Daily Tech News 23 September 2025

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Nvidia is planning to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. (Tom's Hardware)

So that OpenAI can spend the money on 10 gigawatts worth of Nvidia hardware.

It's not a bubble.

It's a Ponzi scheme with extra steps.*

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A Twitch streamer (I know) who was raising money for his cancer treatments with blockchain donations (I know) lost everything he had raised in minutes after installing a Steam game called BlockBlasters recommended to him in a chat message (I know). (Decrypt.co)

Most of this is legitimate. Streamer "RastalandTV" does have stage 4 cancer, has been raising funds through blockchain donations, and BlockBlasters was compromised at the end of August and has stolen at least $150,000 in crypto funds from victims. It has since been pulled from Steam.

Happy ending time: Crypto bro Alex Becker - I hope he'll forgive me for calling him that - not only stepped in to cover the loss, but stepped in twice because the first donation he made was also lost.

Not so happy ending time: Blockchains.
Mathematicians who have spent 150 years working on a simple way to categorise the complexity of knots have come to a stunning conclusion: We have no idea. (Quanta)

None whatsoever:
But from another perspective, that only makes the unknotting number more intriguing. "There's just much more complexity and unknowns about knot theory than we knew there were a few months ago," Livingston said.
You might even say it's a knotty problem.

What's more, we don't know why we don't know what we don't know. We just know we don't know it:
"I'm still stymied by this most basic question" about the unknotting number, Moore said. "That just lights the fire under you."
Have you checked the answers at the end of the book?
Have you already scratched your hugely expensive iPhone 17 Pro Max. Yes. Yes you have. (The Verge)

Meanwhile my $120 Moto G14 is in pristine condition.

Musical Interlude

* Disclaimer: Nothing in this post is to be taken as fact, or for that matter rumour or even hotly contested opinion, in this or any other reality. Read at own risk. All rights reserved nonetheless. Cargo not needed during voyage.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:42 AM

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1 The original Monday night ONT gets nuked, the Tuesday morning Tech News is late...

Hey, this entire week is a "First World" problems thread!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 23, 2025 04:43 AM (O7YUW)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 04:43 AM (aURVT)

3 Uhoh, Pixy summoned the Italicans.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 23, 2025 04:43 AM (O7YUW)

4 IT'S THE ITALICANS!

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2025 04:44 AM (+qU29)

6 hahahahahaha hordemind

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

7 Turning Point is coming here Wednesday. Megyn Kelley and the Governor.

Italics.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 23, 2025 04:44 AM (C3WRC)

8 Thank you, Pixy. We don't take you for granted. We really don't.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 04:45 AM (aURVT)

9 https://tinyurl.com/2pay392f
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack

It's good stuff

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2025 04:46 AM (+qU29)

10 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at September 23, 2025 04:47 AM (QHFMR)

11 A phone without using a case is reckless.

Posted by: Accomack at September 23, 2025 04:47 AM (Bbhox)

12

Good morning, good people, from the Chillarondacks. Finally, seasonal temps, though it may surprise everyone and go batshit with the temps.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 23, 2025 04:51 AM (vFbHf)

13 Morning, all. 58 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It's supposed to be another clear day. I'm very tired, but with about 3 hours of work ahead of me, I'm sure to be awake in about an hour.

No writing done this weekend, and what little I tried went straight into the garbage can.

Speaking of knots: if you like early 20-th century mystery stories, pick up The Old Man in the Corner by the Baroness Orczy (author of The Scarlet Pimpernel). It's about a woman reporter who interacts with an armchair detective who solves crimes while fiddling with a piece of string as he sits in a London tea shop. It's at Amazon for short money.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 23, 2025 04:52 AM (ufSfZ)

14 And so to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 23, 2025 04:54 AM (ufSfZ)

15 Have you already scratched your hugely expensive iPhone 17 Pro Max. Yes. Yes you have. (The Verge)

Apple already has a solution for this problem.

iPhone 17 Pro/Max and iPhone Air cases for only $49 (Silicon or Plastic) or $59 (Techwoven).

See?
They think ahead and stuff.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2025 04:56 AM (6ydKt)

16 also:

https://archive.org/details/thdoldmanincorne00orcz

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 04:59 AM (aURVT)

17 On some of these phones the phone outlasts the case. The prices are similar as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 23, 2025 05:00 AM (C3WRC)

18 Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

The video has some lovely footage.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 05:05 AM (aURVT)

19 wikipedia

Two different music videos were made to promote the single. The first version of the video, directed by Derek Jarman, is a collection of home movies with the majority of the archive footage consisting of a stage show with swimmers and fountains, and other World War II-era material. Apparently, the footage is courtesy of the director's father, who was one of the first people to use a colour home movie camera. The toddler in the home movie footage is the director himself as a child.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 05:08 AM (aURVT)

20 If there is a brand of phone you like you should stick with it. Learning other phones is a pain in the ass, especially Motorolla.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 23, 2025 05:08 AM (C3WRC)

21 Thanks for coming through with the tech news, Pixy.

"It's a Ponzi scheme with extra steps."

