The folks at @lincolnproject.us are circulating a BINGO card of terms for use with the Trump speech tonight. Are we supposed to yell DINGO when we win? #peakTrump #dingo www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

See if you can spot Liberation Day. @usapolling.bsky.social

Very informative conversation I just had with the AI chatbot Claude. 1/4

ICE stands up to major threat in Portland OR as 75-year-old woman arrested. Headline not in the #NYT or #WaPo . Story via The Borowitz Report. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-3/

Remind me, yet again, why anyone would use Reddit, Twitter, or X, as input to train an LLM AI model? vgel.me/posts/seahor...

Is this "clean coal"? "[The] new 'US Solar Market Insight Q4 2025' report from Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, 85% of all new power added to the grid during the first 9 months of Trump ... came from solar and storage. ... 73% happened in red states."

Trumpy pardon in 3...2...1... Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency [crook] behind 2 digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, was sentenced ... to 15 years in prison for what a judge called an "epic fraud." #crypto #scam #bitcoin #terrausd www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Seasonal lights really put one in the holiday spirit!

Blinko, by Ken Nordeen, as rendered by #SORA #AI. sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_6939ef3e...

This was created with SORA AI. Not bad, but there are, uh, interesting details that SORA inserted. I described a train running through farmland with some general attributes like a mail car with sacks of mail & farms. Note the mailcar and the final two shots of the train running. Hmm. #SORA #AI

We are witnessing the dawn of a new industry: a tool, perhaps AI based, that will create a faux five-year history of bland social media. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I would think that a Secretary of State has more important things to do than choose fonts for memos. Maybe worry more about the content of the memos? #Rubio www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...

With all of the distractions taking place, do not lose sight of the fact that our president is a disgusting pedophile.

What editor allowed this gross math illiteracy to pass by? “A study…found that 4.9 percent of scans required a follow-up biopsy. Of those, 2.2 percent were actually cancer, and the other 2.7 percent were false positives.”

With the faux FIFA award and DJT Institute of Peace renaming, we have reached Peak Trump. From here on out, awards will continue to get more ridiculous but the ROI will lessen as Trump fades. #peaktrump

Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium V at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site. Watch a short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

On the Equator, the Moon flips on its side. Even more upsetting is that the constellations flip UPSIDE DOWN when you go to the other side of the equator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY7Z...

I was forced to see this now you do too Don’t share

29 November 1904 | A Dutch Jew, Salomon Hartog, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz. He perished in the camp on 24 August 1942. --- Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

The Slashdot "fortune cookie" sez that 'Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.' I believe this is wrong. I have seen untold amounts of energy go into projects that ultimately failed due to insufficient funding. Clever folks can find workarounds easier than money.

A common argument says that Trump &al will redact or withhold Epstein papers documents because of on-going investigations looking into Clinton &al. That means there are no on-going investigations on Repubs and billionaires, thus those CAN be released. Why are the new Bondi orders are so clever?

Larry Summers is deeply ashamed and stepping back from public view. Of course, this is after he is exposed in the Epstein capers. We conclude he is ashamed of having been caught because the annoying behavior is in the past. abcnews.go.com/US/deeply-as...

So, @scalzi.com has two books on the GoodReads voting list. www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...

Put wings on your car to qualify for tax-reduced aviation fuel. Sounds like a good idea, but a spoiler is a wing, an airfoil, so cars with spoilers on the back already qualify, right? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr9M...

Did Elon and SpaceX use AI to design Starship? That might explain those ‘unplanned disassembly events’. #hallucinations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipe...

House cancels votes next week, including vote on Epstein files.

I have recently started getting 5-6 messages daily about "failed delivery" of email. It looks like someone sold my email address to scammers, but got it wrong. They use @google.com instead of @gmail.com and Google bounces it. I do not know why the broken email headers, but I laugh at the scammers.

Next up: FTC no longer requires banks to protect depositors - Open the Vault Doors, Dave. OK. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The stuff still unrevealed in the Epstein Trump Papers must be truly revolting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB2e...

With all the chicanery going on under and including Kennedy, they fire this guy beause he inflated his title on his business cards? Talk about missing the point..... arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

How soon until there are MechaHitler reports circulating from Gloo AI ?? Taking bets.... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It looks like they do not want pedestrians to push the button.

Permits are passe.

👀 The #EpsteinBallroom

Can we expect Trump to break into prison to mingle with other felons? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Chicken Little was right - the sky IS falling. Do you ever wonder what happens to the Musk satellites when they end their useful lives? They fall on your head. arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

What do you get when you computerize a bidet and add AI? Kohler knows! techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/k...

Contact your reps in the US Congress. Not vote in the US? Contact anyone you wish. But... If you live in WA-1, Contact Rep. Delbene delbene.house.gov/contact/ If you live in WA, Contact Senators Murray & Cantwell www.murray.senate.gov/write-to-pat... www.cantwell.senate.gov/contact/emai...

I think Chevy is being clever to limit availability of the new Bolt. It creates demand and exclusivity and it limits their risk of adoption. If it sells out, they can brag. If not, they can claim limits. "Chevy says the new Bolt will be sold for a 'limited time' only" share.google/cgMoVKzcKWiZ...

In what reasonable language is "Lougheed Highway" pronounced "low-heed high-way"? #Vancouver #BC

Be charitable. I think Donald misunderstood. He was trying for the Nobel Piece Prize based on all his work with best friend Jeff and the girls on the island. #Epstein #pedo

'McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits' (from The Register). Does this headline capture McKinsey in a nutshell? www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/m...

I used to manage a software group responsible for backup tools in the 1990s and I have been an advocate for backups since before that time. Anybody listening? Nah. "...[the] Government Drive ...was used by gov't staff ... and there is no backup." Korea www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858t...

And I thought slavery as the concept of owning humans was an awful idea. It was worse. kottke.org/16/02/a-hist...

Seattle docks still look pretty idle. A hidden Trump tariff tax?

If you want to try an ad hoc hearing assessment (NOT a medical test), visit the Wings of Pegasus -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMl...

I have long complained that spreadsheets are riddled with errors & undebuggable, yet businesses make major decisions based on them. And now we will have "vibe spreadsheets" created by AI models that hallucinate and are impossible to debug. What could go wrong? www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

According to @borowitzreport.bsky.social , "Declaring the deployment a major success, Patel posted on X, 'We are keeping kale off the streets of Portland.'" While this is progress, I would give Patel more credit were he to keep kale off the *plates* of Portland. #somePartsAreEdible #kaleNation