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Jesuit higher ed

5/16/2026

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names of presidents of the Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States
  1. Boston College: Rev. William Leahy SJ
  2. Canisius University: Steve Stoute
  3. College of the Holy Cross: Vincent Rougeau
  4. Creighton University: Rev. Daniel Hendrickson SJ
  5. Fairfield University: Mark Nemec
  6. Fordham University: Tania Tetlow
  7. Georgetown University: Robert Groves
  8. Gonzaga University: Katia Passerini
  9. John Carroll University: Alan Miciak
  10. Le Moyne College: Linda LeMura
  11. Loyola Marymount University: Thomas Poon
  12. Loyola University Chicago: Mark Reed
  13. Loyola University Maryland: Terrence Sawyer
  14. Loyola University New Orleans: Xavier Cole
  15. Marquette University: Kimo Ah Yun
  16. Regis University: Shawna Whitehead (black)
  17. Rockhurst University: Sandra Cassady
  18. Saint Joseph's University: Cheryl McConnell
  19. Saint Louis University: Edward Feser
  20. Saint Peter's University: Hubert Benitez
  21. Santa Clara University: Julie Sullivan
  22. Seattle University: Rev. Stephen Sundborg SJ
  23. Spring Hill College: Mary Van Brunt
  24. St. John's College (Belize): Mirtha Peralta
  25. University of Detroit Mercy: Donald Taylor
  26. University of San Francisco: Salvador Aceves
  27. University of Scranton: Rev. Joseph Marina SJ
  28. Xavier University: Colleen Hanyc​
Fathers
Do you see a "Father" among them? I count four reverends and 10 women, and all are DEI. These schools lie when they say that they are in the Jesuit tradition. It is a male fraternity with an unbroken line of father priests since AD 1540 when Pope Paul the Third recognized the order. None are scientists and none have peeped a word about UAPs. These people walk back ass-ward.

Marriage
Tetlow and Gordon Stewart, originally from Glasgow, Scotland, have a 9-year-old daughter, Lucy, and a stepson, Noah.

ProPublica
Her compensation package is a salary of $691,843 and an additional $86,138 in other compensation, totaling $777,981, according to the Nonprofit Explorer by ProPublica. 10/7/2025

Gemini
​Tania Tetlow: She earned public recognition for her advocacy against antisemitism [misspelled] and opening a Judaica research room on campus.

Elisabeth Tetlow: Tania’s mother, Elisabeth Meier Tetlow, is a biblical scholar who studied Hebrew and ancient Judaism at Fordham/Columbia.
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Rabbi Katja Vehlow: Fordham hired its first campus rabbi 2024.
​(end of AI)


Zionist
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AI slop

5/14/2026

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Google AI Overview (Gemini)

“AI slop” refers to low-quality, high-volume digital content (text, images, video) generated by AI, designed to flood social media for clicks, engagement, or ad revenue. Coined in the 2020s and named a 2025 “Word of the Year”, this content is often characterized by inaccuracies, uncanny visuals, or nonsensical information, representing a new form of digital spam.

Key Characteristics and Context
  • Definition: “Slop” implies a lack of effort or meaning, replacing authentic human content with automated, often nonsensical, material.
  • Common Examples: Bizarre, viral AI images (e.g., “Shrimp Jesus”), fake historical photos, and bot-generated articles appear on sites like Facebook, who owns Instagram, X, and TikTok.
  • Purpose: It is primarily used for monetizing the attention economy—creating clickbait to generate advertisement revenue.
  • Origins: The term stuck around 2022 as generative AI tools became widely used, with 4Chan and YouTube users often applying it to low-quality, distorted AI imagery.

