were spelled out. That's how it's supposed to work - and usually does, but not always.
But what's always missing in these discussions is the cost to society of mandating these aggressive interventions to prevent the effects of exceeding 1.5ºC (already baked in, I think) or 2ºC, or whatever number you want to target. The only way to "intervene" like this is to drastically cut the use of fossil fuels. What are you going to replace them with? How are you going to power all of these huge data centers to enable AI to develop? Battery technology isn't quite up to solving the intermittency problem for modalities like solar and wind, and the lead time to getting a new nuclear plant online is measured in years to decades. Today's economy is dependent on fossil fuels the way we ourselves depend on food and water.
And renewables have a footprint that isn't negligible. I calculated a few years ago (back of the envelope, not exact) that to power the entire US with solar, you would need to cover an area of about 1% of the total area of the country with solar panels - so more than 1% of the total land area. We're nowhere near that point and solar isn't cheap enough yet for that to be likely to happen anytime soon, especially without government subsidies (and the need for government subsidies really means that the technology can't survive in the free market, a very bad sign). And of course, our energy consumption is going up constantly, so that estimate is already out of date.
But I don't believe climate change is a hoax, either. There's a textbook by Ray Pierrehumbert that goes through the basic greenhouse warming calculation. For CO2, it comes to something like an increase in global mean temperature of about 2ºC per doubling of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. That's what climate scientists call the "equilibrium climate sensitivity", and this value assumes a relative humidity of 50% (so it includes the effects of water vapor as a greenhouse gas) but it doesn't include the effects of negative feedbacks like clouds, which tend to reflect sunlight and cool the planet, nor positive ones like increased water vapor content as the temperature rises. We know by how much we've increased the CO2 concentration, and it's clear that a factor of 2 from pre-industrial is not too far in the future.
There's a recent paper by Sherwood et al that did a more refined calculation, including several feedbacks, and came up with a 66% confidence range of something like 2.6ºC to 3.9ºC per doubling of CO2 for the ECS.
Personally I think we're between a rock and a hard place on climate vs energy. Forcing a mitigation strategy by requiring net zero by any date in the near future (say 2050) would collapse the economy absent a miracle technological breakthrough. We're going to blow through 1.5º and probably 2º as well. As Judith Curry has advocated, our focus should be adaptation.
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Climate change is not a hoax, the climate has always changed for however long the planet has been around. The hoax is Government being able to just tax us and make it go away. Meanwhile, that same Government stands in the way of things like nuclear power and makes it damn near impossible to build a plant. Why are we so stupid and why do so many people believe Government is always the answer? How many successful business people are in Government? AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell and on and on and on. They're only successful at separating donors from their money to get re-elected time and again. Funny how when they were passing an amendment to limit Presidential terms they didn't include themselves. Knowing how Barbaric the Muslims are, why do Democrats wholeheartedly back them? So much wrong and I don't see real changes coming down the road. I don't see any ex Government official that will be truly held to account for the Russiagate hoax. I won't be around when it comes crashing but my grand kids will and unfortunately they'll think it is all good.
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The green energy whores are just that, whores.
The many hysterical predictions have been wrong 100% of the time and no one holds those liars accountable because the politics of control and taxation are all that really matter to them.
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The green energy whores are just that, whores.
The many hysterical predictions have been wrong 100% of the time and no one holds those liars accountable because the politics of control and taxation are all that really matter to them.
They purposely made climate change political. They made COVID political, race political, gender political, etc for a reason. To divide and take advantage of us and control us more. We're being used by the elite in corporations and government.
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They purposely made climate change political. They made COVID political, race political, gender political, etc for a reason. To divide and take advantage of us and control us more. We're being used by the elite in corporations and government.
True. Even if you can think of something that isn’t political yet, it eventually will become so. Even advertisements for jeans. Deporting criminal aliens, which should be a no brainer. Leveling the trade playing field. Showing ID to vote. And on and on.
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True. Even if you can think of something that isn’t political yet, it eventually will become so. Even advertisements for jeans. Deporting criminal aliens, which should be a no brainer. Leveling the trade playing field. Showing ID to vote. And on and on.
As far as Showing ID to Vote is concerned, the democrats haven't been able to win a fair election for decades, and their obsession with illegal votes and impression investigation is as much proof as anyone should need to prove it. Politicizing illegal voting is just job protection for criminal democrat communists.
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