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November 5, 2026 · 11:17

Nothing comes for free

A mere 360 minutes ago we were ‘alerted’ to ‘How to opt out of Meta using your Facebook and Instagram posts for AI training’ (at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-05/meta-facebook-instagram-changes-using-data-to-train-ai/107335708) and we see “There was a furious public backlash in mid-2024 when it was revealed Meta was using photos, posts and comments stretching back to 2007 to train its AI”. Now I have a decent ‘philosophy’ “Nothing comes for free” and even sunlight now gets a charge. As for Meta, I dropped it from my list after they acted with levels of stupidity and as such I went ‘bye bye Facebook’, I never used Instagram. I am not that kind of a person and there was a chance I might get arrested for blackmail under the guise of “Pay a Bitcoin or I’ll publish more pictures of me” as I have been told that people pay serious money not having to look at me (or hear me sing for that matter). As such Meta is not an issue. Although, should the evidence from some of the class actions bear fruits, I might hit Mr. Zuckerberg up for a few millions (preferably over $15 million post taxation). But that is a matter for another day.

So basically we are given “Meta has quietly introduced a way for Australians to stop it from training its AI on their user data, but the company never announced the change. An “objection” form has been available for more than a year, but digital rights advocates believe Meta does not want people to find it.” Im in the middle of that, as Facebook became so much more complex the statements from digital rights advocates might be true, or might not be exactly accurate. It is up for debate. So whilst we are given “But ABC News has learned an “objection” form has been available locally since July 2025, buried within privacy settings. “You have to go digging through their privacy policies and their support pages … certainly they haven’t been doing outreach to users,” said Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch.” Here my response is that this is a free service and whilst many people come to the comedy moment in the senate hearing where Zuckerberg tells the senate “We sell ads” there is a clear setting that their would be more, there is always more, especially as Facebook had $200.966 billion USD revenue in 2025. I still giggle when I opted for this in 2002 to my bosses, they told me to stick to my work. Don’t worry my idea was not as advanced as Facebook was from the beginning and I am not holding any sour grapes against Zuckerberg or anyone. I merely had an idea The fact that I can look at my former bosses seeing the millions they passed on, I get a good smile on my face and I have had over a dozen ideas in the mean time, so I am happy (still poor though).

And whilst we see “And you can understand why. There’s a commercial imperative for [Meta] to get their hands on as much of our data as they can.” And how is that different from what Microsoft does? Lets not forget that is not a freebee. We need to pay for that software and whilst we ponder “The objection form has been available in the EU since 2024, but the ABC has confirmed that no separate announcement was made when it was added in Australia a year later. Nor have there been any reports of users being notified directly by Meta.” And I come back with. This is a free service, so why do they need to? So, whilst I get some of the opposition, the setting of “So it lets them meet some obligations … but at the same time, it doesn’t really fundamentally change anything.” I am of the mind that a free service leaves ‘obligations’ at the front gate. When they start charging $2 a month (or perhaps $5), the setting of ‘obligations’ becomes an actual reality.

So as I see it, we see a lot of hay and no results. I reckon there is a lot more to be had going after these US politicians who have been filling their pockets whilst leaving veterans and victims at the side of the road. At that point we see that there was an opportunity for Meta and they took it, offering a free service. It is everyones favourite setting, but they never want to hand over anything or pay for the privilege. And not once did the ABC article mention the word ‘free’ because that implies that you handed over rights. Is there a case that Meta abused that freedom? Perhaps, but that takes massive amounts of data to get through it all and give us a better judgement on it all.

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November 4, 2026 · 01:31

Visions

We all have them, they could be mirages of our imagination, they could be subconscious ramification of facts we were exposed to, whatever the reason. Whatever the reason, it tends to be a decent reason to take heed. So first I see all kinds of news that the AI bubble has burst in China. I was unaware that they had put such a massive amount in that, but whatever. Hours later I see a splash of newscasts from all over the western world that something here is shaking too. First off there was the ‘fact’ that the fortune of Larry Ellison had dipped by $11 billion (its not a lot when you say that fast) then I see Bloomberg giving us ‘Oracle Is Near $10 Billion Share Sale at 11% Discount’, which sounds nice, if you are into those kind of things. Then about 5 hours later I see ‘Oracle, along with Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, has disclosed a combined $3.3 trillion in future spending commitments.’ And suddenly the picture changes. As I personally see it, the bubble is bursting now here too and these 5 big spenders are ‘combining’ their spending (to each other) to make the bubble not happen. It is like a game of High Stakes Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) game of poker. I am not too knowledgeable on poker in general (except Aces High, not the Iron Maiden song) and we get a setting because PLO uses four hole cards (and you must use exactly two from your hand and three from the board), equity distributions run much closer together. Favored hands frequently sit at 60% to 65% pre-flop rather than dominant 80%+ leads and then one card in the middle is the Joker ‘AI’ so they are all out to get a setting of that with this poker setting that they each want to get the winning hand, but as I said it, all AI is fictive for close to 15 years, too now wonder what they are doing. Because these 5 (with Nvidia as and optional sixth) are all out in the open showing what bluffers they are and whilst we are looking we might see the common denominator in this. And the setting is ‘in future spending commitments’ because off this bubble bursts they will not be able to spend anything, the 3 trillion that they were ‘planning’ to spend will be gone with a massive amount of trillions that were always in the pot through all kind of means and suddenly no one needs the thousand or so data centres. So let that sink in.

