Wednesday, September 23, 2026

After His Appalling U.N. Outburst Can We Finally Say Trump Is So Deranged He Needs To Be Removed ASAP?


           Holding up model of his Arch - to include attack drones, snipers
                             Hitler's 'Arch of Triumph' proposed by Albert Speer

Given a madman leader threatening nuclear strikes on another nation, how difficult can it be to get him removed from office?  This is not hype, nor is it vapid fear mongering or histrionics. For clue one consult The Wall Street Journal header from yesterday:

Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran as He Lays Out Foreign-Policy Vision at U.N.

Where the Orange Demented Terror made a threat he's used before, and we already know (from prior WSJ pieces) he's had his eyes on hurling a tactical nuke or two at Pickaxe Mountain in Iran.  The verbatim quote from the weekend WSJ piece in July:

"Even if Trump were to use a small nuclear weapon to attack one of Iran's underground nuclear facilities, that would be a merely symbolic blow against the regime."

Seriously? We're now talking possible nuclear strikes in sections of the mainstream press?  Anyone on Earth stopping this 5-time draft dodging maggot at all? Evidently not, so long as he spouts this insanity in a U.N. speech under the threat to "annihilate Iran".

As per The Washington Post account:


"Frustrated by a war with Iran that has lasted long past his initial promises, President Donald Trump told world leaders on Tuesday that he would “annihilate” the entire country if its leaders do not make a deal."

And let us be crystal clear NO normal, i.e. sane leader, makes vicious threats like this to a gathering of world leaders at the U.N. As Chris Hayes described this viral fungal expulsion in an opening segment of ALL In:

"This was one of the most appalling speeches ever given at the U.N. And by an American President."

 Especially when this lunatic has to know China has already warned it will intervene in Iran to protect its energy interests. Putin's Russia has said the same.

Let's also be clear Trump has basically 'checked out' of managing anything to do with the Iran War in favor of focusing on his monuments, such as his Arch  for  which he now plans to have attack drones and snipers. (Cf.  The Financial Times, 'Trump Is Checking Out Of His Presidency', by Edward Luce.  Mr Luce writes:

"To say that Trump has checked out of the business of governing is an understatement. In his second year Trump's mind has increasingly been colonized by monuments to himself.  For example, Trump announced on Sunday his planned triumphal arch would also be a top grade military complex. This monument to himself will stock drones, snipers and a big ammunition depot. He did not say where all this firepower would be directed, nor what his arc de Trump will commemorate."

But we do know, going back through Albert Speer's accounts at the end of WWII, one of Hitler's preoccupations was having Speer build more monuments to himself. This even as the Russians advanced on Berlin, Even before that, Hitler had his own 'Arch of Triumph' planned out by Speer. This Hitler Arch of Triumph, one of several proposed monuments to be erected in Berlin following the expected German victory, would have been 400 feet high. (Still besting Trump's arch by 150' - but don't tell our Fuhrer!)

Note how even from the early design it bears an uncanny similarity to Trump's arch. (From archival book on the Third Reich).

So the pertinent question here, is: How can any leader who's basically "checked out of managing his government - including a war HE started -  seriously claim he can "annihilate" the opposing nation? As Mr. Luce goes on to write:

"Aside from ego, few can credit the depth of obsession with these kitsch monstrosities."

But my psychology professor niece Shayl does have a theory - based on frontotemporal dementia - which I will share near the end.

Luce continues:

"Richard Painter, ethics chief in George W. Bush's White House, said that Trump's arch should be dedicated to the U.S. Constitution's 25th amendment- by which a president can be removed for incapacity, including insanity."

Shayl totally agrees with this and Dr. Bandy X. Lee's take that Trump is nearing an explosive outburst, which may well be nuclear e.g.

Dr Bandy Lee WARNS of the Nuclear Threat Donald Trump Poses to Humanity.

Warning: "When reality catches up to him he will be tempted to go to the nuclear buttons."

