Daily Tech News 9 July 2025

Top Story

Yesterday I noted that Twitter was taking steps to make its AI chatbot, Grok, "less politically correct".

It looks instead of making it 5% more Hitler, they dialed it up to 500%. (Tech Crunch)

For a few hours it sounded like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and the Ayatollah Khamenei, or a moderate Democrat.

Twitter has been cleaning up the mess and Grok is back to normal now, which for a chatbot means remarkably useless and only not dangerous because nobody trusts it for anything.

Tech News

What is AGI? (Ars Technica)

Well, it stands for "artificial general intelligence", but what it means depends on what the speaker needs it to mean. None of the big AI companies are focused on true intelligence, but rather on whatever gimmick will keep investor dollars flowing.
According to one definition reportedly agreed upon by Microsoft and OpenAI, the answer lies in economics: When AI generates $100 billion in profits. This arbitrary profit-based benchmark for AGI perfectly captures the definitional chaos plaguing the AI industry.
IBM's new Power11 systems offer up to 256 cores, 2048 threads, and a lot of memory. (Serve the Home)

Don't ask how much.
The New York Times told the truth for once and The Verge is frothing mad. (The Verge) (archive site)

I think the CDC needs to intervene at Verge HQ.
Can an email travel more than 500 miles in 2025? (Flak)

Mostly, yes. Not always, but mostly.

Educational Interlude

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Thingy.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 04:30 AM (roqsI)

2 G'Day everyone and good night

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2025 04:31 AM (mSVFR)

3 Good morning all y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at July 09, 2025 04:33 AM (NC/it)

4 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 09, 2025 04:45 AM (XQo4F)

5 Father and sons sing old time gospel tune, "I'd rather have Jesus" in front of stunning Alaska wilderness. If you have an interest you can skip down through the description right to the music:

https://tinyurl.com/ywepauke

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 04:46 AM (2GCMq)

6 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 04:48 AM (a1415)

7 75.2/74.9@99%RH

Birdbath is cleaned and refilled.

Got a little over 1/10 inch of rain yesterday.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 04:51 AM (a1415)

8 "Panic in a cave" . Man talks about being lost in a cave and makes an analogy to how we can treat the Holy Spirit. Devotional is followed by insight and prayer. Scripture is 1st Thessalonians 5:16-24:

https://tinyurl.com/3w94emet

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 04:52 AM (2GCMq)

9 A tale of two nitwits and a Trump sign. No Old Bay, so it's not really a Baltimore story.

This one is a head scratcher.

https://tinyurl.com/y8reu38a

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 04:55 AM (a1415)

10 Baby hare survives after farmer performs emergency c-section on its mother:

https://tinyurl.com/4x52u3xa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 04:56 AM (2GCMq)

11 I loved this bit from Verge: "Typically, when the source of a story is a hacked document, it is best practice to identify what goals the hacker may have in passing the document along."

Yeah, because we know how scrupulous you clowns are about 'hacked' documents that purport to expose dirt on Trump.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 09, 2025 04:58 AM (Dg2sF)

12 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 66 and cloudy here at Stately Poppins Manor. It should start to rain in about an hour, but then stop around 8 and remain cloudy and in the low 70s for the rest of the day. My garden needs the rain and I need the cooler temperatures.

Baby hare survives after farmer performs emergency c-section on its mother

I have a rabbit warren underneath my shed. Occasionally I can see one hopping around the yard as I make my morning tea. My dogs wouldn't hurt them, but they would chase and frighten them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 09, 2025 05:02 AM (Dg2sF)

13 Good morning!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 09, 2025 05:04 AM (3Ope8)

14 Dog befriends orphaned baby lamb:

https://tinyurl.com/68kbaxw2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 05:08 AM (2GCMq)

15 That blonde model at 1.17 in the Kraftwerk video reminds me of Florence Marly in 1966s Queen of Blood.

And now back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 09, 2025 05:09 AM (Dg2sF)

16 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 09, 2025 05:19 AM (AN2gy)

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2025 05:25 AM (AOsQT)

18 Time to get ready for the morning walk.

And after that, I need to change out a failed lower motor mount and two axle bolts on the Volvo wagon.

So.....

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 05:28 AM (a1415)

19 Sir, please do not mime in front of the children.

Posted by: fluffy at July 09, 2025 05:29 AM (AN2gy)

20 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers and tech devotees of all stripes!

