2025-08-05



Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

Electric / Self Driving cars

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

  • Ultra Ethernet: Reinventing X.25

  • Tandy Corporation, Part 4

    In 1984, Tandy moved the PC market forward in a major way with the Tandy 1000. A PC compatible had been created that was better than a PC, cheaper than a PC, and more compatible with IBM products than were IBM’s products themselves. While this kept Tandy in the computer business, it did not help the company recover its lost market share. Tandy held on to just shy of 10% of the home computer market by the end of the year.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Left Angst

  • NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

    The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere. Both missions, known as the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, measure carbon dioxide and plant growth around the globe. They use identical measurement devices, but one device is attached to a stand-alone satellite while the other is attached to the International Space Station. The standalone satellite would burn up in the atmosphere, if NASA pursued plans to terminate the mission.

  • Works fine for Democrats Trump's rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire

  • Are you an American looking to buy a used camera from overseas? Do it quick

  • Brendan Carr declares victory over the First Amendment | The Verge

    On Monday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed a complaint against Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. The filing, sent to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the DC Court of Appeals, alleges that Carr had repeatedly broken basic principles of conduct as a licensed attorney, including by leveraging his power to control media outlets’ speech. As a legal complaint it’s a long shot — but as a document, it sums up months of Carr’s escalating war on free speech.

    • Performative NGO dances when called on.
  • Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government

  • Idaho has become the wild frontier of vaccination policy and public health

    PHD board meetings tend to be sparsely attended. This one was standing-room only — the start of a monthslong debate over vaccine safety and the question of what, exactly, it means to provide informed consent. Versions of that debate are playing out across the United States in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, which many Americans believe was badly mismanaged. The backlash has upended longstanding norms in public health: The nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., publicly questions the value of common vaccines. Prominent vaccine skeptics now sit on a key advisory committee that shapes immunization practices nationwide. Polls suggest that trust in health authorities is politically polarized — and perhaps historically low. Immunization rates are dropping across the country. And many advocates are promoting a vision of public health that’s less dependent on mandates and appeals to authority, and more deferent to individuals’ beliefs.

  • BLS and Our Age of Choose-Your-Own-Reality Governance

    On Friday, Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for reporting that the US economy is adding fewer jobs than the president would like. The BLS is widely regarded as the most trustworthy source of economic data in the United States. Its surveys provide the official unemployment rate, along with job growth figures, wage growth, inflation, productivity, and other critical economic data. To politicize the BLS is to destroy the public’s trust in the government to tell basic truths about the economy. The history of firing bureaucrats for reporting inconvenient statistics is a long and troubling one. Mao Zedong castigated his general Peng Dehuai in 1959, after Dehuai wrote a private letter pointing out that Mao’s Great Leap Forward was causing one of the worst famines of the 20th century. For the sin of stating the obvious to a thin-skinned dictator, Dehuai was fired, relocated, and stripped of his military honors.

  • Crucial mutant corn stocks threatened under 2026 USDA budget

  • The Exodus from the Washington Post

  • Manhattan Shooting and the Rise of Luigism

    There’s some evidence that her killer was targeting the National Football League, which shares an office building with Blackstone. But within hours, it was clear that his motive was irrelevant to the hordes now celebrating LePatner’s execution online. Across Reddit, Facebook, X, and other social media platforms, users—many anonymous, and some displaying transgender or Palestinian flag emojis—seized on the executive’s death as symbolic retribution. Her position at the investment firm became a license for cruelty. Commenters mocked her success, dismissed her philanthropy as sinister, and portrayed her employer as an unmitigated force for evil. The message was unmistakable: her death was something to relish. This grotesque display is part of a broader trend of class rage and Internet nihilism that justifies violence by turning innocent victims into scapegoats for moral fury. The permission structure for such ghoulishness is now fully operational. What were once the disturbing mutterings of the fringe are now public, performative, and proudly cruel. A political movement is testing its power. Call it Luigism.

  • NASA won't publish key climate change report online

    • All the folks whining about NASA and its budget oughtta consider maybe having it focus on going into space and doing shit there instead of creating propaganda. There's tons of people creating propaganda, and all of them can support the public dissemination of raw data from government sponsored space instruments. The government need not take sides on what the data means.
  • Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election

  • New Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets

    The Department of Homeland Security is looking to boost its deployment of the military on the streets of the U.S. in order to help carry out Donald Trump’s immigration policies, according to a leaked memo written by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s brother. The document, obtained by The New Republic, details plans for how the Trump administration could use the military to assist with domestic law enforcement as part of its mass deportation agenda for “years” to come. The letter from Phil Hegseth, the younger brother of the defense secretary, pushed for the move despite admitting the deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles amid the anti-ICE protests was not “perfect.”

    • My brother's sister's great grandma wrote a letter to her Congress critter demanding Free Love and Free Dope; but i don't recall anyone reporting on that...
  • The Changing Politics of Masks

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