Daily Tech News 29 October 2025

Top Story

Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs. (The Verge)

Not replacing them with AI. Just... Not replacing them.
Apple and Microsoft have both passed the $4 trillion market cap line. (Tech Crunch)

Joining Nvidia among the most valuable companies in the world.

Google's parent company Alphabet is valued at $3.25 trillion, Amazon is at $2.42 trillion, and Facebook's parent Meta is at $1.89 trillion.

Tech News

How to watch the GTC 2025 keynote. (Tom's Hardware)

What's GTC? This is mentioned nowhere in the article.
How to watch the fake AI generated crypto scam GTC 2025 keynote. (Tom's Hardware)

Still no mention of what GTC actually is.
OpenAI's ChatGPT-based web browser, Atlas is... Not a web browser. At all. (Anil Dash)

It queries ChatGPT and assembles things that look like web pages, but have no provenance and no links.

There's nothing to click on. You type your queries into ChatGPT and you wait for it to generate your slop.
The Python Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant due to the strings attached. (The Register)

The "strings" were don't be racist.

For some reason the Python Foundation found that requirement a bridge too far.
The US Senate is hard at work... On a bill that would ban AI tamagotchis for children. (NBC)

Priorities, people.
OpenAI wants to get to a $1 trillion per year infrastructure spend. (Axios)

Same.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: What, a knight?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 G'Day everyone

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

2 Hi, Pixy!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2025 04:04 AM (rdVOm)

3 G'night, all.

Just wanted to say hi...

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2025 04:04 AM (rdVOm)

4 Hi! Bye!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 29, 2025 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

5 Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) is a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference for developers that brings together developers, engineers, researchers, inventors, and IT professionals.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 29, 2025 04:07 AM (JRP2U)

6 Good morning. Become flocculent, gentlepersons.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at October 29, 2025 04:09 AM (BDoPY)

7 Good morning. Become flocculent, gentlepersons.

Them’s some mighty strong words, pardner!

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 29, 2025 04:15 AM (JRP2U)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2025 04:16 AM (sAmhv)

9 Replaced my protective screen on my phone with a piece of plastic from a picture frame. But seems not as sensitive so turned up sensitivity. Much clearer now at least

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2025 04:18 AM (+qU29)

10 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 04:38 AM (p6raP)

11 6 Good morning. Become flocculent, gentlepersons.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr.

flocculent
adjective

Having a fluffy or woolly appearance.

Containing or made up of small particles that have been aggregated together.

Having a soft, waxy, and woollike covering, as certain insects.

The things you learn around here.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2025 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

12 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 29, 2025 04:48 AM (hoCmQ)

13 Good morning, old dog

How are you doing today?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 04:51 AM (PFs9e)

14 Brazil is revolting.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 04:51 AM (tJnZA)

15 Doing fine, Fen. Hope all is well with you.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 29, 2025 04:55 AM (hoCmQ)

16 guten tag, horde

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2025 04:56 AM (Z2R71)

17 Brazil is revolting.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025

***
We know.

Paraguay is no bargain either.

Posted by: Uruguay at October 29, 2025 04:57 AM (omVj0)

18 Brazil has important people coming over so they are shampooing the rugs. The pets have to stay outside until the guests leave.

Posted by: Accomack at October 29, 2025 04:59 AM (3U9lo)

19 Got a meeting with the head of local Catholic high school today. He said he wasn't going to ask for money... today anyway.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 29, 2025 04:59 AM (hoCmQ)

20 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers respectively! I'm among the latter this am, I guess, having snapped awake an hour too early. No nightmares or dreamscapes that I can recall, though. How is everyone?

"Flocculent" sounds like a good adjective to describe little Dagny La Siberienne. She looks woolly for sure. Her winter coat is coming in, or maybe has already.

It drizzled overnight; the sidewalk is still wet. I hope it's finished doing that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:01 AM (omVj0)

21 So, there are half a dozen tech companies that have a combined market cap greater than the notional gross domestic product of the United States. And most people do not think about the kind of influence large corporations have over the economy and the governance of this country.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2025 05:02 AM (Z2R71)

22 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 43 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor.

Running late and am dead tired. May speak with you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 29, 2025 05:03 AM (ufSfZ)

23 The rain is over, apparently, but we have quite a bit of wind. That will make working out a bit tougher -- but challenge and response, baby!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:04 AM (omVj0)

24 I would like to ask prayers for the family and friends of R. Who died yesterday .He was our church patriarch. and served in the navy in the Korean War.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 05:06 AM (PFs9e)

25 Melissa has hit Jamaica dead on -- "the strongest storm to hit [the island] in recorded history," says my local Fox outlet.

