I was looking at a different site, when I got to a different image of that famous ‘rocket’ from 2 days ago.

You can see the second image HERE – I don’t want to put it up because I don’t want issues with copyright.

Compare that second image, with the first one on the YWN, HERE.

Apparently, only chareidi dudes were walking around the Bikaa Valley two days ago, looking at massive rockets from ‘Iran’…

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Me being me, I ran both images through AI, and asked it to notice any discrepancies that could suggest these are not real pictures.

Here’s what it came back with:

Very Strong indicators:

1. No blast crater — A ballistic missile impact would displace enormous amounts of earth, creating a significant crater. Here the ground is essentially undisturbed around the base of the object. This is physically implausible regardless of camera angle or time of day.
2. Fin/tail configuration — Different fin counts between images is a physical impossibility for genuine photos of the same object.
3. Object proportions — Width-to-height ratio differs between shots on what should be a fixed physical object.

Moderate indicators:

4. Object is oddly pristine and upright — Real ballistic missile debris would typically be fragmented, scattered, and unlikely to be standing nearly vertically in undisturbed soil. The object looks almost planted.
5. Background ridge profile — Differences beyond what lens/angle distortion would explain.
6. Shadow direction inconsistency — Shift larger than time-of-day difference justifies.

Weak indicators:

7. Ground texture around base
8. Power line angles
9. Burn/surface damage patterns

The crater point is particularly compelling because it’s not about image consistency between the two photos — it’s about physical reality, making it independently verifiable against basic physics.

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Again, please do think for yourself, this is just grist for your own mental mills.

Perhaps more worrying, was the message that popped up about Claude’s new super-duper model called ‘Fable’.

I clicked on the description of Fable, to see what it’s actually about. Here’s a little of what I read:

Releasing a model this capable comes with risks. Without strong safeguards, Claude Fable 5’s advanced capabilities in areas like cybersecurity and biology could be misused by users to create large-scale cyberattacks or bioweapons that could result in catastrophic damage. These capabilities are the reason we’ve previously only released Mythos-class models (like Claude Fable 5) to a small number of selected and vetted partners.

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What the ef.

Basically, meet the ‘cover story’ for the next big drama.

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Like most people, I am so, so, so sick of the world of lies.

It’s the uncertainty that is so difficult to deal with all the time, with wars being switched on and off like a kettle boiling water; airports being ‘shut down’ one second, then opened up the next, school’s in, school’s out, elections are happening, elections are not, moshiach is coming NOW!!!!, moshiach is apparently taking a break in the Bahamas before he shows up…

It’s headwrecking.

Me personally, I’m just trying to keep my head down, and find semi-productive things to do in the world of lies before it finally implodes, whenever that’s actually going to be.

That’s how I stay sane, with all this madness going on.

(‘Sane’ being of course a relative term.)

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Tov.

Back to the grind, then, of small things that help keep me grounded and a bit more focussed, including doing my hitbodedut, going to Rav, saying my 3 TKs, making supper, tidying up.

The routine is so important right now.

I decided I also need to experiment in the kitchen more again, as I haven’t been eating so well recently, as cooking is a very ‘hands on’ activity, and I’ve been feeling too ungrounded to engage with it very much. I ordered 2 new cookbooks, if there is no  more ‘war with Iran’ interrupting Amazon, maybe, they’ll even get delivered here…

(I tried to get around this issue by sending books to the UK, instead. When my parents’ flat burnt down two weeks ago, the suitcase with my new dress and some books was also one of the casualties… you cannot escape the decree, it seems.)

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We have to keep going, happily, with as much emuna as possible.

That’s the bottom line.

I feel so many people are falling into despair that things never will change, and the ‘baddies’ will never get what is really coming to them.

But that’s not true.

Just as the USSR disappeared all by itself, precisely when it’s time was up, the evil empires of our own generation are also on the stopwatch, and also probably, hopefully, don’t have a lot of time left.

Just, keeping sane and safe and happy while waiting for those final grains of sand in the hourglass can be kind of headwrecking, if we let it.

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If that’s how you’re feeling – stop reading this, and go and do some hitbodedut instead.

If talking is hard, take a notebook, and write down your thoughts instead, that’s also v. helpful.

I woke up feeling v. overwhelmed today, and spent an hour doing some ‘writing hitbodedut’ before I even got out of bed, which was very useful and calming.

Rebbe Nachman gave us all the advice we need to keep things together.

The thing is, we actually have to follow it.

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PS: One more thing about AI, which is increasingly looking to me like the embodiment of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, except with the primordial snake coded in, I got sent this by reader Shimshon:

About four weeks ago I sat down to translate one old book, a Hebrew text I found scanned on HebrewBooks.org, into English. One turned into two, this time in Latin. Then I built a pipeline to run a couple at a time. Now I’ve got a factory. And a name.

Announcing Ars Astronomica, a boutique publisher of centuries-old books about the heavens. Some of the greatest scientific works in history, most in readable English for the first time. One was never even printed; it survives only as a handwritten manuscript.

Please check it out and share.

http://ArsAstronomica.com/

All works are free and no registration is required to download.

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I had a look, and it’s actually very cool.

And, it was built with the help of AI….

Go figure.