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I would like to bring this up as it is another claim whereby certain individuals show signs of harm that are not present in the overall population. We have previously discussed this in the context of organophosphate exposure. This particular claim seems to pertain to either radiation or chemical exposure, if true. https://www.8newsnow.com/news/national-news/ohio-mom-alleges-radiation-led-to-daughters-death-sues-revived-nuclear-plant/

  AI and job loss. I just was watching some business podcasts talking about the changing landscape as AI grows. Most of these podcasts are optimistic saying that profits will grow, more creativity, how if you have tech skills you will be even be more valuable. There is even talk about a nee golden age in science and tech and there will be more job opportunities as new kinds of science fields will emerge that could not exist without AI. That being said, these same podcasts said that most advancements will be in the private sector and that academic or government are not really going to be be able to take the same advantages. Basically AI will be able to replace what are called BS jobs. Companies want to get rid of these for profit reasons but government jobs and academic jobs have no real motivation to do this. I just was watching some business podcasts talking about the changing landscape as AI grows. Most of these podcasts are optimistic saying that profits will grow, more creativi...

 This is another interesting story if anyone is following the issues previously discussed on this blog regarding aviation safety. There are evidently claims that fumes from engine oil or hydraulic fluids can enter cabin air. This could sicken the pilot or first officer, cabin crew, and also passengers, there are signs of both acute toxicity and long lasting neurological sequelae capable of leading to death. https://nypost.com/2025/09/14/us-news/pilots-crew-breathing-fumes-suffer-brain-nerve-damage-report/ Besides the New York Post article from September there is also a cover story on the Wall Street Journal, today December 22nd which goes into additional details, but is behind an internet paywall.

Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47 https://news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-loureiro-professor-director-plasma-science-and-fusion-center-dies-1216?fbclid=IwdGRzaAO1WRFjbGNrA7VXg2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHjaLv_9gTTgK1SfImjkpdwtiItKADAJr5kdnTste0KC8sD6AhjHddUDCTrgc_aem_Q2QOj1PHgVwz_loIGUE2bw

Short article from The Huffington Post: Trump Media & Technology, the parent company of Truth Social, is set to merge with TAE Technologies, a fusion power company, in an all-stock deal worth more than $6 billion. The merger would create one of the first publicly traded nuclear fusion companies in the world. Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman and the current CEO of Trump Media, will be the co-CEO of the new company, along with TAE Technologies head Michl Binderbauer. The companies aim to create the first “utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026. “Fusion power will be the most dramatic energy breakthrough since the onset of commercial nuclear energy in the 1950s,” Nunes said.  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-university-shooting-rob-reiner-death_n_693fda79e4b0775c50782f40/liveblog_69441584e4b045d9788d3d1a?origin=home-latest-news-unit

  What approach is the NNSA taking, if any, to LLNS pension “spiking” in all forms, if and when it is found? Has LLNS been audited for evidence of this practice by any other Agency? Calpers criticized for passive approach to pension 'spiking' “…Part of that law was aimed at halting spiking, the practice where workers on the eve of retirement cash out, for example, years of unused vacation and sick pay to inflate their final year's salary…” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/calpers-criticized-failing-halt-pension-203823680.html

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself. Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. The message was clear. Let ChatGPT redesign your class. Let ChatGPT tell you how to evaluate your students. Let ChatGPT tell students how to use ChatGPT. Let ChatGPT solve the problem of human education. It was like being handed a Mad Libs puzzle for automating your syllabus. Cowen has offered an even bleaker take on the modern university’s “value proposition.” “Higher education will persist as a dating service, a way of leaving the house, and a chance to party and go see some football games,” he wrote in “Everyone’s Using AI to Cheat at School. And That’s a Good Thing.” In this view, the university’s intellectual mission is already dead, replaced by credentialism, consumption, an...

