AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight (HBO)

(LastWeekTonight) AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

• Happy times with Zebras in Bolivia (because the British call crosswalks "zebra crossings" and traffic is a problem in densely populated Latin American capital of La Paz)

Michael Pollan on Consciousness (NPR)

Michael Pollan’s journey to understand consciousness through Zen and science

Author, explorer Michael Pollan

Science journalist [Buddhist meditator, and American Zen practitioner under Roshi Joan Halifax* at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico] Michael Pollan has written extensively about the therapeutic benefits of mind-altering psychedelics (lit., "mind-making" substances, which may also be entheogens, hallucinogens, and psychoactive drugs).

His new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, asks the central question: What is consciousness?

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  Joan Halifax ( with now toxic Dalai
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  *Joan Halifax collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof in the 1970s, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation in California, which she led from 1979 to 1989. As a socially engaged Buddhist, Halifax has done extensive work (palliative care) with the dying through her Project on Being with Dying, which she founded. She is on the board of directors of the Mind and Life Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism.

“Consciousness has kind of become the secular substitute for the soul [Ancient Greek psyche as in psychology and psyche-delic],” Pollan tells interviewer Terry Gross.

Pollan also talks about current studies on consciousness and whether other animals, plants, bacteria, algae, and programmed hardware/software combinations known as "artificial intelligence" have or can eventually have consciousness. More + AUDIO

• Science: Plants are conscious, emit sounds, and talk
• Michael Pollan co-founded the BCSP (UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics)

Michael Pollan discusses how time-lapse photography reveals the hidden life of plants

NEW BOOK: A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness

Buddhist author Michael Pollan has a Number 1 best seller in Consciousness & Thought Philosophy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who/what has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.

When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: It feels [not thinks] like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience (sentience) of the world remains one of nature’s greatest mysteries.

How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by [perceptions,] feelings, thoughts, and a sense of "self"?

American Joan Halifax

What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like, when we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of water in the sea?

In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives—scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic—to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.

When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy [tofu like] gray matter could generate a subjective point of view—assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality.

Pollan takes readers to the cutting edge of the field, where neuroscientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness.

Plants are conscious, sentient

He introduces us to “plant neurobiologists” searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants, scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of this slippery stream of consciousness.

In Pollan’s dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than this everyday reality.

Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own brains and minds, hearts and feelings, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and what we assume to be our deepest selves. More: A World Appears

See all formats and editions for savings. Book comes out Feb. 24, 2026. Pre-order price guarantee. Named a "most anticipated book of 2026" by The New York Times, TIME, and Oprah Daily.

• Guest Michael Pollan, Terry Gross, Tonya Mosley, Adam Staniszewski, NPR.org, Feb. 19, 2026; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

South Park on generative AI, Mormons

(Armchair Analysis)

(HailHeidi) Ex-Mormon reacts to South Park episode | All About Mormons

ChatGPT robot does what experts warned

(InsideAI) ChatGPT in a robot does exactly what experts warned

• Robot on hook goes berserk in leaked Chinese lab video footage (Mike Kalil)

AI turns $1 into $1,000,000, but ends a life -- exactly as experts warned

Arrest made in Pacific Palisades Fire, LA

Jonathan Rinderknech arrested: ChatGPT, French rap, and Uber: Palisades Fire suspect's trail

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Neither of these suspects is Jon Rinderknech

The Palisades Fire was one of two major infernos that hit Los Angeles on Oct. 7, 2025. The other was the Eaton Fire in the foothills of Altadena, which was caused by Edison, likely a negligent utility that left its inoperable transmission tower standing for decades and uncared for, making it a known fire hazard, according to attorney Mikal Watts (lafirejustice.com). Until now the means by which the historic winds that day managed to burn down the ritzy coastal areas of Los Angeles have been debated. The fire he set, the Lachman Fire, has been blamed on homeless individuals and fireworks. But authorities are now saying Jonathan Rinderknech, 29, a former Palisades resident now living in Florida, committed arson a week earlier and that those flames were never fully extinguished, coming to life with the strong winds.

• 29-year-old former Uber driver arrested in connection with starting deadly Palisades Fire (NBC News)
• Suspect in Palisades Fire allegedly used ChatGPT to generate images of burning forests and cities (Rolling Stone)

Uber driver charged in connection with starting the Palisades Fire | LAist.com

(KTVU Fox 2 SF) Rare "supershear" earthquake could hit California

• Fox News; KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco, Oct. 1, 2025; Fox 11 News, Oct. 8, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The New Age of Sexism: porn AI robots

'The New Age of Sexism' explores how misogyny is replicated in AI and emerging tech

Emerging technologies are reinventing misogyny

Author Laura Bates has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 58 ratings. Misogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it? We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, [whiter] fairer future.

