Daily Tech News 21 September 2025

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There isn't an AI bubble. There are three separate and distinct AI bubbles all happening at the same time. (Fast Company)

As the article explains, there's an asset bubble, an infrastructure bubble, and a hype bubble, and while they all interact and reinforce each other, you need to examine them separately to try to figure out what is really going on.

Yes, generative AI CEOs are all lying to you, but how much does that matter if you're not an investor?

As to how much value will remain when the bubbles burst, I don't know. If I knew that I'd still be rich from the last bubble.

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AMD has relaunched its $40 Ryzen 3000G. (Tom's Hardware)

This is an AM4 motherboard, a platform that is still readily available new. It's the slowest AM4 CPU ever made with just two cores and four threads, but then it is $40.

Be careful if you buy it because it's not compatible with every AM4 motherboard. There are so many different AM4 CPU models that many motherboards ran out of BIOS space and had to drop support for some of those CPUs, and the 3000G has been a prime target for saving space.
Vibe coding creates brain dead programmers. (NMN)

Written by a programmer who gave vibe coding a try and felt brain dead afterwards.
I see you are doing your homework. Would you like to cheat on that? (MSN)

Clippy would never. Google, on the other hand, had to take down the helpful cheat-on-my-homework link in Chrome after teachers complained.
Interlune has an order for 10,000 liters of Helium-3 per year starting in 2028. (MSN)

That it plans to collect from the Moon.
All the packages that were compromised in the latest NPM supply chain attack. (Koi)

It's a disaster.

Again.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: No, that's too shaggy.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 04:33 AM (+qU29)

2 Good morning

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 21, 2025 04:33 AM (CRThS)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

4 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 21, 2025 04:33 AM (a1415)

5 Pixy, did you change the name of the thread from Tech Thread, or am I losing my mind?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 21, 2025 04:34 AM (a1415)

6 >>>there's an asset bubble, an infrastructure bubble, and a hype bubble, and ... you need to examine them separately to try to figure out what is really going on

I think that would hurt my brain.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)

7 I think Pixy changed the name.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 21, 2025 04:36 AM (/HDaX)

8 >there's an asset bubble, an infrastructure bubble, and a hype bubble, and ... you need to examine them separately to try to figure out what is really going on

I think that would hurt my brain.
Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)

And a stupidity bubble. I’m not referring to m.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 21, 2025 04:36 AM (CRThS)

9 Catchy tune but don't remember it

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 04:37 AM (+qU29)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 21, 2025 04:38 AM (WBro8)

11 And a stupidity ~~bubble~~ fountain*.

* Suggested edit

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 21, 2025 04:39 AM (a1415)

12 5 Pixy, did you change the name of the thread from Tech Thread, or am I losing my mind?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

A little from column A, a little from column B...

Sorry, forgot to adjust the title when copying over from my own blog.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 21, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

13 If we're going to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole, let's explore the possibility AI has already won.

There's no way to put the genie back in the toothpaste toob.

These kids today have figured out they don't have to think, they just have to let AI do all the thinking for them, so nobody's going to know anything in about 30 years.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 04:42 AM (GQNjd)

14 I got the front sway bar drop links installed in the P-2 S-60 yesterday.

Having now done this several times over the lives of both vehicles, it went rather smooth, and only took about an hour.

Suddenly, the last of the front suspension rattles, clunks and other various noises have gone silent.

And then....we got a gully washer of a rain storm, with an inch of rain in about 10 minutes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 21, 2025 04:42 AM (a1415)

15 It probably will be another dumbing down of civilization

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 04:43 AM (+qU29)

16 So, our AI Tech overlords are overpromising again? That glorious TechnoUtopia isn't right around the corner?

I will endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 21, 2025 04:43 AM (WBro8)

17 9 Catchy tune but don't remember it
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 04:37 AM (+qU29)

Me, too, Skip. Google says he's French.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 04:43 AM (aURVT)

18 8 >there's an asset bubble, an infrastructure bubble, and a hype bubble, and ... you need to examine them separately to try to figure out what is really going on

I think that would hurt my brain.
Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)

And a stupidity bubble. I’m not referring to m.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 21, 2025 04:36 AM (CRThS)

WHEW

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

19 "These kids today have figured out they don't have to think, they just have to let AI do all the thinking for them, so nobody's going to know anything in about 30 years."

In the land of the Brain Dead, the one-brain-cell man will be king!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 21, 2025 04:44 AM (a1415)

20 12 5 Pixy, did you change the name of the thread from Tech Thread, or am I losing my mind?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

A little from column A, a little from column B...

Sorry, forgot to adjust the title when copying over from my own blog.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 21, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

Keeps us on our toes!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 04:47 AM (aURVT)

21 "These kids today have figured out they don't have to think, they just have to let AI do all the thinking for them, so nobody's going to know anything in about 30 years."

In the land of the Brain Dead, the one-brain-cell man will be king!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 21, 2025 04:44 AM (a1415)

Idiocracy is a documentary!

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 04:48 AM (a0R9u)

22 So, our AI Tech overlords are overpromising again? That glorious TechnoUtopia isn't right around the corner?

I will endeavor to persevere.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 21, 2025 04:43 AM (WBro

Remember when the internet would give us all the world's knowledge at our fingertips?

Sure, but first you will play whack-a-mole with dick pill and auto insurance ads.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 04:51 AM (a0R9u)

23 Watching a Saved by the Bell from.1993
Young teenage woman wants to wrestle with the guys, and of course she is beating them

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 04:54 AM (+qU29)

24
Interlune has an order for 10,000 liters of Helium-3 per year starting in 2028. (MSN)

That it plans to collect from the Moon

Pfft. Any fool knows that a space vessel filled with helium will never return to Earth's surface.

"Why?" you ask, my small-brained scientifically ignurnt friends. Because it would be filled with helium, duh!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 21, 2025 04:58 AM (Tv15w)

25 Watching a Saved by the Bell from.1993
Young teenage woman wants to wrestle with the guys, and of course she is beating them
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 04:54 AM (+qU29)

If you ever scroll through Yootoob shorts, sometimes they show boys v. girls wrestling.