And they are all facing more. In the first we see Meta with ‘Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal’ also one that I am partially on the side with Meta on that. It was ‘‘What I eat in a day’ videos landed Amelia in hospital. Now they are landing Meta in court’, so can anyone tell me how this falls on the head of Meta? (It’s a locked article) but it comes down that in the Covid era she (and others) started to share their eating habits. So, how is that Meta’s problem? Did Meta film her, or did she do that herself and was it to anyone with a medical degree or to a bunch of other near-teen people, all wanting to outdo each other on social media? This last one is not on the AI pile, but these settings tend to overlap legally and these parties are all out to get the most from their targets. (Its a legal setting) where the parties want to emulate their victim setting emulating through Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] UKHL 100 (26 May 1932), which is a famous torts case. And they all face these secondary measurements (likely Microsoft more than others) but they are all hindered down because of it. You see Microsoft is (apparently) valued at 3.77 trillion. All whilst one source gives us ‘Why is Microsoft raising $25 billion in debt when it already has $76.8 billion in cash?’ Sounds reasonable, until you see the expected debt off the books and into parties that will take the hit. It almost sounds like Party X in the late 1895 get a ‘friend’ to invest in Whaling oil, there is one big haul to get. And that friend agrees, but the dangers aware to Party X were never disclosed. Because it was June 1896 “Sperm oil prices dropped from a peak of $1.77 per gallon in 1856 to 40 cents by 1896, failing to compete with refined petroleum” and his friend now faces a decline of 78%, it was too late for him and friend X kept his head up because of all the losses he faces, well his bank did, but he scored a nice retirement. We are entering this last game of AI now. People are aware there isn such think like AI and it is merely predictive analytics, a more advanced form of it, but it is still massively dependent on data and there is the shoe that just doesn’t fit. The data is the problem mostly because of an absence of validation and verification. Also I reckon that these validation settings (whatever there is) is pushed thought several parties and they all have their own validation metrics. So there are numerous problems that many are ignoring and I saw that first hand but they are all shouting AI together and ruling up the audience. So when we go to that person who claims that those ‘believing’ that’s only idiots believe in the AI bubble are like founder Masayoshi Son and SoftBank have pivoted heavily toward artificial intelligence. They will take a massive hit soon enough, although they are also in robotics, chip design which might make it thought, but the heavy capital allocation into OpenAI might not do so well. But take the word of Masayoshi Son over me a nobody. And invest right ahead and don’t mind the shark swimming underseas, because they nibble. And it is fair to question my word who reacts to the headlines and events that the media is giving us, but ask yourself. What real reasons was there to ‘Oracle, along with Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, has disclosed a combined $3.3 trillion in future spending commitments’? And how is that split up? And also where is that going? You see, the first headlines with the $100 billion mentions are optionally inspiring, but now we see “As of May 2026, there had been no further progress on the project beyond the letter of intent, with Argentina’s Economy Ministry stating that they had not received a formal application for their large venture incentive scheme.” (Source: Buenos Aires Times) so what else is in the and at present, because we were given “OpenAI and Sur Energy signed a letter of intent to explore the development of an AI data center in Argentina’s Patagonia, named Stargate Argentina. This project, the first Stargate site in Latin America, would represent an estimated investment of up to $25 billion and have a capacity of up to 500 megawatts” and as I see it, at present Argentine has about Argentina has an installed electricity generation capacity of about 44.2 GW, is that where the 500MW is coming from, and if so, why was an additional $25 billion required? Wherever you look it leads to more questions and in this game of PLO is it the intent that everyone looks at the cards, not the noise and why that noise does not seem to make sense and it is all due to secondary noise, not part of any of this, but these companies are too large to ignore this. So who is making a tally, because as I see it, none of them have the cajones to put up their own market value to this, why is that? So don’t become the patsy nesting in whaling oil when it is too late or perhaps too soon is also available, in 1820 was massively riddled with dangers. So whatever you do, ask questions and read up, because at present the entire (fake) AI setting is riddled with dangers and no one is looking beyond the headlines and into the data it is supposed to deliver.

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November 3, 2026 · 08:47

Troubling thoughts

This happens and it is not always ‘mind boggling’ or even global catastrophically and yes this implies it is not about that guy who will lose the midterms in a most auspicious day. One source makes claim that President Trump is Jesus, or so the impression goes. It was placed on hist own truth social (why would anyone read that channel) So whilst that happens. Tries of people called it “as blasphemous or self-aggrandizing”, he says he was a doctor. But it lost him approximately 20% of the christian voters. So there is some form of justice there I suppose. No, it is nothing like that. The time the source is Tom’s hardware who gives us ‘Sony’s final 4K Blu-ray player listed as out of stock in Japan, firm may be preparing to abandon standalone players — retailers reportedly told not to expect new stock of its remaining model’, the article can be read (at https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/sonys-final-4k-blu-ray-player-listed-as-out-of-stock-in-japan-firm-may-be-preparing-to-abandon-standalone-players-retailers-reportedly-told-not-to-expect-new-stock-of-its-remaining-model) and I am left with a disturbing sight. First the PS6 comes without a drive, then we hear that Sony is disbanding its physical format and that is happening in a few places. Last year Sony Pictures Entertainment had a revenue of US$9.92 billion. You do not walk away from that. That is in its current form. Considering what a Blue-Ray of 4K disc can hold. Is it possible that Sony is going the way of the Nintendo cartridge? The last part of the article gives us “But it’s important to note that 4K Blu-ray demand has not collapsed in the same way as the wider physical disc market. Figures laid out by the Digital Entertainment Group show that overall U.S. disc sales declined by roughly 9% in 2025. Spending on 4K discs, however, climbed by 12% over the same period, before climbing another 18% in the second quarter of 2026. That said, for existing Sony owners, there is no reason to panic just yet. A player that works today will continue playing the discs already in a collector’s library — and there is no evidence that Sony plans to push an update that would stop existing players from reading movies.”