​Impact and Reception
  • Platform Pollution: It is rapidly filling social media feeds, making platforms less useful and creating a “dead internet” scenario.
  • Misinformation: AI slop can create realistic-looking fake news or fabricated stories, such as fake Holocaust victims.
  • Industry Backlash: Even users within the tech and creative sectors are pushing back against the proliferation of this content.
  • Evolution of the Term: While initially referring specifically to low-quality, distorted images, it is increasingly used to describe any unoriginal or unwanted AI-generated content. (end of AI)
Schoolchildren with phones and young adults who doomscroll/doomsurf are especially vulnerable. Parents/guardians who give their charges phones are reckless.
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autism spectrum

5/13/2026

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5/9/2026
Brain scans reveal how people with autistic traits connect differently by Karina Petrova Reading Time: 4 mins (RFK on the right track, past treatment wrong)

https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-people-with-autistic-traits-connect-differently/​
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Canvas hacked

5/9/2026

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5/8/2026

Gemini AI

The
Canvas learning management system is fully back online following a major cyberattack that disrupted service for nearly 9,000 schools and universities worldwide. The system was restored on Friday, May 8, 2026, after parent company Instructure took the platform offline to contain the breach. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Key Details of the Cyberattack
  • Perpetrators: The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, posting a "pay or leak" ransom demand on the dark web with a deadline of May 12, 2026.
  • Vulnerability: Hackers exploited an issue with "Free-For-Teacher" accounts. As a result, Instructure has temporarily shut down all these accounts while they work on permanent security fixes.
  • Data Exposed: Compromised information might include names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and internal messages.
  • Data Secured: Instructure stated that there is no evidence that passwords, financial information, government identifiers, or dates of birth were accessed. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  • Impact on Students and Schools: The attack occurred during final exam week for many institutions, leading to significant disruption. [1, 2, 3]
  • Exams Postponed: Universities like UMass Lowell, the University of Illinois, and Rutgers were forced to delay or cancel final exams.
  • Extended Deadlines: Many professors have extended deadlines for assignments that were due during the outage.
  • Affected Institutions: Impacted schools include major universities such as Harvard, MIT, Duke, and UNC Chapel Hill, as well as numerous K-12 districts. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Recommended Actions: While passwords were not reportedly stolen, security experts from SocialProof Security advise the following: [1]
  1. Watch for Phishing: Be extremely cautious of emails or texts that appear to be from professors or Canvas asking you to "re-verify" accounts or click links to finish exams.
  2. Update Passwords: If you reuse your Canvas password on other sites, change it immediately on those other platforms.
  3. Check with your School: Follow official guidance from your specific institution regarding updated exam schedules and data protection steps. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
California State University system

Sacramento State was affected by the hack and six other California State University (CSU) schools: Bakersfield, Channel Island, Dominguez Hills, East Bay, Humboldt, and Long Beach. CSU resources were also affected, including CSU Online, Connect, Global Learn, the Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care, and the Office of the Chancellor itself.

These schools are all located near a bay, mountain, ocean, river, or valley.
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Brown U New England

5/6/2026

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Gemini AI
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Q. What is entailed when a person holds an endowed chair at Brown University?
A. Brown has worked to examine its historical ties to slavery and anti-Black racism, particularly through its Slavery and Justice Committee.

[Reality Check: New White supremacy includes anyone who thinks and acts "white", and that is you if you are perceived to be white-thinking, white-acting, and you can't fake ghetto.]

Eighty-one percent of the world's population does not come from Africa, and the 
Black African diaspora outside the continent is estimated to be 250 million people, about 3%. Worldometer +3

Financial and Research Support


Research Funding: The endowment provides annual earnings that support the holder’s research, enabling [insert pronoun] them to fund research assistants, travel to professional meetings, purchase equipment, and cover other expenses.

Support for Graduate Students: The funds often cover financial aid for graduate students or visiting scholars working with the chairholder.

Salary Supplement: In many cases, the endowment funds provide a salary supplement and/or summer compensation for the incumbent.
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Number: Brown has well over 100 endowed faculty chairs.
​(end of AI)
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
https://odi.brown.edu/
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Sac bishop & schools

4/17/2026

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The Sacramento Diocese announced that St. Charles Borromeo, St. Patrick, and St. Robert in South Sacramento will close in June 2026, consolidated into a new Diocese of Sacramento Regional School at St. Robert Parish. What a mouthful and how much will that cost?

Bishop Jaime Soto cited declining enrollment and high operational costs. Shocked families feel blindsided and have raised concerns about lack of transparency, leading to petitions. The new regional school is set to begin in August 2026.