I keep waiting for this thing to collapse spectacularly along with the subsequent headlines of "We never saw this coming!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 23, 2025 05:09 AM (O7YUW)

22 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers both! I'm awake, as I feared I'd be, in a hotel room in Birmingham, AL. with nearly two hours to go until the hotel opens up their breakfast. At least I have coffee. I could go downstairs and use the treadmill in their gym, or get into traveling clothes and go outside to smoke my pipe. Decisions!

No cats either. This is not right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 23, 2025 05:10 AM (5VPj1)

23
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 23, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

24 Speaking of knots: if you like early 20-th century mystery stories, pick up The Old Man in the Corner by the Baroness Orczy (author of The Scarlet Pimpernel). It's about a woman reporter who interacts with an armchair detective who solves crimes while fiddling with a piece of string as he sits in a London tea shop. It's at Amazon for short money.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 23, 2025

***
Good morning, MP4. I've read one or two of those, I think. They come from the same period as Chesterton's Father Brown stories, Jacques Futrelle's "The Problem of Cell 13," Post's Uncle Abner short stories, and Bentley's novel Trent's Last Case.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 23, 2025 05:14 AM (5VPj1)

25 @Wolfus: Search for nearby Waffle Houses.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 23, 2025 05:14 AM (O7YUW)

26 There are enough grounds in the bottom of my coffee cup for a lawsuit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 23, 2025 05:15 AM (5VPj1)

27 Wolfus: Search for nearby Waffle Houses.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 23, 2025

***
Oh, I had breakfast and lunch at two of them yesterday, and will probably do lunch with them again on the way to IN.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 23, 2025 05:16 AM (5VPj1)

28 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2025 05:18 AM (sAmhv)

29 26 There are enough grounds in the bottom of my coffee cup for a lawsuit.

the spoon: NO standing.

Posted by: clarence at September 23, 2025 05:22 AM (QHFMR)

30 Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland are in a movie on TCM. I should be able to think of the title, but I can't. Wasn't he married to her for a time?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 23, 2025 05:28 AM (5VPj1)

31 >>Have you already scratched your hugely expensive iPhone 17 Pro Max. Yes. Yes you have.

That's what cases are for. Also, why is anyone buying a new iPhone, if you simply get a refurbbed or renewed previous gen phone you can save bookoo bucks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 23, 2025 05:29 AM (XV/Pl)

32 I have that Wang Chung cd. Somewhere. I should try to find it. It probably doesn't hold up very well, but I might like it still. It was a product of its time.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2025 05:34 AM (sAmhv)

33
Mathematicians who have spent 150 years working on a simple way to categorise the complexity of knots have come to a stunning conclusion: We have no idea.

It's absolutely Gordian in scope.

Join forces with the string theory dullards and, together, you'll really ball things up.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 05:34 AM (xG4kz)

34 Things aren't falling apart. Things are falling into place.

Burma Shave

Posted by: Kingsman at September 23, 2025 05:35 AM (ehY6c)

35 Or Just by an old $50 refurbed Samsung like me. Monthly plan = Phone cost.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 23, 2025 05:36 AM (C3WRC)

36 Mathematicians who have spent 150 years working on a simple way to categorise the complexity of knots have come to a stunning conclusion: We have no idea.
*
It's absolutely Gordian in scope.

Join forces with the string theory dullards and, together, you'll really ball things up.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025

***
I have a much simpler solution. . . .

Posted by: Alexander the Great at September 23, 2025 05:36 AM (5VPj1)

37 Gordian slip knot?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 23, 2025 05:37 AM (C3WRC)

38
Everybody Wang Chung tonight!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 05:38 AM (xG4kz)

39 Second cup of coffee. They only give us two packets of leaded; if I want a third I must go decaf. "Death Before Decaf" only applies when you have an alternative.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 23, 2025 05:39 AM (5VPj1)

40 How do they limit your coffee?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 23, 2025 05:41 AM (C3WRC)

41
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 23, 2025 05:41 AM (tgvbd)

42 Morning one and all.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 23, 2025 05:44 AM (jjoN6)

43 The soundtrack for 'To Live and Die in LA' was basically Wang Chung.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2025 05:44 AM (sAmhv)

