https://simanaitissays.com/2026/07/06/reality-101-part-1/Simanaitis Saysen2026-07-06T13:05:00+00:00REALITY 101       PART 1 "Trump Earned More Than $1 Billion From Crypto But His Investors Didn't Fare So Well: Rafael Nam "NPR", "Trump Pledged No Forever Wars Now He Risks Forever Talks With Iran" "The Wall Street Journal", "Gauging the Impact of Massive U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran" "Council on Foreign Affairs", "Trump and Netanyahu Wanted to Reshape the Middle East Now They Risk a Permacrisis" Jeremy Bowen "BBC", website quoted: "I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere", "Federal Depository Library Program", "Official $Trump meme coin market price" "Wikipedia"https://simanaitissays.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/lede-1.jpeg?w=150https://simanaitissays.com/2026/07/05/dr-zeynep-tufekcis-clarifies-a-i/Simanaitis Saysen2026-07-05T13:05:00+00:00DR. ZEYNEP TUFEKCI CLARIFIES A.I. Dr. Zeynep Tufekci (Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology at Princeton), "The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact" Zeynep Tufekci "The New York Times" Guest Essay, Meta's problems with A.I. handling customer service, Air Canada's chatbots promising refunds, McDonald's A.I. mistakenly adding hundreds of dollars of chicken nuggets to order, A.I.'s probabilistic nature is an inherent shortcoming (regardless of data-sourcing choices), A.I. can handle clear-cut domains of "yes/no" (like coding), A.I. handling "probably yes/probably no" is its weakness (in need of human correction)https://simanaitissays.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/lede.jpeg?w=150