by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/22/2026 2:23 PM
Want to do something useful for once in your pathetic, selfish First Worlder polluter life?
Do not use (Twitter) X
Never again.
Drop Facebook, all that other crap.
Boycott SpaceX and Tesla.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(chatbot)
Grok (chatbot)
From Wikipedia
Release November 3, 2023
It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk
Chicago Tribune
Intel Exec Stands By Testimony
November 11, 1998
His notes of a November 1995 meeting quote a Microsoft official as saying the company planned to "kill HTML by extending it."
SpaceXAI
From Wikipedia
SpaceXAI LLC (formerly xAI), is a subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX working in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media.
SpaceXAI's flagship products are the generative AI chatbot Grok and the social network X, which was acquired in March 2025.
Elon Musk founded xAI on March 9, 2023.
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 11/3/2023 ( ) is 13300 days
13300 = 6650 + 6650
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1984 ( Supreme Court of the United States decides Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. ) is 6650 days
From 8/30/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess the debut of my current and public blog Homeless Veteran of Microsoft - since renamed ) To 11/3/2023 ( ) is 6639 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/6/1984 ( premiere USA TV series "Blue Thunder" ) is 6639 days
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/464/417.html
FINDLAW
SONY CORP. v. UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC. 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
United States Supreme Court
SONY CORP. v. UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC. (1984)
No. 81-1687
Argued: January 18, 1983 Decided: January 17, 1984
Petitioner Sony Corp. manufactures home video tape recorders (VTR's), and markets them through retail establishments, some of which are also petitioners. Respondents own the copyrights on some of the television programs that are broadcast on the public airwaves. Respondents brought an action against petitioners in Federal District Court, alleging that VTR consumers had been recording some of respondents' copy-righted works that had been exhibited on commercially sponsored television and thereby infringed respondents' copyrights, and further that petitioners were liable for such copyright infringement because of their marketing of the VTR's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Thunder
Blue Thunder
From Wikipedia
Release dates May 13, 1983 (United States)
Blue Thunder is a 1983 American action thriller film
It depicts a Los Angeles police officer who discovers a conspiracy to dominate the city with an advanced military helicopter.
A spin-off television series, also called Blue Thunder
Frank Murphy is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) air support division pilot and troubled Vietnam War Veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. His newly assigned observer is rookie officer Richard Lymangood. The two patrol the city by helicopter and give assistance to police forces on the ground when needed.
Finishing their evening patrol, the pair are placed under a two-week suspension for allegations of voyeurism during a nearby mugging that resulted in the death of city councilwoman Diana McNeely. Murphy is provisionally reinstated for duty by Captain Jack Braddock and instructed to attend a private sunrise demonstration in the Mojave Desert at a US Government weapons testing facility, named "Pinkville", and selected to pilot an advanced helicopter, informally called "The Special" but given the nickname "Blue Thunder", during an evaluation exercise. It is a military-style combat aircraft intended for police use in surveillance and against possible large-scale civic disobedience or terrorism during the upcoming 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
With robust bulletproof armor, powerful armament, and other accoutrements, such as thermal infrared scanners, unidirectional microphones and cameras, built-in mobile telephone, computer and modem, a six-barreled 20 millimeter electric cannon, a "whisper mode" that lets the vehicle fly silently and a U-matic video cassette recorder; Blue Thunder appears to be a formidable tool in the war on crime. Murphy notes wryly that with enough of these helicopters "you could run the whole damn country."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(chatbot)
Grok (chatbot)
From Wikipedia
Release November 3, 2023
It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk
Musk also announced that Grok was expected to introduce a multimodal voice mode within a week and that Grok-2 would be open-sourced in the coming months. Hours after the announcement, X raised the price of its Premium+ subscription to $40.00 per month, up from $22.00. Grok 3 was made available to free users on February 20, 2025, for a "short time". This access was never disabled, despite being initially described as temporary. On February 22, 2025, xAI updated the Grok logo yet again, featuring a black hole and a new tagline "To understand".
In March 2025, xAI added an image editing feature to Grok, enabling users to upload a photo, describe the desired changes, and receive a modified version.
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
Chief: You don't know.
Leoben: Know what?
Red Storm Rising (1986) - by Tom Clancy, author
excerpt, Chapter 24
USS PHARRIS
Morris didn't wave at the low-flying aircraft, but wanted to. The French Navy's patrol plane signaled that they were within range of land-based air cover. It would take a very brave Russian sub skipper to want to play games here, with a screen of French diesel subs a few miles north of the convoy lane and several ASW patrol aircraft forming a tricolored umbrella over the convoy.
The French had also sent out a helicopter to collect the Russian submariners. They were being flown to Brest for a full interrogation by NATO intelligence types. Morris didn't envy them the trip. They'd be held by the French, and he had no doubt that the French Navy was in an evil mood after the loss of one of its carriers. The tapes his crew had made of their conversations were also being sent. The Russians had talked among themselves, aided by the chiefs' liquor, and perhaps their whispered conversations had some value.
They were about to turn the convoy over to a mixed British-French escort force and take over a group of forty merchantmen bound for America. Morris stood on the bridge wing, turning every five minutes or so to look at the two half and one full silhouettes that the bosun had painted on both sides of the pilothouse-"No sense having some jerk on the wrong side of the ship missing them," the bosun had pointed out seriously. Their ASW tactics had worked fairly well. With Pharris as outlying sonar picket, and heavy support from the Orions, they had intercepted all but one of the inbound Russian subs. There had been a lot of skepticism on this point, but the tactic had worked, by God. But it had to work better still.
Morris knew that things would be getting harder. For the first trip the Soviets had been able to put no more than a fraction of their submarines into action against them. Those submarines were now forcing their way down the Denmark Strait. The NATO sub force trying to block the passage no longer had the SOSUS line to give them intercept vectors, nor Orions to pounce on the contacts that submarines could not reach. They would score kills, but would they score enough? How much larger would the threat be this week? Morris could see from their return route to the States that they were adding nearly five hundred miles to the passage by looping far to the south-partially because of the Backfires, but more now to dilute the submarine threat. Two threats to worry about. His ship was equipped to deal with only one.
They'd lost a third of the convoy, mainly to aircraft. Could they sustain that? He wondered how the merchant crews were holding up.
They had closed in on the convoy, and he could see the northernmost line of merchies. On the horizon a big container ship was blinking a light at them. Morris raised his glasses to read the signal.
THANKS FOR NOTHING NAVY. One question answered.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:29 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 08/22/2026