When one of the vids pops up, I try to scroll past it as fast as I can, because it's damn near underaged pron.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 04:59 AM (a0R9u)

26 G'mornin all y'all
Survived 3 teeth extractions Friday.

Posted by: OkJohn at September 21, 2025 05:03 AM (NC/it)

27
Me wee shriveled heart was filled to bursting with glee as I read about Stanky Janky's legal loss and financial impoverishment in the sidebar linked article. She tinkered with assuming dictatorial powers (FA) and fell from that great height (FO). Learn to serve over roasted and over priced coffee, Sugar Tits.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 21, 2025 05:05 AM (Tv15w)

28 "26 G'mornin all y'all
Survived 3 teeth extractions Friday."

Ow! Hopefully the dentist gave you some decent meds.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 21, 2025 05:10 AM (/HDaX)

29 Ow! Hopefully the dentist gave you some decent meds.

Nah, not this time. Alternating ibuprofen and Tylenol.
N o good stuff. I did have one good pill at home. Which really helped when numbness wore off.
😁

Posted by: OkJohn at September 21, 2025 05:13 AM (NC/it)

30 Actor Chris Pratt shares powerful prayer over Instagram.

https://tinyurl.com/3nzxcshd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2025 05:14 AM (8Xy/A)

31 26 G'mornin all y'all
Survived 3 teeth extractions Friday.
Posted by: OkJohn at September 21, 2025 05:03 AM (NC/it)

Yay, you!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 05:15 AM (aURVT)

32 Belated BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 21, 2025 05:17 AM (vUecY)

33 The alternating Tylenol\Ibuprofen regimen's pretty standard. I've had a few yanked for implants and the 800 mg Ibuprofens worked pretty well for me.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 21, 2025 05:18 AM (/HDaX)

34 I saw Raimondo brought up the accusations of bribery against Tom Homan. The truth:

https://tinyurl.com/352jtd3d

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 21, 2025 05:23 AM (vUecY)

35 Where's Hillary?

https://tinyurl.com/tyu9fuz4

Scum of the earth, these subhumans are.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 21, 2025 05:25 AM (vUecY)

36 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 21, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)

37 Doug Ross Substack has been putting up the history of the Coup D'etat with illustrations. It's up to I think part 14, but a fantastic review of what went down in 2016 with Hillary's using a private server for the Secretary of State, the Eff Bee Eye covering for her and the use of complete fabrication from Hillary's campaign to frame Trump with Putin.
https://tinyurl.com/4kc9zp2d

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 05:33 AM (+qU29)

38
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 21, 2025 05:34 AM (tljrc)

39 34 I saw Raimondo brought up the accusations of bribery against Tom Homan. The truth:

https://tinyurl.com/352jtd3d
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

The posts under that was basically raimondo but with slightly better grasp of English. An endless primal scream in X posts.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 21, 2025 05:34 AM (WBro8)

40 Meant to say, OkJohn, here's to speedy healing.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 21, 2025 05:34 AM (/HDaX)

41 >>>Vibe coding creates brain dead programmers. (NMN)
Written by a programmer who gave vibe coding a try and felt brain dead afterwards.

That was an enjoyable read, I thought.
I know zilch about coding.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 05:35 AM (aURVT)

42 That "second" raimondo post was Miklos.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 21, 2025 05:36 AM (/HDaX)

43 Thank you
On the mend !
Unfortunately my mouth needs entire replacement.
I will get through it.

Posted by: OkJohn at September 21, 2025 05:38 AM (NC/it)

44 https://tinyurl.com/4kc9zp2d
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 05:33 AM (+qU29)

I think this is the crux of the problem a lot of people have with how our current "justice" department is operating. There are a lot of folks who want some scores to be settled, and there seems to be a shedload of evidence out there.

Whether any of it is clean enough to take to court, that's not making it any easier for many to not look at how this is going, and say "They're just going to cover it up, like they always do."

Then we're asked to be patient. Well, fine. But is it all going to lead anywhere? Are people going to be held accountable? If not, then f**k you, and your civility, and your trying to distract us with other shit you're doing, which ends up just looking like routine status quo.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 05:42 AM (vS5Dp)

45 41 >>>Vibe coding creates brain dead programmers. (NMN)
Written by a programmer who gave vibe coding a try and felt brain dead afterwards.

That was an enjoyable read, I thought.
I know zilch about coding.
Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 05:35 AM (aURVT)

And: WARNING! There's math in that writeup!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 05:45 AM (aURVT)

46 My view in life is let bad behavior go, you only get more bad behavior.
Corruption has killed more civilizations in history than anything else.

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 05:46 AM (+qU29)

47 More evil at Google. Spot the difference:

https://tinyurl.com/36fau4we

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 21, 2025 05:46 AM (vUecY)

48 And Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 05:47 AM (+qU29)

49 The Hillary corruption was known and in the open. Nobody ever did squat. I was following it in real time when it was happening. It's good to see Doug Ross put it all together like he has but I've been following his site from back then. So it is known. It kills me it just makes me cynical as all get out.

Posted by: OkJohn at September 21, 2025 05:48 AM (NC/it)

50 Evening to all the Sunday toilers; morning to the early risers and insomaniacals! It's Autumn Eve! (Which sounds like a women's personal product, doesn't it?)

Awake earlier than I intended, I'm sipping some coffee and contemplating all the stuff I have to get done today. One thing at a time. Feed the cats, eat, wash and doll up the car, and then . . . the horror, the horror . . . packing for my week-long trip. I know I'm gonna forget something crucial and have to buy it at Walmart.

So, howz yer Sunday?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

51 So it is known. It kills me it just makes me cynical as all get out.
Posted by: OkJohn at September 21, 2025 05:48 AM (NC/it)

It's hard not to be cynical. You see what you see, you know what you know, and nobody in positions to do something about it ever do.

And then we're told to be patient, or we're just supposed to vote harder for the people who will make it all better.

Yeah, no. The system is set up so the people with power are allowed to exercise it however they wish, and the only thing that changes is the names and the faces and the letters behind their names.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 05:53 AM (vS5Dp)

52 So, howz yer Sunday?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

One of the newer insomniacs here.