Soto refuses to talk to parents or the press and fails to state the real reason: New Order of Mass, inexpensive homeschooling and schools like Chesterton Academy of Sacramento, and massive revolutions. Yet, Soto Secrets rebuilds Holy Rosary, Woodland, in spite of bankruptcy and a cost approaching $19 million.

Parents don't know that this is happening across the US. Do they read anything on the internet, or are they caught up in doomscrolling and scared to meet us at St. Stephen the First Martyr Catholic Church or St. Michaels Roman Catholic Church? No, they've been duped by the 1960s.
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  1. civil rights and racial equity led by Jews, developing into struggles for empowerment, including the Chicano Movement directed by now-disgraced Cesar Chavez
  2. anti-war and student movements fueling student activism across the globe
  3. global revolutions in places like China, Mao Zedong initiating the Cultural Revolution in 1966, mobilizing millions of "Red Guards" to purge political rivals and traditional culture, leading to widespread violence and the obliteration of the Church in China​
  4. political radicalization, with movements shifting from demanding rights to seeking total system overhaul, influenced by Marxist ideology
  5. sweeping changes by the greatest fomenters of all time, priests, bishops, and protestant consultors of Vatican II 1962-1965
  6. suppression of the Latin Mass and handing out wrong Bible translations in place of the official Bible, the Vulgate, and the first English translation, the Douay-Rheims Bible
  7. counterculture and social changes, witnessing a massive shift in sexual norms, the rise of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the LGBTQ+ rights movement
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I guess she's bigender or ambigender.
Don't Ask, Don't Tel Aviv.


If you want to meet us...
St. Stephen 5461 44th St, Sacramento, CA
St. Michael 4524 Garfield Ave, Carmichael, CA

Priests teach the Catechism in both places.
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Sam Altman & ChatGPT

4/11/2026

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4/7/2026
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CEO, OpenAI/ChatGPT
Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts “I think there’s a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff - Sam Brinkman - Fried scammer...”
Joe Wilkins ​futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-technical-coding


“Fried” refers to viral social media content, particularly on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, where users intentionally confuse, overwhelm, or trick ChatGPT's image generation (DALL-E 3) or conversational capabilities, often resulting in surreal or “deep-fried” (highly distorted) images. Instagram +4
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Interpreter of Maladies

4/8/2026

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Recommendation
I highly recommend this AD 1999 book, an anthology of short stories set in India and New England and written by Jhumpa Lahiri. My student brought me up to date: Urdu is a combination of Arabic, Farsi, and Punjabi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by as many as 150 million people and in India's Punjab state.


Doomscrolling (Gemini)
The book is an antidote to doomscrolling, the compulsive, habitual consumption of negative news on social media, often leading to anxiety, depression, and poor sleep, widely practiced with 31% of American adults doing it daily. It is especially prevalent among Gen Z (51%) and Gen Y (46%), often driven by anxiety, boredom, and the need to feel in control. Women and people with trauma histories are also highly vulnerable. Even Gen A is doing it, leading to children who don't know how to read or do simple math.

Gen Y 1981-1996
Gen Z 1997-2012
Gen A 2010-2024

Consult my Reading List.
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Lisa Allen & Cancy

4/1/2026

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Lisa Allen, Sacramento City USD Superintendent of Schools, resigned 2/25/2026. Her interim replacement is Cancy McArn. Check out her purple hair and the wall posters. There are no challenges when your salary is around $400,000, and your goal is dumbing down the curriculum (not honors classes).
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Jo Nagai 10

3/19/2026

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Listen to a one-hour podcast dated 2/17/2025 and featuring Jo Nagai, ​then eight, now 10, from Kobe, Japan. It is worth your time to learn about his research on swallowtail butterflies and memory. He speaks good English.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feature-caterpillar-roadshow/id1793765332?i=1000693017680
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Oakland CA schools

3/2/2026

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AI Overview

As of the end of February 2026, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) board voted to cut 421 positions (often referred to as roughly 400 in news reports) for the upcoming school year to address a structural deficit of approximately $100 million. The Oaklandside +3