But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities―they're deepening them.

In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny [hatred of females, the counterpart to misanthropy] is being coded into the very fabric of our future.

From the biases embedded in artificial intelligence to the alarming rise of sex robots and the toxic dynamics of the metaverse, Bates takes readers on a shocking journey into a world where technology is weaponized against women.

Author and activist Laura Bates

This isn't a dystopian warning about what might happen. It's a harrowing account of what's happening now and the dangers we face if we don't act.

With clarity and urgency, Bates reveals how these advancements are dragging society backward, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and jeopardizing decades of progress in the fight for gender equality.

Eye-opening and empowering, The New Age of Sexism is a rallying cry for awareness and action in a world where the battle for equality has entered a dangerous new frontier. More

Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert: Trump is dumb

Trump posts AI "Med Bed" conspiracy video, threatens to send U.S. troops to Portland: A Closer Look

(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Sept. 29, 2025: Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the president posting an AI video of himself and threatening to send unneeded, unwanted National Guard paramilitary troops to yet another American city [in contravention of the posse comitatus act. Late Night with Seth Meyers. Stream now on Peacock: bit.ly/3erP2gX

• King Trump says foreign leaders "freak out" when they see his golden Oval Office inside his White Palace (formerly White House)

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back in Brooklyn

Trump’s crucial release of Amelia Earhart files, JD Vance’s bullsh*t, live from NY

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 29, 2025: The show is back [on all ABC stations, including Sinclair and Nexstar] in Kimmel’s hometown Brooklyn, NY, for a week of shows from the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sidekick Guillermo makes his entrance decked out in NY gear, pardoned criminal Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the current mayoral race, the Mets went and did the Metstiest thing possible last night, Rory Mcllroy’s round of golf turned into a scene from Unhappy Gilmore, Trump has been hard at work coming up with all manner of nonsense to distract the nation from his name all over the Epstein Files and the client list, Don did a whole post about Amelia Earhart, VP JD Vance is making the rounds defending his boss and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, and the show plays a round of “Who’s Not Tony?,” and Flavor Flav gets the party started! #Kimmel

Stephen Colbert keeps trying

(The Late Show with Stephen Colber) Trump and his War on Oregon

The Left is 'Antifa' now: Chris Hedges

(NY Post) Agenda 2025: Weaponizing the gov't against the progressive Left opposing fascism

• Democracy Now!

Excuse me, Mr. AI Robot

I was brake checked by this AI robot driver. - Man mocks ICE paramilitary troopers on bike

A.I. used to hide Trump's stroke, sickness

Ailing Pres. Don Trump (A.I. or real version) gives Chicagoan MIT grad Benny Nitay (Bibi Netanyahu) permission to illegally annex Palestine's West Bank, steal all the land through its illegal occupation (its self-described Zionist "settler colonial project")

(TJDS) Trump, to feel safe, needs his own personal "SS" and Gestapo

Israel is bombing 7 countries and still claiming to be the victim

(The Jimmy Dore Show)

Grok A.I. tool analyzed the footage and found it to be made by A.I. Here's why.

F.A.S.T. - stroke symptoms and warning signs | American Stroke Association

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Stroke symptoms

By learning and sharing the F.A.S.T. warning signs of stroke, we just might save a life from stroke [which is the sudden loss of blood to a part of the brain due to a clot, clog, or other occlusion]. More: stroke.org

• Guest host Misty Winston, co-host Kurt Metzger (TJDS at jimmydore.com); stroke.org; Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

We have THE LIST! Israeli Hills 90210

EPSTEIN VICTIMS: We have The List!

(Kim Iversen) Sept. 3, 2025: A full court press took place in Washington DC today as victims of Jeffrey Epstein spoke out.

SPONSOR (Venice AI): venice.ai/kim and use code kim to enjoy private, uncensored AI. Using this code will result in 20% off a pro plan.

• Guest Host Wisty Winston, Kurt Metzger (The Jimmy Dore Show); Kim Iversen, Release the Epstein Files, Sept. 3, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

AI girlfriends, abortion, Grok Hitler (TDS)

From AI girlfriends to Grok Hitler, TDS takes on AI | The Daily Show

Who needs real human flesh models? Considered the $$ advantages of digital simulations?

