Windypundit

Since you gutted USAID, an estimated 2 million people have died. mortality47.org

Almost everything: Cars, computers, television, cameras, phones, medicine, food, kitchens, clothing, telecommunications, music delivery, package delivery, shopping, batteries, tools, shoes… all better. Only toilets and the President are worse, and I’m not so sure about toilets.

Rapist appoints paranoid sex pest to look into women's health very strongly.

This is sort of the trans version of the myth of drug dealers giving drugs to children for free to get them hooked.

Oh Steve, we can only hope!

We all know it’s only a matter of time until he thinks of staging the execution in the ballroom…

Deportation requires two steps: (1) Grab people and put them in camps, and (2) Move people from the camps to their final destination. I am horribly certain that it has occurred to people in this administration that deportation would be a lot easier if they could eliminate that second step.

To be fair, this is also an accurate description of how Apprentice episodes were made, with editors and producers trying to fix his performance in the edit…

Bummer. I just noticed the 18th Space Defense Squadron has issued 60-day warning notices for the Swift Observatory space telescope. Re-entry predicted for November 3rd. It’s back in full detection mode. Going down swinging…er, slewing.

There is already a "tax" on unsold condos, its called having to pay the bank back for the development loan

With all due respect, while agreeing that our president is deeply stupid, your country’s boycott did this. Trump didn’t make you do a boycott. You did that to retaliate and gain leverage by subjecting us to economic pain. This is exactly what that looks like.

Attention DC Statehood advocates! This is your chance! Act now! Agree to name the new state “Trump.” You’ll get the President, and he can pressure the Senate. All you’ll need is the House. Sure, your state will have an odious name, but it will still be a real state, with Senators and everything!

Decades from now, scientists will still be adding a line or two to the methodology section of their research papers to explain how their longitudinal studies accounted for the “mid-2020s data gap”…

BTW, because the news reports did not make it obvious: Most of the incidents where AI got away and hacked something were the results of tests to see what the AI would do if a lot of the safety controls were removed. They were trying to push the AI to see what it would do.

It used to be the Iranians wouldn't do stuff like this out of fear they'd get bombed. But we've shown them they can live with getting bombed. Now the only way we can regain the initiative...is troops on the ground. Which would be terrible.

Fact check: True! Technically if we “decimated” their missile stock it means we only got one in ten of them!

Trump is infamous for not paying what he owes. I think “Trump will pay you” should become slang for unkept promises: “You joined the health club again?” “But this time they say it will be easy to cancel if I don’t like it.” “Yeah, right. And Trump will pay you!”

I miss the old days when phrases like “effective altruism” just meant choosing charities with low overheads and high (and ideally measurable) program benefits.

we can repair US-Canada relations by inviting them to burn the ballroom to the ground for old time's sake

I’ve got to say, maybe Trump *can* destroy Iran. He’s real good at destroying things—casinos, football leagues, White House wings, the conservative Republican Party, government agencies—and in a perverse way, it’s kind of nice to see him using that power against some other country for a change.

canada: "fuck you, americans!" americans: "yeah, that's fair, fuck us up"

Hey @hal10000.bsky.social I just saw that NASA is restarting UVOT operations. Gonna go out doing observations, huh?

@elfsternberg.bsky.social I just got a notice that someone had liked one of my posts and… Elf Sternberg… that’s a name I remember from a long time ago on a Usenet far, far away… It’s like running into someone from the old neighborhood.

Every harmed kid gets a mile of highway named after them. Maybe.

The great thing about Meta's $18 billion settlement is that all the children harmed by its products will be using the money to rebuild their lives. Because that is who the money is going to, right? The children? This wasn't just the AGs using children as an excuse to fund state projects, right?

I used to play Eve Online. This is so on-brand. Eve could be rewarding, but a lot of the players were straight-up sociopaths. I'm pretty sure the foundation will never see a dime of this.

Just a brief note about my attempt to track the Swift rescue mission on my blog: windypundit.com/2026/08/swif...

Well, in the WWF/WWE wrestlers changed their whole persona with a new costume so maybe she thnks that's real?

When they say “secretly transition students” do they mean using the students’ preferred names and pronouns and not freaking about how they’re dressed?

Dammit. As soon as I saw the name, I thought "I'll bet Pete Hegseth wants to rename it after a white guy."

This angers me because there is, of course, a whole academic discipline under Computer Science called Artificial Intelligence. It has theory and method and is a legitimate science. But that’s probably not what these university administrators have in mind.

Builder lead me against the dark, Towards the light. Fire of the Forge, Water of the Chalice, Hammer of the God.

cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is

This is like moving from 1930s Italy to 1930s Germany because Mussolini said some things you didn't like.

Man that Swift rescue mission is turning into a nail biter! science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

My hot take: The Fourth Amendment says nothing about crossing borders. Border officers shouldn’t be allowed to search your phone or anything else of yours without your permission unless they have probable cause for a warrant. Same as everywhere else.

Well, crap. NASA’s mini-Hail-Mary mission to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory satellite is in trouble. share.google/OeXCehoA1Wcz...

If I had a few million dollars, you wouldn’t be able to get me off the internet. I would be everywhere all the time.

I would go back to watch Blackbeard burying his treasure. His lost, never rediscovered, treasure.

I would go back to watch Blackbeard burying his treasure. His lost, never rediscovered, treasure.

A classic mistake. “They’re not doing what we want. So we’re going to hurt them real bad. And we will keep on hurting them, until they do what we want.” But what if they *never* do what we want? Congratulations, you have just lost the initiative.

A classic mistake. “They’re not doing what we want. So we’re going to hurt them real bad. And we will keep on hurting them, until they do what we want.” But what if they *never* do what we want? Congratulations, you have just lost the initiative.

I feel seen. This is exactly why I like explaining things. I am that toddler! I’m not trying to show you how smart I am. I’m trying to share something cool with you!

Y’all are out here being mean about the way this man looks, when obviously he hasn’t been able to see his own reflection in a mirror in several hundred years.