There are only two kinds of intelligence - real, and artificial. FUCK AI.

"Many of the AI “innovations” may serve as background noise and window dressing, just as the internet does today. As before, the internet feels ubiquitous and all-encompassing, yet what is really different today, apart from your ability to mindlessly bake away in front of a phone at whim?

We could wake up in the year 2075 and things may appear ‘transformed’ on the surface. Robo-taxis will stalk us, robo-concierges flag us down on the streets with witty banter, robo-butlers will ply us with generative stories to salve our spirits, advertisements will be interactive and ‘sentient’—and ever more noisomely intrusive and annoying. But what will actually be different? Maybe not much.

As for the headsets and virtual worlds, there’s good chance that humanity will reject heavy-handed attempts to wire us up. Our inbuilt, instinct-driven values will continue clashing with the metaphysical transmutations pushed on us via the technocrats’ ‘enhanced reality’ and dreams of global connectivity. Fatal for these technovampires is the fact that humans ultimately have much simpler needs than what suits their impish designs. The basics of comfort and sustenance, family, home, and security; ingrained generational culture. The only way to deprogram such biological source code is through massive system shocks and exogenous dopamine lures, to rewire us from outside in. But such ploys will likely fail as the artificial nature of the technovampire-designed digi-Utopias will never comport with the hypostatic anchors of our being, whose generational flukes are dug firmly into our collective flesh.

Undoubtedly, we are entering the next phase of human progress. The theme of the coming century will be: Essence, defining what it is, and why it is important; then—for them—trying to reverse engineer it.

Essence is the ultimate paradox for the Technovampire, the final string in the human enigma code, which has stumped their parsing machines and cybernetic contrivances. Essence is eternal, and beyond their understanding. It is the gleaming pearl within the oyster of humanity they are unable to take from us. But in the coming century, with the help of their newly-fashioned artificial super-intelligences, they will set their sights on it and try."

https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/the-essence-in-apples-vr-flop

Russ I was in the Legion 1986 to 1991. The old Legion that only served in overseas colonies and recruits were foreigners with false names is long long gone. These days the Regiments of the Legion are very much integrated part of the French Army. The only unit which is permanently based overseas is DLEM in Mayotte. French Guiana, a department Outremer is home to the 3REI. Recruits can no longer ask for permanent anonymity. They must be rectified within 3 years and granting anonymity is very rare. Criminals are no longer welcome and the BSLE (called the Gestapo) is good at getting truth out of recruits. They simply have too many applicants so they can be picky. Training is the Legion is not special. You spend most of the first 6 months cleaning and learning songs. In your regiment the training is not much better than the regular army. In all the Legion regiments maybe with the exception of the 1REG and 2REG (combat engineers) are completely sub-operational. The 2REP (paras) is good for quick emergencies in Africa but no experience in real war. Desertion rates are around 15% of intake and that spikes when there is a conflict like Ukraine. When I was in there were dozens of lads took off to join the war in Yugoslavia because the chance of seeing action in the Legion was low. Regular army Paras and Marines get many more operations than the Legion because the Legion is seen as unreliable. If a Legionnaire dies his family overseas receives the same amount of compensation. So in short if the Legion goes to Ukraine they are in for a rude shock and something completely unprepared for. BTW. There are quite a few former Legionnaires in the Russian Army as the Legion has had plenty since 1990. I served with many and found them to be the best of all nationalities. The Poles (many in number) and French (about 40%) were useless. Americans were either very good or completely useless. Brits were 90% drunks.

JT - Thanks for all your excellent posts, and ESPECIALLY this one. Can you please drop me a line here on TG

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I had a friend who was in the FFL back in the early 2000's. I was a combat engineer in the US Army 1981 - '84.

PSA from Molly and Gil

Translated from "Ukrainian" by Putinger's Cat.

They were born in the same country.

One was destined to party abroad. The other - to die as cannon fodder on some Ukrainian field.

Such is life in a stillborn country.

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Israel's Ministry of Defense’s National Emergency Management Authority, Brigadier General Yoram Laredo:

"A full-scale war will disrupt israel's supply chains and supply levels. When the first ship off of israel's coast is hit, other ships will be deterred from coming here, and this will be the situation throughout the war. Ninety-nine percent of all goods that arrive in israel come by sea,"

"Hamas did not pose a significant threat to the functioning of israel’s economy, but this would not be the case in a war from the north. Whereas on the first day of the war with Hamas, they launched around 2,500 rockets towards israel, the average daily rate of rockets in a war with Hezbollah would be twice that, posing a significant threat to israel's energy independence, with extensive damage to its electrical infrastructure."

"The potential targeting by Hezbollah of these infrastructures would lead to two to three national power outages lasting up to two days, while in some areas, outages could last for months... The immediate impact of a war with Hezbollah would be on the supply of natural gas, which generates about 70% of israel's electricity.” 👍🤠
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Consequences of the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk this morning.