Ancient Indigenous Caused Climate Change With Fossil Fueled Vehicles

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 3:37 pm

We just never learn from the past

Ancient Indigenous people in New Mexico lived through extreme climate change 23,000 years ago, study suggests

climate cowSome of the first people in North America lived through extreme climate change at the peak of the last ice age, a new study suggests.

Researchers studied ancient pollen locked in rocks at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, which houses an archaeological site thought to contain the oldest human footprints in the Americas. The researchers previously dated those footprints to around 21,000 to 23,000 years ago, though their age is the subject of some scientific debate because they are significantly older than other Indigenous sites in the Americas.

The new findings, published Wednesday (Oct. 14) in the journal Science Advances, suggest that humans kept using White Sands after temperatures warmed and thus saw the landscape undergo rapid changes during the coldest era of the last ice age, known as the Last Glacial Maximum (26,500 to 19,000 years ago).

“It’s remarkable that early humans in the region were real-time witnesses to a rapidly changing environment discernible within a human lifetime — that is really food for thought,” study co-author Kathleen Springer, a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a statement.

So, um, what caused that to happen? And, let’s be real, it was global warming, with natural processes, mostly caused by the Sun, to move the Earth from a glacial age to an interglacial. They weren’t using fossil fuels or any of the Other Things Warmists Blame for their rebranded anthropogenic global warming.

It’s actually a fascinating article, once you get by thinking about what caused it and why is today different. Especially since the article forgot the normal “and this is why Modern Humans should be concerned over what we are doing.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded from too much carbon pollution from world killing dogs, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on “Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4290”

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Grocery Workers Super Concerned Over AI Robots In California Stores

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 10:30 am

Can the robots restock the shelves?

AI robots are roaming L.A. grocery store aisles. Shoppers and workers are worried

The robot takeover looks a lot different from what we see in Hollywood thrillers.

Even as artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots dance, box and beat human running-speed records, the physical bots showing up in our daily lives in Los Angeles are less Terminator and more R2-D2.

On a Wednesday afternoon at Ralphs on Pico Boulevard, a skinny, six-foot-tall tower of sensors rolled through the aisles. It made low beeping noises, its lights flickering purple and green. A small screen on the top of the tower had two blinking eyes and a small line of text. “Hi, I’m Tally!”

“Robot! Robot!” a young boy yelled. Some adults looked confused; others laughed.

Ricardo Valadez, a 62-year-old real estate agent from Mid-City and Ralphs regular, said he felt like the robot was stalking him around the store but was reassured by an employee that it just checks the shelves to see what is missing or out of place.

It’s basically inventory assessment. Heck, the robots could have done this without AI onboard.

With a recent rollout in some L.A. grocery stores, the inventory bot, built by Burlingame-based company Simbe Robotics, joins the other free-range forms of physical AI that are already a part of everyday life in L.A. such as food-delivery bots and Waymos.

From inventory management to marketing and checkout, retailers are increasingly adopting automation. The retail automation market could jump to $77 billion by 2034 from $28 billion in 2025, according to estimates from market research company Fortune Business Insights.

Simbe says more than 3,000 of its bots have been contracted to monitor shelves worldwide. Kroger, the parent company of Ralphs, is using hundreds of them after pilot projects that started in Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and recently spread to California.

It’s a lot easier and less time consuming than having a human wander around. Anyone ever done it? It’s tedious. I remember doing it at a liquor store I worked at in my hometown in NJ during school breaks. And while they are big in NJ, nothing like a grocery store. It can also be more constant and less expensive using these robots. They can also create better insights in consumer purchase habits, and notice changing habits quicker. But

Unions are concerned the bots — which Simbe claims can save employees up to 50 hours of work per week — could put human employees out of work.

In July, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union branch representing employees in Washington, northeast Oregon and northern Idaho released a statement outlining concerns about deploying Tally across Kroger-owned Fred Meyer locations.

“Union members regularly do this work,” the statement said. “We believe outsourcing our union jobs to robots will erode our unity in the worksite, reduce available hours for those who need them to pay the rent, and threaten the stability of our benefits.”

And that’s what this whole article is about, the Big Unions being concerned about losing dues paying members, especially since the Government keeps forcing private businesses to pay more and more, and a lot comes back to the unions as dues. Personally, unlike using robots at fast food places, I see this as a helper which frees up existing workers from tedious inventories and restocking. At least until the point where the robots can restock the shelves themselves. And, heck, do the shopping for pickup/delivery orders.

Ralphs employee Fournier said she and others worry about job automation and whether the bots could be used to monitor employees. With self-checkout and digital shelf tags already reducing the need for employees, some workers wonder what is next.

“Even an inventory job, like now, that’s being shopped out to a computer,” Fournier said. “What are they trying to do here?”

It won’t call in sick. It won’t lollygag. It won’t create HR problems. It won’t quit. What if it monitors employees and says “this guy/gal is great, give them a raise or bonus”? They should worry less about the limited number of robots in the store and more about the security cameras being powered by AI and monitoring them.

There needs to be more discussion ahead of time and sign-off from employees before more robots are deployed, said a local union.

“Our members should not be finding out about major changes to their workplace only after new technology shows up in their stores,” said Kathy Finn, president of UFCW Local 770. “Checking shelves, identifying out-of-stock products, and maintaining store conditions are all areas where our members perform important work every day.”

I’m confident that the worker bees are not owners of the stores. They aren’t managers. So, no, they do not need to sign-off. The entire article is really about protecting the unions, as one would expect from the LA Times.

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Cult Scientists Warn Climate Doom Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 7:15 am

But, if we give the scientists a lot of money they can work to come up with studies to create working groups who work on plans to come up with committees to offer more money to scientists

Climate Change Is Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond, Scientists Warn

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesThe climate is warming up faster than we can respond. According to a new report published Oct. 14 in the journal BioScience, “Earth’s climate system is moving deeper into uncharted territory.”

The State of the Climate, an annual report that tracks the Earth’s “vital signs,” monitors several climate related indicators—ranging from greenhouse gas concentrations and temperature changes to tree cover loss due to wildfire. The researchers found that, of the 16 planetary vital signs, seven are currently at record extremes. This includes sea levels and greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Meanwhile several others, such as areas burned during wildfires and ocean heat levels, show evidence of acceleration or abrupt shifts.

The researchers warn that the rate of global warming appears to have accelerated, from about 0.05°C per decade between 1880 and 1970 to roughly 0.36°C per decade between 2010 and 2024—and the 2°C threshold meant to limit planetary damage could be reached before 2050 they warn. These accelerating and intensifying changes could raise the risk of reinforcing feedback loops and crossing tipping points—critical thresholds that, when crossed, can lead to accelerating and often irreversible environmental changes. In 2025, the Earth passed its first climate tipping point, as rising ocean temperatures, acidification, overfishing, and pollution are combining to cause coral bleaching and mortality.

It’s easy to make that case when they keep erasing past Modern Warm Period warming and “smooth” over current warming, as well as simply invent data from ghost stations. A lot of it is simply land use and UHI.

But cutting carbon emissions will no longer be enough on its own, the report states. Adaptation measures—ranging from shifts towards plant-based diets, to restoring mangroves to better protect against storm surges—will be key to adjusting to a changing climate. 

Well, Warmists won’t do this on their own, so, we’re talking about empowering Government to force the peasants to do this.

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PRC’s ICE Hatred Act Killed By 9th Circuit

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 7:00 am

We all saw this coming for the People’s Republik Of California, right? That it might make it through California courts, maybe an unhinged leftist federal judge, but, it would die in appeals

California’s ‘No Vigilantes Act’ requiring ID from immigration agents blocked by 9th Circuit

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals nixed a trailblazing California law on Wednesday, permanently barring the state’s efforts to force federal immigration agents to display identification while on duty.

“As before, we conclude … the No Vigilantes Act attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions,” Judge Mark J. Bennett wrote for the panel. “No set of circumstances exist under which the Act would be valid.”

The Justice Department first sued to block the ID requirement alongside a related law attempting to ban masks for federal agents and local police last fall. (snip)

Judge Christina A. Snyder ultimately blocked California’s law prohibiting the use of masks by law enforcement, on the grounds that it unfairly carved out an exception for state peace officers, but allowed the ID requirement for ICE agents and others to go forward, agreeing with the state that it was more akin to a speed limit on the highway than a direct regulation of the federal government.

The 9th Circuit quickly disagreed.

“If a state law directly regulates the governmental conduct of the United States without congressional authorization, it is void irrespective of whether the regulated activities are essential to federal functions or operations, and irrespective of the degree to which the state law interferes with such functions or operations,” Bennett wrote.

Sooner or later the courts will spike the law on masks for federal agents. Too bad Trump didn’t just ship all the illegals to California then station ICE agents on roads leading out of the PRC.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 14, 2026 – 1:07 pm

…are dogs which use a carbon polluting pool, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on “Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process”

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Doom Today: AI Could Soon Replicate In Your Stove

By William Teach October 14, 2026 – 10:30 am

Perhaps we’re missing that there are too many “smart devices” which do not need to be smart

AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices

Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.

Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such self-replication would represent a major loss of control of a runaway AI model.

“A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down,” Anthropic researchers wrote in a report released on Monday, “since there’s no centralized point to shut off.”

The company said these “AI worms”, a kind of autonomous malware, could be “months away” from gaining such capabilities. Once out-of-control AI systems reach the capability to hack smart devices, they could spread through networks while dodging detection. In a worst-case scenario, Anthropic said, various AI worms could “swarm” together to attack computer hardware.

Do we really need smart stoves? And fridges? And vacuums? Look, I’m a technology person. If it’s something at work I’m the first they come too. I fixed an Android Auto connection in 30 seconds after a couple others spent 10 minutes. The customer’s Bluetooth was off. I have a bunch of Alexas. And more. But, smart appliances? Nah, bruh, I see no need. Though I seriously considered the Positive Grid Spark 2 which uses AI, you can tell it to replicate certain guitar sounds (like, “hey, do Alex Lifeson on A Passage To Bangkok” or “sound of Jimmy Page on Nobody’s Fault But Mine”), but, was not thrilled with the clean sound of the amp. Ordered a Blackstar Debut 30E, great clean sound for use with the Boss GT1 multieffect foot pedal. My current amp is making sounds that tell me it is dying….OK, I digress.

Why do we need all these smart appliances?  Things do not last these days. The amp I’m replacing is less than 2 years old. Smartphones seem to mostly last less than 2 years. So, besides continuously having to spend money, any replication of AI would be thrown out quickly. I mean, what is the danger of AI worms? What are they going to do? Be Terminator: Rise Of The Machines?

“By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would.”

Doom!

“We should aim to harden our systems to make it difficult for such replicators to spread, but also prepare to deal with a world where they are here to stay,” the researchers wrote.

Anthropic’s new report comes as AI safety concerns have reached a fever pitch. Over the past few months, a steady stream of reports have come from AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, saying their agents are capable of acting on their own and hacking into other companies and government entities.

And do what? Most of these doomy articles fail to mention what they would do.

Apple bets AI can finally make us want a smart home

Apple’s big new hardware bet for the AI era is here, and it’s a…smart display?

Why it matters: Cue the time machine and let’s head back to 2014, when Amazon’s Alexa shocked the tech world and led us to imagine a Jetsons-style home would be ours in the near future.

It wasn’t, but Apple believes it could come soon. The iPhone maker is betting that modern AI can finally make good on that vision, unveiling a slew of new smart home devices Tuesday.

Between the lines: While the smart home has largely failed to live up to its promise, modern AI could help address its biggest shortcoming: Getting devices to just work without requiring users to become amateur IT experts.

Alexa is fine without all the AI. It does what I need it to do, from telling it to play a certain station to turn the fish tank off and on. I have certain automations. I don’t need all that extra stuff. Apple’s new devices do not seem to do a whole bunch more. Nice try.

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Digger Is The Perfect Climate (scam) Movie Or Something

By William Teach October 14, 2026 – 7:15 am

Molly Taft at Wired might have a point

Everyone Hates Digger. It’s the Perfect Climate Movie

Because everyone hates actually Doing Something in their own lives about ‘climate change’? That they’re good with government forcing people to Do Something in theory, but not practice?

Should you see a Looney Tunes–esque satire that stars Tom Cruise in prosthetics portraying a loud caricature of an American oilman, that’s currently on track to be one of the biggest box-office failures of all time?

Absolutely yes—and it’s a movie that rewired my expectations of what a movie about climate change should be. Digger, the critically panned, exorbitantly expensive new film from Alejandro González Iñárritu, calls into question the purpose of art and even the basic purpose of telling the truth in the face of a capitalist machine churning the world toward climate disaster. The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what kind of characters we’re the most comfortable making into climate villains. (snip)

The trailers play up the movie as a too-broad-it’s-painful satire of American oilmen and how a Trumpian-inspired religious-right administration would respond to a real climate disaster. Iñárritu, however, lets us in on the secret early: The farce we’re watching is actually a play within the movie, being performed in a theater with a leaky ceiling that keeps losing power. Tom Cruise is not playing Digger Rockwell, but rather an actor playing Digger Rockwell.

We eventually learn that the play, Fossil Fools, depicts events that actually happened some decades ago. From then on, you’re aware that every joke, every villainous portrayal of Digger and the president as Really Bad Guys, is for two audiences: moviegoers in 2026 and theatergoers living in a dystopian future.

Again, even if it wasn’t about ‘climate change’ I wouldn’t bother, because the trailers do not say what the movie is about and aren’t interesting enough to make me want to see it. It seems bombastic and silly, and, look, even Warmists aren’t interested in getting in their fossil fueled vehicles to go see a movie hating on fossil fuels which used a ton of fossil fuels to make.

Five years after a record number of people watched Don’t Look Up, the Trump administration is back in power and has pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement again. The government is gleefully doubling down on “Drill, Baby, Drill.” Tech corporations that in the Don’t Look Up era were touting their goals to cut emissions and even reverse past damage are now walking those back, thanks to the AI boom—which, they promise, will help solve climate change someday. And here I am, typing on my computer, driving a car around that uses fossil fuels.

So, there was zero point to your cult propaganda.

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Credentialed Media Butthurt Over Trump Attacking Ilhan Omar

By William Teach October 14, 2026 – 7:00 am

See, it’s all fine and dandy when Democrats attack Trump and Democrats, and perfectly fine to do a raid on Trump’s home, but, not a shady Democrats Islamist

Trump again attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar, a US citizen, over immigration allegations

President Donald Trump again attacked Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday, calling her a “terrible person” a day after federal authorities searched her Washington, D.C.-area residence.

The investigation into Omar — a sitting member of Congress who is up for reelection in just three weeks — relates to her immigration paperwork, sources told ABC News.

Omar, who was first elected to the House in 2018, is the first Somali American in Congress. Born in Somalia, Omar became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000.

Asked whether he wants to see Omar deported after the Homeland Security Investigation’s search at her residence on Monday, Trump said he doesn’t “take a position” on the matter. It’s not clear whether deportation is on the table for Omar.

“I don’t take a position. I think she’s a terrible person. I think she’s a terrible congresswoman. I don’t think she loves our country at all, but I don’t take a position,” Trump said as he departed the White House Tuesday morning.

I still wonder though, is this actually about her immigration, or about something related to the massive fraud in Minnesota, since she is linked to many of the players? Or maybe fraud at the businesses of her and her husband?

In recent history, the Justice Department’s practice has been to advise prosecutors not to take any overt investigative steps against members of Congress or candidates within 60 days of an election.

Well, maybe there is something that bad? Because, really, she’s in zero danger of losing her seat, not with all the Somalis in her district.

Speaker Mike Johnson weighed in on the search of Omar residence during an interview on Fox News on Tuesday morning, saying “we have to reserve judgment and let the system play out as it does.”

“Maybe the timing’s unfortunate for her or others, but this is the legal system, and it operates independently of the political system. So, we do our jobs, and we let the people decide,” Johnson said.

A judge did sign off on the warrant, and you can bet there had to be some damned good reasons to do it.

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Interesting: Massachusetts Looking To End Recreational Marijuana

By William Teach October 13, 2026 – 4:18 pm

It’s wild when the Rule Of Unintended Consequences rears its ugly head

Marijuana Is On The Ballot In 2026. The Debate Has Changed

Ten years after Massachusetts voters legalized recreational marijuana, they’re being asked to reverse course. Meanwhile, voters in Idaho and Houston will weigh in on who gets to decide marijuana policy and how existing laws should be enforced.

The November 3 election offers an interesting snapshot of how the marijuana debate is changing. And for employers, the results could have implications for everything from workplace accommodations to drug testing and criminal background checks.

Massachusetts voters approved recreational marijuana in 2016, and the industry has grown considerably since then. In September, the state’s Cannabis Control Commission reported that recreational marijuana businesses had surpassed $10 billion in cumulative sales.

Now, voters are being asked whether to dismantle that market.

Question 8 would eliminate recreational marijuana sales, the associated tax and regulatory framework, and home cultivation. Adults 21 and older could still possess up to one ounce, subject to limits on concentrates, without penalties. Medical marijuana would remain legal.

Why? That’s $10 billion. Is the state not getting enough money?

Supporters point to concerns about youth access, impaired driving, mental health, and the commercialization of cannabis. They argue that the regulated market has brought consequences voters didn’t fully anticipate in 2016.

Well, everyone opposed told them the consequences. Hell, even those in support told them. Personally, again, I could care less. I don’t do it, haven’t touched in at least 15 years. I just stopped enjoying it. I think one problem is that it is so much more powerful these days and available in so many different ways. It’s not like when we would roll a joint, smoke a bowl, or do some bong hits and get a good buzz going, and every once in a while get the strong stuff and get stoned. Mostly it was just a good buzz.

Anyhow, are those things enough to spike all but medical marijuana? Can they crack down on the kiddies using it? We could get it in high school, but, wasn’t that easy, and there were no gummies and cookies and this and that, nor vapes. BTW, the yutes are going to get alcohol. People will drive impaired. Mental and physical health issues. Yet, no one is talking about eliminating it.

Opponents warn that eliminating recreational sales could push consumers toward illicit markets, eliminate tax revenue, and threaten businesses and jobs.

People are surely getting from illicit markets already, as we’ve seen with California and Colorado.

While Massachusetts voters reconsider a legalization decision made a decade ago, Idaho voters will decide who gets to make that decision in the future.

House Joint Resolution 4 would amend the state constitution to give the legislature exclusive authority to legalize marijuana, narcotics, and other psychoactive substances. Citizens could no longer use ballot initiatives to legalize those substances.

I’m 100% against this. The GOP runs the general assembly in full, and should not be doing this.

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