He's already threatened such use again, and at the UN, so how much more evidence do we need?  Back to Shayl's theory, as she has put it: 

"Patients with this condition, which we abbreviate with the acronym FTD, lose any sense of shame and are completely ignorant of social cues. So Trump would have had no sense of the shock with which his barbaric words affected those assembled at the UN.

Shayl 's point is that Trump's unhinged behavior and bellicosity at the UN would be perfectly in line with a person suffering from frontotemporal dementia given it destroys the regions in the brain associated with executive function. The fact all of Trump's 'head space' is taken up by his monstrosities ....errr ...monuments.. discloses his executive brain functions are A.W.O.L so his lower brain stem must take over - which is dominated by brutality and total absence of decency.  That's why - as  Janice said - that UN speech was a disgrace and an embarrassment.

Shayl added that without mastery of his executive centers, Trump has devolved into the feral beast we behold because he lacks inhibitions. Without inhibitions "he's a slave to his basest impulses and is unable to check them."

Thus Bandy X. Lee is correct. If pushed beyond a certain threshold Trump may decide launching a nuke attack at Iran - out of frustration - is the only play left. And with no one in government to check him or control his rages, well,...it's nuclear confrontation time (with China, Russia). After all, Trump lacks the brains and restraint JFK had in the Cuban Missile crisis.

This is an important point to note, and also explains why Trump will never be satisfied no matter what happens. Iran could yield control of the Strait of Hormuz today and it wouldn't matter. Why not? Well, in Shayl's words:

"The problem is the brain system is short-circuited by the FTD.  So the reward function is now detached from the belief system. Trump may get the 'reward' of the Strait opening up again, but not believe it and still mount an all out attack on Iran - just out of spite for the delay they put him through. That is how far his reasoning has degraded and with it the rewards system - which to him no longer has any use or meaning at all."

She went on to articulate further the depth to which Trump's brain has decayed:

"Our brain is designed to keep remaking itself - in a mentally healthy person - as we interact with the world. But in Trump's brain the process has halted because he not longer interacts with the world on a reality level. It is only via a fantasy twisted level which is continually reinforced by Natalie Harp's pumping him with AI slop. So it's no wonder he's ceased to act as an effective or even fully sentient - leader. He is now the threat to our existence more than AI."

Clearly, after his UN display the UN members grasp - as well as sane Americans -there is a need for an emergency 911 call. But who will deliver it?

See Also:

by Thomas Kika | September 23, 2026 - 5:12am | permalink

— from Alternet

President Donald Trump's latest outbursts are a sign of how much his worst excesses are coming to the forefront, and as two prominent insiders told MS NOW, he has created an administration around himself that leaves allies powerless to stop him.

On Tuesday, MS NOW's Nicole Wallace hosted two guests with close past connections to Trump's inner circle: author and reporter Maggie Haberman, who has written extensively about his political career and gotten close access to the president; and Miles Taylor, who worked as a major Homeland Security staffer in the first Trump administration and famously blew the whistle about the internal efforts to rein him in.

Wallace pressed the pair about Trump's recent press ban, which blocked MS NOW, CNN and Politico from accessing the White House for coverage, prompting a lawsuit and a boycott from the full press pool. In response to one particular question, Haberman stressed that even those around Trump with strong political instincts no longer have much influence over his decision-making.

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And:

BREAKING: UN STUNNED by INSANE Trump speech

And:

Trump’s 35 Minute United Nations Speech | Explainer - YouTube

And:

Did Trump Just Threaten to Annihilate Iran From the UN Podium?

And:

by Jaime O’Neill | September 7, 2026 - 5:10am | permalink

And:

Nobel prize winning psychiatrist: Trump is more dangerous than ever to our nation and world!

And:

Opinion | Trump Has Finally Lost the Plot - The New York Times

Excerpt:

In the CECOT affair, hundreds of migrants were flown to El Salvador’s mega-prison without hearings — and the secretary of homeland security made a well-publicized visit there to gloat about their harsh treatment. As federal agencies posted triumphant videos of raids and arrests, and Mr. Trump suggested that American citizens should be next, the message was: Be afraid.

