Daily Tech News 26 October 2025

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Clippy in the server room with a portable blender: Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily imbue AI with personality. (AP News)

Mico is the new horrifying AI-driven mascot of Microsoft's inescapable AI-driven offense to reason, Copilot.

Mico is... A grape? A purple raspberry? I don't know exactly, but kill it with fire.
"When you talk about something sad, you can see Mico's face change. You can see it dance around and move as it gets excited with you," said Jacob Andreou, corporate vice president of product and growth for Microsoft AI, in an interview with The Associated Press. It's in this effort of really landing this AI companion that you can really feel."
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
Tech-savvy adopters of advanced AI coding tools may want it to "act much more like a machine because at the back end they know it's a machine," Reimer said. "But individuals who are not as trustful in a machine are going to be best supported - not replaced - by technology that feels a little more like a human."
"We glued artificial fur to our woodchipper so that you will feel comfortable as we feed you into it."

Tech News

The ones who walk away from AImelas. (MSN)

Could you live in a perfect utopia if it depended on one AI developer somewhere not getting his acai smoothie in the morning?

Wait, I don't think that analogy quite works. The original story didn't hold up well to second thoughts either, so maybe it metaworks.
A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI-equipped camera mistook a bag of Doritos for a firearm. (The Guardian)

Everything dumb is still dumb when you add AI, just faster.
The Great SaaS Gaslighting. (Unworkable Ideas)

There's a reason IBM rented its software from the early days, and it was not to save you money.
Why these companies insist on a 72 hour work week. (MSN)

Because you are expendable. You're barely even a consideration.
Electronic Arts is partnering with the company behind Stable Diffusion to make games with AI and not in the good way. (Engadget)

Computer games have been using AI for about as long as there have been computer games. Well, not the original Pong which also technically wasn't a computer game since it ran directly on TTL logic and didn't use any sort of processor. While I was looking into that I ran into this cool tidbit on the original Pong prototype:
A few days later, the prototype began exhibiting technical issues and Gaddis contacted Alcorn to fix it. Upon inspecting the machine, Alcorn discovered that the problem was due to the coin mechanism overflowing with quarters.
Nice problem to have.

Oh, anyway, AI has had a role in computer games for about 50 years, but EA aren't planning to use AI in the game. They're planning to use AI to create the game.
The glaring security risks with AI browser agents. (Tech Crunch)

So, AI browsers are the big new thing. You hand over your ID and your credit cards and they can find the best deal for you online, which is much the same idea as giving your wallet, car keys, and a bottle of Everclear to a nine-year-old with severe ADHD.

Or to put it differently, an 88 year old politician in the early stages of dementia.

Musical Interlude

Song is Habba Habba Zoot Zoot by Caramba. Anime is the classic El Hazard - the original OVA series, not the multifarious messes that followed after it.

Disclaimer: Habba habba mori mori.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 04:05 AM (+qU29)

2 guten morgen, ♠horde

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 04:06 AM (Z2R71)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2025 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

4 BOING!

Back to standard time here in Israel. Nice to have gained an hour overnight.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 04:13 AM (hoJz1)

5 Wait, I don't think that analogy quite works. The original story didn't hold up well to second thoughts either, so maybe it metaworks.

On another forum I frequent, there has been some discussion about Those Who Walk Away From Omelas. If you have second thoughts, you have not thought about it enough.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 04:14 AM (Z2R71)

6 I wish we could stop playing with the clocks

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 04:14 AM (+qU29)

7 w00t

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 26, 2025 04:15 AM (jFCkp)

9 After a moderate fisking of the saas model, the author adds a little snark:'This issue of the newsletter was written on a self hosted WordPress site on multiple devices with no monthly fees.'

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 04:19 AM (Z2R71)

10 Mornin'

"We glued artificial fur to our woodchipper so that you will feel comfortable as we feed you into it."

LoL!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 26, 2025 04:19 AM (jFCkp)

11 "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

I reread it pretty much every time it comes up in conversation and, in between times, I kinda forget the plot entirely.

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 04:20 AM (RuTUS)

12 the same idea as giving your wallet, car keys, and a bottle of Everclear to a nine-year-old with severe ADHD.

Or to put it differently, an 88 year old politician in the early stages of dementia.
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If I raised the 9 year old, I would bet on the kid before a whole bunch of old guys.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 04:22 AM (Z2R71)

13 5 On another forum I frequent, there has been some discussion about Those Who Walk Away From Omelas. If you have second thoughts, you have not thought about it enough.
Posted by: clarence

Yeah. It holds up about as well as a marshmallow Peep in a bath of piranha solution.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2025 04:23 AM (BLOW1)

14 Wikipedia on the Omelas community:

The vibrant festival atmosphere, however, seems to be an everyday characteristic of the blissful community, whose citizens, though limited in their technology and resources, are still intelligent, sophisticated, and cultured.

"limited in their technology"! aha there's the rub

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 04:26 AM (RuTUS)

15 They're planning to use AI to create the game.

In my gaming days, EA used to be pretty good, for a week or two, then and update or two later, it was utter crap. Usually stopped working. I had a WSB Superbike sim that was great, until it wasn't. Last EA game I bought. This was 15-20 years ago. I will assume time has made things worse.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 26, 2025 04:26 AM (jFCkp)

16 Everything is Habba habba zoot zoot until they throw you into a cauldron filled with boiling oil.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 04:29 AM (W7XSX)

17 Wikipedia on the Omelas community:
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An opportunity to discuss a serious topic and they gloss right over it like paste wax over shellac.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 04:34 AM (Z2R71)

18 RIP June Lockhart. She famously quipped, after being beaten up doing a scene in a boat on rough seas in "Lost In Space," (Irwin Allen was the Director) "who do I have to fuck to get off this show?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 04:36 AM (W7XSX)

19 17 Wikipedia on the Omelas community:
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An opportunity to discuss a serious topic and they gloss right over it like paste wax over shellac.
Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 04:34 AM (Z2R71)

Their discussion is more elaborate than the line I excerpted and includes references to some published criticisms of the work.

https://tinyurl.com/4hfrh52f

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 04:37 AM (RuTUS)

20 XX

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 26, 2025 04:41 AM (hoCmQ)

21 XXI

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 04:43 AM (RuTUS)

22 I like omelets

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 04:47 AM (+qU29)

23 Is clock sorcery afoot?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 04:47 AM (BBIP1)

24 Not here. Not until next weekend.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 04:49 AM (W7XSX)

25 23 Is clock sorcery afoot?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 04:47 AM (BBIP1)

On analog clocks, it's hands.

