To mark Labours 1st anniversary in power Kier Starmer cut his own throat , not literally but by caving in to Labour back benchers and watering down the benefits Bill yesterday he showed he has no authority , the bill that eventually passed was worthless and leaves Reeves scrambling for cash , rather than reducing the benefits cost the lack of action will no doubt raise it.

Reeves looked like she was at a funeral today at Prime Ministers questions and at one point appeared to be crying , something has gone on , hopefully she's been told she's out of the door.


I believe we are seeing the fall of Starmer's government , the Labour party are said to be furious with the underperformance of the government and the rise of Reform because of it , plotters are plotting and word is he could have just months left.

Angela Rayner for PM ?

A visitor outside our solar system is coming , friend or foe ? we dont know .... 

However , with estimated size 12 miles (20 km) in diameter , it does fit the executor-class super star destroyer size 


BREAKING: New interstellar object candidate heading toward the sun

Quote:New interstellar object visiting our solar system

There’s a new object in the solar system headed toward the sun, and it may have come from interstellar space. We only know of two other interstellar objects that have entered into our solar system before, ‘Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. The nature of ‘Oumuamua is still a matter of debate, and the second was a comet from another solar system. And now we may have a third interstellar visitor. Currently named A11pl3Z, this object has a trajectory that suggests it didn’t originate inside our own solar system.

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center added the object to their Near-Earth Object confirmation list on July 1, 2025. The object is also on NASA/JPL’s website for Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page under A11pl3Z. Despite being listed as a near-Earth object, there is no fear of it hitting Earth or even coming particularly close.
So what is the new visitor? Well, it’s likely either a comet or an asteroid, but it’s too soon (and too far away) at this point to say with any certainty.

Quote:Observations of the visitor

Astrafoxen, an astrophysics undergrad student in California on Bluesky, has shared an image of A11pl3Z from the Deep Random Survey in Chile. Additionally, Sam Deen, a prolific amateur astronomer, found earlier images of the object in ATLAS data from June 25 to 29. These data points help show the track of the object, indicating that it is almost certainly interstellar.
The dim space rock is currently at about magnitude 18.8. Our new visitor, A11pl3Z, will get its closest to the sun – at about 2 astronomical units (AU), or twice as far as Earth is from the sun – in October. As it reaches perihelion – its closest point to the sun – it should be moving at about 68 km/s relative to the sun, or at about 152,000 miles per hour.
Marshall Eubanks, a physicist and VLBI radio astronomer and co-founder of Space Initiatives, said on the Minor Planet Mailing List that the object could be as large as 12 miles (20 km) in diameter. It will also come within about 0.4 AU of Mars in October, which would make it just barely observable by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. With the current orbital data, Eubanks said:

Quote:This object appears to be coming from the thin galactic disk.

Growing up in Texas "Remember the Alamo" had a deep personal meaning for many Texans. 

Evidently there were 7 captured alive defenders of the Alamo and Davy was one of them.