Kraftwerk . . . weren't they around in the Eighties? Something about the tonality of the music in the vid says "Eighties dance clubs." Or am I thinking of something/someone else?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 05:30 AM (omVj0)

21 Up today to work out (maybe) and to cross the river to have the Buick's oil changed. Maybe some other errands while I'm out there in the 'burbs. There's only 4500 miles on the oil, but six months (Jan. and July) is a good mark for me to remember.

My sleep got interrupted last night by a ceiling leak in my living room. Miraculously, it occurred *right over* the bucket I had sitting there after the *last* ceiling leak. Two blisters that look like boobs have developed in the ceiling near my dinette table. The leak has stopped for now. I'll have to call the "maintenance" (ha!) people at nine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 05:32 AM (omVj0)

22 Morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 09, 2025 05:32 AM (NR6c1)

23 It's a dizzyingly-low 77 F. outside now, high expected about 90, chances of afternoon showers all this week. This is more the summer pattern I grew up with rather than the 97/85 and little rain we've been seeing for years. Dunno how long this will hold, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 05:39 AM (omVj0)

24 "Radioactivity. It's in the air for you and me."

I had that album (Radioactivity) as a kid. The later remake of the song Radioactivity made it less ambiguous.

Both links go to YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4ctuvn for the original version.

https://tinyurl.com/nbydpfu5 for the later version.

I still like the song "Antenna" from the original album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlcSwBsyks

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 09, 2025 05:43 AM (zNwjn)

25 Most really weird West German shit dates from the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, they were ready to roll over and spread their legs for the Soviets.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 09, 2025 05:50 AM (zNwjn)

26 OK a big story today is going to be 'FBI to investigate Comey and Brennan'.

I just want to get the first 'nothing will happen' of the day.

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2025 05:52 AM (AOsQT)

27 OK a big story today is going to be 'FBI to investigate Comey and Brennan'.

I just want to get the first 'nothing will happen' of the day.
Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2025 05:52 AM (AOsQT)

I second the motion.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 09, 2025 05:56 AM (Dg2sF)

28
Turned the Hitler knob on Grok up to eleven, did they?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 09, 2025 05:59 AM (xG4kz)

29 Turned the Hitler knob on Grok up to eleven, did they?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

(TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 09, 2025 05:59 AM (xG4kz)
-

Grok's staff must've had a ball!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 06:01 AM (roqsI)

30 Pop up storms this morning, so......

I'm baaaacck.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 06:02 AM (a1415)

31 @26

>>OK a big story today is going to be 'FBI to investigate Comey and Brennan'.

I got a G that says the same crack team the reviewed the Epstein material is going to lead this "investigation."

If the donks were smart, they would go hammer and tongs on the Epstein Saga and we can sit back and watch the surreal as the Trump administration gets bogged in a coverup of the Epstein case which they promised to get to the bottom of.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 06:02 AM (XV/Pl)

32 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at July 09, 2025 06:04 AM (XQo4F)

33 From a friend.
Even Chinese people have problems with their own products.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4n7wn8l58o

Posted by: NR Pax at July 09, 2025 06:05 AM (NR6c1)

34 A caller on a Baltimore radio show brought up a good point.

With Democrats irresistible reflexive desire to hit Trump over the head with every perceived wrong or mistake made by him...

Why is the Democratic party so absolutely silent in this whole Epstein thing?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 06:06 AM (a1415)

35 The New Mexico town that is being reported as having flash floods is Ruidoso, in the SE part of the state.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 06:07 AM (omVj0)

36 NWS says it's gonna be hot AF here today
near a hunnert
I'm well supplied and will be hiding inside

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2025 06:08 AM (AOsQT)

37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgUVL5v1aAc

The Rageaholic talks about Joe McCarthy.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 09, 2025 06:09 AM (zNwjn)

38 >Why is the Democratic party so absolutely silent in this whole Epstein thing?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
---

OOH OOH
because their names are in there too

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2025 06:10 AM (AOsQT)

39 "OOH OOH
because their names are in there too"

That is the answer that all the smart money would be riding on, not the 'Oops, there really never was a client list after all' answer that we are being fed.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 06:13 AM (a1415)

40 Back in the day when it got really hot the "news" we used to watch would advise elderly folks without A/C to go to the mall.
Nowadays I guess they tell them to go to Amazon.
Or Temu.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 09, 2025 06:15 AM (XQo4F)

