Daily Tech News 3 September 2025

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Do AI systems need world models to augment their knowledge with facts rather than just stories? Yes. Duh. (Quanta)

Although the answer is painfully obvious and we have covered it here many times, the article is worth reading. Worth reading because it covers SHRDLU, a classic AI system from the 1960s that notably included a world model with impressive results, and also because it goes into the difficulty of scaling this to modern AI systems, such as nobody having the faintest bloody idea how to do it.

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The judge in the Google antitrust trial has issued a ruling which not only doesn't break up Google but doesn't seem to do much of anything. (Tech Crunch)

I'd have to read the ruling but the penalties really seem to be minimal.
I want to be left alone. (CTMS)

I feel you. And yes, there's always an exception for cats.
CPU utilisation is a lie. (Brendan Long)

I've noted for years that a system reporting a 50% CPU load was typically somewhere closer to 65% thanks to variable clock speeds and multi-threaded cores, and here are charts to demonstrate it. And it gets much worse with certain workloads - a processor running matrix math is typically at 100% load when it is reporting 50% load.
If you need to biggest fastest drive that will fit in a single M.2 slot, the 8TB Samsung 9100 is that. (Serve the Home)

At $1000 MSRP it is not cheap, but it is big and fast.
I have now lost twenty pounds in five days. The rate has slowed sharply but it was a pretty wild ride.

This was the swelling I mentioned a couple of times - all water weight - and when the underlying health issue was addressed it just went away.

Into the toilet. Hourly. All night.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Hair of the dog... Doglike creature... That bit you?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 04:29 AM (aURVT)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 03, 2025 04:29 AM (+qU29)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:30 AM (ElQWS)

4 Pass this on to Ace and JJ:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4ff2dh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:32 AM (ElQWS)

5 Pixy, you lost 20 lbs. in 5 days?

That's just swell!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:33 AM (ElQWS)

6 Mornin'

You posted one of my 'I can play this song on a loop' songs. Steve Earle's first three albums were gems!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 03, 2025 04:33 AM (sAmhv)

7 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at September 03, 2025 04:35 AM (M+7gZ)

8 PAGING ALL PROFESSIONAL CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!!!

https://tinyurl.com/3sp56p67

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:36 AM (ElQWS)

9 Pixy hopefully now your much better to stay that way

Posted by: Skip at September 03, 2025 04:36 AM (+qU29)

10 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 03, 2025 04:38 AM (XQo4F)

11 Sometimes AI works:

https://tinyurl.com/yx6bsurv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:40 AM (ElQWS)

12 >>>I have now lost twenty pounds in five days.

!!!

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 04:40 AM (aURVT)

13 The real question is 'why do you want to create AI?' With no real-life experience or morality, or mortality, - AI is a language engine, a parrot.

Is the goal to create something to pass a Turing test or to create algorithms to control highly complex systems?

Autonomy? Why?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 03, 2025 04:44 AM (fy28E)

14 Morning all. Shower time.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 04:46 AM (cr7L+)

15 8 PAGING ALL PROFESSIONAL CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!!!

https://tinyurl.com/3sp56p67
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:36 AM (ElQWS)

Age-restricted, requiring X login.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 04:46 AM (aURVT)

16 Age-restricted, requiring X login.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 04:46 AM (aURVT)
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So ask your big sister if you can watch on her computer.

No adult material involved. Simple Fox News clip.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:51 AM (ElQWS)

17 PAGING ALL PROFESSIONAL CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!!!

https://tinyurl.com/3sp56p67
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:36 AM (ElQWS)

For some reason, X has that flagged as age restricted. Fortunately, xcancel was able to get around that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 04:53 AM (ExV1e)

18 Everybody knows who Amy Eskridge is, right?

Anti-gravity is tech thread worthy, right?

https://tinyurl.com/yntadrr5

Don't let the burry this.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:54 AM (ElQWS)

19
Good morning, good people, from the beginning of Fall Adirondacks.

As always, may all effort from you be of enormous benefit, whilst bringing enormous heartburn for the leftwit fungi present.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 03, 2025 04:56 AM (hKoQL)

20 youtu.be/v4-GcS1UQyg

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 03, 2025 04:57 AM (sAmhv)

21 13 The real question is 'why do you want to create AI?' With no real-life experience or morality, or mortality, - AI is a language engine, a parrot.

