Daily Tech News 7 July 2025

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Why AI sucks. (Dwarkesh)

Because it doesn't learn.

Specifically, current large language models are not designed to acquire and verify new facts and to discard old one that turned out to be incorrect, or to adopt new modes of though that streamline reasoning.

They are trained, once, and then left to slowly rot until they are replaced.

Interesting comments on this article too: Arguing about when AI will replace humanity and then admitting that nobody really knows anything and it will probably never happen.

Tech News

Why software teams slow down as they grow. (Medium)

Because everything does.
Nvidia's new desktop CPU arrives this month. (Tom's Hardware)

No, you can't buy one. But you will be able to buy mini-PCs built around it... For around $3000.

I don't expect it to set the world on fire.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Don't look up the lyrics.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 Good morning.

Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2025 04:35 AM (lJ0H4)

2 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 07, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

3 I think everyone is still asleep. Well, except for me.

Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2025 04:40 AM (lJ0H4)

4 A more realistic and enjoyable video about AI: John Carmack talks about creating a system to learn how to play Atari 2600 games. This includes a camera and a mechanical system to use the joystick. So rather than a task talking to an emulator, they set out to create something that had to approach the old Atari game console the same way as a human.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4epAfU1FCuQ

Posted by: Epobirs at July 07, 2025 04:43 AM (/0z9K)

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Why AI sucks. (Dwarkesh)

Because it doesn't learn

It is exactly like a digital version of printed encyclopedias, then?

Good to know!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 04:45 AM (xG4kz)

6
First chess.

Then Go.

And now, Atari 2600 games.

Wowwie zowwie! Where do I drop off my cash to invest?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 04:48 AM (xG4kz)

7
Your anime quote for the day:

"Omae wa mou shindeiru."

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 04:49 AM (PyA9a)

8 Still not getting on the cart.

Posted by: mikeski at July 07, 2025 04:51 AM (DgGvY)

9 Mornin' All.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 07, 2025 04:53 AM (IrYHD)

10 Belated BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2025 04:54 AM (ZvVgj)

11 Saw some tweets this morning wherein Grok blames Trump for the Texas flood disaster, citing sources such as CNN and The Guardian.

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 05:00 AM (AOsQT)

12 I think everyone is still asleep. Well, except for me.
Posted by: Tuna

Maybe everybody went to a restaurant in the forest, ate their your fill, and fell asleep

Disclaimer: I did.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 07, 2025 05:01 AM (NXz8h)

13
Good morning all and one (and you know who YOU are)!

We had an excellent Independence Day weekend. On the fishing front, our neighbor went out fishing for tuna on Saturday nearly seventy miles offshore. They came back with three Yellowfin Tuna, the largest being fifty pounds, and six Mahi-mahi. The local gulls had themselves a rral feast during the time spent cleaning and splitting up the catch.

We got our prep work done to allow us to install mooring whips for our boat. We also finally got our shower repaired, a task which required us to fix and install not one, but two valves. And I installed a support piece to counteract sagging of the shelves in our cabinet over our bar -- glass pitchers for blenders were doing their best to collapse the whole arrangement.

I'm back up north now to gave my car serviced (brakes and other items) ahead of getting it ibspected and registered this month. If I can do so, I'll also acquire a new pair of work boits with steel shanks as I have a lot of work involving use of shovels in my future. I return to Sussex tomorrow if everything goes according to plan.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:02 AM (xG4kz)

14
Saw some tweets this morning wherein Grok blames Trump for the Texas flood disaster, citing sources such as CNN and The Guardian.
Posted by: Don Black

Grok just pawn in game of life

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:04 AM (xG4kz)

15 Saw some tweets this morning wherein Grok blames Trump for the Texas flood disaster, citing sources such as CNN and The Guardian.

