June 01, 2026
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- AMD has announced two new old CPUs that are on the one hand somewhat overpriced and underwhelming and on the other hand eagerly awaited by hobbyists. (Tom's Hardware)
The first is the Ryzen 5800X3D priced at $349. This first appeared in 2022 priced at $449, but was taken off the market in 2024 because it competed a little too well with the newer 7800X3D.
The second is the Ryzen 7700X3D, priced at $329. This is a 7800X3D, just 10% slower.
If you happen to have an unused AM4 motherboard and 64GB of DDR4 RAM sitting idle, the 5800X3D may be just what you need. Otherwise you're probably be better off with the newer, faster 7700X3D.
- AMD has also updated its roadmap to confirm that the AM5 platform (the current generation) will remain current through at least 2029. (Tom's Hardware)
The previous AM4 platform - home to the once and future 5800X3D - was introduced in 2016, and is still viable today.
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May 31, 2026

From Mr. Star Spangled MAGA
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Obviously the most secure election system is same-day voting in person, with paper ballots and mandatory ID checks against a master list that is reviewed every year, and purged of all names not of United States citizens.
Judicial Watch Scrutinizes 873,000 Inactive Voter Registrations in CaliforniaWatchdog group Judicial Watch says it has identified almost a million voter registrations in California that have been inactive for at least three federal election cycles, and argues they must be removed to ensure potential cheaters cannot use the names on faked ballots.There are other security demands for a voting system that is secure against manipulation, because there are very clever people working tirelessly to subvert the will of the American voter. As much as it is tempting to blame the voter rolls for the bulk of the fraud, a glance at the vote totals from the 2020 presidential election will disabuse one of the notion that the main issue is illegals voting, or nefarious characters voting multiple times. Democratic presidential popular vote totals: 2016: 65,788,564
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Fitton said, “326,608 names have remained continuously inactive for at least three consecutive federal general elections. That means the person hasn't voted or otherwise communicated with the state or the county voting officials for … six years. At least 151,202 registrants have been enactive [sic] for four federal elections. That's over eight years.” And finally, “33,922 inactive voters have been around just hanging on the rolls for 10 plus years. You know, and you can see why we do this in the back here. Look at that quote. ‘Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections.’ And that's the key issue here.”[bolding mine]
2020: 81,283,501
2024: 75,019,682 Republican presidential popular vote totals: 2016: 62,984,828
2020: 74,223,975
2024: 77,303,568 The Democrat vote increased by 23.6% between 2016 and 2020, but decreased 7.7% in 2024. That is a huge discrepancy that simply cannot be reconciled with candidate popularity, population shifts, voter rolls being purged (spoiler: they weren't), or any other explanation that does not recognize massive cheating via the use of fake ballots that did not correspond to registered voters. That's why some precincts reported more than 100% turnout. That's why vote counting was suspended, then restarted after those fake ballots were inserted into the counting process. And that's why recounts are of limited value. Sure, some ballots may be counted incorrectly, or not counted at all. But when the ballots themselves are fake, only a comprehensive audit of the votes will have any hope of identifying fraud. The fight for clean voter roles is a noble cause, and it will go a long way toward improving Americans' opinion of the integrity of our political process. But it is not the whole answer, and we must recognize that the forces aligned against our republican form of government will continue to probe for ways to subvert the will of the people. They found a way in 2020, and we barely survived that attack on our country. The next time might be more clever, and not a brute force injection of millions of fake ballots!
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Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (just in time for summer!). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
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- GitHub Copilot users are aghast at the exponentially higher costs they are facing starting tomorrow with the introduction of usage-based billing. (Tech Crunch)
"What a joke," one Redditor recently wrote, claiming that, while they currently only pay around $29 per month, the new rate will balloon their costs to nearly $750 a month.
He posted this with a screenshot of his estimated bill... From a visibly unactivated version of Windows.Another user posted "WOW, didn't expect new pricing model to be this ridiculous," sharing a screenshot that appeared to show that their costs had shot up from around $50 to some $3,000.
Both of them posted to Reddit, and both got dunked on for being obviously incompetent vibe-coders.
I use Claude Code. My company pays for the 5X plan, and I rarely hit the 1X mark. The people who do hit the limit are either experimenting - fair enough - or trying to tell the AI to generate an entire application with a single prompt, which just doesn't work.
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May 30, 2026

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Upcoming Movies

I usually talk about movies in the past. Movies in the long past most of the time.