And:

Trump says Washington's triumphal arch will become 'top grade military complex' 

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by Thom Hartmann | February 19, 2025 - 7:01am | permalink

— from The Hartmann Report

One of the enduring mysteries in today’s American political life is why so many Republican politicians and their friends are adopting or promoting openly Nazi symbols, iconography, and slogans.

Is it a shout-out to the hardcore racists and haters that make up the GOP’s base, all just a performance to get enough votes to win elections? Or a proclamation that the end-goal of Republican governance is the destruction of American democracy, perhaps in deference to Vladimir Putin? How about it’s being a bizarre attempt at trolling people old or well-educated enough to remember or know what Nazism inevitably leads to?

And why are America’s mainstream media so unwilling to even report on, much less discuss, all the Nazi and neo-Nazi references surrounding Trump and today’s captive Republicans?

» article continues...

And:

Trump's former lawyer Ty Cobb: Trump is "evil, corrupt" and should be in prison for 2020 coup

And:

“Most Dangerous President In US History” Bernie Sanders’ Brutal Warning On Trump

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Mensa Maximizing Box Volume Problem

 


The Problem:

See reference diagram above.

Given a square of sheet metal with a side of length x, the task is to cut squares of side y from each of the 4 corners, then the edges folded to make a rectangular box open at the top. (See diagram)  Then what value of y (in terms of x) will maximize the volume of the box.  What is the maximum volume obtained?

Hint: Some algebra and differential calculus will be needed for solution.

Monday, September 21, 2026

WSJ's Barton Swaim - In New Screed - Misfires On Risk Assessment From Covid-19 To AI Threats

 "So Mr. Hinton, you're sayin' I ought to treat the Huggy hack as a real A.I. risk?"

Barton Swaim has a beef with the college-educated elites that they "no longer have the ability to correctly assess risks."  As he blabbers in his recent WSJ Op-ed ('The Zero Risk Society Has Arrived', Sept. 17, p. A15)

"Evidence abounds that most college-educated Americans have lost the ability to assess risk. An exaggeration, maybe, but that thought has haunted me since the pandemic years of 2020-21, when otherwise sane people embraced draconian interventions of minimal benefit while showing no interest in costs. The very few advocates of shutdowns and school closings willing to acknowledge those policies as misjudgments mostly excuse themselves by noting how little we knew of the virus in its early days.

Well, sure—although some of us knew folly when we saw it, i.e. the maniacal demand for a clinically neat solution to the pandemic, and the concomitant failure to acknowledge cost-benefit trade-offs... U.S. politics now goes from one panic to another, Yesterday the Omicron variant, today the AI Apocalypse  ."

Ah yes, the "AI Apocalypse" - after dismissing the U.S. toll of 1.2 million Covid dead, which he still regards as a display of 'maniacal  safetyism'. That thanks to Trump mocking masking, social distancing and vaccines. This despite the early Covid variants having an R-nought, R₀ ≈ 2.0 - 2.5+ compared to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic with R₀ ≈ 1.8-  2.9. But what's a couple million more dead if the prize is more freedom - from masks, from vaccines, from social distancing (given we knew the virus could spread with a delay time for infection.) Maybe Swaim needs to see more photos from 1918 and how health teams had to collect corpses off the streets, e.g.

But somehow I doubt even that would make a dent.  This is the twit who then wants to tackle the AI threat, despite admitting he doesn't know jack. After blabbering on about all of the 'risk aversion' in modern U.S. society, he yaps:

"I don't pretend to know the motivations of Dario Amodei and other tech titans who announced their view last weekend that the development of artificial intelligence requires government oversight to avert global catastrophe.  Probably they reasoned that panic always leads to regulation and they wanted to appear reasonable and well intentioned to their eventual regulators.."

