What is an AI agorithm and what can it do?

Last week we talked about the new artificial intelligence software given us by Anthropic, which will not only outdo anything yet developed, but it also will be able to  "clone itself and will not need a human to advance to commands that only the program has control over." Just think of this. Once it has established its own algorithm, the program can make its own decisions and proceed without humans to do its work, as it sees fit; that means absolutely no constraint. Here's a definition of algorithm...

"An algorithm is a finite, step-by-step set of instructions used to solve a problem or perform a task. It takes an initial set of inputs, follows rigorous logical rules, and processes them to produce a specific output. You can think of it as a recipe for computers."

The three key factors here are 'algorithm,' 'without humans' and 'no constraint.' If this new technology can think like a human being, isn't it likely it will act like a human being, and with all the greed and hate in this country today, where do you think it could likely go? But Donald Trump could care less about the danger involved, his only interest is to satisfy a grandiose ego and a beckoning pocketbook. Trump wanted to take over Anthropic's Claude for his administration, but the company said, whoa, we're not ready for open use yet.

On the other hand, the Trump administration is trying to corral Anthropic because of its lack of understanding of AI, and Congress is taking its lead in doing the same. Here's the scenario, according to Politico...

"The Trump administration’s sudden moves to rein in Anthropic are giving fresh

 

momentum to efforts in Congress to impose guardrails on cutting-edge artificial intelligence models.

"Lawmakers are still seeking clear information about the government’s decision late Friday to impose an export ban on the AI company’s latest models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, over cybersecurity concerns — a move that led Anthropic to suspend access to both for all users."

At this point, you'd have to wonder if Trump ordered the export ban for the sake of safety, or whether it is solely for the fact he wants to keep Anthropic in limbo until he can figure out how to cash in on this new technological discovery. But Congress is saying, collectively, left and right, they...

"see an opening to mobilize their colleagues around legislation that would reclaim congressional authority at a time when the executive branch remains firmly in the drivers’ seat on AI regulation."

Pathetic as this sounds, it is true, but, at the same time, it is the fault of Congress, primarily the Republicans, that Donald Trump holds the power he does. All along they have supported him and now they come to their whining decision there is an issue that requires their attention, and they want their ball back. This sort of governing is why this country is in the lousy predicament we're in, and it isn't all the fault of the GOP. The Democrats have been spineless since Trump came into office.

Mystical Raven, a site about spirituality and inspiration says,  "AI Is About to Escape Human Control — and Nobody Has a Plan." This kind of thinking should be the focus of the technology industry in cooperation with the U.S. government, with the emphasis on coming up with a plan. The main feature of the plan must be to determine how to control a Claude or Fable, or whatever new software that is developed, maintaining constraints over its ability to take over full control. A human must always be in the loop.

Here, from Mystical Raven, is the best analysis of where we are...long, but the best I have ever seen...

On June 4, 2026, Anthropic published a blog post calling on the world’s top artificial intelligence companies to come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning that the technology is improving 

so quickly that there’s a risk humans would lose control. This was not a statement from a watchdog group, an academic ethicist, or a senator who barely understands how email works. It came from the company that makes Claude, one of the most capable AI systems currently in existence. Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, warned that the rapidly evolving AI sector currently lacks adequate processes to slow development if things move too fast, and that the industry has focused heavily on accelerating innovation without creating enough safeguards to manage potential risks.

I can remember the early stages of AI, when science fiction was predicting the worst, things like the above, but that was just a movie, a book, products of an entertainment industry. At the time, people were saying, 'You know, this could happen some day.' Well, it did, and we are completely at odds what to do about it. We would be better off if the person in the Oval Office wasn't a demented lunatic. And if we didn't have an impotent Congress of cowards. And...there is so much more but time does not permit. 

This is my second post on artificial intelligence (AI), and I am thinking there might just be more on the way in the future.

What's it all about...AI?

This post is about artificial intelligence and I want to emphasize that the issue has become a most important focus now for where our country is headed. It's out there--AI, I mean--in all its glory and there are only a few people who understand what this new technology is capable of. I do, with limitations, having worked with the software some ten years ago in its infancy, while in the junk mail industry. To give you an idea of the value of AI, I paid $25,000 for a program that I I had to renew at $2,500 annually.