41 Why is the Democratic party so absolutely silent in this whole Epstein thing?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 06:06 AM (a1415)
-

Not absolute:

https://tinyurl.com/y3kvpd6x

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 06:15 AM (roqsI)

42 Trump is flooding New Mexico now?

Posted by: Case at July 09, 2025 06:19 AM (BXeMA)

43 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 06:21 AM (dKEEs)

44 mornin yall. There is a wild horse and burro sale at the fairgrounds this weekend. You can get a horse or wild ass for only $25, same as in town.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 06:22 AM (vFG9F)

45 BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi says the missing minute from Epstein’s cell video is normal, and that a minute is missing from the footage every night.

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2025 06:24 AM (AOsQT)

46 BREAKING: President Trump GOES OFF on reporter for asking about Jeffrey Epstein, Pam Bondi says the child p*rn Epstein files can NOT be released, ever.

TRUMP: "Are you still talking about - Jeffrey EPSTEIN? ... We have Texas, this, all of the things...are people still talking about this creep? That is UNBELIEVABLE! I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein."

Trump ask Pam Bondi if she still wants to answer...she says yes: "You go ahead."

PAM BONDI: "The FILE [was ready to review]...that's what I meant."

"To the 10s of thousands of video, they turned out to be child p*rn...never gonna be released."

"He committed suic*de."

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2025 06:26 AM (AOsQT)

47 Still waiting on that tour of Ft Knox

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2025 06:27 AM (AOsQT)

48 "Attorney General Pam Bondi says the missing minute from Epstein’s cell video is normal, and that a minute is missing from the footage every night."

That must be when they change the VCR tape.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 06:27 AM (vFG9F)

49 @45

>>BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi says the missing minute from Epstein’s cell video is normal, and that a minute is missing from the footage every night.

I really can't believe the administration is going to allow itself to be caught up in a coverup of the Epstein case, but here it is, they are going to get caught up in a coverup of the Epstein Case.

Unbelievable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 06:28 AM (XV/Pl)

50 I'd like to continue this press conference, but I'm due at the Fox News green room in ten minutes.

Posted by: Pam Blondie at July 09, 2025 06:30 AM (XQo4F)

51 @48

>> That must be when they change the VCR tape.

How absurd, how insulting, how infuriating.

Bondi has got to go and at this point, Kash and Bongino have proven themselves to be light weights and they have to go to.

F**king a**holes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 06:30 AM (XV/Pl)

52 "There was a minute that was off the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is every night they redo that video... every night should have the same minute missing.'

Yeah, sure. I reset my security DVRs ever night too.

They spend millions of dollars on these camera systems and they have to be reset every day?

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 06:31 AM (vFG9F)

53 Good morning, everyone.

Could Ciampino's name be placed in the "Absent Friends" column on the left of the main page? Please?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 09, 2025 06:32 AM (O7YUW)

54 Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 06:30 AM (XV/Pl)

Perhaps you can write to Donald Trump and express your concerns because he's a very busy man and probably isn't reading ASHQ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 06:32 AM (2GCMq)

55 I'm going in with my eyes wide open.

Posted by: Cashinin Patel at July 09, 2025 06:32 AM (XQo4F)

56 I always wait until 8:58 PM to reset the DVR for the living room TV. Mrs fd loves that.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

57 That way she only misses a minute of her show. Sure, it's the last minute but why be picky.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)

58 "Camp Mystic’s disaster plan OK’d by state inspectors 2 days before deadly Texas floods"

Those inspectors must be Experts.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)

59 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 09, 2025 06:41 AM (uGaBv)

60 "Camp Mystic’s disaster plan OK’d by state inspectors 2 days before deadly Texas floods"

See..more evidence that Trump's budget cuts caused this terrible loss of life!!!!