But, I do keep abreast of current day movie news, and there have been some upcoming films that have intrigued me in certain ways.
But before I get to these specific examples, I wonder if I should be excited about movies in the future, movies that are sometimes not even in production yet and literally no one has seen (rough cuts aren't the film), or about movies from decades past that have existed for years and actually have great reputations but I just haven't seen yet.
Of course, online discourse trends towards the unseen. We know a movie is coming for months, even years, but no one can slam the door shut on the film in any way. Casting news, spy shots of set, rumors of story beats...it's just an endless stream of possibilities to grab onto for endless articles and videos whereas if you go and watch an old movie, well, that's it. You've seen it. You know if you like it or not, if you agree with the long-held generalized opinion, and it's done. It's a lot less fun than picking apart clues to try and come to a conclusion about if something is going to be good or not.
It's a game, a play in the zeitgeist, an effort to be part of an on-going conversation. It's not really about the movies themselves, but about connecting with other people. That's fine, but my concern is always about the movies themselves. So, I tend to be more excited about old movies I haven't seen than new movies that literally no one has seen (again, rough cuts without finished sound, effects, or music are not the film, they are rough cuts).
However, that being said, there are some movies I've heard about that have piqued my interest.
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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 music logistics theme for this Hobby Thread.
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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals. Would you like a treat? Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
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Good afternoon KT The Lilacs are in bloom and smelling nice here in Southern NH. Mrs. R says she smells Lily of the Valley too but my old nostrils detect nothing! Not an easy time of year for the flora and fauna. 95 Tuesday and 45 the next day... Thanks as always for all the wonderful threads on Ace. Rodent
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Do you care about biolabs run by Chinese illegal immigrants?
On Thursday, J.J. Sefton included in his Morning Report this piece by Debra Heine: Sen. Sheehy Calls for IG Investigation of Montana Research Lab After Lapses Involving Deadly Viruses:Senator Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) is demanding a government review of two incidents in the past year involving the “theft, loss, or release” of a deadly pathogen” at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research facility in Hamilton, Montana. Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), an NIH lab, “conducts studies on some of the world’s most dangerous diseases, meaning even small lapses could put Montana communities at risk,” Sheehy said in a press release, Tuesday. Even more concerning are reports that a senior RML scientist allegedly attempted to smuggle dozens of vials of VHF [viral hemorrhagic fever] into the United States from Africa in January and lied to customs officials about their contents."The authorities" don't seem to have their act together here. I'm in favor of looking for ways to decrease the size of government, but here it seems that agents of the government were endangering Americans. BUT WHAT IF GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT GETS EVEN STUPIDER? The Montana cases above apparently involved personnel at a licensed NIH lab. What if there are unknown biolabs running in the country, perhaps even by hostile illegal immigrants from, say, China?
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Eau Galle) 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? Highly frowned upon. And permanent records can be involved.
4) Have a great weekend!
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- In the comments yesterday, Seth asked:[quote>Regarding Anthropic and their IPO. Why the statement as to it crashing?[/quote>Which is a fair question because Anthropic's Claude Code is actually a useful product and well worth the $20 per month.
And the answer is that Anthropic (and likewise OpenAI) spend a lot more than $1 to make $1 in revenue. Subscription plans in particularly are wildly unprofitable; it's the much more expensive per-token charges on their API services that make the balance sheets look less insane.
And if they hiked their subscription fees by around 1000% to reflect the real cost of the services, they'd lose the bulk of their customers, which would just make things worse because the training costs for new AI models are fixed regardless of how many people are using them.
That's why both companies are rushing for an IPO.
- Microsoft is under fire for threatening a "security researcher" with criminal investigation. (Tech Crunch)
The "security researcher" in question is anonymous and definitely no White Hat. The moment "Nightmare Eclipse" finds a security flaw, he goes public with it, regardless of the chaos that might ensue.
On the other hand, Microsoft could do well to put fewer security flaws in their code in the first place.
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Strange -- some might say alien -- clouds over
Rosewell, NM (!), 2017
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Dachshund agility demo.
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They have built an Empire of Lies and demand we all pledge our fealty.
Mike Solana:Bass is currently talking about how nice the city was when she was growing up, forgetting that she's been the mayor for almost four years, and Democrats have controlled the mayoralty since 2001. So she's promising to return to the city to its glory days... before one-party Democrat rule. And she's saying she'll address all of the problems she left unaddressed for almost four years.
