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    SpaceX IPO

    SpaceX went public on 6/12/2026 and Elon Mush was for a short period of time a trillionaire. It does make me wonder what kind of world we live in where a horrible person can be the most powerful and the wealthiest person on the planet. I even wonder, “did he really earn that trillion dollars?”…

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    Lies, lies, lies

    It looks like it is time to revisit the topic of critical thinking. Background story A friend sent me a Twitter/X video where a young lady starts off with “…we are actively gaslight by AI on a daily basis…” She then goes on to talk about a recent Stanford research on AI hiring tools that…

  • A typical American weekend

    Last weekend was a terrible weekend. It was as American as baseball, hot dogs and apple pie. Last Saturday started with a shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and 9 injured. In addition, the suspect was believed to have shot an MIT professor during the same time period. I believe a manhunt…

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    Random thoughts

    Today is going to be just sort of some random thoughts spilled out into this post. Nothing about new Excel tricks, amazing AI stuff, or enraging stuff from the hard-core capitalists, etc. I believe I said I would do a post outlining my thoughts about a project, but I am still cogitating over it (and…

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    Scary Stories of AI

    Today is Halloween and in honor of that, I collected a bunch of scary stories about AI and put them in a slide found below. If you didn’t notice, you should be able to click on the titles, which are actually hyperlinks, and see the original article. Happy Halloween!