Daily Tech News 14 April 2026

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Answering the questions nobody is asking: Can AI be a "child of God"? (Washington Post / MSN)

Something needs to be done about Anthropic.
Sam Altman's home has been targeted by violent idiots for the second time in a week. (SF Standard)

That's not it, guys.

Tech News

A Stanford report highlights a growing disconnect between AI insiders and humans. (Tech Crunch)

No, really?
Festus, Missouri has fired half the town council and is working on firing the other half and also the mayor after they approved construction of a $6 billion datacenter. (Tom's Hardware)

This is more it.
Maine has banned construction of new datacenters entirely for 18 months. (CNBC)

Well, sure. Maine only got electricity three years ago, so they can do that.
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them. (Anchor)

One of the problems with WordPress - one of the many problems with WordPress - is that the security model for plugins consists of "trust me, bro".
CopprLink is a PCIe 5.0 x16 cable that provides PCIe 5.0 x16 bandwidth to external GPUs. (Tom's Hardware)

Would it have killed you guys to put in the e?
Linux 7.0 is here. (Linuxiac)

It includes... Things.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Tell 'em Reggie sent you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2026 04:30 AM (Ia/+0)

2 1st

Posted by: OkJohn at April 14, 2026 04:31 AM (NC/it)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 04:32 AM (fNISR)

4 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 14, 2026 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

5 Yea tech. The data center backlash is going to either strangle a new industry in the US or make Elon a multi trillionaire by driving them to space. Or both.

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit to find out China is funding some of this.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 04:36 AM (WlUfk)

6 >>>Sam Altman's home has been targeted

@martinshkreli has lots on Eric Swalwell in recent days; but earlier, April 8th, 10th or thereabouts, lots of pro-Altman posts and retweets in the wake of the April 6th Ronan Farrow New Yorker article on Altman. Dunno.

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 04:38 AM (fNISR)

7 "It" is all over the content!

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 04:39 AM (fNISR)

8 Mornin'

I don't know what to think about AI and data centers. The very wealthy nerds,,uh,,people pushing it by saying things, smugly, about how it was going to eliminate jobs of the peasants,,er,,lower castes,,,,I mean people, didn't help. People tend to react negatively to that, especially ones with families. This has moved way too fast and nobody is ready for the consequences, both for and against.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 04:39 AM (sAmhv)

9 We need to refine our illegal immigration policy. Deport or die. Why do we expend any treasure on these criminals?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 04:43 AM (Fbc0I)

10 The impacts of rampant building of the data centers against the backdrop of our inability to build any supporting infrastructure, like the power generation and distribution grid, because we are paralyzed by lawfare will be our undoing.

There are plenty of debates to be had about the pros and cons of AI and physical AI, such as robotics and self driving. The problem is that the genie isn’t going back in the bottle. It’s going to move somewhere that will not have the debate.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 04:47 AM (WlUfk)

11 That New Yorker piece is a must read if you are trying to keep up on stuff that is going to affect us on a generational scale.

It's available at archive.is and was posted by pixy the other day. Heavy read.

Thanks pixy!

https://archive.is/H4iKV#selection-3373.485-3373.502

Posted by: pawn at April 14, 2026 04:48 AM (qVdj1)

12 from the SF standard article:

“The fear and anxiety about AI is justified. We are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time, and perhaps ever.”

--Sam Altman

Well, he's not doing himself any favors.

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 04:49 AM (fNISR)

13 "Would it have killed you guys to put in the e?"

For all we know, that was the best that Branding could do after a fierce internal battle fighting off the forces of CPRLNK and Linky McLinkface. In fact, that's my headcanon now: exhausted from their victory over the forces of evil and retardation, they couldn't protect every vowel; but in losing one battle, they won the war.

Heroes, truly. Bravo. Tip of the hat.

Posted by: SciVo at April 14, 2026 04:49 AM (Sy6m/)

14 Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 04:47 AM (WlUfk)

The demand for small modular reactors is there! Data centers are a perfect customer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 04:50 AM (g0MSz)

15 11 That New Yorker piece is a must read if you are trying to keep up on stuff that is going to affect us on a generational scale.

It's available at archive.is and was posted by pixy the other day. Heavy read.

Thanks pixy!

https://archive.is/H4iKV#selection-3373.485-3373.502

Posted by: pawn at April 14, 2026 04:48 AM (qVdj1)

Thanks! I had missed that.

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 04:50 AM (fNISR)

16 How come ever reform immigration policy is really to just let more in?

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2026 04:52 AM (Ia/+0)

17 >>>The impacts of rampant building of the data centers against the backdrop of our inability to build any supporting infrastructure, like the power generation and distribution grid, because we are paralyzed by lawfare will be our undoing.

>There was no lawfare when the LA DWP politely asked us to remove ourselves from the grid. You go stand-alone and everything is peachy. Self contained, self sustained. Build what you are willing to support. There are no issues other than the roadblocks from the EPA and other parasitic agencies.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 04:54 AM (Fbc0I)

18 New Yorker article (online) headline:

Sam Altman May
Control Our
Future—Can He Be
Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
By Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
April 6, 2026

at the bottom of the article (online):
Published in the print edition of the April 13, 2026, issue, with the headline “Moment of Truth.”

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 04:56 AM (fNISR)

19 >There was no lawfare when the LA DWP politely asked us to remove ourselves from the grid. You go stand-alone and ..."

What are you referencing here?

Posted by: pawn at April 14, 2026 04:56 AM (qVdj1)

20 Reluctantly, have to go to the city today and work with one of my worst slacking co-workers.

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

21 >>>>There was no lawfare when the LA DWP politely asked us to remove ourselves from the grid. You go stand-alone and ..."

What are you referencing here?

Posted by: pawn

>Concerns about public infrastructure and who picks up the tab. If you go totally stand alone, off the grid, thru private funding, life becomes less complicated.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 05:03 AM (Fbc0I)

22 The demand for small modular reactors is there! Data centers are a perfect customer.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 04:50 AM (g0MSz)

The demand is there. Supply isn’t and won’t be. The navy has been running small reactors successfully for 60 years. The regulatory death grip isn’t loosening. Look at the companies trying to build SMR installations. They’ve been ten years away for 25 years.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 05:04 AM (WlUfk)

23 from the New Yorker article:

OpenAI is securing sweeping government contracts, setting standards for how A.I. is used in immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance, and autonomous weaponry in war zones.

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 05:08 AM (fNISR)

24 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2026 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)

25 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at April 14, 2026 05:15 AM (H1EjZ)

26 Can AI be a "child of God"?

One Butlerian Jihad, coming up!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2026 05:19 AM (RjOoY)

27 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at April 14, 2026 05:23 AM (AN2gy)

28 Man from Ohio talks about a weight lifting, our relationship with Christ and "faithful effort" and Galatians 6:1-6:

https://tinyurl.com/bhns357m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 05:26 AM (Nx5jP)

29 "16 How come ever reform immigration policy is really to just let more in?

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2026 04:52 AM (Ia/+0) "

... the issue is always The Revolution.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 14, 2026 05:26 AM (MIIRH)

30 9 We need to refine our illegal immigration policy. Deport or die. Why do we expend any treasure on these criminals?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Because we allowed feelings to drive legislation. I do like your idea though.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2026 05:27 AM (RjOoY)

31 The regulatory death grip isn’t loosening. Look at the companies trying to build SMR installations. They’ve been ten years away for 25 years.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 05:04 AM (WlUfk)

The tech end-around is to reopen old reactors. Three-Mile-Island in PA is supposedly going to be restarted.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 05:27 AM (g0MSz)

32 oh, & g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 14, 2026 05:28 AM (MIIRH)

33 Woman sings old time hymn, "I need thee every hour". Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/yarx4dhy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 05:29 AM (Nx5jP)

34 Out here in Maryland, we've been fighting the building of power lines for a data center that is going to be built in Virginia. The company behind this basically acted as if approval was already a done deal.

I went to one of the town hall meetings regarding this. I'm not crowd adverse but I had to leave after about 20 minutes because it was packed with a lot of angry people and you couldn't hear anything being said.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2026 05:31 AM (RjOoY)

35 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 14, 2026 05:31 AM (bQ4nt)

36 I see no legitimate reason for AI to exist outside of factory floors.
It is the final cog in the panopticon.
Nuke from space everyone who pushes for it to be part of private life.
SMR’s are worthy without AI and are linked for the same scam as saving schools and raising taxes.
Lovely day here on the island.