[W]hat's driving the popularity of a professional 21st Century clown like Pratt, with no experience in government, over a thoughtful, if imperfect, standard issue Democrat like Bass, in her nice professional pantsuit? In Los Angeles? Well, I think it's basically something like this: there really still just is tremendous political alpha in getting on stage and telling the truth. But in local politics it also matters what you're telling the truth about, and a soccer mom of two will never care about Donald Trump while a meth addict's shitting in her driveway. ...] If you had to distill all of this criticism into something coherent, I think it might just be that Pratt reminds libs of Donald Trump, who they hate, and he talks about crime, which is bad for lib politicians? People also have a lot to say about the AI-generated campaign advertisements fans have produced on Pratt's behalf, which many pundits incessantly credit to the candidate himself. But it's not clear why they hate these things other than their general appearance of effectiveness, and, again, Pratt has nothing to do with them. Still, I do agree the guy's a little bit like Trump, just not in terms of disposition or, from what I can tell thus far, any of Trump's most popular positions. Pratt is another funny, charismatic white guy from the world of entertainment who obsessively discusses an extremely popular issue we are not, as good upstanding people in a one-party state controlled by the DNC, supposed to discuss. In the case of Trump in 2016, that issue was immigration. To a certain extent, Trump's winning issue continues to be immigration. But for Pratt, the winning issue is the obvious fact that many of LA's homeless 'victims,' who Americans are expected to imagine as exclusively a class of sweetspoken, down-on-their-luck single mothers, are in fact violent drug-addicted criminals. Running as a Democrat in a city controlled entirely by Democrats, from the bureaucrats who run the place to the reporters who cover the bureaucrats, is mostly a sweet gig. But when things start to crumble as badly as they have in Los Angeles, and you've completely defeated the neutered Republican Party you're supposed to keep around for purposes of witch burning, the act of noticing problems becomes taboo. An honesty taboo, if you will. It truly feels like we're all expected to lie. We're expected to understand the good people are in charge, and they are doing their best, and any pointing out of their (many, many (MANY)) enormous failures can only help the bad people. Then, we are expected to believe the bad people will lead us to some truly heinous moral horror merely in the name of baseline functioning government. I understand this seems ridiculous, but I genuinely do think it constitutes the underlying psychology of a one-party town, in which not even Democrats are supposed to tell the truth. ... Nothing has thus far painted a starker difference between the taboo-shattering Pratt and the incumbents who torched LA than the sitting councilwoman, herself responsible for a myriad of the city's problems, who is somehow framing herself an outsider in the race for mayor.
... When you shatter the honesty taboo and talk about problems created by the One Party, most people simply will not give a shit that you're a reality television star who clocks as just a little bit retarded. This is because the average person is starved for the truth, and if you tell it to them they will find you intriguing, fascinating, mesmerizing. Then, a good amount of people will decide that you're a hero. In 2026, heroes are memed, and in this age of attention he who is memed makes money.I agree wholeheartedly with this. In 2016, I desperately wanted a candidate who adopted Trump's positions but who was a more professional, less impulsive, more disciplined version of Trump. That option was not available (though I kidded myself into thinking that Ted Cruz would fit this unmet need). At some point, the political establishment of the Uniparty will have to accept that simply insisting we have to vote for the buttoned-up stuff shirt who will sell us down the river because look, his stuffed shirt is so nicely buttoned up!, is not a winning message. Ask John Cornyn. BEHOLD THE TASTEFULLY-CREASED TROUSER
... Obviously, there's something a little bit retarded about choosing a former reality television star with no experience to run the second largest city in the country. Like, no shit, if a sane person with a lot of experience running a city who agreed crime should be illegal and reservoirs should be filled with water were an option, he'd be the obvious choice. But he's not an option, and we're living in a world post-Obama. Is the prospect of a reality television star in office somehow really more ridiculous than a "community organizer" like Karen Bass? Or a former rap star turned, for like five minutes, state assemblyman like Mamdani?
AND BE JOYOUS, PEASANTS!
... Is this not the defining aspect of our culture today? Politicians will stand up and say the most retarded things ever said in their position, but they will dress well, they will say these things with an aesthetic of thoughtfulness, they will not violate the honesty taboo, and we will be expected to support them over the 'bad guy' who thinks the local hobo jerking off under a bridge should pack his shit up and go. ...
Alas, we are not living in the thinking man's world this summer. This is Pratt Summer. And I'm feeling just a little bit retarded myself.
