Daily Tech News 4 November 2025

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None dare call it a bubble: The AI industry is running on FOMO. (The Verge) (archive site)

I'm not sure bankruptcy is something I'd fear missing out on though:
Dedicated AI companies are burning through cash in the meantime: OpenAI reportedly hit $12 billion in annualized revenue this summer - while reportedly being on track to burn through $115 billion through 2029.
The company has since pushed its expected cash burn up to $1 trillion dollars, albeit over a less well-defined timespan.
Tension over this mismatch, Fath said, is ratcheting up. There's a "push and pull between those companies and investors," he added. "Investors are saying, 'Am I going to get a return on this spend?'" It's one of the increasingly clear indicators that some parts of the AI industry are a bubble - but it doesn't yet tell us what happens after it pops.
You get wet.
OpenAI's rumored IPO is a perfect example of the conundrum, Alter added. The company wants to secure about 26 gigawatts of computing capacity for data centers (which translates to about $1.5 trillion at current costs, per Alter) - meaning that even with the company's current revenue, an up to $100 billion investment from Nvidia, and other "circular deals," Alter says she still hasn't been able to understand how the company's clear funding gap gets solved.
Correction: You take a bath.
Coca Cola's new AI holiday ad is sloppy eyesore. (The Verge) (archive site)

The company declined to comment on how much it spent on the slop, but said that around 100 people worked on the project - a similar number to earlier non-AI-slop campaigns.
Hands-off driving is coming and we are so not ready. (The Verge) (archive site)

Who will be liable when you run over a hundred AI-animated bunnies on their way home from a Coca Cola commercial shoot?
What has gotten into The Verge today? They're starting to sound like...

They're starting to sound like me.

Tech News

A company called Adeia - which I've never heard of, but apparently they spun off from Xperi, which I've also never heard of, is suing AMD over its 3D vcache. (Tom's Hardware)

They claim they have patents on putting things on top of other things.
Where did all those annoying CAPTCHAs go? (Wired) (archive site)

They've been replaced by fucking news sites that won't let you read their fucking news.

And tracking cookies. Mostly tracking cookies.
Taking a look at that Asus ProArt 6k monitor. (9to5 Mac)

They're particularly looking at it in an Apple context but it works perfectly fine as a Windows monitor, or Linux for that matter.

And their conclusion: It's good. It's very good.

It's not cheap, but at $1299 the 32" 6k Asus monitor is cheaper than Apple's 5k 27" Studio Display. That costs $1599, or $1999 if you want a height-adjustable stand.

Apple's own 6k 32" display costs $999 - just for the stand. The screen itself starts at $4999.

Musical Interlude

Song is Trouble by Neon Jungle. Anime is Kill la Kill.

Disclaimer: Or is it?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 04, 2025 04:00 AM (+qU29)

3 Hi, everyone! Now to get ready for work.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 04:01 AM (7xrfc)

4 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 04, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

5 >>>None dare call it a bubble: The AI industry is running on FOMO. (The Verge)

FOMO = Fear of Missing Out

noun informal
anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on social media.
ORIGIN
early 21st century: abbreviation of fear of missing out.

This is an abbreviation that I always forget.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 04:02 AM (RuTUS)

6 Good morning. Do you think Pepperidge Farm really remembers? Or is Pepperidge Farm just faking it to impress chicks?

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 04, 2025 04:04 AM (9TpnE)

7 Pepperidge Farm took notes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 04, 2025 04:06 AM (BLOW1)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 04, 2025 04:08 AM (sAmhv)

9 6 Do you think Pepperidge Farm really remembers? Or is Pepperidge Farm just faking it to impress chicks?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 04, 2025 04:04 AM (9TpnE)

7 Pepperidge Farm took notes.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 04, 2025 04:06 AM (BLOW1)

haha!

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS)

10 During Adobe Max, the keynote showed that Adobe has picked ChatGPT to pair with, which will help it win the AI wars. You can use ChatGPT connected to Adobe Express to ask for something like a flier, build the text and content, then use Express to build the flier and customize it for you with pictures from Adobe stock. The partnership is huge for both.

Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 04:23 AM (gWBY1)

11 Dangerous little packages to have in your home!

https://www.pepperidgefarm.com

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 04:27 AM (RuTUS)

12 >>> They've been replaced by fucking news sites that won't let you read their fucking news.

I get if I've read 5-10 articles from a website for a month, needing to shell out money to see more. But it's like you read 2 and you're done, if even that. Like anyone can buy every news site subscription out there, AND do subscriptions to substack for indie journos, AND patreons for extra insider stuff for podcasters. And don't get me started on Breitbart putting Nolte's movie reviews behind a paywall.

I swear at this point the only thing keeping the NYT at all solvent is its games section, and there, just Wordle and the crossword puzzles.

Has anyone tried making a subscription site for news? You pay one fee and get a bunch of these news websites for one price?

Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 04:31 AM (gWBY1)

13 >>> FOMO = Fear of Missing Out

I felt this big time when I was younger, and it still hits hard. But the older and more curmudgeonly I get, the more JOMO I feel. (Joy of missing out.) Why leave the coziness of my home? Second look at the hermit life.

Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 04:35 AM (gWBY1)

14 JOMO
noun informal
pleasure derived from living in a quiet or independent way without feeling anxious that one is missing out on exciting or interesting events that may be happening elsewhere. Compare with FOMO: JOMO is the perfect antidote to a long summer of excess | JOMO means checking out of social networks and actually living life.
ORIGIN
early 21st century: abbreviation of joy of missing out, on the model of FOMO.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 04:41 AM (RuTUS)

15 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at November 04, 2025 04:42 AM (zBOWZ)

16 ICGBTB
I could go back to bed

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

17 I get if I've read 5-10 articles from a website for a month, needing to shell out money to see more. But it's like you read 2 and you're done, if even that.

Incognito mode is your friend.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 04:46 AM (ExV1e)

18 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 04, 2025 04:50 AM (hoCmQ)

19 AI will replace Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop and give the politicos cover for building more grid capacity and tripling electricity rates.
The overall impact of AI will be negative.

Posted by: Accomack at November 04, 2025 04:51 AM (9H7EW)

20 FOMO = Fear of Missing Out

This is an abbreviation that I always forget.
Posted by: m
----------------

Same here.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 04, 2025 04:53 AM (hoCmQ)

21 AI will replace Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop and give the politicos cover for building more grid capacity and tripling electricity rates.
The overall impact of AI will be negative.
Posted by: Accomack at November 04, 2025 04:51 AM (9H7EW)

The public is already being trained that AI is an oracle, handing down pronouncements from the gods. Never wrong, never questioned.

Globalists will use that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 04:54 AM (ExV1e)

22 guten morgen, horde
Posted by: clarence at November 04, 2025 04:42 AM (zBOWZ)

Und auch Ihnen. Was is den los?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 04, 2025 04:56 AM (89Sog)

23 https://tinyurl.com/mwc7f2ud
https://directorblue.substack. top 20 chilling insights from yuri
Bezmenov

Posted by: Skip at November 04, 2025 04:57 AM (+qU29)

24 When I see FOMO, I start thinking M(useum) o(f) M(odern) A(rt), no; F(*ck) A(round and) F(ind) O(ut), no; MO(ron) ME(et-up)....

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 04:57 AM (RuTUS)

25 "FOMO = Fear of Missing Out"

Thank You! I was just about to look it up.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 04, 2025 04:58 AM (89Sog)

26 25 "FOMO = Fear of Missing Out"

Thank You! I was just about to look it up.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 04, 2025 04:58 AM (89Sog)

Pixy gave us a big hint in the next sentence, but I was already off to look it up:

None dare call it a bubble: The AI industry is running on FOMO. (The Verge) (archive site)

I'm not sure bankruptcy is something I'd fear missing out on though

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:03 AM (RuTUS)

27 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at November 04, 2025 05:05 AM (x1Zfx)

28 Coca Cola's new AI holiday ad is sloppy eyesore.

Was the jingle AI generated? Because it's sloppy earsore.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 04, 2025 05:06 AM (hoCmQ)

29 >>>Coca Cola's new AI holiday ad is sloppy eyesore. (The Verge)

Blecchh! It is complete trash.
"Holidays are comin', holidays are comin', holidays are comin', holidays are comin'."

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:11 AM (RuTUS)

30 Boys choir from England sings an old hymn, "Nearer my God to thee." From Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/3s5ppp9m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 04, 2025 05:11 AM (ZeH0U)

31 I think driverless cars are a really bad idea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 04, 2025 05:12 AM (ZeH0U)

32 FOMO. Fear of Missing Ovaries. Them little grey fellers from the beyond check in, get to dissecting cows, then turn their levitatey beam on the missus and take her babymakers. For science? For fun? Mebbe the same thing to them especially illegal aliens. Hard to fathom. Earth is not in a good neighborhood. That's what memaw always told.

Posted by: jasper at November 04, 2025 05:13 AM (vOJa+)

33 a direct link to the terrible Coke commercial:

https://youtu.be/Yy6fByUmPuE

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:17 AM (RuTUS)

34 33 a direct link to the terrible Coke commercial:

https://youtu.be/Yy6fByUmPuE

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:17 AM (RuTUS)

... where comments have been left open and whoa, Nelly.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:20 AM (RuTUS)

35 "They're starting to sound like me."

Genuine Pixy Snark - accept nothing but the best, fellow Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 05:20 AM (O7YUW)

36 Globalists will use that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It will be used for the claim of being a "Science Denier."

"The AI has spoken! Why do you question it?!"

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 05:23 AM (lXoJ5)

37 ... where comments have been left open and whoa, Nelly.
Posted by: m

Gillette made that same mistake with their man hating ad. They closed things up a week or so later.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 05:24 AM (lXoJ5)

38 Grounhog Day is coming.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 04, 2025 05:26 AM (3XYA+)

39 "a direct link to the terrible Coke commercial:"

G'morning, all.

What the hell did I just watch?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)

40 39 "a direct link to the terrible Coke commercial:"

G'morning, all.

What the hell did I just watch?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)

Clydesdales. It was Clydesdales.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:27 AM (RuTUS)

41 What the hell did I just watch?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Unfortunately, the future of advertising.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 05:28 AM (lXoJ5)

42 38 Grounhog Day is coming.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 04, 2025 05:26 AM (3XYA+)

Sort of?

Groundhog Day
noun
February 2

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:29 AM (RuTUS)

43 It's appalling how much advertising is FOMO based. Once you see it, you can't unsee it, but it does cause amusing levels of internal snark at those ads.

'HURRY, BEFORE IT'S GONE!'

"You're taking this shrinkflation thing a step too far, pal."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

44 On the plus side, finally finished the water pump, timing belt, serpentine belt and tensioners/idlers on the Volvo wagon.

I'm glad that I had the cam-lock tool handy, as the VVT hubs make it tricky to set the timing right. And with an interference engine, smacking a valve and killing the engine is always a possibility.

So, that's done for another 100,000 miles.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2025 05:29 AM (a1415)

45 38 Grounhog Day is coming.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 04, 2025 05:26 AM (3XYA+)

SOON.

Posted by: Bill de Blasio at November 04, 2025 05:29 AM (WL8wD)

46 FOMO?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 04, 2025 05:30 AM (3XYA+)

47 I get all FOMOey about not making it to the tech thread.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:31 AM (RuTUS)

48 46 FOMO?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 04, 2025 05:30 AM (3XYA+)

"FO' MO' years!"

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:32 AM (RuTUS)

49 "... where comments have been left open and whoa, Nelly."

Quite possibly the best Pepsi ad ever made.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2025 05:33 AM (a1415)

50 Saturnalia Kwanza. They can't even name the Holidays.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 04, 2025 05:33 AM (3XYA+)

51 Filling up on way to work. $2.29/gallon

I voted for this.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at November 04, 2025 05:38 AM (/awz+)

52 @33/m: "a direct link to the terrible Coke commercial:"

At the beginning: The computer generating this can't even manage a natural motion for removing the bottle-cap from the bottle.

All this ad does is drive straight the viewer into the uncanny valley, leaving them feeling uneasy.