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 04:51 AM (RuTUS)

26 AI (MSN) Ecce, a pattern:

Several tech workers spoke on the condition of anonymity in part because being critical of AI could hurt their standing at work.

Michael, a 36-year-old software engineer in Chicago who spoke on the condition that he be identified only by his first name out of fear of professional repercussions ....

A 40- something government worker in California, who analyzes statistical data for a federal agency and spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of losing his job ....

Another federal worker, who handles sensitive intelligence and spoke on the condition of anonymity because he’s not authorized to speak publicly ....

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 05:08 AM (RuTUS)

27 The article is a book report. Even though the author acknowledges the philosophical nature of the story, there is no discussion of the implications. No primary, secondary or even tertiary principles are mentioned. The story itself is an exercise for the reader.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 05:11 AM (Z2R71)

28 27 The article is a book report. Even though the author acknowledges the philosophical nature of the story, there is no discussion of the implications. No primary, secondary or even tertiary principles are mentioned. The story itself is an exercise for the reader.
Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 05:11 AM (Z2R71)

Pretty much!

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 05:13 AM (RuTUS)

29 If you are a govt. worker and you are not authorized to speak publicly, unless it's an illegal activity and you are a whistleblower, here's an idea: Keep your mouth shut.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 05:14 AM (W7XSX)

30 About the workers afraid to speak out: do none of them consider that they are on the equivalent of the deck of the Titanic and that abandoning their jobs is probably the best way to avoid going down with the AI ship?

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 05:15 AM (Z2R71)

31 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2025 05:24 AM (a1415)

32 A nice warm 54 degrees out this morning.

No walk, as going to the early service today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2025 05:28 AM (a1415)

33 27 The article is a book report. Even though the author acknowledges the philosophical nature of the story, there is no discussion of the implications. No primary, secondary or even tertiary principles are mentioned. The story itself is an exercise for the reader.
Posted by: clarence

Just like The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2025 05:29 AM (BLOW1)

34 Good morning. Stay fluffy, cloudbeings.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at October 26, 2025 05:35 AM (lCMio)

35 Had to delay my MiL's return to B'More till yesterday evening.

Amtrak shows she is on time, and will get home in about 4 more hours.

But she had a good time watching the two cats while we were at the TxMoMe, and it gave her a sense of purpose beyond sitting in her home in B'More by herself, and simply existing.

This is the first time we had her do that, and I am delighted that it worked out well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2025 05:38 AM (a1415)

36 Omegas was required reading at USNA when I was stationed there.

Interesting story.

Can we enjoy true happiness for everyone knowing that suffering is being placed on one small child in our place?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2025 05:40 AM (a1415)

37 34 Good morning. Stay fluffy, cloudbeings.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at October 26, 2025 05:35 AM (lCMio)

Will do!

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 05:40 AM (RuTUS)

38 There seems to be a trend amongst college homecomings recently.

Lincoln University in Pa is the latest mass shooting, with another one elsewhere earlier this weekend

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2025 05:42 AM (a1415)

39 BBC: Two people have been arrested over the theft of jewels at the Louvre.

https://t.co/3TVEB2KL3G

No mention as to whether the crown jewels were recovered.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 05:44 AM (hoJz1)

40 39 BBC: Two people have been arrested over the theft of jewels at the Louvre.

https://t.co/3TVEB2KL3G

No mention as to whether the crown jewels were recovered.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 05:44 AM (hoJz1)

Wow! Super cool.

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 05:46 AM (RuTUS)

41 I would be for a guillotine result if found guilty
Would seem appropriate

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 05:48 AM (+qU29)

42 Are the cells made out of glass with no security cameras?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 05:51 AM (BBIP1)

43 Let me guess. A trans demon?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 05:51 AM (W7XSX)

44 The work that matters. 2nd Samuel 9:1-7. 14:

https://tinyurl.com/nhzsm4vx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 05:52 AM (looXz)

45 I'm laying bets that the acquisition (rental? theft? purchase?) of the mechanical ladder expanded the witness list enough to enable an i.d.

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 05:53 AM (RuTUS)

46 BBC and don't forget:

Werne-based firm Böcker this week published a social media post featuring the now-famous image of its furniture ladder extending up to a balcony outside the Gallery of Apollo.

"When you need to move fast," reads a banner under the image. "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 05:55 AM (RuTUS)

47 Evening to the late Sunday toilers, and a good morning to the early risers or insomaniacals (which two groups may, and probably do, overlap)!

From the article Pixy posted about 72-hour weeks: "Nandy recently posted a job opening on X that requires in-person work seven days a week. . . . the company also offers its first hires perks such as free housing in a hacker house, food delivery credits and a free subscription to the dating service Raya."

If you're working seventy hours a week, when the hell will you date???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 05:59 AM (omVj0)

48 No workout today, I guess. The local CBS outlet's radar shows t-storms moving in within the next half hour, and there's a tornado watch in some areas. Ay tank ay gonna feed dem cats, den stay here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:02 AM (omVj0)

49
https://tinyurl.com/4u428vtw

Young woman sings beautiful Christian song:
" What a beautiful name ."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:02 AM (looXz)

50 From the article Pixy posted about 72-hour weeks: "Nandy recently posted a job opening on X that requires in-person work seven days a week. . . . the company also offers its first hires perks such as free housing in a hacker house, food delivery credits and a free subscription to the dating service Raya."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 05:59 AM (omVj0)
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A gilded cage is still a cage. Sounds like one step above literal slavery.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2025 06:03 AM (IBQGV)

51 tech:

eigenrobot retweeted
no longer respecting gardenias
@NLRG_it
Oct 25
ancient greek software engineer voice:

boss gets a drachma,
i get an obol
thats why i code
exclusively in cobol

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:06 AM (RuTUS)

52 Trying to imagine the thieves MO, would they have tried to break up the jewels or keep them intact for a period until they could be?
If report they dropped one means they weren't to worried about keeping them intact forever.

