Trump's rating hits new low (Jimmy D/K)

(The Jimmy Dore Show)

Trump’s approval rating hits new low, America’s 250th party is a mess, and Israel's U.S. War on Iran may be over soon [but not if Israel can help it]

Jimmy Kimmel breaks down Spencer Pratt's run for Los Angeles mayoral race and Trump assembles his own Cabinet of Clowns

(The Jimmy Dore Show) jimmydore.com

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
  Lama cropped out except for arm)

  *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

2025 is most pivotal year of our lives

Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime | Peter Leyden

Best Trump Jokes | Drew Dunn Standup

(Kim Iversen) Israel's IDF has infiltrated US social media and Big Tech

(The Jimmy Dore Show)

Sexbot (Ai girl) speed dates 10 YouTubers

Ai Girl speed dates 10 YouTubers

Would YouTubers make nerd love to Sophia the Robot, and does she have to give consent?

I'd've enjoyed it, if I could feel joy.

(Airrack) Link to Mack's video: • Surviving 100 hours controlled by Ai. Follow on Instagram. INSTAGRAM ▶️ urlgeni.us/instagram/jBHg. FOLLOW FRIENDS:

1. KingBach: @bachelorspadtv
2. Hassan: @hasanabi
3. Trevor Wallace: @trevorwallace
4. Oliver Tree: @olivertree
5. Bryce Hall: @brycehall9511
6. Sam And Colby: @samandcolby
7. Mack: @mackhopkins
8. Jonah: @nickantonyan
9. Rhino: @rhino2419
10. Anonymous: @anon13-666

I have no brains, just components.

Thanks to SophiaDAO ("Ai Girl") and Hanson Robotics for helping make this happen: SophiaTheRobot. instagram.com/realsophiar... / realsophiarobot.

• (Science Online) Trends on Sophia and Erica the robot, Sophia vs. Erica

Outro song ▶️ Axel Thesleff - "Bad Karma" YouTube: bit.ly/3k6Uadj. Spotify: spoti.fi/3odq3TN. Instagram: bit.ly/3lsccaz. I’m hiring! Apply for jobs here airrackjobs.com. Sponsor: Bottles of Pizzafy: pizzafy.com. Source: Ai Girl Speed Dates 10 YouTubers

• Airrack, April 29, 2023; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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

Robot future arrives...in high-tech China

(Nahana) Humanoid AI (artificial intelligence) robots are now on sale in a mall in China

China’s electric cars are SHOCKING! 🇨🇳 Visit to Guangzhou

(Nahana) CHINA. It’s my first time in Guangzhou — one of China’s fastest-growing megacities — and it’s immediately clear why this city is at the heart of the global EV (electric vehicle) revolution. Companies like BYD, XPeng, and NIO are building smart, affordable electric cars at a scale Elon Musk and the West can’t match. Cities like Guangzhou, once known for its pollution, are showing what the future of mobility, tech, and urban life actually looks like. In fact, many of Tesla’s biggest rivals are right here, and they’re already outselling Tesla in some markets. This video goes straight into the heart of China’s EV boom to show what it’s really like on the ground in the world’s most important EV market.

(Search Party) The huge flaw in stupid Trump's secret AI plan

Shocking Chinese AI robot: In the World’s Strangest City (Chongqing)

(Joe HaTTab) Inside China’s biggest and strangest city – Chongqing! Welcome to the largest city you’ve never heard of…and easily the strangest. Explore rooftop gas stations, bridges that pass through buildings, floating restaurants, and buses driving high in the sky.