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From October 2025: Talarico is subliminally screaming his actual sexual preference to us.

A mentally ill antifa terrorist who praised the murder of Charlie Kirk done got arrested for having sex crimes. "I never saw this coming" said someone who thought you were talking about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire, but then, when you told him you said an antifa thug was a sex criminal, said "Oh yes, that makes much more sense."
A queer-identified Antifa activist who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk has been arrested in upstate New York on suspicion of felony child sex crimes. Justin Robert Stroup, 37, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., was arrested on April 30 by the New York State Police following a joint investigation involving Plattsburgh City Police and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). He allegedly shared child sex abuse material. Stroup is a leftist activist and guitarist for the left-wing death metal band Dead Solace. The band announced on Instagram after the news of his arrest that they were immediately disbanding. "This decision follows recent actions by a member that do not align with our values, our expectations of one another, or the respect we believe should exist within our community," the band said in a statement. In 2022, Dead Solace performed a charity concert in Burlington, Vt., co-organized by Planned Parenthood. After Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September, Stroup wrote on Facebook: "Rest in P*SS you dirty f*cking fascist." Earlier that year, he wrote, "I think it's time to get militant with my anti bigotry once again."You're not going to believe this but it turns out he's a squat, fat, blobby kobold with a neckbeard. A violent Portland "protester" was released without bail and then quickly smashed a cop in the face with a "softball-sized rock."
You're not going to believe this, but he looks like a gangly Genderfuck Witch with hideous teeth who wears belly-shirts despite being nominally male and also having a chubby middle. People don't join antifa because their dating life is too hectic, you know. A swishy steroid case in California spent Memorial Day kicking over flags because Democrats love The America That Can Be But Never Will Exist.
Timothy Lawrence Reed, 35, is accused of breaking into a north Portland home occupied by a mother and her children, threatening to kill the family, and then assaulting a pursuing officer as he tried to evade arrest. The attack happened around 11:35 p.m. on May 14 when officers responded to a reported burglary in progress in the 3900 block of North Overlook Terrace. A woman called 911 to report that a stranger had entered her home while she and her children were inside. The woman told 911 that the intruder threatened to kill everyone in the home. Armed with a stick, the woman chased the suspect from the home. The suspect was located in Overlook Park. Police said he ignored repeated commands and continued running through the neighborhood, prompting a prolonged foot pursuit. "I'm not afraid of you, pig!" Reed shouted in the police body camera video. "I'll f*cking kill you!" As the chase moved north of North Prescott Street, Reed allegedly suddenly turned toward an officer and struck him on the head with a large rock. Since 2022, suspect booking photos are no longer allowed to be released without a conviction in Oregon due to a law passed by Democrats in response to this journalist's reporting on the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots. An investigation into Reed's criminal history shows that just three days before the assault, he was arrested in Portland for felony unlawful use of a weapon, escape, resisting arrest, menacing, and second-degree disorderly conduct. On May 13, the day before the rock attack, he was released without bail by Judge Chanpone Sinlapassai.
Libs of TikTokNJ committeewoman and Democrat -- obviously -- was just arrested for driving DUI with a child in the car. She got hit with a child endangerment charge, too. Now she's caught driving with a suspended license. The rules and laws just don't apply to woke Democrats, especially woke Democrat women. They're fighting the oppressor by becoming the oppressor class. The whole family is criminal trash that would be too unseemly to appear on COPS.
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Parents are SUING Rochester Memorial elementary school after a male student who identifies as transgender entered the girl's bathroom with their 3rd grade daughter and peeked under the stall The principal allegedly responded by saying the girl should use a different bathroom if she isn't comfortable.
Libs of TikTokElementary school principal bars parents from their children's elementary school graduation, to punish them for ICE's arrest of an illegal alien. This woke Karen naturally cites Muh Safety and Muh Concerns as a valid reason to punish American citizens for the lawful detention of an illegal alien.
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Illegal from El Salvador who had charges for drugs, rape, sexual assault, and property damage was let out of prison by sanctuary politicians in Virginia before RAPING a woman, per DHS Democrats want foreign criminals on our streets raping and murdering Americans
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@libsoftiktok 19h BREAKING: @TempeElementary Principal Bronwyn Sternberg sent a letter to families informing them that parents and guests will NOT be allowed to attend students' graduation after a reported illegal alien parent and her child were arrested by ICE near the school.
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