When it comes to associations with your products or services, or how you treat customers, what's the old adage? Oh yeah, they may not remember exactly what you did to them, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

53 52 When it comes to associations with your products or services, or how you treat customers, what's the old adage? Oh yeah, they may not remember exactly what you did to them, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

Probably not an adage posted on the wall at this advertising shop.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:40 AM (RuTUS)

54 “Ufo’s and Nukes” by Robert Hastings is an interesting read. There were a lot of really strange failures at missile sites in the 50s and 60s, well documented from declassified accounts and witnesses who felt it was OK to talk about many years later. There was some nexus between cattle mutilations in the book as I recall, they would be concurrent in the area to some degree.

The air force guys would be deep in a bunker, and everything would shut down. They had triple redundant power - electricity grid, diesel generators, and battery banks. Everything inop. “Sir! Ya gotta come up here, you won’t believe it!” I don’t know what to think, other than maybe trying to contact “them” is probably a bad idea

Posted by: Common Tater at November 04, 2025 05:42 AM (itAZI)

55 They could have swapped out the Ice Sloth for penguins.

Make it more believable.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2025 05:42 AM (a1415)

56 Good morning! The granddaughter and her brother are staying with us this weekend so I have to make chocolate chip waffles and hot chocolate for breakfast, and smash burgers and bratwursts for dinner. Lunch is on Gigi.

Gonna put those guys to work planting daffodils and irises while I'm moving stone and building the pathway around the side of the house.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 04, 2025 05:45 AM (3Ope8)

57 Message to customers by companies using AI generation for their advertisements:

"You're not worth any real effort, so have some AI slop."

Gee, thanks. I feel so valued.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 05:46 AM (O7YUW)

58 Joined by Jesus. Christian devotional Ephesians 2: 2-22:

https://tinyurl.com/4s97ksem

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 04, 2025 05:47 AM (rZCVI)

59
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 04, 2025 05:47 AM (tljrc)

60 56 Good morning! The granddaughter and her brother are staying with us this weekend so I have to make chocolate chip waffles and hot chocolate for breakfast, and smash burgers and bratwursts for dinner. Lunch is on Gigi.

Gonna put those guys to work planting daffodils and irises while I'm moving stone and building the pathway around the side of the house.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 04, 2025 05:45 AM (3Ope

Sounds like heaven! Many happinesses on all y'all.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:47 AM (RuTUS)

61 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 04, 2025 05:48 AM (XQo4F)

62 Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 04, 2025 05:45 AM (3Ope

Could you make some extra for us ? 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 04, 2025 05:48 AM (rZCVI)

63 "The company wants to secure about 26 gigawatts of computing capacity"

Great Scott! *faints*

Posted by: Doc Brown at November 04, 2025 05:49 AM (O7YUW)

64 Maybe the Coke-ad people are going to spring a real surprise on us, like, "This ad was made entirely by these six 4-year-olds! Isn't that neat?!" Which, well, o.k., but you've garnered a heck of a lot of negatives in the run-up to this unveiling.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)

65 When it comes to associations with your products or services, or how you treat customers, what's the old adage? Oh yeah, they may not remember exactly what you did to them, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

Fuck you. My boss says that AI is the future and xe's not spending more than $20 on this ad so I either have to come up with the best prompt possible or go back to shitting in the Ganges. -- Coca Cola Ad 'Executive'

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 05:51 AM (ExV1e)

66 Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 04, 2025 05:45 AM

Sounds like a lovely time, God bless you all!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 04, 2025 05:51 AM (rZCVI)

67 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: Mrs Clifford at November 04, 2025 05:52 AM (AN2gy)

68 Got to remember to change my socks

Posted by: fluffy at November 04, 2025 05:53 AM (AN2gy)

69 Forgot to tell everyone to have a great day

Posted by: Skip at November 04, 2025 05:53 AM (868AC)

70 @68/fluffy: I was gonna ask! G'morning. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 05:54 AM (O7YUW)

71 Evening and morning on a cool Tiu's Day in Da Swamp to all the satellites of AoSHQ!

This AI is getting into everything. Yesterday morning Miss Linda called me -- on my phone -- and said, "Is that you?" I told her, "No, this is AI. Stirling has learned how to program my voice into my phone. Of course he still hasn't figured out how to turn on the water tap in the bathroom, but, hey, we all have our weak spots."

Howzall of you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

72 Posted by: Skip at November 04, 2025 05:53

You too, Skip.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 04, 2025 05:56 AM (Nx5jP)

73 67 Morning, Tech Peeps
Posted by: Mrs Clifford at November 04, 2025 05:52 AM (AN2gy)

Good morning, Mrs. Clifford. That's a very pretty dress you're wearing."

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 05:56 AM (RuTUS)

74
Am I the only one who thinks that if AI is that important to your job then maybe your job isn't that important?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 05:57 AM (tgvbd)

75 >>> 43 It's appalling how much advertising is FOMO based. Once you see it, you can't unsee it, but it does cause amusing levels of internal snark at those ads.HURRY, BEFORE IT'S GONE!'

The Rumble ads go overboard on this. "here's my shiny new tech inspired by the military, or my secret food trick using three items in your pantry, that THEY don't want me to tell you about! Click on the link before THEY make me take my product off the web!" Hurry FOMO combined with conspiracy theories.

And I think my new life goal is to become a long lost granddaughter of crotchety old jar head! Sounds like a divine breakfast. Hope you have a blessed day with the family!

Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 05:58 AM (gWBY1)

76 Got to remember to change my socks
Posted by: fluffy at November 04, 2025

***
Reminds me of an old gag on the Beany & Cecil cartoon show, which was always full of puns. They mention movie studio "Twentieth Century Sox." Someone asks Dishonest John, "What do they do in the year 2000?" "They change the sox!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 05:58 AM (wzUl9)

77
"No, this is AI. Stirling has learned how to program my voice into my phone. Of course he still hasn't figured out how to turn on the water tap in the bathroom, but, hey, we all have our weak spots."

___________

The danger isn't Stirling learning AI, the danger is Stirling acquiring an opposable thumb.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 05:59 AM (tgvbd)

78 I'd love a waffle. Unfortunately I don't have any in the freezer. Make some? It's Linda who is the whiz-bang cook -- and I'd have to buy the ingredients anyway.

