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Obama’s $500M Presidential Center Turns $830M Nightmare as Locals Push Back | The Gateway Pundit | by Robert Semonsen

At least the locals are finally catching on and doing something about it.

About time … level the damn thing.

Mornin all … a bit cranky this morning.

Chuckle

Most people not deeply involved in the artificial intelligence frenzy may not have noticed, but perceptions of AI’s relentless march toward becoming more intelligent than humans, even becoming a threat to humanity, came to a screeching halt Aug. 7.

That was the day when the most widely followed AI company, OpenAI, released GPT-5, an advanced product that the firm had long promised would put competitors to shame and launch a new revolution in this purportedly revolutionary technology.

As it happened, GPT-5 was a bust. It turned out to be less user-friendly and in many ways less capable than its predecessors in OpenAI’s arsenal. It made the same sort of risible errors in answering users’ prompts, was no better in math (or even worse), and not at all the advance that OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, had been talking up.

“The thought was that this growth would be exponential,” says Alex Hanna, a technology critic and co-author (with Emily M. Bender of the University of Washington) of the indispensable new book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.” Instead, Hanna says, “We’re hitting a wall.”

The consequences go beyond how so many business leaders and ordinary Americans have been led to expect, even fear, the penetration of AI into our lives. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested by venture capitalists and major corporations such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft in OpenAI and its multitude of fellow AI labs, even though none of the AI labs has turned a profit.

Public companies have scurried to announce AI investments or claim AI capabilities for their products in the hope of turbocharging their share prices, much as an earlier generation of businesses promoted themselves as “dot-coms” in the 1990s to look more glittery in investors’ eyes.

Nvidia, the maker of a high-powered chip powering AI research, plays almost the same role as a stock market leader that Intel Corp., another chip-maker, played in the 1990s — helping to prop up the bull market in equities.

Michael Hiltzik

The FBI today raided the Maryland home of John Bolton, who previously served as President Donald J. Trump’s National Security Advisor and has since been a staunch critic of the President. The raid was reportedly part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records,” according to an official who spoke with NBC News.

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1958872118478643366

All was set to vote in a conservative government but then a chap called Trump chimed in. Crime reform was number 1 on the conservative agenda.

Unfortunately our conservative leader was compared to MAGA Trump and the election was turned on its head.
For most of us conservatives it was an unfair representation. But it was effective.

Dog

Canadian resident charged after armed, wanted felon breaks into his home

BY TDB

Been pretty much like this all week, with the metals starting the day in the hole every day except for maybe Wednesday. Dollar a little higher with rates flat. Oil flat. Crypto flat. SM bucking the trend and starting the day a bit higher. It has been lagging this week.

PM shares mostly lower, but we’ve had a good week unless they find a way to take it all back today.

No eco data of significance.

Powell speaks, but I’m not sure who cares. Pressure is mounting for one of his Governors, Lisa Cook, to resign or be fired. She’s another black DEI hire who believes she’s entitled to commit fraud on her mortgage application – like Letticia James – but not suffer any consequences. Course why would she? She’s been handed everything without having to be the better, why wouldn’t she expect to receive a pass?

The government has created an entire class of these types of people. It’s disgusting.

Trevithick’s New Castle, 1803.

Fascinating times.

No worries. He’s entitled to his opinion like everyone else. Trump evokes a lot of emotion, but I’ve never quite seen a single man/leader that has been attacked like he has. The conversation on policy is impossible to have without him being attacked. He causes people to lose their minds, even the few of them left that are somewhat rational. 🙂 Nothing quite like it.

Faber talked about the continuing expansion of the money supply. I’m not sure how he gauges that. M2?

Tough time sleeping tonight. Looks like we’re punching up again in the overnights.

BTW you mentioned a lot of Hispanics around you. If they have any relatives in Calif with school children they should know this and teach their children as well as talk to the school about being notified first of anything like this.

They are trying to make a bill that anyone, a non relative, complete stranger can fill out a paper with zero vetting or ID just anyone to come take their kid out of school without even checking.  Any child but fear Hispanic children first.

