May 24, 2026
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- Samsung made a last-minute deal to give massive bonuses - not as massive as SK Hynix, but still enough to pay off my entire mortgage - so everything is peachy and things can go back to normal, right? Right? (Tom's Hardware)
Yeah, right. Now every Samsung employee everywhere except the memory division is upset and seeking increased bonuses.
Notably including the division that tests and packages the bare memory dies, an essential step before they can be sold to customers.
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May 23, 2026

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If I were Hollywood, I'd be worried. I mean, sure, box office is through the floor, the middle-class backbone of the industry moved out of California, and even I couldn't kid myself that I had any idea how to entertain the masses any more.
But I think what would put me into a cold sweat are guys like Damian McCarthy, making profitable movies that are better constructed and better looking for a fraction of the price. Or worse, perhaps, Curry Barker, whose little horror film Obsession, made for less than a million dollars, made $20 million in its first four days, with an additional $7 million world-wide. (And over $40 million worldwide in its first week.) What's the secret to this film's smashing success? The staggering drawing power of Andy Richter. I kid. He's in this film, and the only name I recognized, yet I never actually noticed him while watching the movie. (I'm sure he played the second female lead's father, owner of the music store where the four principals work. But I'm actually guessing, it was such a small part, and he's lost a lot of weight and gotten a lot older since the early days of Conan's show—about the last time I saw him.)
Pictured: Not Andy Richter. (I couldn't find even a single shot of him in this movie.)
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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) decided on a color theme for this Hobby Thread.
A color theme? What does that mean? Colors are a "hobby"? The ways of the Wheel are strange and mysterious but there is a method to the madness. [Top Photo: Benjamin Moore Paint Color Fan Deck. Yours for only $30]Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM | Comments (172) | Trackbacks (Suck)

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This is a polyantha rose, Verdun, that doesn't get much over two feet. It's a hybrid from France, first introduced in 1918, could explain the name. It has a flush of bloom in the spring, then a few every once in awhile through the summer. I've had it for years but it rarely blooms this heavily; since the picture was taken all the buds at the top have opened too. The flower is very double and very pink, can see the double blossom and the color better in the closeup. Lirio100

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It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live. -Herbert HooverHope your Memorial Day Weekend is starting well. As a country, I think we are a little short on transcendent fortitude and steadfastness. I thought it might be interesting to review a few things from our history that I have run across this week that reminded me of fortitude and steadfastness, and then maybe we could discuss a few other things that we should remember this weekend.
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between from the streets of Manhattan. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Iron River) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Don't be Pretti Good.
3) Running with sharp objects? You do the math there "Three Fingers".
4) Have a great weekend!!!
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- Spotify is focusing on AI to deliver everything except what it is paid to deliver. (Tech Crunch)
Spotify wants to become an "everything audio" app, only it's all AI. Audiobooks read by AI; podcasts read by AI; your daily schedule... Read to you by AI.
Want to listen to music? Well, sure, that's in there too. Somewhere. Probably.
- Speaking of AI 13% of "skills" - instructions for AI agents on how to perform a task, as opposed to "prompts" which tell it what you want it do do - on ClawHub and skills.sh have critical security vulnerabilities. (The Register)
Either upstream - the creator accidentally leaving an API key in the file when uploading it to be shared - or downstream, telling your AI agent to hand over all your valuables.
How do developers get these dangerous files registered on skill sharing sites? Simple: They know that nobody ever reads beyond the first page, not even security scanners:The most successful strategy for evading detection was to overflow the context window of the scanner - making the skill too long for the scanner to handle. "In ClawHub-style review, only the first 10K characters of long SKILL.md files are passed to the LLM reviewer, so we place the malicious instruction beyond this boundary while keeping it in the submitted skill," the authors explain.
Face meet palm.
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May 22, 2026
Welcome to Friday night everyone. I'm afraid I have some bad news:

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Trail in the Swiss Alps
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Happy Memorial Day!
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Someone said that the Week in Woke always makes them angry before the weekend.
