Day: February 12, 2026

Artificial Intelligence takes another giant leap forward. With the latest models from the two top AI creators, it is now inventing itself. Right. It’s creating it’s own smarter self. Every few months.

It can read an entire complicated legal contract and research all the clauses for accuracy, legality and faults, make any needed corrections and be 100% correct. As a for-instance. Since it now writes it’s own software, software engineers will probably be completely obsolete within a year. My own son is a senior software architect with a fancy home and a fat mortgage and too young for Social Security. I wonder how he’s going to fare…

It’s expected that within two years the job of accountant will be obsolete. AI can do it not just better but perfectly, and blindingly faster.

“Building financial models, analyzing data, writing investment memos, generating reports. AI handles these competently and is improving fast. Writing and content. Marketing copy, reports, journalism, technical writing. The quality has reached a point where many professionals can’t distinguish AI output from human work. Reading scans, analyzing lab results, suggesting diagnoses, reviewing literature. AI is approaching or exceeding human performance in several areas. Customer service. Genuinely capable AI agents… not the frustrating chatbots of five years ago… are being deployed now, handling complex multi-step problems.”

While Technogeeks will find all this to be wonderful, those whose jobs become obsolete will think less highly of it. Every time some new automated process comes along and replaces one done manually, there’s always some people who find themselves out of work and seeking new ways to make a living, and it’s never generally a disaster. But as AI rapidly takes over more and more of the labor humans have done, and many millions of people find themselves without incomes or any way to make a living, guess what’s going to happen?

Theft, armed robbery, street assaults, carjacking, home invasions, store lootings, rampant prostitution and a rapid increase in the murder rate are what’s going to happen. UNLESS… martial law is declared and a lot of people get shot to stop it.

Of course, our government sees this coming the same as all the others do, as this isn’t going to be just a US problem. It’s going to be a global problem, it will all happen everywhere at the same time, so what’s to stop them from waiting it out in their elite vacation spots and bunkers for a few months while the rest of us kill each other off? I’ll tell you. If this were allowed, it wouldn’t be long before armed gangs ruled everything and regaining control would be a long, hard fought battle. What I see coming instead is another Great Depression, where poverty ruled the land. A lot of people died of starvation during that period, though statistics either weren’t kept or were erased as they would have been an enduring political stain. More will die this time as all those people drawing welfare while living in cardboard tents on sidewalks and in alleys, sticking needles in their arms and shitting in the gutters, are a blight no one wants and will be the first to go.

There’s going to be a serious uptick in crime and the deployment of all the Federal I.C.E. agents to kick out illegals right now is both to get them off the welfare rolls and reduce the future level of crimes. Mostly, however, it’s to prepare us all for the presence of large numbers of armed federal troops in our cities, many of whom will be hired from the unemployed obsoleted workers who will eagerly wear a gun and a badge to arrest unemployed obsoleted workers.

What will happen to the millions of people who can’t find work? The welfare system will collapse under their weight, it’s starting to now, and will do so completely before long. Here’s a clue, Iran just murdered at least 40,000 people out of the millions demonstrating in the streets for freedom and no one cares much, especially the US government that threatened Iran to stop “or else” and then says very little except to say “stop” a few more times. Life only has value when the media says so and the life of one minor TV personality’s mother current is getting vastly more publicity than those 40,000 murdered Iranians. So how much do you think the deaths of 100,000 homeless in the US will be lamented? Or the deaths of a few million illegal aliens? Or the terribly sad loss of life among all those who can’t get welfare anymore when they’re portrayed as all being welfare scammers anyway? The disasters in the poor areas of big cities. Ready for another Great Chicago Fire? This time it may be accompanied by an actually deadly virus. How does one sterilize large areas?

This isn’t about doom and gloom, this is about change. What’s about to happen, and I’ve posted on this before, is that our population is going to diminish. Mostly it’s the human trash that will be gone, because humanity is about to streamline itself into a more efficient model. There’s going to be some rough times ahead first, obviously, but the end result will be a cleaner, more efficient world.

I hope so, anyway. We will see.

Like that title? A racer who believes in racing could be called a racist, right? Like artist, pianist or balloonist? Anyway…

This is about racing through space, although it’s not actually a competition I’m talking about but the increasing speed of galaxies the further away from ours they are. Our astronomers are convinced that the Universe is expanding faster and faster as it’s general expansion increases, and I have a very simple explanation for that, that doesn’t involve antimatter, Dark Matter or energy-filled space.

It only involves centrifugal force.

“They” also tell us that the Universe is wheel-shaped the same way almost all galaxies are. Everything spinning around a central core, only in the case of the Universe it’s galaxies doing the spinning instead of stars whirling around a galactic core. Okay, this sounds reasonable.

So, go to a playground where there’s one of those mini-merry go rounds, whatever they’re called, the steel round things on a center pivot and segmented like an orange sliced in half, with steel bars to hang onto. Go to the center of it and have someone turn it and see how much pull there is on you toward the outside. Almost none. Keep the rate of turn constant and start moving toward the outside of the thing and as you do, you’ll feel the pull to the outside grow stronger. That’s because the distance you travel with each revolution while at the center is almost none, so your ground speed is almost zero. But as you move toward the rim, the distance you travel with each revolution increases, meaning you’re going faster over the ground and the pull toward the rim increases. Another way is to imagine you have a rock tied to a string and you’re spinning it around over your head. If the string is only a foot long, you don’t feel much pull from the rock, but if the string is 5 or 6 feet long, that same rock at the same rate of spin starts feeling pretty heavy.

Centrifugal force is centrifugal force, it doesn’t matter if it’s on playground equipment or a spinning Universe, the closer a galaxy gets to the rim, the stronger the pull away from the center and since galaxies don’t have steel bars to hang onto, they’re continually accelerating, faster and faster as they move further and further from the Universe’s center.

Why is this so difficult? Astronomers have been searching for “Dark Matter” to explain this expansion for decades and no Cern Colliders and other massive efforts are going to discover it, because it isn’t there. That’s why this theory of matter is called Dark. No one’s ever been able to find it. Pretty dark if it can’t be seen.

And, an observation. The shape of the Universe is more like a round ball slightly flattened on each side and tapering to a thin wedge at the edges, than it is like a wheel. Like a Frisbee that’s fat in the middle, if that helps. This is because, if the Big Bang actually happened, the Universe expanded in all directions and at first was shaped like a ball. But it’s a spinning ball and most stuff that spins off a ball does it from the center line of it, like a yoyo, because once again that’s where centrifugal force is strongest.

Now to discuss the advances in AI, in the Next Post.