Here are the key details regarding the recent staff reductions:
  • Total Affected: The board approved the layoffs of 421 staff members and reduced the hours for an additional 144 positions.
  • Positions Cut: The cuts affect a wide range of staff, including teachers, nurses, counselors, and other support staff.
  • Reasoning: The district is facing a $100 million-$102 million structural deficit, driven by declining enrollment (from 54,000 to 34,000 students) and the expiration of one-time pandemic-era federal funding.
  • Timeline: The layoffs are for the 2026-2027 school year, and affected employees were to be notified by March 15, 2026. [They are so stupid as to not know the Ides of March date. Shakespeare is watching this unfold.]
  • Union Action: Despite reaching a tentative contract agreement that averted a strike in late February 2026, the Oakland Education Association (OEA) has indicated [that] they will continue to fight to preserve these positions. KQED +7
These layoffs were approved by a 5-2 vote on February 25, 2026, in an effort to avoid financial insolvency. KTVU +1

Oakland is widely regarded as one of the most left-wing and politically radicalized cities in the United States, with a long history of grassroots activism, labor militancy, and movements like the Black Panthers. It is frequently ranked among the top five most liberal cities and is currently facing challenges with high crime rates and public safety concerns. Pew Research Center +5

Oakland is a sanctuary city. The Oakland diocese is in bankruptcy. There have been over 40 bankruptcies since the first one, Portland, Oregon, 2004. The American Novus Ordo has received federal funds and illegally used them to welcome undocumented aliens. An unrepentant church that is very generous with other people's money has no business existing.
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L'il Miami

2/27/2026

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LGBTQ+ poster removed
Little Miami HS, 14-18, Morrow, Ohio
​State testing, U.S. News & World Report +2
71% proficiency reading (and writing)
65% proficiency mathematics
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Ohio State DEI

2/24/2026

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Your iPhone is the funder.

Apple
Apple Inc. designs, develops, and markets the iPhone, which runs its proprietary iOS operating system. While Apple designs the phones and software, they are manufactured and assembled by partners like Foxconn, primarily in China and India. With a world population of about eight billion, the company has sold over three billion units.


Key Ownership and Leadership Information (2026)
  • Structure: As a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: AAPL), ownership is distributed among millions of shareholders. www.thestreet.com +2
  • Top Institutional Shareholders: The Vanguard Group (~9.3%), BlackRock (~5.7%), and State Street (~3.9%) are the largest institutional holders.
  • Key Individuals:
    • Tim Cook  (CEO, gay): owns over 3.28 million shares
    • Arthur Levinson (Chair, Jew): owns over 1.1 million shares
    • Al Gore (Director, former US VP): owns over 437,000 shares
With no funding, I do better research than them all and don't get in fights.
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my education

2/18/2026

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So, what is my educational background? I attended three public schools through 8th grade, a Catholic high school, a community college and two Catholic universities, and two law schools, resulting in a BA in English and a JD at 34, but my real education was experience and began again in 2020 isolation and the Latin Mass Church, ongoing at 73, and never a smooth glide.
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Harvard/Ivy League

2/11/2026

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The cut applies to Professional Military Education (PME), a structured, career-long program of instruction designed to develop the leadership, intellectual, and technical capabilities of officers and noncommissioned officers (NCOs). It is a "progressive and sequential" system focusing on military expertise, doctrine, and decision-making to create prepared leaders, as described in the Army University Press.

The Ivy League is woke.
​Defense is not.
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  • Harvard is ranked #1 in the world.
  • Princeton: DEI SUB NUMINE VIGET  Under God's power she flourishes.
  • Tradition refers to universities, ships, and the Church in the feminine form.
  • Within the shield are multiple triangles and a right angle, or carpenter's Try Square.
  • Official name of the cabinet-level agency 1789-1947: United States Department of War
  • For all the disbelieving Catholics, I'm reposting the triangle!

