Truthfully - What?

Feeling that one in my bones right now. Why yes brain, you do want to second guess everything

That makes sense, but I'm sceptical of most measures of value beyond individual benefit when we focus on the specifics of generative capability. So much is being layered in to backfill for anything that requires certainty

Interesting one, thank you. I'm seeing a disillusionment ratchet effect in part caused by AGI and full automating being promised every funding round since ChatGPT was fired out. It is starting to feel a lot like full self driving if we wind back to the first year Musk said it would be next year

I'm trying to understand what the true state of generative AI adoption is for organisations outside of LinkedIn and X AI bubbles. It is honestly tough to find anything that mirrors my observed reality in much published and promoted.

What folk forget about aspirations of replacing humans: Folk pay other folk to take accountability. Not sure how that is going to go with checking AI homework

Where does a use mandate plus overconfidence in output lead?

Spent the day watching tech world tides start to turn on recent events

'I'm with Jeff' (Jeff Dean, Google DeepMind) is becoming quite the thing. My voice is tiny, so watching and pattern matching

So many damaging fronts some are firefighting right now. I hope they enjoy Melania the movie

Trump administration's posts echo rhetoric linked to extremist groups Just weeks into the new year, the Trump administration has rolled out a campaign across departments that draws on images and ideas borrowed from right-wing and white nationalist circles. Liz Landers r...

It is hard not to see the pattern. Which does beg the question: Who are these government accounts trying to appeal to?

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Austria ditch 'L'amour toujours' song over far-right misuse The Austrian FA (OEFB) will no longer use the song 'L'amour toujours' when the national team plays as it has been misused by far-right sympathisers, the country's media reported on Friday.

There is a P.S. or two for our penguin friend. Often paired with the song 'L'Amour Toujours' which has a nasty history of use in some circles
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From the Know Your Meme article in prior post - Penguin Walking Toward Mountain or Nihilist Penguin, also known as Lonely Penguin, Wandering Penguin or Werner Herzog's Deranged Penguin, refers to a viral video originally from the 2007 Antarctica nature documentary Encounters at the End of the World by filmmaker Werner Herzog, which features a lone penguin disoriented and heading toward the interior of the Antarctic continent to its certain death. The clip initially garnered attention online as early as 2010, spreading over the following years. Then, in early 2026, the clip of the bird became a prevalent meme and source for edits on TikTok and Instagram, typically paired with a pipe organ cover of Gigi D'Agostino's Eurodance song "L'Amour Toujours," specifically a performance of it by German organist Andreas Gärtner. The combination of the somber, religious-sounding music and the penguin's stoic march into oblivion is commonly used in memes with text captions to express feelings of existential dread and giving up, or the urge to abandon society.

The TL;DR on the penguin meme

We could try to turn the 'Penguins live in the Antarctic - duh' and farce of the US Gov attaching Greenland policy to a suicidal mission rejecting societal cohesion, but maybe just watch what good folks are doing for others right now /END

Penguin Walking Toward Mountain / Nihilist Penguin | Know Your Meme Penguin Walking Toward Mountain or Nihilist Penguin, also known as Lonely Penguin, Wandering Penguin or Werner Herzog’s Deranged Penguin, refers to a viral

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X post from the White Hous account with text "Embrace the Penguins" with an image showing Donald Trump walking in a snowy landscape with mountains in the distance with a Greenland flag off the the left ahead of them. The penguin is holding an American flag. Posted Jan 23 2026z 24.5m views at time of capture

X post from the Department of War rapid response account with the text "Be a warrior, embrace the penguins" with an image of 5 uniformed men from different branches of the US military walking in a line in a snowing landscape with a penguin in the middle of the line up holding hands with a service member. They are walking away from the camera towards mountains in the distance Posted Jan 24th 2026. 1m views at time of capture

Meanwhile, what is the official US government messaging today?

Nihilist penguins marching away from peers towards almost certain death - it references memes based on Werner Herzog's 2007 documentary 'Encounters at the End of the World'

Surface purpose is Greenland purchase / annexation propaganda

Clergy arrested, businesses shutter in Minnesota Police arrested dozens of clergy members who sang hymns and prayed as part of a day of protests against Trump’s immigration enforcement operations.

