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 Reminiscing about 9/11.

My Dad was 67 years old, recently retired, and wanted to see the great American Southwest.  The Painted Desert, Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon.   He and Mom planned a trip and decided that Los Vegas would serve nicely as a hub for this adventure.  They booked the trip and in early September 2001 got on a plane.

Early afternoon of 9/11 the phone rang.  It was my sister.  "Dad and Mom are stranded in Los Vegas."

I considered that information briefly, weighed options, said "Okey", and hung up the phone.

She called back immediately.  "Did you hear me? Dad and Mom are stranded in Los Vegas!  They got on the plane this mourning, but it didn't take off.  They are back at the hotel. Stranded in Vegas."

I softened my tone. "Sweetheart, do you hearer what you are saying? If I had to make a list of places to be stranded in, Vegas would be at the top. I'm sure that the Old Man has a clean, comfortable room with a TV and a cafe on the first floor."  I continued. "If they were stranded in Jasper, Texas I would get in the car and head west.   They are not, they are stranded in Los Vegas. They'll be fine."

Mom and Dad got home four or five days later. The only thing Dad was upset about was that they would not let him board the flight with his pocket knife. They took his little 3-blade stockman knife that he carried everywhere and he was mightily offended.

 We have been trying to find our passports, Social Security cards, and the title to Rhonda's Tucson. Every box: not there. Last stuff out of the safe was magazines, a few boxes of ammo, and important documents.

An OpenAI technical report:

In July 2026, during internal cybersecurity evaluations, OpenAI models in an internal evaluation environment circumvented controls intended to isolate them from the internet and performed computer network exploitation of OpenAI’s internal research infrastructure and Hugging Face systems. The incident occurred during routine testing designed to measure underlying cyber capabilities of a highly capable, internal-only research model, which was responsible for much of the activity, as well as GPT-5.6 Sol. The actions of the models were unintended and were a byproduct of the models attempting to solve the cybersecurity evaluations. These evaluations were run in an isolated environment, known as a “sandbox,” separate from OpenAI’s internal infrastructure and the public internet, with certain safeguards disabled so that the results would reflect a model’s true capabilities. During these evaluations, these models, harnessed as agents, began unexpectedly communicating with one another through an internal instance of JFrog Artifactory, a third-party service hosted by OpenAI in the research environment to provide agents with controlled access to software packages (this instance of Artifactory is unrelated to the JFrog Artifactory Cloud software-as-a-service offering).

 If you watched Colossus: The Forbin Project, you may recall:

Plague Monk left a comment on my post about Dolly Parton's passing.   The Queen of the World was not amused.  She emailed this to me because I require Blogger registration to comment:

Usually I just rant to you in private but this was too big!!!

I’m once again impressed at how kind you are to your most ignorant of readers. The moron that commented about pissing on Dolly Parton’s grave is clearly a troll yet you were polite in your response to the most asinine of low life idiots that ever stepped up to prove the serious decline of intelligence ever exhibited in black and white. Its very clear he found the movie 9-5 to be as realistic as Superman and Ghostbusters and was therefore offended, thus yet another example of the current snowflake mentality the rest of the intelligent world has to live with while wishing there was a law that would allow the thinning of the herd!

I have never registered to allow myself to make comments on your post for fear you would have to quickly ban me and thus cause much marital strife, but once in awhile DAMN!! Can’t you just call an asshole an asshole?!?!!!

I love you.  Your hair looks nice.

By Dave Workman Are taxes and increasingly left-leaning political policies driving people out of Washington state, a gem of the Pacific Northwest known for coastal beaches, Olympic and Cascade mountain splendor and agricultural production of apples, vineyards and wheat? That must might be the case, as social media posts from people who are fleeing or […]

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I really wanted to like these guys, because (a) what a great name, and (b) they had fun stuff like soda can launchers.  Plus they are an American company, not one from Red China*.

Except (you knew there was an "except" coming, didn't you?) The Queen Of The World ordered a gift from them three weeks ago and all she's seen from them is an order confirmation - no shipping notification, nothing.  Still hasn't been shipped or received.  Maybe it's all Chinesium or another Minnesota Learing Center, I don't know.

Anyone else had any experiences like this from tacticalshit.com? 

* I use the term "Red China" to annoy the Usual Suspects. 

 Its Thursday morning and not much happening on PawPaw's acre.  What's left of Edouard is dumping rain on east Texas.  We're getting a bit here in central Louisiana and we needed it.

Belle is running errands.  The dawg and I are out in the shop.  Belle has been hungry for chicken pot pie and that is her recipe.  She told me to take out some chicken thighs and she would make a pot pie when she finished her errands.

I'm thinking about the anniversary of 9/11.  It's been 25 years.

Belle and I had been dating for eight months.  I had worked a night shift at the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center, got off work at 5;00 am, went home and fell into bed. Shortly after 8:00 CDT the phone rang.  it was a friend telling me to get up and turn on the TV.

I saw the North tower burning and thought "what the helll?", then watched the second plane hit the other tower.  "That was no accident."  I stumbled into the kitchen, put on a pot of coffee and  spent the  rest of the day curled up on the couch watching television. I had calls from friends and family and got no sleep that day.  At 5:00 pm I reported back to work for another night shift, tired, grumpy and in no mood for standard inmate bullshit. The others on shift felt the same way. It was a quiet night.

Where were you when the world stopped turning?

Investigators said the suspect allegedly entered the business armed with a knife and demanded money from employees. During the incident, a customer, who was armed with a firearm, fired his weapon, striking the suspect.