The PT 109 movie with Cliff Robertson as the young Lt. (jg) John Kennedy is on the Movies! channel right now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

79 Hi Grump

Posted by: fluffy at November 04, 2025 06:02 AM (AN2gy)

80 Am I the only one who thinks that if AI is that important to your job then maybe your job isn't that important?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 05:57 AM (tgvbd)

Without starting an argument with the local commenter who thinks AI is the bee's knees, it's not that AI is important to your job... it's that people in management are easily led by the nose to accept that "the current thing" is super important. Consequently, pointy-haired boss insists that you use AI, even if it either provides an inferior result or requires more work to achieve parity because AI!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:03 AM (ExV1e)

81 Speaking of socks-

Smelly socks help reunite owner with missing dog. Video:

https://tinyurl.com/4c7xpd79

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 04, 2025 06:03 AM (Nx5jP)

82 @74/Hadrian the Seventh: "Am I the only one who thinks that if AI is that important to your job then maybe your job isn't that important?"

Nope, you're not. The employee using AI is the last training step before they fire that employee and let the AI slop interact (poorly) with the customers.

It's like the underwear gnomes have taken over the C-level of most companies.

1. Replace employees with AI
2. ???
3. Profit!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 06:04 AM (O7YUW)

83 Pancakes aren’t waffles, but they should scratch that itch. Very ez from scratch

Posted by: Common Tater at November 04, 2025 06:05 AM (itAZI)

84 Nope, you're not. The employee using AI is the last training step before they fire that employee and let the AI slop interact (poorly) with the customers.

I shall retire soon and am currently training Indians to interact (poorly) with the customers. Fortunately for the company, all the relevant customers are internal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:06 AM (ExV1e)

85 You can even pour blueberry muffin mix into a waffle iron.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 04, 2025 06:07 AM (3XYA+)

86 You can even pour blueberry muffin mix into a waffle iron.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 04, 2025 06:07 AM (3XYA+)

You're missing out. You could have launched a social media career worth ones of dollars if you'd made a TikTok of that advice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:09 AM (ExV1e)

87 The danger isn't Stirling learning AI, the danger is Stirling acquiring an opposable thumb.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025

***
Shades of that disturbing short story by Theodore Sturgeon, "Helix the Cat," in which a cat does indeed develop intelligence and thumbs -- and is still the me-first, me-only sociopath that a cat really is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

88 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: It is. Was. Has been.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 04, 2025 06:12 AM (x7EH8)

89 "Without starting an argument with the local commenter who thinks AI is the bee's knees"

Right, that reminds me, there's one from yesterday I need to reply to. This was in regards to a development kit for getting a clock signal from WWVB and perhaps using that as a linux based NTP time server to the computers on the local net:

@107 (yesterday's tech thread)/Don't blame the alligators (1Nv0l):

"Use ChatGPT. I've started (and finished!) several projects that I never had the time or energy for without AI. It helps enormously pointing you in exactly the right direction, assists with laying out the options at key decision points, with debugging.

ChatGPT-5 is now good enough that you can more-or-less have it write entire scripts for you, and they generally work."

While the end result is desirable, so is the journey of discovery, learning, making mistakes, correcting them, and finally knowing all those cool bits of information you didn't know when you started.

Sometimes it's more about the journey than the destination.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 06:12 AM (O7YUW)

90 Und auch Ihnen. Was is den los?
----
Ich beginne gerade erst den Tag.

I should probably start using Spanish. I am a bit better with it.

Posted by: clarence at November 04, 2025 06:13 AM (zBOWZ)

91 @88/Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea: "Rejoinder: It is. Was. Has been."

It steams in the cup no more. It is an ex-tea!

Posted by: Monty Python sketches that won't go away at November 04, 2025 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

92 Sometimes it's more about the journey than the destination.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 06:12 AM (O7YUW)

Another time-honored adage.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:15 AM (RuTUS)

93 @92/m: "Another time-honored adage."

The destination fulfills a goal. The journey gives you stories to tell.

Posted by: Monty Python sketches that won't go away at November 04, 2025 06:16 AM (O7YUW)

94 >>> "Am I the only one who thinks that if AI is that important to your job then maybe your job isn't that important?"

In my field, we keep getting dumped more projects on our plates, with less workers to do them. We can't keep up with the pace, but our work gets that you need a brain not a machine behind what we do. For now, at least, my work wants humans to do the thinking. Not a machine.

But the thinking process can be streamlined by AI, not replaced, and the brainstorming stages can be as well. So we can keep up with the pace of projects, with the AI handling the more boring parts of the process.

If you were a legit 3D animation shop and presented that AI ad to Coca Cola execs as the vision board rendering of what the ad COULD be, but then hired an animation team to bring it to life... how cool would that be? It would cut the brainstorming time and the budget down for the agency, while still having artistic hands firmly in control of the visuals and the feeling. You still have humans making the art and getting a paycheck.

Do not get me started on the comments in the Verge article that advertising isn't actually art, or that stellar ads take artistry to make. Do not.

Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 06:17 AM (gWBY1)

95 Argh. Off off blasted sock.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

96 93 @92/m: "Another time-honored adage."

The destination fulfills a goal. The journey gives you stories to tell.
Posted by: Monty Python sketches that won't go away at November 04, 2025 06:16 AM (O7YUW)

The journey allows for Quests.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:19 AM (RuTUS)

97 The Kennedy administration really was an odd one in American history. Here was a young, good-looking President and First Lady, after eight years of stodgy old Eisenhower and his wife, and the country fell in love with them. (Or the media wanted us to believe that.) There was the PT 109 movie coming out *while* he was still president. There were no movies about FDR's younger days or Ike's made *while* either of them was in the Oval Office; Sunrise at Campobello, about FDR, and The Longest Day showcasing Eisenhower at D-Day, came out after they'd left office.

Revell even released a fairly large-scale plastic model kit of the PT 109 boat while JFK was president, to tie in with the movie -- but it added to JFK's glamour.

Unusual, that period.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

98 If you were a legit 3D animation shop and presented that AI ad to Coca Cola execs as the vision board rendering of what the ad COULD be
Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 06:17 AM (gWBY1)

Which would have taken maybe one person, right?

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:22 AM (RuTUS)

99
While the end result is desirable, so is the journey of discovery, learning, making mistakes, correcting them, and finally knowing all those cool bits of information you didn't know when you started.