I miss the original (?) Insomniac. I hope he's well. I fear he is not.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 05:55 AM (vS5Dp)

53 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in hour

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 05:57 AM (+qU29)

54 Wolf's, I saw you asked yesterday about the effectiveness of the Feliway spray.

For our two, it worked very well.

Everybody is de-stressed, and back to normal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 21, 2025 05:59 AM (a1415)

55 One of the newer insomniacs here.

I miss the original (?) Insomniac. I hope he's well. I fear he is not.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025

***
Yes; I remember his epic journey to find legal work during the Sniffle Scare. He hasn't been back during the daytime threads?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

56 Yes; I remember his epic journey to find legal work during the Sniffle Scare. He hasn't been back during the daytime threads?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

Not that I've seen. Obviously, none of us can monitor the site 24/7 (although some appear to do so), so if he's popped up recently, I don't know.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:04 AM (vS5Dp)

57 >>>Interlune has an order for 10,000 liters of Helium-3 per year starting in 2028. (MSN)
That it plans to collect from the Moon.

🎶 Everyone's gone
To the Moon

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 06:07 AM (aURVT)

58 I don't think see Insomniac in a long time

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 06:08 AM (+qU29)

59 Running through someone's playlist on Yootoob. Slowcore, as I mentioned earlier this night. So far I've bought 3 new CDs of artists I'd either never heard of, of hadn't thought to explore.

I usually buy off the Discogs website. They seem to have everything you can imagine listed... if it exists. Which, some stuff doesn't.

What strikes me as odd, is seeing Yootoob comments, where people will say they can't find a particular song anywhere else. Well, yeah. Some songs, but what they're really saying is it's been dropped from Spotify.

Just buy a damn CD, you weirdo kids. Then you own it. They can't take it from you.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:08 AM (vS5Dp)

60 Brawndo has what plants crave.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 21, 2025 06:08 AM (PiwSw)

61 Mornin', Pixy and The 'rons!

I'm sure when the AI bubble bursts, it will take down lots of retirement accounts and small investors.

Probably my IRA.

I have been pleasantly surprised that the young students are getting used to not having phones in class. Then again, more teachers use Chromebooks in their classes...

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 21, 2025 06:14 AM (Me7kc)

62 At 600 moves and still stuck, should just bail out

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 06:14 AM (+qU29)

63 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 21, 2025 06:14 AM (hoCmQ)

64 uh-oh

Jonathan King is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He first came to prominence in 1965 when "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", a song that he wrote and sang while still an undergraduate, achieved chart success.

Known for: Pop music, discovery of Genesis, early 10cc and Bay City Rollers hits, sex offences (Wikipedia)

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 06:15 AM (aURVT)

65 Suddenly, the last of the front suspension rattles, clunks and other various noises have gone silent.
_-_-_
Amazing the difference those things make! Stabilizer links and bushings replacement is one of the most frequent jobs I do after brakes and oil changes. My road destroys them. I have occasionally thought I must have several things in about-to-fall-off condition in the front end, replace stabilizer links and bushings, and the rattles stop. Now Jeep Cherokee death wobble on the other hand...still working on that one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 21, 2025 06:16 AM (vd6bO)

66 Jonathan King is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He first came to prominence in 1965 when "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", a song that he wrote and sang while still an undergraduate, achieved chart success.

Known for: Pop music, discovery of Genesis, early 10cc and Bay City Rollers hits, sex offences (Wikipedia)
Posted by: m at September 21, 2025

***
That song is that old?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)

67 Known for: Pop music, discovery of Genesis, early 10cc and Bay City Rollers hits, sex offences (Wikipedia)
Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 06:15 AM (aURVT)

One of those things you have to be careful about. Especially with musicians, there are accusations of "sex offenses," and sometimes that means there were groupies when the musician was in the midst of a career that attracted them.

So then 20 or more years later, some broad comes forward and says "I was 16 at the time."

I'm sorry. You shouldn't have been out there, but this is the real world. Rock stars are not checking IDs.

Or they weren't, maybe they do now.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:22 AM (vS5Dp)

68 Quite a lineup on Grit today:

Springfield Rifle w/ Gary Cooper, 3:10 to Yuma (the original), Shane, Gunman's Walk w/ Tab Hunter effective as an unrepentant psychopath, and Raquel Welch in Hannie Caulder.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 06:22 AM (omVj0)

69 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: The Bald of Evil.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2025 06:24 AM (WvZaB)

70 Wikipedia:

- In September 2001, King was convicted of child sexual abuse and sentenced to seven years in prison for having sexually assaulted five boys, aged 14 and 15, in the 1980s.
- In November 2001, he was acquitted of 22 similar charges.
- He was released on parole in March 2005.
- A further trial for sexual offences against teenage boys resulted in several not guilty verdicts and the trial being abandoned in June 2018.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 06:25 AM (aURVT)

71 Woke up early after a decent night's sleep. Huzzah!

Watched a YT video on that misunderstood classic "Cabin Boy". I saw it when it came out. There were four people in the theater. We all loved it.

So now I'm watching it again.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 21, 2025 06:26 AM (kpS4V)

72 It's hard not to be cynical. You see what you see, you know what you know, and nobody in positions to do something about it ever do
Posted by: BurtTC

The origin of 'cynic' is an interesting dive into psycho-history. Like a dog is certain thing and weird, but with depth.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2025 06:26 AM (mlg/3)

73 My dad watches a lot on Grit so been going there myself often. I always loved Westerns

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 06:26 AM (+qU29)

74 Wikipedia:

- In September 2001, King was convicted of child sexual abuse and sentenced to seven years in prison for having sexually assaulted five boys, aged 14 and 15, in the 1980s.
- In November 2001, he was acquitted of 22 similar charges.
- He was released on parole in March 2005.
- A further trial for sexual offences against teenage boys resulted in several not guilty verdicts and the trial being abandoned in June 2018.
Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 06:25 AM (aURVT)

Well. My first piece of advice: Don't be gay.