  If anyone is still following the previously discussed topic of aviation safety this is an interesting video in that regard. It would seem to be a possibility that certain air traffic controllers have become radicalized and pose certain threats as a result. The video claims that by drawing attention to this, it is hoped it will be addressed in a timely manner. https://youtu.be/gS0z2GLiWkg?si=ifIwKdDedTWlC_5m

 There wasn't a post yet on this somehow, but Google's latest AI is reportedly quite a bit ahead of others in performance: https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-gemini-3-just-killed-every

I find AI slop on the internet a lot and in some submitted papers. This year I am seeing this slop for the first time the lab. It is mainly from lab managers. It is beyond obvious they are using is it. Suddenly you had managers who could barley write suddenly put out these long winded posts with fancy words that sound nothing like the manager in terms of how they to speak or write. You also see lots of weird complements that seem out of place in the writing and the topic is off or it seems like the comments on the subject matter are using weird terms. If you email some of them you get back a response in minutes that are rather long but seems to repeat what you said but adds nothing. Also if you talk to them in person about something said in the email they often do not recall, or seem confused, indicating they are not even reading the AI slop that was generated for them. On the technical side I have noticed. (1) People who I would say are rather poor scientists are now saying AI can wri...

  NYT hit piece on NNSA and Labs https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/science/brandon-williams-nuclear-weapons-nnsa.html (Apparently it is now a sign of incompetence and desperation to promote the idea of keeping nuclear secrets protected. Can somebody explain this to me?) U.S. Nuclear Arms Chief Warns Against Leaks of Secret Information The email sent to atom bomb officials by Brandon Williams highlights the managerial challenge faced by the former one-term congressman. Brandon M. Williams was just weeks into his job of supervising the nation’s arsenal of thousands of nuclear bombs and warheads when President Trump put him at the center of a storm over whether the United States should change its posture on nuclear weapons testing. Now, Mr. Williams, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, has ordered his subordinates to step up their vigilance against leaks of classified information, signaling a need to preserve the secrets that empower the world’s deadliest weapons. “...

  This is an interesting story regarding a proposal to raise radiation exposure limits in particular, for the general public in the United States, https://thebulletin.org/2025/11/trumps-new-radiation-exposure-limits-could-be-catastrophic-for-women-and-girls/

It is like a child playing with an unfamiliar toy. Now, does he understand he has a responsiblity to future generations to stick with renewables? Trump Energy department drops renewables, promotes fusion in office reshuffle   https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/trump-energy-department-drops-renewables-promotes-fusion-in-office-reshuffle/

Are Livermore Lab employee raises and retiree colas, keeping up with the CA cost of living? If not, is this impacting recruitment and retention? https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/639ba3621a72923685807b82/6914c26e40d0c8ed334f2bb5_TF_Report_CostOfLiving2025.pdf

 According to CNN, top energy and nuclear officials in the trump administration are planning to meet with the White House and National Security Council in the coming days to dissuade President Donald Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s nuclear weapons https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/nnsa-nuclear-testing-white-house-meeting-exclusive

  This critique of NASA's moon program was posted recently, presenting evidence that the program is in some ways, an expensive failure. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/nasas-orion-space-capsule-is-flaming-garbage/

  https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/what-the-fck-is-this-trump-supporters-rip-president-for-saying-there-arent-enough-talented-people-in-america/ Trump is now in some in some other hot water bout bringing foreign talent. President Donald Trump received backlash from his own supporters on Tuesday after he suggested in a disastrous Fox News interview that there were not enough talented Americans. "After Fox News host Laura Ingraham criticized H-1B visas during an Ingraham Angle interview with Trump, the president replied, “Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent.”“We have plenty of talented people here,” shot back Ingraham, to which Trump insisted, “No, you don’t.” Trump of course want to kick out migrants claiming they take American jobs, which is base loves but now he is saying we need to bring in foreign talent since we do no have enough talented people in the US. I get that there is a difference but it is hard to get around some of the contradictions. That being s...

Chris Wright, DOE secretary,  claims to have the evidence to prove that climate change isn’t dangerous.   https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/chris-wright-doe-climate-change-report/

  This is more information on the latest Chinese AI breakthroughs: https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/07/moonshot-launches-open-source-kimi-k2-thinking-ai-trillion-parameters-reasoning-capabilities/ https://youtu.be/s_YfqQ_KHYA?si=Q4uqGKeK25GvQW1y https://youtube.com/shorts/hYuATUunpIU?si=a7R8V0427mnAVVmg

