The real World 🌎 of AI ‘ChatGPT’s Chilling Queries – Wall Street Journal-5.4.2026+
I never thought that Michael Connelly, the Master criminal fiction writer with over 40 published novels, would create a masterpiece on the perils of Artificial Intelligence.
The tale tells the story of an AI creation ‘Clair’ whose 16 year old user, utilizing ‘Clair’ on his home computer, forges a relationship with ‘Clair’ and at the AI Bot’s urging murders his girlfriend for her presumed “disloyalty”.
Michael Connelly’s protagonist ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Mickey Haller takes on the case on behalf of the slain girl’s mother.
‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ brings a civil action against Clair’s creator Tidalwaiv.
It’s a sobering riveting saga. As a crime saga and courtroom drama. More importantly it introduced me to the inherent dangers of the burgeoning world of Artificial Intelligence.
The San Francisco Chronicle poll reports Scott Wiener is a shoo-in to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress next year.
The November runoff, presuming the front runner fails to garner 50% in June, will be a contest with the runner up.
June’s runner up will be a candidate The Chronicle rhetorically labels a sacrificial lamb standing between Wiener and Washington.
Connie Chan is no Lamb. She’s a 🦁 Lioness.
There are several reasons why Connie Chan, the District Supervisor, should get the nod.
For Connie it would be five months of local and national media exposure. It would be a boon for Connie Chan and the Asian Chinese community in San Francisco.
This exposure will propel Connie Chan to the Presidency of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors next January. Her Board mates would be remiss in not selecting Connie Chan for the second most important and influential elected position in San Francisco.
The blogger set out on a shopping trip to the Arizmendi Bakery and tossed himself into the Sunday human melee.
A soul survivor at the Muni stop at 25th and Geary Blvd
A day of the week when the Muni service is truncated, the buses are crowded and the streets are packed with shoppers and folks looking for something to eat and drink.
The suffocating Muni rider can only dream of “San Francisco on two wheels….”
Happily, the Arizmendi Bakery is the destination where the blogger fills his shopping bag with an assortment of tasty muffins, scones and a big piece of coffee cake. Baked only on Sunday.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizmendi_Bakery
Leaving Arizmendi the Sunday shopper is immediately gob smacked by the crowded traffic and buses.
The crowded 44 line on Sunday
Sunday traffic backed up at 9th Avenue and Lincoln Way inching into Golden Gate Park polluting the atmosphere
The entrance to the California Academy of Sciences
Back in the Richmond District the blogger waits for the next 38R bus
The blogger stops off at Joe’s Place as the last stop to pick up a take out vegetarian omelet. Hardly the up market fare of Arizmendi. But tasty and filling nonetheless.
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‘Bunsen Burner’ from the soundtrack of the dystopian film ‘Ex Machina’ is the music for a Sunday shopper in San Francisco
Next week marks the 100th anniversary of a genuine San Francisco cinema landmark.
The Balboa Cinema, nestled in the outer Richmond District less than a mile from the Pacific Ocean, has been entertaining movie goers for the past century.
To celebrate this event the week of April 13-17 a number of classic films are on the agenda.
On April 17 two memorable movies and blogger favorites will be screened. ‘The Conversation’ (1974) filmed entirely in San Francisco. Along with ‘The Fugitive’ (1993). Harrison Ford has the lead role in ‘The Fugitive’. A younger Harrison Ford has a role in ‘The Conversation’.
‘The Conversation’ cinemaphotography of the City over 50 years ago is memorable. Never to be forgotten. Particularly is the iconic opening scene in Union Square.
The real Civil War is being waged within Trump’s White House.
Who would have thought two years ago when the dystopian film “Civil War” hit the big screen that two years later there would be a Civil War.
Fortunately, save for the ICE exploitation of immigrants and random violence against America, the real Civil War would be within Trump’s own Administration.
TRUMP FIRES BONDI AFTER BUMPY TENURE – NEW YORK TIMES – 4.3.2026
As he begins to play his favorite role as President of “The Apprentice” and says “You’re fired!!!” to two members of his cabinet. The Trump administration meltdown is just beginning.
KRISTI NOEM SPEAKS AFTER TRUMP FIRING – 3.5.2026
TOP PHOTO – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE PAGE ONE 1.21.2025
First it was Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary. Now it’s Pam Bondi.
In his typical mysogynist sexist manner, Trump is exiling women as a way to save his floundering assault on immigrants, attacks on the media and war mongering Administration.
Now ousted Pam Bondi acted as the most servile Attorney General in American history. Doing her master’s bidding.
In the end it didn’t matter.
“You’re fired!!!!”
The Guardian – April 3rd, 2026Trump will do anything to dominate the news Pam and Kristi Kicked to the Curb – New York Times 4.4.2024Deposed DHS boss Kristi Noem – The Nation – March 2026Kristi Noem carrying the flag for Trump did not help her. She’s gone
TexasRep Slams Trump Over Sexist Mysogynist Eyebrow-Raising Pattern in His Firings
“Well… first it was Kristi Noem, now it’s Pam Bondi… it would be too much like right that Pete be next,” the congresswoman, 45, wrote. “I see a theme. He will throw the incompetent women under the bus a lot faster than the incompetent men.” – Jasmine Crockett, Texas CongresswomanNew York Times – 4.3.2026
It was six years ago today the blogger took a walk through the outer Richmond District.
The neighborhood was quiet, desolated and subdued as people sheltered in place and wore their masks.
The positive which came out of the Pandemic was the movement which resulted in the now permanently car free 1.2 mile strip in Golden Gate Park which is JFK Promenade.
The early days when then JFK Drive was car free. The temporary measure which became permanent.
Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is a war making, some would say, ‘war criminal’.
It makes perverse sense that this thuggish politician would push through a death penalty measure aimed at the Palestinians.
Netanyahu is already responsible for the slaughter of tens of thousands in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran already. The death penalty statute just adds to his list criminal and inhumane activity.
Aftermath of Israeli air strike in Gaza resulting in the death of 90 civilians
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 3.30.2026
Israel‘s parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed legislation making the death penalty by hanging the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians found guilty of murdering Israeli citizens.
“The State of Israel is changing the rules of the game today,” said Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, a West Bank settler whose ultranationalist party introduced the bill and who has popularized the measure with a noose pinned to his lapel.
Israeli media outlets showed images of Ben-Gvir celebrating with his fellow Knesset members in Israel’s parliament.
Critics also say it is unlikely to deter attacks by Palestinian attackers and that Israel has no sovereign jurisdiction over the occupied Palestinian territories.
It stressed that “such laws and measures will not break the will of the Palestinian people or undermine their steadfastness, nor will they deter them from continuing their legitimate struggle for freedom, independence, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
A large number of Israelis are appalled by Netanyahu’s criminal behavior
The Palestinian presidency strongly condemned the law, saying it “amounts to a war crime,” in a statement carried by the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
A total of 62 of 120 lawmakers backed the bill, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose ruling coalition is reliant on the support of far-right parties, for whom the adoption of the law marks a major victory.
“Those who murder Jews will not continue to breathe and enjoy conditions in prison,” he said. “This is a day of justice for the murdered, a day of deterrence for enemies,” Ben-Gvir said after the Knesset vote.
Top photo: Netanyahu and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, a West Bank settler whose ultranationalist party introduced the bill and who has popularized the measure with a noose pinned to his lapel celebrate passage of Palestinian death penalty bill in Israeli Knesset
The hangman for Palestinians in Netanyahu’s Israel
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