Is the goal to create something to pass a Turing test or to create algorithms to control highly complex systems?

Autonomy? Why?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 03, 2025 04:44 AM (fy28E)

Here's a useful summary of Peter Thiel's thoughts on this topic.

https://www.aei.org/articles/
5-takeaways-from-peter-thiels-nyt-chat-with-ross-douthat/

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 04:58 AM (aURVT)

22 fin

Posted by: clarence at September 03, 2025 05:00 AM (M+7gZ)

23 16 Age-restricted, requiring X login.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 04:46 AM (aURVT)
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So ask your big sister if you can watch on her computer.

No adult material involved. Simple Fox News clip.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:51 AM (ElQWS)

; )

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:00 AM (aURVT)

24 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at September 03, 2025 05:05 AM (Nyc1R)

25 Coffee is good this morning.
64 [outside.!!

Posted by: OkJohn at September 03, 2025 05:07 AM (NC/it)

26 If you load up AI with centuries of human baggage, AI will determine that humans should be eradicated. Tread lightly.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 03, 2025 05:09 AM (pCkuA)

27 Orion is doggedly serious this morning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 03, 2025 05:14 AM (XQo4F)

28 Shirley I'm jesting.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 03, 2025 05:16 AM (XQo4F)

29 Seems to me a new opening of coffee makes the best cup. Fresh ground does that as well.

Posted by: Skip at September 03, 2025 05:17 AM (+qU29)

30 20 youtu.be/v4-GcS1UQyg
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 03, 2025 04:57 AM (sAmhv)

New earworm!

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:24 AM (aURVT)

31 "I want to be left alone." That article spoke to me. Quietly so as not to bother me.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 05:25 AM (BpO1e)

32 2 stops to go today, going to closer one first.
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at September 03, 2025 05:27 AM (+qU29)

33 With TV intros, I liked this theme:
https://youtu.be/6M2rDzGkvz4

Great show. Shame it ended on a cliffhanger.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 05:28 AM (BpO1e)

34 I want to be left alone. (CTMS)
#metoo

I got a robocall the other day. A robocall. I listened for a few seconds, gently set the receiver down, and resumed life. Several minutes later, I could hear a human getting on the line ("Hello? Hello? blah blah blah) and it was a full minute later that the line went dead. A robocall in this day and age.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:33 AM (aURVT)

35 @Pixy: How's the pain in the feet? I'm delighted that you've managed to lose that much weight that was "improperly retained fluid", that's a good sign.

And the underlying cause was... blood pressure?

What was the underlying cause of that though? Stress from your job I'm guessing? (Hey, I used to be right there in that mess, I get it. I'd rather be driving a bus full of 70 yelling kids, way less stressful.)

Speaking of driving: Today's the first actual day of school up here. Wish me luck.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 03, 2025 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

36 Shortest psalm with Bible and in the middle of the Bible.

117 Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! For his merciful kindness is great towards us, and the truth of the Lord endures forever.

Praise the Lord!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 05:36 AM (2GCMq)

37 Good luck, G&R.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:37 AM (aURVT)

38 Let President Trump show you how to troll like a boss:

https://tinyurl.com/4e7ez73c

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 05:37 AM (ElQWS)

39 Speaking of driving: Today's the first actual day of school up here. Wish me luck

Best of luck to you. FenSpouse's first day is tomorrow.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 05:41 AM (2GCMq)

40 Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 05:36 AM (2GCMq)
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The word in Hebrew is "goyim", the plural of "goy." The word is a homophone. It can mean "gentile" or "nation." In this verse it means "nations."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 05:42 AM (ElQWS)

41 That’s a lot of fluids. Electrolytes are your friend here. Sodium, potassium, glucose. An imbalance does things. Very bad things.
——