/S

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 06:42 AM (a1415)

61 "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

--Eric Arthur Blair

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 06:43 AM (PiwSw)

62
Turned the Hitler knob on Grok up to eleven, did they?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 09, 2025 05:59 AM (xG4kz)

You see? Any deviation from hard-left thinking makes you 500% Hitler. This shows the need for even more rigid ideological policies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 06:44 AM (eF+Ge)

63 That way she only misses a minute of her show. Sure, it's the last minute but why be picky.
Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025

***
The minute when they reveal who the murderer is? Yeah, who needs that, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 06:44 AM (omVj0)

64 Did anyone die in the Ruidoso floods?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 06:45 AM (omVj0)

65 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 06:46 AM (DNyHT)

66 I checked the BBC -- possibly a better source than our media, on this anyway. A father and two children have been reported as being swept away by the flood in Ruidoso, NM. No deaths reported yet, but these three people are listed as missing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 06:46 AM (omVj0)

67 ""The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

I thought it was the G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 09, 2025 06:47 AM (a1415)

68 rickb223, Good morning to you. Did you get rain yesterday?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 06:47 AM (HFcKg)

69 Did anyone die in the Ruidoso floods?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

3 as of 21 minutes ago.

3 deaths confirmed after flash floods strike Ruidoso

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 06:48 AM (DNyHT)

70 Good morning, everyone.

Could Ciampino's name be placed in the "Absent Friends" column on the left of the main page? Please?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

And Vic?

Posted by: Dandalo at July 09, 2025 06:49 AM (3QsZU)

71 >> That must be when they change the VCR tape.

How absurd, how insulting, how infuriating.

Bondi has got to go and at this point, Kash and Bongino have proven themselves to be light weights and they have to go to.

F**king a**holes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 06:30 AM (XV/Pl)

I agree, it is an insulting excuse. And, at this point, saying, "ok, if that's such a common practice, show us other videos with the same minute missing," isn't a response, because we know that anything can be faked.

What can be on the tapes / list / whatever that is so damaging? It must be more than child pRon or even prominent Repubs caught screwing pre-teens.

All I can think of at the moment is that there are people named who are too close to Trump and / or high levels of his administration for the public ever to know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 09, 2025 06:49 AM (Dg2sF)

72 @14/FenelonSpoke: "Dog befriends orphaned baby lamb"

Thanks for posting that Fen.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 09, 2025 06:50 AM (O7YUW)

73 - The video

That is not even Epstein's cell door that is being shown.
Benny Johnson has 2 recent vids up on utube.
The shorter one hammers them for insulting our intelligence.
The latter one, over 3hrs that I've gotten about halfway through, shows the layout of the place. After his interview of Viva Frei gets interrupted by tech difficulties and before Fitton interview which I haven't seen.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 09, 2025 06:50 AM (5/wly)

74 rickb223, Good morning to you. Did you get rain yesterday?
Posted by: Ben Had

Yes ma'am. Kind of. Wife reported the bottom fell out at home. I drove home from work and caught two raindrops on the windshield. But yeah, the are got a bunch of rain. You?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 06:50 AM (DNyHT)

75 But Grok is more trustworthy than the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 09, 2025 06:50 AM (/YxX2)

76 “On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

John 7:37-38

Posted by: Marcus T at July 09, 2025 06:51 AM (Gll9O)

77 rickb223, rain went around me, thankfully.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 06:53 AM (HFcKg)

78 - I should have added, for those who don't know who Benny is, big Trump supporter.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 09, 2025 06:53 AM (5/wly)

79 Will Pixy-misa be watching Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQM3UWBgD0

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 09, 2025 06:55 AM (/YxX2)

80 Good morning Ben Had. I can get a wild horse this weekend for only $25. Should I get a pair?

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

81 Let us assume, for a moment, that Epstein was a "lone wolf" human trafficker. That he supplied the rich and powerful with young, and very young, people to have sex with or kill as their depravity demanded. Now let us assume, for a moment, that he was using tapes of these activities to blackmail the rich and famous.

He would have been killed decades ago.

Now, let us assume, for a moment, that he did all the things previously mentioned - other than the blackmail part. Either there are no tapes implicating anyone of anything, in which case there is no criminal case to be made or the tapes were handed off, probably to the globalist intelligence apparatus for it's use. The same people who start wars and topple governments.

So, on the one hand, there is no evidence of criminal activity unless victims come forward to testify - several years after the fact... remember, Virginia Giuffre's accusation against Prince Andrew contained no illegal actions whatsoever, or the evidence is held by people willing to kill millions to get what they want.

Feel free to go back to your daily bitching on the subject.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 06:56 AM (ExV1e)

82
Day 3 without home internet. We're limping along on a secondary system from Her Majesty's RV. Pretty annoying.

And the exterminator is scheduled to come and, I hope, take care of the ground wasp nest.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 06:57 AM (eF+Ge)

83 Twitter has been cleaning up the mess and Grok is back to normal now, which for a chatbot means remarkably useless and only not dangerous because nobody trusts it for anything.