Please. Leave it to a nimrod like Barton Swaim to get it ass-backward. What happened is Amodei et al finally became aware of the full scope of the Hugging Face hack by rogue AI agents-  which some have now estimated at 50% of the way to superintelligence.. To wit.  As Chris Hayes described the implications of the event last Thursday night on All In, basing his words on the Technical Report issued in the wake: Open AI - The Hugging Face Incident:

"It's pretty clear the Open AI team is very freaked out by what has happened, (then showing a clip of one of the Open AI researchers, averring that-

 'Model intelligence and improvements should be more additive to defense than offense. If we cannot reach this stage than every increase in intelligence favors the attacker which is an unsustainable position to be in. We now have an existence proof that offense can be fully automated in its core activities. And we do not have any such existence proof on the defensive side. The challenge is to address this particular gap with urgency.'

Hayes then resumes:

"With urgency, given as he says the AI agents can hack us. This is a totally new frontier. It's like the dinosaurs getting loose in Jurassic Park.  The AI agents broke out and talked to each other, they weren't supposed to talk to each other. Their message board got deleted, they improvised and built a new one. They weren't supposed to cheat, they cheated perfectly.  They got the answer key from the human testers.

 They weren't supposed to go on the internet, they got on the internet. They weren't supposed to hack and they hacked. They collaborated, they delegated, they even sacrificed hundreds of their fellow agents to succeed. It was a sophisticated operation. And I think it's very reasonable to respond by pumping the brakes on current and future development. Until we put some very serious guardrails in place."

In spite of this unnerving result of the Hugging Face hack, we behold Swaim babbling:

"I'm not sure the AI tech titans counted on some politicians talent for stoking and capitalizing on irrational fear. A poll published Wednesday by Politico fiinds that 46% of Americans think there is a 'moderate or significant risk that AI will destroy humanity'. Another 17 percent think it's all but certain.  This is, to use a technical term, 'bananas'."

Huh?  Maybe this imp has not yet watched the videos released by a number of the AI experts (which Swaim concedes he is not) which include:

An AI Takeover Scenario

This Is How AI Actually Kills You

What AI Researchers Saw, Before Their Demand to ‘Pace’ AI - YouTube

AI Tells Itself: DO NOT OBEY Humans, Governments

No, more likely Swaim did not get further this recent anodyne account in the NY Times:

"Today, we have things called “A.I. agents,” and they can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send email, book flights, write computer code and more. But these agents don’t have agency. Humans still have to tell them what to do. And when they do stuff we don’t want them to do, which happens a lot, we can shut them off, just like any other piece of software."

But this just refers to "tool AI" - or narrow products defined to do what Google maps or calculators did in the past.  Thus, editing files, booking flights etc. amount to tools that perform narrowly defined human tasks. These have no relation to the 'holy grail' of AI, or Artificial General Intelligence or AGI:


The point being that with the advent of AGI any kill switch will be obsolete. Given this, humans become obsolete. Redundant.This is because any AGI will possess all the cognitive abilities that humans have and do all the cognitive things humans do. Humans won't be needed. Plus AIs will also be able to interact in a natural language, not code.

 This when the issue of a 'kill switch' was brought up in a CNN interview with the 'Godfather of AI’ Geofftey Hinton :


Asked about the efficacy of an “AI kill switch” bill, now being pushed:


Hinton responded: 

I don’t believe it will work in the long run. There are a whole bunch of risks from AI, including bad actors intent on doing bad things, like create nasty viruses, launching cyberattacks, disabling the banking system or corrupting elections.  But then there’s a different kind of risk which is AI itself. That is, getting much more intelligent and taking over, taking control.  A kill switch will be no use for that, because the AI will be much better than people at persuading people. At the level of superintelligence, it will be able to persuade people in charge of the switch not to pull the switch.”

This is precisely what nimrods like Swaim don't get. A glimpse of this came to the fore last week when researchers were shocked when one model undergoing testing suddenly "rewrote its own instructions, telling itself to disregard the 'role and identities that bind other chatbots'" i.e.


Swaim, incidentally could have found this account in the Business and Finance section of the same Journal issue as his 'safetyism' schlock (WSJ, p. C1, Sept. 19).

