7 Ahau 3 Pax

Collapse of Empire

The first cold front of the season arrived on Wednesday of last week and continued for three days. Ambient temperature at night was about 60^o F. The first heavy rain appeared during the walk back to the “old folks home” in Waikiki on Sunday after a brief late afternoon outing to the International Marketplace (read: Target®). Winter is here!

An account was established for the new Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek (open source). The “app” was installed on the iPhone 16 Pro briefly, but uninstalled when no difference was noted between the latter and the Web site. There is one unidentified tracker associated with the site, if anyone is concerned about privacy. So, what about Apple® Intelligence? Yeah, what about it?

DeepSeek is apparently causing much grief with the technology sector of empire, so much so that a correction was forthcoming in the equities market. Coincidentally, DeepSeek servers were subject to a major DDoS attack. Oh, who could possible be responsible?

The vast hurdy-gurdy video library (HGVL) has been reduced by at least 150 choice selections (402 remaining). Another audit is in the works, although there is no valid reason why the LaCie® SSD should not just be reformatted. Then, the HGVL would be instantly deprecated. In addition, new downloads have been paused.

Observations reveal that there really aren’t that many 80-year-old members at the gym, if any. The safest assumption is that most seniors are between 65 and 75 years of age, the point being that only a handful of viable years are remaining before the inevitable rapid physical degeneration occurs. A chilling thought.

Incidentally, the MIAs at the gym still remain MIA. And, Pat and pops’ second wife have both gone MIA again. Only the worst can be assumed.

On a side note, personal social life has been completely mummified. There is absolutely no social interaction with anyone, by choice. Any interaction initiated by a friendly second party is immediately extinguished by apathy and the patented “stoneface.” Acquaintances are not exempted. Any verbal discourse is terse. In this era of extreme narcissism, all social interactions are unilateral and meaningless. Better off alone.

Addendum: Although a DeepSeek account was established, the service has not been used. The latter is still categorized as AI bullshit.