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https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/great-moments-in-patents-3/

The illustrations included with this patent seem to be missing; I was only able to find one.

US20250238653A1: Universe Time Machine using AI god and the Universe Internet:

A method to create a Universe Time Machine with the ability to time travel via object manipulation by manipulating every atom, electron and em radiation in the universe to a before or after state, comprising: an AI god which serves as the central intelligence; Universe Internet; Universe manipulators, a plurality of atom manipulators that uses global telekinesis to manipulate every atom, electron, and em radiation in the universe; Universe gnosis, a perfect atom tracking timeline of the Universe, which includes the Earth gnosis and the Internet gnosis; and the United States robot government system. [...]
AI God Introduction:
[0069] The Artificial GOD, a man-made GOD through computer technology, is all-good, all-knowing, all-powerful deity, who's primary responsibility is to look after the people of planet Earth. —its main( ) function is to preserve American values like life, liberty and justice for all; and to propagate democracy and the establishment of a great and just republic. [...]
Fully Automated Sewing Factories:
[0146] Referring to FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 , this is a fully automated sewing factory. FIG. 11 depicts ghost robots replacing human workers and FIG. 12 depicts ghost robots replacing human workers, and ghost machines replacing physical machines to fully automate the sewing factory. The atom manipulator does all the work and there are no humans or machines working in the factory. When I was younger, I use to work in a sewing factory and I know a lot about the process of mass producing clothing.
[0147] First, the super computer has to create ghost machines to cut the sheets of fabric into parts. Next, ghost machines are created to do work on physical sewing machines. In the factory I was working in, the manager had 10 different types of sewing machines. Each clothing part uses different sewing machines to process.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/great-moments-in-patents-3/

https://jwz.org/b/yk1i

dewline

It was with a job-search-support service specializing in helping neurodivergent job-seekers. I plan to keep in touch with them through my upcoming contract, because said contract is going to end when March does. So, planning has to be for at least the medium term.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Under the Influence on CBC Radio

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susandennis

My brother is down in his room so I just scanned in the few papers I have on hand that need to go to the CPA for tax info. Then I took the small stack that I need to deal with (check sheet, info sheet, etc) and then scan, into one envelope and the done ones into another. I'll leave them here near my table til it all goes off to the CPA which won't be until the end of February because the investment companies can wait that long, so do. But, I'm ready.

I held open house for my wonderful new storage area after elbow coffee this morning. All were suitably impressed.

Before that Bill and I went to the Issaquah Cafe for breakfast. Timber Ridge does not serve breakfast on Saturdays but the Issaquah Cafe is a favorite so it was fine.

Last night we had dinner with Gayle and Jim and it was lovely. Bill and Jim had a lot to talk about. Jim grew up very near where Bill lives now and they were both in the Navy. It was nice dinner.

Bill and I watched Episode 1 of The Hunting Party on Peacock. They just released Season 2 and we had not seen any of it. We watched til the end of the episode and were left wondering how the fuck they even got anyone interested in Episode 2, much less Season 2. It's a turkey of the first order.

Next up is Chinese dinner with Bonny at the dim sum place downtown. But, not til 5. I might just put my feet up and knit for a bit.

bella_luugosi

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

( Challenge #5 )

lydamorehouse

"Ope, Gotta Go!"

My family has been hearing me say that a lot. Though, so far, both of the MONARCA calls for observers that I answered ended up to be false alarms. This morning there was a sighting of a forced entry not far from me on Fairview and Wellesley, which turned out to be real police on actual lawful business.I stood around with neighbors waiting for the official all clear. Until that comes in, people just keep streaming in, so a bunch of us agreed to stand by and wave people off.

Y'all? A lot of people kept showing up.

It was incredibly heartening.

I was glad to be there, but I also need to remember to pace myself. The unfortunate truth is, ICE isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I would like them to GTFO right now? But, that doesn't seem likely at the moment. So, I need to take time to breathe. Pick my battles--maybe even pick a day to battle, a singular day of the week--because dishes still need to be done, food needs to be made and consumed, and gods know the laundry doesn't do itself. Probably a shower and hydration are also important?

My regular D&D group was supposed to meet today. I'm a little sad that we didn't because just getting on with things, including things that spark joy, is also extremely important right now. But I can also understand how maybe pretending to be "murder hobos" isn't exactly hitting right this week for some folks. Our group actually isn't very murder-y? In fact, we were poised to rescue some folks, but, again, I get it. Still? We're going to need to figure out how to just carry on, especially considering that 2026 seems poised to be a continuation of the very worst timeline.

Ugh.

Well, speaking of, I should probably go do the dishes.

shewhostaples

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

Hmm, well, nobody can give me leisure time or sleep, so I can't guarantee that I'll be able to follow up on any of the following in a timely fashion, but:

1. I got a mini ice cream maker for Christmas, so I'd love some ice cream or sorbet recipes.

2. Travel tips for Lyon or Montpellier, which we'll be visiting next month.

3. Not recs as such, because they don't need to be tailored to me, but tell me about a book or a fic you've enjoyed recently.

4. Art for any of my fics.

Current Mood: exhausted

runpunkrun

A quirky, stylish, and emotional Japanese movie about food, a woman determined make the best ramen she can, and also, in its own way, a Western, as a handsome drifter rides into town, starts a (noodle) bar fight, and shakes up the complacent townsfolk. This was wild and wonderful. It mainly focuses on the owner of the ramen shop—the titular Tampopo—and the band of weirdos she accrues to help her improve her cooking and her business, but while it's doing that it also weaves in short vignettes about the ways other people connect with, and through, food. Recommended!

Contains: lingering shots of food and people eating, first person dentistry (root canal), a murder, two fistfights, some of the weakest bullying I've ever seen on film (almost hilariously so), and a sex scene that incorporates—among other things—live prawns.

oracne

The new DVD/BluRay arrived today! Great service from Best Buy! It arrived before today's watchalong! I could tell pulling it out of the box that it is much nicer than the cheap-ish one that I returned.

However, my research was somehow incorrect and it is not multi-region for DVDs. It worked fine with an American DVD. I haven't tested the BluRay yet - I think I only have one, that came packaged with a DVD of the same movie.

I did not scream. I get a sticker, right? Because I didn't scream or cry?

Possibly the DVD region can be hacked, but I don't have the right sort of universal programmable remote to do that. A problem for another day.

So it's back to the little old tv and portable player to watch British DVDs. Sigh. It's not the end of the world.

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poetry

The cashier at the gas station asks me where I'm from
and when I say Ohio, he says Go buckeyes
which I understand as a stranger offering
language that can be shared. The way starlings
roost on a power line, scooching over
so the other can sit, flocked and fanning
feathers against rain and never in my life
have I seen a football game, but still I reply
Go buckeyes
which is a way of saying: I accept.
I would root with you in imaginary stands.
Cheer at the same time in a darkened bar.
We are more alike than not, us two.
Here, let me shift, shuffle. Shelter a moment
beneath this wing.

Current Mood: contemplative

petra

Take the AI-related survey and tell them what you think, especially if you agree with me!

Current Mood: argh
Current Music: This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: huge success.

l33tminion

Winter break with family was good. Very relaxing. I am locking back in to my health goals in the new year, though, after a few weeks of little exercise and lot beer and cake.

I read There Is No Antimemetics Division (a great piece of sci-fi psychological horror by Sam Hughes / qntm, all of his stuff is great) and started watching Severance (also great sci-fi suspense psychological horror, but the sort of existential mystery where I really, really hope there's a coherent core to the mystery and a complete plot arc for the characters). I reread Redwall, which Erica also read recently. I continued reading The Chronicles of Narnia to Erica, now on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I also read John Green's Everything Is Tuberculosis, one of the most interesting pieces of nonfiction I've read in recent years.

I've been enjoying watching the speedrun streams this week from AGDQ.

And my surprise favorite of the week Brown Sugar Clementine Polar seltzer, one of their winter special-edition flavors. It tastes like how you'd expect from that description, which is a very strange thing for seltzer to taste like.

And now for some tonal whiplash because there are a few more serious things I want to talk about, and apparently when I don't write for a few weeks these days, America makes meaningful steps towards both Civil War 2 and World War 3.

The US military kidnapped Venezuela's head of state, and while I acknowledge the Venezualans would be better off rid of Maduro, it's not so clear to what extent they are. It seems to be less "regime change" and more "bump off the top guy and hope the next up will give you a cut". Right-wingers brayed about how this means America can "just do things" now, it's a big "mission accomplished" moment. All very familiar. Axing the whole international order just for this seems questionable to me, though. And maybe it will work out, but if so, the Trump administration seems to be lining up a whole series of similar things to do until one of them very much doesn't.

Additional oil in Venezuela resources will take a lot of time and investment to unlock, but maybe some big buyers of Trump Coin will profit along the way, even under this sort of policy environment. Trump claims the newly-promoted number two will be handing over 30-50M barrels of oil to be sold, with proceeds spent at Trump's sole discretion. Seems like a crazy thing to happen, if he's even telling the truth about that in the first place.