44
I keep waiting for this thing to collapse spectacularly along with the subsequent headlines of "We never saw this coming!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

They had it coming, they had it coming
They only had themselves to blame
If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it
I betcha you would have snorted at their shame

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 05:48 AM (xG4kz)

45 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 23, 2025 05:50 AM (AN2gy)

46 Stranger runs into burning building. Saves bedridden woman:

https://tinyurl.com/47ar29zk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2025 05:51 AM (7RYym)

47 Morning Horde, thx Pixy.
Fun doings last night
1. Kamala went on Maddow last night and as usual made no sense whatsoever.
2. Leftist jihadist Wajahat Ali called gay Bulwark simp and Never Trumper Tim Miller a "white supremacist" on X. Why can't they both lose?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2025 05:54 AM (lmTGO)

48
Wang Chung members' fake "playing" of their violin was as egregiously insulting as Chevy Chase blowing on a horn for "You Can Call Me Al"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 05:54 AM (xG4kz)

49 Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland are in a movie on TCM. I should be able to think of the title, but I can't. Wasn't he married to her for a time?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 23, 2025 05:28 AM (5VPj1)

It might be 1967s The Bobo, and yes, he was married to her.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 23, 2025 05:55 AM (ufSfZ)

50 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415)

51 1. Kamala went on Maddow last night and as usual made no sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2025 05:54 AM (lmTGO)

RM: Why oh why did you say "xyz"?
KH: THAT'S . NOT . WHAT . I . SAID.
RM: Whew! Yay. Then ... what *did* you say?
KH: "xyz"

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 05:57 AM (aURVT)

52
Kamala went on Maddow last night and as usual made no sense whatsoever

Was "... best run campaign, ever!" voiced at least once?

Red Kammie should put together an act featuring magic rings -- "Red Kammie 'Splains Venn Diagrams For You"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 05:58 AM (xG4kz)

53 No walk this morning, as I have other stuff to attend to rather early this morning.

On the plus side, did Trump actually get the progressive left to espouse the position that hate is wrong, and forgiveness is the correct position in one's life?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 05:59 AM (a1415)

54 video:

Breaking911
@Breaking911
7h
BREAKING: Kamala Harris confirms Buttigieg wasn’t chosen as her running mate because he’s gay

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:01 AM (aURVT)

55 2. Leftist jihadist Wajahat Ali called gay Bulwark simp and Never Trumper Tim Miller a "white supremacist" on X. Why can't they both lose?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

They just need to get a room. Get it out of there system.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2025 06:02 AM (sAmhv)

56 I just went over to Ars Technica and read one of the pro Jimmy Kimmel articles. Wow, these people live in a different world.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 23, 2025 06:03 AM (O7YUW)

57
I awaiting a ballsy reporter who will ask Red Kammie to explain what is diagrammed by the Venn Diagram on the Olympic flag .

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 06:04 AM (xG4kz)

58 Scriptures when dealing with stress:

https://tinyurl.com/26xudfuz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2025 06:05 AM (lQ+/f)

59 "BREAKING: Kamala Harris confirms Buttigieg wasn’t chosen as her running mate because he’s gay"

Typically a Presidential candidate will look for a running mate with strengths to shore up the weakness in the presidential candidates abilities.

Unfortunately, Pete shares the same core strengths and weaknesses that kami does.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:05 AM (a1415)

60 I do really want them to hang Tyler from the neck until dead

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2025 06:05 AM (rL1Tw)

61 The left needs Jimmy Kimmel as a distraction. One of their own assassinated Charlie Kirk and then they publicly celebrated it. Jimmy Kimmel is a squirrel. Nobody was watching his show. He's just useful at the moment.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 23, 2025 06:06 AM (sAmhv)

62
BREAKING: Kamala Harris confirms Buttigieg wasn’t chosen as her running mate because he’s gay
Posted by: m

Well, that and his uncontrollable lactating when on stage.

"Why is his shirt wet ... ewwwwwwwww!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 06:07 AM (xG4kz)

63 51 1. Kamala went on Maddow last night and as usual made no sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2025 05:54 AM (lmTGO)

RM: Why oh why did you say "xyz"?
KH: THAT'S . NOT . WHAT . I . SAID.
RM: Whew! Yay. Then ... what *did* you say?
KH: "xyz"
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 05:57 AM (aURVT)

(I interpolated "RM: Whew! Yay. Then ... what *did* you say?" from RM twiddling with her pen and giving KH room to "elaborate.")

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:08 AM (aURVT)

64 Breaking911
@Breaking911
7h
BREAKING: Kamala Harris confirms Buttigieg wasn’t chosen as her running mate because he’s gay
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:01 AM (aURVT)

https://youtu.be/ooOELrGMn14?t=11

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 23, 2025 06:08 AM (ExV1e)

65 I look forward to the time when a young child looks their father in the eye, and asks that question.

Daddy....who was Jimmy Kimmel?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)

66
BREAKING: Kamala Harris confirms Buttigieg wasn’t chosen as her running mate because he’s gay
Posted by: m

So then, with all his Prancing Pedo Pride, she opted for Li'l Timpon

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 06:11 AM (xG4kz)

67 64 Breaking911
@Breaking911
7h
BREAKING: Kamala Harris confirms Buttigieg wasn’t chosen as her running mate because he’s gay
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:01 AM (aURVT)

https://youtu.be/ooOELrGMn14?t=11
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 23, 2025 06:08 AM (ExV1e)

YIKES

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:11 AM (aURVT)

68 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 23, 2025 05:10 AM (5VPj1)

That's not very far. Was it the plan?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 23, 2025 06:12 AM (uQesX)

69
He's Kimmy Jimmel, and he cries real tears!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 06:13 AM (xG4kz)

70 Daddy....who was Jimmy Kimmel?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)

"Jimmy Kimmel was the 48th President of the United States, elected in a totally free and fair election, after the Democrat Party collectively decided he was the best, least insane choice of all the candidates they could run."

Posted by: The People's Almanac, 2028 at September 23, 2025 06:13 AM (PiwSw)

71 66
Breaking911
@Breaking911
7h
BREAKING: Kamala Harris confirms Buttigieg wasn’t chosen as her running mate because he’s gay
Posted by: m

So then, with all his Prancing Pedo Pride, she opted for Li'l Timpon
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 06:11 AM (xG4kz)

from the Breaking911 comments:

Tesla Tone
@Tonygeee94
6h
Replying to @Breaking911
Is she trying to tell us Tim Walz is straight? 💀

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:14 AM (aURVT)

72 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Please return your books to the full upright reading position.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 23, 2025 06:16 AM (WvZaB)

73 "Replying to @Breaking911
Is she trying to tell us Tim Walz is straight? 💀"

Damn it, Tim!

It's 'a tiny sip of penis'

Not ' a sip of tiny penis'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:17 AM (a1415)

74 72 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 23, 2025 06:16 AM (WvZaB)

I am doing this now.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:17 AM (aURVT)

75 also from the Breaking911 comments:

Jamodwa the Woke
@Jamodwa
6h
Replying to @Breaking911
In other words. I was already on a downward spiral. Having a gay man as my running mate I might as well wear cement blocks.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:18 AM (aURVT)

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

Last week at this time, I'd be busy getting ready to go to work.

Today, I am already AT work since I work from home now (mostly).

So I can sleep in, relatively speaking.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2025 06:21 AM (IBQGV)

77 The dopey thing about what Kamala said about Buttgiggle is that she wrote she didn't think Americans would vote for a gay guy. Republicans , except for a few never Trumpers , were voting for Trump. It would be the Dems who wouldn't vote for him therefore. The polls showed that it was African Americans who wouldn't vote for a gay guy,but she couldn't admit that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2025 06:24 AM (lmTGO)

78 G'mornin' everyone!

besides their outstanding breakfasts, Waffle House makes a hella BLT

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 23, 2025 06:24 AM (ppG5b)

79 Perfessor, the kitties are gonna love the new arrangement.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:25 AM (kurEY)

80 Honest question for the lot of you: Do you think that if she had chosen Shapiro as her running mate, would she have had a better chance?

Posted by: NR Pax at September 23, 2025 06:25 AM (jjoN6)

81
Sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian patiently trying to correct duplicate performer situations with one of my playlists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 23, 2025 06:26 AM (tgvbd)

82 (I interpolated "RM: Whew! Yay. Then ... what *did* you say?" from RM twiddling with her pen and giving KH room to "elaborate.")
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:08 AM (aURVT)

And if there’s one thing Kamala is good at, it’s elaboratin’.

She’s a bonafide elaboratin’ fool.

A master elaborater, you might say.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2025 06:27 AM (6ydKt)

83 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 23, 2025 06:27 AM (XQo4F)

84 NR Pax, not enough to win. She scared the hound out of the big time donors

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:27 AM (kurEY)

85 "Do you think that if she had chosen Shapiro as her running mate, would she have had a better chance?"

Probably would not have moved her into the 'Win' column.