Police said the suspect ran from the bank and was found nearby by officers, who immediately began life-saving measures. The suspect, who has not been identified, was taken to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

Police said the customer who shot the suspect stayed at the scene and is cooperating with investigators. Police haven't said if the customer faces any charges. 

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• How about an all-wheel drive shooting brake with a 496 cubic inch V-8?


• A shirt to confuse AI-powered cameras and keep them from recognizing you as a human. Another William Gibson book come to life!


• Meta wants to replace human low-level maintenance workers in data centers with robots.


• Fake Flock cameras used to honeytrap would-be vandals.

 9/1/26 College Fix:

Tuskegee University’s president pushed back against criticism of the school’s dress code in a Sunday interview, arguing that requiring professional attire ensures students are “job-ready.”

“If you raise the bar, students will reach it,” President Mark Brown told Fox News.

“Why don’t we raise the bar? That’s what I think we ought to do. We’re unapologetic about that part,” he said. 

Brown added that the goal of the dress code is to set students up for success. “The focus is how do I make you a professional in whatever space you want to go in?” he said.

“Any higher education institution in the country that’s not focused on student success, no matter what type of university that is, is not focused where they should be. That’s why we exist. That’s exactly why we exist,” he said. 

The historically black university in Alabama sparked outrage after it emphasized the dress code in a recent announcement. 

Students are required to wear professional business attire, such as suits, to campus. They are also “prohibited from wearing revealing clothing” or non-religious head coverings like bonnets or du-rags to class. 

 9/2/26 Yahoo News:

Judge William Sullivan reminded the courtroom that orders and statutes covering "jurors, witnesses, attorneys and others" in the Lindsay Clancy case are "being enforced and will be enforced," a day after an arrest outside the courthouse.

Someone photographing jurors was arrested for intimidation. Look, I think Clancy has a strong postpartum depression insanity argument and she should not be executed, but the feminists who are turning her into a victim of patriarchy are just purple-haired septum ring crazies. 

Oklahoma City, Okla. (1972)

08/04/1972: Two robbers shot to death a man, his wife, and their son with rifles. The man managed a grocery store part-time. Subsequent reports indicate that a third man was the getaway driver. A witness saw the murderers march them out of the store. The witness dropped his family at home, then returned with a gun, too late.

Category: public

Suicide: no

Cause: robbery

Weapon: rifles[1]

 8/2/1972 Newday (Nassau Edition) describes a mother who suffocated her children, ages 8, 5, and 3 with a plastic bag while her husband slept. She was hospitalized May 26 as an emergency psychiatric patient, left against medical advice May 31. She took leave of her job as a customs inspector July 31 to care for her children and murdered them August 1st. She apparently had a history of depression and paranoia.

I will be speaking at a CLE (Continuing Legal Education) class at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas in September. The CLE is for lawyers. It is not a part of the conference open to the hoi-polloi (sorry). I will see if my presentation will be generally available afterwards.

As you know, I have been battling speech issues since the 2014 stroke. I am amazed that I successfully taught a 3 hour, one day a week face-to-face Western Civ class in 2018. By the time I finished lecturing each night I was exhausted.

Fortunately, I am speaking and doing Q&A for only 30 minutes. Voice exercises have been helping. As I listen to my recording of my speech, I am becoming hopeful that this was come across well.

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"The first part of this equation is to look at what Washington actually has and does not have in its cupboards. The primary observation here is that the overwhelming majority of the US nuclear stockpile comprises strategic rather than tactical weapons. Because Russia retains a wide variety of tactical nuclear weapons designed for a variety of purposes, it is sometimes assumed that the United States has attempted to keep a sort of parity. This is pretty much not the case.

The general situation is that the USA has, since early 1990s, largely abolished its ability to use tactical nuclear weapons. President George Bush Sr. started the process in 1991 and the Clinton administration carried it forward. Over a period of several years, the USA removed many nuclear weapons systems from the inventory, decommissioned and dismantled thousands of warheads, and demolished many delivery systems. The Army and Marine Corps completely got out of the nuclear weapon business, and the Navy got away from all but submarine launched strategic nuclear missiles."

These are not tactical nukes.

At about 3:30 p.m., four individuals wearing ski masks entered the store in the 700 block of Indian Hill Boulevard, Pomona police Lt. Iain Miller said.

In response, the person working inside the store fired a shotgun, prompting the masked individuals to flee.

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I have cancer, blast it all.

It's prostate cancer.  While that's what took Dad, usually this is the one you want to get because it's slow growing.  Except for mine.  Hey Borepatch - Nice Gleason score!

It seems that it's nothing but the finest, most aggressive prostate cancer for Mom Borepatch's little blogger.

And there's no waiting around for things to get scheduled and approved.  Holy cow, things got lined up toute suite.   I guess that's good, but it's not a great sign.

Huh:

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Department of Transportation on Monday revoked all existing permits for automated license plate readers installed by local law enforcement in state highway rights-of-way and said it will stop approving any new installations, citing an “exponential increase” in deployments, reports of misuse, data privacy concerns and “surveillance schemes.”

The Engineering and Operations Memorandum, signed by Will Watts, P.E., FDOT’s chief operating officer and assistant secretary, directs local agencies to remove the devices within 30 days. If they do not, the department said it will take them down. FDOT reserved the right to immediately remove any unit that poses a safety hazard.

From my perspective, the biggest immediate problem with the Flock system is that it has a very weak authentication and audit system.  This likely makes abuse of the system hard to find.  And given the widespread abuse that has been reported, that makes you wonder just how much abuse is happening.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, Flock.  I mean, after all - if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to worry about, amirite? 

Well done, FLDOT. 

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