Dalton
@gdaltonbentley.bsky.social
Retired electronics application engineer, software design engineer, IT business owner (retired, Southwest PC Solutions), former musician and recording engineer (Dalton Bentley Music).
The mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart [1927, Metropolis].
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart [1927, Metropolis].
Enjoyed Rocky Bleier documentary segment on NBC Football Night In America last night (Chargers vs Steelers). Hadn't realized how badly he was injured in Viet Nam while serving with the US Army in 1969, and the subsequent remarkable physical fight to play again with the Steelers. True character.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Enjoyed Rocky Bleier documentary segment on NBC Football Night In America last night (Chargers vs Steelers). Hadn't realized how badly he was injured in Viet Nam while serving with the US Army in 1969, and the subsequent remarkable physical fight to play again with the Steelers. True character.
Metaphysical zombie "science:" Even where induced mystical experiences with psychedelics effect recovery from depression, academics desperately demand that there be no causal conscious experience, but only epiphenomenal reflections of neurobiology.
JAMA doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3032
JAMA doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3032
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Metaphysical zombie "science:" Even where induced mystical experiences with psychedelics effect recovery from depression, academics desperately demand that there be no causal conscious experience, but only epiphenomenal reflections of neurobiology.
JAMA doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3032
JAMA doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3032
"Tesla, Klarna, IBM, Duolingo, Taco Bell, and countless others rushed to scale down their workforce with AI...most are now quietly ...rehiring staff" [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-companies-replaced-workers-ai-quietly-reversing-course-gwizda%25C5%2582a-zh2we/]
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Tesla, Klarna, IBM, Duolingo, Taco Bell, and countless others rushed to scale down their workforce with AI...most are now quietly ...rehiring staff" [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-companies-replaced-workers-ai-quietly-reversing-course-gwizda%25C5%2582a-zh2we/]
The US GAO found that 66% of costs of implementing work requirements for Medicaid expansion are admin. Many will lose care because of complexity, so will simply go to an uncompensated ER.
JAMA Health Forum
Published Online: October 30, 2025
2025;6;(10):e255957. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.5957
JAMA Health Forum
Published Online: October 30, 2025
2025;6;(10):e255957. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.5957
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The US GAO found that 66% of costs of implementing work requirements for Medicaid expansion are admin. Many will lose care because of complexity, so will simply go to an uncompensated ER.
JAMA Health Forum
Published Online: October 30, 2025
2025;6;(10):e255957. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.5957
JAMA Health Forum
Published Online: October 30, 2025
2025;6;(10):e255957. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.5957
A Jewish friend (Reconstructionist Congregation) observed Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in October. That idea of bringing to mind one's sins and hoping to do better or otherwise atone for them somehow seems a good one: I try to do that daily.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A Jewish friend (Reconstructionist Congregation) observed Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in October. That idea of bringing to mind one's sins and hoping to do better or otherwise atone for them somehow seems a good one: I try to do that daily.
“We ought not . . . take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is" [St. Theresa]. We nevertheless must not forsake right action, e.g., to hope that our words have had some good effect.
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“We ought not . . . take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is" [St. Theresa]. We nevertheless must not forsake right action, e.g., to hope that our words have had some good effect.
“I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know" [Bill Gates (the ruthless founder of Microsoft) talking to Rolling Stone in 2014].
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know" [Bill Gates (the ruthless founder of Microsoft) talking to Rolling Stone in 2014].
... the innocent and righteous ...suffer . . . [in] a society which...his contemporaries ... have built up into a vast and enduring incarnation of disorder, inflicting suffering upon its members and infecting them with its own ignorance and wickedness [Aldous Huxley, 1946 The Perennial Philosophy]
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
... the innocent and righteous ...suffer . . . [in] a society which...his contemporaries ... have built up into a vast and enduring incarnation of disorder, inflicting suffering upon its members and infecting them with its own ignorance and wickedness [Aldous Huxley, 1946 The Perennial Philosophy]
Working with open-source vector graphics program, Inkscape, lately. Impressed with the built-in XML editor to use on open SVG file (or imported aligned pdf):
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Working with open-source vector graphics program, Inkscape, lately. Impressed with the built-in XML editor to use on open SVG file (or imported aligned pdf):
Always surprised to discover another human able to think, e.g., Garrett Hardin in his 1968 "The Tragedy of the Commons." For example, overpopulation has no technical solution, freedom in a commons actually brings ruin to all. Ostrom's "rebuttal" was imbecilic, Nobel notwithstanding.
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Always surprised to discover another human able to think, e.g., Garrett Hardin in his 1968 "The Tragedy of the Commons." For example, overpopulation has no technical solution, freedom in a commons actually brings ruin to all. Ostrom's "rebuttal" was imbecilic, Nobel notwithstanding.
"Did you ever have that feeling in your life That someone was watching you?" We all thought that was an amusing lyric from Grand Funk Railroad 1969 (Red Album, song Paranoid). Fast forward: "With Big Brother watching me always...why do I feel so alone?" (21st Century USA, by Drive By Truckers).
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Did you ever have that feeling in your life That someone was watching you?" We all thought that was an amusing lyric from Grand Funk Railroad 1969 (Red Album, song Paranoid). Fast forward: "With Big Brother watching me always...why do I feel so alone?" (21st Century USA, by Drive By Truckers).