-----------------

I don't trust any AI, all programmed to lie. I don't even trust just Google search results and haven't for a while.

The more sophisticated they become the worse they will get. After all, the very word sophisticated has its root in sophistry which means to lie.

Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 07:01 AM (unUNN)

84 fd, just like a boat, the cheapest thing is buying them ! There used to be an event where you bought a wild horse, had 90 days to train it and then show it.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 07:01 AM (HFcKg)

85 So, on the one hand, there is no evidence of criminal activity unless victims come forward to testify - several years after the fact... remember, Virginia Giuffre's accusation against Prince Andrew contained no illegal actions whatsoever, or the evidence is held by people willing to kill millions to get what they want.

Feel free to go back to your daily bitching on the subject.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Everyone says Maxwell trafficked girls to Epstein.
For what? Housekeeping duties on the island?

Then they say "no, for sex".

To whom? You have to have an accused for a crime. Right now, with no "john", you have half a crime, which is no crime.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 07:03 AM (DNyHT)

86 There's a disconnect and seething anger on conservative social media on this Epstein issue. Trump would be wrong to try to forcefully brush it away, though not sure what else he can do. I can feel his frustration. Maybe it will dissipate over time. But it's real.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 09, 2025 07:03 AM (WHfpM)

87 Good morning, stellar citizens of then most exceptional nation on the planet. As always, may all effort from you result in maximal benefit to you, with the concurrent grief for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 09, 2025 07:04 AM (hKoQL)

88 "There used to be an event where you bought a wild horse, had 90 days to train it and then show it."

That would be interesting to see.

I really would have no idea what to do with two wild horses. We have enough trouble with cats.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

89 fd, if you had a coyote problem on your new land a pair of donkeys would be a good investment. Good fencing needed.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 07:06 AM (HFcKg)

90
A pair of donkeys?

Like Karen Bass & Gavin Newscum?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 07:09 AM (Wb42Q)

91 To get real info from the internet we will have to go back to Boolean searches. Results were very accurate as you told it what you wanted and what you didn't want. Then we got lazy when Google did a lot of it before it went evil depending on what the programmers thought you should or should not know.

Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 07:10 AM (unUNN)

92
How would a pair of donkeys remedy a coyote problem?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 07:10 AM (Wb42Q)

93 fd, ftworthmustangshow.com

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 07:11 AM (HFcKg)

94 Somebody should ask Pam Bondi who, exactly, is in the videos of child porn?

Because I assume all the children are teenage girls.

Who are the adults in the videos?

She should be able to give descriptions or even name the adults if they are identifiable.

There’s no harm in that other than to those identified.

I get there are legal implications for doing so but this isn’t going to go away like they hoped.

All of the secrecy surrounding the Epstein case has spawned so many conspiracy theories, even from Patel & Bongino themselves, that this thing won’t go away.

It’s almost reached the JFK/RFK Assassinations, Clinton Murders, Area 51 & Aliens level of American conspiracy theories.

That can’t be stopped with a single letter and a wave of the hand.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)

95 How would a pair of donkeys remedy a coyote problem?
Posted by: Soothsayer

They are VERY vicious guard animals.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 09, 2025 07:11 AM (NR6c1)

96 Soothsayer, donkeys will kill a coyote in their pasture.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 07:11 AM (HFcKg)

97 I really would have no idea what to do with two wild horses.

They can't drag you away.

Posted by: Mick Jagger at July 09, 2025 07:12 AM (Dg2sF)

98
So we're clear, a donkey isn't a mule, but is also a burro?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 07:12 AM (Wb42Q)

99
Also, a zebra is just a striped mule, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 07:12 AM (Wb42Q)

100 " if you had a coyote problem on your new land a pair of donkeys would be a good investment. "

I'm not sure Bruno would approve, but I will keep that in mind.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 07:13 AM (vFG9F)

101 >>> How would a pair of donkeys remedy a coyote problem?

Donkeys hate coyotes and are very protective of sheep.

Posted by: fluffy at July 09, 2025 07:13 AM (AN2gy)

102
Why don't people ride zebras, or, at least use them as pack mules, since they're mules*?

*fact not established, but I'm running with it

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 07:13 AM (Wb42Q)

103 @82/Hadrian: "Day 3 without home internet."

