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Trump reacts to Supreme Court decision, Part 2. The Trumpster describes the plot against him and the disloyal justices. He reveals his true feelings in the process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KekC...

Trump reacts to Supreme Court on tariffs. In case you missed the presser, here's the Trumpster analyzing the whole issue of tariffs. Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQy...

Older coverage of the app www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Yes, there is an app for this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Step 2 Read the Book You have arrived at Step 2: read the book. I encourage finding alternate sources so you don't have to buy it from Uncle Jeff Bezos. www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

Is there a Defcon 0 ? Guten morgen Herr Strangelove, your coffee and newspaper are on the table. Step 1, read the article, then go to step 2. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump the Drunk Susie Wiles said he has an alcoholic's personality. He found the Presidential liquor cabinet stocked with an irresistible drug: unfettered use of the American military. Nobody to stop him, he can order what he wants. Here he is drunk, on AF One. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvX...

Deja Vue all over again We really have been here before gang, just with a slightly different cast of characters. It's not really the Monroe Doctrine, but maybe the Roosevelt Corollary. Close enough. Gunboat diplomacy, the Big Stick. Even blockading Venezuela. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...

League of Women Voters If you don't know the League, you should. Founded in 1920 as a non-partisan political organization, initally focused on women's suffrage. State and local chapters do amazing work, unsung heroes of grassroots organizing. They do things like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpjy...

What bothers me about Thiel is, has he always been this gonzo and incoherent, even as a student at Stanford, or is this the cumulative effects of homeopathic remedies, acupuncture, ayahuasca, ganja and meth over decades? What mushrooms has this guy been eating? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Found one! Should get here in time to wear to the Kings Day protest, too. www.amazon.com/DAHAKII-Infl...

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying” (#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

This one snuck right up on me. The oral arguments are supposed to happen tomorrow, Tues, in front of SCOTUS (does that word have any etymological connection to the latin Scrotum? Just asking for a friend) www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/does...

America's very own fascists: a thoughtful analysis of George Lincoln Rockwell's visit to U of Mich in '64 and the controversy over whether he should even be allowed to speak. GLR is seen as a 'founding father' of the movement by white supremacists today. heritage.umich.edu/stories/invi...

Who is a fascist? Don't take other people's word for it, decide for yourself. Listen to someone who meets the definition, and see what you think. In Oct '64 George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, spoke at Univ of Michigan bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/1_9ybc...

Hey gang, look what my Chat bro can do now! Like, link to Stripe, render an invoice, all kinds of shit. Any way to know if it's accurate and stuff? "Some users have encountered bugs, either with connectors not working, or returning fictional information." www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/f...

Finally, an actual use case for ChatGPT that can really make a difference in helping someone get their work output to a new level. www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/n...

Charlie Kirk was an artful wordsmith who used coded language to normalize an American version of Nazism. She's not wrong with her analogy.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards! Finally all the AI slop can get the recognition it deserves. If you have a favorite AI experience, submit your nomination now at aidarwinawards.org. You can also check out the current list of nominees as well. It's about time, eh?

No, this is not a joke, and no, this is not funny. Just your friendly neighborhood tech bros doing what they do best. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

OK folks, forget the OpenAI chatbot crap, what you want is the real thing, right from MIT Tech: Eliza running the Doctor script. Try it for yourself, don't let the age of the software fool you, this is a really real therapist. And it doesn't need any damn cloud! web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/el...

Hey, Kids! Create your very own personalized Digital Companion, who will listen to you and help you with trouble deciding your gender or sexual orientation. It's made with real AI! And it's FREE. Just remember to tell them you're over 18 (wink wink, nudge nudge) replika.com/Mi4wLjA/camp...

Step aside, you amateurs, let's let the almighty Google Gemini make short work of this thing. Ah, an AI so smart it knows how to chicken out entirely. The chatbots not only couldn't beat an Atari, they couldn't even properly render a chessboard. Just sayin. www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/a...

Ok that wasn't really a fair fight. Let's let Microsoft Copilot have a shot at it. www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/m...

So let's see just how smart these AI thingys really are. How about a chess match? www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/a...

Run for your lives, the Singularity is here. Autonomous humanoid robots are ready to take over, and we'll all be reduced to idle drones playing video games. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

So, let's get serious for a moment. Probably the most prominent ostensibly convincing use case for AI is coding - software development. Microsoft, Meta, etc are dumping thousands of employees and no one is hiring entry level s/w folks. Help me out here, I'm confused. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/s...

