excog
@excog
"I do not think therefore I am a moustache" Sartre, La Nausée, 1938 Interests: art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs. * adferoafferro.wordpress.com
◻️ search.brave.com/search?q=who... His best-selling book, God's Chaos Candidate (2016), helped shape the narrative that Trump was divinely chosen, a claim validated in his view by events such as President Trump’s 2018 meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
◻️ Japan is developing a method for extracting deep sea rare earth minerals. © FT
◻️ #ICE #KarenNewton #RebeccaBurke ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... ⚪ Trump loves this because his base are satisfied by him getting revenge on someone or other. Guilty or not.
◻️ 😼 [Ironic Ginger Cat emoji ] Cats can live to 18 or longer, so Larry should be seeing Starmer out of No.10 and whoever the Labour Party can persuade to replace him in. A poison chalice.
◻️ For date read olive. Olive trees grow for hundreds of years. A tree that a hill-top boy destroys today may well have have been planted before 1948. Mosh Dayan, a sabre, when IDF entered East Jerusalem in 1967:
◻️ #PaulMarshall Generated by Brave browser AI summary [refs do not copy and paste, but re-searching in Brave on 'Paul Marshall and Trump' gives 'em. On this prompt it doesn't deal with his religious views, which is an important part of his story and merits a search on 'Paul Marshall's religion'.
◻️ #collapse_of_compassion LLMS are good at neologism German compounds. So: awareness of terrible things in the world while telling a joke. Katastrophenkomikschuld (Katastrophe – catastrophe - Komik – comedy - Schuld – guilt ) ⚪ There is a psychological phenomenon termed collapse of compassion:
◻️ #Reform #MatthewGoodwin Perhaps do a 6 degrees of separation between Goodwin and Hitler by way of James Orr [National Conservatism, Ed. Burke Foundation] and J D Vance [says Orr is his British Sherpa] . Recall Orr attended Vance's shindig in Cotswolds Aug 2025. ↙️ ↘️ Cotswolds symbolism?
◻️ Apparently one US oil giat - is it Chevron - is working in Venezuela right now. So far, there has been no news of other US oil corps coming forward to get the oil out of the ground. But shares have rocketed since yesterday. Google AI:
◻️ #Venezuela #Maduro Starmer's weasel words on UK position on Venezuela following the US capture of President Maduro failed to the mention $2 b. of Venezuelan gold held in the Bank of England. Story of gold below: (GOOGLE AI refs not included)
◻️ #Venezuela #DonroeDoctrine Essentially someone in the White House is showing The Sleeping King the next section of Project 2025 and then ticking it off the list.
◻️ #Trump The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy David Smith, Guardian Fri 29 Jan 2021 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021... ⚪ 4 years old. ⚪ Why this hasn't been accepted and dealt with by MSM instead of giving him more space to denigrate Ukraine
◻️ 😼 Ginger was roofing again last night. The window was closed. I tried to explain his muddy feet would make a mess of the duvet. He moved on. Note: it was 3.30am like before. Domestic cats adjust their natural 24 cycle of 18 hours sleep, to that of humans. In nature they would be hunting at dawn.
◻️ #Racism #Racism_in-UK "According to a new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), the number of people absorbing and mirroring hard right narratives is rising." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
◻️ #Proust #JózefCzapski Meditations on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp: Polish Painter Józef Czapski on Literature, Survival, and the Human Soul The Marginalian, Maria Popova www.themarginalian.org/2019/07/31/j... ◻️ link to Proust on reading
◻️ #AI Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages Joseph de Weck, Guardian, 26 Dec 2025 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ⚪ OK, let's ask a chatbot for a tabulation of human advice vs. satnav "Tabulate cf taking a person's advice vs satnav"
◻️ Brave (AI): Compare AI vs. Industrial Revolution Mind you it has 'stolen' this information from any number of refs which it does list some of in a side panel with the search result. e.g. www.sedata.org/2024/12/the-... Otherly: "What AI is Brave browser using on searches"
◻️ #Venezuela Deranged posts are starting to appear demanding the US plant it's flag in the middle of Venezuela
◻️ Phew! That's a 3 hour film. I've started but whether I'll finish is another matter. There is a transcript though malheur. not a continuous text. Where's your bit? Which chapter?
◻️ 😼 I'll just ask my local AI...... "Will there be an ensuing war of AI agents exposing another agents infringements?"
◻️ 😼 This could occupy a writer who hasn't got beyond, It was a dark and stormy night, till time to open a decent Chablis. Here's a Q & A to Copilot There's a lot more in the answer left out for brevity. Essentially everything you might want to know to create a pastiche.
◻️ 😼 [Wry Ginger cat emoji] The first time I met Ginge, who I later learned from his hotel-owner was called Tiggy, was on the bottom of my bed in the early hours. The bedroom window had been left ajar. He jumped in, curled up and went to sleep. From then on he was Ginger the Roofer.