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 05:00 AM (AOsQT)
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No AI system that I'm aware of is ready for prime time. I got such goofs from Grok months ago after it became generally available. And I argued back with proofs and got half apologies and revised answers.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2025 05:05 AM (ZvVgj)

16
Reclaiming my time!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:05 AM (xG4kz)

17 Local fireworks dealers blame the tariffs on short supply. You wouldn't know that by all the local fireworks going off. I remember when they were US made, are any made in the US anymore? My local town tries to ban fireworks, good luck with that, call out the national guard, state troopers, shut off all local streets? Another unenforceable law.

Posted by: Colin at July 07, 2025 05:05 AM (wlQdF)

18
It is high time to get all Edward Scissorhanded on the recissions' front, Congress slugs.

No resting on your origami laurels yet!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:07 AM (xG4kz)

19 Just checked Grok about a correction I provided it a few months ago regarding a software product. Grok is still spewing out the wrong answer now.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2025 05:09 AM (ZvVgj)

20 Since Elon has the keys to Grok's brain, he can make it behave any way he wants it to.

Like insinuating Trump is responsible for a natural disaster, now that he has turned on Trump.

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 05:11 AM (AOsQT)

21 @Pixy: "I don't expect it to set the world on fire."

The power connectors on the other hand...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2025 05:12 AM (O7YUW)

22
We -- us and the couple next door -- had a half hour or so conversation with a couple visiting the area who, as it turned out, had once owned through inheritance the next house but one just down the street from us in Sussex. They had to sell it after his parents both passed away in short order, a true shame on several fronts as their kuds had really enjoyed visiting their grandparents down there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:13 AM (xG4kz)

23
That does it, then.

Texas will be turning blue.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 05:15 AM (PyA9a)

24 I can report that I survived the floods.

I live near the top of a hill and had a river of water running through my back yard but no damage. Sadly, since central Texas has about an inch of soil over limestone, floods are a fact of life.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 05:16 AM (ExV1e)

25
It's over, you guys.

Texas will be forever blue, now.

Say hello to Senator-Governor-President Bob O'Rourke.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 05:16 AM (PyA9a)

26 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 07, 2025 05:19 AM (AN2gy)

27
Lotsa "How can people be so heartless, how can people be so cruel?" wailing in the socials after the BBB was passed and signed last week.

It brought to mind the most insufferable wailing and whining of the 3 Dog Night song, "Easy To Be Hard". Pure vomitus that one was.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:20 AM (xG4kz)

28
btw, does ANYONE remember Iran and "world war III?"

Remember how I told You People two weeks ago everyone will forget about Iran in a week?

Of course not!

Only I remember.

It is my gift.

It is my curse.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 05:20 AM (PyA9a)

29 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 07, 2025 05:22 AM (dKEEs)

30
No one will remember the FLASH floods in Texas by this weekend.

We'll be on to our Next Hoax, our next Gaslighting Event. Perhaps a dead black teen, killed by cops. Or a fake Republican scandal.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 05:22 AM (PyA9a)

31
This coming Sunday will mark the one year anniversary of the shooting of President Trump in Butler, PA.

Slow Joe is packing up in preparation for becoming President of the Common Market, Konrad Adenauer picked the most steady hands and mind available for that task, I can assure you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:26 AM (xG4kz)

32
btw, for the dummies, I'm not saying the floods were a hoax.

The reaction/response is the hoax. The bullshit. The gaslighting. The politicization.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 05:26 AM (PyA9a)

33 We'll be on to our Next Hoax, our next Gaslighting Event. Perhaps a dead black teen, killed by cops. Or a fake Republican scandal.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 05:22 AM (PyA9a)

Lindsey Graham will propose a bill to kill all gay / trans people and require young thots to get pregnant and have the children.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 05:27 AM (ExV1e)

34 @30/Soothsayer: Yes, this is how the "news" cycle works. If it bleeds, it leads. If nothing's bleeding, throw ketchup on someone and fake it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2025 05:27 AM (O7YUW)

35 @Pixy (re AI): "They are trained, once, and then left to slowly rot until they are replaced."

So GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) with a positive feedback loop. Sounds about right.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

36
Democrats already told us they plan to bring forth "real people" who are "impacted" by the BBB.

In other words, expect to hear lots of fake people with fake stories about starving & dying.