My last outage with my current ISP lasted 3 days as well. Unlike previous outages though where they happily credited me for any day I was affected, this time they claimed they'd only credit me the one day in the middle, because they don't offer credit for any day where you aren't down for the full 24 hours. (The connection went out at 06:30 on day 1, and came back at 16:45 on day three, effectively scuppering three full "normal working hours" days.)

That's bad policy because it breeds resentment. I haven't forgotten it, and I won't. It's mentally filed as "Strike 1".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 09, 2025 07:15 AM (O7YUW)

104 A zebra would just as soon kick you to death as look at you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 07:15 AM (HFcKg)

105 Why don't people ride zebras, or, at least use them as pack mules, since they're mules*?

*fact not established, but I'm running with it
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 07:13 AM (Wb42Q)

Zebras are really mean from what I understand.

You don’t see any African bushmen riding them for a reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 07:17 AM (6ydKt)

106 Id like to see some vids of donkeys kicking coyotes over the fence.. sounds amusing

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 09, 2025 07:18 AM (/6GbT)

107 How would a pair of donkeys remedy a coyote problem?
Posted by: Soothsayer

They'll stomp tf out of them. Only problem? Donkeys don't differentiate between coyote, livestock guardian dogs and the family pet. They'll kill them all.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 07:19 AM (DNyHT)

108 @83/Decaf: "After all, the very word sophisticated has its root in sophistry which means to lie."

THANK YOU! The modern mis-use of this word to imply someone is intelligent, wise, and one to be respected really annoys me.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 09, 2025 07:19 AM (O7YUW)

109

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 09, 2025 07:21 AM (5hfjS)

110 Why don't people ride zebras, or, at least use them as pack mules, since they're mules*?

*fact not established, but I'm running with it
Posted by: Soothsayer

Zebras are not domesticateable. That's why Africans haven't "domesticated" them and use them as pack animals.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 07:21 AM (DNyHT)

111 When we were raising a lot of foals there was always a donkey in the pasture with them.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 07:22 AM (HFcKg)

112 Die fun of the Autobahn

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 09, 2025 07:22 AM (BW+Gb)

113 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 09, 2025 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

114 ; )

Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 07:23 AM (aURVT)

115 >> It looks instead of making it 5% more Hitler, they dialed it up to 500%.

Math!

Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 07:24 AM (aURVT)

116 NaCly, dearest. Good morning

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 07:24 AM (HFcKg)

117 So to be “sophisticated” means somebody who has been lied to by an urbane, cynical, manipulative, liar so many times they become an urbane, cynical, manipulative, liar themselves.

That checks out, as I’ve never been too impressed by “sophisticated” people.

I always thought it was a synonym for “mendacious fake”.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 07:25 AM (6ydKt)

118 500% Hitler is best Hitler.

In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes, but not 500% Hitler. So don't get your hopes up.

Posted by: Breakfast of Champions at July 09, 2025 07:27 AM (dNmvQ)

119 Today at work we are having hot dogs to celebrate Joey Chestnut's return to competitive eating.

Thankfully we are not expected to eat as much as he does.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 09, 2025 07:27 AM (NR6c1)

120
500% Hitler: "Wow! These Democrats really hate the Jews. Maybe they better tone it down a bit."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 07:28 AM (eF+Ge)

121 Day 3 without home internet. We're limping along on a secondary system from Her Majesty's RV. Pretty annoying.

Why can't you use your mobile phone as a hot spot?

The main reason I got a company phone was for that purpose. For years I have kept a high data plan for outages.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 09, 2025 07:28 AM (a4flb)

122 Today would have been my 20th wedding anniversary. Alas.

Playing the music we were married to:

Walking on Air, from The Snowman. In the video, it was sung by Peter Auty. But we had a harpist play it.

Debussy - Clair de Lune.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 09, 2025 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

123 Everyone says Maxwell trafficked girls to Epstein.
For what? Housekeeping duties on the island?

Then they say "no, for sex".

To whom? You have to have an accused for a crime. Right now, with no "john", you have half a crime, which is no crime.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 07:03 AM (DNyHT)

Nothing is going to come of it. Nothing. No government on the planet is agitating for justice. You're getting yourself worked up over an issue which will never - NEVER - be resolved to your satisfaction. The rich and powerful do not pay for their misdeeds in this world. Same as it ever was. Feel free to stew in unhappiness over the issue.