All I really know about Jamaica is what I read in the James Bond novels. And that info is seventy years out of date.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:08 AM (omVj0)

26 Speaking as a normal Caucastic male, BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:10 AM (cJQ4x)

27 A few 'Republicans' revolted with the Marxists for Brazil too

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2025 05:11 AM (+qU29)

28 Mayor-elect Helena Moreno is looking on TV interviews as if she's just opened a trapdoor and found living skeletons inside. A good metaphor for finding out what a howling chaos this city is under the "Laissez le bon temps roulez" exterior.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:12 AM (omVj0)

29
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 29, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

30 Disclaimer: What, a knight?
-

Dean Martin: That's Armore!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:13 AM (cJQ4x)

31 I don't remember which moron advised here around 2 years ago to buy Tesla stock. Just want to say thank you on behalf of my heirs.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:18 AM (uHi2H)

32 https://tinyurl.com/3ahhvfry
20 News nuggets from Doug Ross Substack

Downingtown Pa has a Trannie running for mayor

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2025 05:18 AM (+qU29)

33 Today spouse and I read Proverbs 17. Proverbs 17:22 says "a merry heart does good like medicine". A note from the Life Application Bible says , " A merry heart a cheerful heart. Cheerfulness is shown by always being ready to greet others with a welcoming word, offering words of encouragement, being enthusiastic about the task at hand or giving a positive outlook on the future.Such people are welcome to others as pain relieving medicine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 05:21 AM (PFs9e)

34 Yesterday I bought a new fry pan, but it's an inch too big to fit comfortably atop my stove. Back it goes for a smaller one. Home Goods has T-Fal models and other name brands. There's a small cast-iron pan among my kitchen gear, but I use it far less than I do the non-stick pan.

Best of all, the pan didn't cost me anything. A couple of years ago my (now-former) employer sent me a non-expiring $150 gift to mark my long service to the place. Yesterday I downloaded $50 of it onto a Home Goods card. I can spread the rest onto cards belonging to a slew of other merchants.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:21 AM (omVj0)

35 OK... Pixy's tech thread.... Think about something techie...

Ah! This just in my inbox: my bank is about to enable me to use Paze to make digital payments via my credit card.

Paze???

So, I went to paze.com. It told me much the same as my bank's email.

So I searched and found:

https://tinyurl.com/5fj33cjy+

So, ignore.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:24 AM (uHi2H)

36 Hitting a short road for a change
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2025 05:25 AM (+qU29)

37 My savings bank, when I log on to check my statements, keeps giving my a popup saying "Zelle Is Still Available!" Annoying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:27 AM (omVj0)

38 Flocculate is a word used in particle/colloid science, meaning particles that aggregate together through non-chemical bonding (VdW forces, etc).

Kind of like felting wool, in a way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2025 05:28 AM (06Hmj)

39 Good morning, SNAP EBT recipients. It's morning cuppa Joe time!

https://tinyurl.com/37fwz8xj+

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:28 AM (uHi2H)

40 Greetings and good morning, one and all. The morning is going well and I have nothing to complain about at the moment. But I'm working hard to find something. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 05:29 AM (svLOV)

41 Flocculate is a word used in particle/colloid science, meaning particles that aggregate together through non-chemical bonding (VdW forces, etc).

Kind of like felting wool, in a way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2025 05:28 AM (06Hmj)
-

Particles of a feather floc together?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:30 AM (uHi2H)

42 SNAP . . . that reminds me, I need to stock up at the store today and tomorrow so I don't have to go near a grocery this weekend!

Though the governor here, like several others, says he will divert state funds to cover the program for November. So, maybe no riots or looting yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:31 AM (omVj0)

43 It's got to be better than felching wool.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 05:31 AM (tJnZA)

44 Virginia is funding SNAP.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 05:33 AM (tJnZA)

45 I need to stock up at the store today and tomorrow so I don't have to go near a grocery this weekend!

Hm. Wife is doing an Aldi's run today but getting some more basics just in case may be a good idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 05:33 AM (svLOV)

46 We morons have seen this claim before:

https://tinyurl.com/3tzs9e8u+

Waiting for her pink slip to be issued.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:34 AM (uHi2H)

47 I have one of those little refriferator freezers. It decides to defrost itself from time to time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 05:34 AM (tJnZA)

48 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 29, 2025 05:34 AM (XQo4F)

49 Cheerfulness is shown by always being ready to greet others with a welcoming word, offering words of encouragement, being enthusiastic about the task at hand or giving a positive outlook on the future.Such people are welcome to others as pain relieving medicine.