Indeed, the "stories" have already begun on tik tok & instagram & fakebook.

These are the same people on Reddit & Fakebook who fake "lost their jobs" "due to Trump tariffs" in November 2024.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 05:30 AM (PyA9a)

37
Apparently all MAGA people should be living with deep and abiding shame, now. All the smartest people say so!

Why are you pointing and laughing at them? Stop it! Stop it right now or they're telling Mom!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:32 AM (xG4kz)

38
I thought that our shameful failure to enact net neutrality left this country with no one left to be killed by misguided gubmint policies.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:34 AM (xG4kz)

39 G'morning, all!

Almost everyone I spoke with yesterday was aware of the Texas tragedy.

AND aware that the NWS had indeed sent out flash flood notices several hours early, and that the media was lying about the lack of warning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

40 Nobody has ever been robbed by a ten year old.....right?

https://tinyurl.com/32fcmtws

Just remember, Maryland Governor, Wes Moore (D) wishes to be the Democratic nominee for President in the 2028 election.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)

41 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! Yes, it's Monday, but remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 05:37 AM (omVj0)

42
Democrats already told us they plan to bring forth "real people" who are "impacted" by the BBB.

Behold! the Party of Joy (Behar)! And of Reclaiming Their Time!

Where is Juan Padilla these days?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:38 AM (xG4kz)

43 AND aware that the NWS had indeed sent out flash flood notices several hours early, and that the media was lying about the lack of warning.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

My phone was going off every two hours or so with warnings until I silenced them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 05:39 AM (ExV1e)

44 So I watched Heads of State yesterday evening.

I have no idea why this movie was made.

John Cena should stick to riding a cow.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2025 05:40 AM (a1415)

45 Democrats already told us they plan to bring forth "real people" who are "impacted" by the BBB.

My name is Jose Jimenez and I am an innocent and hardworking human trafficker of underage girls. I rely on Medicaid to pay for my groceries. Orange man is very bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 05:42 AM (ExV1e)

46 I'm up, sipping coffee, getting "Well???" looks from the cats. It'll be a busy week. Today I go to the surgeon's office for the pre-op stuff, blood work and EKG. Wed., I hope, oil change for the car; Miss Linda has her Kitten Yoga at the library on Thurs.; and then Stirling the big black cat goes to the vet Fri. for rabies shot and flea treatment.

Somewhere in there I need to stock up on groceries, since next week, after the surgery, I may not feel up to driving to the store. Walmart, I understand, delivers if your order is over $35? Easy enough; it's impossible nowadays to get out of that place without spending at least $40.

Howz yer week lookin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 05:42 AM (omVj0)

47 7 Your anime quote for the day:

"Omae wa mou shindeiru."

Posted by: Soothsayer

I was watching a vtuber named Otsuka Rei the other day, and her three year old daughter came out with that line.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 07, 2025 05:42 AM (BLOW1)

48 In Jeffrey Epstein news, the FBI has a new memo out that says, Epstein had no client list, didn't blackmail anyone and definitely killed himself.

I don't know who got to Bondi, Kash and Bongino, but they all look ridiculous and have lost all credibility.

So the next step must be to free Maxwell, because, why exactly is she in jail?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 05:45 AM (XV/Pl)

49
Demi Moore was an absolute plank as the female lead in the "romantic horror" movie, "Half Light", which I had the unfortunate experience of being in the same room with an appliance on which it was playing on Saturday evening.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 07, 2025 05:48 AM (xG4kz)

50 Time for the morning walk

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2025 05:49 AM (a1415)

51 Walmart, I understand, delivers if your order is over $35? Easy enough; it's impossible nowadays to get out of that place without spending at least $40.

Howz yer week lookin'?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I've gotten hooked on Kroger delivery. I find I spend less money than I do with in store shopping. No impulse buying.

Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2025 05:49 AM (lJ0H4)

52 >So the next step must be to free Maxwell, because, why exactly is she in jail?