It was worth it based on the results I obtained for my clients. However, the new emphasis on AI comes from Donald Trump in the White House, where he will find ways to use it to make his administration look good, for retribution against his enemies and, of course, corruption that will put money in his pocket. Here's the scenario...

"President Donald Trump has significantly boosted AI throughout his second term — and a whistleblower confirms that major economic bubble is about to burst, and take many Americans' fortunes with it."

There's more...

“We've spent something like $1.4 trillion dollars building data centers in this country, and the revenues on AI are $600 billion,” said Alexis Goldstein, a former financial regulatory expert for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Maryland Democratic congressional candidate to The Left Hook’s Wajahat Ali on Thursday. “So the tech industry has earned not even half of what they've spent building these data centers.”

Are we to believe that Epstein compares the AI bubble with the housing bubble that gave us the great recession? If so, the hi-tech designed to make life easier and business more productive will certainly end up a cataclysm.  Donald Trump is not necessarily the source of the artificial intelligence bubble, but his policies and public promotion have actively sustained and inflated it. He's taking credit for the stock market momentum, which

Donald Trump absurd AI likenesses of himself

influences Wall Street in the following ways...

Unprecedented Deregulation: The Trump administration has aggressively pushed back against state-level AI regulations and postponed federal security or oversight orders, citing fears that strict compliance could stifle innovation and development speeds.

Infrastructure & Energy Support: To ensure American technological dominance, the White House has moved to open up federal lands and increase energy production specifically aimed at supporting the massive power needs of new AI data centers.

Voluntary Equity Stakes: The administration has explored taking direct government equity stakes in major AI and tech firms, similar to past equity agreements made with companies like Intel.

Market Volatility: While his "run-it-hot" economic strategy and tax incentives have fueled tech spending, his broader economic policies—such as sweeping global tariffs—have simultaneously introduced market volatility, occasionally triggering broad stock sell-offs across the tech sector.

Wall Street and the tech industry have initiated an impulsive drive, like a rolling ball gathering moss, except this ball is gathering gullible investors who mistakenly believe all is safe, with no risk, or, at least very little. It is like everything else Trump touches, he jumps in and generates all that he can for the home team and then bails, leaving everyone else in the lurch. The problem here is that T-rump may have created something he will soon lose control

over and his departure will leave more than disgruntled Americans.

Anthropic, the developers of the most recent and most powerful AI software say that it is only a matter of time before it can clone itself and will not need a human to advance to commands that only the program has control over. Both scary and a warning of what is to come, especially in the wrong hands. Anthropic adds...

"That is likely to create a feedback loop in which AI systems create even more sophisticated successors."

If you want more and can understand coding for writing algorithms, you will definitely want to read this article by Anthropic, "When AI builds itself."

Anthropic has been all over the media with its warnings...

"that humans risk losing control over AI systems in the very near future if a concerning trend with its Claude model continues."

More about Claude...

"The $1 trillion startup revealed that Claude now writes more than 80 per cent of its own code – up from less than 10 per cent in February last year.

"Anthropic claims that the Claude-written code is currently roughly at parity to human-written code, and is expected to be much better within the next year." 

The article is a warning of future problems if we don't maintain some control over this new phenomena. Those controls must persist throughout the world, as well as in the U.S. There's not much we can do about foreign countries determined to use this technology to do harm. There is, however, something we can do in the U.S. This will require the removal of Donald Trump from the White House and a full sweep of Congress for the Democrats in November.

It is obvious Anthropic wants to control Claude for the good of future AI technology that can benefit the world rather than destroy it. Sure, there will be grifters like Donald Trump who capitalize only on what this new technology can do for them, pushing things to the brink, where both industry and the government will have to step in. It always happens when there is greed present. We are emerging from a dark period where the conservative radical right has almost destroyed our democracy and the right to pursue new ventures like Claude. 

I hate making this political, but after what Donald Trump has done to this country, he has made it all about himself and his minions, their efforts to tear down everything our forefathers created. You know what to do in November! 

 

 

Hello Bernie, 2028...Farmers dump Trump...Donald Trump loves inflation

I have been a Bernie Sanders fan since this man came on the scene running for President in 2016. He is articulate, sincere, and stands for the average citizen...a Democratic Socialist. A term that has carried shame for some but hope for the future for others. Like Zohran Mamdani, the new Progressive mayor of New York. Add Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known as AOC, as Bernie's Vice President running mate, and you have a winning ticket. 