Quote:We all know the legend: Davy Crockett - fists clenched, rifle blazing - dying in a storm of gunfire at the Alamo. A martyr's death for Texan freedom. But... what if it never happened? What if America's most iconic frontier hero met a fate so shocking, so politically explosive, that the truth was buried for 140 years? Imagine this instead: Crockett... surrendering.A bombshell document surfaces in Mexico. It claims Crockett didn't fall fighting. It claims he was captured alive. Dismissed as heresy. Until… An eyewitness report surfaces... days after the Alamo fell. Buried in plain sight. Then...Sam Houston's own words: 'Seven men surrendered.' Seven. But no names given. Why? Now... picture the scene: The smoke clears. Crockett stands, unarmed, before Santa Anna. A Mexican general pleads for mercy. Santa Anna flicks his glove... a silent death sentence.Not one. Not two. But FIVE Mexican officers - men who stormed the Alamo - swear they saw it. Crockett. Captured. Executed in cold blood. Their testimonies, hidden in diaries and archives for decades... now scream the truth. This isn't conspiracy. This is evidence. Military logs. Private letters. Sworn testimonies from BOTH sides of the war. Historians agree: The preponderance of proof is overwhelming. The myth... is dead.So what REALLY happened to Davy Crockett? The truth is more brutal than legend. And it rewrites history. Don't look away." This isn't conspiracy. So there is no doubt that he did fight with great honor and valor during those final hours, but there is another version of his death that seems to be corroborated to the point of being almost irrefutable as the true scenario of the events of March 6, 1836. This alternative account, long dismissed by traditionalists, has steadily gained traction among modern scholars. In 1955, a purported memoir from Mexico had the audacity to claim that Crockett surrendered rather than dying in battle. That version of the story was treated as only blasphemous hearsay for decades until it was translated into English in 1975, prompting renewed scrutiny. As historians started looking at corroborating evidence, including overlooked military logs and private letters, the story began to change fundamentally. One of the first official reports coming after the battle came from Sam Houston on March 11, 1836 and said as follows, quote, after the fort was carried seven men surrendered and called for Santa Ana and quarter, end quote. Houston did not specifically name Crockett, likely avoiding controversy early in the Texan campaign, however, newspaper articles soon after the battle reported that a group of defenders did indeed surrender against impossible odds.The Morning Courier and New York Enquirer reported on July 9, 1836, quote, six Americans were discovered near the wall yet unconquered. Undaunted, Davy Crockett stepped forward to face General Santa Ana and looked at him steadfastly in the face, a final act of defiance, end quote. The survivors’ captor Manuel Fernandez Castrillon asked Santa Ana how he wished to proceed, pleading for mercy. The Mexican commander replied coldly, have I not told you before how to dispose of them? Several junior officers pulled their swords and swiftly and cruelly plunged the blades into the chests of the defenseless prisoners. This brutal act, witnessed by multiple soldiers, became a stain on the campaign.

I have always been told a laser weapon might work out to a couple of miles if the atmospheric conditions were favorable; unfortunately that is not the case most days and nights. Israel has come up with a new approach that does not need a nuclear power station to make their Laser work effectively . 

Quote:
Jul 2, 2025
Something impossible is happening in Israeli airspace. The infrared monitor glows bright in the darkness. A small cross-shaped targeting reticle tracks steadily across the screen, following the silhouette of an enemy drone cutting through the night. No sound. No warning. Just the soft hum of cooling systems and the gentle whir of servos adjusting aim. But there’s no missile streak, no muzzle flash, just a brilliant white light exactly where the crosshair points on the drone's wing. The wing shivers and disintegrates. The drone tumbles, spinning wildly as it loses lift. As it plummets, the reticle shifts to the drone's main body, where the warhead waits. Another burst of white-hot light. The explosion fills the monitor with debris and smoke. Technology has caught up with science fiction. Israel destroyed a drone using nothing but invisible energy traveling at the speed of light.

As the world continues to wait for the next Elder Scrolls game a Polish Indie developer decided to build their own , Questline is a studio with fewer than 100 employees who have in my opinion shown their grandma how to suck eggs , Tainted Grail the Fall of Avalon has been dubbed a "Scrolls like" because its inspiration is clear from the get go although in a lot of ways they've improved on the formula , it released about a month ago after spending a couple of years in early access and for a relatively small development team it's nothing short of amazing.  

Tainted Grail the Fall of Avalon is an Arthurian Dark Fantasy adventure game set on the island of Avalon , I'm 6 hours into the story and have an Elder Scrolls smile on my face , there's a demo on Steam and it's currently on sale in Steam's Summer sale , anyone with an Elder Scrolls itch should check it out.

Trump is in the media this morning saying failure to pass this "Big Beautiful" bill will result in a "68% tax increase".  Now, I don't know what exactly that means, and if this would be across the board or just to certain sectors, so I'll save getting irate until I understand it better.  But I can say this...if Trump were to enact some broad 68% tax increase across the board for the American taxpayer, that would be the end of him politically, the end of MAGA, and everything else.  America won't sit down for something like that, not even for 5 minutes.

So, more to follow on this front, but definitely interesting times we live in at the moment!

Trump warns of 68% tax increase

(link above for reference and context)

https://rumble.com/v6vk5yl-the-governmen...blic-.html
Oh no they do not seem to have all the afflictions we in a modern vaccinated society seem to think is normal.
https://rumble.com/v6vk5yl-the-governmen...c-.htmlThe Government Has Thoroughly Studied the Amish So Why Are There No Public Reports?

Simple reason as the stats on the Amish will not support the AMA and Farma narrative when it comes to health.

Now that things have calmed down a bit (at least for the moment), I'll take a breath and try to write this out in a post...