I just ask that the Complaint Brigade pick a different topic on alternate days.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

124 That can’t be stopped with a single letter and a wave of the hand.

Even Trump is trying to bury this faster than a cat in a litter box.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 09, 2025 07:29 AM (a4flb)

125 I am currently deciding what dog I should adopt, and I went to Grok to generate a list of names to consider, and it did provide some good suggestions. So it is not 100% useless, just 99.8%.

Posted by: SteveF at July 09, 2025 07:30 AM (iM6iw)

126 Bondi’s big mistake was believing, like the majority of conservatives, that Epstein had a list of people he was blackmailing over their visits to his island and that the previous administration had framed it and put it in a box. And that he had videos he had made secretly and had all those in a safe and the intelligence agency had them in that same box . And when she was confirmed,she ran to the microphones and teased that all would be released. Until she found that none of that was true. Maybe the previous administration destroyed them or maybe they never existed. Bondi cannot make that mistake again. But I agree with Trump, time to move on.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 09, 2025 07:30 AM (dy1+u)

127 Today at work we are having hot dogs to celebrate Joey Chestnut's return to competitive eating.

Thankfully we are not expected to eat as much as he does.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 09, 2025 07:27 AM (NR6c1)
----
On the radio the other day, the morning show hosts were talking about Joey Chestnut's accomplishments. One of the hosts claimed Joey is the greatest athlete of all time because NO ONE will ever be able to match his overall achievements in competitive eating.

At a hot dog eating contest, everyone else is competing for second place because they know Joey will win hands down. Second place might be 20 hot dogs behind Joey.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 07:30 AM (7fElN)

128 There's a disconnect and seething anger on conservative social media on this Epstein issue. Trump would be wrong to try to forcefully brush it away, though not sure what else he can do. I can feel his frustration. Maybe it will dissipate over time. But it's real.

Trump managed to get himself into the 20†

† When playing the populist 80/20 game of isolating your political enemies.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 09, 2025 07:32 AM (a4flb)

129 Nood
J.J and da News.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 09, 2025 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

130 nood, but with ... issues

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 07:34 AM (dKEEs)

131 I am currently deciding what dog I should adopt, and I went to Grok to generate a list of names to consider, and it did provide some good suggestions. So it is not 100% useless, just 99.8%.
Posted by: SteveF

Stick with one syllable names. When you are chasing him down the street, it's much easier to scream "Sam" or "Max" than it is trying to yell "Bartholomew Maxwell Rumpleking the Fifth!"

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 07:34 AM (DNyHT)

132 Answers with Joe - didn't make it past "Do better."
No, Joe, you do better. GFY.

Posted by: GWB at July 09, 2025 07:46 AM (MLI8A)

133 Pixy missed an opportunity here with the Disclaimer. "I would walk 500 miles (to deliver an email) but I would not walk 500 more."

I'm aware that's probably lost on most of the horde, but Pixy will get it.

Posted by: Peter Ream at July 09, 2025 08:05 AM (BCXbW)

134 It [Epstein] is, as said above, what it is.

One has to wonder who are the assets that DJT cannot abide being removed from the board. I can make stories up in my head about CJ-SCOTUS, or key Senate votes. I can speculate about Representatives announcing retirements, although I think they are mostly small potatoes.

Then there is the potential blow-back on [Mossad], if they had a hand in running Epstein. Is this due to not tossing current Israel power until Iran has been put to bed?

The other set of stories I can make up has to do with who knows that DJT knows, and is starting to get into line. Was this essential in passing the BBB?

I don't expect any answers to these questions.

Posted by: Old Toby at July 09, 2025 08:06 AM (dRfXw)

135 Like Tech Crunch has any credibility and I should trust their assessments.

Posted by: Dan at July 09, 2025 08:43 AM (zhWvq)

136 Likewise for Arse Technica and their Hive (of villainy) Mind™ commenters.

Posted by: Dan at July 09, 2025 08:44 AM (zhWvq)

137 The Verge has been frothing since its inception.

Posted by: Dan at July 09, 2025 08:45 AM (zhWvq)

138 How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right

I don't know what she's smoking, but I wish she'd share.

Posted by: Socratease at July 09, 2025 10:31 AM (YgfoU)

Processing 0.02, elapsed 0.0282 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.009 seconds, 147 records returned.
Page size 81 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.