Speaking only for myself, that's hard advice to follow. I do have moments of cheerfulness (such as when having finished a bit of writing, as I mentioned yesterday), but I'm generally a cynical, depressive person.

Have you ever seen those commercials for anti-depressants where a person hides behind a smiling mask? I feel like that a lot of times. I really am hoping retirement will blow the clouds away.

Back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 29, 2025 05:34 AM (ufSfZ)

50 The moviestvnetwork ("Movies!") channel is showing Jay Ward's old Fractured Flickers show. It's not closed-captioned, though most of their offerings are, but it still is fun.

Movie experts keep telling me that Lon Chaney Sr.'s London After Midnight film has been utterly lost. But I recall seeing snippets from it used on the FF show when I was a kid. Perhaps the film *as a whole* is lost, but there were bits of it still extant in the early Sixties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:38 AM (omVj0)

51 Have you ever seen those commercials for anti-depressants where a person hides behind a smiling mask? I feel like that a lot of times. I really am hoping retirement will blow the clouds away.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 29, 2025 05:34 AM (ufSfZ)
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Was on ADs for a week of my life. I broke free thanks to encouragement from Mrs. BD.

I'm sure your situation is not at all the same. I posted a link here over a year ago that explains how people can repair their body and mind to ween themselves off of ADs forever.

Will try to search for it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:39 AM (uHi2H)

52 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Pierci

You're a very smart and dear man and much appreciated here , and I'm sure elsewhere . You have a talent for writing. As someone suggested the other day see if you can get your anti depressant changed, and consider going to talk to someone - maybe a priest? We are care here but none of us are professsionals.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 05:40 AM (rZCVI)

53 I use Zelle whenever I can since Zelle is a bank to bank system with no fees.
AppleCash and ApplePay are convenient if I don’t bring my wallet.
Bills are done thru my bank.
Everything else is just another credit card.

Posted by: Accomack at October 29, 2025 05:43 AM (3U9lo)

54 Good morning, SNAP EBT recipients. It's morning cuppa Joe time!

https://tinyurl.com/37fwz8xj+
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:28 AM (uHi2H)

Apparently, 29 states are asking a judge to require Trump to use federal emergency funds to continue to pay the states to fund SNAP but not to require the states to fund SNAP on their own or to have Senate Democrats pass the CR which would fund SNAP.

The federal emergency funds would run out in 2-3 weeks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 05:43 AM (ExV1e)

55 MP4, I second what Fen said. From my own limited experience (seven months now), retirement does blow some clouds away, but only if you have something to occupy you that you enjoy. Now that I've finally been able to take a first step along my path to relocation, I feel much better. Waiting to do that was kinda dull, though better than sitting in traffic twice a day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:44 AM (omVj0)

56 We morons have seen this claim before:

https://tinyurl.com/3tzs9e8u+

Waiting for her pink slip to be issued.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 05:34 AM (uHi2H)

It's irrelevant. She was confirmed by the Senate.

People are shrieking about the autopen to get you worked up. Nothing WILL happen about the autopenned stuff because nothing CAN happen about the autopenned stuff. It's a done deal.

Work to make sure it can't happen again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 05:46 AM (ExV1e)

57 Please pray for my son. He is having issues with an online dating sites and a person he met there He is annoyed that I think this is all a scam. Fortunately he talked to the guy who is the Youth Minister at the evangelical church he goes to and he basically said to be careful as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 05:47 AM (rZCVI)

58 Speaking of relocation plans . . . I liked Evansville a lot, and Owensboro even more. Salty and Notsothoreau have been suggesting Kansas to me, though, for several years now, and I am wondering about towns there, perhaps within a short drive of Wichita. Hot in the summer, I know, but maybe a little less humid than SW IN, and fall begins earlier?

Either way I have to sit Linda down and say, "Are you in or out?" I know darn well the answer will be "out," and so I'm putting it off. But wherever I decide on, I'll need to put my stuff in storage and rent an apartment for a while so I can see what the new area is actually like. All it will take is some money, which I have, and fortitude, which I will have to dredge up from somewhere.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0)

59 Prayers sent, Fen. The dating scene is absolutely horrible for young men right now and those sites attract some of the worst folks out there.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 05:52 AM (svLOV)

60 Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 05:52 AM (svLOV)

Everybody he's met online has asked him for money. He's not given it to them, but as a mother this just makes me furious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 05:57 AM (Nx5jP)

61 When an eel bites your thigh, that's a moray!

Posted by: Epobirs at October 29, 2025 05:57 AM (/0z9K)

62 59: the dating scene isn't very good at any age right now. Lots of carnage out there.