But possible less stunning of a loss at the polls.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:28 AM (a1415)

86 Turning Point is coming here Wednesday. Megyn Kelley and the Governor.

Italics.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 23, 2025 04:44 AM (C3WRC)
---------

Do you live near Virginia Tech? I wish my daughter were still there and could see this.

Posted by: bluebell at September 23, 2025 06:28 AM (8KjPk)

87 besides their outstanding breakfasts, Waffle House makes a hella BLT
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 23, 2025 06:24 AM (ppG5b)

Their patty melts aren’t bad either.
That’s my go-to when I don’t feel like eating breakfast for lunch.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2025 06:29 AM (6ydKt)

88 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2025 06:21 AM (IBQGV)

May your new job go smoothly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2025 06:29 AM (ELdpA)

89 "Do you think that if she had chosen Shapiro as her running mate, would she have had a better chance?"

Probably would not have moved her into the 'Win' column.

But possible less stunning of a loss at the polls.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:28 AM (a1415)

It wasn't a Nixon-McGovern election. She wasn't that far off vote wise. Picking a more seasoned VP might have changed it. I don't see how anyone could think Walz was anything less than a twink. America doesn't like twinks.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 23, 2025 06:30 AM (uQesX)

90 @80 a slightly better chance. However there are enough Dems who wouldn't vote for a Jewish person to not make that much of a difference

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2025 06:31 AM (lmTGO)

91 Josh Shapiro and Pete Buttigieg respond to revelations in Kamala Harris’s book

https://www.theguardian.com/
us-news/2025/sep/19/
kamala-harris-107-days-book-shapiro-buttigieg

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:32 AM (aURVT)

92 Hey Pixy, I'm usually not up this early, but I always read and enjoy the Tech Thread later in the day. I wanted to pop in and say "Thanks" for what you do.

Posted by: Some Moron at September 23, 2025 06:32 AM (Yt3ED)

93 Perfessor, one of the perks of WAH is being able to commute in your Bunny Slippers.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 23, 2025 06:32 AM (PiwSw)

94 "The White House has banned Iranians in New York for the high-level United Nations General Assembly meetings from shopping at Costco or buying luxury goods without US approval."

Why is this even necessary? No Iranian should be allowed outside their hotel or the UN grounds. They have no right to wander around our country.

https://tinyurl.com/4sj8z6ub

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 23, 2025 06:33 AM (uQesX)

95 Superior wisdom. Devotional on Proverbs 2:1-11:

https://tinyurl.com/29rmyya5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2025 06:34 AM (ELdpA)

96 85 ... possible less stunning of a loss at the polls.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:28 AM (a1415)

But, but ... Rachel Maddow said that Kamala Harris was "very nearly elected President."

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:34 AM (aURVT)

97
KH 226 electoral votes
PDT 312 electoral votes

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:35 AM (aURVT)

98 Does her book say if she paid off the 20 million campaign debt?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:36 AM (kurEY)

99 Kamala couldn’t pick Shapiro.

He’s far too Zionist for the Anti-Zionist crowd.

At most she would have gotten a few more votes in NYC, and maybe pulled off a win in PA, and then would’ve still lost to Trump.

The problem wasn’t all Walz, he didn’t really help.
The top of the ticket is what cost Kamala the election.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2025 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

100 Does her book say if she paid off the 20 million campaign debt?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:36 AM (kurEY)

Ds never pay.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 23, 2025 06:37 AM (uQesX)

101 100

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:37 AM (aURVT)

102 101 100
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:37 AM (aURVT)
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So near, and yet so far.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 23, 2025 06:38 AM (WvZaB)

103 from The Guardian:

“If you can’t win Pennsylvania, it’s pretty darn hard to win the national election,” Shapiro continued.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:39 AM (aURVT)

104 100 Does her book say if she paid off the 20 million campaign debt?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:36 AM (kurEY)

Ds never pay.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 23, 2025 06:37 AM (uQesX)

My apologies.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 23, 2025 06:39 AM (uQesX)

105 m, that's all right. You still have a winning record.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:39 AM (kurEY)

106 off by one.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 23, 2025 06:39 AM (PiwSw)

107 102 101 100
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:37 AM (aURVT)
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So near, and yet so far.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 23, 2025 06:38 AM (WvZaB)

So sad, and yet so mockable!