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(The Daily Show) Aug. 28, 2025: TDS takes on AI as AI takes over the world: Jon Stewart, Ronny Chieng, and Lewis Black examine how AI has infiltrated modern dating, made itself an integral part of college education, and even turned itself into "MechaHitler" on X.  #DailyShow #AI #Grok. Subscribe to The Daily Show: @thedailyshow

• Botika - AI generated models for fashion

Standup Jimmy Dore: "Grab 'em by the Pussy [Cat]" to launch 8/30/25

ChatGPT names The Antichrist (Pt. 1-3)

Understanding the concept of an "Antichrist" | Britannica

Part 4 is on the way and currently being filmed.

Grok tells all when asked correctly

(Casey the Car Guy) A.I. (Grok) admits Israel and D.C. are Satanic (and everything else)

He asked ChatGPT one question and it admits The Antichrist's purpose

Remember, Jesus (Issa) is Black

(Elijah Zielke) Premiered Aug. 18, 2025: 🤯 Who can believe what happened when one user asked ChatGPT a single, simple question? It is a question that leads to an answer so chilling, it's sending shockwaves through the internet.

This video reveals the exact prompt and ChatGPT's shocking admissions which some are interpreting as a direct link to the Antichrist's purpose and deeper end-times [Christian] prophecies.

"Legion" is the name the demon gives itself in The Exorcist (Deicide)

• What is a Roman legion?
• Satanists or joke? Brutal Assault 27 - Deicide (live) 2024

For a better version of Bible, see the Ethiopian

Is this an accidental glitch, a bizarre coincidence, or is AI showing us something profoundly disturbing about the future we're creating?

Join as we dive deeply into this viral interaction, analyze its implications, and ask: Is humanity unknowingly building the tools for its own downfall? Or is this just a bizarre digital anomaly?

🔥 Don't believe. Just watch. – THEN JOIN THE CONVERSATION. What could this mean for AI, humanity, and the future?

👍 Like, share, and subscribe to stay ahead of the curve on AI revelations. 🔔 Hit the notification bell to catch the next deep dive. #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Antichrist #Prophecy #EndTimes #Conspiracy #Revelation #Shocking #Viral #TechEthics #FutureOfAI #DeepStateAI #DigitalProphecy

Mary Mother of Jesus: life details

Is the Vatican responsible for the Koran (Quran), the sacred texts of Islam? Did they create these texts or have them compiled, another psyop to control yet another group of people? It is odd that the only woman mentioned by name is Mary (Miriam, Maria), the mother of the prophet, St. Issa (Jesus).

Brutal South Park by billionaires Matt, Trey

South Park's NEW Trump explained

How bad/shocking could this episode be?

South Park's new episode is BREAKING the Internet....and Trump

(Armchair Analysis) July 25, 2025: "Hey, relax Guy!" Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio. The video maker does not own South Park or any of the clips or images used. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted.

Is Trump literally illiterate?

Nvidia loses $589 billion in a day

Predicting the market's hard, beating it impossible

The Number One business in America used to be Apple Corporation, the iPhone, iPad, iTamp slave factory owner, but it was shoved out of the way by the computer chip company Nvidia. That is until yesterday, when China released DeepSeek, a very cheap A.I. search function. That release by the CCP crashed Nvidia, taking it down the farthest a company has ever fallen financially since the last time Nvidia fell (about $250 billion that time). That's what Wall Street calls volatility. To invest or not invest? Hotshots have the most exposure to upswing, but the down draft burns them up when they crash. At least Apple is stable, however irresponsible or amoral the corporation may be. What's GM up to? What about other war stocks? Big Pharma? There's another "flu" on the horizon, and if we call it a "Covid," that means big money for companies already making big money on new allopathic drugs like esketamine ("Spravato"). Caveat emptor.

First robot suicide, South Korean oddity

They already murder (autonomous drones, super soldiers, smart weapons), go to war, lie (deceive), and have sex. Now they're killing themselves? What's next? Are they going to start drinking? This is like Stanley Kubrick tried to warn about in 2001: A Space Odyssey with HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence aboard the ship in space.

South Korea's first robot suicide. What happened? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

(Firstpost) July 5, 2024: In a surprising turn of events, overworked South Korea has witnessed its first reported case of a "robot suicide." A civil officer robot deployed by the Gumi City Council "threw itself" down a flight of stairs, sparking an official investigation into the incident. Did the robot kill itself? What happened and why? Palki Sharma brings the report. #firstpost #palkisharma #vantageonfirstpost

China's military shows off robot dog with automatic rifle mounted on its back

(ABC 7 Chicago) May 29, 2024: During recent military drills with Cambodia, China's military showed off a "robot dog" with an automatic rifle mounted on its back, essentially turning man's best (electronic) friend into a killing machine to kill man. abc7chicago.com/post/chinas-m...