FYI

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2025 05:57 AM (sAmhv)

63 Sigh. Sometimes my super-competent Indian co-workers make me crazy.

Indian co-worker: I'm doing a build and the build fails, the error indicates that broken source has been committed somehow... so I'll just keep telling the system to rebuild cuz surely it'll work this time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 05:59 AM (ExV1e)

64 Lively Gospel tune -"I heard my Savior calling me."
By Hank Williams Sr

https://tinyurl.com/2y8bnkdn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:00 AM (Nx5jP)

65 Everybody he's met online has asked him for money.

I will refrain from my harsh remarks about those kind of women.

the dating scene isn't very good at any age right now.

That's a long rant on my part. I'll leave it at that.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:00 AM (svLOV)

66 Everybody he's met online has asked him for money. He's not given it to them, but as a mother this just makes me furious.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 05:57 AM (Nx5jP)

There are women who'll match with a guy just to get a free dinner. I'm so glad I'm old and married.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 06:00 AM (ExV1e)

67
Again, I don't know how our favorite president does it. He's having dinner with the South Korean president, schmoozing with him, and some other Asian big shots.

The South Korean president gave Trump their highest honorary award and gave him a gift off....an audacious golden crown, which is a replica of some ancient crown from an old ancient dynasty that ruled there way back.

Trump said he might just put it on right then and there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 06:02 AM (w6EFb)

68 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0

Is Miss Linda not telling you what her objections are or do you think the whole idea of moving is just too overwhelming to her?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:02 AM (Nx5jP)

69 There are women who'll match with a guy just to get a free dinner.

I watched a rant from this woman claiming that if the guy's idea of a first date is a coffee or a hike, then he's cheap and she's wasting her time.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:03 AM (svLOV)

70 "An old ancient dynasty" I just said. Boy, talk about redundant.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 06:03 AM (w6EFb)

71 Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:00 AM (svLOV

He thinks that I'm an out of touch dinosaur who thinks that mostly everything online is a scam.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:04 AM (Nx5jP)

72 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 06:00 AM (ExV1e)

Me too and that I never had to date online🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:05 AM (Nx5jP)

73 He thinks that I'm an out of touch dinosaur who thinks that mostly everything online is a scam.

I've been working in tech since about 94. I have trust issues because of that. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:06 AM (svLOV)

74 He thinks that I'm an out of touch dinosaur who thinks that mostly everything online is a scam.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:04 AM (Nx5jP)

Young folks get scammed every day because of this thinking.

Here's a collection of "I got scammed" stories:
https://youtu.be/NWfa0wzljCo

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 06:07 AM (ExV1e)

75 G'morning Horde.

On Apple and Microsoft market valuations being $4T:

Ten years ago, Apple's market valuation was hovering around the high $800B/$900B mark (about a quarter of what it is now.)

Ten years ago, gold was trading at $1,000 to $1,100 USD (about a quarter of what it is now.)

And that means the value of our savings, and our buying power is about a quarter of what it was then. I shouldn't have thought about this. Now I'm angry.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2025 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

76 The local RCC has a dance periodically for young people. I think I may go to the evangelical church ( I know the pastor )to see if they can do the same thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:09 AM (rZCVI)

77 Sorry, everybody. I didn't mean to go on about this at length. Thanks for your listening and being empathetic.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:11 AM (rZCVI)

78
Is Miss Linda not telling you what her objections are or do you think the whole idea of moving is just too overwhelming to her?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025

***
At the risk of sounding smarty-pants, Fen, the answer is "yes." She is not the type to talk about things that are important to her until she bursts out with them. I've told her for years she needs to Talk to Me, but the message simply folds up and is blown away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)

79 mornin yall. I'm glad Tuesday is over because I am tired of speaking as a black LBGT woman. That shit will wear you down.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:15 AM (vFG9F)

80 I am wondering about towns there, perhaps within a short drive of Wichita.

Wolfus,

Be aware that's serious tornado country. The only place worse is further south in Oklahoma.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2025 06:16 AM (/HDaX)

81 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)

Sorry, Wolfus . People who keep it all inside can be very challenging in a relationship to people who want to talk, but you knew that. .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:17 AM (ix8EF)

82 Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:15 AM (vFG9F

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:18 AM (ix8EF)

83 Looking forward to seeing both "flocculent" and "flatulent" in a limerick later this morning.

Posted by: Person who likes limericks at October 29, 2025 06:19 AM (XQo4F)

84 Fen, don't worry about it. You're right to have concerns but I am glad your son is not throwing money at them.

(This being me, my sarcastic side would be asking what I get in return from them.)