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:40 AM (aURVT)

108 It’s all about timing.

Some days m has it, some days m doesn’t have it.
It all evens out in the end.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2025 06:40 AM (6ydKt)

109 Huh?

I thought Tim Walz is gay.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 23, 2025 06:41 AM (ZmEVT)

110 Greetings from the Carolinas. May God go with you.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 23, 2025 06:41 AM (fFFrU)

111 moar covfefe

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:41 AM (aURVT)

112 Perfessor, one of the perks of WAH is being able to commute in your Bunny Slippers.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 23, 2025 06:32 AM (PiwSw)
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Pants are also optional.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2025 06:41 AM (IBQGV)

113 Or was it a case of "I'll choose the one that's still in the closet?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 23, 2025 06:41 AM (ZmEVT)

114 Waltz is a pervert of several stripes.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:42 AM (kurEY)

115 Thank you, The Guardian, for reading and reporting this tripe:

In Harris’s account she writes that Shapiro, before she had interviewed him, had asked how many bedrooms were in the vice-president’s residence and if the Smithsonian would lend Pennsylvania art for display.

Harris writes that she “mused that he would want to be in the room for every decision” and told him that was “an unrealistic expectation” and “a vice-president is not a co-president.”

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:42 AM (aURVT)

116 The top of the ticket is what cost Kamala the election.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Absolutely. I just think that if he'd been chosen, she may have had more votes.

Just like if the Dems had put Bernie Sanders up, Trump would have lost or it would have been an even closer race.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 23, 2025 06:43 AM (jjoN6)

117
m, that's all right. You still have a winning record.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:39 AM (kurEY)

100 is the new First.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 23, 2025 06:43 AM (tgvbd)

118 hahahahaha The Guardian:

Harris also writes about her consideration of Pete Buttigieg, saying that he would have been “the ideal partner” as her running mate if he had been “a straight white man”.

“I had nagging concerns that, of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” Harris writes. Then adding a gay man to the ticket: “It was too big a risk.”

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:43 AM (aURVT)

119 "But, but ... Rachel Maddow said that Kamala Harris was "very nearly elected President."

In the same vein as 'Tim Walz is very nearly straight'?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:45 AM (a1415)

120 Harris writes that she “mused that he would want to be in the room for every decision” and told him that was “an unrealistic expectation” and “a vice-president is not a co-president.”
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:42 AM (aURVT)

So Kamala was not going to set Shapiro up for success?

You can’t say she didn’t learn anything from Joe,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2025 06:46 AM (6ydKt)

121 What Kumala left out was that Dougie already had the co-president slot tied up.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:47 AM (kurEY)

122 "Harris writes that she “mused that he would want to be in the room for every decision” and told him that was “an unrealistic expectation” and “a vice-president is not a co-president.”"

Didn't Kami also claim that she was in the room for every major decision that Biden made, and she was frequently the last person to leave the room?

So....aspirations of Co-President?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:48 AM (a1415)

123 Harris writes that she “mused that he would want to be in the room for every decision” and told him that was “an unrealistic expectation” and “a vice-president is not a co-president.”
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:42 AM (aURVT)

The Biden administration was run by a cabal of unelected bureaucrats. They didn't ask Harris because she's an idiot and they all knew it. Maybe Shapiro thought he could increase the IQ level of the decisions by being involved.

Not that it would matter if he was just going to go with the same blinkered Dem BS. Smarter idiotic is still idiotic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 23, 2025 06:48 AM (ExV1e)

124 Didn't Kami also claim that she was in the room for every major decision that Biden made, and she was frequently the last person to leave the room?

So....aspirations of Co-President?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:48 AM (a1415)

You have to remember, she's stupid. Someone wrote that for her to say. It was coherent.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 23, 2025 06:49 AM (uQesX)

125 119 "But, but ... Rachel Maddow said that Kamala Harris was "very nearly elected President."

In the same vein as 'Tim Walz is very nearly straight'?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 06:45 AM (a1415)

It was a direct quote, tho, from that RM clip:

"You know, you're the first woman elected Vice President, you're a black woman and a South Asian woman, elected to that high office, very nearly elected President...."

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:49 AM (aURVT)

126
KH: 71,816,262 votes (48.1%)
PDT: 75,112,005votes (50.3%)

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:52 AM (aURVT)

127 have a good day.

fin..

Posted by: clarence at September 23, 2025 06:53 AM (QHFMR)

128 m, well that was ALMOST, according to dem think.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:54 AM (kurEY)

129 128 m, well that was ALMOST, according to dem think.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:54 AM (kurEY)

MATH!!! aagghh

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:54 AM (aURVT)

130 Just like if the Dems had put Bernie Sanders up, Trump would have lost or it would have been an even closer race.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 23, 2025 06:43 AM (jjoN6)

I think Sanders would have gone down in flames like McGovern.

It’s one thing to get the 35% of the socialist Dems to vote for you in a primary, it’s an entirely different animal to get 51% of Americans in the general election.

Bernie has no appeal beyond college campuses, the Northeast, Northwest, and the coast of California.