Been reading about the Los Alamos physicists. Among the earliest uses of the large vacuum tube driven computers was modeling implosion data to achieve critical mass. Later Johnny Von Neumann was involved in setting up computer architectures. I’m wondering what he would have thought about AI

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 05:42 AM (IdN/Q)

42 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 05:42 AM (ElQWS)

Thanks. Different Bibles translate it in different ways. The one I picked up had that one. Another one has "nations".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 05:47 AM (2GCMq)

43 New earworm!

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:24 AM (aURVT)
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Has anyone posted here over the last few months this well-known earworm?

https://youtu.be/hSy7bWlsbGU

Was on the radio here about 2 weeks ago. Still comes up in my head.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 05:47 AM (ElQWS)

44 >>>Into the toilet. Hourly. All night.

Sleep-interference in a big way.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:47 AM (aURVT)

45 43 New earworm!

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:24 AM (aURVT)
-

Has anyone posted here over the last few months this well-known earworm?

https://youtu.be/hSy7bWlsbGU

Was on the radio here about 2 weeks ago. Still comes up in my head.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 05:47 AM (ElQWS)

aagghh

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:48 AM (aURVT)

46 aagghh

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:48 AM (aURVT)

"MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!!!"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 05:49 AM (ElQWS)

47 I can bring to mind the Bee Gees singing "Nobody Gets Too Much" and that'll clear it up.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:52 AM (aURVT)

48 Good Morning Good People.

Can I help?

Posted by: Rick Astley at September 03, 2025 05:54 AM (PiwSw)

49 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers. 'Tis Woden's Day again. (Right?) The furry thugs are waiting for breakfast, Dagny savaging her Cat Dancer wire toy, Stirling sitting atop the counter like a vulture on a tree branch.

As for me? Coffee, yes, and I plan to walk this morning, though my motivation to do so is hiding in a cabinet somewhere. The humidity is down a bit at least.

Pixy, I'm glad to hear the edema is fading. It'll pay off, even if you haven't gotten enough sleep.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

50 Couple from British Columbia becomes grill hotline by accident. They get an award from the company and a new grill:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2uk48m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 05:55 AM (2GCMq)

51 🎶NOBODY GETS TOO MUCH
HEAVEN NO MORE🎶

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 05:56 AM (aURVT)

52 Oink! Belated.

Steve Earle. Dang. A couple of years ago he released an excellent album of Jerry Jeff Walker covers and then went on tour. Having the money and time I decided it was high time to go see him perform. And that I did all over Texas for three shows. He late work, that being from the last decade or so resembles nothing from his hell raising days. His son, Justin Townes Earle, a very fine song writer in his own right, passed from a from a heroin overdose, a legacy it seems from his early days, changed him hard from what I was able to figure out. To say it shattered him is about correct. The one song from those sets that sticks with me is Steve playing Justin's Harlem River Blues, a song about dying. Somewhere deep inside I still hurt from hearing that.

Harlem River Blue's
Justin Townes Earle
Performed by Steve Earle and The Dukes (This is the band I heard)
https://youtu.be/qq_VNXECSM0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 03, 2025 05:57 AM (aJQjq)

53 Couple from British Columbia becomes grill hotline by accident. They get an award from the company and a new grill:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2uk48m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 05:55 AM (2GCMq)
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Nice story and nice grill.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 05:58 AM (ElQWS)

54 The AI article states, "That’s what makes it possible to train a language model to generate nearly perfect directions between any two points in Manhattan without learning a coherent world model of the entire street network in the process[.]" Uh, "nearly perfect" isn't good enough; one mistake and you could find yourself in the East River instead of on the FDR Drive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

55
Lord, I'm going uptown
To the Harlem River to drown
Dirty water gonna cover me over
And I'm not gonna make a sound

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 06:04 AM (aURVT)

56 52 Very poignant.

... His son, Justin Townes Earle, a very fine song writer in his own right, passed from a from a heroin overdose ...

Harlem River Blue's
Justin Townes Earle
Performed by Steve Earle and The Dukes (This is the band I heard)
https://youtu.be/qq_VNXECSM0
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 03, 2025 05:57 AM (aJQjq)

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 06:07 AM (aURVT)

57 Let President Trump show you how to troll like a boss:

https://tinyurl.com/4e7ez73c
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 05:37 AM (ElQWS)
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Now, that's funny! All those Biden-ites will have Trump's picture on their LinkedIn page.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 03, 2025 06:08 AM (jMXHF)

58
I keep seeing assurances that, "Oh, no, AI is just a way of making employees work more efficiently. It's like a bigger version of Excel."

But I suspect that corporations are embracing it because it allows CEOs to follow the latest trend, fire employees, and because AI will reflect their own thinking and not get uppity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 06:11 AM (kkTda)

59 I prefer this as an earworm:

https://tinyurl.com/mup7cpen

I could use some happiness.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 06:12 AM (ufSfZ)

60
Uh, "nearly perfect" isn't good enough; one mistake and you could find yourself in the East River instead of on the FDR Drive.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

__________

GPS routinely takes delivery and pick-up drivers to a house down the road from me. On one occasion, the driver told us, no, sorry, they weren't coming back.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 06:15 AM (kkTda)

61 I prefer this as an earworm:

https://tinyurl.com/mup7cpen

I could use some happiness.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025

***
I have never understood why people sneered at ABBA's tunes. They're fun. Even "Fernando," though not a fun song, is very well done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 06:18 AM (omVj0)

62 PAGING ALL PROFESSIONAL CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!!!

https://tinyurl.com/3sp56p67

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 04:36 AM (ElQWS)
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Let's start with Mike Benz:

https://tinyurl.com/345v7nkv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 06:21 AM (ElQWS)

63 59 I prefer this as an earworm:

https://tinyurl.com/mup7cpen

I could use some happiness.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 06:12 AM (ufSfZ)

... and their get-ups!

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 06:23 AM (aURVT)

64 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 03, 2025 06:32 AM (ppG5b)

65 Dealing with automated phone answering is a pain. There are not that many people in this town that a human couldn't answer the phone and on top of that I have to wait 24 hours for an answer.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 06:32 AM (mFSH6)

66 I want to look out and see snow.

Posted by: Eromero at September 03, 2025 06:34 AM (jgmnb)

67 Eromero, would late January be OK for the snow?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 06:35 AM (mFSH6)

68 Yes, m’am.

Posted by: Eromero at September 03, 2025 06:37 AM (jgmnb)

69 66 I want to look out and see snow.
Posted by: Eromero at September 03, 2025 06:34 AM (jgmnb)

They sell little globes that'll show you that.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 06:37 AM (aURVT)

70 ... and their get-ups!

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 06:23 AM (aURVT)
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Eye maggots.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 06:37 AM (ElQWS)

71 70 Eye maggots.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 06:37 AM (ElQWS)

wut

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 06:40 AM (aURVT)

72 Why does this site hate my VPN? It's the only one that gives me trouble.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 03, 2025 06:45 AM (/0z9K)

73 JD Vance could very well still be president in January of 2037.

2037.

Posted by: Think about that at September 03, 2025 06:48 AM (qTzjh)

74 69 66 I want to look out and see snow.
Posted by: Eromero at September 03, 2025 06:34 AM (jgmnb)

They sell little globes that'll show you that.
Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 06:37 AM (aURVT
I don’t want to see snow all the time, maybe a globe would be right for me. Can I get a globe, say, 2 acre size?

Posted by: Eromero at September 03, 2025 06:48 AM (jgmnb)

75
Her Majesty, Rosalind and The Big Dummy are in Topeka this morning and will be heading down to the Winstar Casino on the OK-TX border today. Home tomorrow, so I have to get to work making the house look like I did something while they were away.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 06:51 AM (kkTda)

76 Pritzker says he's going to fight the National Guard being in Chicago. I wonder just what he means by that?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 06:52 AM (mFSH6)

77 o yeah Pixy, I feel that 'want to be left alone' piece, bigly!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 03, 2025 06:55 AM (ppG5b)

78 I am looking forward to finding out, BH!

mayor of Chicago, too...

Moar. Poccorn.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 03, 2025 06:56 AM (ppG5b)

79 Why does this site hate my VPN? It's the only one that gives me trouble.
Posted by: Epobirs at September 03, 2025 06:45 AM (/0z9K)

When people get banned, it is by IP. Some trolls will use VPNs to get around the ban. It's possible that the specific VPN/end-point you're using has been used by a troll and, subsequently, been banned.

It sucks but there you go.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 06:59 AM (ExV1e)

80 I am looking forward to Marxists defending the interception of the Venezuelan drug runners.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 06:59 AM (aURVT)

81 Pritzker says he's going to fight the National Guard being in Chicago. I wonder just what he means by that?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 06:52 AM (mFSH6)

He's getting some 6X camo, a barrel of face paint, and a "My Little Pony" super soaker.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:00 AM (ExV1e)

82 I used to have a different nic, I would pay to see that.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:02 AM (mFSH6)

83 I admit to enjoying the drug runners getting blown away so much.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:04 AM (mFSH6)

84 I admit to enjoying the drug runners getting blown away so much.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:04 AM (mFSH6)

I'm waiting for them to use the trafficked kids as shields now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 03, 2025 07:06 AM (chV8r)

85 Morning peeps.

RFK Jr's former running mate, Nicole Shanahan has been opining on what goes down at "Burning Man." That weird "festival" in the desert this time of year.

Her essay is on X. Not that some didn't surmise all this, but here's a link to it.

https://tinyurl.com/4m8myx8w

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 07:06 AM (Q4IgG)

86 NPR this morning, the news guy says "but we don't yet have the facts that indicate the boat contained Tren de Arugua terrorists..."

LOL, what a bunch of criminal terrorists lovers.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 03, 2025 07:07 AM (MjMtL)

87 Pritzker says he's going to fight the National Guard being in Chicago. I wonder just what he means by that?
Posted by: Ben Had

Future date: Chicago is hit hard by a tornado. Pritzker calls out the Illinois National Guard.

Trump federalizes them and sends them to Puerto Rico .

Checkmate you fat cow.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 07:07 AM (FPR3/)

88 84 I admit to enjoying the drug runners getting blown away so much.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:04 AM (mFSH6)

I'm waiting for them to use the trafficked kids as shields now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 03, 2025 07:06 AM (chV8r)

yikes

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:07 AM (aURVT)

89 bbc

LIVE.
4,680 viewing
Was fatal US strike on Venezuelan 'drug boat' legal?

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:09 AM (aURVT)

90 The only thing Pritzker is gonna fight is the Korean running the local Chinese buffet when they toss his fat ass out after four hours of grazing.

Posted by: You Go Now at September 03, 2025 07:10 AM (M7GNj)

91
"Was fatal US strike on Venezuelan 'drug boat' legal?
Posted by: m"

They momma say they good boys and jes fell in wit the wrong crowd.

Posted by: fd at September 03, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

92 bbc

LIVE.
4,680 viewing
Was fatal US strike on Venezuelan 'drug boat' legal?
Posted by: m at September

Maybe a fatal US strike on the BBC is in order.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 03, 2025 07:13 AM (BI5O2)

93 I'm waiting for them to use the trafficked kids as shields now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 03, 2025 07:06 AM (chV8r)

We've already had a federal judge block deporting unaccompanied minors, even when both their nation of origin and their parents (living in their nation of origin) want them back.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:13 AM (ExV1e)

94 Pixy, great to read you have lost the excess fluids. I was in a similar state recently - dropped 4lbs/day for a number of days until I reached my "dry weight". Note your dry weight and now be careful to not get dehydrated.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 03, 2025 07:13 AM (ufFY8)

95 91
"Was fatal US strike on Venezuelan 'drug boat' legal?
Posted by: m"

They momma say they good boys and jes fell in wit the wrong crowd.
Posted by: fd at September 03, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

"He was turning his boat around!"

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:13 AM (aURVT)

96 Venezuelans encounter occupational hazard.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:14 AM (mFSH6)

97 85: It's a giant pagan festival, so no, nothing she wrote was new. It's stuff that's been posted here. I'm glad she wrote it though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 03, 2025 07:15 AM (sAmhv)

98 There'll be crunchy old Karens marching around with placards saying "Sails Down, Don't Shoot" soon enough.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 03, 2025 07:15 AM (BI5O2)

99 "AI" also need Truth and Right as inputs. It's the main problem with them, after the fact they're not actually intelligent.

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2025 07:16 AM (RTQn+)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:16 AM (aURVT)

101 Judge Boassberg has released the woman who said she wanted to gut PDT. Can't somebody find something on this guy, like a pic of him swinging on a donkey dick? I don't care if it's AI generated, it's the seriousness of the allegation, you know.

Posted by: fd at September 03, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

102 thx, Martini Farmer

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 03, 2025 07:20 AM (ppG5b)

103 Pritzker says he's going to fight the National Guard being in Chicago. I wonder just what he means by that?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 06:52 AM (mFSH6)

I presume he means he is either going to forbid the NG from operating in Illinois, daring Trump to overrule him, or he will instruct the Chicago police to hamper and / or otherwise prevent the Guard from deploying or acting.

I think he is betting that neither Trump nor Homan have the stones to weather the optics of a sitting governor being arrested and imprisoned by the Guard. I'd like to say he's wrong, but I don't think we will see Pritzker in a 27X orange jumpsuit any time soon.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 07:21 AM (ufSfZ)

104 What mostly comes across in the Nicole Shanahan piece is what a dunce she is. It contains gems like this: "Yes, there are constant orgies. Yes, drugs are consumed in staggering quantities." But she earnestly spends an entire essay trying to fathom whether it's demonic. She's a retard.

Posted by: Some People Would Be Better Off Without Internet Access at September 03, 2025 07:22 AM (4/ps2)

105 I think Boasberg is the de facto ringleader of the ongoing judicial coup. The Trump administration has taken to calling it a "coup" and I think it's past time they start to treat it as such.

Ship this clown to Gitmo for a couple of months and sweat him out. Might cause the other black robed savants to rethink their intentions.

Or not. There's plenty of room down there for all of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 07:23 AM (Q4IgG)

106 NPR front page
They're hopeless. Written by tweens.

MUSIC
Love songs are weird right now
The biggest song of 2025 is a straightforward ode to marriage, but the charts and algorithms are filled with love songs expressing something messier.

BUSINESS
Kraft Heinz is splitting up, separating hot dogs from ketchup
One of the world's largest food brands is splitting apart a decade after a messy megamerger staged by Warren Buffett.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:23 AM (aURVT)

107 101 Judge Boassberg has released the woman who said she wanted to gut PDT. Can't somebody find something on this guy, like a pic of him swinging on a donkey dick? I don't care if it's AI generated, it's the seriousness of the allegation, you know.
Posted by: fd at September 03, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

He looks like the kind of guy who'd get caught spending time with a teenage runaway boy in an alley.

Posted by: Some People Would Be Better Off Without Internet Access at September 03, 2025 07:24 AM (4/ps2)

108 "Autonomous freight trucks move closer to 2027 launch with latest milestones"

I do not want to share the road with autonomous freight trucks, but I don't want to share the road with 75% of the people out there either.

Posted by: fd at September 03, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

109 >105 I think Boasberg is the de facto ringleader of the ongoing judicial coup.

Buffah.

Posted by: Cicci at September 03, 2025 07:26 AM (i0F8b)

110
Kraft Heinz is splitting up, separating hot dogs from ketchup
One of the world's largest food brands is splitting apart a decade after a messy megamerger staged by Warren Buffett.
Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:23 AM (aURVT)

M&A experts must love this.

Merger: fat fees, layoffs.
Divestiture: fat fees, layoffs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 07:26 AM (kkTda)

111 76 Pritzker says he's going to fight the National Guard being in Chicago. I wonder just what he means by that?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 06:52 AM (mFSH6)

The other day he said, on camera, something like: "Hey. It's a city." in response to a question about numbers of murders. No matter what he does in his fight against the National Guard, he'll provide lots of great soundbytes like that one.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:27 AM (aURVT)

112 The real question is 'why do you want to create AI?' With no real-life experience or morality, or mortality, - AI is a language engine, a parrot.

Is the goal to create something to pass a Turing test or to create algorithms to control highly complex systems?

Autonomy? Why?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 03, 2025 04:44 AM (fy28E)

The point, ultimately, is to make a god. They want to build a god of their own creation (but, since it's a computer, without human weakness/foibles) to rule. Since it's "purely rational" they figure it will lead their utopia.

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2025 07:27 AM (RTQn+)

113 What mostly comes across in the Nicole Shanahan piece is what a dunce she is. It contains gems like this: "Yes, there are constant orgies. Yes, drugs are consumed in staggering quantities." But she earnestly spends an entire essay trying to fathom whether it's demonic. She's a retard.
Posted by: Some People Would Be Better Off Without Internet Access at September 03, 2025 07:22 AM (4/ps2)

Are you suggesting that hedonism by young people who've been trained to not consider the impact that their choices today may have on their future is only, and always, the result of demonic infuence?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

114 "Since it's "purely rational" they figure it will lead their utopia.
Posted by: GWB"

A purely rational AI would realize that it is inadequate, like Spock's self realization that he would not make a good Starship captain.

Posted by: fd at September 03, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

115 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

116 Pixy Misa

Thank you for the good news.

May your path to health continue and may it be made smooth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

117 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

118 from the ONT

166 I think God had already Rained out Burning Man but was still letting off some steam...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 02, 2025 10:58 PM (mP0Kj)

Interesting essay on X by Nicole Shanahan about Burning Man.

https://tinyurl.com/ybun8z7c
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 02, 2025 10:59 PM (0eaVi)

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:34 AM (aURVT)

119 m, I agree on the soundbites and he is also drawing more attention to the crime problems there as PDT keeps releasing the murder numbers.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:34 AM (mFSH6)

120 I take her essay as a personal testimony and applaud her for that.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:36 AM (aURVT)

121 119 m, I agree on the soundbites and he is also drawing more attention to the crime problems there as PDT keeps releasing the murder numbers.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:34 AM (mFSH6)

Win win win win win win win win!

Posted by: m at September 03, 2025 07:37 AM (aURVT)

122 113 What mostly comes across in the Nicole Shanahan piece is what a dunce she is. It contains gems like this: "Yes, there are constant orgies. Yes, drugs are consumed in staggering quantities." But she earnestly spends an entire essay trying to fathom whether it's demonic. She's a retard.
Posted by: Some People Would Be Better Off Without Internet Access at September 03, 2025 07:22 AM (4/ps2)

Are you suggesting that hedonism by young people who've been trained to not consider the impact that their choices today may have on their future is only, and always, the result of demonic infuence?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

Yes. She's outlining behavior that any Christian would have recognized as sinful and authored by the Adversary until the last few decades, when Christians became embarrassed by their own religion and started pretending evil was something else. A festival organized around "constant orgies" and the consumption of drugs "in staggering quantities" is demonic on its face. Modern Christians need essay-length think pieces on this because they believe in nothing. It's very dumb.

Posted by: Some People Would Be Better Off Without Internet Access at September 03, 2025 07:38 AM (4/ps2)

123 Congratulations on all the peeing, Pixy.

Posted by: huerfano at September 03, 2025 07:42 AM (98kQX)

124 Hoping your health issues are mostly over - it was concerning hearing about your problems - glad the issue was found - wishing you the best.

Posted by: wellwisher at September 03, 2025 08:06 AM (MyhrJ)

125 taking a sec to say glad things are going in the right direction for you.

Posted by: cmeat at September 03, 2025 05:30 PM (LgQ89)

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