My second piece: If you're gonna be, boys that age are likely to be aggressively sexual, because that's what puberty does. I'm sure there are plenty of 18 year old twinks out there, if that's what you want.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:29 AM (vS5Dp)

75 It seems the post-procedure swelling in my knee has gone down finally and I can almost walk normally since I can bend it now. Not sure how well it worked yet. See the doctor on Friday for a follow up and to schedule the other knee.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at September 21, 2025 06:29 AM (VCgbV)

76 My dad watches a lot on Grit so been going there myself often. I always loved Westerns
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025

***
Grit will often have feature days, where they show a string of John Waynes, a bunch of John Paynes, Rory Calhouns, Eastwoods, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 06:30 AM (omVj0)

77 73 My dad watches a lot on Grit so been going there myself often. I always loved Westerns
_-_-_
One of the only broadcast channels.we get worth ever watching.
Couldn't there be just one channel where you could learn something? Like calculus...why can't there be just ONE tv show a week about derivatives and integrals?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 21, 2025 06:31 AM (vd6bO)

78 Grit will often have feature days, where they show a string of John Waynes, a bunch of John Paynes, Rory Calhouns, Eastwoods, etc.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 06:30 AM (omVj0)
-------------
Randolph Scott!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2025 06:31 AM (WvZaB)

79 It's hard not to be cynical. You see what you see, you know what you know, and nobody in positions to do something about it ever do
Posted by: BurtTC

The origin of 'cynic' is an interesting dive into psycho-history. Like a dog is certain thing and weird, but with depth.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2025 06:26 AM (mlg/3)

There's an old story out there, about circus elephants. They capture the elephants (one way or another) when the elephants are young, then put a chain around the leg of the beast, and around a tree.

The elephant fights and fights against the chains, but the circus master knows how much chain to use, how big a tree.

Eventually the elephant grows big and strong, and the chains get no bigger, because the elephant has been trained. Its chains are now it the beast's head, so you can remove the chain entirely, and it will still stand, docile and compliant, next to the tree.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:33 AM (vS5Dp)

80 Wolfus,
I thought you were on your trip to Indiana?

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at September 21, 2025 06:33 AM (VCgbV)

81 My dad watches a lot on Grit so been going there myself often. I always loved Westerns
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025

***
The other thing about the Western is that it is first cousin to the hardboiled crime story. It's why Elmore Leonard was able to move so easily from Westerns to the crime novels, and why Loren D. Estleman still writes both.

I actually prefer Leonard's Westerns, including the movie adaptations (see Hombre), to his crime stories.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 06:33 AM (omVj0)

82 establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defence,
promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty

Name one big city in the US that even attempts 1 of these ideas?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2025 06:34 AM (gbOdA)

83 Wolfus,
I thought you were on your trip to Indiana?
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at September 21, 2025

***
Leaving tomorrow morning early, right about this time! Still have to clean the car and pack. I should be in Birmingham about 2 or 3 pm, and then in Evansville about that time on Tuesday. I'll come back next Sunday-Monday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2025 06:35 AM (omVj0)

84 Latin form of Greek kynikos 'a follower of Antisthenes,' AKA "dog-like,"

Cynics are literally dogs. Woof.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2025 06:37 AM (mlg/3)

85 Who is fired first: Napier at Florida, Swinney at Clemson or Belichek from Carolina?

Posted by: Accomack at September 21, 2025 06:37 AM (sSkke)

86 I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes,

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2025 06:38 AM (WvZaB)

87 Have a safe and enjoyable journey!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at September 21, 2025 06:40 AM (VCgbV)

88 Latin form of Greek kynikos 'a follower of Antisthenes,' AKA "dog-like,"

Cynics are literally dogs. Woof.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2025 06:37 AM (mlg/3)

Well, the Greeks like to have sex with boys, but anyhoo.

A dog is loyal, fierce, quick to defend the pack, always on guard against the predators, which are CONSTANTLY out there.

Now, what's the Greek word for sheep.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:43 AM (PEQHX)

89 MIL@Nero

There’s a worldwide epidemic of transgender killers. It’s scaring the shit out of faggots and dykes who know just how mental these multilated monsters are—and how many more attacks are coming if we don’t move urgently to incarcerate every one of them.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2025 06:45 AM (TGPs7)

90 Morning, Horde....How goes it?

Still have grading left to do today.

Then I get to prepare myself for day 1 of my new job...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2025 06:45 AM (IBQGV)

91 Have a good trip, WA. Hope everyone has a good week in general!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 21, 2025 06:46 AM (Me7kc)

92 88 A dog is loyal, fierce, quick to defend the pack, always on guard against the predators, which are CONSTANTLY out there.

Now, what's the Greek word for sheep.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:43 AM (PEQHX)

probaton

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 06:47 AM (aURVT)

93 probaton
Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 06:47 AM (aURVT)

It's like they have a word for everything.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:49 AM (Z89do)

94 Apolitical @Apolitucal3678

Black men with White women are 2% of the population but 75% of advertisements.

Seems like there might be an agenda there…

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2025 06:50 AM (TGPs7)

95 Lots of good articles at American Thinker today

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 06:50 AM (+qU29)

96 There is bad PR and then there is really bad PR.

Conan O'Brien was paid to promote the new video game, Conan playing video games I know but work with me, Shudderlands 4 and it crashes on him with his audience watching.

Gearbox you had one job - to deliver a playable game.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2025 06:51 AM (Dvgfd)

97 Lots of good articles at American Thinker today
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 06:50 AM (+qU29)

Yes. Especially today

Posted by: Mick Jagger and his tiny todger at September 21, 2025 06:55 AM (QBc8b)

98 Who knew that Charlie Kirk had a bone mass density approaching that of a Grizzly Bear...

We're never going to get the true story of any of these assassinations. But, that's America for you...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2025 07:02 AM (TGPs7)

99 “Pfizer does not have a further comment other than we did work in close consultation with the FDA”

This in response to questions posed by - remember him? - Dr. Robert Malone:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8jfrtw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 21, 2025 07:02 AM (vUecY)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 07:02 AM (aURVT)

101 Just buy a damn CD, you weirdo kids. Then you own it. They can't take it from you.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2025 06:08 AM (vS5Dp)

They’d have to buy a CD player, too.
You’ve got to remember that all the music they’ve ever listened to came out of their computer, smartphone, or the dashboard screen.

