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the question is....

There's an episode of The Twilight Zone, from late 1960, in which newlyweds Don and Pat Carter take shelter in an Ohio diner after their car breaks down en route to New York City.

Neither expects to be there long; an emergency mechanic just so happens to be around the corner.

To pass the time, Don, played by a young William Shatner, starts feeding pennies into a fortune-telling napkin holder: a grinning devil's head answering yes-or-no questions for a penny-a-pop.

What starts as harmless prompts soon becomes a compulsion as the machine somehow starts nailing the questions. Next thing you know, Don's stuck in a loop, unable to leave the restaurant without asking the machine's thoughts.

More than 60 years later, the machines answering our questions cost significantly more than a penny, and a new generation of young people are feeling trapped.

Instead of fortune telling, their battle is with AI: a different kind of machine that answers with unsettling confidence and is getting harder to put down.

Elise Humphreys, 19, has never seen the episode. But it's exactly how she feels about AI.

"It stops me from being able to use my brain independently," she said. 

READ MORE: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/young-people-against-use-of-artificial-intelligence-your-say/107151886

 

POOOOOOR KIDS....

 

"BACK IN MY DAYS", TECHNOLOGY WAS A PIECE OF STONE TO SCRIBE STUFF ON A SLATE AND THE TEACHERS WOULD SMACK US ON THE TIP OF FINGERS WITH A RULER IF WE DID NOT REPEAT THE PRAYERS TO GOD VERBATUM...

 

SORRY KIDDIES, I USED THE AWFUL "BACK IN MY DAYS" BECAUSE INFORMATION WAS CONTROLLED TO A POINT OUR BRAINS WERE DUMB WITH NO QUESTIONS AND NO ANSWERS... NOW THERE ARE TOO MANY ANSWERS AND THE CHOICE BECOMES DAMNING. SURE.... ACTUALLY THEN THE QUESTIONS AND POSSIBLE ANSWERS WERE HIDDEN IN FORBIDDEN BOOKS.... THIS IS WHERE YOU NEED TO BECOME A SCEPTIC AND USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO .... WELL, WHAT? EVERY TIME YOU DO A SEARCH ON YAHOO, GOOGLE OR YANDEX, ABOUT ANY SUBJECTS, YOU NEED TO ALSO REFER TO THE HUMANS WHO CAMP ON THE SIDELINES: THE SCOTT RITTERS, THE MEARSCHEIMERS, THE JACQUES BAUD IN REGARD TO INTERNATIONAL POLITICS.

 

AND PLEASE REALISE THAT ONE CAN BE BRAINWASHED WITHOUT AI: MOST INSTITUTIONS ARE THERE TO MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT THINK INDEPENDENTLY...

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT (WW3) HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA TO BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

RESTORE THE RIGHTS OF THE RUSSIAN SPEAKING PEOPLE OF "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

RESTITUTE THE ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTIES AND RIGHTS

RELEASE THE OPPOSITION MEMBERS FROM PRISON

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU.....

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

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         RABID ATHEIST.

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mistake....

 

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting, logistics and supply chains.

But the episode underscores the profound risks of using this powerful, new and relatively poorly understood technology for targeting in the middle of a war. Analysts have long feared that AI could lead to a catastrophic miscalculation if nation states are relying on poor or corrupted data — the kind of miscalculation that might lead the United States to fire on a Chinese ship based on inaccurate information.

In this particular instance, the analyst queried a chatbot about some intelligence reporting on the ship’s manifest that originated with US Special Operations Command Pacific, based in Hawaii. It was not clear whether the chatbot was a commercially available one or a US government product.

“The internal tools are mostly just copies of the commercial stuff wearing lipstick,” a former senior US official familiar with the AI systems used by military and intelligence analysts.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

 

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         RABID ATHEIST.

         WELCOME TO THIS INSANE WORLD….