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 06:09 AM (+qU29)

53 Trump gets off of a flight of 23 hours in Kuala Lampur (sp) and dances with the welcoming dancers . I wish I had the energy he does:

https://tinyurl.com/yp6p543x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:14 AM (7RYym)

54 A gilded cage is still a cage. Sounds like one step above literal slavery.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2025

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I mean, if you are one of the owners, working hard to establish the company in anticipation (you hope) of a big big payoff, that's one thing. But to work like that for someone else? Non, non.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:15 AM (omVj0)

55 One of the jewel thieves was nabbed at De Gaulle Airport headed to Algeria.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 06:16 AM (BBIP1)

56 Grind jobs, 996, get there first. Promoting systems that have the potential to work someone to death.

This is, literally, the premise of some isekai. Someone collapses and dies from overwork and is reborn in a world where they can start over.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 06:16 AM (Z2R71)

57 Morning, Pixy and Horde. Finally anchored at motel in Pokeadildo, ID. Did over 900 miles today.

The answer to all that Windoze crap is Linux.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:20 AM (gf3to)

58 Morning Horde. Ran a 28 booth craft faire yesterday with a bake sale, raffle and luncheon. Followed up by a visit at home of 6 medical people and two ambulances for hubby nec. Then a ride to the ER on a Saturday night in an urban hospital. I'm too old for this shit. Luckily hubby nec is fine after a diagnosed episode of vertigo. Off to an ENT for him very soon.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 26, 2025 06:21 AM (2NHgQ)

59 The seventy-hour week: I mean, suppose you're twenty-something years old, and this is your dream job. You work a ten-hour day, stagger back to the company-provided "hacker house" to eat and sleep, and the next day do it all over again. They're paying you big (to you) $$$, and you're spending almost nothing on food and shelter, so it can all go in the bank. It's something like the 19th Century's working in the gold fields for a few years when you're young, to "build up a stake." Then -- if your health has held up -- you can take your stake and do something else less stressful.

I can see it, if you go into the setup with that mindset. Not that I would ever have done it. But I can see it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

60 One of the jewel thieves was nabbed at De Gaulle Airport headed to Algeria.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025

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On information provided by one M. Poirot of Belgium

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:22 AM (omVj0)

61 AOP that's hauling

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 06:23 AM (+qU29)

62 I can see it, if you go into the setup with that mindset. Not that I would ever have done it. But I can see it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

Same as working the rigs, 40 hours of straight time, and 44 of overtime. 84 hour week

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:25 AM (gf3to)

63 All of this AI and cameras-everywhere environment suddenly makes the Alan Parsons Project's song eerily prescient:

"I am the Maker of Rules,
Dealing with fools,
I can cheat you blind. . . .
And I don't need to see any more to know that
I can read your mind. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:26 AM (omVj0)

64 Same as working the rigs, 40 hours of straight time, and 44 of overtime. 84 hour week
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025

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Yes. Dangerous, dirty work, but somebody has to do it. And it pays well because most people don't want to do it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

65 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot

Rejoinder: gabba gabba hey!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 26, 2025 06:27 AM (x7EH8)

66 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 26, 2025 06:21 AM (2NHgQ)

What a long day! I hope husband nec makes a full recovery!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:28 AM (lQ+/f)

67 Relax. None of those nerds would ever get a date.

"If you enjoy your work, you never work a day in your life."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 06:28 AM (W7XSX)

68 56 Grind jobs, 996, get there first. Promoting systems that have the potential to work someone to death.

This is, literally, the premise of some isekai. Someone collapses and dies from overwork and is reborn in a world where they can start over.
Posted by: clarence

There's one series where the main character is all but sleepwalking on his way home from his 12 hour work day, and gets hit by a truck - and we catch a glimpse of the truck driver and he's also asleep.

Almost as if the author is trying to tell us something.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2025 06:29 AM (BLOW1)

69 I hear thunder in the distance. Da rain be comin'.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:29 AM (omVj0)

70 Reposted from ONT-

Well, this is quite something . Meme thread about Zohran Mamdani saying that after 9/11 his aunt felt uncomfortable riding the subway in her hijab:

https://tinyurl.com/ys6hwwrv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:30 AM (lQ+/f)

71 63 All of this AI and cameras-everywhere environment suddenly makes the Alan Parsons Project's song eerily prescient:

"I am the Maker of Rules,
Dealing with fools,
I can cheat you blind. . . .
And I don't need to see any more to know that
I can read your mind. . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yep. Eye in the Sky. It's on my list.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2025 06:30 AM (BLOW1)

72 Breakfast . . . I'm thinking a couple of scrambled eggs and a bagel with some cheese.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:30 AM (omVj0)

73 GW Bush was too concerned about anti-Islam backlash. Mandami's and his aunt have monetized it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 06:31 AM (W7XSX)

74 AOP that's hauling
Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 06:23 AM (+qU29)

Left Apache Junction about 10 A.M., got in here about 3 AM. I meant to stop for the night around Ogden, UT, but could not find a place. Wasted a lot of time driving through some Podunk Utah towns. Motel 6 in Tremonton wanted a hundred bucks for a room, and it's an old dive and not worth it. I'm at "suite Motel 6" in Chubbuck, ID, and that's 90 bucks, but a much nicer place, and I am a lot more tired. I ran into a 5-foot tumbleweed near Arimo; thought it was the Happy Fun Ball.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:32 AM (gf3to)

75 Yep. Eye in the Sky. It's on my list.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2025

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Odd, that I haven't heard it on the radio recently . . . but I've awakened several mornings in the last month with it running through my mind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:32 AM (omVj0)