The only physical media they’ve ever handled is a DVD or Blu-Ray disc.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2025 07:03 AM (6ydKt)

102 I was only taking orders doesn't work in trials often

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 07:07 AM (+qU29)

103 I did not watch any football yesterday.

But I did hear from that Clemson lost, from my dad, with a big smile on his face.

He’s a Gamecocks fan, so he’s happier when the Tiggers lose than when USC wins.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2025 07:07 AM (6ydKt)

104 Black men with White women are 2% of the population but 75% of advertisements.
Seems like there might be an agenda there…
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2025 06:50 AM (TGPs7)

Plus they never show real ghetto shit on the tv commercials. All the homes are nice with the 2 oreo parents and the kids all well behaved. Where's the 40's, loud rap music and weed in the air?

Posted by: Ghetto Joe at September 21, 2025 07:10 AM (R/m4+)

105 mornin yall. Local TV is running an awful AI generated commercial about a "Homeless Sleep out". What at first looks like a bunch of white 20-30 somethings rolling out their sleeping bags to sleep with some bums is soon revealed as AI animation. Then they show everyone standing around staring at candles. If this is what AI is good for then AI is crap.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2025 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

106 NYC democrats are firmly on the cult doom loop:
https://shorturl.at/7UuBw

Posted by: Accomack at September 21, 2025 07:17 AM (6HDsc)

107 Trump has decided he wants Bagram air base back.

@realDonaldTrump
If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!! President DJT

Sep 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM

The Taliban might be considering it in return for diplomatic recognition and around $7 billion in frozen assets.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2025 07:19 AM (6ydKt)

108 I see lots of BM/WW around here. Nothing inspiring

Posted by: Accomack at September 21, 2025 07:19 AM (6HDsc)

109 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

110 They could have hired some homeless people to make a commercial about homeless people but no they made an AI generated commercial depicting idealized white, black, and homeless people coming together and holding candles.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2025 07:20 AM (vFG9F)

111 Trump

Leave Bagram Airbase alone. Yes, it is well placed to hit China. Still a very bad idea. Unless you want more paranoia in the PLAAF.

Logistically, is is very bad.

A better use of the money would be making the B-21 production line go faster.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

112 Clippy would never

Louis Rossmann is getting quite popular

Posted by: Halfhand at September 21, 2025 07:25 AM (RoCLL)

113 If this is what AI is good for then AI is crap.
Posted by: fd at September 21, 2025 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

There’s an ad they keep playing on YouTube about car insurance that I’m 99% certain is AI-generated.

It’s some big white guy with a mic attached to his face (the over ear kind) on a stage in front of a screen with the gnarliest flag which, apparently, is a combination of the U.S. flag with the SC palmetto flag, it’s just weird - that’s the first clue.

Then the camera is on the audience and every face it focuses on has the same mic attached to their heads.

Then it shows some chart on the screen behind the guy and it shows SC has the highest insurance rate in the nation, but the outline of the state looks like a state I’ve never seen before, it looks more like NC or Virginia and nothing like triangular-shaped SC.

Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen trying to be passed off as real.

I’m certain they generated an ad for every state just changing the flag and the name of the state when the guy says it - and YouTube serves the ad for each state based on your IP location.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

114 fd

Hiring homeless would help them for a tad, so that is a big no from the Totalitarians.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

115 DVD-R drives that do CD-Rom and CD-R format are available and cheap. Get one for your computer.

On Windows, EAC (Exact Audio Copy) will allow you to rip a CD to a digital format exactly. FLAC is lossless. 320 bit MP3 (encoded with LAME) is almost perfect but is still lossless.

Buy the CD and rip it. You own your media, and have the license to use/play. You have convenient digital files to use on your devices.

Like vinyl records to reel-to-reel tape, or dual deck cassette players used to save your original and play the heck out of a copy (or a mix tape), FLAC and MP3 files are the modern equivalent.

The music industry hates this because they can't keep re-selling you the same music in ever-shifting formats. Too bad for them, you don't have to play their game if you don't want to.

The music and movie industries' rental (streaming) business model does bring convenience and a huge library of media, until it doesn't. It's a valid choice, just be aware it's not a "forever" thing because they lease licenses to content too, and won't hold those in perpetuity. No license = no right to provide it to you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 07:33 AM (O7YUW)

116 Talking to a co-worker last week who also said he watches way too much YouTube agree with me lots of YouTube is AI these days.
Even Animal videos of cute little kittens playing with lions or alligators just isn't going to happen

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 07:34 AM (+qU29)

117 "Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen trying to be passed off as real."

Same with this commercial. Smiling, happy white people rolling out their sleeping bags on a green lawn in a choreographed and synchronized display of compassion for bums. It's really weird.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

118 82
'Name one big city in the US that even attempts 1 of these ideas?'

None. Hence legal grounds for any state to disincorporate their blue city.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 21, 2025 07:38 AM (3wi/L)

119 @113/SpeakingOf:

Look for:

a) Disappearing/re-appearing audience models
b) Zero movement of audience members like it's a still picture
c) Extra or missing fingers or limbs, sometimes done in motion
d) Impossible body motion mechanics
e) Signs in the background that are complete gibberish characters

Thanks for the extra tells:
- weird flags
- copied features to the base human model that don't make sense in context (the head microphone on everyone)
- geographic outlines of regions on maps that don't match reality in anything

Much appreciated. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 07:39 AM (O7YUW)

120 Logistically, is is very bad.

A better use of the money would be making the B-21 production line go faster.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

It’s a “nice to have” kind of thing.

But I’m not even sure of that.
You could hold the base with a few thousand troops.

But then they’d be sitting ducks out there in the middle of nowhere. So as soon as it’s attacked, and you know it will be eventually, we’re right back to putting more troops in to protect the base.

It’s in a strategically important area, but is it worth it for the cost?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2025 07:41 AM (6ydKt)

121 Swinney will be last, he may resign before they fire him. Dabbo's a class act.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 21, 2025 07:42 AM (2NHgQ)

122 ...
- geographic outlines of regions on maps that don't match reality in anything
....
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 07:39 AM (O7YUW)

How dare you!!