Fresco 1509-1510
Raphael 1483-1520
Dante 1265-1321
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Jefferson Elem

2/5/2026

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Teacher Residency Program
For ​Jefferson Elementary School District public schools
Offered by 
​the School of Education Jesuit 'Catholic' University of San Francisco
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  • JESD has 10 elementary schools and three middle schools in Daly City, Colma, Broadmoor Village, and part of Pacifica in San Mateo County [Spanish for St. Matthew]
  • The district population is ethnically, economically, and linguistically diverse.
  • The district is piloting an ethnic studies program for elementary students.
  • JESD is committed to equitable and engaging instruction for all students.
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landsat.com
for educational purposes only
​It's not a village.

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Francis de Sales School

1/30/2026

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United States
​Manhattan
​1959
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The school is now made up of dead Catholics.
Father Charles Murr, pastor, decided to resign.
The message of Fatima, he says, is apostacy.
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Hirsi & Rosenbury

1/28/2026

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Isra Hirsi
The daughter of Ilhan Abdullahi Omar graduated from Barnard College in May 2025. It costs $90,000+ per year and is located at 3009 Broadway in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City’s Upper West Side in Manhattan. The school is adjacent to Columbia University and operates as an independent, affiliated women’s liberal arts college. Now the poor dear doesn’t have a real job. In April, just before she graduated, the NYPD arrested her and more than 100 anti-Israel protesters after they erected a tent city at Columbia. The self-described hyper-woke member of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) group got suspended from Barnard after the arrest, but the institution’s president, Laura Ann Rosenbury, former dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, lifted the suspension after Hirsi claimed that she was homeless and couldn’t afford food. She wrote, “The climate movement needs more people like me.” I guess her mommy and daddy were feeding her daily halal.

Laura Ann Rosenbury
Rosenbury has a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Harvard-Radcliffe College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. About working at the national office of Planned Parenthood in New York City, she said, “My experience working at Planned Parenthood inspired me to go to law school so I could do more for women and families.” She co-authored the casebook Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials in 2010, updated 2017. She clerked for Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and Judge Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The Zionist kosher eater would never bury the red rose, Democratic Socialists of America. Intelligent design designed names.
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friction maxxing

1/26/2026

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Google AI Overview
Q. What is friction maxxing?
A. Friction maxxing 
is a 2026 trend, namely a counter culture focused on intentionally introducing, rather than eliminating, small, inconvenient, and analog frictions into daily life to boost mental health, resilience, and human connection. The trend encourages replacing convenient technology with deliberate actions, such as navigating with a map, writing in a journal, or speaking to people, to rebuild human skills and break reliance on digital convenience.

Core Concepts and Examples
  • Analog over Digital: using physical books, maps, or notes instead of smartphones
  • Real-world Interaction: ordering drinks at a bar rather than using a QR code, or asking friends for advice instead of relying on ChatGPT
  • Building Character: embracing challenging moments as "character building" rather than annoyances to be optimized away
  • Intentional Inconvenience: Opting for harder, manual methods over "one-click" solutions to find more meaning and satisfaction
Origins and Purpose
  • Response to Hyper-convenience: The trend arose as a response to the "tech-driven" removal of all minor, everyday inconveniences, which has left people with less joy and fewer skills.
  • Humanizing Daily Life: The goal is to feel more human by navigating the world's minor hurdles in person rather than through an app.
  • Cognitive Benefits: It encourages slowing down to think more critically and fostering richer social interaction. 
end of AI
​I edited the entry and would add knowing how to read an analog clock rather than relying on a digital clock. Have you ever noticed how good writing and good things come in groups of three? Present at a Catholic wedding are three witnesses, no I take that back, six, and let's call it a diamond formation.
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quantum mechanics

1/24/2026

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The subject is completely outside my scope, but I wanted a simple explanation, so I let AI do the work, not authoritative, not quotable, just a simple introduction for the uninitiated.
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Google

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental branch of physics providing a mathematical framework to describe the counterintuitive behavior of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales. It reveals that particles, such as electrons and photons, exhibit wave-particle duality, exist in superpositions, and are governed by probability rather than certainty.

