Are we ready?

 Are we headed to a 911 event or worse?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GB3svbNQ-zU&pp=ygURbmV4dCA5LzExIHNsZWVwZXI%3D

Racial issues in Los Alamos

There seems to be some kind of growing racial issues in Los Alamos. The paper and local social media is now filled with letters of accusations and counter accusations. This does not paint to the town in a good light and will most certainly cause challenges to trying to bring people out.

https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/12/25/racial-gaslighting-and-the-angry-black-woman-trope/

https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/12/24/whats-happening-at-los-alamos-public-schools/

https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/12/22/the-time-to-change-and-act-is-now/

https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/12/21/the-dichotomy-of-civility-and-politeness/

Anti-government viewpoints

 What anti-government viewpoints are being funded and taught at our Universities today, and how does and will it impact security clearance eligibility?

“Professor Calls for Dismantling US: 'Greatest Predator Empire'”

https://www.newsweek.com/professor-calls-dismantling-us-greatest-predator-empire-1855115

Winter solstice

 This is a nice astrophysics and astronomy video for the holidays, and the winter solstice, it has a holiday theme:

https://youtu.be/a_Qeb4vVaqM?si=T5s8dU4cFBdk7lja

PhD work

 What percentage of PhDs at LLNL and LANL are routinely doing PhD level work compared to PhDs outside of these Labs?

Los Álamos, the 4th age

 Tom Mason announces Los Alamos has ENTERED the the Fourth Age!!! The post post cold war. We are a new lab now with a new emphases. The eye of Soren has fallen and we look toward a future we could have not imagined.

Why not just say it is pit manufacturing facility, that is the priority because that is where the money is at. I suppose AGE of PITS! has certain ironic phrasing to it. What is it with all this Lord of the Rings nonsense. Sorry to any fans the books and movie are just fine but LANL is not Middle Earth and Mason should not be playing live action role playing.

A system that integrates brain cells into a hybrid machine

 This is interesting, it is a new computing methodology that is a hybrid of human brain cells and silicon microelectronics:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03975-7

Maybe this "brainoware" system might eventually lead to AI systems that have human-like capabilities, like consciousness and free will; the use of synthetic brain tissue could also circumvent limitations related to the current pace of progress in Moore's law.