Pleased to get some preliminary function from ImageJ plugin SE_MTF (written by Carles Mitja and friends at the Image Quality Laboratory, UPC, Spain) today. Edge spatial response shown for ROI 63 x 189 of slanted edge SEMTFbmp1.tiff. Next: scan a double-edge razor blade on Canon scanner and analyze.
October 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Pleased to get some preliminary function from ImageJ plugin SE_MTF (written by Carles Mitja and friends at the Image Quality Laboratory, UPC, Spain) today. Edge spatial response shown for ROI 63 x 189 of slanted edge SEMTFbmp1.tiff. Next: scan a double-edge razor blade on Canon scanner and analyze.
Was annoyed to run into Java exceptions in some software I thought would obviate the need to write ImageJ macro code to do a slanted-edge spatial response production of the modulation transfer function of the imaging system. I suppose it is all fiddling while Rome burns, but it entertains me...
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Was annoyed to run into Java exceptions in some software I thought would obviate the need to write ImageJ macro code to do a slanted-edge spatial response production of the modulation transfer function of the imaging system. I suppose it is all fiddling while Rome burns, but it entertains me...
No Kings protests made it clear millions of decent Americans are outraged by Trump and his cronies (in high or low places) defiling the Republic with authoritarianism. The Trumpists will resent that rejection and continue to plan to pervert future elections, but in the end feces will festoon them.
October 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
No Kings protests made it clear millions of decent Americans are outraged by Trump and his cronies (in high or low places) defiling the Republic with authoritarianism. The Trumpists will resent that rejection and continue to plan to pervert future elections, but in the end feces will festoon them.
Really proud of all the Americans standing up for the Republic at No Kings protests today!
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Really proud of all the Americans standing up for the Republic at No Kings protests today!
Ain't it good to be alive? (Jagger/Richards in Angie) I am not handling the natural end of men with a lot of grace, typical I suppose for Boomers who had it all handed to them and assumed the party would go on forever. Didn't expect to see America disintegrating into an Idiocracy dictatorship...
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ain't it good to be alive? (Jagger/Richards in Angie) I am not handling the natural end of men with a lot of grace, typical I suppose for Boomers who had it all handed to them and assumed the party would go on forever. Didn't expect to see America disintegrating into an Idiocracy dictatorship...
Occasionally I am wrong, grin. I did not believe Hamas would actually release the remaining twenty hostages, but now I realize I was foolishly assuming there was an agreement to the terms published in media, when it appears that everyone knew full well Hamas did not intend to to disarm (not good).
October 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Occasionally I am wrong, grin. I did not believe Hamas would actually release the remaining twenty hostages, but now I realize I was foolishly assuming there was an agreement to the terms published in media, when it appears that everyone knew full well Hamas did not intend to to disarm (not good).
RIP, Diane Keaton. Will miss you.
October 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
RIP, Diane Keaton. Will miss you.
Humanity is confronting several existential crises now. It seems an unfortunate time to destroy the Internet as an accurate information highway and pollute what information can be found amid ads by intermixing the idiot parrot utterings of AI. Fight the Idiocracy!
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Humanity is confronting several existential crises now. It seems an unfortunate time to destroy the Internet as an accurate information highway and pollute what information can be found amid ads by intermixing the idiot parrot utterings of AI. Fight the Idiocracy!
In 1865, while Henrik Ibsen was writing his play, "Brand," he kept a scorpion in an empty beer glass on his table. When the scorpion appeared sick, Ibsen would give it a piece of fruit, which it would attack and inject with poison, after which it became well again. America seems to resist healing...
October 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In 1865, while Henrik Ibsen was writing his play, "Brand," he kept a scorpion in an empty beer glass on his table. When the scorpion appeared sick, Ibsen would give it a piece of fruit, which it would attack and inject with poison, after which it became well again. America seems to resist healing...
"I don't want anything to disrupt my ability to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time. To that end, I do not watch television under any circumstances, I do not have a cell phone, and I participate in no form of social media" (Ann Patchett)
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | World Book Club | Ann Patchett: The Dutch House
A dark fairytale set in post war America tracing a family across the decades
www.bbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"I don't want anything to disrupt my ability to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time. To that end, I do not watch television under any circumstances, I do not have a cell phone, and I participate in no form of social media" (Ann Patchett)
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
Had brief respite from daily watching dangerous clowns dismantle America, i.e., on a local PBS station last night, watched a documentary of talented, courageous Ukrainian artists creating while fighting the Russian invasion: “Porcelain War.” www.porcelainwar.com/watch
Watch — PORCELAIN WAR
www.porcelainwar.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Had brief respite from daily watching dangerous clowns dismantle America, i.e., on a local PBS station last night, watched a documentary of talented, courageous Ukrainian artists creating while fighting the Russian invasion: “Porcelain War.” www.porcelainwar.com/watch
Feeling desolate lately (experiencing my own decline in parallel with that of the America I loved, i.e., America conceived by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson initially), so read again from Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)--not profound philosophy, it is really the thoughts of a "lofty and serene soul"
September 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Feeling desolate lately (experiencing my own decline in parallel with that of the America I loved, i.e., America conceived by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson initially), so read again from Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)--not profound philosophy, it is really the thoughts of a "lofty and serene soul"
Former White House chief of staff Gen John Kelly's 2024 definition of fascism: far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,
September 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Former White House chief of staff Gen John Kelly's 2024 definition of fascism: far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,