It all started here
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/885750/

They’d do it to them too just like europe. Like the people don’t matter just their agenda.

Yeah where was NATO and   wonder who helped them and supplied them the bombs. They’d turn in anyone to get what they want even their own and started that with the Euro union  and why they should never have that power. They wouldn’t anyways.

A lot of replacement going on these days!

and Ukraine bombed a Russian pumping station, cutting off gas supplies to Hungary. Shouldn’t Hungary invoke article 5 and get NATO to invade Ukraine, and protect Russia?

BTW you know what these lunatics are planning for the woman to replace their husband’s. A bunch of migrants from Africa and mid east. I’m sure there gonna love that.

It seems to me as long as these lunatics don’t have to get their own arises shot up they won’t stop until their stopped. Theyre creating a situation where even though the Ukrainian people want to stop the war the lunatics involved from Europe and a few closet neocons here Russia would have to take over the country where the survivors would be better off than with the lunatics that are using them as cannon fodder now and not for their benefit.  They are even hiding their children from being drafted.

Lots of wisdom there goldielocks. For the sake of the world lets hope they end it!

… and without US boots on the ground … or in the air!

Right, and look what NATO did to a nato Hungary. Guess they couldn’t call a article 5 on themselves.  We don’t need these characters starting a WW111.

Anyone who has looked into it much knows that the Russians were goaded into this war. Nato has expanded into countries that it promised not to. Russians were being abused and killed in the Donbass and other regions. A democratically elected gov was overthrown in the “color revolution.” How much were the Russians willing to take, right on their doorstep!

I’ve heard that the WEF crowd was thinking they could take all the Russian resources when they were split into pieces. The globalist warmongers have gotten their war but it hasn’t turned out the way they thought it would Russia is not falling apart.

I’m with you about the EU people. We’ll be lucky to get a peace deal done with only 3 participants!

From what I’ve heard is they’ve done this before.  Everytime they call for a peace talks they are losing and had no intention for peace, they just use it to get advantage then  and  rinse repeat. Putin’s wise to it. He’s fed up with their games. I don’t trust NATO or Z  at all using our military as security for the same reason they will just try to use it as a advantage and  cause a false flag or conflict again to bait and switch and drag us as boots on the ground because their rumming out of boots  and destroyed a whole generation for the benefit of the NATOs delusion of grander taking Russia’s resources thinking they’ll them be the most powerful now according to how they treat their people  dictatorship in the world. As far as I’m concerned they’re so unhinged that’s a threat to the world including the US. There just better be a fast out if they breach any agreement if it even happens. Meanwhile Russia isn’t waiting around for them this time.

If they are, they need to wake up! SNG

12 times NATO/US/EU/UK broke their word about not expanding NATO. Twice they failed to enforce Minsk agreements. 15,000 times the Ukrainians killed Russian speakers in the Donbass. Just involving Starmer, Merz, Meloni (actually, I think she’s the only one who recognises what’s happening), Stubb, Macron, Rutte and von der Lyin’ in a meeting with Z says there will be no peace process, let alone progress. Give peace a chance, yes, by removing them all from any negotiations.

Whoa! I jumped into a DeFi trade the other day and my browser wallet froze at the click that mattered. My heart sank. Seriously? It was one of those moments where the tech is solid in theory, but in practice the handoff between mobile and desktop feels kludgy. Initially I thought it was just a flaky RPC node. Actually, wait—let me rephrase that: my gut said the problem was UX friction between devices, not the blockchain itself.

Here’s the thing. Somethin’ as routine as signing a transaction should be near-instant and familiar whether you’re on your laptop or on your phone. Short delays, confusing QR flows, and disparate permission dialogs kill momentum. On one hand, users want the full power of multi-chain DeFi in a browser. On the other hand, they want the safety and comfort of their mobile wallet. Though actually—bridge the two well, and you’ve lowered the entry bar for a lot of new users.