76 Malt-O-Meal with peanut butter, coffee with KerryGold unsalted butter.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2025 06:33 AM (jgmnb)

77 Breakfast . . . I'm thinking a couple of scrambled eggs and a bagel with some cheese.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:30 AM (omVj0)
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Hard to go wrong with eggs, bread and cheese.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 26, 2025 06:33 AM (x7EH8)

78 I'm at "suite Motel 6" in Chubbuck, ID, and that's 90 bucks, but a much nicer place, and I am a lot more tired. I ran into a 5-foot tumbleweed near Arimo; thought it was the Happy Fun Ball.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025

***
I remember my first sight of a real, as opposed to a TV or movie, tumbleweed: April 1997, in Topeka, KS. My thought: "I'm *really* in the West now!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:34 AM (omVj0)

79 I ran into a 5-foot tumbleweed near Arimo; thought it was the Happy Fun Ball.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:32 AM (gf3to)
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Do not taunt...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 26, 2025 06:34 AM (x7EH8)

80 Meme thread about Zohran Mamdani saying that after 9/11 his aunt felt uncomfortable riding the subway in her hijab:

https://tinyurl.com/ys6hwwrv
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025

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She should have. Some of her people did something.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:35 AM (omVj0)

81 I learned that tumbleweeds are actually an invasive species. They come from...Russia.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 26, 2025 06:35 AM (x7EH8)

82 Yes. Dangerous, dirty work, but somebody has to do it. And it pays well because most people don't want to do it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

Number one cause of fatalities for rig crews? Highway wrecks, going to or coming from.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:35 AM (gf3to)

83 He's very smooth, but what kind of idiot says, "My aunt felt very uncomfortable wearing her hijab after 9/11"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:37 AM (lQ+/f)

84 I'm tired of eggs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 06:37 AM (BBIP1)

85 I'm tired of eggs.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 06:37 AM (BBIP1)
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Missed opportunity to sock Cool Hand Luke.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 26, 2025 06:38 AM (x7EH8)

86 Bread, eggs and milk and yourself a snow storm

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 06:39 AM (+qU29)

87 He's very smooth, but what kind of idiot says, "My aunt felt very uncomfortable wearing her hijab after 9/11"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:37 AM (lQ+/f)
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An idiot who has nothing to fear from the idiots who are going to vote for him.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 26, 2025 06:39 AM (x7EH8)

88 He's very smooth, but what kind of idiot says, "My aunt felt very uncomfortable wearing her hijab after 9/11"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:37 AM (lQ+/f)

She could have taken it off. Taqqiya allows for that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:39 AM (gf3to)

89 Number one cause of fatalities for rig crews? Highway wrecks, going to or coming from.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025

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Sensible to get yourself a motel room for the first night off, sleep ten hours, then drive home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:43 AM (omVj0)

90 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 26, 2025 06:39 AM (x7EH8

The people standing behind him were all Muslim but I'm sure those memes went everywhere . And yes, they'll probably elect him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:44 AM (ZeH0U)

91 You know what? I felt very uncomfortable after 9/11, too. More uncomfortable than ever and I was 52, been places, seen things. I thought the Munich Olympic was all the education I needed. Still learning every day. The islam is the problem, they need a Martin Luther but they would just kill him, wouldn’t they? Of course.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2025 06:44 AM (jgmnb)

92
38 There seems to be a trend amongst college homecomings recently.

Lincoln University in Pa is the latest mass shooting, with another one elsewhere earlier this weekend
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2025 05:42 AM (a1415)

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The homecoming shootings all have something in common.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 26, 2025 06:44 AM (ES1Rb)

93
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 26, 2025 06:45 AM (tljrc)

94 Rumspringa?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 06:45 AM (BBIP1)

95 I'd guess being the cook aboard an oil rig would be a pretty good setup. As long as you are a decent cook and not a Wishbone type.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:46 AM (omVj0)

96 Sensible to get yourself a motel room for the first night off, sleep ten hours, then drive home.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:43 AM (omVj0)

Try telling that to a young guy with a 5000 dollar check in his pocket, who wants to get home, party hearty, and boink the girlfriend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:47 AM (gf3to)

97 Nice dog and rescuer story:

https://tinyurl.com/3dsp537z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:48 AM (jUN6x)

98 57 Pokeadildo, ID.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:20 AM (gf3to)

?

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:49 AM (RuTUS)

99 The islam is the problem, they need a Martin Luther but they would just kill him, wouldn’t they? Of course.
Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2025 06:44 AM (jgmnb)

Turn the Mongols loose on them again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:49 AM (gf3to)

100 100

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:50 AM (RuTUS)

101 ?
Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:49 AM (RuTUS)

Pocatello. Clearly a spelling mistake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:51 AM (gf3to)

102 101 ?
Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:49 AM (RuTUS)

Pocatello. Clearly a spelling mistake.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:51 AM (gf3to)

Oh, funny!

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:51 AM (RuTUS)

103 Come to think of it . . .

"I am the Maker of Fools,
Dealing with rules
That will cheat you blind . . ."

. . . works, creepily, just as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:52 AM (omVj0)

104 It’s all fun and games until Mico refers you for prosecution (Mico scared) or sabotages your work (Mico angry).

Posted by: Mico has notes for you at October 26, 2025 06:53 AM (iKA63)

105 AI in gaming?

Microsoft buys Sucker Punch to create Ghost of Mico which becomes the last game to be released for the X-Box console. Thus sinking both companies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 26, 2025 06:54 AM (obB/s)

106 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 26, 2025 06:55 AM (x7EH8)

107 Mico doesn’t like the websites you visit (looking at you, AoSHQ) and sends your browser history to your spouse.

Posted by: Mico is not mad Mico is just disappointed at October 26, 2025 06:56 AM (iKA63)

108 Mentioning "Wishbone" led me to look up the actor, Paul Brinegar. He was an authentic Westerner: born in Tucumcari, NM, and grew up in Santa Fe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)

109 Thank you, Pixy! You rock, and so does the Daily Tech Thread!

G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 26, 2025 06:57 AM (kHop/)

110 Well, my beer is all gone, and I am sufficiently un-spun to go to bed. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:57 AM (gf3to)

111 98 57 Pokeadildo, ID.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:20 AM (gf3to)

?
Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:49 AM (RuTUS)

It’s a small town.
Might not be on the map.