Posted by: Accomack at April 14, 2026 05:31 AM (T8bqm)

37 David Suchet reads Psalm 93:

https://tinyurl.com/3rjdb72t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 05:34 AM (Nx5jP)

38 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers. Tiu's Day, Tax Day Eve. Did you know that until about 1950 or so, Tax Day in America was *March* 15? Too many jokes about assassinations on the Ides of March, and they changed it. There were probably other, bureaucratic reasons, but that would be as good as any.

Coffee time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 05:36 AM (wzUl9)

39 >>>Out here in Maryland, we've been fighting the building of power lines for a data center that is going to be built in Virginia. The company behind this basically acted as if approval was already a done deal.

I went to one of the town hall meetings regarding this. I'm not crowd adverse but I had to leave after about 20 minutes because it was packed with a lot of angry people and you couldn't hear anything being said.

Posted by: NR Pax

>I managed and dismantled a cogen facility that was tied to the grid before deregulation, and the politics and pretend knowledge of how it all works is breathtaking. Clusterfuck is the best word to describe it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 05:40 AM (Fbc0I)

40 Last night, as I mentioned on the ONT, I told Miss Linda about the Kansas trip. I've been putting it off, and then for the last few days she's been ill with some kind of stomach bug. But I knew I couldn't put it off any longer.

Reaction: nothing. The enthusiasm was about as if I'd told her I was taking Stirling the black cat back to his shelter -- in fact, she'd have been wildly vocal about *that*. No reaction to pics of the nice houses I want to look at; no reaction to pics of bison in the Kansas travel brochure. Almost complete silence.

Oh, well. Nothing I can do about it; it is what it is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)

41 Clusterfuck is the best word to describe it.

Such a good word. And yeah; that describes this situation also.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2026 05:42 AM (RjOoY)

42 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 14, 2026 05:43 AM (2Ez/1)

43 I managed and dismantled a cogen facility that was tied to the grid before deregulation, and the politics and pretend knowledge of how it all works is breathtaking. Clusterfuck is the best word to describe it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 05:40 AM (Fbc0I)

A family friend was an executive with ConEd in NYC. He built a test plant that burned liquefied coal, and demonstrated that it was cleaner than the then current oil and NG plants.

Can you guess what NYC did?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 05:43 AM (g0MSz)

44 Horse in IL swept away by floodwaters is rescued and helped during eight hours. It's wonderful to learn about caring and skilled people. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/6svvs969

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 05:43 AM (Nx5jP)

45 Temp in Da Swamp: 69 F., 81 % humidity, 5 mph wind. Workout conditions good, track fast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

46
A Stanford report highlights a growing disconnect between AI insiders and humans. (Tech Crunch)

This disconnectedness of AI insiders brought to mind a character from Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle": Franklin "Frank" Hoenikker is Felix Hoenikker's older son, and a Major General in San Lorenzo. He is the brother of Newt and Angela Hoenikker. He is an utterly technically minded person who is unable to make decisions except for giving technical advice

This dud not end well in that story, either.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 05:44 AM (xG4kz)

47 Maine was offered cheap hydro power from Quebec in exchange for a corridor to bring that power further south.
They voted no.

Posted by: Accomack at April 14, 2026 05:45 AM (8jVAy)

48
Can you guess what NYC did?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

They converted it to burning wood instead?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 05:46 AM (xG4kz)

49 Good morning! Calm winds and 73 on the patio here in Cowtown. Looks like the water iris got blown over last night. Gonna have to wade into the pond to right it later this morning. But first, coffee.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 14, 2026 05:47 AM (3Ope8)

50 I have a hypothesis that urban life overwhelms our senses and so urban humans disconnect from reality to cope.

Posted by: Accomack at April 14, 2026 05:47 AM (8jVAy)

51 The original Night of the Living Dead is slated for Movies! in about fifteen minutes. A very disturbing movie. I'll feed the cats a few minutes early, change, stretch, and go work out. NotLD is not something I want to see this morning, or any early morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 05:48 AM (wzUl9)

52 Sewer worker in MA. has amazing singing voice:

https://tinyurl.com/4nkn34d6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 05:48 AM (Nx5jP)

53 >>>Can you guess what NYC did?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

>They took off their jackboots and pretended the nazis hadn't done this before 75 years ago?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 05:50 AM (Fbc0I)

54 They converted it to burning wood instead?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 05:46 AM (xG4kz)

You are joking, but wood burning for heat has exploded in upstate NY. Luckily wood is natural so it doesn't pollute.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 05:50 AM (g0MSz)