Posted by: Thomas Bender
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okay, you're skipping ahead
the next thing is, we hear about all the people who 'misspoke' on this matter, and why what is being said NOW is the truth.

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 05:50 AM (AOsQT)

53 @39/Village Idiot's Apprentice: "AND aware that the NWS had indeed sent out flash flood notices several hours early, and that the media was lying about the lack of warning."

When I lived in the U.S Midwest for seven years, I consistently observed just how good the NWS early warning network was. (This was 20+ years ago with much more primitive equipment than today.)

The media is a bunch of lying suckweasels.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2025 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

54 AI (plus bots?) has trashed google search results. I don't see how they'll put that genie back in the bottle.

Heh: "bot"-tle.

Posted by: m at July 07, 2025 05:51 AM (aURVT)

55 @52

>>okay, you're skipping ahead

Anything they might say is going to sound absurd.

If these are the findings of the FBI, them Maxwell needs to be released as she was apparently rail roadbed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 05:53 AM (XV/Pl)

56 >I've gotten hooked on Kroger delivery. I find I spend less money than I do with in store shopping. No impulse buying.

Posted by: Tuna
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I don't do their delivery anymore because my last order went to someone else in the neighborhood
who, btw, was dishonest enough to accept it, no questions asked
Kroger refunded everything, same day, to their credit
but their driver is a moron, and I have a neighbor down the sidewalk who is a thief.

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 05:53 AM (AOsQT)

57 "I don't know who got to Bondi, Kash and Bongino, but they all look ridiculous and have lost all credibility."

maybe they all discovered that the deep state had kompromat on them, too.
or they had a terse conversation with a mysterious assassin who tracelessly penetrated their security to deliver a warning.
"Omae wa mou shindeiru."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 07, 2025 05:54 AM (dKEEs)

58
I've gotten hooked on Kroger delivery. I find I spend less money than I do with in store shopping. No impulse buying.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2025

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I may try it next week. Miss Linda resolutely refuses to learn to drive, and we no longer have a grocery close by. (Aldi has been renovating the old Winn-Dixie for seven months, but isn't open yet.) So the only ways I have to get supplies are to go to the stores or have stuff brought in.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)

59
I don't know who got to Bondi, Kash and Bongino, but they all look ridiculous and have lost all credibility.

So the next step must be to free Maxwell, because, why exactly is she in jail?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 05:45 AM (XV/Pl)

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If this is a cover-up, I'd expect that Bongino to quit.
He quit the secret service when that oganization lost its way.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 07, 2025 05:56 AM (+O1VQ)

60 @46/Wolfus:

How I imagine your mornings are like:
https://youtu.be/9EYZnSXEla0

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2025 05:56 AM (O7YUW)

61 I don't do their delivery anymore because my last order went to someone else in the neighborhood
who, btw, was dishonest enough to accept it, no questions asked
Kroger refunded everything, same day, to their credit
but their driver is a moron, and I have a neighbor down the sidewalk who is a thief.
Posted by: Don Black

Damn. That's unfortunate. I've not had any bad experiences thus far. Drivers here seem to know what they're doing.

Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2025 05:58 AM (lJ0H4)

62 In other news, Essence Festival is over for another year. (Not something that affects me, as I don't go downtown or to IHOP during the weekend. Or Waffle House at all, not around here anyway.) How crazy do you have to be to hold a festival of any kind in the pesthole of the American South on the hottest weekend (so far) of the year???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

63 because it's perfectly obvious that epstein was running a massive kgb-style kompromat operation on behalf of "the deep state"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 07, 2025 05:59 AM (dKEEs)

64 @57

>>maybe they all discovered that the deep state had kompromat on them, too.

I think they learned Epstein was an IC/LE asset and were probably told that releasing any information would lead to the exposing of sources and methods and that other agents would die if Epstein were exposed.

It's the only thing that makes sense.