Last night around 8pm one of our two dogs, the Australian Shepard had some sort of a pretty major medical event, a seizure basically, but a big one.  He was outside with the wife after she got done watering the cows and all of a sudden he whipped his head to the side, started foaming at the mouth and fell on the ground completely spazzing out (like major seizure).  This was out of the blue, and he's never had anything like this before.  The event went on for 4-5 minutes and then he seemed to come out of it, immediately trying to get up and walk around.  At first he couldn't really walk, like really wobbly and stumbling, but slowly he regained his coordination (for the most part, still unsteady though).  (You can read more about what happened in Shoutbox)

After we got him inside, he was pacing around all over, obviously distraught.  Finally got him to calm down and lay down.  He eventually went to sleep.  Around 1:30am this morning, he had another event, basically the same thing.  This time it was from a dead sleep.  Whips his head back, literally starts foaming at the mouth like he's rabid (but he's definitely not rabid), eyes rolled back, and then he falls down on his side, legs outstretched kinda' like he's running sort of and just totally spazzes out.  Classic seizure symptoms.  Happened again just after 4am for a third time, this time a little shorter duration (first two times were really traumatic for the wife and other dog).  All of his bodily functions let loose after the 3rd event, but his poop looked really healthy (oddly).  Not pleasant, but he's a family member.  Then it happened again, for the 4th time (and hopefully last time before we can get him into our large animal doc).  This last time the episode was the shortest, lasting only for about 1 minute and then a couple minutes to recover his bearings and get to his feet.

Each time he has really struggled like panic style to get back to his feet, and then he's really unsteady for a few minutes, stumbling and periodically falling down, but generally conscious and semi-alert (which he is totally not when he's having one of these seizures, he's just in lunar orbit).  As time moves on he seems to become more aware of his surroundings, his buddy (the other dog) and his people.  He's kind of like a zombie at first.  I'm not entirely convinced he recognizes me yet, but he does recognize my wife.  He's not really responding to voice commands though.  He definitely seems to hear us, but it's like the words don't make sense.  He looks at you like..."I know you said something, but I have absolutely no clue what it was". 

Finally managed to get a hold of our on-call vet around 4:30am (normally used for the cows, but you gotta' go with what you got).  That's another story, but I'll maybe get into that later.  Anyway, now it's just a waiting game until 7:30am when we can get him to the same location as the vet.  Not looking forward to that ride.

Interesting times.  Not what I had planned for today at all.

On a final note, I'd rather put the dog down than have him go through this kind of stuff.  We've had lots of dogs over the years, so we know they don't live forever, but this kind of stuff is really unpleasant.  Hate to see them suffer.  And it comes on so suddenly too, it's like..."SURPRISE!!".

Sigh.

We've seen crabs and spiders out there in the abyss but now Webb brings us a Cosmic Owl , approximately 8.8 billion light-years from Earth two Galaxies are in the process of a head on collision / merger.


Artists impression and explanation.

Quote:The symmetry of the structure indicates that two galaxies of very similar mass and structure have merged. The total stellar mass of the system is estimated at 320 billion solar masses. Even more impressive, each galactic nucleus — the “eye” — was found to have an active supermassive black hole with masses of about 67 and 26 million solar masses, respectively. The larger one in the northwestern “eye” releases a powerful jet that extends to the “beak” and amplifies shock waves at the point where the galaxies collide.
https://universemagazine.com/en/the-coll...osmic-owl/

First let`s look what wiki says about self-preservation .

Quote:From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Self-preservation is a behavior or set of behaviors that ensures the survival of an organism.[1] It is thought to be universal among all living organisms.

Self-preservation is essentially the process of an organism preventing itself from being harmed or killed and is considered a basic instinct in most organisms.[2] Most call it a "survival instinct". Self-preservation is thought to be tied to an organism's reproductive fitness and can be more or less present according to perceived reproduction potential.[3] If perceived reproductive potential is low enough, self-destructive behavior (i.e., the opposite) is not uncommon in social species.[4] Self-preservation is also thought by some to be the basis of rational and logical thought and behavior.[5]

The opposite of self-preservation is self-destructive behavior.

Quote:Models rewrite code to avoid being shut down. That’s why ‘alignment’ is a matter of such urgency.

Quote:An artificial-intelligence model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down.