More evidence of the evil AI feeder bots devouring legitimate web content. Can't help but think of those attack scenes from the Matrix. Life imitates art, or whatever. coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

The armies of enshittification on the march. AI bots devouring web content to feed training data to the AI models are overwhelming digital content sites like galleries and libraries. www.glamelab.org/products/are...

So I guess Zuck and the other tech bros at Google and OpenAI and the rest have never noticed this. Hey guys, Cash Patel is at the door and wants to talk to you. archive.org/details/fbi-...

If you're looking for a deeper dive on Google Zero (zero click-throughs on AI search results) here's some charts and tables. ahrefs.com/blog/ai-over...

There's even a buzzword (does anybody even say that anymore) for impending doom on the net, at least for publishers: Google Zero. Check it out. www.threads.com/@reckless128...

The downstream impact of AI search is devastating and happening faster than conventional media and publishing firms can deal with it. Enshittification is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The basic business model is dead. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"A Man and his Wife had the good fortune to possess a Goose which laid a Golden Egg every day..." Google 'Aesop' for the rest - if you dare. www.theregister.com/2025/06/22/a...

Yeah, bunker busters, that's what we need, they'll do the trick "one and done." www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/Magazine...

Sorry Donald, concrete bunkers are hard. During WWII the Germans built huge concrete anti-aircraft bunkers, called Flak Towers, in Berlin, Vienna and elsewhere. Above ground, BTW. They survived air and ground attacks and were so hard to demolish, many remain. www.worldwar-two.net/weapons/flak...

The seductive myth of air power: Operation Double Strike, the raid on ball bearing factories in Schweinfurt. Or B-52s over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam - remind me again who won that war. Or Iraq and Afghanistan. Nice analysis from the U.S. Naval Institute. www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

Why all the fuss about ICE agents not showing their ID or badges? We've been over all this before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OcM...

NYC has been a laboratory of our democracy and culture for a long time, and it is really important to look below the surface of the mayoral election headlines, & try to understand what is happening. Will the geriatric layer of the Dem party just not get it? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

Sometimes a little history helps put things in perspective. Elon is a certifiably crazy, drug addled moron. You can find rocket scientists with even more bizarre behavior - maybe it's chemical fumes. Jack Parsons, a co founder of JPL and Aerojet, puts Elon to shame. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pa...

It's just a small, personal, anecdotal data point, but Lake Winnipesaukee in NH is a beautiful, accessible natural jewel and it may not be safe to swim in it this summer. It's a huge lake, but that won't save it. Nothing is safe and time may already have run out. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/m...

Just ask ChataGPT to summarize a web page for you, what could be simpler? It's potentially dangerous, if the content contains rogue prompts or instructions that the AI might simply execute. It's an old security problem called an injection attack. simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...

I suppose we should have known this was inevitable, bots behaving badly. No, it's not the AI being 'creative,' it's an inherent structural flaw in the technology. www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/a...

Someone suggested that one way to cut through the fog of AI generated resumes and AI resume screening would be to hand write your resume and deliver it personally, to prove you are a human. Sorry to say, that's not gonna help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTP...

Enshittification continues at a breakneck pace. Indiscriminate and uncontrolled use of AI can make things incredibly worse, very very quickly. Looking for a job was already an awful experience, but now ... arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/t...

Beware tech bros offering free or cheap magic technology. Having everyone use AI everywhere for everything is a way for the AI companies to build more and more detailed dossiers - it all runs in the cloud, and where do you think all that data ends up? www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Nobody says it quite like Randy Newman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPls...

Watching The Donald wave his big, uh, bomb around ("Mine weighs 30,000 lbs and is the biggest in the whole world"), keep in mind there are only 19 B-2s left, and they are old. They are expensive and complex to maintain. Break something and it's not worth cost to repair. www.twz.com/air/damaged-...

Elon lights up another one. Pretty impressive fireworks, must be in honor of Juneteenth. Those tickets for a Mars or Moon trip are getting cheaper all the time, so don't wait, order yours now. I think you get a free ride to the spaceport in a Tesla Robotaxi. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Obviously we need new identity and security protocols for U.S. Senators when they are out in public. They should have their own day-glo vests with "U.S. Senate" in a typeface just like the ICE guys, they should carry non-lethal self defense items like air horns and cans of silly-string, etc.