Bondi, Kash and Bondi have zero credibility and look absolutely ridiculous, they've essentially cucked themselves.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 05:59 AM (XV/Pl)

65 ah, whaddya gonna do

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 05:59 AM (AOsQT)

66 @46/Wolfus:

How I imagine your mornings are like:
https://youtu.be/9EYZnSXEla0
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2025

***
Close. More silence and guilt-inducing stares ("You're starving me!"), but close.

The black longhair there looks much like my late Wolf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:01 AM (omVj0)

67 now that he has turned on Trump.

It may have been said by other Morons here, but I think Elon's trouble is that he is a businessman. The fact that Congress wasn't working as fast as a private business was a source of frustration.

Now waiting to see if the Democrats welcome him back to the plantation.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2025 06:03 AM (svLOV)

68 Need to get ready for my own walk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)

69 Why AI sucks. (Dwarkesh)

Yes, we know.

Posted by: Larry at July 07, 2025 06:04 AM (rzwGB)

70 60 @46/Wolfus:

How I imagine your mornings are like:
https://youtu.be/9EYZnSXEla0
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2025 05:56 AM (O7YUW)

'---

The caption on that video says "Every. Darn. Day." And the date says "9 y ago". Could you imagine?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 07, 2025 06:04 AM (IrYHD)

71
It may have been said by other Morons here, but I think Elon's trouble is that he is a businessman. The fact that Congress wasn't working as fast as a private business was a source of frustration.

Now waiting to see if the Democrats welcome him back to the plantation.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2025 06:03 AM (svLOV)

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I believe Musk fired eighty percent of the twitter staff in nothing flat. But he didn't have judges and leftists hindering him at every step

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 07, 2025 06:07 AM (IrYHD)

72 Krebs, you're on a roll!

Posted by: m at July 07, 2025 06:09 AM (aURVT)

73 I believe Musk fired eighty percent of the twitter staff in nothing flat. But he didn't have judges and leftists hindering him at every step

I recall that there were threats of lawsuits and calls to strip him of his citizenship and deport him. But now that he's not with OrangeManBad? He'll be welcomed back like the prodigal son.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2025 06:11 AM (svLOV)

74 In Jeffrey Epstein news, the FBI has a new memo out that says, Epstein had no client list, didn't blackmail anyone and definitely killed himself.
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And, also, there is no information to release.

Maxwell may as well be let out of jail, and Gates, Staley et al can sleep easy, since the administration is apparently not going to fess up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2025 06:12 AM (bppHP)

75 mornin yall. Here we go again, another week.

Kroger delivered my MIL's order to the house next door and they kept it, no questions asked. Kroger resent the order. What a way to find out what assholes your neighbors are.

We went to an Aldi for the first time last Friday. It reminded me of a flea market. They had one checkout lane open and a line to the back of the store. No self checkout. We dumped the few items we had and left. Won't be back.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2025 06:13 AM (vFG9F)

76 It may have been said by other Morons here, but I think Elon's trouble is that he is a businessman. The fact that Congress wasn't working as fast as a private business was a source of frustration.

Grok told him that the President could just snap his fingers and make all the bad go away. He failed to read the postscript that this did not apply to OrangeMan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 06:13 AM (ExV1e)

77 >Now waiting to see if the Democrats welcome him back to the plantation.
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I don't see it. To the Left, his dalliance with Trump has worked corruption of blood. He will not be forgiven.

as always, IMHO

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:13 AM (AOsQT)

78 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 07, 2025 06:13 AM (XQo4F)

79 Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously promised the public release of scores of records associated with federal probes into Epstein, though in recent interviews, she has claimed the delay was attributed to "tens of thousands" of videos within the FBI's possession showing potential pornography of minors.
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Never mind....