There is a current stigma when you mention Democratic Socialism or Progressive that must be alleviated through education to allow this ideology to prosper in the U.S. A Bernie Sanders/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez run in 2028 could put this country back on track.

So the farmers finally got smart and decided Donald Trump is the trickster he has been all along. This group is the last to be offended by the Oval Office lunatic, pretty slow coming out of the fields, I guess, a collection, I might add, that put him in office. The farmers have had an interruption in their "energy and fertilizer supplies that has emerged as a consequence of the war with Iran." A war that Trump started with his ego and can't seem to get the handle to stop.

That's not all that pissed off the growers of America, "American agriculture had been struggling due to Trump’s tariffs and attacks on immigration, the latter of which has exacerbated a preexisting labor shortage." There were also funding freezes and all-toll, the farmers of America have gotten smart and turned left.

Did Donald Trump really say, 'I Love The Inflation,' which just went up on billboards in 16 states with a picture of dufus and what he said. The anti-Trump group, Home of the Brave, which has a number of Republicans on its board, spent $15 million to advertise the rising cost of living. We've seem a large increase in gas prices fueled by the war along with grocery prices going up and T-rump's ratings plunge. Trump has dismissed the affordability issue as a "hoax," while Americans suffer, including Republicans up for reelection. 

Huff Post said, "Democrats quickly seized on Trump's Wednesday remarks to show how out of touch he is with the struggles of everyday Americans." Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer added, “His contempt for you [the American voter] knows no bounds.” It is hard to fathom how the White House maniac could have any followers, much less the gang of MAGA maggots who dearly love him. It has to be based on the individual's intelligence level, which doesn't say much for the future of our kids and grandkids.

Dorothy Parker was an animal lover and would never abandon a pet

Dorothy Parker

If you aren't familiar with Dorothy Parker, she was known for her razor-sharp wit, caustic epigrams, and contributions to The New Yorker. She was also a poet and one of the prominent members of the Algonquin Round Table at the Algonquin Hotel in New York city. She shared the table with notables like Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Harpo Marx, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Robert E. Sherwood and more. The room is now a restaurant and my wife and I had dinner there several years ago where we also met the resident cat, Hamlet.

I was fortunate enough to have lunch with Dorothy Parker some sixty years ago when she lived in Los Angeles. It was arranged by my friend and book publicity contact, Fred Shroyer, who was literary editor for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. I was late but when I sat down, Ms. Parker had a martini; Fred offered me one. I thought I had arrived, having a martini with Dorothy Parker. Guess the drinks loosened both of us to the extent that when she heard I was from the South, she wanted to talk about racism, one of my favorite subjects.

I told Ms. Parker (she told me to call her Dottie but I just couldn't do it; the celebrity thing with her enormous stature) about my experiences with racism in states I had lived in: Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Even at the age of nine, when I witnessed a Ku Klux Klan hanging of a Black man, I could not understand why a person's color angered these men in white robes and why they hated him just because he was Black. Ms. Parker was fascinated I had come out of the South, unscathed by racism. We went on for hours.

It was obvious that Ms. Parker had never met anyone from the South who wasn't a racist. I

Dorothy Parker, her husband
Alan Campbell and their dog

am sure you have deduced by now that the famous poet was also anti-racist with considerable passion, and I was eventually to learn she had never traveled to the South, this, accounting for much of her surprise. Before the luncheon ended, Ms. Parker asked me and my wife to have dinner with her and her husband. Unfortunately he died soon after and she returned to New York.

Ms. Parker once rescued a stray dog late at night on Sixth Avenue in New York city. She took the dog home, cleaned it up, and gifted it to a wealthy family on Long Island. She always had an animal around her, and her preference for animals over people was well known...

She famously called dogs "four-legged people-but nicer" and once jokingly remarked that her preference for dogs stemmed from the fact that "they wag their tails at anyone and not their tongues." 

Dorothy Parker would never abandon a pet, yet, around 6.3 million companion animals (mostly dogs and cats) are dumped on U.S. shelters every year. Most are strays, but around 29% are owner-surrendered due to housing constraints, financial hardships, and behavioral issues. Following is a short anecdote of a person surrendering their pet to a kill shelter...

Abandoned pet

This guy walks into the shelter and tells the agent he is leaving his dog. The agent gives him the same tired look and remarks, discouragingly, 'Do you know what we do here?' referring to their euthanasia policy. The guy says, 'I'm sorry, but we're moving and can't take the dog with us.' The agent asks, 'Do you have kids?' The answer, 'Yes.' The agent, 'Are you taking them with you?' followed by a forceful stare. The guy turned around and left without a word.

There is a national crisis with shelters across the U.S. facing capacity problems that are compounded by recent events that have put the American public in a bind, and, of course, it is always the animals that suffer. The excuses are numerous: a landlord that refuses pets, the high cost of caring for an animal, behavioral problems, including aggression or lack of training, moving, as above, and the death or sudden health decline of an owner. Some are obviously unavoidable but many are cruelly needless.

Shakespeare extensively populated his plays with animals to create metaphors, insults and vivid imagery reflecting Elizabethan life. His work highlights a world where humans and animals were closely linked, reflecting that era's intimate, often brutal, relationship with nature. And back to Dorothy Parker who frequently featured pets in her work with her poem, "Verse for a Certain Dog," which blends praise for a pet's loyalty combined with their chaotic behavior.

Ms. Parker no doubt favored dogs but she loved all animals, including cats and horses. The

Dorothy Parker with kitten

phrase "scaredy-cat" was coined by her, first appearing in print in her famous 1933 short story, "The Waltz," first published by the New Yorker in 1933. A Dorothy Parker comment after a night on the town is indicative of her passion for the critters...

"Don’t let me take any horses home with me. It doesn’t matter so much about stray dogs and kittens, but elevator boys get awfully stuffy when you try to bring in a horse. You might just as well know that about me now, Fred. You can always tell that the crash is coming when I start getting tender about Our Dumb Friends. Three highballs, and I think I’m St. Francis of Assisi."

One of the definitions of pet is "something particularly cherished." I hope all of the above has made you think twice if you have any plans to abandon your pet. Let me leave you with something I heard some time ago about an animal dumped at a shelter that was later taken in by a loving couple...

"For someone she was nothing. For us she's everything."

Peace! 

.

Donald Trump gives up governing - And then, is Trump ready to quit? - Renee Good ICE agent shooter millionaire -

 

This is the first of a new series of daily breaking news items 

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, says the Iran War has crushed Donald Trump's persistence and he now wants to give up governing to concentrate on his true priorities, “rage and revenge.” Here's the scenario...

The latest evidence of this is that Trump has tapped Bill Pulte as the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a role that is vital to the country’s national security apparatus. As Krugman writes, “The word ‘acting’ is crucial. The statute creating the position of DNI explicitly requires that the appointee ‘shall have extensive national security expertise.’” Pulte has none.

On the other hand, maybe it doesn't make any difference since Ray Richmond's commentary from RawStory thinks there are vibes being sent from the Trump camp that "he's ready to quit his job." Of course, it's just an opinion but Richmond says...

For Trump, it’s all about Trump, as we know. Full stop. He no longer seems inclined to pretend he gives a single crap about…well, anything. He just claimed he didn’t give a good goddamn if the peace talks with Iran were over or not. He was no longer trying to save the Kennedy Center and didn’t care about what it was called after a judge’s ruling. He gave up without putting up even a tiny fuss about his $1.8 billion slush fund.

There's more...

"He also famously noted that he didn’t care about the financial struggles of the American consumer due to exploding gasoline and grocery prices. And far from trying to rescue his Great American Country Fair on the National Mall in D.C. on June 24, he labeled all the artists who pulled out 'losers' and said screw it, I’ll just entertain everyone myself."

"ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good is now a millionaire through online fundraisers." This is a headline from vt. about the murderous group of ICE agents in the city of Minneapolis who took at least two innocent lives, Good and bystander Alex Pretti. A GoFundMe campaign  has been established for Good's widow and their sons and did raise nearly $1.5 million, but an unverified GoFundMe page is said to have collected more than $795,000 for the ICE murderer, Jonathan "Jon" Ross.

Another $250,000 is said to have been collected for Ross. The support goes both ways, some identifying Renee Good as a terrorist for moving her car to get away from Ross who had a gun trained on her. The FBI says it...

"has launched an investigation into Good's death, although sources familiar with the case have suggested Ross is unlikely to face criminal charges."

Yeah, like any justice will come of this with Kash Patel in charge of the agency.

