2025-10-24

Horseshit

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower

I’m not writing this off as being generically pleasant, either. Just as Paper’s gritty, utilitarian, soviet design language was part of what the piece communicated, so is this. Choosing to take a political idea like this and assert that it is pleasant — that it can be pleasant — is asserting an explicitly ideological position. So what’s gone wrong here? Airport security is a wild profession to whitewash because I don’t know of any group anywhere along the political isle that thinks it’s good. Conservatives see it as representative of the tragedy that travel represents danger, liberals see it as security theater, and leftists see it as a dangerous extension of policing power. And they’re all right! This institution is what Rogue Duck is choosing to paint as cozy and wholesome. Declare is an aggressive attempt at sanitizating a disturbing thing. In the trailer they show a minigame where you use a scanner to see through the clothing of an attractive young woman with no grounds for suspicion. They’re using policing itself as a gameplay loop but without any of the darkness it deserves. In fact, they’re very intentionally depriving it of weight.
- Oh wait video games have meaning again? How hard is it to disapprove of this games' demeanor while playing "GTA 23: Pay to win?"
We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons

The core problem is that the modern web seems to be fragile and is kept going in large part by a social consensus, not technical things such as capable software and powerful servers. However, if we only react to technical problems, there's very little that preserves and reinforces this social consensus, as we're busy seeing. With little to no consequences for violating the social consensus, bad actors are incentivized to skate right up to and even over the line of causing technical problems. When we react by taking only narrow technical measures, we tacitly reward the bad actors for their actions; they can always find another technical way. They have no incentive to be nice or to even vaguely respect the social consensus, because we don't punish them for it. So I've come to feel that if something like the current web is to be preserved, we need to take action not merely when technical problems arise but also when the social consensus is violated. We need to start blocking things for what I called editorial reasons.
- "Be the web you want to see" is a good idea. The folks who are so proud of their propaganda as to demand only the right people read it should probably have private distribution channels. I've always said "don't publish what you don't want public" and a lot of people seem to have never grasped the idea that publishing is public.

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

The FSF considers large language models

Anybody hoping to exit the session with clear answers about the status of LLM-created code was bound to be disappointed; the FSF, too, is trying to figure out what this landscape looks like. The organization is currently running a survey of free-software projects with the intent of gathering information about what position those projects are taking with regard to LLM-authored code. From that information (and more), the FSF eventually hopes to come up with guidance of its own. Nick Clifton asked whether the FSF is working on a new version of the GNU General Public License — a GPLv4 — that takes LLM-generated code into account. No license changes are under consideration now, Siewicz answered; instead, the FSF is considering adjustments to the Free Software Definition first. Siewicz continued that LLM-generated code is problematic from a free-software point of view because, among other reasons, the models themselves are usually non-free, as is the software used to train them. Clifton asked why the training code mattered; Siewicz said that at this point he was just highlighting the concern that some feel. There are people who want to avoid proprietary software even when it is being run by others.
Compression Scaling Law (CSL) – Detecting hidden structure in time series

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most

Trump

Democrats

Senate Candidate With Nazi-Linked Tattoo Recruited Socialist Paramilitary Group in Maine
- Utter horseshit; of course... but so was Elon's "nazi salute" and we heard shrieking over that one for months.
Americans Need To Suffer So Dems Can Have Leverage

Democrat Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives Katherine Clark said that American families are going to have to suffer through the Democrat-led government shutdown so that the party can retain its “leverage.” “Shutdowns are terrible. And of course there will be families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously, but it is one of the few leverage times we have,” Clark said in a recent interview with Fox News.
Why We Don’t Like The Democratic Party

The Democratic Party’s intersectional politics are why Greta Thunberg can shift from climate warrior to a Hamasnik wearing an Arafat keffiyeh (also known as the “hipster swastika”) and no one on the left blinks. They furnished the stage for Barack Obama to promise that if elected, he’d get busy “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” and be cheered as if he were a deliverer having descended from Olympus. The revolution that the Democratic Party has been pressing for at least six decades would abolish capitalism and free markets, seize the means of production, destroy the nuclear family, erase Christianity and Judaism, defund law enforcement, reopen the borders, censor speech, pack the Supreme Court, ration energy and health care, overturn our civil order and uproot Western civilization. Our “democracy loving” Democrats want a regime they fully control, a subservient proletariat, unchallengeable compliance, all life “within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” We hope we’re wrong, that one day rather than saying “we told you so,” we’re admitting our mistake. It would be best for our nation if that’s how it turns out. What makes us doubt that will happen is the Democratic Party, as constructed, does not want what’s in the best interests of the country, but instead wants what’s in the best interest of its political power.
Democratic candidates can win Rust Belt voters by attacking the Democratic party

Left Angst

USDA announces SNAP benefits will not be issued in November

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that SNAP benefits will not be issued for next month. It comes as we enter day 21 of the government shutdown. SNAP, which is short for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is a program to help families with the cost of food. 42 million Americans rely on the program, almost 170,000 of which live in Maine.
- Will November SNAP benefits be sent? Shutdown could impact food stamps
- SNAP benefits in November: Is shutdown stopping food stamps?
“SNAP benefits for November won’t be issued if the federal government shutdown continues past Oct. 27,” warned Texas’ Health and Human Services Department. Officials in Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia all issued similar warnings, saying the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP, for short) is poised to run out of money in a matter of days.
- At least 25 states plan to cut off food aid benefits in November
Twenty-five states told POLITICO that they are issuing notices informing participants of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the nation’s largest anti-hunger initiative — that they won’t receive checks next month. Those states include California, Alabama, Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Mississippi and New Jersey. Others didn’t respond to requests for comment in time for publication. USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service recently told every state that they’d need to hold off on distributing benefits until further notice, according to multiple state agencies. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, told reporters at the state capitol Wednesday that President Donald Trump is the “first president in U.S. history to cut off SNAP benefits to people in America.” Even if lawmakers clinch a funding deal before the end of October, anti-hunger advocates and states expect a delay between the government reopening and state administrators being able to issue November’s benefits, after weeks of holding up the typical process. For example, Kansas’ Department for Children and Families told POLITICO that it would take at least three days to fully reboot the program.
the leftist base isn't upset enough about the Democrat's shutdown; so its time to start pinching some wallets to motivate them. It should be interesting to see who gets paid and who doesn't when they have to choose, and how that gets justified.
Government shutdown reaching a tipping point, could send the economy into spiral
As Shutdown Drags and Trump Flexes, Congress Cedes Its Relevance
Fed Lost Access to Private Jobs Data Ahead of Government Shutdown
The Five Funding Cliffs Approaching as Shutdown Pain Builds
Government Shutdown Will Hit Air-Traffic Controllers Soon
The U.S. Struggles to Break Out from China's Grip on Rare Earths
Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law
ICE Stockpiling Guided Missile Warheads and Chemical Weapons
Why woke women make terrible leaders - by Alex Berenson

Maher does not so much argue with her opponents as insist that she has the moral (and intellectual) high ground, that anyone who would disagree with her is a cretin. Merkel, who had the advantage of formal state power, used its levers more quietly. But they wind up in the same place. They’re using the same strategy. What Maher pretends is what Merkel pretended: that hard decisions can be elided simply by refusing to consider the possibility that there are two sides at all. This is a recipe for bureaucratic creep and statism.
Acting NASA Chief Announces More "Shakeups"
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Gave Millions to Terror-Tied Extremist Groups in 2025

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) has spent millions of dollars in 2025 supporting an array of anti-Israel groups, several of which have ties to terrorism abroad and extremist activists in the United States, a Washington Free Beacon review of the organization’s grantees shows.
SPACs Are Back, and MAGA Is Fueling Their Growth
New York opens online form to submit videos of ICE raids
US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic
Tech PACs Are Closing In On The Almonds

During the 2018 election, Americans - candidates, parties, PACs, and small donors like you - spent a combined $5 billion pushing their preferred candidates. Although that sounds like a lot of money, Americans spent $12 billion on almonds that same year. Why the imbalance? The oil industry has strong political opinions, and they make $500 billion per year. Do they really think electing oil-friendly politicians isn’t worth 2% of revenue? I recently talked to some Silicon Valley political consultants who updated me on the status of this issue: Marc Andreessen tried this in 2024 and it basically worked. Now he is trying it a second time, it will probably work again, and Marc Andreessen will probably own every politician twice over.
Trump eyes government control of quantum computing firms with Intel-like deals
- Oh? We already gave them billions with no prospect of repayment but stock dilution?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

Ghoulish NYC tenant tossed lover's rotting body in trash, but there was no hiding putrid stench: sources

Christopher Moss, 38, was busted for concealing the corpse Sunday afternoon — two days after cops were called to a building on East 21st Street in Flatbush because of a putrid stink oozing into the halls from a sixth-floor apartment, cops and law enforcement sources said. Authorities found the “highly decomposed” body of Moss’ lover Darrell Montgomery, 35, stuffed into a trash bag and ditched on the sidewalk, sources said.

No foul play was immediately suspected – and Moss has so far only been charged with trying to dispose of the remains and resisting arrest, the sources said. Moss didn’t go quietly when cops tracked him down through a tip and approached him as he walked at Nostrand Avenue and Beverly Road, the sources said. As officers tried to arrest him, he allegedly headbutted one cop and grabbed another officer’s gun, according to the sources.
Dozens charged in illegal sports betting and rigged poker games tied to Mafia

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

World

Israel

Israel shares video of Hamas executing Palestinians as they beg for relief
- More copyright takedowns then? Did they have permission to film the performance?
Middle East team uncovers sexual exploitation in Gaza

One of the biggest challenges was that Gaza is a very conservative culture where sexual abuse and sex outside of marriage are considered taboo and can have grave consequences. Women were terrified to speak and report abuse, even anonymously. Those who did often didn’t want to say too much about what happened. Most people told the AP that no one would speak about this issue. Given the sensitive nature of the story, we weren’t able to photograph or film the women. The team got creative by asking Peter Hamlin to create illustrations.
- "Best of AP": We din't have real sources so we hired someone to make shit up! They coulda run some of Hamas' Oct7 home videos, surely they're close enough to get favorable royalty terms...

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

China

Health / Medicine

Weight-loss drug cuts heart attack risk regardless of kilograms shed
Sex differences in depression revealed by large genetics study
New Clues Why Schizophrenia Patients Hear Voices
Health plan enrollment period is set to be horrifying for everyone this year
‘I’m on Fire’: Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive — and Then Some.
- Testosterone for the women, Estrogen for the men; even as a fan of "better living through chemistry!" I gotta ask if anyone remembers what a normal, un-medicated state of health was.

2025-10-24

Horseshit

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Trump

Democrats

Left Angst

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

World

Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

China

Health / Medicine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda