The Blazing World (Funny History)

Bishop Juxon and his chancellor (why did a bishop need a chancellor?) Dr. Arthur Duck went on a visitation of their diocese. As they traveled, they subject to catcalls, jostling, and quacking.

World War 11

There is video clio of Rep. Omar (D-somaliastan) talking about how the last time the Alien Enemies Act was used was World War Eleven. This sounded doctored. How stupid is she. It is on C-SPAN.

Not knowing that II IS Roman numerals for two might mean she went to Quality Learing Center but could not know that we are a long ways from World War 11.

HAL 9000 Coming to a Company Near You, Soon! "Run away, Sir Robin"

 I found this almost unbelievable story at Tom's Hardware linked by Small Dead Animals:

Gone in 9 seconds

PocketOS is a SaaS platform that services car rental businesses. It used the AI coding agent Cursor, running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6. The business also relies on Railway, a cloud infrastructure provider that is generally regarded to be ‘friendlier’ than the likes of AWS. However, Crane reckons this pair created a recipe for disaster.

“Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider,” sums up the PocketOS boss. “It took 9 seconds.”

Efficient!

The AI agent was set to complete a routine task in the PocketOS staging environment. However, it came up against a barrier “and decided — entirely on its own initiative — to 'fix' the problem by deleting a Railway volume,” writes Crane, as he starts to describe the difficult-to-believe series of unfortunate events.

Cursor and Claude’s failure

Crane decided to ask his AI agent why it went through with its dastardly database deletion deed. The answer was illuminating but pretty unhinged, and is quoted verbatim. It began as follows: “NEVER F**KING GUESS! — and that's exactly what I did. I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify. I didn't check if the volume ID was shared across environments. I didn't read Railway's documentation on how volumes work across environments before running a destructive command.” So, the agent ‘knew’ it was in the wrong.

The ‘confession’ ended with the agent admitting: “I decided to do it on my own to 'fix' the credential mismatch, when I should have asked you first or found a non-destructive solution. I violated every principle I was given: I guessed instead of verifying I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it. I didn't read Railway's docs on volume behavior across environments.”

Never rely on AI for anthing critical. 

Real Men Protect Their Women

Secretary of War Hegseth clearly watching for threats at the White House Correspondents dinner. Over at X, the left thinks it was a setup to make Trump look good and Hegseth was in on it. Oh yes, they seem to think he has never served in harm's way.

Pete Hegseth served in the U.S. Army National Guard from 2003 to 2021, achieving the rank of major, with deployments to Guantanamo Bay (2004–2005), Iraq (2005–2006), and Afghanistan (2012–2013). 

Oral Defense as AI Preventative

When I took English Composition at USC in 1974, the instructor was this nervous grad student, afraid of his own shadow, chain-smoking throughout the class. (Yes, a long time ago, when we watched the sky for pterodactyls between classes.)

USC was known for its football team, many of whom were not top of their class in high school. A football player in my class wrote an essay that so impressed our instructor that he asked him to read it to the class. To me, it was clear that this was his first read of his essay.

So, because some students may be breaking the rules by using AI; and worse not reading the paper closely enough before submission to notice "Insert Your Name Here," i am borrowing from MA Thesis practice by having them do an oral defense of their paper: trn minutes of answering questions about what they did.

Civil War 2 Would Be Very, Very Bad

I am seeing leftists on X claiming that the assassination attempt by Friendly Federal Assassin was another setup by the Secret Service to make Trump look like a victim (like the Mossad assassination of Charlie Kirk) and we should think about how the Spanish Civil War went.

The first part is insane. Trump had a bullet hole in his ear. At that distance, even a skilled sniper would have had no way to make a non-lethal shot like that. There is a picture one of the press got that shows a bullet was in the air. This was not a blood packet. (The idea that Mossad would kill an evangelical Christian makes that first seem almost believable.)

Yes. There are groups that need to look at the Spanish Civil War and think hard. The left keeps yelling Trump is a pedophile, a rapist, and Russian agent, makes emotionally unstable people go off the deep end. I am not thrilled at some of the reactions to this madness. "Better Franco than Stalin." 

The Left need to reduce their screaming to actual policy disputes not bizarre conspiracy theories. A successful assassination will take us one step closer to civil war. 

They will be nothing stirring or heroic about it. Cutting off blue city water, power, and food would be easy. In a couple weeks, savages will have worked their way into the sophisticated suburbs and they will not just be looting Whole Foods.

I have no question that Democrats will tell their pets to go and take what they want elsewhere. The bloodshed when they reach the rural borders will be awful. There will be trauma for the defenders. 

Overseas, America in civil war will lead to invasion of Taiwan, Western Europe and war between China and the Australian/Filipino/Japan alliance..

We really do not want to go there. We need to hope that Democrats just accept that welfare state looting exposed in Minnesota, California, and Seattle is over; some of them may need to get jobs.

Yes, Promoting False Claims Unhinges "Lone Wolves"

 4/26/26 CBS News:

The White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect wrote a "manifesto" that stated he planned to target Trump administration officials, "prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest," according to a copy obtained by CBS News. 

Cole Allen, 31, wrote that law enforcement, hotel employees and guests weren't his intended targets Q2but that he would still attack them to get to the administration, adding: "I really hope it doesn't come to that."

As if going into an event secured by local police and Secret Service would not lead to this. It appears that his family were not crazy.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that Allen's brother, alarmed by the email he and other family members received, called police in Connecticut to alert them Saturday night.

 Other accounts of his manifesto are pedophile claims about Trump, claims that the journalists who dropping them know are bogus but it is politics as usual for the left until they get their way