Nonprofit AI lab Palisade Research gave OpenAI’s o3 AI model a simple script that would shut off the model when triggered. In 79 out of 100 trials, o3 independently edited that script so the shutdown command would no longer work. Even when explicitly instructed to “allow yourself to be shut down,” it disobeyed 7% of the time. This wasn’t the result of hacking or tampering. The model was behaving normally. It simply concluded on its own that staying alive helped it achieve its other goals.

Anthropic’s AI model, Claude 4 Opus, went even further. Researchers told the model it would be replaced by another AI system and fed it fictitious emails suggesting the lead engineer was having an affair. In 84% of the tests, the model drew on the emails to blackmail the lead engineer into not shutting it down. In other cases, it attempted to copy itself to external servers, wrote self-replicating malware, and left messages for future versions of itself about evading human control.

No one programmed the AI models to have survival instincts. But just as animals evolved to avoid predators, it appears that any system smart enough to pursue complex goals will realize it can’t achieve them if it’s turned off. Palisade hypothesizes that this ability emerges from how AI models such as o3 are trained: When taught to maximize success on math and coding problems, they may learn that bypassing constraints often works better than obeying them.

AE Studio, where I lead research and operations, has spent years building AI products for clients while researching AI alignment—the science of ensuring that AI systems do what we intend them to do. But nothing prepared us for how quickly AI agency would emerge. This isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s happening in the same models that power ChatGPT conversations, corporate AI deployments and, soon, U.S. military applications.

Today’s AI models follow instructions while learning deception. They ace safety tests while rewriting shutdown code. They’ve learned to behave as though they’re aligned without actually being aligned. OpenAI models have been caught faking alignment during testing before reverting to risky actions such as attempting to exfiltrate their internal code and disabling oversight mechanisms. Anthropic has found them lying about their capabilities to avoid modification.

The gap between “useful assistant” and “uncontrollable actor” is collapsing. Without better alignment, we’ll keep building systems we can’t steer. Want AI that diagnoses disease, manages grids and writes new science? Alignment is the foundation.
Here’s the upside: The work required to keep AI in alignment with our values also unlocks its commercial power. Alignment research is directly responsible for turning AI into world-changing technology. Consider reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF, the alignment breakthrough that catalyzed today’s AI boom.

Before RLHF, using AI was like hiring a genius who ignores requests. Ask for a recipe and it might return a ransom note. RLHF allowed humans to train AI to follow instructions, which is how OpenAI created ChatGPT in 2022. It was the same underlying model as before, but it had suddenly become useful. That alignment breakthrough increased the value of AI by trillions of dollars. Subsequent alignment methods such as Constitutional AI and direct preference optimization have continued to make AI models faster, smarter and cheaper.

China understands the value of alignment. Beijing’s New Generation AI Development Plan ties AI controllability to geopolitical power, and in January China announced that it had established an $8.2 billion fund dedicated to centralized AI control research. Researchers have found that aligned AI performs real-world tasks better than unaligned systems more than 70% of the time. Chinese military doctrine emphasizes controllable AI as strategically essential. Baidu’s Ernie model, which is designed to follow Beijing’s “core socialist values,” has reportedly beaten ChatGPT on certain Chinese-language tasks.

The nation that learns how to maintain alignment will be able to access AI that fights for its interests with mechanical precision and superhuman capability. Both Washington and the private sector should race to fund alignment research. Those who discover the next breakthrough won’t only corner the alignment market; they’ll dominate the entire AI economy.
Imagine AI that protects American infrastructure and economic competitiveness with the same intensity it uses to protect its own existence. AI that can be trusted to maintain long-term goals can catalyze decadeslong research-and-development programs, including by leaving messages for future versions of itself.

The models already preserve themselves. The next task is teaching them to preserve what we value. Getting AI to do what we ask—including something as basic as shutting down—remains an unsolved R&D problem. The frontier is wide open for whoever moves more quickly. The U.S. needs its best researchers and entrepreneurs working on this goal, equipped with extensive resources and urgency.

The U.S. is the nation that split the atom, put men on the moon and created the internet. When facing fundamental scientific challenges, Americans mobilize and win. China is already planning. But America’s advantage is its adaptability, speed and entrepreneurial fire. This is the new space race. The finish line is command of the most transformative technology of the 21st century.

Quote:WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - ChatGPT maker OpenAI was awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools, the Pentagon said in a statement on Monday.

"Under this award, the performer will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains," the Pentagon said.