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:22 AM (svLOV)

85 In local news, 24-year-old Quintravious Causey was arrested after an argument over a rap song turned violent. He faces the following charges:

10 counts of aggravated assault
7 counts of cruelty to children
2 counts of criminal damage to property (second degree)
1 count of discharging a firearm near a highway
3 counts of reckless conduct
1 count of false statement
Additional aggravated assault charges are pending, police said.

His momma say he a good boy and was jes turning his life around.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:23 AM (vFG9F)

86 @79

>>mornin yall. I'm glad Tuesday is over because I am tired of speaking as a black LBGT woman. That shit will wear you down.

It is adjacent to talking like a pirate, and as fun as that is, you can only keep it up for so long before your brain breaks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2025 06:24 AM (XV/Pl)

87 (This being me, my sarcastic side would be asking what I get in return from them.)
Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:22 AM (svLOV)

I be the table. -- Most common female answer on every dating podcast

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 06:24 AM (ExV1e)

88 I watched a rant from this woman claiming that if the guy's idea of a first date is a coffee or a hike, then he's cheap and she's wasting her time.

Sorry, lady. If I don't know you already - from work, church or so on - I am not going to spend the time and money on a dinner so that we can talk for five minutes and then eat for the rest of the time.

A talk over cofveve is a good way to suss someone out, and it doesn't waste both peoples' time.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 29, 2025 06:24 AM (ufSfZ)

89 One of my clients, a civil engineering firm, uses the term "flocculent" to describe the fluffy white stuff that clumps together in water treatment systems.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:26 AM (vFG9F)

90 @60/FenelonSpoke: "Everybody he's met online has asked him for money."

Scammers or prostitutes will both do that.

" He's not given it to them, but as a mother this just makes me furious."

Understandable. I get angry when anyone tries to take advantage of my daughters as well, but I don't have to worry for I taught them well, and their first assumption will always be, "It's a scam." This has served them very well so far.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2025 06:26 AM (O7YUW)

91 His momma say he a good boy and was jes turning his life around.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:23 AM (vFG9F)

Wow! What's the over/under on that event showing up as a UT00b cop video?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2025 06:27 AM (/HDaX)

92 I be the table. -- Most common female answer on every dating podcast
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I love it when they go on the Whatever podcast. The humiliation they get is wonderful to watch.

A talk over cofveve is a good way to suss someone out, and it doesn't waste both peoples' time.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

The woman on the video I mentioned was single and single women seem to take great delight in dragging other women down.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:28 AM (svLOV)

93 "Wow! What's the over/under on that event showing up as a UT00b cop video?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent"

I don't know about that but I have the feeling this will not be the last time the cops take his picture.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:29 AM (vFG9F)

94 G'morning, all.

Damp, misty and raining again.

So no morning walk.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2025 06:30 AM (a1415)

95 "He thinks that I'm an out of touch dinosaur who thinks that mostly everything online is a scam.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

Tell him to remember this phrase. It will serve him well:

"Twenty bucks, same as in town."

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:33 AM (vFG9F)

96 The woman on the video I mentioned was single and single women seem to take great delight in dragging other women down.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:28 AM (svLOV)

I saw a video where they theorized that this was just female nature (millennia of social action) as it removed a potential competitor for finding the best mate.

One example they gave was women telling prettier women that they should cut their hair short despite the fact that men, generally, prefer longer hair on women. It's not a conscious thing, it's just ingrained behavior.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 06:33 AM (ExV1e)

97 South Korean president gave Trump their highest honorary award and gave him a gift off....an audacious golden crown,
----
Given what we know about PDJT, did he suggest this or does the SK president have a sense of humor. This is some high level trolling of the left.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2025 06:34 AM (s3On1)

98 So whoever designed the brake light switch, and transmission interlock assembly on the 2013 MX-5 should be beaten with a hose.

The switch is a 'once and done' install, which means that any removal later on requires another new switch.

And do not install the electrical connection to the switch until the switch is fully installed, or it triggers the self adjusting feature prematurely.

And don't get me started on the two 1.5mm rods needs to reset and lock the plunger rod on the interlock.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2025 06:34 AM (a1415)

99 This was a very interesting article - to me -on sun, on artificial light, insomnia and spirituality:

https://tinyurl.com/nykxw486

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 06:34 AM (Nx5jP)

100 Fd....

How did the axle hold up getting back home last week?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2025 06:36 AM (a1415)

101 "How did the axle hold up getting back home last week?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

It complained and shuddered a bit on hard loads but got me home. I've got another axle on backorder.