Now consider that A 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc can hold 50 GB, 66 GB, or 100 GB (depending on the layers) and discs can be damage by careless handling them. Now consider that you could surpass that with 2 cartridges (they hold 64GB each) and consider that any movie could have a single spot or a dual spot. And you cave tonnes of space in your living room and cartridge are a lot harder to damage and usually it is only done through intentional action. Or perhaps Sony is creating its own cartridge holding 128GB. The would make sense, it would drive all kinds of Sony Hardware and there is a time (like now) when ‘mums’ the word and that might have been the intent of Sony all Along. Then there is that setting of optionally buying all the great games again in a much better package (smaller too). That would make perfect sense and a little unsettling. We all went with the DISC version of gaming since the Original Playstation (Tekken, Tomb Raider, the good old days) and perhaps Sony has a new format coming up for their PS6 (and we might not hear this until release time) I reckon that these cartridges would enable Sony to add features to movies in the ways of sounds and overlapping commentary at the push of a button and the neat thing is that it gives a reason for every household to consider the PS6 as the central device (so, goodbye Microsoft) and lets face it when you name your new console after a deadly disease, you have it coming. Microsoft might make the claim that “Microsoft’s upcoming hybrid hardware initiative designed to merge Xbox console gaming with open PC ecosystems”, but we know better. We saw the bodies pile up in Antarctica.

Still the idea that Sony is going for a new format is not far fetched, especially as they see the impact these cartridges had on the Nintendo and with a Sony designed cartridge, the amount of copy kittens of these original games might see the their time is up too. I also think that this would liven up the second hand sales (but Sony might not care about those). I still think it was a bad idea to drop the physical media, however. In light of this setting, it might make sense in a few ways and consider all the Japanese cars having a cartridge slot to let kids in the back watch their favourite series and for one, such a cartridge could hold a whole season of ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’ or something according to those lines. Although Japanese parents might want the view of their young ones limited to ‘My Neighbor Totoro’, to each their own I say and the more I think of it, the more I see this as a likely development in the Sony region. Dropping physical media never made sense to me. There are too many rural gamers in the world and setting this up for clouds will bring pressures to the entire cloud (even the small cumulus clouds) But about that another day.

So they might be troubling thought, but not necessarily negative ones (perhaps a nightmare to Microsoft). Time will tell because we have not seen any official ‘release’ news on the PS6 and with the news that Tom’s Hardware gives us as a most reliable source, the setting is taking a different turn, like seeing a new highway open up whilst the construction was kept secret.

So, you all have a great day.

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October 28, 2026 · 20:13

Out of moves

That was the first thing I thought when I saw the BBC article (at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckpdg4pl7pgvo) with there title ‘Police using AI risks making discrimination worse, researchers warn’, the article itself was three days old, but I have had a few things on my plate, it is not the greatest excuse, but it happens to be the truth. We are given “The growing use of AI in policing risks increasing discrimination against minority groups, researchers have warned. Studies suggest that predictions of future crime hotspots may be based on biased data, which can magnify existing prejudice and create a dangerous feedback loop.” I couldn’t have said it better myself and but it is also based on settings that are more true than anything the truth could bring, because (as I have said over and over again) AI does not (yet) exist. It is mere predictive analytics and that requires data moreover it requires validated and verified data, the outcome in any different setting is what we call the GIGO law (Garbage In, Garbage Out) and that pretty much spells inaccuracy, bias and outright discrimination. And we are given “This would involve checking the data that forces use to find and remove any bias, according to Dr Carolyn McKay, an associate professor and researcher in digital justice at the University of Sydney Law School.

“The public functions of state policing ought to be subject to human oversight and scrutiny,” she says.” This could be the start, but until the data is thoroughly scrutinized the outcome of these predictive models are at best debatable and in the worst case a mere blanket of discrimination, although the policing parties will cover this with ‘Mister X’ looked at the data and we believe it is accurate and when the first case comes where we validly can deny the truth of it, the class actions will come calling. Leave it to any lawyer to see the business end of wrongful convictions and as I see it, that is the only path that will be seen as merit. The article gives it in a different shape, but it is the same outcome, here we see “The problem, according to McKay, is that AI systems are trained on data that already contains human bias, and this can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies. Think of AI as a map-maker asked to draw a map of a city they have never visited. They are locked in a windowless room and can’t go outside. All they have are maps that are 50 years old.” Take one mere consideration “London police corruption in the 1980s was defined by deep-seated internal networks, ties to organized crime, and systemic cover-ups within the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police” and anything connected data that is used is mere gap fillers for a bias and discrimination in London alone. Now we get back to the village of Sydney (the one in NSW, Australia) where we see “Police corruption in Sydney during the 1980s was a systemic and deeply entrenched feature of the New South Wales (NSW) Police Force, particularly within vice, drug, and detective squads in areas like Kings Cross” now these two villages were not sanitized over a day (or even in years) that means that any documentation is tainted with ‘accidental’ inaccuracies and this goes on for close to two decades. Consider that tainted data to be the beginning of predictive analytics and you have yourself a massive amount of class actions and personally hit people demanding representation and even if there is human oversight. How can that person rely on any data he/she sees?

