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Month: November 2025

The Internet’s Horrible, Terrible, Very Bad Day.

The Internet’s Horrible, Terrible, Very Bad Day.

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It was just another Tuesday, until it wasn’t. 20% of the internet vanished in a heartbeat, all because Cloudflare, “which is supposed to protect the internet from attacks, accidentally “attacked” itself… when a  routine configuration change (database permission update) triggered a hidden bug in its bot protection system, and in an instant, this “gatekeeper” locked everyone out,” Bitget reported.

It’s not the first major outage we’ve witnessed in the past few months. “Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet,” said Futurism. “Apps and platforms relying on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing service, were in a jam… in a striking example of how infrastructure consolidation makes the modern internet vulnerable to a failure by a single major provider.”

And this keeps happening. Days after AWS went dark Microsoft Azure experienced a major outage. “Cisco’s network monitoring service has logged 12 major outages in 2025 so far, 23 in 2024 and 13 in 2023. Cloud service provider outages climbed from 17% to 27% of all outages in 2024, while ISP outages decreased from 83% to 73%,” the Times of India reported. Read More...

Limbic Capitalism and the Age of AI

Limbic Capitalism and the Age of AI

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With AI advancing at breakneck speeds – 11% of the global population are using it – the real question is: is it fast approaching the point where we’re crossing the Rubicon and reaching the point of no return? Let’s be honest, we live in an age of limbic capitalism,  greatly accelerated by the Age of Social, and now AI. Limbic capitalism, according to danieldashnawcouplestherapy.com “refers to a system where businesses exploit human psychology, particularly the limbic system, to encourage excessive consumption and addiction. This concept highlights how modern capitalism increasingly targets emotional and psychological aspects of human behavior to maximize consumer engagement and spending. This practice involves more than just creating addictive products; it involves engineering environments, behaviors, and economies that trap both consumers and employees in cycles of dependence and harm.” And isn’t this the apotheosis of AI, especially when it comes to  LLMs?

Consider: says Futurism, “People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners. Case in point, new research published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans reveals the startling depths some users are plumbing in their relationships with AI chatbots.

“The level of romantic dedication people showed to their bots was startling, to say the least. Many participants told the researchers they were in love with their chatbot, which often involved roleplaying marriage, sex, homeownership, and even pregnancies. Read More...

What Escapes People about Holiday Networking Events

What Escapes People about Holiday Networking Events

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The holiday season is fast approaching, a season of joy for some, and depression for others. One of the key problems: loneliness. Dating apps have evolved from merely swiping left/right. AI matchmaking elements have been added as product enhancements, and curious what the results will prove to be over time, as we’re not quite convinced that an algorithm is capable of understanding human emotions on a granular level, and isn’t love part of the equation when looking for a life mate? Yes, you can check all of the boxes, but what a person wants and what they need are often two quite different things, trust us.

We’ve introduced nearly two dozen couples over the years, who would never have met otherwise. In most cases, the parties rejected our choices after the first meeting, yet did indeed marry, in most cases due to in no small part to trickery on our part. We will also mention that none of the pairings ended in divorce. Superconnectors like Yours Truly assess things differently.

Here’s something else to consider: tis the season of holiday movies and holiday parties. As to the first, here’s Your Complete 2025 Holiday TV Schedule — Hallmark, Netflix, Disney+, Lifetime And More. Holiday films are primarily about people finding their life partners in unlikely places and under unlikely circumstances. Case in point: our favorite holiday movie, Die Hard. Read More...

His Shift on Climate Change Aside, Is Bill Gates Just Warming Up?

His Shift on Climate Change Aside, Is Bill Gates Just Warming Up?

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“In 2021, Random House published a book by software tycoon Bill Gates titled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The message was clear: The world is heading toward a climate catastrophe if humans keep using fossil fuels. Everyone in the world had been hearing that message loud and clear for the previous two decades, and Gates, who’s been moonlighting as a climate expert for just as long, was not only one of the loudest voices to broadcast it, but someone who had put piles of money where his mouth was,” The New American reports. Now Gates says that there’s no disaster on the horizon. “Climate change is not the biggest threat to the lives and livelihoods of people in poor countries, and it won’t be in the future,” Gates announced this week on his personal blog, GatesNotes.”

Common Core

Many were up in arms about the Microsoft founder’s seeming ‘Come to Jesus moment,’ but we will remind you that in retrospect, Gates is often wrong. Case in point: Common Core, another Gates- backed project that was going to revolutionize education and on which the government spent trillions to implement. Well, “The Results Are In: Common Core is An All-Around Failure,” says the National Association of Scholars (NAS). “It will leave students ignorant not only of literature and history, but even the ability to read, write, and sum. All the emphasis on ‘skills’ is useless without rigorous standards and challenging content matter. Our students will know every way to add two plus two, and they’ll come up with a different answer each time.”

In fact, NAS “tested the first three years of schoolchildren entirely educated by the Common Core—and their test scores have fallen steadily.”  “Even Bill Gates Tacitly Admits His Common Core Experiment Was A Failure,” says The Federalist. At a cost of $4T to taxpayers, what to speak of the price students paid. Read More...