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Washington has lost its edge in artificial intelligence and warns that China will win the AI race.   https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-is-going-to-win-the-ai-race-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-decries-the-price-of-electricity-in-the-us-contrasts-it-with-chinas-subsidized-pricing

  https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpd26yxxx3lo?mc_cid=0aa7388267&mc_eid=7fcce66b91 trump's planned tests are 'not nuclear explosions', US energy secretary says

  Are material HR layoffs, HR Voluntary Separation Programs (VSP), or HR hiring freezes, expected at LLNL as a result of AI expansion? Amazon layoffs loom: 15% of HR team expected to be cut as AI push accelerates https://mynorthwest.com/local/amazon-layoffs-hr-ai/4143613

  This is an interesting video, a lecture on the ills of bureaucracy. Evidently there is a valid critique that too much bureaucracy is problematic, and an associated viewpoint that many organizations have too much of it. https://youtu.be/hk_yhi3-prw?si=cWDuQNkrF3lDCw3F

  Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately' The U.S. voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing in 1992, though it has the ability to resume tests at a site in Nevada. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna240681 GYEONGJU, South Korea — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had instructed the Defense Department to “immediately” resume testing nuclear weapons. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said on Truth Social shortly before his highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. “That process will begin immediately.” The United States has voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing since 1992. However, it has the ability to resume tests at the Nevada National Security Site.

Source: The NY Post    https://nypost.com/2025/10/29/us-news/trump-orders-pentagon-to-immediately-restart-nuclear-weapons-testing-to-compete-with-russia-chinas-arsenals/

Source: The Guardian   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/trump-pentagon-us-nuclear-weapons

  LANL is now requiring chemical hazards training for anything that has an msds. Toilet paper has an msds. You can't even use the bathroom at LANL without training.

 According to this article, this could have far reaching effect on the NNSA. Quote from article: "As the government shutdown has persisted with no end in sight, NNSA has had to acknowledge that its funds are beginning to run out" Details: https://upolitics.com/news/trump-administration-furloughs-80-of-employees-at-nuclear-weapons-agency-amid-government-shutdown/

  Should the DOE/NNSA end the LLNS contract to manage LLNL on or before 2030 in favor of a non-profit contractor? Less expensive, better employee morale, more of a science and engineering focus?

  So in Los Alamos there are so many new people hired and so much construction that no one has anywhere to park. People have had to part in illegal or make shift parking spots for months now. Today they have out hundreds of tickets. I think LANL should have some parking or hire less people. On the other hand it is also know that hundreds of even thousand of people are not showing up to work. You cannot have it both ways. Some one needs to look into this. What we do at Los Alamos is serious, we need to act like a serious place to work. The buildings are falling apart, the infrastructure is horrible, and our overhead rates are insane. Something does not add up. It might be time for a contract change.

 Washington leaders are calling it a historic day, as the Hanford Vit Plant started processing radioactive waste material on Wednesday, the culmination of a years-long effort to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Site. https://youtu.be/u0WmL04NhDo?si=a6jdKd7wdeV89kaY

  https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/ensuring-continued-accountability-in-federal-hiring/  Trump on late Wednesday signed a new executive order that told agencies to restrict hiring throughout the federal government, providing some exceptions related to immigration enforcement, national and public security, and political appointees. Does this affect the labs, NNSA, DOE? 

  Heard that lab furloughs will be on the way if the shutdown lasts much longer. The question is really how long the shutdown will last. Lost of rumors (1) Until next Monday after the no Kings rally. (2) Until, Nov 1st because some other things kick in (3) Until Thanksgiving when people cannot fly and demand something. (4) Until Christmas (See 3) I have no idea but we did 35 days before so we still have some time. I am betting for 30-35 days again. Somehow the lab just seems much more nervous about this one.