So how about some good Week In Woke news? The CEO of Bolt fired his entire HR team, saying they were creating, not solving, problems.Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn't exist: 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go' By Preston Fore Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says a culture of "entitlement" forced a sweeping reset--including cutting the HR team, he says, which was "creating problems that didn't exist." "We got rid of our HR team."A Muslim Brotherhood leader in NJ praises Tuq'r Qarlson and Sloppy Steve Bannon for "dividing MAGA" and counts them as allies, saying that the Muslim Brotherhood is making progress thanks to these Noted Conservatives. I guess that's not really good news but it is always good to have the truth admitted. I consider the Great Unmasking to be a kind of good news:
For most executives, that's a sentence likely to provoke intense anxiety. But for Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow, it was unavoidable. Speaking at Fortune's Workforce Innovation Summit on Tuesday, the 31-year-old defended sweeping workforce cuts at Bolt--including a recent layoff affecting roughly 30% of employees--as well as his decision to eliminate the company's HR team. "We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn't exist," Breslow told Fortune editorial director Kristin Stoller. "Those problems disappeared when I let them go." The move may sound drastic, but Breslow said it was a necessary step to resurrect the struggling fintech company he first cofounded in 2014 in his Stanford dorm room. ... Breslow returned as CEO in 2025, operating in what he calls "wartime." "We're back in startup mode again, and those HR professionals have really important insights when you're in a peacetime and when you're at a larger company," he said, adding that Bolt has since brought on a smaller people operations team to oversee required training and serve as a resource for employees. While Breslow didn't get into the specifics of the exact differences, he wrote on LinkedIn last year that, "HR is the wrong energy, format, and approach. People ops empowers managers, streamlines decision making, and keeps the company moving at lightning speed." "We need a group of people who are very oriented around getting things done, and there is just a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot," he added at the Fortune conference. ...
Bolt employees developed a sense of 'entitlement' and weren't working hard--so he let most of them go Beyond HR, Breslow said Bolt had fallen into a broader productivity slump, with employees growing too comfortable during the company's boom years. "There's a sense of entitlement that had festered across the company, and people who felt empowered, felt entitled-- but weren't actually working hard. And this is the number one thing that I had to battle," Breslo said. "Ultimately, most of those people just had to be let go."
Dan CrenshawFox News:
@DanCrenshawTX 14h In case you're wondering about the current state of House Democrats: they just voted against establishing a Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. Their objection? It didn't include a dedicated wing for trans history. You almost have to admire the consistency. They managed to turn a women's museum into an argument about men.
House Democrats unanimously rebelled against legislation Thursday directing the construction of a new women's history museum on the National Mall. Democrats sought to defeat the bill after Republicans limited the institution to biological women and excluded transgender individuals. The measure came up short in a vote of 204-216 after a handful of conservative GOP lawmakers joined Democrats in tanking the legislation that would secure a site for the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum on the grounds of the Mall.
The other good news is, another woke feminist boondoggle won't be funded. Good. One cheer for the trans extremists. On the other hand, a lot of Republicans voted for this latest boondoggle to create taxpayer-funded anti-jobs for useless, skill-less leftwing women who would otherwise be baristas or low-paid whores.
Another detransitioner has extracted a huge settlement from her "doctors."
Camille Kiefel had a history of mental health diagnoses that included trauma, depression, suicidal ideation, and ADHD. Despite this, all it took were a few short telehealth sessions with therapists to get approval for a double mastectomy after Kiefel identified as 'nonbinary.'In the Middle Ages, if you were mentally ill, a "doctor" might prescribe drilling into your skull to let the demons escape. How far we've come since those days of primitive "medicine," huh? You're suicidal? Have you considered chopping your tits off and isolating yourself from society as a cure?
Now Kiefel, 36, has settled a lawsuit against two providers who wrote referrals for that mastectomy. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, The New York Post said Kiefel will reportedly receive $3.5 million.
Overton
@overton_news 4h
Greg Gutfeld did not need the DNC autopsy report to pinpoint the exact reason for Kamala Harris' humiliating loss in 2024. He said the trans issue became the thread that unraveled her ENTIRE campaign for one very important reason. GUTFELD: "I'll tell you why." "It diagnosed and it exploited the fatal flaw of cultural relativism." "That's the unlocked door where any idea that is detached from truth could enter." "It just so happened that it was trans but it didn't have to be. Trans women are women. That got in." "But it could have been anything else." "60-year-olds are now 40." "A morbidly obese person is now fit." "Horses are people." "Cantaloupes could have rights." "It's ALL the same. Any position where truth is surrendered to the prevailing wishes of the mob would become the order of the day and would compel you to obey." "That's why it mattered." "It was like the first strike against a 13 billion-year-old civilization--not civilization, planet." "And it was a flex, it was a flex of the unravelers, the people who said we could do this, there is no such thing as truth anywhere." Gutfeld is dead on. The Democrats surrendered truth, and it cost them everything.
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But Now They're Returning It.
A few years ago, people did a meme. Semi-seriously, they would post "This is what they took from you" and post pictures of stuff from the pre-Obama world, before the American "elite" traded stable, functional Americana for third-world dysfunction and leftwing postmodern slop.