Being an Anti-Zionist Zionist wouldn’t have helped him much, either. But watching him walk that tightrope would have been entertaining.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2025 06:55 AM (6ydKt)

131 "You know, you're the first woman elected Vice President"

Joe was "elected". Camela was just along for the ride.

morni n yall

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2025 06:56 AM (vFG9F)

132 fd, a very important distinction.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 06:57 AM (kurEY)

133
We have migrating hummingbirds visiting us. Schloss Hadrian is a popular watering hole for them, as we have profusions of bottlebrush, firebushes and flowers available, plus a running fountain. Yesterday I saw four of them flitting about. Sunday one of them ran into me as I was watering plants.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 23, 2025 06:58 AM (tgvbd)

134 I'm wondering who encouraged Kamala to publish this (surely ghostwritten) book and I'm thinking: Jill Biden?

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 06:59 AM (aURVT)

135 Hadrian, cheeky little buggers aren't they.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 07:00 AM (kurEY)

136 The Obamas are spending some time on Speilberg's yacht. Expect the DM to run some stunning photos as Moochelle bares her toned arms and Barak flexes his, uh, well, uh, nevermind.

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

137 Bernie has no appeal beyond college campuses, the Northeast, Northwest, and the coast of California.

The media would still have been pushing him on us as the Savior of this Great Nation while voting for Trump would usher in an era of darkness never seen before. And with most people back then eagerly believing everything Our Moral Betters™ in the media, it would have been a tougher fight.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 23, 2025 07:01 AM (jjoN6)

138 " I'm wondering who encouraged Kamala to publish this (surely ghostwritten) book and I'm thinking: Jill Biden?"

I could see her doing that, yes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 23, 2025 07:02 AM (a1415)

139 even NPR wants nothing to do with her book:

https://www.npr.org/
2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550250/
kamala-harris-book-107-days-highlights

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 07:02 AM (aURVT)

140 The 20 mill advance probably had more to do with it than anything.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 07:04 AM (kurEY)

141 from the NPR article:

She muses that Shapiro tried to call her to withdraw himself as a contender right before she named Walz because he knew he wouldn't be her choice.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 07:05 AM (aURVT)

142 That knot counter-example is crazy-simple. I can't believe it wasn't found sooner, without a giant computer search.

Makes me feel better. I thought I was bad at intuiting knots, but maybe we all are.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 23, 2025 07:05 AM (1Nv0l)

143 We saw a hummingbird in the wild the other day. Most of the time we see them fighting over the feeders, but this one was way out in the woods miles away from any human provided food source and seemed to be doing just fine.

Posted by: fd at September 23, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

144 The 20 mill ~~advance~~ money laundering probably had more to do with it than anything.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 07:04 AM (kurEY)
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Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2025 07:09 AM (IBQGV)

145 Perfessor, you're right. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 07:12 AM (kurEY)

146 And with most people back then eagerly believing everything Our Moral Betters™ in the media, it would have been a tougher fight.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 23, 2025 07:01 AM (jjoN6)

Bernie’s biggest appeal was his status as a semi-outsider. But being a Democrat only when it came to running for president never endeared him to the party itself. He has nothing besides his mouth to run with, and the establishment Dems would have trued to sabotage his campaign, just like the GOP tried with Trump.

Trump did a hostile takeover of the GOP that took almost a decade to complete, and he still has RINOS to deal with to this day.

Sanders has no such ambitions, nor the ability, to pull that off with the Democrats. He never had a chance anyhow, as 2016 & 2020 both showed Bernie would fold as soon as he got another vacation house out of the deal.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 23, 2025 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

147
I thought Tim Walz is gay.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

He has a bangin' daughter who prepared and consumed some bangin' SpongeBob Mac-n-Cheese as she was bangin' away about how disgusted she was because 'Murica rejected the most bangin' female candidate for President, ever!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 23, 2025 07:13 AM (xG4kz)

148 Ha! As only the 'stralians can do:

Kamala Harris set to receive ‘whopping’ $20m for book deal

20 Dec 2024 - Sky News Australia

https://tinyurl.com/yc2s8ca9

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)

149 Ha! As only the 'stralians can do:

Kamala Harris set to receive ‘whopping’ $20m for book deal

20 Dec 2024 - Sky News Australia

https://tinyurl.com/yc2s8ca9
Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)
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Actual sales will be lucky to bring in $20K.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 23, 2025 07:19 AM (IBQGV)

150 OpenAI: "We can no longer afford your chips"

Nvidia: "Go raise some more capital"

OpenAI: "There's none left. We already raised it all and spent it on your chips"

Nvidia: "Sh*t. Ok, we'll keep this party going a bit longer, but you're going to have to eat your own poop."