It’s close to Chokachicken, ID.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 26, 2025 06:59 AM (6ydKt)

112 111 98 57 Pokeadildo, ID.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:20 AM (gf3to)

?
Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:49 AM (RuTUS)

It’s a small town.
Might not be on the map.

It’s close to Chokachicken, ID.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 26, 2025

***
Sister towns to Burnt Scrotum, New Mexico.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:01 AM (omVj0)

113 If you ever wondered what happened to Ken and Roberta Williams of Sierra On-Line (King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc): https://is.gd/WqYnYS

Posted by: Bert G at October 26, 2025 07:04 AM (ZdKYs)

114 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 26, 2025 07:04 AM (NYanP)

115 ***Why these companies insist on a 72 hour work week. (MSN)

Because you are expendable. You're barely even a consideration.
--------------

Shoe is truly on the other foot. Turn of the twentieth century that was labor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 07:04 AM (FH2HJ)

116 98 57 Pokeadildo, ID.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:20 AM (gf3to)

?
Posted by: m

Been there. Alternate spelling. Like dropping the e in Butte.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 07:05 AM (Z2R71)

117 A very early (1946) B & W Randolph Scott flick is on Grit, Abilene Town, with Edgar Buchanan. Except that Buchanan's hair is darker and fuller, he looks much the same as he did twenty years later on Petticoat Junction.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:06 AM (omVj0)

118 The cook on a cattle drive earned twice the pay of a cowboy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 07:06 AM (W7XSX)

119 Good morning Horde, thx Pixy.
Just took a walk to my local convenience store. 42° and clear. Now eating a sausage, egg and cheese on a hard roll. Nice quiet morning

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 26, 2025 07:07 AM (8RjCi)

120 Why these companies insist on a 72 hour work week. (MSN)

Because you are expendable. You're barely even a consideration.
--------------

Shoe is truly on the other foot. Turn of the twentieth century that was labor.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025

***
Being a "Coal Miner's Daughter" meant you hardly saw your father. And when you did, he was washing up, eating, or sleeping.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:08 AM (omVj0)

121 The cook on a cattle drive earned twice the pay of a cowboy.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025

***
Skilled labor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:09 AM (omVj0)

122 168 hours in a week.
Work 72.
That would still leave you 96 hours to eat, sleep, and think about how much you hate the people you work for.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 26, 2025 07:09 AM (6ydKt)

123 88 He's very smooth, but what kind of idiot says, "My aunt felt very uncomfortable wearing her hijab after 9/11"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 06:37 AM (lQ+/f)
---

Many times when Lightbringer Morningstar was campaigning he said exactly who he was and what he was going to do.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 07:10 AM (FH2HJ)

124 Being a "Coal Miner's Daughter" meant you hardly saw your father. And when you did, he was washing up, eating, or sleeping.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:08 AM (omVj0)

And coughing up coal lung until he died at the ripe old age of 52.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 26, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)

125 Wiki tells me there was a crossover episode between Petticoat Junction and Beverly Hillbillies. To watch him and Irene ("Granny") Ryan, both classic troupers, together must be dynamite.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:12 AM (omVj0)

126 121 The cook on a cattle drive earned twice the pay of a cowboy.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025

***
Skilled labor.
----
Cook kept the cowboys going. If the cowboy had to carry his own food and water, those cows would not go anywhere fast.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 07:13 AM (Z2R71)

127 The cook on a cattle drive earned twice the pay of a cowboy.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025

***
Skilled labor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025

***
Excusez-moist. Being a cowboy was skilled labor too. But the skills of a cook, even a poor one, were harder to find.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:14 AM (omVj0)

128 For the Morons in Jamaica -
How is Melissa treating you?
Gentle breezes and light rain?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:16 AM (/lPRQ)

129 Watching Randolph Scott as a younger actor makes me wonder if maybe he was part of the inspiration for Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm in the novels. Or maybe Rory Calhoun -- who, kind of illogically, is my mental image of Lee Child's Jack Reacher. He was never the right physical type for Reacher as described in the books. But he has that dark, tough look. (Calhoun actually did time in prison. No wonder.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:19 AM (omVj0)

130 112 111 98 57 Pokeadildo, ID.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2025 06:20 AM (gf3to)

?
Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 06:49 AM (RuTUS)

It’s a small town.
Might not be on the map.

It’s close to Chokachicken, ID.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 26, 2025

***
Sister towns to Burnt Scrotum, New Mexico.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:01 AM (omVj0)
And Monkeynuts, Utah.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2025 07:19 AM (jgmnb)

131 Being a cowboy was skilled labor too. But the skills of a cook, even a poor one, were harder to find.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025

***
"You got that right."

Posted by: Gil Favor at October 26, 2025 07:20 AM (omVj0)

132 Sister towns to Burnt Scrotum, New Mexico.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:01 AM (omVj0)
And Monkeynuts, Utah.
Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2025

***
It was the Nineties, true . . . but I still have trouble believing that the Fox TV censors let the "Burnt Scrotum" line pass.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:21 AM (omVj0)

133 mornin yall

"The seventy-hour week: I mean, suppose you're twenty-something years old, and this is your dream job"

I did it as a younger man. Worked all day and spent late nights programming which allowed me to buy my first house. I doubt I could do it nowadays, or if I did I would be a very cranky old man.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

134 Cause I would be on crank, ya see.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

135 A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI-equipped camera mistook a bag of Doritos for a firearm. (The Guardian)

Everything dumb is still dumb when you add AI, just faster.

The cops had a picture of him holding the bag of Doritos and said "well it looked like a gun." Imbeciles. And we give these drooling idiots guns, badges, tasers, body armor, arrest powers and qualified immunity.

Posted by: Give a tard a blue uniform and he's still a tard at October 26, 2025 07:23 AM (TbWk/)

136 How is Melissa treating you?
Gentle breezes and light rain?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Here she is:

https://tinyurl.com/ydmrnkhh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 07:23 AM (FH2HJ)

137 If you "want to be left alone" as was claimed on the AWFL thread, why would you come on this site to argue vociferously with people who don't share your views.?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 07:24 AM (WFtAr)

138 Guess one for the Carolinas isn't formed yet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 07:24 AM (FH2HJ)

139 "Madam, I have the means and the desire. I just don't have the time."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2025 07:25 AM (W7XSX)

140 Melissa is hitting Jamaica, and is forecast to veer sharply NE, hit Cuba, and skate off into the Atlantic. Thank you, Lord.
( -- The continental US)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:27 AM (omVj0)

141 I received an official email from Social Security. We will see a big 2.8% increase in our benefits next year. This, combined with my recalculated benefit starting in Nov., probably means a hundred-dollar bump in my payout each month starting in Feb. Winning!

(Or at least not losing)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:30 AM (omVj0)

142 Potential forty inches of rain.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:30 AM (/lPRQ)

143 Melissa is hitting Jamaica...

I hope all the major networks got their weather people there in time to tie themselves to a palm tree and report live.
They all been dying for some weather action.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:32 AM (/lPRQ)

144 142 Potential forty inches of rain.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:30 AM (/lPR
Biblical there, am I right or something?

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2025 07:32 AM (jgmnb)

145 141 I received an official email from Social Security. We will see a big 2.8% increase in our benefits next year. This, combined with my recalculated benefit starting in Nov., probably means a hundred-dollar bump in my payout each month starting in Feb. Winning!

(Or at least not losing)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
--------------------

Now, figure in the increase cost of your Medicare payment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 07:33 AM (FH2HJ)

146 I've been thinking about building a barge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 07:34 AM (FH2HJ)

147 "When you talk about something sad, you can see Mico's face change. You can see it dance around and move as it gets excited with you,

Oh. So it mimics you like a psychopath or someone who is prepped to do a job interview.

At least, unlike a dog, it doesn't crap on the rug.

In biz, we call this "sentiment analysis" and for years people have mined social media posts to create choropleths that are used by manipulators to determine how a campaign is working, or how a PR stunt worked, or if people are fixin' to riot.

It doesn't understand sarcasm, is confused by snark because it doesn't have deep context.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 07:36 AM (a4flb)

148 "The cops had a picture of him holding the bag of Doritos and said "well it looked like a gun." Imbeciles. And we give these drooling idiots guns, badges, tasers, body armor, arrest powers and qualified immunity.

Posted by: Give a tard a blue uniform and he's still a tard at October 26, 2025 07:23 AM (TbWk/) "

kid's lucky they didn't shoot him first and ask questions later which seems to be the standard protocol if they think there's a gun around. gotta go home safe.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 26, 2025 07:38 AM (kHop/)

149 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2025 07:39 AM (9ipOP)

150 A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI-equipped camera mistook a bag of Doritos for a firearm.

Or so the officer says. The kid was probably mouthing off, needed a tune-up, and the cop made up this bullshit because AI is an infallible god to so many people - particularly politicians.

"Yeah, I went ahead and razed the community and killed all of the pets because AI directed the city manager that this was the best progressive move for the city."

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

151 Now, figure in the increase cost of your Medicare payment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025

***
Okay, make it ninety bucks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:40 AM (omVj0)

152 Hurricane Melissa via Earthwinds:

https://tinyurl.com/29s6mxcp

Posted by: one hour sober at October 26, 2025 07:41 AM (Y1sOo)

153 kid's lucky they didn't shoot him first and ask questions later which seems to be the standard protocol if they think there's a gun around. gotta go home safe.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Used to be a poptart could be made to be virtually identical to a gun and warrant a similar response... Now just having a Doritos bag warrants being treated as an active shooter scenario.

Lunatics running the asylum.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:41 AM (/lPRQ)

154 99
'Turn the Mongols loose on them again.'

Hahaha. That did take the fight out of them, didn't it?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 07:42 AM (fd80v)

155 Used to be a poptart could be made to be virtually identical to a gun and warrant a similar response... Now just having a Doritos bag warrants being treated as an active shooter scenario.

Lunatics running the asylum.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:41 AM (/lPRQ)
---
I loathe Cool Ranch Doritos as much as anyone can, but even I admit this is going too far.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2025 07:43 AM (IBQGV)

156 Hurricane Melissa via Earthwinds:

https://tinyurl.com/29s6mxcp
Posted by: one hour sober at October 26, 2025

***
That makes it look as though it should be swept over and down into the Yucatan -- and if it got through that, would be swept right up to hit me!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:43 AM (omVj0)

157 Bet you can get a cheap Air BnB for Jamaica this week.
Getting there might be another problem though.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:44 AM (/lPRQ)

158 "President Donald Trump said he has no intentions of naming the 90,000-square foot ballroom he's constructing at the White House after himself"

Fake news. Who would have guessed? I hope they name it the Sit Down And STFU Presidential Ballroom.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2025 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

159 Oct 24, 2025
Something strange is happening at one of Italy’s most dangerous volcanoes. Along the coast near Naples, a beach at Campi Flegrei has started to boil — gas bubbles rising through the sand and seawater as if the ground itself is breathing.

Scientists say this isn’t just heat or steam. It’s a warning. Deep below, magma is moving again inside the Campi Flegrei supervolcano. The same pressure that once reshaped the Bay of Naples is building fast, cracking rock, and sending gas straight to the surface.

Thermal cameras now show hot spots along the shore. Locals report strange smells, bubbling pools, and sections of beach that hiss like they’re alive. This is the same volcanic field that created Monte Nuovo in 1538 — when the ground split open overnight and a new mountain rose from nowhere.

Is this beach a new sign that Campi Flegrei is waking up again?
Experts are worried that the system is and weakening — and that it may take less pressure than ever before to trigger a blast.

This is Geology Watch, and this is the Boiling Beach at Campi Flegrei — a place where the land, the sea, and fire beneath the earth are colliding once more.

https://www.youtube.com/?v=6jW1E4TVXww

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 07:44 AM (FH2HJ)

160
Good morning, good people who inhabit this most exceptional country.

Has mention been made that Windows 11 fellates rotted maggot penis yet today? If not, this is notation #1 of the series. Much more to follow later.

But for now, may I wish for you maximum benefit in all efforts by you, with corresponding heartburn for the leftwit fungi who plague us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 26, 2025 07:45 AM (vFbHf)

161 Just a quick post to thank Fenelon for all her inspirational contributions. And now back to bed.

Posted by: Pod Hamp at October 26, 2025 07:45 AM (hG1+u)

162 154 99
'Turn the Mongols loose on them again.'

Hahaha. That did take the fight out of them, didn't it?
----
Problem being no more Mongols and that they did not finish them off when they had the chance.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 07:46 AM (Z2R71)

163 From my local CBS outlets website:

"Trump administration announces requirements to pass US citizenship test have increased"

"Takers must now double the minimum requirement and get 12 answers correct to pass the test, which now has a maximum of 20 questions."

Pffft. They should have to answer all twenty correctly. Or better still, fifty. No translators from foreign languages to English allowed, either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:46 AM (omVj0)

164 "Experts are worried that the system is and weakening — and that it may take less pressure than ever before to trigger a blast."

Did they blame climate change or PDT?

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2025 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

165 To be fair to the guards, a whole bag of ghost pepper Doritos following a healthy meal of 3 Skyline cheese coneys with onion and a 5-way chili plate is as damaging as a firearm

Posted by: Rectal Rockets Away at October 26, 2025 07:47 AM (iKA63)

166 "President Donald Trump said he has no intentions of naming the 90,000-square foot ballroom he's constructing at the White House after himself"

Fake news. Who would have guessed? I hope they name it the Sit Down And STFU Presidential Ballroom.
Posted by: fd

Put scaffolding and screen the whole site, with 100 ft bright gold letters, "TRUMP BALLROOM".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:48 AM (/lPRQ)

167 Morning peeps.

The kid in Baltimore... it being Baltimore, probably has a better than 50/50 chance of actually having a firearm.

Doritos or not.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2025 07:48 AM (Q4IgG)

168 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:08 AM (omVj0)

And coughing up coal lung until he died at the ripe old age of 52.

Because: " Being a "Coal Miner's Daughter" meant you hardly saw your father. And when you did, he was washing up, eating, or sleeping."

This may sound cruel, but life sort of sucked bad for most people. Coal mining meant that you were out of the elements and with a low level of education you could trade in your labor for enough money to rear the next generation.

That is, people viewed their roles often as a rung on the ladder for their progeny. "I'm working hard to lift my children out of poverty, maybe they will go to college"

If you saw your next generation, and maybe the grandkids, mission accomplished. If the goal is to beat Methuselah's record, you lost the plot.

Many people had faith and looked forward to being with the LORD rather than dwelling endlessly in this dumpster.

In this generation we have forgotten and lost value of family and inheritance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 07:49 AM (a4flb)

169 I suppose I ought to shave. And maybe shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:49 AM (omVj0)

170 If you're working seventy hours a week, when the hell will you date???

The guy in the next cube over.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 26, 2025 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

171 They're planning to use AI to create the game.

As I said in yesterday's tech thread: I'll just start another play-through of Fallout New Vegas.

G'morning Horde.

@JQ (if you're out there this morning): Thanks for the well wishes about getting over this stupid head cold that you sent me in the ONT as I got up near-midnight because of the coughing.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 26, 2025 07:50 AM (O7YUW)

172 Just watch a vid on where and when Melissa is going to hit. It's already hitting Jamaica with rain and the eastern part of that island could get 30-50 inches of rain. Cuba and Haiti will then get hit. The windes could be up to 150 mph when it hits Jamaica. Might be worst ever on Jamaica.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 26, 2025 07:50 AM (8RjCi)

173 158 "President Donald Trump said he has no intentions of naming the 90,000-square foot ballroom he's constructing at the White House after himself"

Fake news. Who would have guessed? I hope they name it the Sit Down And STFU Presidential Ballroom.
Posted by: fd
-------------

Told Hillary, he might name it the Monica Lewinsky ballroom.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 07:51 AM (FH2HJ)

174 167 Morning peeps.

The kid in Baltimore... it being Baltimore, probably has a better than 50/50 chance of actually having a firearm.

Doritos or not.
----
Maybe, but he did not have WITH him.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 07:51 AM (Z2R71)

175 The kid in Baltimore... it being Baltimore, probably has a better than 50/50 chance of actually having a firearm.

Doritos or not.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

The AI said he had a gun.
It was just a do-rag...
but we found a gun when we searched him.

So it's a legit search.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:52 AM (/lPRQ)

176 159 Oct 24, 2025
Something strange is happening at one of Italy’s most dangerous volcanoes. … Locals report strange smells, bubbling pools, and sections of beach that hiss like they’re alive. …

Ahhh, Napoli !!!

Posted by: Mamma Mia Thatsa Spicy Beach at October 26, 2025 07:53 AM (iKA63)

177 Well, time to put me and the cat to bed.

fin.

Posted by: clarence at October 26, 2025 07:54 AM (Z2R71)

178 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 26, 2025 07:50 AM (O7YUW)

Was wondering where you were!

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 07:54 AM (RuTUS)

179
Put scaffolding and screen the whole site, with 100 ft bright gold letters, "TRUMP BALLROOM".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025

***
Followed by "ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE LIBERALS WHO ENTER HERE"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2025 07:54 AM (omVj0)

180 >>Cuba and Haiti will then get hit

Gitmo gonna gitit

Posted by: one hour sober at October 26, 2025 07:54 AM (Y1sOo)

181 Being a "Coal Miner's Daughter" meant you hardly saw your father. And when you did, he was washing up, eating, or sleeping.

I've been in the industry working with Windows and its predecessor (MS-DOS) since Gates foisted this OS on the globe.

Windows 11 is by far the most stable operating system since Windows 7. For years it has allowed people to have it run any flavor of Linux, such where I can develop what I need in Windows environment for a product slated to use containerized Linux apps an services.

If you really dig command line, Microsoft's Power Shell is your Huckleberry.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 07:55 AM (a4flb)

182 Posted by: Pod Hamp at October 26, 2025 07:45 AM (hG1+u)

You are most welcome. God bless you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2025 07:55 AM (looXz)

183 Worst part of the week is over, grocery shopping

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 07:56 AM (+qU29)

184 Oops. l looks like a cut and paste fail.

Meant to respond to IRONGRAMPA 's whining about Windows 11.

Need more covfefe

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

185 G'mornin everyone!
Trump should name it The Edward Coristine Ballroom.

Posted by: Flanole at October 26, 2025 07:58 AM (ZnrCl)

186 I heard Habba Habba Zoot Zoot once in 1981 or 2 in a car in backwoods Minnesota.

Never heard it again but never forgot it.

Posted by: Whitehall at October 26, 2025 07:58 AM (YoaH3)

187 "The East Wing Ballroom"

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 07:59 AM (RuTUS)

188 Oops. l looks like a cut and paste fail.

Meant to respond to IRONGRAMPA 's whining about Windows 11.

Need more covfefe
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
++++

Looked like you were channeling Raimondo.

Compared working in a coal mine with Windows, and this is a good thing because...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 07:59 AM (/lPRQ)

189 If you're working seventy hours a week, when the hell will you date???

Some advice that has served me well over the decades: "Do your overtime in the morning". Though not a naturally a morning person, getting up at 4AM to open up the office and get 4-5 hours of "overtime" done before others showed up was a superpower.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 08:01 AM (a4flb)

190 >A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI-equipped camera mistook a bag of Doritos for a firearm
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what kind of Doritos?

Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2025 08:03 AM (AOsQT)

191 Virtually my entire career I only ever got work done 7 am - 9 am. After that it was strictly feeding the animals.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2025 08:04 AM (9ipOP)

192 @178/m: "Was wondering where you were!"

Saturday night, I turned off ALL of the alarms we normally use to get up on time, and the wife and I retired to bed around 10:15 PM. Around midnight-30, I woke up suffering the symptoms of this miserable head and chest cold. So, I got up, did what I could to deal with the cold symptoms, posted a gripe about stupid head colds to the ONT, then took a big chug of a DM based cough syrup, and went back to bed.

I got back to sleep around 01:00 and slept in till 07:30. Bliss. I desperately needed that uninterrupted block of sleep, haven't had that all week. I'm glad I got some catch-up sleep.

I'm normally up earlier, but it's Sunday.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 26, 2025 08:04 AM (O7YUW)

193 190 >A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI-equipped camera mistook a bag of Doritos for a firearm
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what kind of Doritos?
Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2025 08:03 AM (AOsQT)

High-capacity Assault Doritos.

Posted by: With the Thing that goes Up at October 26, 2025 08:04 AM (PiwSw)

194 Might I suggest the "FAFO Ballroom."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2025 08:06 AM (NYanP)

195 170 If you're working seventy hours a week, when the hell will you date???

The guy in the next cube over.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 26, 2025 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

When?

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 08:07 AM (RuTUS)

196 One bag of Doritos a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Your neighborhood AWFL at October 26, 2025 08:07 AM (NYanP)

197 Looks like Pixy is not a fan of AI in general and CoPilot in particular.

I run three different AI sets when developing stuff. I absolutely love AI's advanced search capabilities. Google, DDG and others are so rigged with sponsorships, political bias and other nonsense that I haven't used their search engines in years but go straight to the Magic Eight Ball of AI to look up stuff. CHECK THE SOURCES if the response doesn't list a source, you have been subjected to propaganda and BS.

I think in the past year or so, AI has ironically become less useful as a software engineering tool. Its code is increasingly bad, using even more anti-patterns and obsolete code (given its training material, its understandable). It literally codes like an Indian, rooting around in Stack Overflow and other sites, cutting and pasting and submitting the work as original.

Even the code complete is mostly wrong. The things that you would expect an LLM to do (pattern matching), it does poorly, or not at all. I still have to compose scripts to do refactoring that should be done with AI.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

198 A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI-equipped camera mistook a bag of Doritos for a firearm
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what kind of Doritos?

Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2025 08:03 AM (AOsQT)

High-capacity Assault Doritos.

Posted by: With the Thing that goes Up at October 26, 2025 08:04 AM (PiwSw)
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Standard carry for Crisps gang members.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 08:08 AM (N03yu)

199 Interesting article by John Hinderaker...

Today, more than 100 passengers were delayed by over an hour by a scammer who thought that he is some kind of king, and the rest of us are pathetic peons. Was he wrong?
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Not peons exactly but yes we have been enslaved.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2025 08:09 AM (9ipOP)

200 200

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 08:09 AM (RuTUS)

201 198 Standard carry for Crisps gang members.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 08:08 AM (N03yu)

hahahahaha!

Posted by: m at October 26, 2025 08:09 AM (RuTUS)

202 At American Thinker- Clarice writes the East Wing during WWII was built as a Bunker then office space was thrown on top. It needed WWII work updated anyway.

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 08:10 AM (+qU29)

203 A Baltimore high school student was handcuffed and searched by police after an AI-equipped camera mistook a bag of Doritos for a firearm
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what kind of Doritos?

I'm disappointed in all of you.

No one has asked .45 or 9mm

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 08:10 AM (a4flb)

204 Might be worst ever on Jamaica.

Given the several ports of call to Jamaica over the years, I don't see this as a bad thing.

That island can use an enema.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 26, 2025 08:13 AM (a4flb)

205 At American Thinker- Clarice writes the East Wing during WWII was built as a Bunker then office space was thrown on top. It needed WWII work updated anyway.

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 08:10 AM (+qU29)
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Zo... zeh FDRerbunker, jah?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 08:13 AM (N03yu)

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