Posted by: Emily Litella-Bondi at July 07, 2025 06:16 AM (bppHP)

80 Schroedinger's Epstein Files

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:18 AM (AOsQT)

81 When Trump dropped the EV tax credit as part of his dealing to get the BBB passed it amounted to an assault on Tesla stock price, and Tesla stock was pledged by Musk to borrow money for the Twitter deal, and it has funded Neuralink, the Boring Company and probably his other investments. I imagine Musk saw that EV credit drop as a huge threat to Tesla cash flow and stock value, and as a betrayal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2025 06:21 AM (Ijrh7)

82 I've been looking at the local mug shots from last month and have observed that a name like Zytorian Rashawn Williams is one indicator of a potential criminal. Another is a neck covered in tattoos. If they extend up the face, it's a pretty sure thing.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2025 06:22 AM (vFG9F)

83 Fortune: "Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs has grand ambitions to ‘solve all diseases’ with AI. Now, it’s gearing up for its first human trials"

https://archive.is/QQeNn

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2025 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

84 Democrats have a big opportunity to start railing against the DOJ/FBI cover up of the Epstein files. It is right there waiting for them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2025 06:24 AM (Ijrh7)

85 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2025 06:26 AM (+qU29)

86 Mornin'

(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 07, 2025 06:27 AM (sAmhv)

87 Democrats have a big opportunity to start railing against the DOJ/FBI cover up of the Epstein files. It is right there waiting for them.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2025 06:24 AM (Ijrh7)

So they'll sound like this place most days.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 06:27 AM (ExV1e)

88 >Democrats have a big opportunity to start railing against the DOJ/FBI cover up of the Epstein files. It is right there waiting for them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood
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I'm sure some of their heroes are in those files too

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:28 AM (AOsQT)

89 Kroger delivered my MIL's order to the house next door and they kept it, no questions asked. Kroger resent the order. What a way to find out what assholes your neighbors are.

We went to an Aldi for the first time last Friday. It reminded me of a flea market. They had one checkout lane open and a line to the back of the store. No self checkout. We dumped the few items we had and left. Won't be back.
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2025 06:13 AM (vFG9F)

The delivery thing may have been store policy. Neighbors may have called it in to the store, who instructed them to keep the stuff because the store doesn't want the liability involved with food going outside their "chain of custody". Let's say the neighbors *really* are assholes, and lick all the donuts or whatever.... Kroger would rather eat the cost of the delivery than be exposed to a massive potential lawsuit.

Just a thought, not saying it isn't just as likely that they're just assholes

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 06:32 AM (BjH5D)

90 This sounds reasonable:

"Afghan man, 45, marries girl aged six before Taliban intervene... and say he must wait until she is nine"

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2025 06:32 AM (vFG9F)

91 Cool article. Helped me understand a little better.

It kinda lost steam around the saxophone analogy, but I got the gist.

Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:32 AM (fV+MH)

92 The first nail in the coffin is calling it the "America Party". No shit. Might as well have called it the "Political Party" or the "Partisan Party".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 06:35 AM (BjH5D)

93 @91

>>It kinda lost steam around the saxophone analogy, but I got the gist.

LLMs, ie AI, are not thinking machines, they are probabilistic engines, the amount of horsepower and storage it would take to make them, "thinking" machines would be staggering.

Having said that, as a someone who uses multiple on a daily basis, they are supremely useful for very specific workflows.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 06:36 AM (XV/Pl)

94 I've been looking at the local mug shots from last month and have observed that a name like Zytorian Rashawn Williams is one indicator of a potential criminal.

I have heard parents claim that their babies get discriminated against because of their "African" names. So the solution would be give them Western names like a lot of real Africans do for their kids.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2025 06:37 AM (svLOV)

95 My guess is that Musk's biggest problem is that he wanted to be co-president and found out the hard way that he ain't and never will be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 06:37 AM (BjH5D)

96 Microsoft claims today is "World Chocolate Day". Never heard of that before, but it sounds good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2025 06:37 AM (IUrgC)

97 >The delivery thing may have been store policy.
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hmm

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:38 AM (AOsQT)

98 I thought this was a nice devotional about a kindly young man. Thought for the day In the hands of God , my gifts are sufficient. Scrioture is John 6:1-14

https://tinyurl.com/yzhwkraj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:38 AM (2GCMq)

99 So, like clockwork, the Left has politicized the flooding in Texas. They want to 'Katrina' Trump. That manipulative tactic was successful against Bush. He was a weakling. Trump is not.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 07, 2025 06:39 AM (sAmhv)

100 "Having said that, as a someone who uses multiple on a daily basis, they are supremely useful for very specific workflows.
Posted by: Thomas Bender "

Which is interesting and something I should get some knowledge of.

Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:39 AM (fV+MH)

101 African" names. So the solution would be give them Western names like a lot of real Africans do for their kids.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2025 06:37 AM (svLOV)

Seriously, everyone in Africa has a first name that's either Christian or Muslim. Almost no one actually from Africa has an African name anymore, not for hundreds of years.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 06:39 AM (BjH5D)

102 LLMs, ie AI, are not thinking machines, they are probabilistic engines, the amount of horsepower and storage it would take to make them, "thinking" machines would be staggering.

Having said that, as a someone who uses multiple on a daily basis, they are supremely useful for very specific workflows.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 06:36 AM (XV/Pl)

The problem being that 98% of the general public and ~110% of TPTB are unaware of that bold part.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)

103 The problem being that 98% of the general public and ~110% of TPTB are unaware of that bold part.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)

Old and busted: "State needs your harvest, kulak. Get on the train."

New hotness: "Computer says the State needs your harvest, kulak. Get on the train."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 06:43 AM (BjH5D)

104 What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world chocolate day?

Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:43 AM (fV+MH)

105 "I have heard parents claim that their babies get discriminated against because of their "African" names."

I'm sure the nasty hair and neck tats have nothing to do with it.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2025 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

106 So, like clockwork, the Left has politicized the flooding in Texas. They want to 'Katrina' Trump. That manipulative tactic was successful against Bush. He was a weakling. Trump is not.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 07, 2025 06:39 AM (sAmhv)

He already declared one county in Texas a federal disaster area and, I believe, Kristi Noem is in Texas already to oversee federal support. Can't verify that second point as Truth is overwhelmed at the moment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 06:44 AM (ExV1e)

107 My guess is that Musk's biggest problem is that he wanted to be co-president and found out the hard way that he ain't and never will be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

He got a taste of it, wants more. I think he’ll find that he’s alienated himself. Better use of that $ would be to finally go to Mars.

Posted by: H at July 07, 2025 06:46 AM (2gjbv)

108 Thousands of soldiers at Fort Jackson sing praise song, Oceans. In reading the article - although you can just scroll down to the song - I'm glad they have a strong pastoral care team:

https://tinyurl.com/4dtwv76c

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:47 AM (2GCMq)

109 "Former CIA Director John Brennan may be exposed to perjury problems after current CIA Director John Ratcliffe released an internal review of the agency’s Russia hoax materials"

And penguins may fly out of my butt.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2025 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

110 There are no Epstein Files. They've been long since destroyed, in whatever form they were in. Probably destroyed the moment Epstein was arrested. Maybe even before that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 07, 2025 06:49 AM (sAmhv)

111 Guadalupe river rescue:

https://tinyurl.com/2e9ar5px

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:50 AM (2GCMq)

112 There are no Epstein Files. They've been long since destroyed, in whatever form they were in. Probably destroyed the moment Epstein was arrested. Maybe even before that.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 07, 2025 06:49 AM (sAmhv)

Could just have well have been created post facto by the same kinds of three letter cretins who adore their "dossiers".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 06:50 AM (BjH5D)

113 There are no Epstein Files. They've been long since destroyed, in whatever form they were in. Probably destroyed the moment Epstein was arrested. Maybe even before that.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 07, 2025 06:49 AM (sAmhv)
========================
Yeah, that's the ticket...

Posted by: CIA at July 07, 2025 06:51 AM (e1Psm)

114 Almost no one actually from Africa has an African name anymore, not for hundreds of years.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

And the names that the mothers come up with here aren't real. I remember a female comedian talking about dating a guy with that kind of name saying it translated into "Warrior With High SAT Scores."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2025 06:51 AM (svLOV)

115 "At least 50 people were shot Thursday into Sunday morning of July 4th weekend across Chicago.'