  Governor Newsom just signed SB 79 into law, and it will go into effect July 1, 2026. 1. Will existing and under development, low density neighborhoods pushback in court? 2. Will the passage of SB 79 be helpful or a headwind to the expansion of ACE and other mass transit proposals and expansions throughout the Bay Area and the rest of California? Protesters rally against California Senate bill that increases housing density near transit hubs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1y9SLg-26BY&pp=ygUlY2JzIDggcHJvdGVzdGVycyByYWxseSBhZ2FpbnN0IHNlbmF0ZQ%3D%3D California ACE train expansion is coming https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7iGUZW_sqA&pp=ygUeY2FsaWZvcm5pYSBhY2UgdHJhaW4gZXhwYW5zaW9u

  American Physical Society Fellows 2025 highlights decline of NNSA labs. Worse year ever for NNSA labs LANL 1 Sandia 0 LLNL 0 Comparison ORNL 4 Fermilab 4 Brookhaven 3 LBNL 2 SLAC 1 ANL 0 PNNL 0

  California FAIR Plan seeks huge rate hike. Map shows which ZIPs hit hardest “The California FAIR Plan has proposed raising home insurance rates by an average of 35.8% starting next spring - a hike that, if approved in full, would be its largest in at least seven years.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/california-fair-plan-seeks-largest-231104839.html

 This is a very interesting claim : that a devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, could also trigger an earthquake on the San Andreas, perhaps one might suppose even affecting the entire West Coast of the United States. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-cascadia-megathrust-earthquake-trigger-san.html

On September 25, 2025, Antifa was designated as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Under the “Adjudicative Guidelines” to acquire or maintain a security clearance, this may fall under “Allegiance to the United States” as defined by the Guideline. Are Lab employees, with any past or present association with Antifa, being required to promptly update their “Questionnaire for National Security Positions” as of September 22, 2025?

 Universities are being asked to endorse Trump agenda in order to obtain priority access to funding: https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2025-10-02/university-of-arizona-among-9-colleges-trump-offered-access-to-funds-to-follow-his-agenda

  The DOE is killing a number of energy projects: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5560869/energy-trump-democrats-shutdown https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-termination-223-projects-saving-over-75-billion

  This is an interesting video, a graduate student who is angry at the government since NSF funding has been cut. In his own words, he is "pissed off" because graduate students were "blindsided" and "screwed over" by "having the rug pulled out from under them". https://youtu.be/pI83VnkV0iQ?si=rJ2GRUc4b4QQXyaE

  ABQ ( Albuquerque,NM) gets new energy lab. Pacific fusion has selected Albuquerque NM for its new $1 billion fusion research and manufacturing campus.   https://www.abqjournal.com/business/article_354dbfa4-79f6-48f4-87c2-6fda68367881.html

  Well, Trump just declared "an idea" as a terrorists threat! Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanism

  Will decreasing international students and new H1B1 visas rule cause issues at the NNSA labs. This could cripple the high tech job market and STEM research so no matter what this will directly or indirectly cause big issues at NNSA labs. Kaku sums this up. The fact is that the U.S. might be a dynamo for capital but not when it comes to what economists crudely call “human capital.” The point applies not only to immigrant workers who do jobs Americans won’t, but also those who do jobs Americans can’t, because, as physicist Michio Kaku argues above, “the United States has the worst educational system known to science.” Were it solely up to U.S. graduates, the scientific establishment and tech economy would collapse, he says, “forget about Google, forget about Silicon Valley. There would be no Silicon Valley.” Instead, U.S. science and tech thrive because of immigrants who come on H‑1B visas. https://www.statista.com/topics/13734/international-students-in-the-united-states/ https://w...

 The Dodo bird is being brought back from extinction: https://gizmodo.com/iotech-startup-claims-its-getting-closer-to-resurrecting-the-extinct-dodo-2000660052

  U.S. and Britain to sign flurry of major nuclear power deals during Trump’s state visit https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/15/trump-visit-us-and-britain-to-sign-major-new-nuclear-power-pact.html

  https://www.nature.com/nature-index/research-leaders/2025/nature-index-2025-research-leaders-united-states-losing-ground-as-chinas-lead-expands-rapidly.html Although the latest data predate the current Trump administration, observers warn that funding cuts will accelerate the rate of China’s gain. You can say what you want about Trumps cuts which are bad to science but even before Trump we have seen declining science at the labs.