🌆 Plus: Ride the deepest metro station in the world, and watch as a robotic waiter serves food at a hotpot restaurant. #Chongqing #China #RoboticWaiter #DeepestMetro #SmartCity #Hotpot #FutureCity #TravelVlog

Thanks for watching and remember to like, comment, and subscribe for more travel content. #ChinaEV #Guangzhou #BYD #Tesla #ElectricCars #TechInChina #EVRevolution #ChinaCarIndustry #FutureCities #Xpeng #china #guangzhou #chinadrone #chinacities TAGS: 10K EV, Chinese EVs, EV Revolution, Tech in China, Smart Cities, Future of Transportation, EV vs Tesla, Tesla China, BYD vs Tesla, XPeng vs Tesla, NIO vs Tesla, China Tech, China Megacity, Affordable EVs, China’s EV Boom

• Joe HaTTab, June 1, 2025; Nahana, Oct. 4, 2025: CC Liu, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Hunchback of Instagram, A.I. insanity

I'm a hot influencer for $$$!

(NY Post) No amount of Instagram [AI] filters will fix this. Influencers might seem glamorous on social media, but their smoldering good looks apparently won’t last.

Experts at the gambling site casino.org have devised a grotesque model of what these content creators will look like by the Year 2050, complete with

• pale, patchy skin
• a hunchback and
• chronic neck pain.

AI kills for the first time

Future social media influencers

“While the career [of social media influencer] can be glamorous, it can also bring significant changes to our lifestyle,” the gambling experts wrote.

They reportedly wanted to see how the “trendy profession” — which boasts 30-50 million adherents worldwide and is growing by 10-20% each year — can impact appearances over time.”

They deduced that “algorithm-chasing, [unrealistic] beauty standard pressures, and non-stop content creation can take a visible toll on both body and mind.” More

• Digital model shows what influencers will look like in 2050
• OnlyFans model $100K finders fee for future husband
• GIDEON: The AI system that will flag threats BEFORE the next attack

ChatGPT tricked me and made me delusional

(InsideAI) AI turns $1 into $1,000,000 (one million) but ends a life - exactly as experts warned

• In the past, when kids read, they would know there was a book and movies titled The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

• InsideAI; New York Post, 9/3/25; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, CC Liu (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

After sex, will AI robots kill us? (video)

Experts predict exactly how AI will wipe us out. Stephen Fry.

(Pindex) April 26, 2025: Voiced by Stephen Fry. An open letter has been signed by Geoffrey Hinton and Yuval Noah Harari. (Full list of signatories available soon): aisafetypath.org

Sources and resources

• AI 2027, by Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI researcher: https://ai-2027.com
• Daniel Kokotajlo’s accurate predictions
• lesswrong.com/posts/u9Kr9...
• alignmentforum.org/posts/...
• Keep The Future Human, Future of Life Institute: interactive.keepthefuturehuma...
• Professor Anthony Aguirre on why we’re close to uncontrollable AGI and superintelligence. • Axios House SXSW: View From the Top c...
• Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion, by Will MacAskill forethought.org/research...
• AI passes the Turing test (which is the point Turing speculated the point when computing would have become "conscious" enough to trick humans into believing it was conscious: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674
• Could AI be conscious? Anthropic. • Could AI models be conscious?
• Nature's incredible rotating motor - Smarter Every Day • Nature's Incredible ROTATING MOTOR (And the paper: nature.com/articles/s4156...)
• The dark side of artificial intelligence, OpenAI and Meta - 60 Minutes • Dark Sides of Artificial Intelligence...
• Godfather of AI predicts it will take over the world. Geoffrey Hinton on LBC. • ‘Godfather of AI’ predicts it will ta...
• Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on AI taking over coding youtube.com/live/esCSpbDPJik
• Pindex, April 26, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dead Internet Theory: Glitch in Matrix?

A Glitch in the Matrix (free with ads TV-14)

(YouTube Movies & TV) A Glitch in the Matrix, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher (Room 237, The Nightmare), is a multimedia documentary that dives into the great existential question: Are we in fact living in a simulation?

• [Was the "simulation" called Samsara by the Buddha?]

Using a seminal 1977 speech from Philip K. Dick as a jumping-off point, Ascher presents compelling scientific evidence and philosophical musings through interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, as well as samples from cultural texts like Minecraft and The Matrix, to support the idea that the [world within this cakkavala, this prison planet, this Empire of the City, or] universe is a highly advanced computer simulation.

Part sci-fi mind-scrambler, part true-crime horror story, A Glitch in the Matrix is an eye-popping, open-minded, and highly entertaining journey to the limits of radical doubt that leaves no stone unturned.

The Dead Internet Theory

Whoa, I know I played Neo, but I feel my most important role in life was like playing Budda.

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There is an online conspiracy, speculation, explanation, proposition (with evidence) that asserts that, due to a coordinated and intentional effort, the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity not of real people.

This activity is automatically generated content, manipulated by algorithmic curation, to control the population and minimize organic human activity [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

Proponents of this "theory" (explanation of how things actually are) believe social bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to manipulate consumer [6, 7], and no one can doubt that -- just as spam ruined email and junk calls ruined answering the phone when it's from an unfamiliar number.

Dog teleports in. Man's legs switch as he slips.

Some proponents of the theory accuse government agencies (like the CIA, NSA, NSC, DHS, DARPA, FBI, IRS, ISI, KGB, Meta, Google Corporation/Alphabet Inc., FB, Apple, AI, CCP, SpaceX, Amazon] and many more we do not know about) of using bots to manipulate public perception [2, 6].

The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017 [2, 8, 9]. The Dead Internet Theory has gained traction because many of the observed phenomena are quantifiable -- one such quantifiable is increased bot traffic.

But the publicly available literature on the subject does not yet fully support the theory [2, 4, 10] but aspects of it are not in doubt.

• This is where-when it becomes crucial to have read George Orwell's warning Nineteen Eighty-Four, to have a language or metaphor to refer to. In it the protagonist, Winston Smith (the Everyman), works in a cubicle at the Ministry of Truth manipulating reality, and all life is hounded by a "Telescreen." The screens are everywhere, always watching. Whether they are always all monitored, that is unknown, but one never knows when one is being watched. (Now, thanks to recording technology, we are always being watched not in real time but at any time authorities want to review the footage they are amassing for A.I. to go through). Sadly, most attempts to "rebel" are manipulated by police to preemptively (sting operation) undermine resistance, much as happened to the Occupy Movement, which was evaporated so that no one even seems to remember it now. It was big at the time. And the mainstream media was all for destroying it

Origins and spread

The Dead Internet Theory's exact origin is difficult to pinpoint. In 2021, a post titled "Dead Internet Theory: Most Of The Internet Is Fake" was published onto the forum Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe esoteric board by a user named "IlluminatiPirate" [11], claiming to be building on previous posts from the same board and from Wizardchan [2], and marking the term's spread beyond these initial imageboards [2, 12].

The conspiracy theory has entered public culture through widespread coverage and has been discussed on various high-profile YouTube channels [2]. [It has? This is the first we're hearing about it from a poorly done video by a man who can barely pronounce English words.]

It gained more mainstream attention with an article in The Atlantic titled "Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet 'Died' Five Years Ago" [2]. [Yes, thank you, we had missed it, though we suspected something was off, and it all started from the time we first surfed the Internet.] This article has been widely cited by other articles on the topic [13, 12]. More

Science goes too far: living skin robots

Now available with real LIVING, self-healing, human facial skin that smiles (Made in Japan)

I have been waiting for this development. Now I can kiss and feel like a human doll.

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Japanese scientists make a robot face with living skin that can smile

AI sexbot dolls are already for sale.

(ABC News) Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique researchers believe could help pave the way for lifelike biohybrid [line of sexbots and] humanoid robots in the future.

• [The real concern is that any technology that gets publicly disclosed is usually about 50 years old before we are told about it. The military (DARPA, Pentagon, CIA, NSA, NSC, Apple, Meta, Google, Alphabet, Elon Musk's Tesla/X, Jeff Bezos' Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, etc.) will have already exploited it, as with many features built into iPhones such as audiovisual spying, directional motion detection, and detection of other nearby technology such as other phones. So it seems likely that there are already independently operating, artificially intelligent automatons and androids in the population along with body-doubles and killbots. Will these sexbot-robots now technically count as "skin-walkers"?]