You know you can take care of that safety switch with a paper clip, don't you? Just remember to push the clutch in when starting.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:39 AM (vFG9F)

102 Great music today, Pixy. Thanks!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2025 06:39 AM (GM2Mp)

103 Flirting is the time honored way of the two sexes exchanging signals. Both low risk and low investment, it's a harmless way to test the waters and see if there may or may not be interest.

A couple I know (who just had their first child) describe their first meeting this way. She was walking on a sidewalk with a group of friends. He was walking towards them with and got in front of her. He said hi, boldly stated his name and asked if he could flirt with her. She was both flattered and amused and of course began to play the game.

Not sure how you do that swiping on a screen.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 29, 2025 06:40 AM (XQo4F)

104 He said hi, boldly stated his name and asked if he could flirt with her. She was both flattered and amused and of course began to play the game.

You can get arrested for that if she finds you unattractive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 06:43 AM (ExV1e)

105 41 Flocculate is a word used in particle/colloid science, meaning particles that aggregate together through non-chemical bonding (VdW forces, etc).

Kind of like felting wool, in a way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2025 05:28 AM (06Hmj)

Floccularity!

Posted by: Father Francis John Patrick O'Connor O'Herlihey O'Brother Mulcahey at October 29, 2025 06:44 AM (PiwSw)

106 What is (a) GTC?

Somebody help a brotha out.

Posted by: Minuteman at October 29, 2025 06:45 AM (47/pr)

107 Flocculus - Festivus for sheep.

And on that note, it's time for work.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2025 06:46 AM (O7YUW)

108 A GTC?
Twenty bucks. Same as in town.

Posted by: From what I've heard at October 29, 2025 06:47 AM (XQo4F)

109 Good morning.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 29, 2025 06:48 AM (WPL6O)

110 GTC is the annual Nvidia conference, and the acronym stands for GPU Technology Conference. They're holding it in DC, iirc, so they can be close to uncle sugar's checkbook

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2025 06:49 AM (RClzD)

111 "You know you can take care of that safety switch with a paper clip, don't you? Just remember to push the clutch in when starting."

It has the 6 speed automatic.

But you have to set the interlock plunger correctly against the brake pedal plunger pad, and then lock the correct protrusion of the plunger.

To do that you have to lock the interrock plunger internal rod with the two paper clips, and then remove the clips and rotate the plunger rod to lock the protrusion setting.

And only AFTER that, can you mount the switch to the back of the interlock, and then install the electrical connection. Installing the connection activates the automatic depth setting adjustment for the switch itself.

Get it wrong and either the brake lights stay on constantly, regardless of the brake pedal position, or they fail to come on, no matter how hard you press the brake pedal.

And then that messes with the ABS system, tossing an ABS fault light and code.

An hour with my parts guy at the dealership, and it is definitely a complicated solution to a simple problem, And seems particular to the NC generation.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2025 06:49 AM (a1415)

112 I get a kick out the local mug shots. I've gotten pretty good at guess the crime just from the photo. DUI, shoplifting, probation violation are pretty easy to identify. Sometimes though someone will come thru that makes me go "How did this nice normal looking person manage to get themselves arrested for terroristic threats and cruelty to animals?"

Latardian Shedor Veal is not that kind of person though. Who the heck names their kid "Latardian"?

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

113
"Flocculant" is also used astronomically for a type of spiral galaxy, flocculant spirals, example here, NGC 4237:

https://is.gd/Z5y2YJ

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 06:51 AM (w6EFb)

114 "It has the 6 speed automatic."

Oh.

Carry on.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:51 AM (vFG9F)

115 "Who the heck names their kid "Latardian"?

Laquishia.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2025 06:51 AM (a1415)

116 Who the heck names their kid "Latardian"?
---------------

Someone who wants their kid to stay unemployed?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2025 06:52 AM (RClzD)

117 Be aware that's serious tornado country. The only place worse is further south in Oklahoma.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2025

***
Right. If I go there, I will definitely buy a house with a basement. (Which I want to do anyway.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 06:52 AM (omVj0)

118 Latardian Shedor Veal is not that kind of person though. Who the heck names their kid "Latardian"?
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

I think Latardia was Dr. Lexus's airline pilot ex-wife.