And I am merely pushing two obvious places in the foreground. Take a harbor town like Rotterdam (Netherlands) or even Antwerp (Belgium) or Paris (France) and these are harbour cities, as such there are many parties who ‘disregarded’ and ‘adjusted’ reports and data, the entire setting is drenched in ‘obliging’ failure. But not to worry, the legal system will proceed and defend the damaged parties and their bills will not be cheap (they need a cushy life too) and this setting (as I speculatively see it) will give these lawyers thousands of hours and these players go for roughly $750 an hour, now take that times 50,000? Is anyone seeing the outcome of that failure?

And that is before you see the outcome of class actions that might reach an easy billion in punitive damages. And I have been making sure that the settings of validation and verification was clearly mentioned in most of my ‘fake AI’ articles. And whilst we consider that and in TechCrunch via a writer called Anthony Ha (in LinkedIn), we see ‘AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says’ where we see “AI hasn’t benefited the bottom line of any big corporations outside the tech industry, according to a note recently published by the chief economist at Apollo Global Management (the private equity giant that used to own TechCrunch). Apollo’s Torsten Slok focuses on what he calls the S&P 493 — the S&P 500, minus Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla — finding that profit margins and revenue per worker appear to be flat, with no evidence that AI is improving productivity.

“Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech,” Slok said.” Now take that equation to what some call a failing police force with tools that make things harder, less reliable and legally expensive. That is the setting these police forces are seeing. So whilst ‘some’ made statements, the one that reverberated in my mind was “Masayoshi Son, the chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, has been the primary SoftBank executive speaking out about the AI bubble. He asserted that global AI infrastructure will require roughly $5 trillion annually and argued that AI will eventually transform the economy to generate massive profits.” The fun part for me was $5 trillion annually and ‘AI will eventually transform the economy to generate massive profits’ but as I see it, AI is 15 years away (at the very least), so who is paying for the $75 trillion? And what profits will be gotten? And the issues of data validity and data verification will not go away and they better start today if they want their boat comes in in 15 years, because unverified and unvalidated data is still junk data. (Punters might call that CCC data) so it is worth less than nothing. So how exactly are profits coming in? Because as I see it, the police will be using that same junk data and the money is gone and no one knows where to find it and to give you an example Reuters gives us “STAR50 Index Collapse: China’s main AI and semiconductor stock index, the STAR50, plunged by 40% in under four months, erasing about $480 billion in market value.” As I see it, hardware is the first to fall and the mentions of “Western markets have experienced milder pullbacks—such as a roughly 6% drawdown on the Nasdaq—as major tech firms and chip giants continue to draw heavy capital inflows and massive infrastructure spending” is as I believe it to be false creations. They merely hide it better and the 5 large investors are covering each other and investing in each other, so when that bubble burst (I personally believe it is already bursting) they make claims of tax write offs and pay no tax for a few years (a speculated view by me).

So in this atmosphere you want the police to use fake AI whilst it is predictive analytics and I am not against predictive analytics, it is a good tool if the data is reliable and that is in too many cases seemingly not the event we are hoping for.

So you tell me, where is my thinking wrong? I worked in data analytics since 1992. I saw the rise of predictive analytics, but the people never trusted this, so someone came and called is AI, but it is not AI, not even close. And no one is thoroughly investigating data validation and data verification, because these two settings is where it all goes wrong, horribly wrong.

So you all have a great day and don’t let my words make it sound gloomy, the news won’t tell you this, but that is them. They are now all about the digital dollars. And the start of this article was given to you by young British science writer Adrian Dredge wrote about the potential pitfalls of AI and policing. The essay won the 2026 Young Science Writer Award, chosen each year by the Association of British Science Writers. A man I do not know, but he was awarded the honour by people who know things, so that is seemingly good enough for me.

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October 22, 2026 · 11:48

Predictive Artificiality

It is a combination of words and as the BBC keeps on getting it wrong for all the greedy reasons it is engrossed in, lets recap that setting that they open up with ‘Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military’ (at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmreyvepnv0po), so they are willing to get in bed with organized crime and hackers (a speculative thought I am entertaining) whilst the military is out of bounds? So as we are given “Google is facing a backlash from some staff members over the company’s deployment of its AI technology for military use.

The BBC has spoken to several tech workers who have either recently resigned from Google’s AI company, Google DeepMind, or are in the process of leaving, over concerns with the tech firm’s military contracts. Sofia Liguori, a London-based research engineer, is one of them. She resigned from Google DeepMind this week and spoke about her concerns exclusively with the BBC, despite her contract restricting her from doing so.”

So lets recap this for the people who have no IT skills and optionally a child with a Nintendo. There is no AI, all AI is fake. There is of course predictive analytics and at present it might be considered Advanced Predictive Analytics, but the difference it that AI and make leaps of faith (according to Alan Turing, not the comedian) and it can do this absent of data. Predictive analytics requires data at all time, in absence of that it becomes Presumption at best and mere speculation at worst. For AI to become real it will the following things.

A quantum computer (we have that)

Shallow circuits (we seemingly have the too, although I reckon it is still in its infancy. IBM had the hard parts figured out in 2017)

A Trinary system and about two decades ago a Dutch physicist created the Epsilon particle, but between that an having a processor/Coprocessor to get it in real life is likely still decades away

So we are not even close to having AI as such I label ALL AI fake. It is not bad will, it merely is and on top of that the validation and verification is far away from all that, as such the ‘guess’ with of these military systems is making it a dangerous setting being anywhere near 25 miles of such a place. As such is this Sofia Liguori really concerned with the setting of these predictive analytics or is she worried about what the client will look for when they are analyzing the logistics of these predictive analytics, because that is merely one step away from what the logic of a fake AI is, towards the analytics of these predictive algorithms. And these defense IT boffins will put two and two together and they will get really different results. That is when they are done with analyzing the verification and validation modules, I found them lacking on several levels last year and I have no faith that they improved anything near a serious level. I tend to blame the lack of a trinary setting. But that requires some explanation. In binary we have Yes/No or True/False. Now in a double setting we get for example the setting of Toronto (Yes/No) and Maple leafs fan (Yes/No) and there would be an abundance of Maple Leafs fans. But that setting is absent of Hockey Fan (Yes/No) and perhaps Recent immigrant from Montreal (Yes/No) win this setting the non-Maple Leafs fans are riddled with inconsistencies for all kind of reasons and whilst you can set the questions right, the model becomes inherently more complex. And this is based on two settings. So to capture it all you will get an exceedingly complex metric of answers. With Trinary it becomes a setting of Yes/No/Both and the equation simplifies. The setting of validation and verification makes it simpler as well, because nuance (to some degree) takes shape. Now in military settings it does not become easier, the setting is more complex and the influence that [BOTH] is rallied towards this and can be counted and as such the tally becomes easier to see that there are additional factors in play, but still the absence of data cannot be countered at present and as such all AI is fake (for now). And the response of ““Realising my company is pushing more and more for AI systems in military operations makes me feel ashamed to work at Google,” Liguori said, speaking in a personal capacity.” Is even more debatable. Because fraud detection is a valid operation for these special forces of the Military Logistics department and they could use the better part of predictive analytics, it is not perfect but they will find optional danger flags really quickly. More work is needed but where 50 people find 12 red flags in a month, One computer will give them 50 red flags in 12 seconds. It doesn’t mean that they are all red flags, but once the setting is checked, it might be an optional misfiled paper, but checkers would have known this and as it stands military logistics could use the help (in nearly every nation) even if it was merely to find 13 billion in misplaced oil revenue. So when we get to “After working for the company for three years, Liguori said she decided to resign over Google’s increasing work with the US and Israeli militaries. “I don’t agree with this direction and this has led me to lose faith in my company being true to its stated ethical values,” she said.” So how did the Israeli military included in that? Was she a supporter of Hamas terrorists? Or merely anti Israeli? I do not know, but the direction of that interview took a wrong turn and the BBC was seemingly OK with that. We see that continuation in “Naza, which examines the role of AI-powered targeting systems to bombard the Gaza Strip, resulting in high civilian casualties. An Israeli government minister has said the claims presented in the film were false and distorted.” So what were these AI-powered targeting systems? Who made them and what are they called? It seems that the BBC has a lot of explaining to do, not merely on this part and to include Google in this is (as I see it) mere fabrication from a delusional mind and I hope that the people will take my explanation for these settings in a proper light, so that they can see that these AI systems are merely fake and there is no real timeline when they will be real and as I see it, such systems will not be active before 2031.

So have a great day and don’t forget to ask your barista if his La Marzocco GB5 S Auto-volumetric 2 Group Commercial Espresso Machine is AI powered.

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October 21, 2026 · 02:02

An optional second reason?

That was the first thing that came to mind, not in opposition or in criticism bc cause you get those people as well. No, the idea to see ‘Saudi Arabia announces first batch of hospitality investment projects worth $1.78bn’ (at https://www.arabnews.com/tourism-transport/saudi-arabia-announces-first-batch-of-hospitality-investment-projects-worth-178bn-3007297) is decent enough, but my mind kept on wondering, what if there was a second reason? Consider that the unknown and language are the first setting. So what if these places had for example 10 settings each to do more? So, whilst we are given

  • Saudi Arabia has approved 19 hospitality projects worth $1.78 billion under the Hospitality Investment Enablers Program, expected to create over 17,000 jobs.
  • The projects will be implemented in five destinations: Al-Baha, Al-Ahsa, Jeddah, Asir, and the Eastern Province, involving 19 participating companies.

And that is fine, but what if there was an additional push? So 50 places for additional settings, like jobs in Aramco. At present it is trying to look for any number of places and for the most in Multiple rounds of interviews (online or in-person at regional hubs like Houston, London, or Singapore. This sounds nice, but the world is seeking jobs and for the most the idea of a job in Saudi Arabia is met with question marks. So what if these people get a placement offer and it comes with language skills, introduction into Saudi life? In two-three weeks they get  language setting and an introduction into local life at Aramco? It comes with a contract that if they do not want to do this, they are barred from similar places in the gulf states, just to make it fair all around. And there might be an appeal for miners from Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Portugal, and Spain. You could open offices in all these places, or you could invite those with a decently good resume to come stay in Saud Arabia lowering the hurdle somewhat. And the nice part in all this is the setting that these ‘volunteers’ might attract friends with mining experience as well. So before you know it these 50 roles might even attract 150 to 200 more volunteers. This seems a win/win setting for Saudi Arabia. As I see it, this system could also be employed by ADNOC (UAE) as they have similar and even higher needs to fill the shoes of job openings. I have no side how either are setting there mark, but there might be a call to fill both locations with jobs. And with a lower hurdle, there will be plenty of people to take in the sounds and scenes of these two places. An altered job interview might root out those looking for an actual job and those trying to find a cheap holiday. And as the UAE is ‘sporting’ the setting of hospitality market offers thousands of active positions across hotels, resorts, restaurants, and event companies, concentrated primarily in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.  It could lead to several positions being filled the moment they are seen by these foreign ‘tourists’ which would also give clearance for a pool of linguistics all over the UAE.