Key concepts and applications include:
  • Superposition: Particles can exist in multiple states or locations simultaneously.
  • Wave-Particle Duality: Entities behave as both waves and particles depending on observation.
  • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: Certain pairs of properties, such as position and momentum, cannot be known precisely at the same time.
  • Entanglement: Particles can become linked, with the state of one instantly influencing another, regardless of distance.
  • Quantization: Energy in bound systems is not continuous but exists in discrete, specific levels.
  • Applications: It forms the basis of modern technology, including transistors, lasers, and emerging quantum computing. 
Unlike classical mechanics, which governs the macroscopic world, quantum mechanics operates in the realm of probability.
 
Google
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Modern physicists generally do not oppose the predictions of quantum mechanics, as it is one of the most successful and experimentally verified theories in science. However, the fundamental interpretation of this concept remains unsettled, resulting in persistent scholarly debate regarding the implications of the mathematics for physical reality; as a result, some physicists continue to explore alternative theories or propose modifications.

Key points regarding the debate:
  • High Accuracy: The predictive power of quantum mechanics is undisputed, forming the foundation of modern technology.
  • Interpretational Disagreements: Physicists are deeply divided on what quantum mechanics says about reality (e.g., Copenhagen interpretation vs. Many-Worlds vs. Realism), often arguing over whether the wave function represents actual reality or just information.
  • Fundamental Concerns: Some physicists disagree with the "mystical" aspects of quantum theory (like observer-dependent realities) and desire a more intuitive, deterministic, or realistic framework, notes Psychology Today.
  • Quantum Gravity Challenges: Some researchers, such as in Quora discussions and Hossenfelder's work, explore modifying or replacing quantum mechanics to resolve conflicts with general relativity (e.g., treating gravity as fundamentally non-quantum).
Despite these disagreements, the theory itself is overwhelmingly accepted as the correct description of the microscopic world.

Quantum mechanics is a highly successful scientific theory, meaning it's a well-tested framework of explanations, models, and math that accurately predicts phenomena, but it's also deeply theoretical because physicists still debate its true meaning for reality, even though its mathematical core works to build technologies like lasers and transistors.
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Please tell me what you think.
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0 - 9

1/22/2026

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Mathematics
Mathematics is a philosophical concept. One does not know that it is a “one”. A single tree does not know that it is a tree or that it stands alone. Nor does it know that it is beautiful. The materialist does not acknowledge anything beyond that which can be experienced by one of the five senses. When a pilot experiences a mechanical problem, the controller asks,  “How many souls on board?” The phrase on board is non-material. A board of directors is a concept. A real board is not. It can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted, or heard, when some action is taken upon it. A materialist cannot see any value in story, such as poems, short stories, or novels. How then does the materialist explain love and beauty, and math and philosophy?

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Aristotle
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is wholly conceptual. It explores the nature of happiness (eudaimonia) as the ultimate goal of human life, achieved through virtuous activity and practical wisdom. It argues that happiness isn't fleeting pleasure but a state of flourishing that comes from developing moral virtues like courage, justice, and temperance through habituation and reason. The ten books also cover justice, friendship, and the contemplative life, profoundly shaping Western moral philosophy.


Nietzsche
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical novel where the prophet-like Zarathustra descends from solitude to teach humanity about creating new values beyond traditional morality, especially after the "death of God". It explores themes like the Übermensch (Overman) as the goal of self-overcoming, the Eternal Recurrence, living life as if you'd repeat it forever, and the Last Man, complacent, pleasure-seeking humanity.

mix of me and Gemini

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Amelia

1/21/2026

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targets: boys (nyet to Harry Potter)
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a different education

1/15/2026

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Google AI Overview
​
Q. What did John Taylor Gatto do for his students?
A. John Taylor Gatto empowered his students by fostering independence, critical thinking, and real-world skills through his "gorilla curriculum", taking them out of traditional classrooms for hands-on projects like selling ads, challenging the system's conformity, and teaching self-reliance, ultimately leading to his resignation as he felt mainstream schooling stifled these qualities, promoting dependency and a "hidden curriculum" of control instead.

