Noah Was Out On The Water Today

 

Just Wait Until donnie Sees This One

 

Dazzle The Rubes With Technology

 Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors in her startup, which falsely claimed to revolutionize blood testing. 

Holmes had convinced investors that Theranos' technology could detect numerous diseases from just a few drops of blood, but the technology never actually worked.

It was a sort of assertion as opposed to being a technology.

An assertion is some text dreamed up by a talented marketer, and the text, once dreamed up, becomes a substitute in the marketplace for an actual technology.

Ms. Holmes found to her ultimate chagrin that the marketplace, in the end, wants assertions to become facts.

So she's in jail.

In the meantime, Billy Evans, Elizabeth Holmes' partner, has launched a blood-testing startup called Haemanthus, which is named after a flower also known as the blood lily. 

The company is marketing itself as “the future of diagnostics” and claims to have developed a machine that uses AI directed lasers to analyze blood, saliva, and urine samples to detect diseases like cancer and infections.

The assertion this time has two incomprehensible technologies deployed: lasers and AI.

That's a good move: it can take years and years to tune an AI driven laser.

Just to obfuscate it to the hilt I suggest they add a third technology to the assertion: quantum entanglement.

That way when the thing doesn't work they can say it's working but it's in another dimension.

Paris Still Life With Vodka

 

Looks like a Bloody Mary to me, though.

A Curious Confluence: Revelation Of The Obvious

From Space.com, a snippet:

"Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests.

We now see the forest not as a mere collection of individuals, but as an orchestra of phase correlated plants," Alessandro Chiolerio, Italian Institute of Technology and University of the West of England, and the study co-leader, said in a statement.

An interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers from Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and Australia built custom sensors and placed them across a forest in the Dolomite mountains in Italy. Using the sensors, the team recorded simultaneous bioelectrical responses from the spruce trees."

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The rest of this is at least as interesting, but the essence of it is in these few words, so I am going to move on to my real purpose.

My son sent me a link to this article because we are both interested in nonstandard views of how things happen.

Here is what I emailed him in response.

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"I've been seeing news items like this about trees, off and on, for several years now.

The first time I read one a shiver ensued.  

It sounded so much like Tolkien talking about the Ents that it could have been from The Hobbit and the Trilogy.

An equally chilling experience - for me - was the first time I heard a discussion of string theory.

It sounded like the opening chapter of Silmarillion.

But, back to the trees.  

I have recently heard of similar studies that document flowers stepping up nectar production when bees are in the area.  

Apparently the flowers sense the vibrations from the bees' wings. 

Didn't somebody make a movie about that, except with papillon wings? 

A recent episode of The Wild spent the entire podcast talking about multiple studies that will yield an AI framework that will give us detail on the structure of non-human (animal) language.  

Note that it wasn't "if" there is one; it was "what" is its structure.  

The summary was that we're about five years away from having it, but that, when had, we won't know what it means because, unlike human languages, including ancient Egyptian (Rosetta Stone) we don't have a clue about the vocabulary.  

But we'll have the framework.

Maybe AI will give us the vocabulary.  

When I wrote The Cream Soup Spoon I did it because the Ouija had started talking to me.  

But I kept writing even when she - Ouija - periodically abandoned me, due to my belief that the only reason cats don't pay any attention to some human words and know exactly what others mean and have personal, unique and variable reactions to them is because they only learn stuff that interests them, or things that relate to their happiness or their perceived well-being.  

I spent a bunch of pages telling a story about the confluence of all of the above with human arrogance."

The Mara Lago Captivity: Several Mixed And Strained Allusions

Gonna be interesting.

Just like during the Avignon papacy we have two popes - back then they even had three for a while.

Pope macdonald lives in florida; will he capture Leo and make him live in Florida like Philip the Fair did to Clement back in 1309?

Big Trade Deal With UK

Based on the fact that trade representatives of His Majesty's Government's didn't throw their American counterparts out of their office recently, the current US Regime has announced "the greatest deal in history; a big, beautiful deal; amazing and stupendous".  

Details are thought to be forthcoming.

Just The Ticket

 

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts lays down the law on judiciary power in veiled swipe at Trump

Boy, if I were donnie, I'd be really scared.

Roberts is wielding power like Chuck Schumer; maybe he can get some half lens glasses and really go rogue.

a lot going on here