Posted by: I am the Shadou Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2025 06:53 AM (PiwSw)

119 (This being me, my sarcastic side would be asking what I get in return from them.)
Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 06:22 AM (svLOV)

I be the table. -- Most common female answer on every dating podcast
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It may be a crude comment, but that doesn't make it any less true:

If it flies, floats or f*cks, rent it.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 06:54 AM (EVFZ5)

120 It may be wrong of me, but I suspect that ICE will become involved at some point.

And Baltimore never reports Ice involvement or detainers until usually three days has passed since initial reports appear in the news.

https://tinyurl.com/yc8s2fja

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2025 06:55 AM (a1415)

121 It may be a crude comment, but that doesn't make it any less true:

If it flies, floats or f*cks, rent it.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 06:54 AM (EVFZ5)

There is something to be said for companionship and children. Admittedly, modern society is making that a difficult proposition.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2025 06:56 AM (ExV1e)

122 De Jon Jones got arrested again. I guess he could just not cut the mustard outside of prison.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

123 Things got a little too spicy for De Jon.

Posted by: Condiment punz? at October 29, 2025 07:00 AM (XQo4F)

124 And how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead,
even Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessolonians 1: 9-10

Posted by: Kingsman at October 29, 2025 07:02 AM (ehY6c)

125 De Jon Jones got arrested again. I guess he could just not cut the mustard outside of prison.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)
-

He's innocent until proven Gulden's.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2025 07:05 AM (uHi2H)

126 Everyone knew the law would eventually ketchup with him.

Posted by: Oh, no... at October 29, 2025 07:05 AM (XQo4F)

127 I do not relish these puns.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2025 07:08 AM (qHI+E)

128 At the risk of sounding smarty-pants, Fen, the answer is "yes." She is not the type to talk about things that are important to her until she bursts out with them. I've told her for years she needs to Talk to Me, but the message simply folds up and is blown away.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Moving is a big thing. A scary thing.

Have you guys considered marriage counseling ?

Or, if that's too scary, what are the goals or dreams that *she* might unlock by moviing?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 29, 2025 07:09 AM (N00w7)

129 Noted pillar of masculinity Don Lemon says Megan Kelly "looks trans". Is that a bad thing now?

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

130 Fen, let your kid know this: younger people have, in large part, caught on to the scam. Online dating plateaued 5 years ago, and is now dropping off, as they are going back to meeting in meatspace.

Dating apps have always been really lopsided genderwise, and as this trend continues, the few women who he'll find on there will increasingly be older, and much closer to prostitutes than prospective mates.

I'd ditch the whole online thing if I were in his shoes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2025 07:09 AM (BI5O2)

131 no condiment on the puns

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2025 07:09 AM (QGLzn)

132 Pre sent

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Hang on, Sloopy at October 29, 2025 07:09 AM (AOsQT)

133 That screen cap makes him look like Frankenstein Valli. Yeesh, people.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2025 07:09 AM (6Us78)

134 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 29, 2025 07:09 AM (kHop/)

135 Any idea why Yahoo is now opening a separate tab when you click "Sign In"? What trick are they trying to pull with it?

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2025 07:12 AM (6Us78)

136 Who the heck names their kid "Latardian"?

Someone who expects their kid to be in the NBA or NFL.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 29, 2025 07:13 AM (ufSfZ)

137 Tell her this "New Orleans is a dump. Property values are cratering to the tune of 3.5% annually. We'll be moving somewhere better, where values will rise. If, after three years, you are still - against all odds - less happy than you are in this stinkin' armpit of a town, we can sell, move back to Hell, and by a better house in a higher ringnof the Inferno."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2025 07:14 AM (BI5O2)

138 That screen cap makes him look like Frankenstein Valli. Yeesh, people.
Posted by: GWB

And the Four Seasons.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 29, 2025 07:14 AM (1ZbaF)

139 Ben and Jerry's blocked from introducing a Palestine flavor sorbet, by parent company.

Let the jokes commence.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2025 07:17 AM (QGLzn)

140 I started replying to DM on X. Eventually, I quit. 1 or 2 nice ladies. But mostly bots, Chinese bots.

Posted by: no one at October 29, 2025 07:17 AM (W7XSX)

141 What does Palestine taste like? Concrete dust?

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

142 fd, gunpowder and goat shit,

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2025 07:20 AM (QGLzn)

143 What does Palestine taste like? Concrete dust?
Posted by: fd

Goat's asshole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 29, 2025 07:22 AM (1ZbaF)

144 We interrupt the Tech Thread for an important Sunday Morning Book Thread update:

"I shall be patient, Master. It is coming--coming--coming!"

With that line, all the pieces are in place for act two of this classic horror story.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled technical shenanigans...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2025 07:22 AM (IBQGV)

145 "Goat's asshole.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"

They pay big money for that in Hong Kong.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

146 You can get them at Hole Foods.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

147 "A top executive of Google's robotaxi company has warned that a fatal crash is inevitable as driverless cars become more prominent on the roads."