Key Actions for His Students:
  • Real-World Learning: He sent students into New York City to sell ad space for a newspaper they created, giving them practical experience.
  • Challenged Assumptions: Gatto encouraged students to question the inherent value and structure of schooling itself, encouraging them to think dialectically*.
  • High Trust, High Standards: He trusted his students with autonomy and responsibility, expecting them to meet high standards, which they thrived under.
  • Fostered Independence: He aimed to help students find their own paths, independent of state-mandated structures, by teaching them to solve problems and think for themselves.
  • Provided Sanctuary: He offered private support for students struggling with the school system, helping them find ways to cope or work around its pressures.

His Philosophy & "I Quit" Resignation:
  • "The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher": Gatto argued that compulsory schooling taught students to stay in their assigned place, obey authority, rely on external validation, and become dependent, rather than fostering true education.
  • Critique of Mass Schooling: He believed formal schooling created confusion, dependency, and a lack of privacy, preparing children for subservient roles rather than true self-sufficiency.
  • Advocacy for Homeschooling/Unschooling: After quitting, he became a prominent advocate for homeschooling and unschooling, viewing them as ways to nurture curiosity, self-knowledge, and authentic learning.

​In essence, Gatto did everything he could to provide an actual education, rich with real-world engagement and critical thinking, in stark contrast to the conventional schooling he felt was damaging.

*Dialectical describes a method of reasoning or a situation involving opposing ideas to find truth, often through a process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, resolving contradictions to reach a higher understanding or resolution, and also relates to regional speech patterns (dialects). Essentially, it's about understanding reality by examining conflicting forces and integrating them.

Want to work with me?
  1. I can give you more time than any teacher.
  2. I have more experience than any teacher.
  3. Your parents can negotiate a price.​

P.S. Homeschooling is not ideal: you need adults who are outside the family.

The first audiobook we will listen to (also in paperback) comes from an observer of the Spanish royal court and is a Machiavelli counterpunch. Jesuit Father 
Balthasar Gracián wrote The Art of Worldly Wisdom, published in 1647. It is about four hours of philosophy, and we will digest it in bits.
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Along with the book we might read about the Katyn Forest Massacre of WW II and apply the maxims laid down by Balthazar.

Catholic triangulation
1710-11
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  • What is three-color rule in art? The rule states to use primary, secondary, and tertiary colors in 60%, 30%, and 10% proportions, respectively.
  • The triadic rule is a color scheme found on the color wheel, using three colors equally spaced in a triangle to create vibrant, balanced palettes.
  • The color wheel is the tool, while the triadic rule is a method of selecting harmonious colors from it for design in many phases of art.
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MN daycare fraud

12/28/2025

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​Minnesomalia
"Tom Emmer Questions Tim Walz on Empty Daycare Receiving $4M in State Funds" By Alex Tanzer updated on December 27, 2025

…A viral video by YouTuber Nick Shirley has exposed a troubling case at Quality Learing Center, where a $4 million state funding haul meets an empty building, tying into a broader welfare fraud scandal estimated by federal authorities to exceed $9 million, the New York Post reports.

Shirley, a content creator with a knack for digging into local oddities, walked into Quality Learing Center—yes, “Learing” is spelled wrong on the sign—and found a ghost town. No kids, no crayons, just eerie silence in a place licensed for 99 children, according to state records...
americanalmanac.com/tom-emmer-questions-tim-walz-on-empty-daycare-receiving-4m-in-state-funds/?utm_source=americanalmanac.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=tim-walz-crushed-scandal-keeps-growing&_bhlid=63ce4551275d38abefe608a56b0b2aa5aab8fbe1
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A standard practice among tax consultants is to avoid round numbers, such as $1,000,000, and thereby avoid scrutiny.
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​Google AI Overview

Crime
Crime in Somalia is high and complex, driven by decades of conflict, weak governance, and extremist groups like Al-Shabaab, with prevalent issues including terrorism, unlawful killings, sexual violence, arms trafficking, and significant financial crimes (fraud, embezzlement), though reliable statistics are hard to pinpoint due to data scarcity and conflict, making it one of the world's most dangerous nations, particularly Mogadishu.