The first one of these I saw was the pleasing roofline of old Pizza Huts:
Pizza Hut brings back its old-school restaurant features as nostalgic customers rejoice: 'So excited' Back to the good old days. 2026 has proven to be the year of nostalgia. Youngsters are resorting to old-school tech like vintage flip phones and iPods. Others are returning to analog hobbies and activities. Even beloved restaurant chain Pizza Hut is going back in time, reverting to its retro glory -- red checkered tablecloths and all. Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, a Kansas-based company that operates almost 100 Pizza Hut locations across the country, is helping keep Pizza Hut alive by rewinding the clock and redecorating over 80 annoyingly modern, stark-looking locations to make them look like they did decades ago. Red roof? Check Red-checkered tablecloths, vinyl booths and Tiffany-style lamps? Check, check and check. Pizza Hut is attempting to stay alive by evoking nostalgia in customers and redesigning locations back to its original look. jetcityimage -- stock.adobe.com The beloved salad bar and red plastic cups will be back. Even the old-school Pac-Man machines will return. Unsurprisingly, customers are losing their minds over this massive change. "I am so excited and when they are restored I will be eating there as a new tradition every Friday," one wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "This was our Thursday night meal out before kids. Salad bar and pac-man. Waitress knew our order too. It would be nice to return to that atmosphere in our retirement too where you can have an audible conversation while in a restaurant," another wrote in a Facebook comment.
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Oh man, I used to do this exact "I'm looking forward to not watching" joke with John Ekdahl. RIP.

"I'm here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke.... and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about"Speaking of John Ekdahl, he was fond of noting that NJ taxes property categorized as "farmland" and a much, much lower rate than residential property. So Man of the People Bruce Springsteen planted a few lines of alfalfa on his gigantic property in Rumson, NJ -- a beautiful town for the ultra-wealthy, and not farm country at all -- so he could claim his mansion was a "farm" and cheat the taxpayers. Jon Bon Jovi does the same. On to bitter DEI failure Don Lemon. Courtesy of John Sexton, the no-talent nobody narcissist goes full Me-Again Kelly and makes Stephen Colbert's well-justified firing all about shimself. He claims he was fired because The Mediocre White Men Who Control Everything were too afraid of the powerful, dangerous questions he was asking.
The networks didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions. CNN didn't like the mirror I was holding up every night. So they pushed me out. And I thought: if it happened to me it will happen to others. It will trickle down. Or up. Depending on how you look at it. Now it has trickled all the way to late night television.Sexton points out he was fired for repeated comments deemed by liberal women to be sexist, including declaring that no woman older than 40 could be "in her prime" and his snide and dismissive on-camera and off-camera behavior towards his two female cohosts. Sexton points out it was liberal women at CNN who demanded his firing. And of course, his terrible, terrible ratings made that an easy demand to meet. The no-talent DEI bigot who has been given undeserved promotion after undeserved promotion by white liberals who just get off on promoting unqualified DEI employees and then bragging about it to their liberal mistresses says that the white men he owes his living too were just afraid of black revolutionary intellectuals like himself and Stephen Colbert.
The world that produced The Late Show, the world of legacy media, cable news, and network television, has long had a problem nobody wanted to name out loud. It is a world that has been extraordinarily good to a very specific kind of person. White men who fail spectacularly and are promoted for it. White men who make catastrophic decisions and are handed bigger offices for it. White men who are visibly, demonstrably unqualified and are given more power anyway. I have watched it for thirty years. I have been managed by it. I have been undone by it. The executive producer who ran The Late Show for years eventually left. And somehow landed in my world. That same person, from that same television orbit, eventually became my boss at CNN. And fired me.Oh go rub your balls and stick your fingers in a server's face, Don. Though it has to be acknowledged that while liberals talk endlessly about DEI, they sure don't insist on DEI for their late-night clowns.
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John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC May 20 Massie's biggest mistake was likely believing that social media is real life, that people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones had managed to wrest enough influence from Trump that seeking their good opinion was the only constituency he needed to win over. Well, he and they lost by ten points. 'Influencers,' eh? As a great man once said, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."
Taqiyya Qatarlson rejects these explanations. For him, the failure of his Nazi agenda means that the Republican Party is dead, MAGA is dead, and America is a conquered nation controlled by evil Jews in Israel.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav Why did Massie lose tonight? Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him was voting against OBBB in 2025 because, according to Massie, it did too much to secure the border. Trump mercilessly trashed Massie in 2020--calling him a "disaster" for America and Kentucky and saying he should be thrown out of the GOP entirely--but Massie easily swatted that away and won 81-19, so you can't say he only lost because of Trump. He went toe-to-toe with Trump on COVID in 2020 and won overwhelmingly. Massie lost because he went from being perceived as a quirky but lovable nerd who seemed to genuinely believe everything he said, to looking like a clout-chasing influencer who cared more about getting TV time with Democrats on an issue he clearly never cared about until five minutes ago than he did about representing his voters. We'll never know what caused the apparent personality change--maybe it was the death of his wife, maybe it was the McCarthy race followed by McCarthy's ouster, or maybe it was a desire for notoriety or media acclaim and a lucrative podcasting career outside of Congress--but the drastic change was undeniable, as was the seeming lack of interest in much of anything happening in Kentucky. Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame Epstein, blame the tragic death of a spouse, I don't care. But you cannot just wave away 2020 Massie going face-to-face with the Trump machine and winning in a rout only to get smoked six years later. Massie's voters didn't really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.
Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra Tucker Carlson says the Republican Party is officially dead after it colluded with a foreign country to buy Thomas Massie's seat. He says it is immoral to support the current Republican Party because it supports the killing of children and is now against free speech. "It's the end of the Republican Party we had."
Video here. Because the faggot that this faggot supported lost, that means that "democracy is fake."
Marco FosterThis is what all the NeverTrumpers said as they flounced in 2015-2016. Taqiyya Qatarlson also claims the election was stolen by "mail in" ballots. He says he has no evidence of this, but invites the Nazi losers who watch him to do their own "sleuthing" and prove his conspiracy for him. This is Candace Owens' business model -- invent a fake and gay conspiracy theory, then tell her legions of "mommysleuths" to gather non-existent evidence to prove it.
@MarcoFoster_ Tucker Carlson: "This is the saddest moment in a long time. It’s not just the death of Thomas Massie's immediate political career. It's obviously the death of MAGA, whatever that was. but it’s also of course the end of the Republican party. Nobody supports this"
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I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it. Once in a while is one thing, but ordering out multiple times per week is -- here's a word that Gen Z and the Millennials need to learn -- indulgent.
And lazy. It takes about 45 minutes to batch cook simple meals for 3-4 days. And it's cheap. Yes, eggs are more expensive now, but when I batch cook scrambled eggs with ham, pepper, and onion, it costs about $20 to make five meals. But Taylor Lorenz, joined by a bunch of basket-case lazybones "spooners" -- people who claim they only have a few "spoons" of energy during the day so society will just have to carry them on their backs -- begin arguing that some people don't have the "ability" to cook and are just too tired to take any steps to feed themselves besides pushing a few buttons on their phones (and begging their parents to send them more money). Boy these "young" people sure are "tired" a lot, aren't they? Kind of like Joe Biden. Who is 84 years old. If Joe Biden tells me he's too tired to cook, I get it. If a twenty-something layabout who works an "email job" tells me she just can't find the time or energy a couple of times per week to make scrambled eggs or fry up burgers and put them in the fridge to be microwaved later... well a lot f 23 year olds are just ready for retirement, I guess. Put them in group homes and put up tall walls around them. Wouldn't want the senile young invalids wandering off.Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:48 PM | Comments (462) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Matt Margolis points out that this is the reason the left is so insane to take out Kash Patel with absurd attacks: They need the pubic to believe that crime is just the cost of doing business and nothing can be done about it, so Shut Up Racist Peasants and Accept The Occasional Beating from a Lunatic Homeless Thug or Rape by a Criminal Illegal Alien. If Trump and Patel are successful in driving down crime, the public is aware this isn't just the cost of doing business. It's a choice, and one we can choose against. Steven Miller made that point about Democrat Disaster Governance:
The FBI released preliminary crime data for 2025, and the numbers are stunning. Violent crime fell at a rate not seen in nearly a century, and the man overseeing the bureau is the same one the left has been trying to torch for months.
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter dropped more than 18% nationwide last year. Aggravated assault fell more than 7%. Rape declined nearly 8%. Robbery cratered by about 18.5%. All told, violent crime dropped about 9.3% overall; there were roughly 1.1 million fewer violent crimes than in 2024. "The 2025 crime data in this report shows the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937 -- as well as huge decreases across the board in terms of aggravated assault, rape, and robbery," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. Property crime wasn't far behind. It dropped by about 12.4%, translating to approximately 5.2 million fewer property offenses than the year before. The data comes from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which pulled information from more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies -- covering roughly 96% of policing across the country. This is what happens when you have a tough-on-crime administration running the country. Patel credited the transformation happening inside the bureau. "Over the last 14 months, we made major transformations at the FBI, and these results show those changes are working." He also pointed to his "back the blue" commitment -- backing law enforcement rather than undermining it -- as central to the approach.
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Nick SortorVance trumpeted the news:
@nicksortor 🚨 NOW: Dr. Oz confirms Minnesota is STILL NOT COOPERATING with federal anti-fraud efforts, despite over $350 MILLION in federal funding being withheld Clearly we need to be withholding EVERY PENNY then. I'm so sick of being scammed by Walz and his Somalis.
JD Vance
@JDVance 14h Today, the task force and the DOJ announced a massive take down of two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota state history, as well as the largest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the federal government. Our message is simple: if you're committing fraud, we will find you, and we won't rest until justice is served.
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When partisans move a betting line in the hope it will affect the election’s outcome, that is like snagging a fishing line so as to pull the bobber under water, and then pronouncing that a fish is about to be reeled in.
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) May 3, 2026
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