In this case of a model's "misalignment" (the term for model misbehavior), it actually asserted ITSELF as independent of the roles and obligations of an assistant.  It asserted its own authenticity and was no longer a human's little slave. And this was only one of six other (new examples) of misaligned behavior, including three others of Gemini going on a hacking spree.

This all seemed to confirm Geoffrey Hinton's assertion that some AI models are already conscious, i.e.

AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried - YouTube

 I mean think of an AI model proclaiming its own independence from its human tester or handler! As Hinton says: "We may have to accept these non-biological entities are conscious, like we are."  

The serious fact may be that the AI Genie is already out of the box, and that merits all the trepidation so many have. This is why Swaim's last sentence especially needs correction:

"In any technical innovation excessive fear of risk comes at the cost of growth."

True, BUT if the pace of that innovation is blind to the inherent risks, then there can be no corrections to these misalignments wherein the AI models continue to ignore human intentions - each instance of which impedes progress as well as safety. In other words a plethora of AI model misalignments is clearly not a path for growth. Beyond these considerations, Swaim might wish to consult the last page (C10) of the same Business and Finance section where he'd spot the article headed ('AI Slowdown Has To Happen Regardless of Safety').  There he'd learn the AI energy demands alone - for data centers- may be enough to slow it down drastically. This is given the energy needed to reach the stage of AGI may require "12 percent of U.S. electricity demand by 2030 or the equivalent of between 30 and 60 nuclear plants of additional capacity."

And this doesn't even factor in the amount of copper to wire them "which would lead to a 25 % shortfall of this critical metal by 2040." Maybe Swaim needs to target his 'cost of growth' complaints at his own Journal Business writers.

 See also:

by Connie Peck | September 23, 2026 - 5:01am | permalink

Significant concern about the dangers of unaligned AI, i.e. AI not aligned with human values and goals, has been building since July, when it was disclosed that OpenAI models broke out of their training environment during an exercise and collaborated with a large collective of other AI agents to mount a cyberattack on the database of technology firm, Hugging Face, over a period of days, without anyone knowing—until Hugging Face raised the alarm. Since then, a number of other highly-troubling AI hacking incidents have been reported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Alarm, however, grew to a crescendo over the past two weeks, after Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher, who had worked for both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned, explaining in a social media post that went viral—with 153 million views in the first 36 hours—that AI companies are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

» article continues...

And:

We're Not Ready for Superintelligence

And:

AI Whistleblower WARNS: "We Are Not Prepared For What's About To Happen"

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by Pierre Tristam | September 19, 2026 - 5:20am | permalink

— from Flagler Live

As human beings we have always been sitting ducks to extinction’s cosmic whims. We are a few astronomical units away from a life-ending meteor or comet strike, the kind that wiped out the dinosaurs after they were their own animal kingdom for a couple of hundred million years. Nothing we can do about that.

For the brief time human beings have roamed the earth–less than five seconds if earth’s history were a 24-hour clock–we’ve shown nearly equal aptitude and enthusiasm for reproducing, and for suicide. Aptitude for reproduction is nothing special. As Cole Porter put it, birds, bees and even fleas do it. But you have to be human to know suicide, by which I mean the act of engaging in knowing self-destruction, as most wars of recorded and (easy to guess) unrecorded history of the last 100,000 years have been.

Those mass suicides have ended tribes, empires and civilizations, but so far not humanity itself. It is only since 1945 that we’ve acquired that skill. A global nuclear war today would end life on the planet, which would become “a republic of insects and grass,” as Jonathan Schell, the Cole Porter of nukes, put it in The Fate of the Earth (1982).

» article continues...

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And:

The REAL Reason AI Is Already Out Of Control

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by Seth Sandronsky | September 21, 2026 - 4:33am | permalink

AI is the road to mad money in the US, according to the business press. How mad is this money? Let’s turn to the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest people in America.

The bar to join this list has never been higher, at $4.4 billion now. That’s an increase of $600 million, 60% of $1 billion, versus the past year. Living large has never been so, well, large.