Iftin Express
Iftin Express is a UK-based financial service company, operating since 2006, that specializes in fast, secure, and reliable international money transfers, primarily serving East African migrants by sending funds from countries like the UK, USA, UAE to Somalia and Uganda, offering convenient online and mobile options with a focus on trust and customer needs. (end of Google AI)

Uganda
when founded, present there?
1970 FSSPX Priestly Society of Saint Pius X - yes
1988 FSSP Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter - in Nigeria

1990 ICKSP Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest - in Gabon
2006 IBP Institute of the Good Shepherd (Le Bon Pasteur) 
- yes
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The FSSPX has an active missionary presence in Uganda within its Africa District. Masses are held in various locations, including in people's homes, as the society works toward establishing a permanent chapel. The FSSPX operates over 100 schools worldwide.
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https://fsspx.africa/en/list-sspx-chapels-2
www.instituteofthegoodshepherd.org/locations-around-the-world

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Harris and Walz
Kamala Harris ran for president and Tim Walz for vice president of the United States in 2024, and the colors of LGBTQ are evident in Nick's video.
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US Department of State
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From left to right, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, Representative Alicia Kozlowski, Senator Mary Kunesh, Representative Jamie Becker-Finn, and Representative Heather Keeler pose for a portrait in the Minnesota State Capitol on January 3, 2023. Credit: Jaida Grey Eagle | Sahan Journal, founded in 2019 by Mukhtar M. Ibrahim

Transitioning Group
WIML (White-Indian-Muslim-Lesbian), pronounced wímŭl, inclusive of
Liish Kozlowski they/them State Representative Anishinaabeg-Ojibwe-Latine Two Spirit (Trans) non-binary 🏳️‍⚧️ 🪶 🪶 📍Misaabekong

The women are emasculating the little boy while Somalilanders turn their boys into incubuses.


Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan
"Five years ago today, we were married under this mighty oak tree next to the beautiful Misi-ziibi surrounded by our village." She married outside a church. By definition, Tom Weber is a feminist paleface. "To my trans and nonbinary friends, neighbors, relatives, and fellow Minnesotans: thank you for being you. I stand in solidarity with you..." she said.
Mankato Area Public Schools Goals
  1. ​Reducing the disparities in academic achievement among all students and specific categories of students excluding the categories of gender, disability, and English learners.
  2. Reducing the disparities in equitable access to effective and more diverse teachers among all students and specific categories of students excluding the categories of gender, disability, and English learners.
  3. Increasing racial and economic integration (Minn. Stat. § 124D.861, subd. 2 (a)).​​
​DEI is worded in such a way that no one but insiders understand DEI, public schools have counterproductive Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), and numerous sex abuse cases in the Minnesota church have been covered in the blog already.

The following report from KTSP, serving the Twin Cities market with its ABC-affiliated television station, "62 investigations underway involving federally-funded Minnesota child care centers" by Jay Kolls, published 1/28/2025 7:52 PM, updated 8:36 PM, backs up Nick Shirley's investigation.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/62-investigations-underway-involving-federally-funded-minnesota-child-care-centers/​
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The Tetons

12/23/2025

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Key Minerals & Rocks

Gneiss & Schist
The oldest rocks (2.5 billion years), forming the core and highest peaks, are metamorphic.

Granite
Magma intruded into the gneiss, forming granite, rich in quartz, feldspar, and mica, making peaks like the Grand Teton harder.
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Quartz
It is used in countless products, from electronics (watches, phones, GPS) and building materials (glass, concrete, countertops) to abrasives, ceramics, jewelry, and scientific equipment, because of its hardness, heat resistance, and piezoelectric properties, making it essential for everything from high-tech silicon chips to everyday toothpaste and sand.

When I was 11-12, I had an encyclopedia geared for young boys and girls, about 20 books, and one was titled Rocks and Minerals, and the other was Earthquakes and Volcanoes, books I read over and over.
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Armed ranchers, including Teton County Commissioner Clifford Hansen, left, and actor Wallace Beery, in black hat, trail cattle in protest across the newly created Jackson Hole National Monument, 1943. AP photo.
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