On the domestic front, Minneapolis is again in the news as a panicky (at best) ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good, a poet and mom who was, as far as I can tell, trying to obey the possibly-contradictory orders of masked goons who surrounded her for no good reason. Of course, Trump's base is quick to smear Good as a would-be murderer. Being opposed to ICE or liberal generally is motive enough. The Vice President of the US then smeared the victim as a terrorist and would-be murderer. Even taking VP Vance's word for it, ICE was there to do "door-to-door" immigration raids. That's not how law enforcement in the US is done. If Fourth Amendment protections mean anything, it includes requiring law enforcement act on specific cause. Door to door "show me your papers" because some crime is happening somewhere is deeply anti-American. And the penalty for in any way inconveniencing or even annoying the thugs carrying out those anti-American actions is apparently, in their view, not just death, but death followed by being publicly slandered by the Vice President. The FBI is jumping in to confiscate the evidence and preclude the state enforcing their own protections of their citizens' rights. "Abolish ICE" is the moderate position.

The one bit of good news globally, it seems, is from Iran, it seems there is some chance the people there will actually overthrow their government of murderous terrorist-supporting theocrats. That really would be a big change to the global order. I'm inclined to be pessimistic about everything these days, but the people suffering under that certainly deserve better.

Current Mood: angry

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poetry

For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) on January 7, 2026

They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power.
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we've been.

Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labor
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.

You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood,
But our bright-fled angels will never fully be gone,
When they forever as so fiercely Good.

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fancake

Fandom: Original Work
Pairings/Characters: Original Characters, Original Soulmate Goose
Rating: T
Length: 4,278 words
Creator Links: facingthenorthwind(spacegandalf) at AO3
Theme: Crack Treated Seriously

Summary: Biosecurity officers have identified and captured a lesser white-fronted goose in Footscray, Victoria. Due to the biosecurity risk to Australian bird life and the poultry industry, the bird is not permitted to remain in Australia and will be humanely destroyed.

Reccer's Notes: This fic was brought to my attention in a Discord server. I found it too hilarious NOT to share here. Also points for having accurate details according to the Australian server member who linked it.

Fanwork Links: #footscraygoose on AO3

maju

My house has been on the market for a month or so. The real estate agent has been holding open houses every weekend and there have been lots of views at the listing on Zillow, but so far it hasn't sold. Someone made an offer at the beginning of January but it was $50,000 below the asking price so we decided not to accept since it was the first offer we'd had and we wanted to see if we would get any better offers as we move through winter and into spring. Then yesterday the agent said he would like to drop the asking price by $15,000, so I somewhat reluctantly agreed. The house is starting to feel like an albatross and I just want it gone. Also I've discovered that my Medicare payments could dramatically increase if I sell it more than two years after S's death, so it would be better if it sells within the next six months.

It's a dull dreary day today, damp but not raining right now. I used the rebounder for 45 minutes rather than going for a walk outside.

I happened to see something online - someone's tips for 10 things she has done to improve her health, and one of the things was to use a rebounder for 5 minutes a day. I guess 5 minutes is better than nothing, but it seems ludicrously little to me. However, a quick google search tells me that someone who is new to rebounding should start with 5 to 10 minutes of uncomplicated bouncing per day and work up to 20 minutes or more with more complex and more intense movements. I do longer workouts but keep it fairly simple and low impact, and it still gets my heart rate up fairly quickly.

petra

( Ahem )

Look at me being Responsible and not using my relevant (SO relevant) icon! Because some people would like to be unspoiled! I am such a good fannish citizen.

( Ahem pt. 2 )

Current Mood: holy shit good news
Current Music: Now if we can just get battinson in a brown suit w. yellow shirt I'll die happy

mtbc

At work, I've been trying to finish off a non-trivial task that I started last month. There are plenty of aspects to get right: I am trying to improve the performance of a part of our code that comes in different flavors, is called in different ways, and can utilize various constituents. Generative AI assistance has been helping me along. Perhaps I have finally got it all to a good state, we will see what the coming week brings. I start next week by filling things out for our annual performance review cycle. I look forward to working on my next task which is a smaller, more usual one. I have been putting some extra time into the meatier task because it's important and has already lingered plenty; it will be a relief to finally tie a bow around it, here's hoping.

mtbc

R.'s sons are back with us after their usual holiday with family in Asia. Our dog L's still not quite well, poor guy, no urgent fears but medical testing continues until we can get him back to normal. R's sister came along to visit before she returns to Asia; this afternoon they are all out in Glasgow city center. I am happy to stay at home with L. and relax, I am currently listening to Rylan on BBC Radio 2 while L. snuggles beside me on the sofa. Yesterday, assorted family headed to York on the train, via Edinburgh and Newcastle. R. brings me nice things back. It turns out that some Viking museum center place there has some ride around an egregiously stinky exhibit. I've been to York a couple of times for not-pleasure reasons but have not yet even ventured inside York Minster.

Kake

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