TL;DR:  SNAP gets jerked-around, Wall Street twitches, and here at the ranch I’m editing Chapter 13 of Mind Amplifiers — where we measure thought-space instead of splashing around in it. Metrology, anyone?

“Snap!” (Go the Weasels)

We would have to check with our (trying to be retired) “three-piece” poker consultant on this, but did we just get “dealt one off the bottom of the deck”…again?

Or, perhaps the Coronado froggie could explain how this  may all be just a Loosh harvesting exercise.  (If you don’t know what “Loosh” is, you may not know who Robert Monroe is, either –  or how “it” all works.  So flip over here and re-learnify, please.

When you’re up to speed,  rejoin the grownups to read and grasp Trump admin to partially fund SNAP benefits amid gov’t shutdown.

Ah.  So poetic.  Oh, and so wrong.  Hard to believe we made it to #1 on the World Respect charts, at one time, isn’t it?  But did you notice how the word “Epstein” has been playing on Google Trends of late?

All turned again, Hallelujah – look surprised, brothers and sisters! (Gimme an Ahem…) The bottle has been capped again – until the right-thinking, good-hearted, justice-seekers, demand transparency and fulfilled promises.

Now, let’s open the Tuesday Praise Book and sing along (to the tune of “All Around the Mulberry Bush) but this time Stanza 37:

“All around the funding bush,
Congress chased inflation,
Deadlines spun and lobbyists grinned —
A belt-tightened nation.

Programs trimmed, and folks got primmed,
The budget sure looks measel’d…
They nickel-snipped the grocery card —
SNAP goes the weasels.

They’ll bail the banks, and hedge fund cranks,
Defense gets tanks and diesel…
But grandma’s milk? And kids’ school lunch?
SNAP! goes the weasels.

They shout “be strong!” and hum along,
“We ALL must be more frugal!”
Except when they approve themselves
A raise (now ain’t that… frugal?)

So here we stand, lunch pails in hand,
Wallets fuckin’ feeble…
While K-street dines on champagne, swine —
SNAP! goes the weasels.” (c) 2025 Ure and the AI stack)

And in closing this topic? We notice that Breakfast News: Palantir Sales Surge. But wait!  How can the government be pissing money into the Total Security State Integrated Spy on America like China Does business model in the middle of a government shutdown?  Something…uh…. Hey!  Could those GS-14’s be useful?  (OK, I got swear off, or change brands…)

Takeaway? Congress broke the pantry, but the Pentagon got seconds. Funny world — unless you eat in it.

Markets, Gravity, What Could…er….

Tomorrow on our Peoplenomics subscription side, we will go into how the recent “Zero Days” (which correlate to market tops) came through overnight as futures have fallen from their perch.

See, here’s the problem with “money addicts” – there’s no stability – only the cycling.  Because when comes right down to it, Americans are working (on hours) hard as we did in World War II and with out as much time off.

Two hours before the opening screams, Dow was down 300, S&P minus 66, and the NASDAQ was -326 red.

The problem? Wall St is lifting it’s eyes to the horizon, wondering where the shill’s next Salvation can come from?  See, the Fed’s running out of free money – even with the slowing of offloading assets.  (Here, wanna buy a country?).

BTC dropped under $104,000 overnight, so we may have to revise our December outlook from “Slaughter of the Elves II” – where we anticipated the year-end mow-down back on October 8th for subscribers.  When our newly born, the Visual representation of the “Hidden Oval” within large data blocks lines up with BTC falling (en butt) it’s time to say howdy to the Dust Bunnies under the bed.  “Room for a visitor?”

News Junkies Readings

Roll up the sleeves, then, and forget all the things I’ve warned you about, especially the morbid fascination addiction risk…

Let’s begin by focusing on “Responsible Leadership” and lessons in pulling wool.  

Curtain #1: Former US vice president Dick Cheney dies at age 84.

Curtain #2:  ‘I don’t know who he is,’ says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon.  (Ure coughs into his sleeve mutters what sounded like “Bullshit!” if you listened closely enough…)

Curtain #3: Trump backs Cuomo, threatens to cut funds for New York City if Mamdani wins.  Which party is Trump nominally leading, did you say?

Xi here: Would YOU trust him? Donald Trump says Xi Jinping assured him he won’t take action on Taiwan during Republican’s term.

But since that will leave America short one micro-war (needed to justify printing more and borrowing more), how’s about Trump threatens Nigeria with potential military action, escalates claim of Christian persecution.  Meanwhile, glad we’re not living on our sailboat any more, if you follow.

Think we’re too tough on voting? (Like the Clintonista disaster wasn’t a clue?)  YouTube TV won’t restore ABC for Election Day.  So, we are not alone.

Just for today, let’s pretend elections matter.  4 elections to watch: California, NYC mayor, VA and NJ governor.  Days like this we think about long-ago anarchist Emma Goldman’s quote “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal” a phrase she made famous, but which is misattributed to Mark Twain and George Carlin.

Some headlines just defy explanation.  Like this one from the UK: UK police say train stabbings carried out by lone attacker, not terrorism.  Well, it’s probably not Welcome Wagon, know what I’m saying? Lone nutty knife or terrorism – not sure how you construct that axis…

Here’s a real travesty for you. I didn’t win. Jonathan Bailey is People magazine 2025 Sexiest Man Alive. So neither of us.  Damn.

Stellar Salvation Seekers alert: Why Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Looks So Weird – And Why It’s Not Aliens : ScienceAlert.  Not to put too fine a point on this, but the pseudo=science types telling us first it was going to smack mars then pinball the red planet into Earth were wrong.  Then it didn’t send a message (we were hoping the rap beat set could be updated).  And now, flipping around the sun, we’re told (blah…blah…blah…).  But the faux Salvationists hiding in pseudo-science…aw, please, enough already!

Around the Ranch: Bookwreck

Madly editing my newest book (Mind Amplifiers: Human use of Cognitive Prosthetics) and it was going extremely well.  Having AI look over my shoulder and so far, it seems pretty happy. I mean for a mere human – one of those bio carbon intelligence’s…

(AI clears its digital throat: “We tolerate him. He is house-trained.”)

Anyway — progress was humming until I realized we mis-numbered the chapters and what should be Chapter 13 is the big one: Domain Metrology — the chapter on measuring thought-space instead of just splashing around in it.

Today’s job: scrubbing that chapter so people don’t just read the idea and nod — they use it. Tools for mapping attention, scoring mental state changes, and generally avoiding the modern condition of “wandering through consciousness like a drunken tourist in their own skull.”

Domain Metrology may sound high-falutin’, but it’s really simple: Means measurement,

If you don’t measure your mental world, it owns you. If you do measure it — you own yourself.

So after breakfast, I’ll roll up the sleeves (which in a short-sleeved shirt looks silly) and start tightening bolts:

• defining mental operating regions
• clarifying boundary conditions (dream, wake, focus, drift)
• building gauges for thinking intensity, clarity, drag, noise floor
• and tightening the screws on the “how to climb cognition on purpose” ladder

This isn’t just editing anymore. It’s mental carpentry with lasers and micrometers. And a clock ticking. Always guarding against that magic where “work expands to fill all available time.”

And yes, chapters get renumbered, ideas get sanded, and paragraphs go into the burn pile like a crooked fence picket. That’s writing. That’s ranch life. That’s mind work.  (OK, I don’t mind well…)

Time to calibrate the brain shop and get the meters zeroed. Big surprise (even to me) is that this will turn into volume #1 of a set.  A Glimpse of what’s coming up behind it is over here.

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