I'm going through that right now. I am assembling a list of references for a book I hope to live long enough to write. I'm taking information - authors, journal, year, volume, page - from a very old spreadsheet, plugging it into Google Scholar, going to the publisher's site and downloading the complete citation and abstract to plug into EndNote.

There are a few thousand of these records to process. It will take a couple more months to finish. But I can look at each reference, read the abstract and figure out where this would fit in to the larger scheme of things. If I said to AI, "Get a list of non-patent references on metallocene catalysts for olefin polymerization," it would still take a couple of months to sort out the results.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 06:22 AM (tgvbd)

100 100

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

101 The journey allows for Quests.
Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:19 AM (RuTUS)

Dammit, my log is full and I still need to find three red-leafed sparkleberry flowers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:23 AM (ExV1e)

102 Dick Cheney has assumed room temperature.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 04, 2025 06:26 AM (JRP2U)

103 Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline

This is such a great nic.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

104 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 43 chilly degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor.

The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac predicts above-average temperature and below-average precipitation for the coming winter, which is fine with me.

Last week (Friday?) I mentioned an intermittent stabbing pain in my head just above the left ear. In the following days, it's been receding down to an irritating sort of 'pinch,' but it won't go away completely. My PCP wants me to go to the ER, but I hate the idea of wasting an entire day sitting there if this is - as I think it is - a nerve pinch or something simple. I think, though, that I am going to have to go after all.

Anyway, another hour or two of work beckons. Talk to you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 04, 2025 06:26 AM (ufSfZ)

105 It helps enormously pointing you in exactly the right direction, assists with laying out the options at key decision points, with debugging.

I'll have to give v5 a try then. My prior experience is that is does NOT point you the right direction, but rather encourages you further down the same, potentially flawed, path you're on.

When I told it I was going to ditch the current development path for a different approach, it replied "Yes, that is a better approach."

In the mad rush to make AI helpful they instead made it affirming, which isn't the same thing.

Posted by: Halfhand at November 04, 2025 06:27 AM (Qzova)

106 Another devil was needed in hell?

Posted by: no one at November 04, 2025 06:28 AM (W7XSX)

107 101 Dammit, my log is full and I still need to find three red-leafed sparkleberry flowers.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:23 AM (ExV1e)

And ...

... a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:29 AM (RuTUS)

108 I've finished my second cup of black juice, and smoked about half my pipe. Time to see about some breakfast. A couple of scrambled eggs, I think, and some cheese on toast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

109 49
'Quite possibly the best Pepsi ad ever made.'

There's no ad Pepsi could ever make that would keep Pepsi from tasting like Pepsi

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 04, 2025 06:31 AM (fd80v)

110 This is such a great nic.
Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

Thank you! It is meant both as an homage to the legendary astronaut and to be funny.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 04, 2025 06:34 AM (JRP2U)

111 Daily Tech News 4 November 2205

Did I just oversleep180 years?

Posted by: O-Dub at November 04, 2025 06:35 AM (RbmKM)

112 More on the JFK time: The Dick Van Dyke Show's Rob Petrie and Laura even *looked* a lot like John and Jackie; Laura wore her hair that way, and even Rob's haircut suggested John's thick brown hair. I'm not sure there's ever been a sitcom that did anything like that, then or since.

Fortunately for us viewers, the DVD series didn't rely only on that resemblance, and was actually well-written and funny. Carl Reiner, the show's creator, had played the lead in an earlier pilot abut a comedy writer's work and home life, and he certainly did not resemble JFK in any way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

113 >>> Which would have taken maybe one person, right? Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:22 AM (RuTUS)

Absolutely. You have an AI technician on staff generating the storyboards, based on animal or background concepts designed by the art team, and the rest of the animators on the team animate the approved storyboards. At least that's how I'd run the shop.

The AI agency Cova Coke used claims they used 100 staff to make that AI ad. I call utter bullcrap. They had like 2 people tops generate it in less than a week, 2 days if they are laser focused. Then bill Coca Cola as if they had a team of 100 on it and everyone gets huge Christmas bonuses. Backyard in ground home pool worthy, not jelly of the month club worthy.

Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 06:37 AM (gWBY1)

114 Unusual, that period.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

Like Mussolini, and Kennedy
The cult of personality.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 06:37 AM (06Hmj)

115 They had like 2 people tops generate it in less than a week, 2 days if they are laser focused. Then bill Coca Cola as if they had a team of 100 on it and everyone gets huge Christmas bonuses. Backyard in ground home pool worthy, not jelly of the month club worthy.
Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 06:37 AM (gWBY1)
------------
The modern equivalent of false musters in the 18th Century.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 04, 2025 06:39 AM (x7EH8)

116
And now with every reference I plug into the Elsevier site, I get a pop-up asking if I want to try ScienceDirect AI.

Free trial! Isn't this how drug pushers work?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 06:39 AM (tgvbd)

117 Carl Reiner, the show's creator, had played the lead in an earlier pilot abut a comedy writer's work and home life, and he certainly did not resemble JFK in any way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

Didn't Reiner play Alan Brady? Or whatever the star of the show-within-the-show they wrote for was called?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 06:39 AM (06Hmj)

118 Dick Cheney has assumed room temperature.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 04, 2025 06:26 AM (JRP2U)

Oh, no, he was such a fair-minded and reasonable Republican. -- Democrats in 2025

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

119 117
'Didn't Reiner play Alan Brady?'
Yes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 04, 2025 06:40 AM (fd80v)

120 @108/Wolfus: I assume you've already seen to the furry thugs' breakfast, for there could be no peace before their appetite was sated.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 06:41 AM (O7YUW)

121
Oh, no, he was such a fair-minded and reasonable Republican. -- Democrats in 2025
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

Every dead Republican is a stick to be used to beat live Republicans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 06:41 AM (tgvbd)

122
A mercifully quiet night here at Schloss Hadrian. No whining and wailing from The Big Dummy, no insistent barkulating from Diana.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 06:42 AM (tgvbd)

123 My PCP wants me to go to the ER, but I hate the idea of wasting an entire day sitting there if this is - as I think it is - a nerve pinch or something simple. I think, though, that I am going to have to go after all.

youtube.com/shorts/WwJiMF5qAJY

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:43 AM (ExV1e)

124 Every dead Republican is a stick to be used to beat live Republicans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 06:41 AM (tgvbd)

So are half the alive ones, it seems.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 06:43 AM (06Hmj)

125 And ...

... a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 06:29 AM (RuTUS)

I haven't heard that in forever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 06:44 AM (ExV1e)

126 @116/Hadrian the Seventh: "And now with every reference I plug into the Elsevier site, I get a pop-up asking if I want to try ScienceDirect AI."

The irony is that the AI advertisement is now training you to reflexively say "NO!" and close that dialog with increasing speed of mental and physical muscle memory.

"Free trial! Isn't this how drug pushers work?"

"The first one is always free." Yup.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 06:46 AM (O7YUW)

127 Like Mussolini, and Kennedy
The cult of personality.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025

***
I think Teddy Roosevelt had that too. But that was when movies were still in their infancy. There was the "teddy bear" phenomenon, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

128 I think Teddy Roosevelt had that too. But that was when movies were still in their infancy. There was the "teddy bear" phenomenon, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

Wrong number of syllables for the song, though. Sorry, Ted.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 06:48 AM (06Hmj)

129 The quote at the end of the Coke AI article is great - essentially he says, yeah, it's crap, but you can finish it in a month. Way to sell it, chief marketing guy!

Posted by: DPICM at November 04, 2025 06:48 AM (V0ICN)

130 @108/Wolfus: I assume you've already seen to the furry thugs' breakfast, for there could be no peace before their appetite was sated.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025

***
But of course. I do make them wait until I've had my first cup of coffee, then feed them usually at five am (and five pm for dinner). No doubt they think of me as a terrible slave driver.

They still sleep with me, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

131 >>Carl Reiner, the show's creator, had played the lead in an earlier pilot abut a comedy writer's work and home life, and he certainly did not resemble JFK in any way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

The legend is that Reiner was unhappy that when the pilot was shown to test audiences, they liked everything about it but him.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 04, 2025 06:50 AM (NcvvS)

132 Affinity has now joined all their applications into one, just called "Affinity" and they're giving it away for free.

When Canva bought them, they promised never to go a subscription model.

So, something is in the offing. My skepticism is starting to loosen its chains.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 04, 2025 06:50 AM (WPL6O)

133 The legend is that Reiner was unhappy that when the pilot was shown to test audiences, they liked everything about it but him.
Posted by: Nazdar at November 04, 2025 06:50 AM (NcvvS)

Working pilot title: "Who's This Dick?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 06:51 AM (06Hmj)

134 Reiner was perfect as the irascible boss, though.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 04, 2025 06:52 AM (NcvvS)

135 Like Mussolini, and Kennedy
The cult of personality.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Great song!!

youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 04, 2025 06:53 AM (sAmhv)

136 @132/BeckoningChasm: "... and they're giving it away for free. "

Meaning that you (or your actions and your data) have become the product they're selling to nefarious third parties.

I'd say let your skepticism slip its chains entirely, while yelling "Sic'em!"

Thus always to salesmen. (I learned this watching "Secondhand Lions" - great movie, by the way.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 06:54 AM (O7YUW)

137 Didn't Reiner play Alan Brady? Or whatever the star of the show-within-the-show they wrote for was called?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025

***
Yes, Reiner played Brady, the tyrannical but funny star of the variety show with his name. The earlier version was 1958's Head of the Family. I'm not sure who played his wife in it. But apparently the network, CBS, liked eh series, but disliked Reiner in the lead. This led to the DVD show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:54 AM (wzUl9)

138 The legend is that Reiner was unhappy that when the pilot was shown to test audiences, they liked everything about it but him.

Reminds me about how All in the Family was supposed to be about how Meathead was the enlightened one and Archie was the racist fossil only to have more people like Archie better.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 06:57 AM (lXoJ5)

139 Okay, work beckons. Six kids written up in two days. *sighs*

Little poozers.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025 06:57 AM (O7YUW)

140 Reminds me about how All in the Family was supposed to be about how Meathead was the enlightened one and Archie was the racist fossil only to have more people like Archie better.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 06:57 AM (lXoJ5)

Like father like son.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 06:57 AM (06Hmj)

141 That "top story" quote - "spend" is not a noun it's a verb. You don't get return on a "spend" that's retard speak.

Posted by: Farsi at November 04, 2025 06:58 AM (MuOsO)

142 On my card for today: I'm running over to Home Depot to buy some insulation, the rigid board kind, to install around the window unit A/C in my front window. The expandable panels that came with the unit to block the rest of the window space are terrible; and Stirling loves to paw at the foam insulation I've taped around them. So I'm going to see if I can cut some panels and wedge them into the spaces, both inside and out, to keep cold drafts out (and keep the cooled A/C air in).

Also I've written to a local CPA firm on my side of the river to see if we can meet. I wonder if I'm on track for my taxes for next year, as I have not told SSA to withhold taxes from my benefits, but have sent some estimated payments to the IRS. My numbers say I may not owe a huge amount next spring. It'd be good to check on that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

143 I guess Dick Cheney died.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at November 04, 2025 06:59 AM (+YRf1)

144 (I learned this watching "Secondhand Lions" - great movie, by the way.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 04, 2025

***
+ 100. One of my "movies I would change nothing about."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

145
Reminds me about how All in the Family was supposed to be about how Meathead was the enlightened one and Archie was the racist fossil only to have more people like Archie better.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 06:57 AM (lXoJ5)

Or how Pius XIII in The Young Pope was supposed to be some pre-Councilar throwback only to have Catholics say, "That's the guy we need!!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 07:02 AM (tgvbd)

146 G'mornin' everyone!

thank you, m, that was gonna be my first question of the day, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 04, 2025 07:03 AM (kHop/)

147 I guess Dick Cheney died.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway

I'll fire off a shotgun blast.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at November 04, 2025 07:03 AM (/awz+)

148 Is this blog still completely unsearchable? The old Cheney Facts thread is still a comedy classic, regardless of what happened all those years later.

I wonder if anyone could find it again.

Posted by: lauraw at November 04, 2025 07:03 AM (OIdFA)

149 141 That "top story" quote - "spend" is not a noun it's a verb. You don't get return on a "spend" that's retard speak.
Posted by: Farsi at November 04, 2025 06:58 AM (MuOsO)

Piffle. Every verb can be used as a noun.

"The jump was too far to make."

"The last lift was too heavy for the crane."

Etc. It just sounds douchey for some verbs that have a more common idiom to express that sort of thing but you're intentionally trying to subvert that common idiom just to sound different.

Millennials think they invented everything.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 07:04 AM (06Hmj)

150 As for Dick Cheney: Any man who can shoot a lawyer and the lawyer apologizes has some good points to him.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 07:05 AM (lXoJ5)

151 Stifle, Edith!

Posted by: Gee, our old LaSalle ran great! at November 04, 2025 07:05 AM (XQo4F)

152 MUNG

Mung Until No Good

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 04, 2025 07:06 AM (kHop/)

153 And verbing nouns weirds language.

Posted by: Noun Verber at November 04, 2025 07:06 AM (vd6bO)

154 I guess Dick Cheney died.

During McCain's funeral?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 04, 2025 07:06 AM (ufSfZ)

155 153 And verbing nouns weirds language.
Posted by: Noun Verber at November 04, 2025 07:06 AM (vd6bO)

denounment?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 07:07 AM (06Hmj)

156 Your noun verbed my adjective!

Posted by: Two great tastes at November 04, 2025 07:07 AM (XQo4F)

157 " I guess Dick Cheney died.

During McCain's funeral?"

A classic Dick move.

Pretty damn inconsiderate of him...

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 04, 2025 07:08 AM (a1415)

158 UPDATE: Found. There's two, a submissions request and a "best of".

Will this work?

https://is.gd/qGIaj6

Posted by: lauraw at November 04, 2025 07:08 AM (OIdFA)

159 I wonder if anyone could find it again.
Posted by: lauraw at November 04, 2025

December 1st and 2nd of 2005.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 07:08 AM (lXoJ5)

160 "During McCain's funeral?"

Don't forget "So soon after Pride Month?"

Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 07:09 AM (lXoJ5)

161 Yup. Weird's an adjective, and it's spelled weird.

Posted by: Noun Verber at November 04, 2025 07:09 AM (vd6bO)

162 "I guess Dick Cheney died."

Cue the Darth Vader music.

Posted by: The media we used to watch at November 04, 2025 07:09 AM (XQo4F)

163
"During McCain's funeral?"

Don't forget "So soon after Pride Month?"
Posted by: NR Pax at November 04, 2025 07:09 AM (lXoJ5)

And you're disrespecting George Floyd!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 07:10 AM (tgvbd)

164 148 Is this blog still completely unsearchable? The old Cheney Facts thread is still a comedy classic, regardless of what happened all those years later.

I wonder if anyone could find it again.
Posted by: lauraw at November 04, 2025 07:03 AM (OIdFA)

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/400525.php

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 07:10 AM (RuTUS)

165 164 148 Is this blog still completely unsearchable? The old Cheney Facts thread is still a comedy classic, regardless of what happened all those years later.

I wonder if anyone could find it again.
Posted by: lauraw at November 04, 2025 07:03 AM (OIdFA)

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/400525.php
Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 07:10 AM (RuTUS)

This is the wrong Cheney post, but here's the process to get it, which might be transferrable:

I put

ace.mu.nu cheney

in the browser search bar

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

166 158 UPDATE: Found. There's two, a submissions request and a "best of".

Will this work?

https://is.gd/qGIaj6
Posted by: lauraw at November 04, 2025 07:08 AM (OIdFA)

cool

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 07:14 AM (RuTUS)

167 mornin yall. We have some Sparkleberry by the creek. In the Spring it will have some unique little white flowers.

My shoulder is ate up with shingles. Bah.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)

168 >>> I guess Dick Cheney died.

I look forward to seeing how the dems try to rehab Cheney's image to stick it to Trump and JD.

"Cheney was Emperor Palpatine, but at least Bush picked a wizened man as his VP! Not this Gen X hillbilly whose sad wife feels trapped in her marriage! And who flirts too much with Erika Kirk! Cheney never once hugged a pretty widow on camera. He had decorum. And was LGBT friendly."

Trying to grease the wheels for a chance to shiv JD, since he is the 2028 front runner.

Posted by: LizLem at November 04, 2025 07:14 AM (gWBY1)

169 Under the spook money cutout in the 1950s, Kentucky State Prison had some sort of outpatient drug addict facility. Inmates were allowed to get their drug of choice, in exchange for volunteering for special drug trials. Mostly psychodelics, in one notable example at least 3 inmates were kept tripping on acid for 77 days straight. Since sleep deprivation was part of the experiment they used cattle prods when they would start to nod off. Your tax dollars (off the books) at work.

Science!

Posted by: Common Tater at November 04, 2025 07:15 AM (fqXHl)

170 Bluesky will be especially ugly today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 04, 2025 07:15 AM (46eqP)

171 Cheney's deceased? Ok, I guess. Will the leftys be gloating today or does anybody still care?

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

172
Bluesky will be especially ugly today.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 04, 2025 07:15 AM (46eqP)

Different face, same ugly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 04, 2025 07:17 AM (tgvbd)

173 Bluesky will be especially ugly today.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 04, 2025

***
Nothing new there

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 07:17 AM (wzUl9)

174
Is this blog still completely unsearchable? The old Cheney Facts thread is still a comedy classic, regardless of what happened all those years later.

I wonder if anyone could find it again.

Posted by: lauraw at November 04, 2025 07:03 AM

I know, right? There was a time when Cheney was revered around these parts, that Dick pissed away all that good will later in life doesn't make the blog-lore about him any less funny

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 04, 2025 07:17 AM (tljrc)

175

Replicating today's driving environment is just like trying to make EV's practical. In this case, it isn't battery capacity, it is the range of variables encountered.

Accounting for that issue, in today's environment isn't possible.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 04, 2025 07:17 AM (vFbHf)

176 124, too true, W-o

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 04, 2025 07:18 AM (kHop/)

177 On brother. The GOP's plan to get Mamdami is declare him an insurrectionist. Brilliant.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2025 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

178 @132

>>So, something is in the offing. My skepticism is starting to loosen its chains.

I'm surprised the Adobe hasn't bought them and ProCreate.

Simply to remove a competitor.

I remember when Starbucks bought Teavana to get rid of a budding rival.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 04, 2025 07:21 AM (XV/Pl)

179 UPDATE: Found. There's two, a submissions request and a "best of".

Will this work?

https://is.gd/qGIaj6
Posted by: lauraw at November 04, 2025

***
Twenty years old, and still funny!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 07:22 AM (wzUl9)

180 Wait to the last minute and throw out a futile plan. Way to go, top men.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

181 Piffle. Every verb can be used as a noun.

"The jump was too far to make."

"The last lift was too heavy for the crane."

Etc. It just sounds douchey for some verbs that have a more common idiom to express that sort of thing but you're intentionally trying to subvert that common idiom just to sound different.

Millennials think they invented everything.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 04, 2025 07:04 AM (06Hmj)

The fuck you talkin' about?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)

182 Interesting reading the comments from the cheney thread of 2005, so many nics I don't recognize and the spam. I didn't start here til 2008 so I missed this on it's first go round.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 04, 2025 07:25 AM (2NHgQ)

183 We have some Sparkleberry by the creek. In the Spring it will have some unique little white flowers.

You're just trying to give me a quest to gather 10 when there's only 9 plants and they only flower for one day per game year.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

184 'Member me?

Posted by: Lace Wigs at November 04, 2025 07:25 AM (gWBY1)

185
the bestest of the best of thread:

While on a sex-spree in a Tijuana whorehouse, Dick Cheney used a live cougar as a condom.

The bodycount was fourteen Mexican whores and one cougar.

In Tijuana, they refer to this as "The Night of the Sodomizing Cougar-Man."

Dick Cheney refers to it as "last Thursday."

Posted by: ace on December 1, 2005 08:22 PM

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 04, 2025 07:27 AM (tljrc)

186 There was a time when Cheney was revered around these parts, that Dick pissed away all that good will later in life doesn't make the blog-lore about him any less funny
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 04, 2025 07:17 AM (tljrc)

I remember those days. The days before the masks fell.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

187 Interesting reading the comments from the cheney thread of 2005, so many nics I don't recognize and the spam. I didn't start here til 2008 so I missed this on it's first go round.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 04, 2025

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Same for me. I started reading here in 2010 and posting in 2011. (My gosh, fourteen years --!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 07:28 AM (wzUl9)

188 "You're just trying to give me a quest to gather 10 when there's only 9 plants and they only flower for one day per game year.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic"

Heh. I should send a picture to the garden thread of this rare and valuable shrub.

Posted by: fd at November 04, 2025 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

189 In this case, it isn't battery capacity, it is the range of variables encountered.

Accounting for that issue, in today's environment isn't possible.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 04, 2025 07:17 AM (vFbHf)

Not to worry. AI will code up a whiz-bang algorithm to make it all safe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

190 There are no human beings in the Coke ad, except for a CGI hand at the beginning

and who associates tree sloths with Christmas?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Holidays are comin' at November 04, 2025 07:30 AM (AOsQT)

191 Don't comment in old threads.

Posted by: davidt at November 04, 2025 07:30 AM (Q+gd/)

192 and who associates tree sloths with Christmas?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Holidays are comin' at November 04, 2025

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I envision an ad where a giant sloth meets a polar bear and they share a Coke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

193 Federal agents arrested more than 120 illegal immigrant drivers on Texas roadways amid an investigation that found a major loophole in the Lone Star State that has allowed individuals lacking immigration status to register vehicles.

My guess is the plate people are looking cough cough the other way.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 04, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

194 yo
JJS is here

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 04, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

195 I envision an ad where a giant sloth meets a polar bear and they share a Coke.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

Imagine an ad where all the advertising executives who've destroyed companies over the previous year, or two, get together under the overpass - before the customers arrive - to share some coke.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 04, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

196 182 Interesting reading the comments from the cheney thread of 2005, so many nics I don't recognize and the spam.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 04, 2025 07:25 AM (2NHgQ)

Oh, man! The spam.

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 07:34 AM (RuTUS)

197 I'd forgotten, but Robert Culp is in PT 109.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 04, 2025 07:36 AM (wzUl9)

198
Christmas is now Easter?!?!

I guess the Christmas Rabbit hides various bottles of Coca-Cola around your home.

If you're bad you get a bottle of New Coke instead of a lump of coal.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 04, 2025 07:39 AM (iJfKG)

199 Here's the initial thread about Dick Cheney:

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=140208

December 01, 2005
Submissions Requested: Cool Facts About Dick Cheney
Please let me know all the Bill Braskey type stuff you know about the VP.

Bumped. Michael says he'll judge these and put them into a list of some kind.

For Easier Reading... See the Best of Cool Facts About Dick Cheney for the oddest and funniest entries.

posted by Ace at 08:23 PM

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 07:40 AM (RuTUS)

200 200

Posted by: m at November 04, 2025 07:40 AM (RuTUS)

201 I expect the first big money maker for AI will be producing entertainment that wouldn't otherwise exist due to budgets or critical actors being inconveniently dead. (Note that Disney has already locked down James Earl Jones voice for use specifically to create new appearances of Darth Vader. The rest of the cast is bound to follow on the basis of assuring a steady income for their heirs.)

This will go in stages, working up from half-hour anime episode conversions with built in storyboards to entirely new feature films. The easiest but hugely profitable will be converting long running anime series to pseudo-live action. As an example, 'Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'. This adapts the complete manga series from start to finish. Yes, there was a live action movie in Japan but while it pulled off some stuff pretty well, it had serious budget limitations and an all Japanese cast in a story that had very specific ethnicity of each character, none of them Japanese.

Once you establish for the AI what the main recurring cast looks like, the Elric brothers, various alchemists, the sins, etc., it can keep cranking them out over the 65 episode length of the series.

Posted by: Epobirs at November 04, 2025 07:56 AM (/0z9K)

202 So that first episode costs, say $10 million. But all that follow only need editorial input for one-shot characters and locations, which should bring the remaining 64 episode in at a much lower cost. For well under $100 million you'd end up with 32.5 hours of live action adaptation of a proven property. You'd likely be in profits very quickly.

There 's already indications of people working towards this, with demos on Youtube of what a well-known character like Wilma Flintstone looks like as a actual human. Adapting animation this way should be the easiest starting point.

Posted by: Epobirs at November 04, 2025 08:02 AM (/0z9K)

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