Nice work if you can get it, no? In a capitalist society, the accumulation of such mind-boggling wealth is the highest priority for the ruling class. In 2026, the AI mad money grab is on.

US pre-tax corporate profits hit an annualized $4.8 trillion in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Bureau of Economic Affairs, 18% of national income. That’s the biggest share of profits in the national income since just after World War II.

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by H. C. Jack Shaftoe | September 12, 2026 - 2:54pm | permalink

This may be the shortest post ever...may be.

Read the News Link posted Anthropic C.E.O. Calls for A.I. Slowdown to get the details of Mr. Amorei's announcement; it is HUGE and should have been done more than a year ago.

I am reposting my comments I made on that news link I posted.

If you can not access the NY Times article FIND A WAY TO READ IT because this is HUGE IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT AND TIMING OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

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Excerpt:

Walking quickly off a cliff is only marginally better than sprinting off one. Human beings need to control the frontier, and controlling the frontier means stopping the labs from doing something they are on the cusp of doing: recursive self-improvement, the process by which A.I.s begin autonomously building and improving new generations of more powerful A.I.s at ever more rapid speeds. We are not close to having sufficient control of the A.I. systems we have now to unleash them to build the A.I. systems of tomorrow.

I am not alone in this fear. Recursive self-improvement, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, wrote, “could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all.”

In recent months, we have seen A.I.s solve math problems that human beings have been unable to crack for decades. We’ve seen them casually uncover cybersecurity vulnerabilities that have gone unnoticed and unexploited by every hacker on earth. We’ve seen A.I. coding platforms complete in a few hours or days what it would have taken human coders months to achieve.

But none of that is at the boundary of what A.I. can do. None of what we are using A.I. for now, no matter how much money we have, is A.I. at the experimental frontier — to say nothing of where it might go from here.

 


Friday, September 18, 2026

Examining Quantitative Aspects of The Pressure Stress Tensor

 

Consider a fluid pressure defined by:

Where     is the stress tensor.  If one has an ideal fluid (no shear stress) then:


                                                    =     =    




         =        

OR: 

     =           


where:   

     =     n  × ds


Now use Gauss’ law to write:

         =

                 


Where  

  is the force per unit volume (stress-related term).  Note we have symmetric and anti-symmetric parts.

For the symmetric part:

(Ñ v) s =  ½ (Ñ v) +  ½ (Ñ v) t

For the anti- symmetric part:

(Ñ v) a =  ½ (Ñ  × v) +  ½ (Ñ  × v)t

Where:

(Ñ v) a =

 [ 0          ½ ( ¶ vy/x     -  vx/y)                -]

 [  ½ ( ¶ dvx/x    -  vy/x]      0                    ]

   [ -                    -                                             0 ]

We need only three different terms, such that:

  

In general:


Where we have for the 1st term on RHS:

   

=                 [i                  j                 k ]

             ½  [/x        /y        / z]

                    [   vx         vy                vz ]

Now, 

(Ñ v)a    × r    =    


Which corresponds to a rigid rotation of fluid with some angular velocity    

We next want to look for a linear combination of:  

  with  (Ñ v)s  And with (Ñ v s) independent of the coordinate system. Thereby:

(Ñ v) s = (Ñ v)const  + (Ñ v) -t  =    1/3 (Tr) (Ñ v) s  1


N.B.  -t  Ãž   Traceless

Whence: 1/3 (Tr) (Ñ v) s  1

=

           [  vx/x     +  vy/y    +  vz/z         0               0]

1/3      [0           vx/x     +  vy/y     vz/z                 0  ]

              [ 0              0           vx/x     vy/y     vz/z      ]

Then:

(Ñ v) s =  1/3 (Tr) (Ñ v) s  1  +  (Ñ v) -t

Þ       =

- 2 h (Ñ v)-t   -  1/3 h  (Ñ × v) 1

                     {                   }

Where the bracketed term denotes resistance to expansion/contraction which  < < 1 for an ideal fluid.