  Converting Nuclear waste into tritium fuel for power plants. Research out of LANL, maybe a good project to build at the WIPP, Yucca mountain or INL. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/nuclear-waste-might-one-day-be-used-to-create-tritium-to-fuel-fusion-power-plants/4022134.article

  This is interesting, it is a NASA press conference from earlier this week discussing the rock samples which are possibly deposits from ancient microbial life on Mars: https://youtu.be/sIUqvXSSAxw?si=pJN2r06Xmjwv-mCO

  So on this blog in the past there has been a few mentions of America heading into some type of Civil war. This was usually dismissed but now even the most naive have to start thinking that something is seriously wrong. I am not sure about Civil war but some kind social break down, break up of the nation or something is looking like a real possibility. If that is the case what happens to the labs?

  Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued a statement on September 9 denying reports that the Department of Energy plans to terminate the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site in Washington state Has anyone been following this story? https://www.ans.org/news/2025-09-11/article-7360/wright-denies-reports-of-doe-plans-to-axe-hanfords-wtp/

  Video shown in House hearing appears to show a missile hitting a UAP https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mCaSBrLMLTg&pp=ygUcdmlkZW8gc2hvd24gbWlzc2lsZSBuYmMgbmV3cw%3D%3D

 According to the AP, the DOE secretary picked his own climate science review team. Scientists said this is against the law.  Inaccuracies all over the place! This is becoming commonplace in the trump regime. DOE is becoming like RFK's HHS. https://www.eenews.net/articles/scientists-slam-inaccuracies-in-doe-climate-change-report/

LLNL made a fusion breakthrough. Now, a startup company wants to make it into a power plant. https://www.fastcompany.com/91394154/a-national-lab-made-a-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-a-new-startup-wants-to-make-it-into-a-power-plant

  RFK is phasing out government support for vaccines, slowing development of possibly revolutionary cancer treatments, and harming national security and our economic prospects by weakening our defense against biological warfare and ability to respond to naturally occurring pandemics. Ironically the vaccine program "Operation Warp Speed" was perhaps the greatest achievement of Trump's first term in office. https://futurism.com/neoscope/cancer-vaccines-mrna-future https://scitechdaily.com/new-mrna-cancer-vaccine-delivers-stunning-results-sparks-universal-treatment-hopes/ https://futurism.com/neoscope/rfk-jr-cancels-cancer-vaccine-mrna

 C ould we be witnessing a shift away from the Bush/Cheney neocon era of defense privatization, including operations like Haliburton, Black Water, LANS, TRIAD, LLNS, Sandia Corporation (Lockheed) and Solutions of Sandia (Honeywell)? Do defense contractors have the best interests of shareholders or the US people in mind? Lutnick says administration considering taking stakes in defense companies Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday the president should consider stakes in companies where the U.S. adds “fundamental value.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/trump-government-companies-defense-00524433 The Trump administration is “thinking” about taking an equity stake in defense and munitions companies, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. “There’s a monstrous discussion about defense,” he said Tuesday in an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” when asked if there’s a “line” on government ownership of private companies. “I mean, Lockheed Martin makes 97 percent ...

Several people have noticed that even onsite at LANL people are smelling weed. It has been going on for about a year now. There are several pot shops in town. Hey I get it is legal and if you go to city you are now going to be smelling weed most of the time but I find it odd just where you smell it now. I have been driving on the highway with the window up and you can smell it on occasion (no it is not a skunk). You also smell it odd places like beaches, malls, airports, and hospital waiting rooms. The onsite lab times are the most odd, I guess it could be a non-smoker but someone who lives with a smoker and gets in on their cloths, or just some non LANL workers onsite on occasion. It is impressive that after legalization how much the smell is everywhere now.

 The Trump administration's efforts to "streamline" government has interrupted medical compensation claims from former US atomic-energy workers suffering from cancers and other ailments linked to their employment. https://youtu.be/e0hxNh17TSw?si=lq85V4RREVziD6LW

  More issues for troubled New Mexico lab   The government-funded Black Mesa Research Facility is currently in danger of being shut down after being hit with yet another OSHA violation. The facility, which conducts advanced scientific and technological research, was reportedly cited for several safety violations that could endanger employees. A lab simply marked "Anomalous Materials" will be required to update signage to be less vague, ensuring the safety of all personnel. An OSHA compliance safety and health officer noted, "There are large acid pits that seemingly serve no purpose with no safety railings of any kind. I dropped five clipboards down there."

 Los Alamos / White Rock power and internet outages Is it normal for this community to have constant problems with service outages for both electricity and internet?