Two locations that could benefit from this now so standard hiring practice and there is an offset. They pay for the vacation and depending on their results they get a full refund, as such there is the optional filter to weed out the freeloaders. I am aware that my plan has its flaws and weaknesses, but how had considered the path to find people? I get the idea not too many has looked into that direction. So have a great day and try the following: “قهوة واحدة من فضلك، على ألا تكون حلوة جداً.” (I surely hope Google Translate didn’t make a mess of that line. And in two weeks you might even know more Arabic or optionally Emirati Arabica (I have no idea how close Arabic and Emirati Arabic is) but these students will be able to tell soon enough.

Have a great day today.

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October 19, 2026 · 14:41

The road available

That is where I am, not exactly on a crossroad, but it might look that way. Some go into the ‘consideration’ of the road less travelled, some go into the setting that they want to look elsewhere, but this is between the two. You see, as we are looking towards changing the data sovereignty in the Commonwealth and the EU, we see that there is $117B up for grabs and most go into the setting that it is too difficult and that there are too many complications. I do not completely agree with that, but there are hurdles to pass. In the first is the eating for server complexes in the EU (Belgium more specifically), UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and then the satellite server locations in Europe, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Geneva, Rome and the is just for starters and these server locations cannot have anything from the United States. Norway can attest to the issues they have been facing and they might be a better first source of these solutions. As we are sailing away from the United States hiding behind their CLOUD Act, we have to realise that too little has been done and if you wonder why they are speeding up their data centres and in the mean time claiming that rogue (fake) AI’s are copying the data they can get a hold of, we need to insulate ourselves from that. Optionally we need to make sure that China cannot do the same thing. And when these settings are showing progress, we will see that the Gulf States will attempt to copy these settings to keep their own data safe. But when you look into that, we see a stream of consultants, trainers, support staff and a whole range of people that are part of that ‘golden’ $117,000,000,000 and it will cost Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM as such they are widely opposed to this setting. I do not blame them, they are (for the most) all willing to give us what we needed, but this United States Administration seems to be in some kind of grab anything they can, because the timeline is now ending for them. It is no longer a fictive worst case scenario, there is a clear end of line to be seen there. And whilst the media is now turning their story about the resilience of the United States, there are too many markers that time is running out. In the first setting the United States is no longer a superpower, with the exception of ‘boasting’, ‘bluffing’ and ‘bullying’ the larger consensus is “Whether the United States is a declining power is a complex and heavily debated topic among historians, economists, and political analysts, with a widespread public consensus leaning toward a sense of relative decline.” In this is wonder what ‘relative decline’ is? Is that in relation to EVERY other nation in the world? In other news we see that the NY Times gives us “Critics and analysts point to shifting alliances, internal political volatility, and unilateral decisions as factors diminishing international confidence in U.S. leadership and institutional stability.” In my mind I would say that the international confidence has pretty much declined to zero. So whilst opponents of these thoughts are relying on “Proponents of American resilience note that the U.S. maintains the world’s preeminent military force” so how does that go? The Trump side has (inactively) bombed Iran into the storage whilst their missiles are pretty much depleted and whilst we see that this was the fault of President Biden whilst he was in office, all whilst we see from different sources that then President Biden never send any missiles to Ukraine. So whilst we are given “Over 850 Tomahawks were fired in the first month alone, consuming nearly half of the global U.S. inventory” and I am telling you now that this is a response I merely copied, I have no idea or insights on how many tomahawks the United States has

So when you start doing the numbers up, including tourism and the amount of people who turned their back on the United States as a place of entertainment, we see a rather nasty future and there is no way this can be turned around. The people will not care about the midterms. The empty boasts that President Trump is going to prison, he might have stated that former President Biden has to go to prison, but sources tell me that former President Biden has no intent to visit President Trump in prison. But all jokes aside. The good times dealing with Google, Amazon and Microsoft is ending. The cloud act makes it impossible and we better wake up fast. My works were copied over 8000 times and I only wrote 4000 articles, so there is that to consider and when others get to consider what they optionally lost, their pressure to switch to a non-US and possibly a non-Chinese solution is pretty clear. And as some claim that the United States big four are about to lose a total of $117 billion, as such there is an opportunity for European and Commonwealth firms to invest and optionally expand on what they have and as such create a new business model, one that excludes the United States as a player on these grounds. Am I too dark? No this was always in the books, it started to get serious when Norway made it a serious agenda point in 2024 and whilst others thought it would blow over, the actions of this United States administration made  them do a turnabout instantly. The question becomes now, what were they able to keep safe? I merely wonder why happens when these sources dry up with the 4,423 tracked facilities across states (as per June 2026), because if they are all fighting for the same data, the setting becomes that these centres with lacking verification and validation become less and less accurate on a daily basis (it is a mere personal presumption) but the settings of lacking verification and validation is a known setting. As such there are several reasons to applaud data sovereignty.

