“Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)” by Lou Bega.
If that’s not the most annoying song in the world, I can’t think of what is. Aliens will probably destroy the planet once this song makes it to their solar system. And they’d be right to do so.
Slowwves – Killed by Egoistic Disease
New Slowwves, awww yeah.
Democrats Really, Really, Really Don’t Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising.
NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory.
Whistleblower Arturo Béjar leads testimony in landmark trial against Meta.
Former Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens pleads guilty to concealing COVID-related records.
South Korea’s Highly Mobile 155mm Artillery System Wins U.S. Army Howitzer Contract.
U.S. Not Prepared To Handle Drone Attack From Inside Homeland: NORTHCOM Deputy Commander.
AI Is Changing Military Morality.
Why Warehouses Are Rolling In More Robots.
Why many birds add fresh plants to their nests remains unclear despite signs of healthier offspring.
Not Even One
The 100 Best Grateful Dead Songs.
I clicked this thinking it’d be just an empty list. Which is what it should be.
PINE
PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans.
I suspect most of the DRAM and eMMC shortage is fake, manufactured, to drive people to cloud services. AI is the convenient excuse. This has been attempted in other guises for years, but now the cloud providers et al. have found a good cheat code.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Noisiness is Not Empathy
According to many fucktard busted-ass shit-for-brains extroverts (ask me what I really think), introverts do not exist and it’s just some correctable personality flaw.
But being around a bunch of people like at this conference makes me so tired that I sleep significantly more.
Extroverts really have no theory of mind (with a few exceptions). They are just noisy and nosy.
The cultural footprint of comedians has shrunk dramatically over the past few years because there are fewer and fewer norms and orthodoxies to transgress. And now transgressing the New Morality brands you as immediately evil as Gen Z does not understand humor or satire.
Employers are ghosting college grads and rescinding offers, destroying morale.
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone.
On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis.
“Sabotage”: Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research.
We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked.
Talk It Out
On the first official day of this conference1, the talks were quite bad. I was like, “Why did my company pay all this money for me to attend something with people droning on about PowerPoint slides?”
But the second day the talks were really good. It pretty much made up for the first day of toneless zombies. It’s very much luck of the draw with these things.
I’m glad I attended in person, though. How people withstand virtual conferences I will never know. That’s just not for me.
Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock.
Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt.
Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems.
Electron apps use so much memory.
Italy’s mythic ‘month off’ in August was hard won. It would be good for us all.
Protein language models are overly constrained by covariation.
DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It. When the absolutely predictable occurs right on schedule.
Ghosts Of The Past & Devils Of The Present.
How to put 170 atoms in an atom.
Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents.
Armed and Languorous
There’s like a thousand people at this conference and I still have the best arms.
But I’ll not rest on my laurels. Mainly because I don’t have any.
Fail Up
About the Arday situation and his death, the idiot leftists are blaming the people questioning his credentials for his suicide.
But if their racist asses hadn’t elevated an obvious fraud to that position as their personal pet black person, he never would’ve been subject to such (deserved) scrutiny in the first place. Their moronic woke project caused a man’s death.
And then they blame others for their own transparently racist failures.
Amazing.
Swim
If I were a trillionaire, I’d also convert the entire state of Minnesota to an aquarium.
Y’all gonna have to move.
Dismantle
This demonstrates why academia is so very fucked. The question is, was the supposed “white supremacist” right or not? Was Arday a fraud?
And 100% of the available evidence points to the fact that Arday was an inveterate fabulist and fraudulent through and through.
It does not matter if Hitler himself claimed this — that would not change the truth content at all.
And academics wonder why trust in higher education is at an all time low and still falling. Probably best a lot of it just be dismantled.
Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles.
Strong Gravitational Lensing and Microlensing of Supernovae.
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding.
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose. And fake safety (really censorship) is getting far more pervasive.
The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains.
Suicide rates among teen girls are rising in Australia, Canada, and the UK.
Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing. Wow, this is terrible; makes Claude unusable for most writing tasks.
Turntide
I do think the tide is starting to turn on tattoos, especially on women. I overheard two young women at the hotel I am staying at now for a conference (they were maybe 18-19?) talking about how trashy tattoos looked and they were not planning on getting any even though they legally could now.
Good for them.