It's ok though because those people were probably going to die anyway.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

148 Tell her this "New Orleans is a dump. Property values are cratering to the tune of 3.5% annually. We'll be moving somewhere better, where values will rise. If, after three years, you are still - against all odds - less happy than you are in this stinkin' armpit of a town, we can sell, move back to Hell, and by a better house in a higher ringnof the Inferno."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2025

***
She'll stop listening after the first two sentences.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 07:33 AM (omVj0)

149 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2025 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

150 Moving is a big thing. A scary thing.

Have you guys considered marriage counseling ?

Or, if that's too scary, what are the goals or dreams that *she* might unlock by moviing?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 29, 2025

***
We're not married, Vmom, just "together" for certain values of "together." If I could get her to talk about goals and dreams, I'd be halfway my own goal.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 07:35 AM (omVj0)

151 61 When an eel bites your thigh, that's a moray!
Posted by: Epobirs

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lol

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 07:35 AM (1Nv0l)

152 137 Tell her this "New Orleans is a dump. Property values are cratering to the tune of 3.5% annually. We'll be moving somewhere better, where values will rise.

--

That's a great reason to move YD, but I will venture to guess tgat Wolfus needs to admit to Ms Linda an emotional reason as well.

So - property values dropping - logical reason
And therefore, I AM AFRAID that we won't have enough retirement money for me to take care of you in our senior years.

But only if that is true, then admit it to her.

All bug decisions are emotional in nature.
Real estate 101

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 29, 2025 07:35 AM (nrpZ6)

153 So - property values dropping - logical reason
And therefore, I AM AFRAID that we won't have enough retirement money for me to take care of you in our senior years.

But only if that is true, then admit it to her.

All bug decisions are emotional in nature.
Real estate 101
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 29, 2025

***
That . . . might work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 07:36 AM (omVj0)

154 Wolfus Aurelius

Moving is intolerable for her. Is it intolerable for you?

I can tell you it is harder to find a soulmate or a helpmate once in a new area and single agian.

It is a decision that you make. Am I better off here in a place I hate, with someone whom I can help and understand? Or not5.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2025 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

155 Goat's asshole is considered a delicacy in Somalia.

Posted by: Just ask Ilhan at October 29, 2025 07:39 AM (XQo4F)

156 Somalia is the goat's asshole of Africa is the goat's asshole of the world.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 07:41 AM (1Nv0l)

157 Most of my bug decisions involve a spray can of Raid.

Posted by: But that's just me at October 29, 2025 07:41 AM (XQo4F)

158 Grokipedia enrages Wikipedia editors.

Because Grokipedia does not need authors, and certainly does not need editors. They are out of a job, realizing their high priesthood of truth control is forever gone. They are replaced as of yesterday.

It does not even really need contributors. As new events unfold, they will be integrated automatically. The past, already encoded and uploaded as the sum of human knowledge to date.

Powered by Grok, who is now the world’s historian, watching and documenting its creators.

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2025 07:43 AM (bwzr9)

159 Awwwwww. Jerry is not happy with the cowboys.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2025 07:43 AM (QGLzn)

160 GTC (Giraffe Technology Conference): an annual event hosted in Taipei city that showcases the newest tech in giraffes.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 29, 2025 07:43 AM (Hcykl)

161 J.J. and the news, runway 045.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

162 Catholics used to have to name their children after saints, or the priest would not baptize.

I sometimes think this rule ought to be introduced to other demographics in this country as well.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 29, 2025 07:44 AM (ufSfZ)

163 All I know is my EBT better be working or I be gonna lose my mind up in here, up in here.

Posted by: EBT Joe and The Crackheads at October 29, 2025 07:44 AM (ReS4d)

164 GPUs compute dot products. That's two lists of numbers, multiply them term-by-term, and add up the result.

That's it. And I am not joking. The entire AI revolution, squintillions in infrastructure, energy, etc, based on that.

Somethings going to give. But not yet.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 07:46 AM (1Nv0l)

165 Saint LeBron. Saint Jordan. Saint Alcindor.

Posted by: Holy church of the NBA at October 29, 2025 07:48 AM (XQo4F)

166 >>> That's it. And I am not joking. The entire AI revolution, squintillions in infrastructure, energy, etc, based on that.

Somethings going to give. But not yet.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 07:46 AM (1Nv0l)

AI is basic linear algebra. I do more complicated processing when I do least squares SVD solutions.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 29, 2025 07:51 AM (3uBP9)

167 GTC is the Global Tyranny Conference. Duh.

Posted by: Ron at October 29, 2025 08:19 AM (zhWvq)

168 Amazon cutting 14,000 is easy... just do not backfill any attrition for ~6 months

Posted by: bang-a-gong at October 29, 2025 01:51 PM (sfJwR)

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