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October 15, 2026 · 04:31

A boggling mind

That happens and at present it is my mind that is boggling. First off, there is no critique on Saudi Arabia and how it does it business. None at all. My mind is merely looking at what the media is ‘offering my mind’ and as Al Jazeera gives us ‘Houthi missile attack targets Saudi capital Riyadh for third day in a row’, my mind is at a standstill. We know what abilities Palantir has in the settings of data intelligence, but so does IBM Miner (formerly known as SPSS Miner and before that as Clementine), then there is Jingan Technology (of which I know less than nothing) and I know only what certain media settings ‘declassifies’ and we are given “Established in 2021 in Hangzhou, China, by veterans from major tech firms (Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei) and Chinese military branches, Operates under China’s military-civil fusion strategy, supplying intelligence-gathering, geospatial analysis, and predictive tools to state security, public security, and People’s Liberation Army (PLA)/defense-linked clients.” (Source: South China Morning Post) And I am merely setting that stage as Palantir as a US product might no longer be as reliable as it once was. If course IBM miner is a BI took and not an intelligence tool, so it might be missing a fair bit on sides in all this considering and contemplating Palantir Gotham. But as I see it, it is important to find ways to seek solutions in the data mess, mainly because it could help Saudi Arabia and I am careful to use the application as ‘could’ because I have no idea on how far Saudi Arabia is in the data digging mess (my best assessment in this) as I gave last week that shipping parsing in the Gulf of Aden is in part an optical solution and that is stated as I never saw any smuggling data and I have seen shipping data and these ‘box carriers’ show up all over the maritime tracking settings. But there is a catch are they being tracked or intentionally ‘avoiding to be tracked’ and that is in part a solution as one source gives me “Roughly 55 to 65 ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each day, though daily totals fluctuate due to regional security incidents and re-routing” that is an amount that is manageable. The question is how far can we track these ships and which ones are in verifiable settings and courses to be optionally disregarded and that leaves us with X amount of ships that require a closer eye. And we might be looking in the wrong direction, but the clear setting is that we get in sources from Twitter (say X) “In a statement on X, Turki Al-Maliki, the spokesperson for the coalition, said the Houthis fired one ballistic missile at Riyadh and two towards Khamis Mushait, a city in the southwest. All three were “intercepted and destroyed” my mindset is that these rockets could not have been produced in Yemen and the fact that these rocket (no matter that they were destroyed) requires certain electronics and it is for that reason that I feel that Iran is the likeliest culprit. And as it was not a drone, it was a ballistic missile. As such the pool of likely candidates is somewhat diminished from a dozen to a mere 2-3 parties. And at least one of those is on friendly terms with Saudi Arabia. So I feel that I am on the correct track. And as a solution we see the BI solution IBM Miner and in a more military setting we get to Palantir and whatever Jingan Technology has. 

But there is also the setting of whatever the Presidency of State Security (PSS) is, because as I see it, General Turki Al-Maliki should be given every support he could get and that is where I am at present. So, what solutions are in use and why can there be no additional support (because Saudi Arabia should have as much as it can), mainly because Saudi Arabia is under attack and it is Aramco, Khamis Mushait as well as the King Khalid airport. And in my mindset terrorists should not get this far, as I see it, eradication of terrorists is an essential need. Perhaps some want to invite them for tea and cookies but I am all about destroying the enemy, especially if they are targeting civilians. 

The question is how to go best about that. I have a clear view because I was given these tools in the past, I was giving (non military) intelligence in the past and as such I came to the Gulf of Aden as a first. There is of course the chance that these smuggle activities are Iran, Iraq, Jordan and then the red sea, but I would think that this track has the most complications and as such a much larger chance of failure. The other option is the Arabian Sea and than via Africa, but there are a few players there who would prefer Saudi Arabia as a friend and as such the gulf of Aden remains. A simple track (possibly a wrong one) and the resources to track these up to 80 ships daily (I am taking additional numbers under advisement) are a first, because that might get a better view and of course there is every chance that these ‘missile components’ are optionally shipped as ‘boxes of mobiles’ or something like that and there we have options of detecting and that comes with additional settings of releasing over 75% of ships who are innocent. But as my mind sees it we get the oldest question setting (from the 70s) where we get the image of Who, What, When, Where, How and Why. Six elements that might reveal who Saudi Arabia is dealing with. And of course ii am coming from a biased setting and as such I am on the Iran setting (Who) and what is either complete ballistic missiles but that seems less likely, more likely are the elements, because the explosive settings could come from all directions, but the electronics are likely from the “Who” side, making Iran the likely candidate. And in support I give you that Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi terrorists are openly supported from Iran. 

This is my mindset and it is not impossible that I am wrong and that is also part of the analyses from either of these three parts (IBM, Palantir, Jingan Technology) and I could be wrong, but on these sides we see certain tools and these seemingly the tip of the spear and that is one place to look at. And I recently (in the last 24 hours) was given “Palantir Technologies has expanded its presence in Saudi Arabia through strategic defense, artificial intelligence, and regional digital transformation partnerships” (source: X/Twitter) as such I feel I am on the right track.

It feels nice to focus on a data problem and in the end it is a data problem because this can only work if we consider and eliminated verifiable data settings, but that might be my limited look on the matter (and I have been accused more than once of oversimplifying complex settings), but that would be me.

Have a great day and I noticed that I am now roughly 180 minutes from breakfast, so one more log to saw and of to the breakfast table I go.

Have a great day today.