The world watching state reactions to the protests - Australia here - you would frankly not know this had happened in other social media silos www.afr.com/world/north-...

Had no intention of putting these threads together, but the sheer level of performative cruelty and ineptitude is overwhelming

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Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

When the centre doesn't hold - reactions to orders to investigate the people impacted to find ways to justify actions vs the cause of harm www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

After the shooting in Minneapolis, majorities of Americans view ICE unfavorably and support major changes to the agency | YouGov A majority (53%) of Americans say that the ICE agent was not justified in shooting Renee Good. Only 28% say the shooting was justified.

What happens if you identify with people being attacked...

... it causes a policy and messaging headache

When it is mission and messaging discipline uber alles, visible impact has to be spun

Renee Nicole Good - Domestic terrorist? today.yougov.com/politics/art...

What is 'ordo amoris?' Vice President JD Vance invokes this medieval Catholic concept Vice President JD Vance recently cited medieval Catholic theology in justifying the immigration crackdown under President Donald Trump.

On that guy twisting Catholic doctrine into pretzel shapes to add religious veneer to immigration policy enforcement - collecting sanctions from Popes

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Elon Musk and the Christian right call empathy MAGA demonizes empathy as the

On the pathologising of empathy as a toxic trait www.salon.com/2025/04/11/m...

Thousands brave bitter cold to demand ICE leave Minneapolis On a day that started with temperatures as low as minus 20 Fahrenheit (minus 29 Celsius), organizers said as many as 50,000 people took to the streets to demand an end to Trump's immigration crackdown...

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Two women, detained by ICE, say they helped agent having seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

We will see people turning up for their neighbours and communities during this storm like they have with government overreach. Folk will use the word heartwarming for one of them.

It Is hard to beat that compassion out of people, but Miller and co try

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MN women nurse the ICE agent who detained them through a series of siezures. Reportedly acutely aware they may not receive the same treatment if roles were reversed

That cuts to the quick. Empathy and compassion have been cast as things to stamp out - if applied to people you disagree with

DHS pauses cuts to FEMA as massive winter storm barrels in On Thursday night, the Department of Homeland Security’s head of human resources sent an email saying FEMA decided that the agency would halt their process of non-renewing dozens of federally funded e...

Crises / enemies concocted to pretext this mess don't prepare people for real challenges www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

FEMA is getting rid of thousands of workers in areas recovering from disasters Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency.

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FEMA told to ban the word 'ice' during massive winter storm to avoid memes: report Homeland Security authorities were reportedly telling the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday not to use the word "ice" in its public messaging as a monster storm was expected to hit the Uni...

It is almost like facts trump messaging and reality trumps loyalty tests - Noem also had to halt offboarding the 41% of FEMA staff they planned to axe.

Hoping everyone impacted survives this clown show. www.rawstory.com/ice-storm-me...

DHS apparently warning people not to use the word Ice when talking about winter storm response

They want to avoid the memes

Unusual for Noem to put optics ahead of doing the job

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

It's all about the oil. But the world doesn't need Venezuelan oil right now.

FT headline screenshot taken 9.45am GMT 3rd January 2026: FT Live News - Donald Trump launches attack on Venezuela - image of fires and smoke in a wide shot of Caracas Editor's picks The Weekend Essay How the bubble bursts

FT Tech headline screenshot taken 9.46am 3rd January 2025 SpaceX, OpenAl and Anthropic prepare to launch landmark IPOs Three biggest US private tech groups plan listings as early as this year, raising hopes of windfall for banks, lawyers and investors

FT headline collision when swiping left in an international WTH moment

Kinda underlines the bubble dynamics. Banking on stability to build despite constant disruption, and facing power acquisition reality whether utility supply or political

Thanks Dave. It is big on X in feeds I monitor. I sensed there must be seeds of truth in there being used to blow this up. Seems a cyclical dander through opposition research, then chasing whatever influencers gift traction when a distracting rallying cry is needed

Embarrassing Redaction Failures Judge Dixon revisits the subject of redaction failures, which he previously wrote about in 2009 and 2011. He concludes that embarrassing redaction failures are as certain as death and taxes.

If so not the first time - 2019 from the American Bar Association

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