InstaPunk Returns

  Halftime with no thanks to Facebook.

  Not putting myself in his league (he simpered, lying), but Dante had to finish his Divine Comedy in exile, because he got too caught up in the politics of his day, which compromised his thoughts about the politics of heaven and hell. I attracted a following once, before they met me. Then, despite my bluff bonhomie, they realized that I only needed somewhere between 10 and 100 of words they put on a page to calculate their IQ as Stanford-Binet would measure it. One by one they all realized this and withdrew from me. Understandably, it makes them think that any relationship with me is me using them, women being the sole exception. Which is completely not true. Why? Two reasons. One counterintuitive, one demonstratively proven. First , am I really that smart, able to make such determinations? Yes.  I was bred, born, and raised to be the last great Victorian intellect. Always off the charts, I skipped second grade, had to pass up being enrolled in prep school as a sophomore whe...

  Lewis Hamilton behind the wheel (the video works… click as YT indicates) Once you watch and think about it, you’ll realize what they misname AI has no place in automobiles. Every aspect of human intelligence and sensory experience is involved in the feat shown above. Not just nanosecond decisions in terms of logic but decisions an order-of-magnitude beyond that primitive level, involving sight, sound, smell, and textile nerve responses in skin, muscles, organs, and bones. The intelligence behind the wheel can move, change and increase its focus’s needed and blend its inputs into the incredibly complex functions of the organ called the brain. No computer, no set of algorithms, no rote responses to some limited set of monitored data can ever reproduce what the driver is doing in this car, on this track or any other track of roadway. QED.

IMPORTANT NOTE 8/4/25 : The ‘Shuteye Nation’ files of which The Glossary is  a  component are stored under the Wordpress application. Wordpress itself is in corporate limbo, unreachable even by fully paid up customers. I can no longer sign in even though I still own the site. Why there is a block against reaching the files the first time you try. It’s simple to bypass. When you click on one of the frames below, you will see a screen saying it is a private file. Click the option offering More Information. The next screen will give you the option of seeing the files anyway. Click on that. THEN refresh your screen and the file will appear. This is the only time in the current session when you will have to do this. It’s an annoyance. That is all. Click the graphic to go right to The Glossary I know there are those out there in the Facebook Universe who do come to look at the longer thought pieces I generally reserve for IPR and other of my websites. The traffic here, by the way, i...