Posted by: The Totally Real and Soverign State of Palestine at September 21, 2025 07:42 AM (PiwSw)

123 Youngest daughter stopped by my desk and added even more AI tells:

- The division line/strap on a purse or cross-body strap for a laptop bag: Elements on one side of the strap that should be mirrored on the other aren't, or they're different.
- Outfits with buttons: Button "a" on one side of the outfit doesn't match button "b" on the other side of the outfit when there should be perfect symmetry.
- The arms of glasses (the vision correction type) can also be a tell as the AI programs don't get a lot of training on how those should properly look.
- Lace with non-repeating patterns. (You have to look closely for that one.)
- Things melding into other things, hair into necklaces for example.
- Flowers, plants, and trees with bad anatomy (stamens coming out of petals)
- Waxy textures (plasticizing)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 07:47 AM (O7YUW)

124 Thanks for the extra tells:
- weird flags
- copied features to the base human model that don't make sense in context (the head microphone on everyone)
- geographic outlines of regions on maps that don't match reality in anything

Much appreciated. :-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 07:39 AM (O7YUW)

Yeah, I forgot the other big giveaway.

There’s a second version of the same ad, only this time the guys speech is a little different and he’s not a big white guy, this time he’s a big black guy.

And yes, in this one the audience faces have no expression. They are all just sitting there staring in awe at the guy talking like he’s giving them the most insightful, inspirational speech about car insurance they’ve ever heard in their lives.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2025 07:52 AM (6ydKt)

125 Good morning Horde, thx Pixy. Happy Sunday and we should all pray for a peaceful ceremony in Arizona today.
I see the NH golf course shooter yelled "free Palestine". Guy probably couldn't locate " Palestine" on a map

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2025 07:54 AM (lmTGO)

126 125 I see the NH golf course shooter yelled "free Palestine". Guy probably couldn't locate " Palestine" on a map
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2025 07:54 AM (lmTGO)

One dead; two wounded; gunman in custody.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 07:56 AM (aURVT)

127 Looks like Sinclair is backing away from Charlie Kirk. And ABC is edging back toward Jimmy Kimmel. Don't you love that corporate backbone?

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 21, 2025 07:59 AM (WHfpM)

128 Considering " Palestine" isn't found on any real.map

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 07:59 AM (+qU29)

129 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Hope routes and kids are all settling out into a smooth ride.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

130 125
'I see the NH golf course shooter yelled "free Palestine". Guy probably couldn't locate " Palestine" on a map'

Sounds like an international conspiracy. Invoke the Patriot Act. Round up every friend this creep has. Release the conservatives after that fact is established.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 21, 2025 08:01 AM (3wi/L)

131 I've been messing around with Grok for the last couple of days trying to figure out it's limits.

So I started feeding it problems from graduate physics text books. I lost my Goldstein, Classical Mechanics somehow. That had some really hard problems in it but I found a sample that had the problems in Chapter One.

I am still looking over it's latest solution but so far it is 1 for 1 taking word problems, setting up the vectors, formulating and soling the Lagrangians to produce the equations of motion.

Boy, am I rusty.

Posted by: pawn at September 21, 2025 08:01 AM (PmITa)

132 Dr. Claw

It is anti-progress for sure. Because Palestine is one long saga of failure. All that money and effort to rule over a burnt-out, bombed to smithereens anthill.

What a waste.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

133 Why take the gunman into custody if you don't roll up the network? He had a gun in his hand, and killed someone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

134 132
'All that money and effort to rule over a burnt-out, bombed to smithereens anthill.'

It baffles me how such a sinister 'nation' inspires so much loyalty in the West when there are other worse situations in central Africa for instance that never appear on the 'do-gooders' radar.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 21, 2025 08:07 AM (3wi/L)

135 pawn

Lots of AI use in drug discovery, proteomics, and protein folding. Hmmm.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

136 Dr. Claw

Sudan has entered the chat.

The only explanation I can think of is that evil is real, and we have not rid reactionary behavior from cave-man days from our DNA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

137 salty, per the comments at the NY Post the casualty in Nahua may have been from the stampede of people trying to flee the gunman, not shot. One of the people shot was in the way of the gunman fleeing. Doesn't matter, the asshole gunman caused the death with it's actions.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 21, 2025 08:12 AM (2NHgQ)

138 “ Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”

Proverbs 3:3

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2025 08:16 AM (Oy+3b)

139 138 “ Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”

Proverbs 3:3
Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2025 08:16 AM (Oy+3b)

; )

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 08:16 AM (aURVT)

140 Pixy,

I don't know how you do this every morning but I want to thank you very much. Your posts always start my day off pleasantly. So a big thanks to you (and the chatty morons and 'ettes).

Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 21, 2025 08:17 AM (3AwA+)

141 121 Swinney will be last, he may resign before they fire him. Dabbo's a class act.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 21, 2025 07:42 AM (2NHgQ)

I like Swinney, even though it’s Clemson.

And I don’t really blame him.
Clemson can’t afford to pay what the talented players want to be paid these days.

That’s what’s hurting them the most, players would rather go to bigger schools that can afford them now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2025 08:17 AM (6ydKt)

142 Scheinheiligkeit!

Another good German word applicable to Our Times(TM)

https://germanoddities.substack.com/p/scheinheiligkeit

Scheinheiligkeit Fever
Catch It!

...or don't. Seriously, do not catch it.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2025 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

143 neverenoughcaffeine

Thanks for the clarification.
This sure looks like recon missions for an uncivil war.

An armed society is a polite society (among the four survivors), and all that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

144 Black men with White women are 2% of the population but 75% of advertisements.

Assuming TikTok is any indication of the truth (LOL), white women may not marry black men but every single one of them wants to fuck them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

145 Scheinheiligkeit Fever
Catch It!

...or don't. Seriously, do not catch it.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2025 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

Gesundheit!

Posted by: Low, slow, and right over the plate at September 21, 2025 08:19 AM (PiwSw)

146 SpeakingOf. Unless he's changed his ways, Swinney doesn't use the portal. That makes competing much more difficult. He's old school in a rapidly changing world.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 21, 2025 08:19 AM (2NHgQ)

147 SpeakingOf

I've lost interest in even college football in the NIL and portal era.
Looks like the end result is a very few big SEC programs and also-rans. Not interesting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

148 @129/NaCly Dog: "Hope routes and kids are all settling out into a smooth ride."