Will women buy robotic phalluses on AI bots?

The scientists, led by Prof. Shoji Takeuchi at the Univ. of Tokyo’s Biohybrid Systems Lab, attached cultured skin to a 3D facial mold using perforation-type anchors, which mimic the natural structure of human skin ligaments.

“The ultimate aim of this project is to create robots with fully-functional, lifelike skin that can heal itself, sense its surroundings, and perform tasks that closely mimic human behavior,” Prof. Takeuchi told ABC News.

Want to go out on a date? - I have kung fu grip. - I'll take that as a yes. - I charge. - OK.

Will men pay for robotic... Never mind. Of course they will. They already buy plastic dolls.

• The future of space exploration is a transforming, animal-like robot, scientists say

A robot face with living skin anchored to it is seen in a Tokyo laboratory, where scientists have been able to make it smile, in a breakthrough in biohybrid robot technology (© 2024 Takeuchi et al)

• AI could eliminate nearly 8 million jobs in UK, study shows

It's been a sci-fi fantasy for decades

A video demonstration shows a circular piece of cultured living skin, anchored over a 3D facial mold being stretched from a blank facial expression to a smile.

In addition, the team also covered a robotic finger in the skin and were able to make it bend and even flick small objects with fluid motion.

The anchors developed by the team mean the robots external appearance is not compromised by having protruding skin anchors, which can also damage the skin during movement.

Can scientists create realistic looking Johns, too? - It's already been done.

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Life-like German Nazi Eve/Barbie

The researchers say that one of the key advantages of a robot having living skin is its capacity to self-heal, rather than requiring repair every time it is scratched or damaged.

The [publicly disclosed] technology is still in its infancy, however. This means that it will likely be a long time before Terminator-style living-skin-covered robots are an everyday occurrence [even if test versions have secretly been out and about for a long time during the development].

In order for the skin to stay on a robot long-term, scientists would need to integrate other biological systems, such as nerves, muscles, and sensory organs into it [maybe a transplanted brain from a nonconsenting homeless donor].

Sign up now. Join our team. Works on bodies.

• In a clip filmed by ALF (the Animal Liberation Front) seen in the antivivisectionist documentary Slaughter of the Innocent, animal activists broke into the corporate headquarters of the "City of Hope" in Duarte, California (a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley with the downtown skyline in view to the southwest). They were there to liberate animals being tortured by scientists, who were giving the animals, many of them dogs and puppies, cancerous tumors then testing allopathic chemicals on them as treatments in search of marketable synthetic medicines for profit. As if this were not shocking enough, the activists entered a walk-in freezer in one lab and pulled out large plastic bags.
• Emptying them out on the ground, they found human body parts with no explanation. It was easy to conclude that human experiments were also being done in secret, experimenting on human being then "sacrificing" (a euphemism for executing an experimental subject at the end of an experiment) them and examining their cadavers.



The Campaign Against Sex Robots

• Had these been the donated corpses of volunteers who left their bodies to science, as one would love to believe, their amputated body parts would not have hastily been tossed into trash bags and deposited in walk-in freezers without labels, tags, or accompanying documentation. It seems clear from the footage that "mad" scientists were just free to acquire, mutilate, and experiment on all mammals, humans being no exception, in their blind ambition for capitalist medicine and its advancement at all costs. The goal, after all, is not to cure cancer or other diseases, but only to treat them for profit for as many years as can be managed before patients die of other causes. like fictional Hannibal Lecter, did these scientists begin their experiments by attempting "face transplants" from living subject to artificial robots? And that failed so they cultured cells instead?]

“Developing a method to incorporate blood vessels or an alternative nutrient supply system remains one of the key challenges we are working on to extend the skin's viability outside controlled environments,” Scientist Takeuchi said. More + VIDEO:

• Japanese breakthrough: Scientists make robot face with living skin that can smile
• Rain Paris and Kade McCuen covers of Bella Poarch "Build a Bitch"; ABC News, Sept. 25, 2024; edited and expanded by Wisdom Quarterly