Donald Trump gives us an almost guaranteed recession

Chaos in Trump's America

Alexander Willis, in RawStory, acknowledges two major issues that could send the U.S. into "permanent recession." Each should shape an outlook in Americans that produces a fear, so solid and so pointed, that Donald Trump, regardless of his current condition, continues to take the U.S. into an apocalypse. I'll get to these points later but first, the status of his health...

"Recent medical and public scrutiny surrounding Donald Trump’s cognitive health centers on reports of his rambling speeches, visible physical changes (such as hand bruising and slowed walking), and increased impulsivity.:

In down to earth terms, he acts like he is off his rocker. Yet, his latest doctor's report says he is in "excellent health" and "fit to serve" as president of this country. At the same time, Trump was deemed "borderline obese" and The Daily Beast quotes Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine...

"wrote on X that the report had inexplicably noted “improved” ankle edema compared to last year’s exam, even though no edema had been listed in the prior findings."

Apparently you can't believe Donald Trump's physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, and you sure as hell can't believe Donald Trump. However, amongst all the Oval Office lunatic's idiocy, you still have a Republican Congress scared to death of the man, a group who is letting this  country sink to the lowest level in its history. And really, the Democrats are not nearly doing the best they can to be rid of this maniac. Here's even more from Willis...

Donald Trump's dementia and cognitivity

"A growing number of CEOs suspect a market crash is imminent but have been “scared” to say so publicly out of fear of retaliation from President Donald Trump, and on Tuesday, one security expert warned that such a crash may not only be imminent, but 'permanent.'”

Miles Taylor, former Homeland Security senior official, tells us, the way Trump has orchestrated this recession...

"if it happens before we’re ready – many folks may never be able to crawl back out. That’s because two explosions could hit the U.S. economy at the same time.”

Getting ready for a recession is another story, but it is time to explore the two issues, mentioned earlier, created by the White House maniac that could get us there. They are the Iran War and the dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) in the marketplace. Starting with the Iran War, prices have escalated enormously both in the U.S. and abroad. Both gas and food have shocked consumers and starting to empty their pocketbooks. Donald Trump just laughs and tells Americans to suck it up.

Number two issue, artificial intelligence (AI), described by Taylor...

"as a 'ticking time bomb,' one that he had 'been hearing tick for the last three years': generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)."

I can tell you it has been ticking longer than that, more like ten to fifteen years, if only in the background. I was working with AI some 10+ years ago in its infancy and it was scary for me then what I could do. In simplification, you combine a database of known factors like your customers' buying habits with another database of demographics and lifestyle characteristics by a level of demography to determine where to find new customers. The

results increased business most acceptably in those days, can imagine the outcome today. 

Taylor says Trump started a war with Iran that "should’ve been avoidable," which has been responsible for the increase in prices leading to inflation. And through all this Donald Trump's attention alternates between his billion dollar ballroom and a 250th celebration that is collapsing because most of the stars don't want to perform. Getting back to the "ticking time bomb," artificial intelligence (AI), large and small U.S. companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon. 

Here's a fact that will knock your socks off...

A recent survey found that 99% of CEOs expect “AI-driven layoffs.”

And this is where the second disaster, after the Iran War, takes over and, as Taylor describes it...

"setting off a recession 'different from all others that came before it.'”

Here's the scenario...

“The instant the economy turns, the cautious AI pilots will become emergency AI rollouts. Corporate boards will start demanding cost cuts, and CFOs will start drafting reduction-in-force memos,” Taylor wrote.

There's more...

“Layoffs that would have been framed as long-term 'restructuring' or ‘right-sizing’ will become, by necessity, full-scale workforce replacement. The recession Trump is steering us into will arrive at the precise moment in history when, for the first time ever, wide swaths of the human workforce can be replaced instantly by software.”

If you are wondering about the connection between T-rump, AI and its replacement of

workers, especially since Dufus Rump probably entered politics at about the same time AI was beginning to get momentum...don't. Once he found out he could profit from the technology, be it only through support of those in the industry to begin with, he went full-bore in paving the way for its use...

"Donald Trump is directly responsible for shaping the regulatory environment accelerating AI integration into the workforce. While he frames AI as a "greatest job producer", his administration's policies have actively cleared the path for rapid, widespread AI adoption without imposing strict labor or workplace-safety regulations."

When we eventually find out about a massive loss of jobs and those losing those jobs start complaining about being out of work, losing their homes, theirs cars, unable to afford to eat, Trump's reaction will no doubt be...

'Suck it up, loser, and get a job.'