Opinion Dominion

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Heinlein was probably right...

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I watched a video about the Artemis II manned flight around the Moon that might launch this week, as (along with many people, I assume), I j...
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More "Let them fight"

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Things are still going well on the American Right, I see.... Meanwhile....
Monday, March 30, 2026

An unusual psychosis story

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There's another good "The Great Read" article up at the New York Times about a guy who developed schizophrenia and tried to k...

A worrying thought

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Further to my last post:  I can just imagine that nutjob Defence Secretary Hegseth getting excited about the idea of a ground invasion on Ir...
Friday, March 27, 2026

No one has any idea what will happen

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With a rambling President caught between his own history of avoidance of military service indicating he may genuinely not be a fan of puttin...

Who knew? Hermit crabs are for life...

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I would never have guessed this, which I learn from a pretty fascinating article in the New York Times about a woman who is a tad obsessed w...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Stitched by Claude

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Just wanted to note again that Claude is pretty good at photo correction.  I gave it two photos I took from the hotel at Toyama on my recent...

Who do children prefer, the soulless intimidating automaton, or the robot on the left?

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I know, I know: there's probably a thousand variations of the same joke attempted by the title of this post on social media already!
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The antimatter truck

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Well, what do you know?    Nature reports that a truck has taken some antimatter for a ride: On 24 March, a team at CERN, the European part...
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Explaining 100% support

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Jim Geraghty in WAPO makes a decent enough point:  we shouldn't be surprised if polling shows virtually 100% support for Trump from MAGA...
Monday, March 23, 2026

The very rich, but temporary, city

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There's an interesting opinion piece about Dubai in the New York Times , questioning whether (or perhaps, how easily) the city may recov...

Strange clerical sex scandals have been around a long time...

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This is from a review in the New York Times of a book about a clerical sex scandal from Kant's home town Konigsberg (which happened in ...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

The LLM and leads to deeper reading

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I have to admit, LLMs can be very good at suggesting where to go for deeper reading on a topic.  For example, this interview in the New York...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

A dragon, adjusted (and the man who painted it)

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The reason I say "adjusted" is because I was pleased to find that Claude (free version) was able to improve the original, which ha...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Strange conspiracy bedmates

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I'm not sure I have ever commented on - or if I did, only briefly - the "Trump faked his assassination attempt" conspiracy the...
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