Trump's fault.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

116 ""At least 50 people were shot Thursday into Sunday morning of July 4th weekend across Chicago.'
"

Oh noe.

Anyway.

Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:54 AM (fV+MH)

117 Almost no one actually from Africa has an African name anymore, not for hundreds of years.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Are you forgetting D'quandray Mandela?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 07, 2025 06:55 AM (ExV1e)

118

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 07, 2025 06:59 AM (5hfjS)

119 FenSpouse says maybe browser needs to be reinstalled. If that works it will be nice to type things on the right side of the keyboard -!:and not get a message that a problem occurred when visiting this site. May you all have a blessed day, know that you are blessings to others and may you see something beautiful today . Yesterday for me it was about 29 feet of cornflowers along the road as well as a male cardinal- the bird, not the religious figure flying past the car window. Thanks, God

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 07:00 AM (2GCMq)

120 "At least 50 people were shot Thursday into Sunday morning of July 4th weekend across Chicago."
___

They were mostly peaceful shootings.

Posted by: The media we used to watch at July 07, 2025 07:01 AM (XQo4F)

121 male cardinal- the bird, not the religious figure flying past the car window

Great. Now I have an image of a variation on The Flying Nun in my head.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2025 07:01 AM (svLOV)

122 If I try to get AI to draw me a picture with specific wording on a sign, it offers up an alternative spelling. If it can’t directly quote me, I doubt its ability to reason.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 07, 2025 07:02 AM (d9Cw3)

123 African names.

I remember I used to like the Cosby sitcom show way back when. Then the oldest daughter gave birth twins and named them Nelson and Winnie.

Yeah, I'm done.
Where are the MASH reruns?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2025 07:05 AM (XQo4F)

124 42
Democrats already told us they plan to bring forth "real people" who are "impacted" by the BBB.

Behold! the Party of Joy (Behar)! And of Reclaiming Their Time!

Where is Juan Padilla these days?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Lau

The counter is easy on this, just start running ads with the victims of "undocumented crimes" saying look the guy who committed this string of felonies is outta the country now. I feel safer, thanks pdt.

Then do one that shows that the guy was collecting benefits etc.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 07, 2025 07:06 AM (OA79/)

125 Wolfus - found another picture of Tibetts with his pipe. If you look for it, three guys in their dress greens. Tibbets (pilot) and navigator and bombardier. If you look carefully in his left hand. I guess it was a Kaywoodie Briar he favored.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2025 07:07 AM (sD+rY)

126 123 African names.

I remember I used to like the Cosby sitcom show way back when. Then the oldest daughter gave birth twins and named them Nelson and Winnie.

Yeah, I'm done.
Where are the MASH reruns?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2025 07:05 AM (XQo4F)

IT WASNT A CHICKEN!!

Posted by: Hawkeye at July 07, 2025 07:07 AM (OA79/)

127

SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2025 07:08 AM (gbOdA)

128 yes, the problem is a given AI application does not yet reliably self-train to any significant extent beyond a bit of local memory, and that may still be as much as ten or even twenty years away

but once it happens the game becomes very different

not quite a god-machine but ungodly useful

Posted by: TallDave at July 07, 2025 09:09 AM (98TtQ)

129 94 I've been looking at the local mug shots from last month and have observed that a name like Zytorian Rashawn Williams is one indicator of a potential criminal.

I have heard parents claim that their babies get discriminated against because of their "African" names. So the solution would be give them Western names like a lot of real Africans do for their kids.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2025 06:37 AM (svLOV)

"When in Rome..."

Posted by: m at July 07, 2025 10:29 AM (aURVT)

130 Hasn't everyone in software development read the Mythical Man Month yet? It was required reading for me 25 years ago...

Posted by: RandomString at July 07, 2025 10:36 AM (Ji9WQ)

131 130 Hasn't everyone in software development read the Mythical Man Month yet? It was required reading for me 25 years ago...
Posted by: RandomString at July 07, 2025 10:36 AM (Ji9WQ)

https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth

Posted by: m at July 07, 2025 10:47 AM (aURVT)

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