I have a double-route. First route has little to no problems. Second route (in the afternoon when the boys are getting out of school and have been cooped up all day): Problems. Not unmanageable, but sometimes? "Wow. Seriously? Stop it." I've had to yell at them a few times to express my intense displeasure with their on-going ass-hattery.

Standard nonsense is "sit down when the bus is in motion", "Do not stick your head, arms, or legs out the window, not even fingers, yes, seriously" (Then I explain with the "a branch hits the bus as we drive by" explanation), "Do not roughhouse with each other on my bus"...

It'll smooth out (mostly) more as time goes on. There will always be issues, because boys are going to be boys, and girls are going to be girls by egging them on and then ratting them out afterwards. I hope the boys will catch on to this sooner rather than later as it's a good lesson in life about who you want to be friends with, or become involved with.

They're grade school kids. *sighs* I miss my high school run from last year; pleasant kids who quietly used their phones.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 08:22 AM (O7YUW)

149 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Please join me in the front.

And singing. Singing works.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

150 Good morning morons

A weird yet catchy tune with a great message.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2025 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

151 Man charged with murder after shooting during wedding at Nashua country club

https://archive.is/0x6Iq

23-year-old Hunter Nadeau has been charged with the murder of 59-year-old Robert Steven DeCesare with a handgun. The AG said there is no known connection between the two. Two other adults were shot and injured but do not have life-threatening injuries.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 08:26 AM (aURVT)

152 I see that Pixy has heard of Louis Rossmann's pro-Clippy movement.

Last week I had my own brush with AI: I needed to call the third-party company running Iowa's ESA program because I couldn't see if it had paid Pookette's school on their website. I got an AI "assistant" that told me to do things like clear my browser cache and didn't follow up on its instructions, just left me hanging. I finally managed to exit that mess and talked to someone clearly working from home with a baby, who could see the account status and told me everything was fine on my end. All that really for nothing, but I did get to emphasize woth a young mom for a bit.

Posted by: pookysgirl, with her own babbling baby at September 21, 2025 08:28 AM (Wt5PA)

153 n

Biden's kid?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

154 @134/Dr. Claw: "It baffles me how such a sinister 'nation' inspires so much loyalty in the West when there are other worse situations in central Africa for instance that never appear on the 'do-gooders' radar."

It isn't about doing good at all. It's about actively trying to throw sand in the gears for the Jewish people in Israel because of raw visceral hatred. The alleged 'Palestine' area has immediate physical proximity, Africa doesn't.

There's a lot of people in the west who throw accusations of being Nazis at others, while believing similarly to the actual Nazis of recent history, and sometimes acting like them.

This isn't going away anytime soon, or easily. Something about spiritual warfare being the larger driver here.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 08:29 AM (O7YUW)

155
I saw Life-Threatening Injuries open for the Zombies at the Fillmore West in '68.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2025 08:29 AM (iJfKG)

156 m

Need new fingers or a new keyboard.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

157 Have a great day, everyone.

May there be gentle rainfall in your area, to preclude watering.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

158 Bigger keyboard smaller fingers

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 08:31 AM (+qU29)

159 I remember one field trip as a kid where we got some period of weightlessness after launching over a railroad crossing. It was awesome. It never happemed again, sadly.

Why, or how is it we have to bundle up our kids like Astronauts with car seats in our private rides, but a School Bus doesn’t even have seat belts??

Posted by: Common Tater at September 21, 2025 08:33 AM (1meqy)

160
The AI Bubble reminds me of the 5G Bubble.

AI Bubble will burst when, like 5G, AI proves to have some real but limited benefits. ie. it won't "change the world'.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2025 08:33 AM (iJfKG)

161 G'mornin' everyone!

Woof!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2025 08:37 AM (ppG5b)

162 College football is messed up. This is what happens when lawyers get involved in things. There should at least be a cap on how much a player can be paid. But I doubt the game will ever be good anymore. Whatever school has the most money will be the champs.

Posted by: Case at September 21, 2025 08:38 AM (iwlvf)

163 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 21, 2025 08:38 AM (XQo4F)

164 161 Woof!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2025 08:37 AM (ppG5b)

Cynic!

72 The origin of 'cynic' is an interesting dive into psycho-history. Like a dog is certain thing and weird, but with depth.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2025 06:26 AM (mlg/3)

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 08:39 AM (aURVT)

165 @149/NaCly Dog: "Please join me in the front."

Might work though it would have to be rows 2, 3 or 4. Row 1 is already dedicated to some individuals per the request of the school's teachers.

"And singing. Singing works."

Not sure my nerves will stand that one, but ... it might work. I use a music player with tracks stored on a Micro-SD card to play music for the kids which they seem to like. I'm still trying to filter down to energetic enough, but not too much, while not being snoozer toons that the kids will hate.

I'm already filtering out any song that has inappropriate subject matter or language. (Man there's a lot of songs I like that I just can't play, and these got plenty of radio play in my time, too.)

Thinking of going back in time to draw from singers like Frank Sinatra, just to mix up the energy, timing, and pace. ("Luck be a lady tonight", "New York New York", etc...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 08:39 AM (O7YUW)

166 AI Bubble will burst when, like 5G, AI proves to have some real but limited benefits. ie. it won't "change the world'.

Posted by: naturalfake
_________

I simply do not understand the "intelligence" part of this AI thing. It's an iteration of computing power, nothing more. We, ourselves, can't explain consciousness. So I dont see how we could bestow it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 21, 2025 08:39 AM (XvL8K)

167 The kids actually seem to like records, aka vinyl. I have ruined too many records to go that route. Going back to iPods to stream is a good thing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 21, 2025 08:41 AM (kUxzU)

168 Common Tater

3rd grade boys hitting each other with beat belt buckles.

If they stay in their seats (compartmentalization) they are safe. Usually school buses are 900 times safer than a private car.

Now GTG.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2025 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

169 salty. Post 151. Really need to adhere to the 24 hour rule. So the murderer did kill someone. My apologies for spreading bad info. Now to find out who Hunter Nadeau is.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 21, 2025 08:42 AM (2NHgQ)

170 exactly, m

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2025 08:43 AM (ppG5b)

171 We're nowhere near the bursting of the AI bubble, it may burst but it's not going to burst until there's nothing left to squeeze out of it.