• 18 activities society vilifies that should be accepted

Super soldiers here to kill for capitalism

$100b Slaughterbots. Godfather of AI shows how AI will kill us, how to avoid it

(Digital Engine) April 19, 2024: New Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics and Figure 01 from OpenAI, leaked $100 billion OpenAI plan and a new project to avoid our extinction. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Sora.

To support and learn more about the project, please visit: digitalengine. Experts, please get in touch via: aisafetypath.org. ABOUT: aisafetypath.org/about-us. If we're lucky enough to reach someone who can fund this on a larger scale, we'd love to hear from that person.

• Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey; Palki Sharma (Firstpost); ABC 7 Chicago; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

We don't need privacy. We need Meta, FB, AI

The government took my company, embedded FBI agents, and forced us to include "backdoors" so they could spy on citizens. Why? We give them all the private information we collect on our users. (We are the government sort of but not officially). It's our right as a transnational corporation to support government that need to spy. YOU signed the agreement! If it's good enough for Winston Smith, it should be good enough for you. Go to hell. I'm a billionaire, you Proles!

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(WIRED) Russia. Cambridge Analytica. Hacks. Data breaches. Facebook has a rotten record and reputation when it comes to user privacy and control of personal data.

Mark "Facebook" Zuckerberg has a plan. Facebook is pivoting to privacy, Zuckerberg announced in a 3,200-word screed.

Zuckerberg sets out his [Orwellian] vision for the firm, saying that its future will be more focused on user privacy.

You don't understand what's at stake! My $$$

The shift comes around a year after Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal was first reported by The Observer and could mark a huge shift in how the company is organized, operates, and makes money.

Or it might not change anything at all. WIRED has unpacked what Zuckerberg is really saying in his essay and from subsequent comments given in an interview with WIRED.

"There needs to be two types of platforms in the world [one that collects user data for free, and another to sell it to spying agencies]: one is a more public platform, like the digital equivalent of a town square where you interact with lots of people [and tell them personal things] at once. That’s largely what Facebook and Instagram are. And the other platform is the private space [where we crunch, analyze, and store data, like Winston's job at the Ministry of Truth in the book], the digital equivalent to the living room."

Meta just achieved mind-reading using AI

(ColdFusion) Imagine if our brains could be scanned and the contents of our thoughts could be read. They can, but it was not useful data until A.I. was employed to make sense of the coding. A team of researchers and also Meta (formerly Facebook Corporation) have just achieved this feat by using AI. This episode of ColdFusion takes a look.

Zuckerberg has realized that people are using the main Facebook platform less. Data from the Pew Research Center found that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal 40 per cent of US adults were taking a break from the website.

People are still using other services owned by Facebook. The company is still making plenty of money.

Over the last three years Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger have been growing. The three apps have one big thing in common: messaging is a core part of how they work and that's what Zuckerberg is going to focus on with his bold ambition of [REDEFINING] privacy.

But what exactly does that mean?

AI "models" vs. human influencers: $$$

Where did Z'berg get this Orwellian idea? From

Israel redefining self-defense to mean genocide?

Priscilla is set to become world's richest Chinese woman.

"I'm trying to lay out is a privacy-focused vision for this kind of platform that starts with messaging and making that as secure as possible with end-to-end encryption, and then building all of the other kinds of private and intimate ways that you would want to interact—from calling, to groups, to stories, to payments, to different forms of commerce, to sharing location, to eventually having a more open-ended system to plug in different kinds of tools."

Essentially, Facebook's next focus is making money from messaging. People increasingly using Facebook's apps to talk to friends and family in smaller, private groups.

As a result, Zuckerberg will split the company into two parts that focus on public sharing and private sharing.

Privacy International researcher Frederike Kaltheuner has criticized Zuckerberg's approach for appearing to redefine what privacy means.

Uh-oh, sex with AI robots is coming (and deepfake Os will be included)

"Privacy is not the opposite of public sharing," Kaltheuner wrote on Twitter. Private sharing CAN STILL BE TERRIBLE FOR PRIVACY if the company enabling it is collecting huge quantities of personal data and using it [trade with government and nongovernment surveillance agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC, DHS, IRS, SSO, and other "Alphabet" agencies] to target advertising. More

Who needs privacy, freedom, happiness anyway?

• Spy agency issues urgent warning to billions of smartphone users to avoid being spied on (unless you don't mind)
• ColdFusion [11/18/23 (and 2019 for fall in value). Go to brilliant.org/coldfusion for 20% off. Twitter | @ColdFusion_TV]; WIRED.com; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly