Daily Tech News 31 March 2026

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Bluesky announced a new AI tool named Attie to help inmates create their own social feeds. It did not go well. (Tech Crunch)

In three days Attie has accumulated 1500 followers - and been blocked by 125,000 users, which is to say all of them.

That's more blocks than even the ICE account, suggesting that while the inmates are clinically insane they are not entirely stupid.

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Life with AI is frying human brains. (France24)

It's like managing a hundred toddlers that never sleep.
Restoring old photos with AI is a fundamentally broken concept. (Petapixel)

It works for movies, because movies have massive amounts of redundant information - most of each frame is identical to the previous, with just some elements shifted.

With photos all you have is the photo.
Or not even that: Sony has shut down almost its entire memory card business. (Petapixel)

Only a few models survived the mass cancellations which hit capacities from a lowly 64GB to a hefty 2TB. AI taketh away, and AI taketh away some more.
The latest Windows 11 update isn't. (Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft has pulled the update entirely because it didn't work. At all.
AMD's Zen 6 server CPUs have shown up in test results. (Tom's Hardware)

These are engineering samples and probably not running even close to full speed, but they are already competitive with Zen 5.

Interesting point: The high-end models have 24 or 32 cores per chip (and up to 8 chips on the CPU). That's expected for server Zen 6c models (AMD's efficiency cores), but if they're not efficiency cores that's a big surprise.
You can get a 2TB Crucial P310 for $215 on Amazon. (WCCFTech)

Yay.

I ordered two of these on sale for around $150 each on New Year's Eve.

Amazon lost them.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: No beans.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Poit!

G'morning Pixy, and Horde. Thunder, lightning, and a lot of rain to start my day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:01 AM (O7YUW)

2 Morning Techsters. Hello Pixy.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2026 04:02 AM (xAJnx)

3 "Amazon lost them."

More likely, Amazon oversold them and lied to you about them being lost. I assume they refunded you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:04 AM (O7YUW)

4 Amazon lost them.
-----
You left out the scare quotes around "lost".

Posted by: buddhaha at March 31, 2026 04:14 AM (rJ+qD)

5 Mornin'

Got my MacBook Sky yesterday. It will take a bit to get used to it. I like it but MacOS isn't Linux Mint or Windows. It's different. The laptop itself is very nice. Lightweight, pretty fast, fairly easy to set up though I'm still doing that, and runs quiet. Safari is different. I'll figure it out. I went to The Masters website and tried to save one of the pictures there. One of the holes. It saved the whole page and I just want the image. Should be a way in Safari to just save the image. I've done it in other browsers (Edge, Google, Brave, etc).

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 04:17 AM (sAmhv)

6 w00t

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 04:17 AM (fNISR)

7 The speakers on this laptop are not bad. Listening to Tom Petty that Pixy kindly embedded above.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 04:19 AM (sAmhv)

8 "You can get a 2TB Crucial P310 for $215 on Amazon. "

Apparently not that good. I'm seeing $231.95 USD on amazon.com, after I entered a U.S. zip code, but I'm still browsing from Canada, so who knows what their price algorithm is doing to that.

Checking amazon.ca: Supposedly 5 featured offers starting at $467.22, but it's also saying "no featured offers available" meaning they don't really have any.

The 4 TB option is $695.00 CAD.

Oh HELL no.

Also: Bite me, Micron.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:20 AM (O7YUW)

9 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 04:25 AM (iMotb)

10 3 "Amazon lost them."

More likely, Amazon oversold them and lied to you about them being lost. I assume they refunded you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I did get a refund, no questions asked.

And I actually managed to pick up a couple of Team-brand drives to replace them, at a lower cost per gigabyte and TLC rather than the QLC used in this model, so I'm not too put out by it.

Those drives have doubled in price in the last month, so not a minute too soon either.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 31, 2026 04:27 AM (BLOW1)

11 @10/Pixy Misa:

I suspect we'll find out the AI demand for memory isn't nearly what is claimed, and that the big three were colluding on price increases. Again.

Something, something, cartel, RICO...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:31 AM (O7YUW)

12 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

13 Mornin' Skip.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:32 AM (O7YUW)

14 I always liked that video

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

15 at the France24 site:

(because I rejected cookies and stuff)

Because of your choice:
• Articles will no longer be able to display external content such as YouTube videos, posts from X (Twitter) and Instagram pictures.
• Cookies not linked to your personal data will be created to allow the website to run.
• Lower quality ads may be displayed.

ok ...

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 04:42 AM (fNISR)

16 Restoring old photos with AI is a fundamentally broken concept. (Petapixel)

Thanks. Good read.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 04:59 AM (fNISR)

17 So yesterday morning I had mentioned my dissatisfaction with our new Kwikset smart door lock.

Yesterday afternoon Kwikset reached out to me, and we spent about 20 minutes on the phone discussing the ongoing issues with the lock.
Very nice young lady, intelligent and knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the lock, both mechanically and smart feature sides.

After going over all the what-nots and stuff, she unasked told me that first they were sending me a complete new unit.

Upon receipt and install, if the issues persist, the whole thing jumps to the next level of tech support to see if there are additional factors causing the problem.

So.....things are happening.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:04 AM (iMotb)

18 17 So yesterday morning I had mentioned my dissatisfaction with our new Kwikset smart door lock.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:04 AM (iMotb)

And in the meantime, you've been ... lockless?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:11 AM (fNISR)

19
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 31, 2026 05:12 AM (tljrc)

20 Bluesky announced a new AI tool named Attie to help inmates create their own social feeds. It did not go well. (Tech Crunch)

from the article:

Bluesky ... userbase — now sitting at 43 million accounts

Q: How many bots?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:14 AM (fNISR)

21 "Should be a way in Safari to just save the image."

Or just install a different browser; almost all of them can be installed on a Mac.

Safari, IMO, isn't worth the effort to work around. I run Chrome on my work Mac.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 31, 2026 05:16 AM (HJSO3)

22 "And in the meantime, you've been ... lockless?"

No, no.

Basic issue is unusually short battery life.
But the unit has full physical key operability as well.
And all our key fobs have a physical key on them as well.

So we are never without an operable lock.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:18 AM (iMotb)

23 the TechCrunch article:

"Bluesky’s new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J. D. Vance"

The author of the article appears to be hyperventilating throughout.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:19 AM (fNISR)

24 22 "And in the meantime, you've been ... lockless?"

No, no.

Basic issue is unusually short battery life.
But the unit has full physical key operability as well.
And all our key fobs have a physical key on them as well.

So we are never without an operable lock.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:18 AM (iMotb)

yay

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:19 AM (fNISR)

25 "I like it but MacOS isn't Linux Mint or Windows."

The MacOS weasels haven't quite figured out how to display windows across multiple monitors in a sane fashion. If you don't have multiple monitors, you won't care about this.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 31, 2026 05:22 AM (HJSO3)

26 21: Firefox is what I use with Linux. Might try that on the Mac. Good to know Chrome is an option

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 05:24 AM (sAmhv)

27 @5

>>Got my MacBook Sky yesterday.

Command + space bar is your friend and should become the main way you open apps or try to find things.

Command + tab will bring up all open apps and let you cycle through them. Command + q closes them.

Install home brew, it's a Mac terminal package manager that will allow you to install software via the terminal.

Install kitty or ghosty, these are terminals and are superior to the built in Mac terminal.

Install Chrome or Brave web browsers, install vim extension in either of them. This will allow you to navigate the web browser with keyboard commands.

I would recommend installing aerospace.

At the end of the day, you should be able to drive your Mac via the keyboard and using the mouse as little as possible.

This will make using your computer so much more productively .

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2026 05:28 AM (XV/Pl)

28 25 "I like it but MacOS isn't Linux Mint or Windows."

The MacOS weasels haven't quite figured out how to display windows across multiple monitors in a sane fashion. If you don't have multiple monitors, you won't care about this.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 31, 2026 05:22 AM (HJSO3)

weasels?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:29 AM (fNISR)

29 In other tech annoyances, GoComics has (apparently sometime between yesterday and today) implemented a new security layer to protect themselves from attacks. They've outsourced this to some outfit called 'bunny.net' that requires the running of WebAssembly in my browser.

Thing is, I'd long ago turned off WebAssembly in my browser (FireFox) in order to protect myself from buffer overflow attacks that could break out of WebAssembly's sandbox.

End result: I'm not reading three comics at GoComics anymore as of this morning. Oh well.

I did dash off a note to them explaining things, and that I didn't expect them to revert their changes just due to me, but I at least wanted to let them know that not everyone out there is willing to let WebAssembly run, and why.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 05:33 AM (O7YUW)

30 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 31, 2026 05:35 AM (2Ez/1)

31 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 31, 2026 05:36 AM (bQ4nt)

32 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:36 AM (iMotb)

33 27: Thanks! I saved it and will mess with it later. I'll add either Brave or Firefox later also. Maybe Chrome.

Going to bed soon. Even on my days off, I stay up all night.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 05:36 AM (sAmhv)

34 Ohhh, touch button lock

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 05:36 AM (Ia/+0)

35 Good morning, everyone! I have survived Monday and feel able to face the week.

Went to the gym yesterday. I attempted half an hour on the exercise bike only to have my body get to the ten minute mark and say "We're done."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 05:39 AM (OPGS/)

36 End result: I'm not reading three comics at GoComics anymore as of this morning. Oh well.

G&R, I saw that myself this morning and it was only for one comic. Once I hit refresh, the problem went away but I'll keep an eye on things.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 05:41 AM (OPGS/)

37 @28/m: weasels?

Beware the Stoat Army and its Weas-4 mafia.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

38 34: it is useful.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 05:43 AM (sAmhv)

39 @36/NR Pax: "G&R, I saw that myself this morning and it was only for one comic. Once I hit refresh, the problem went away but I'll keep an eye on things."

It's not going away for me on refresh, but I completely neutered WebAssembly in FireFox's about:config screen.

Now if Firefox had a per-site whitelist where I would allow web-assembly to run, then maybe I'd change my stance. Maybe.

I still don't like the idea of running binary blob's of executable code handed to me by a website. Seems like a good way to get Ransomware attacked at some point by the forces of darkness.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 05:44 AM (O7YUW)

40 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 31, 2026 05:45 AM (AN2gy)

41 I still don't like the idea of running binary blob's of executable code handed to me by a website. Seems like a good way to get Ransomware attacked at some point by the forces of darkness.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Good point. I'll have to see if I can find that in Brave's settings.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 05:46 AM (OPGS/)

42 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ reporting stations across the system and beyond! It's Tiu's Day on Earth once again. Ho-hum.

Got all my chores done yesterday, including a virtual meeting with a home loan lender in Kansas. I am pre-approved for more money than I would ever borrow. Tires for the Buick are slated for Wed. And in a second hard look at my state tax forms, I realized I was not deducting my SS and some other things. I'll sit down with the project today. Maybe I owe a lot less than I thought.

Rain is forecast off and on this week, so I need to go work out this morning. How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 05:48 AM (wzUl9)

43 Rain is forecast off and on this week, so I need to go work out this morning. How about you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, I finally heard from my tax dude and I'm waiting for the parts that need my signature. Not very happy with waiting this long for things to be finished since I submitted my paperwork late February.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 05:53 AM (OPGS/)

44 @42/Wolfus:

G'morning! Here's hoping you don't take a massive hit on the taxes when the calculations are revisited.

We're getting tons of rain today, it'll be a wet wet drive in the school bus. Thankfully I remembered to put up ALL the windows at the end of the drive yesterday when it was so sunny and beautiful outside. (Doesn't mean I won't find leaks happening into the driver's section, they don't build these things well in terms of waterproofing, apparently.)

Now, what news of the furry thugs?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

45 G'morning! Here's hoping you don't take a massive hit on the taxes when the calculations are revisited.

We're getting tons of rain today, it'll be a wet wet drive in the school bus. Thankfully I remembered to put up ALL the windows at the end of the drive yesterday when it was so sunny and beautiful outside. (Doesn't mean I won't find leaks happening into the driver's section, they don't build these things well in terms of waterproofing, apparently.)

Now, what news of the furry thugs?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026

***
Morning to you, G & R,

I've never driven a school bus except in my imagination. In a mystery novel I plan to self-publish, the narrator, a 27-year-old woman who knows how to drive a stick, is forced to drive a school bus in the snow along a twisting mountain road as darkness falls, to save her boss's life. I just tried to imagine the noise and vibration, the feel of the bus's long body, etc. My pre-readers have told me it was exciting, which was what I was hoping for!

Furballs are well -- and hungry! Dagny is right here with me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

46 As for the taxes, I looked back at the last three years of state returns. I claimed my SS deduction then. The deduction used to be right there on the main form, like on the Fed 1040. Now, like that one, you have a "Schedule E" where you enter it and any others. I almost missed it and was thinking I had a *big* payment to make -- enough so that I should have sent estimated payments to the state last year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

47 I have actually driven a school bus. No kids, just a variety of military folks as I was at a Joint Command. Drove a bus a few times when i was deployed or had some special event and was told I'm driving the bus. I was a comms guy. A low ranking enlisted guy at a top heavy unit. No big deal. I didn't wreck and no complaints.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 06:06 AM (sAmhv)

48 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 06:08 AM (Ia/+0)

49 Good morning morons

Watching the Bill O'Reilly documentary on San Francisco. Right now Willie Brown is explaining how "generous" San Francisco is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:08 AM (RIvkX)

50 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: No musical fruit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2026 06:13 AM (DwICI)

51 @45/Wolfus:

Glad the furry thugs are well, and of course they're hungry! ;-)

As to the School Bus driving: One of the biggest problems when driving a bus is the fact that when making a left turn, you have to turn WIDE so you don't impinge on the opposite lane for the pair of lanes you're turning into (ie, don't go over the other guy's stop line.) And yet, that's a lot easier than making a right.

Right turns are a pain in the ass in a school bus, mostly because the bus hangs out an additional distance behind the back wheels, and those wheels are the pivot point in a turn.

You must drive straight out into the intersection until the edge of the curb is just past the middle of your service door, and then begin your turn. If you do it right, and while watching your lower mirror on the right, your back right wheels will JUST miss the curb and not go up over it.

You're also trying to balance your front left of the bus not touching the car at his stop line in front of you to the left, as well as making sure your back left of your bus doesn't swing out and hit a car as you turn.

Oh, and did I mention making sure bicyclists aren't coming up on your right side while turning right?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:15 AM (O7YUW)

52 sigh Really, Crunchyroll?! ANOTHER data breach? What kind of smooth brained, DEI hired, maliciously ignorant, second rate Indian tech school graduates do you have running things?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 06:16 AM (OPGS/)

53 SF chocolate company recalls products for being spiked with Viagra ingredients
By Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times
March 30, 2026

The San Francisco Bay Area's Gear Isle recalled the products after they were found to contain undeclared prescription drug ingredients used to treat erectile dysfunction, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week. The products, sold online across the U.S., were found to have sildenafil and tadalafil. The ingredients could cause a "life-threatening" drop in blood pressure when mixed with nitrates found in prescription drugs, according to the FDA.

The two recalled products are Gold Lion Aphrodisiac Chocolate Male Enhancement Sachet and ilum Sex Chocolate Male Sexual Enhancement Booster. The FDA initially issued a warning in February advising consumers not to purchase the second item after confirming the product contained tadalafil.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:16 AM (RIvkX)

54 (continued from 51)

So yeah, you're trying to keep track of all of that in about three seconds. If that helps your future writings if it involves a school bus, fantastic. That's why I wrote all of that to you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

55 @52/NR Pax: "sigh Really, Crunchyroll?! ANOTHER data breach? What kind of smooth brained, DEI hired, maliciously ignorant, second rate Indian tech school graduates do you have running things?"

We are coding here beside ourselves! {/awful Indian accent}

Posted by: "Bob" in tech support at March 31, 2026 06:18 AM (O7YUW)

56 We are coding here beside ourselves! {/awful Indian accent}
Posted by: "Bob" in tech support

ugh. Did I mention the AI support that reaches out to you with support issues? Between all that and the fact they allow the captions to be modified so "modern audiences" don't get their feelings hurt, I'm struggling to understand why we keep supporting them.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 06:23 AM (OPGS/)

57 Daniel Greenfield saw my comment yesterday...

SF DEI Boss Appointed To Redistribute Wealth to Black Community, Redistributed Wealth to Her Boyfriend
Led SF's response to the drug overdose death of George Floyd
March 31, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:23 AM (RIvkX)

58 @52/NR Pax (again): And to this day, every time I read the phrase, "Please do the needfully", my eye starts twitching. I was forced to correspond with Indian coders and support staff at one point in my career. It was terrible. Their culture has a baked-in attempt to shift responsibility to ANYONE else other than the person you're speaking with or writing back and forth with. That, and I swear they're not permitted to show any initiative themselves, lest responsibility somehow fall upon their shoulders.

Maddening. Absolutely maddening.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

59 >>> The two recalled products are Gold Lion Aphrodisiac Chocolate Male Enhancement Sachet and ilum Sex Chocolate Male Sexual Enhancement Booster.

For some reason viagra works as an off schedule drug for lowering blood pressure, yet its function is to cause a spike in blood pressure (of a sort).

Rebound reaction?

Posted by: fluffy at March 31, 2026 06:25 AM (AN2gy)

60 So yeah, you're trying to keep track of all of that in about three seconds. If that helps your future writings if it involves a school bus, fantastic. That's why I wrote all of that to you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026

***
My heroine/narrator does make two left turns, so I might look at that scene and see if I need to mention something about turning wide. Thanks!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9)

61 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

62 @60/Wolfus: You're welcome. Left, you just head out into the intersection so you're well past the left edge of the stop line for the driver on your left, and then you go hard-left on your steering wheel, and correct once you're into the lane.

Oh, and in a double-left turn lane, the bus and other large/long vehicles ALWAYS take the right-most of the left-turn lanes. (Otherwise the swing of the back end would hit a vehicle in that right-most left-hand turn lane during the turn and we don't want that.) Little vehicles take the inner/left-most turn lane.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

63 G'morning NaCly Dog! I'm just packing up to go drive.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

64 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Good description. Mirrors are your friend. Head is moving back and forth. Once you have physical reference points for sound turns, you are less stressed. Each bus turns a bit different.

Any school bus driver is only as good as their next turn. Too much focus is bad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 06:40 AM (u82oZ)

65 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Safe travels and happy kids.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 06:42 AM (u82oZ)

66 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:16 AM (RIvkX)

I have said before, I think Chinese buyers of rhino horn and similar should all switch en masse to fake rhino with real erectile dysfunction drugs. Their culture has shown a complete absence of compunction against fraud, and that would save both the rhinos and the erections. As long as none of their customers tested for rhino DNA (and why would they), it would be a win/win!

Posted by: SciVo at March 31, 2026 06:46 AM (Sy6m/)

67 SciVo

I like this plan. Think of all the valuable wild-life saved.
Elderly men with viagra do not constitute wild-life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

68 I have said before, I think Chinese buyers of rhino horn and similar should all switch en masse to fake rhino with real erectile dysfunction drugs.

A few years ago, a friend sent me an article about a man who had actually created fake rhino horn and wanted to flood the market with it. An animal rights activist complained about it because it was wrong to encourage the trade.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 06:53 AM (OPGS/)

69 You youngsters may remember they used to sell a chocolate laxative product called Ayds. Good times.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:55 AM (RIvkX)

70 @64/NaCly Dog: "Too much focus is bad."

Spot on. Information overload is an absolute bitch. I experienced that many times during my first few weeks/months of driving.

"Safe travels and happy kids."

Thank you, and from your mouth to God's ear. Driving in rain today. *looks at clock* Time to skedaddle.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

71 69 You youngsters may remember they used to sell a chocolate laxative product called Ayds.

Oh yes. The AYDS Diet Plan. At least both helped with weight loss.

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 06:57 AM (OPGS/)

72 Good morning. I wish we'd get some of that rain Wolfus and Skip wrote about. It's been very dry here and not much relief in the forecast. Be well all.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 31, 2026 06:59 AM (S+2Xo)

73 Either the activist doesn't understand economics, or undercutting the poachers and driving them out of business would threaten his own income raising awareness of the issue. Safe, healthy rhinos probably don't open wallets the same way.

Posted by: SciVo at March 31, 2026 06:59 AM (Sy6m/)

74 Either the activist doesn't understand economics, or undercutting the poachers and driving them out of business would threaten his own income

I think it's the same mindset when women are encouraged to learn how to shoot for self defense and some woman replies "TEACH BOYS TO NOT RAPE!" as if that was the better solution.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:03 AM (OPGS/)

75 Or buy authentic RINO horn. Triple win

Posted by: Dark L at March 31, 2026 07:05 AM (KAi1n)

76 *peeks in*
Reads about horny rhinos driving school buses with AIDS.
*quietly closes door*

Posted by: Maybe later at March 31, 2026 07:07 AM (2Ez/1)

77 Or buy authentic RINO horn. Triple win
Posted by: Dark L at March 31, 2026 07:05 AM (KAi1n)
----
What about human horn?

Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Persei VIII at March 31, 2026 07:07 AM (ESVrU)

78 Ambassador Mike Waltz

@USAmbUN
Good riddance!

The fact that he doesn’t mention — much less show any contrition for — UNRWA‘s involvement in October 7, nor their infiltration by Hamas, is a perfect example of how UN officials dodge accountability through moral grandstanding.
Quote

Philippe Lazzarini
@UNLazzarini

Mar 22
In my final op-ed as I end my tenure as Commissioner-General, I warn about relentless efforts to destroy UNRWA, amid growing disregard for international law.
4:20 AM · Mar 30, 2026
=====

So long to a real piece of sh*t.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 07:08 AM (RIvkX)

79

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 31, 2026 07:09 AM (DDJSl)

80 amid growing disregard for international law

Maybe you should call the international police. Oh wait...that's the United States.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:10 AM (OPGS/)

81 Willie Brown once vetoed an SF ordinance saying he had constitutional concerns about it (that's how far left it was). Veto overridden. I got it declared unconstitutional. :->

Posted by: Dark L at March 31, 2026 07:11 AM (KAi1n)

82 Where is this "international law" written down?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 31, 2026 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

83 JJ IS UP WITH THE NEWS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 07:16 AM (YE+xR)

84 Wolfus: You're welcome. Left, you just head out into the intersection so you're well past the left edge of the stop line for the driver on your left, and then you go hard-left on your steering wheel, and correct once you're into the lane.

Oh, and in a double-left turn lane, the bus and other large/long vehicles ALWAYS take the right-most of the left-turn lanes. (Otherwise the swing of the back end would hit a vehicle in that right-most left-hand turn lane during the turn and we don't want that.) Little vehicles take the inner/left-most turn lane.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026

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Since she is not driving in traffic, or at least turning in it, your rules may not apply to the scene. She does make a turn from a county highway onto a US route that fortunately does not have much traffic, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)

85 You have election four hour. You go now!

Posted by: Chinese wives from the future at March 31, 2026 07:21 AM (eOFY+)

86 That's more blocks than even the ICE account, suggesting that while the inmates are clinically insane they are not entirely stupid.

Marxists *hate* AI. Like, rabidly, at The Verge levels of crazy.

They think it will eliminate all of the jobs where they're currently creating ugly fat women for video games and the like. And they aren't wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (sabhw)

87 The latest Windows 11 update isn't. (Tom's Hardware)
Microsoft has pulled the update entirely because it didn't work. At all.

Anyone else remember the days when you could buy software - like an OS - and you installed it... then you forgot about it unless you had to reinstall (like a new computer)? There were no updates for security they failed to build in? When they actually tested stuff before it went out the door? When you owned the software?

Posted by: GWB at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (AtYqS)

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