AI is really in it's infancy, so probably sometime in the early to mid 30's is when you may see some pandemonium.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2025 08:45 AM (XV/Pl)

172 And if you need it, there's a guy on U tube, HobbiesUnlimited, that does good videos on fixing iPods. He must be a moron. He did one on replacing the front and back covers, where he accidentally put the old back cover on.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 21, 2025 08:47 AM (kUxzU)

173 @159/Common Tater: "Why, or how is it we have to bundle up our kids like Astronauts with car seats in our private rides, but a School Bus doesn’t even have seat belts??"

I happened to ask that question just the other day of a retired safety officer at a bus company who had a really good answer.

Jammed belts in an emergency "evacuate" the bus incident. Imagine trying to get kids safely away from a point of damage or danger on a bus (like a fire) and they're all panicking and pulling against their belts and locking them. Now you have to use the belt cutter and cut 50 to 70 belts, which takes time you may not have.

Buses are considered one of the safest vehicles because of how much mass they have, as well as re-enforcement for the passengers. The newer tall seatbacks are meant to break-forward in a serious frontal collision which acts as a cushion to the forward momentum coming to that "sudden stop". The external black bars you see down a bus are bolted on extra re-enforcement at the feet, seat, and top of the seat levels to protect kids.

So, seatbelts are actually not necessary in view of the other measures, and may add to danger levels if used. Not what I expected.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 21, 2025 08:48 AM (O7YUW)

174 In the land of the Brain Dead, the one-brain-cell man will be king!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 21, 2025 04:44 AM

That's right, Fat.

Posted by: Joe Biden's Last Brain Cell at September 21, 2025 08:51 AM (jc0TO)

175 Authorities have found the remains of travis decker who suffocated his 3 daughters this past June. Wish I hadn't read that article and the details on how he murdered Olivia, Evelyn and Paityn. So very, very sad. And evil.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 21, 2025 08:51 AM (2NHgQ)

176 We'll probably never know the true motive.

Crazed gunman shouted ‘Free Palestine’ before opening fire and killing guest at Sky Meadow country club wedding: witnesses

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 21, 2025 08:51 AM (L/fGl)

177 I always liked Aristophanes' frogs, too:

Brekekekex!

Koax!

Koax!

though it sometimes puzzles people when I say that out loud ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2025 08:52 AM (ppG5b)

178 I always liked Aristophanes' frogs, too:

Brekekekex! Koax! Koax!

though it sometimes puzzles people when I say that out loud ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2025 08:52 AM (ppG5b)

Probably because you used the wrong end.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2025 08:54 AM (uQesX)

179 There are a number of record stores with signs they will buy vinyl records around me.
Thought a few times why not sell mine as probably will not ever listen to them again anyway.
And have at least a few classic rock albums I am sure would be wanted.

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2025 08:55 AM (+qU29)

180 The Democrats have a messaging problem.

Trump Pulls Off Massive Turnaround, Up 10 Points in Just 4 Days

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 21, 2025 08:57 AM (L/fGl)

181 He always marched in step and now they're abandoning him!

Jimmy Kimmel “Feels Betrayed” After ABC Suspends His Show

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 21, 2025 09:00 AM (L/fGl)

182 Glendale cops say they are expecting 100k people at that stadium today. It's for a different purpose, but make no mistake - that's a display of power. And it's not astroturfed, or driven by community organizers, or a desire to loot, or a bunch of old folks with nothing better to do.

It's organic, and youthful, and masculine.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 21, 2025 09:04 AM (BI5O2)

183
Vibe coding creates brain dead programmers. (NMN)
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Excellent article.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2025 09:06 AM (XeU6L)

184 For those interested, The Camp of the Saints has now been reissued, and is available through Amazon, but here is a link to the publisher:

https://is.gd/vG8sAf

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 21, 2025 09:07 AM (PiwSw)

185 It's a ritual and they seem to be into creating some order in their lives. Kinda interesting to watch. I've always liked old tech.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 21, 2025 09:08 AM (kUxzU)

186 There are a number of record stores with signs they will buy vinyl records around me.
Thought a few times why not sell mine as probably will not ever listen to them again anyway.
And have at least a few classic rock albums I am sure would be wanted.

Posted by: Skip
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Same thoughts here...but it is a bit like saying goodbye to an old friend. Odd that we form emotional attachments to material things that no longer serve a material purpose.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2025 09:08 AM (XeU6L)

187 For those interested, The Camp of the Saints has now been reissued, and is available through Amazon, but here is a link to the publisher:
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For a while, even used paperbacks were bringing absurd prices.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2025 09:10 AM (XeU6L)

188 I simply do not understand the "intelligence" part of this AI thing. It's an iteration of computing power, nothing more. We, ourselves, can't explain consciousness. So I dont see how we could bestow it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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Thus, my one-man drive to rename it 'AR', 'artificial reasoning', which is absurd on its face, as it is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2025 09:15 AM (XeU6L)

189 Suddenly...it seems empty in here...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2025 09:16 AM (XeU6L)

190 Just a slow day

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 21, 2025 09:19 AM (kUxzU)

191 There's a reading thread.

Reading Thread [09/21/2025]

Posted by: m at September 21, 2025 09:21 AM (aURVT)

192 Sssssssss.

Posted by: The Slow Newsday Gorn at September 21, 2025 09:32 AM (jc0TO)

193 AI No More the Solution to Coding, than Politics is the Solution go Governance.

Never a truer statement, the but reality, and misdirection of what AI really is and why it will never go away is that it enables the full voluntary disclosure and inventory that the Deep State has lusted for for so long. Do you think these t hings just happen because it's kool?

Why ask why when how is so much more fun?

"Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory"
-- Shameless Politico THUG, Nancy Pelosi'09 in Red China.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:
https://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/files/2009/03/botchmen.jpg

LIBs: Give them Convenience or Give them Death -- problem is, it's all or none, and, like it or not, they intend to take us with them. OBVIOUSLY some must be sacrificed that others 'they' may live, just a little bit longer than *YOU*...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 21, 2025 12:01 PM (osliF)

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