Why does this matter now? Because web3 adoption is moving from hobbyist tinkering to everyday money apps. People expect desktop-first experiences for trading and analytics, but they also store keys and identity on devices that live in their pockets. Hmm… that split creates predictable problems: signing interruptions, account mismatch, expired sessions, and lost confirmations. I ran into this while testing fast swaps and yield harvests; my instinct said the sync layer was the weak link.

Short answer: treat mobile as the primary key store, and browser extensions as a convenient UI layer. Long answer: you need a secure, low-latency channel for transaction signing, reliable session management, and clear UX that reduces cognitive load.

How to design integration that actually works

Start with connection patterns. The simplest flows are: 1) deep-link from desktop to mobile, 2) persistent pairing using encrypted channels, or 3) local host modes for heavy power users. My bias is toward pairing—because it balances security and convenience. Okay, so check this out—pairing lets a mobile wallet approve signing requests without re-entering secrets on the desktop. And yes, that requires mutual authentication, session tokens, and automatic revalidation after network gaps.

I tested a few models. Initially I thought QR-only pairing was enough. But then I realized users hate pointing phones at screens every time they open a new tab. Actually, QR is fine for first-time trust. After that, background sync via encrypted WebSocket or a trusted relay works better. This is where the extension should behave like a thin client: no private keys stored, but fully capable of showing transaction previews, gas estimates, and chain context.

Transaction signing deserves special attention. Short bursts of information win: who is asking, what tokens, and the worst-case outcome. If a dApp asks for a token allowance, show the exact amount and a suggested safe limit. The UX should default to minimal scope and let power users opt into more. I’m biased, but showing estimated USD values helps reduce accidental approvals—humans think in dollars, not wei.

Security can’t be just a checkbox. It has to be visible and understandable. For instance, require re-auth on the phone for high-value ops. Also, give users a clear audit trail of recently signed transactions. This is very very important for trust. (Oh, and by the way…) make that trail exportable—customers ask for that when things go sideways.

Performance matters too. Signing latency needs to be under a couple seconds for a smooth desktop experience. That means efficient encoding of signing requests, pre-warming channels when a session is active, and using fallback relays if peer-to-peer hits a firewall. On the technical side, EIP-1193-compatible providers and standardized JSON-RPC methods ease cross-wallet compatibility. But compatibility alone won’t fix usability problems.

On the topic of RPCs: use multi-node strategies and sensible request batching. If a swap requires several chain calls, batch reads to avoid UI stalls. Also surface loading states so users don’t click again and again. Repeated clicks are a symptom of unclear feedback—which is bad.

Okay, so here’s a practical tip from my experiments: provide a “reconnect” flow that’s one tap on mobile and a single click on desktop. Users get annoyed by repeated confirmations. Make sessions resilient to network churn. Also, surface the device identity—like “Ben’s Pixel”—so users know which device will sign. It reduces mistakes.

I’m not 100% sure about every latency optimization—some environments will differ, and edge-case firewalls can break peer-to-peer channels. But the principles remain: keep keys on mobile, make the extension a clear and honest UI, and design for quick, explainable signing. On one hand you want power; on the other, you must keep things simple enough for newcomers. Balance that, and you win.

Finally, if you’re building or recommending a wallet extension, give users a single place to audit and revoke access. Little design choices—like showing the exact gas fees in readable units—matter more than fancy charts. If you want a simple, practical starting point for a browser-mobile pairing that works in the wild, check out trust. It was handy when I needed a no-nonsense flow that didn’t overpromise.

New upleg coming?

Dr Doom, does he ever say what you can do or what he’s doing or just all doom.

A health note on vaccines.

I thought or hoped the new shingles vaxx might be safer than the first new one that was causing shingles meaning it had the live virus I guess this one does too. They’re just not warning people when it comes to vaccines. A friend of someone I know came down with internal shingles. Worse than external shingles and causing excruciating internal pain. Luckily one of the doctors actually studied side effects and recognized it when she mentioned she just had her second shingles shot. They probably then started her on antivirals. Why are they risking live virus as the  way you can get it in a vax  especially most people who would take it will be older when their immune system isn’t like it was in it’s prime or on certain  medications.