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October 14, 2026 · 11:54

Deescalating ties for USA

That is what is seemingly happening and I saw the news 9 hours ago. So even if I wrote the previous blog 13 hours ago (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2026/10/13/is-business-booming/) with ‘Is business booming?’ Where the stage was offered among others to Jingan Technology. I was unaware of ‘Chinese top diplomat meets UAE president’s special envoy Khaldoon’ (at https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202610/1372209.shtml) and yes they are not the same, not even the same countries, but the setting are clear for China and their corporations. A setting is opening to push the United States out of an area that they held as their ‘A’ position for decades and they are hungry to prove their worth and value is almost everything to the gulf states (proven disloyalty aa lot less so) as such the article gives us “Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, said China and the UAE enjoy strong political mutual trust and have achieved substantive results in cooperation. Their relationship has gone beyond the bilateral scope and become a model of cooperation among Global South countries in pursuing development and revitalization, Wang said. Regardless of changes in the international and regional situation, China is ready to work with the UAE under the guidance of the two countries’ heads of state to take bilateral relations to new heights, Wang said.” And if you think that this is all to some communist party reference, it is not. China is almost entirely communist, but for the rest of the world to accept that political side takes a massive distrust of the United States and whilst they are all about “How great they and their president Tump are” the rest of the world doesn’t see it that was and by the numbers the united States is outmatched through 750,000,000 against 7,500,000,000 that is one hell of a difference and whilst some will claim “You shouldn’t see it that simple” that simpleton used numbers against all others that was until Donald the joker Trump became president and through tariffs, the 51st state, Greenland, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and through that Canada, the gulf States, the EU and parts of Asia, it lost the match which should have never been a match and should have never started. I still believe that it was the desperate act of a nation that had run out of money and whilst they still have ‘plenty’ of bonds, the payment of a fixed coupon rate every six months until maturity is going to weigh the United States down on their 20 and 30 years bonds, the setting will get massively hindered by their $40,390,000,000,000 with over 1 trillion interest annually. So whilst the 20 and 30 years bonds are trying to shed anything they can to survive it all, the metrics (even the top-line metrics) do not hold a beneficial setting. In that stage the gulf states who have investments in the USA are waiting for them to be toppled and as such they can buy that nation per square mile on pennies on the dollar. A setting that was slowly coming to maturity. And for those thinking that this will never happen, consider who is sitting in the White House and whilst he could never live with having to make the statement “We are out of cash” and it was going this way since before he came with the bully statement that Canada was its 51st state. I was clued in long before that. Still there is a lot to be unclear about, but as I see it, it will become a shouting (optically slapping) match between the 989 billionaires in the USA and the Communist Party of China (CPC) with its 101,290,000 members and when the United States sees that these 100 million plus members are receiving an ovation from the EU and the gulf stats, their morality sinks to the lowest basement it has (minus 3 as far as I know). This is not a setting I applaud, but the UAE and Saudi Arabia must do what is best for their country, it is what we expect from our governments and why shouldn’t they want the same? 

As such China is about to enter a golden age of commerce (as President Trump stated this several times) and as commerce is real and as all AI (or SI) is fake I would assume that several corners of this world will go to China. And as more and more people are waking up from the fake statements the United States gave us. And whilst some think that others were supposed to take steps, the people are woken up by news like ‘Donald Trump sparks Republican backlash after declaring Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire’ with “Donald Trump declared a ceasefire that neither Russia nor Ukraine agreed to. His own party is now leading the charge against him.” And as the hostilities evolve though the hostile actions of an invading Russia, the US administration might now be the weakest player around (and it is seemingly massively out of missiles too) A setting that invigorates China and opens up the Gulf states for negotiations, because as I personally see it the United States bluffed and outsold itself one continent too far. 

But in all this, it might be a simple delusional me writing. Have a great day all.

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October 13, 2026 · 21:14

Is business booming?

This morning I was made aware of an article on ABC news. The article (at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-13/saudis-probe-houthi-attack-on-riyadh-airport-amid-ongoing-attack/107258142) is giving us ‘Saudi-led coalition destroys Houthi ballistic missile amid probe into air defences’ where we get the key points “Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis towards Riyadh. Houthis claimed responsibility for two strikes on Monday, local time, aimed at Riyadh airport and an air base in Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait. The fresh strikes come after Saudi Arabia launched an investigation to determine how its air defences failed to intercept the Houthi missiles.” And as I (personally) see it, Houthi terrorists don’t have the ability to set the ballistic missiles, as such I come to the conclusion that Iran is (the most likely culprit) providing assistance. Either direct or indirect, as such several options should be considered by the Saudi government. The latter one was on July 18th 2026 as I wrote ‘Terrorists are as terrorists do’ (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2026/07/18/terrorists-are-as-terrorists-do/) and I was considering different settings. You see we all look towards Palantir Gotham to solve tactical settings for Saudi Arabia, but at present the United States is no longer considered to be a reliable ally. But where is China in all this. Technological adversaries tend to be on similar terms. So what is the Chinese version of Palantir? I know nothing of them, other than that they are spread over several software considerations. And as I see it Jingan Technology might be a decent alternative and it would spread ‘the good word’ from the Chinese government towards Saudi Arabia. As I see it, a certain person (namely Alex Karp) would have to start all sails towards solving the Saudi problems and to solve the intelligence towards solving the Houthi terrorist conundrum. How are they supplied? I considered several options in ‘Where the dogs sleep’ (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2026/09/25/where-the-dogs-sleep/) and I still believe they are valid thoughts, but now the question becomes. Who will assist Saudi Arabia better? Palantir or Jingan Technology, because as I see it, whomever proves the ‘support’ channels of these terrorists, that party will have a much bigger pull into getting commerce with Saudi Arabia and I am not in that field, I merely support Saudi Arabia as it is attacked and that much stop. Unlike others I have no problems getting create suffering to the attacking party of Saudi Arabia, which I personally still believe is Iran. So when the Houthi terrorists are made evanescent (an expensive word meaning to  be reduced to nothingness) we can focus on the parties that are supporting Houthi terrorists. This might be too large a call to make, but change is done in steps and in all this I support the preservation of the Saudi way of life. I am not one of these templars who considered all saracens and muslims evil. I am not muslim, but they are allowed to defend their lands and whomever aids them is an ally. So who will answer the call? Alex Karp or Shi Qiaomu? They don’t need to call me, but I reckon that a call to Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud is in order from either, optionally both. 

Whilst the media is all about the ‘events’ no one is looking towards who is igniting these settings, just my way of thinking. So you all have a great day and try to enjoy your morning coffee in Toronto, lunch coffee in Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi and late coffee in Sydney. Different times, same concoction. 

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