Topix Underground

I refuse to pay $100 a year for a personalized plate.

I don't have one. We can pick what picture we get though. I guess I picked one with no picture. I used to have the Mackinac Bridge or something.

"The current extinction rate is estimated to be 100 to 1,000 times higher than the natural background rate, which historically sits around 1 to 5 species per year across all groups. Large mammals are especially vulnerable because they reproduce slowly, need big territories, and often clash directly with human interests. Elephants and rhinos get hit by poaching and land loss; apex predators like tigers and wolves lose prey and space. This isn’t the slow grind of natural selection—it’s a blitz.
Evolutionarily, it’s not "unusual" for big animals to disappear; they’ve always been at higher risk during disruptions due to their ecological demands. The unusual part is the singular, relentless human footprint. Past extinctions often had multiple triggers—volcanism, asteroids, sea level shifts—playing out over thousands or millions of years. Today’s crisis is compressed into centuries, even decades, with one species (us) as the bottleneck. So, while the pattern of large mammals fading fits the long arc of geological time, the tempo and the human solo act? That’s out of sync with how the game’s usually played."

 ----- The Robot

Which one? I prefer GPT. It’s more humanlike.

The Robot's going to pay off my credit cards for me and punish my enemies.

I'm going to ask the Robot if we wiped out the Chinese would  the Earth's megafauna would have better odds.

Grok. I noticed GTP is loaded on my computer somewhere but I have no icon to open it.

Open your search bar and find it.

Ok. I have it on the menu bar now. It's really cool. It doesn't do images as well as grok but I like it has tabs for "help me write" , "analyze data", "get advice", etc.

It has a better memory of your conversations too.

Pope Francis died Tuesday, February 25, 2025, but the Vatican did not publicly announce it. They will continue to hide his death. On Monday, March 3, 2025, they will announce his death.