  The DOE has released a new climate change report, going into detail about how in many aspects it may not be as serious as previously claimed: https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate.pdf https://youtu.be/r--BO8VXgnU?si=F6vvif9rMFJMZdGx

  Reducing indirect cost at LANL and LLNL: some questions. LANL is working on reducing indirect cost. Some of us have been trying to figure just where it goes. On a typical direct code the overhead rate is up to 300 percent or even more. I have no idea if this is accurate but I have heard 1/2 of the LANL staff is on indirect. If that was the case I would think overhead rates would be closer to100% not 300%. I am not sure how the budget actually breaks down. Does the mean (a) 1/2 of the indirect funding people cost three times as much as direct funding people? (b) is the 1/2 of the people on indirect not actually true and it is more like 2/3 or 3/4 of the workers are on indirect? (d) It is 50:50 but the extra money is pays for equipment, supplies, parts, vehicles, benefits and so on? Or is it some combination of these. Also it would be useful to see a plot of the overhead rates over the last 25 years. Maybe it has always been this way but it would be interesting to see if it was say...

 She went missing in June. The search continues... https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/search-missing-los-alamos-national-214723576.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMe5ygLKI7D0j1oPlhQlfy9B2KJBAnsYZTzZxviDIjYaTCZrD13og_JT91-vOuCw6wzs44g_9N-iogsyzJZc_afjKAZNuIBKVo_beS9FQRdwqExKU1FIFmt1sS9UAzT_bbgl_fVIQzH86O5N5WMK6vY6USBRGzqibvD-9icYWXzC

  New Mexico governor declares state of emergency in Rio Arriba County https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1dE1zMzaQ&pp=ygUebmV3IG1leGljbyAgc3RhdGUgb2YgZW1lcmdlbmN5

 Lawrence Livermore National Lab enters a different kind of space race with a telescope deal https://phys.org/news/2025-08-lawrence-livermore-national-lab-kind.html

Users are finding that Google's Gemini AI keeps having disturbing psychological episodes, melting down in despondent self-loathing reminiscent of Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. https://futurism.com/google-puzzled-ai-self-loathing

  https://futurism.com/chatgpt-encouraging-ritual-molech ChatGPT invented in its own litany for the devil for the user to recite. "In your name, I become my own master," ChatGPT said. "Hail Satan."

  How ‘The Great Flattening Trend’ Could Affect Your Workplace https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2025/01/24/the-great-flattening-trend-is-picking-up-steam-in-2025/

  Harvard and MIT students drop out of school due to impeding AI takeover  [They]  are abandoning school now to work full-time on preventing it from turning on humanity. https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriafeng/2025/08/06/fear-of-super-intelligent-ai-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out/

  AI systems can subliminally influence one another to share a love for owls, or a malevolent desire to kill all humans: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-models-can-secretly-influence-one-another-owls-rcna221583

  https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/radioactive-wasp-nests-at-sc-nuclear-site-raise-worries-about-possible-contamination-leaks/ Let's hope Pits work out at LANL since Savannah River is having issues. Greg Radioactive wasp nests at South Carolina nuclear weapons site raise worries about possible contamination, leaks

  Any announcements about possible LLNL “Golden Dome” funding? Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and other contractors have been mentioned so far.

  LANL plans to hire 1,000 more employees. I find this interesting as SNL was talking about a layoff and only has 11 openings, and LLNL has only 75 openings. The question is where are these 1,000 employees going to live unless there is a big group of retirements in the future and they are all moving to Phoenix or Florida. https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-northern-new-mexico/los-alamos-national-lab-announces-plans-to-hire-up-to-17000-workers/

  Should LLNL and and LANL follow Musks lead and make everyone an engineer? https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/elon-musk-bans-researcher-title-at-xai-says-only-engineers-welcome/articleshow/123013891.cms?from=mdr Elon Musk has ordered the immediate removal of the job title 'researcher' at xAI, insisting that all technical staff be called 'engineers'. The change followed a public correction of an employee’s job post on X. Musk said the term was outdated and encouraged a false division of roles. Meanwhile, Meta is testing AI-enabled interviews, letting candidates use AI tools during assessments. Both moves highlight how major tech companies are redrawing the boundaries of what it means to work in AI.