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 23, 2025 07:20 AM (1Nv0l)

151 What kind of an idiot would buy a book from Kamala Harris?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at September 23, 2025 07:22 AM (KaWiq)

152 What kind of an idiot would buy a book from Kamala Harris?
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at September 23, 2025 07:22 AM (KaWiq)

There's nearly 72 million to choose from.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 23, 2025 07:23 AM (uQesX)

153 Kamala should have picked me for VP, I have experience.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 23, 2025 07:24 AM (i0F8b)

154 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at September 23, 2025 07:25 AM (XQo4F)

155 107 Days, limited printing because the outhouses in Africa are still stocked from Mooch's book

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2025 07:25 AM (kurEY)

156 also from the NPR article:

Harris notes that throughout her run, she struggled to distance herself from Biden and his legacy — like when she told ABC's The View that she wouldn't have done anything different than Biden in their years in office.

???

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 07:27 AM (aURVT)

157 The remaining voters left in the Dem party are all true believers

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 23, 2025 07:28 AM (eZ5tL)

158 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 23, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

159 {{{vmom deport deport deport}}}

The remaining voters left in the Dem party are useful idiots that turn to useless mouths once the Inner Party is in charge. They are unteachable because it is a cult of faith beyond reason.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 23, 2025 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

160 vmom deport deport deport

Soon we may hear the wails "If only AOC knew!"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 23, 2025 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

161 - knots. Knots?

And I thought finally,,, pixy writing about something I know a little about.
Square knots, clove hitch, truckers knot,,, then of course there's your Palomar, Trilene and blood knots.

And then,,, I read a bit further..... nevermind.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 23, 2025 07:33 AM (eDPLA)

162
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 23, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

163 I socked the fictional character "Howard (I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore) Beale on the ONT last night thinking someone would get the reference to the 1976 movie "Network." And everything said in that sock was fake. Kimmel can live or die in tv-land.

Posted by: Rex B at September 23, 2025 07:34 AM (+xk6Q)

164 last line from NPR:

Her book tour, which kicks off Wednesday in New York, will include nearly 20 stops around the country, as well as London and Toronto.

_____

I doubt it!

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 07:39 AM (aURVT)

165 Will someone be paying people to attend Kamala's book tour like they paid people to attend her campaign rallies?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2025 07:42 AM (looXz)

166 "strengths and weaknesses"

Kamela and Buttplug are both useless cocksuckers, not much diversity there. Not that Sashaying Tim brought anything to the table.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 23, 2025 07:44 AM (QAfew)

167 Happy ending time: Crypto bro Alex Becker - I hope he'll forgive me for calling him that - not only stepped in to cover the loss, but stepped in twice because the first donation he made was also lost.

Bonus HQ content: independent security researchers on X broke the bad guy's life wide open and found out he's an Argentinian living in Miami. They have reported him to the ICE tip line.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 23, 2025 07:45 AM (wItF4)

168 Being old and set in my ways, when I - on release date - upgraded to the latest and greatest iPhone (the 17 Pro Max) from my old and tired one (the 13) I already had a wallet case (the Jaorty brand, but others exist - see Amazon) in my man purse to pop it into.

I must be prescient because I never even heard there could be a wear problem with the camera bevel edges on the 17 Pro's. Fortunately, my new case protects even that protrusion. Your case may vary.

Posted by: BobM at September 23, 2025 07:49 AM (85Wlp)

169 Have you already scratched your ____. Yes. Yes you have. (The Verge)

And we coulda had a big ol' fill-in-the-blank contest!

Posted by: m at September 23, 2025 08:43 AM (aURVT)

170 The Nvidia investment reminds me of story about Schlemiel and his wife, who lived in Chelm, the city of fools. It seems that one day, Schlemiel decided that he would make money by selling shots of brandy at the fair. So, he and his wife go to the fair with their bottle of brandy and a shot glass, and set up their stand. A customer comes by, buys a shot, and pays them a ruble. Schlemiel looks at the ruble, and decides that he'll spend it by buying a shot of brandy for himself. So he hands the ruble to his wife, and down a shot. His wife decides she wants some, too, so she hands the ruble to Schlemiel and downs a shot. And so it goes, the ruble being passed back and forth, until by the end of the day, Schlemiel and his wife have an empty bottle and one ruble between them. Likewise, Nvidia and ChatGPT will pass the money between them, but by the end of the day, they'll just have an empty bottle and a ruble.

Posted by: Nemo at September 23, 2025 05:11 PM (4RPgu)

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