55 The tech end-around is to reopen old reactors. Three-Mile-Island in PA is supposedly going to be restarted.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 05:27 AM (g0MSz)

How stupid is that? Let’s spend hundreds of millions to resurrect an obsolete technology because we don’t have the collective will to approve and implement solutions that exist and are readily available because our current governmental structure allows endless delays and impositions at no cost to the people imposing the delays. I’m on your side on this I’ve just spent too many years watching nothing happen because “activists” can stop it too easily.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 05:51 AM (WlUfk)

56 They took off their jackboots and pretended the nazis hadn't done this before 75 years ago?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 05:50 AM (Fbc0I)

Exactly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 05:52 AM (g0MSz)

57
How come ever reform immigration policy is really to just let more in?
Posted by: Skip

Because those whom we let in are "the best of us", so each new wave becomes "the bestest of us".

We are now experiencing "the bestest of us" raised to the Nth power, where N is in double digits. Feast your eyes on their remarkable gifts!
We are now

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 05:56 AM (xG4kz)

58 And as a result we are paralyzed. The few states that have not instituted the inaction by design model are growing like crazy because they get things done.

As a society we must either grow and develop or stagnate. Stagnation leads to collapse. It’s happened before and will again. Look at Europe.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 05:57 AM (WlUfk)

59 Can you guess what NYC did?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

threatened to kill him, and his family?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 14, 2026 05:57 AM (MIIRH)

60 “ But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.”

Malachi 3:2

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2026 05:57 AM (moGJJ)

61 I’m on your side on this I’ve just spent too many years watching nothing happen because “activists” can stop it too easily.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 05:51 AM (WlUfk)

Track the funding for the activists that destroyed our nuclear industry, and you will discover nefarious players.

Which you already knew.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 06:00 AM (g0MSz)

62
The future belongs to the blue-haired, beshrapneled, inked snd nose-ringed ham planets. Just ask them.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 06:00 AM (xG4kz)

63 beshrapneled

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 06:00 AM (xG4kz)

I like it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2026 06:02 AM (g0MSz)

64 51 The original Night of the Living Dead is slated for Movies! in about fifteen minutes. A very disturbing movie. I'll feed the cats a few minutes early, change, stretch, and go work out. NotLD is not something I want to see this morning, or any early morning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

That movie was shot in my little part of Western PA. The graveyard that they filmed in, Evans City Cemetery, my great great grandparents are buried there. Some other family too. So, I can say I had family in 'Night of the Living Dead'. Ok, technically they were under it but still, it's something!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 06:04 AM (sAmhv)

65 In southern France there is a UNESCO World Heritage Site called Pont du Garde. It’s a section of a triple arched Roman aqueduct spanning a river canyon. The aqueduct carried water to “the City of Fountains” Nimes. Ran something like 60 kilometers at a 1% slope. Amazing feat of engineering completed almost two thousand years ago.

It fell into disrepair and was abandoned 1,000 years later because no one wanted to, or remembered how to maintain it.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 06:05 AM (WlUfk)

66 Very belated BOING!

Bad shopping daily. Insane checkout lines.

But beautiful spring weather in Jerusalem.

But a khamsin/chamsin is coming right this way!

https://grokipedia.com/page/Khamsin

Ugh!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 14, 2026 06:06 AM (1o8D5)

67
In "Futurama" one of the Creator's decidedly feebleminded humans "taught" a lion to become vegan / vegetarian. If I recall the episode correctly, that emaciated beast coughed hollowly and expired.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 06:07 AM (xG4kz)

68
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 14, 2026 06:07 AM (2/MrR)

69 >>>Exactly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

>Actually more like 90 years. Time and gravity is kicking my ass. I'm getting older.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 06:08 AM (Fbc0I)

70 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Swordfish.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 14, 2026 06:09 AM (WHhrT)

71 In "Futurama" one of the Creator's decidedly feebleminded humans "taught" a lion to become vegan / vegetarian. If I recall the episode correctly, that emaciated beast coughed hollowly and expired.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 06:07 AM (xG4kz)
---
Yep. I remember that.

The activists were members of:

Mankind for
Ethical
Animal
Treatment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2026 06:09 AM (gnNyN)

72 So they made a monument to the engineers and absolutely ignored the larger message they should have taken from the colossal structure.

Europe is absolutely repeating the same stupidity that lead to the dark ages. I fear we are not far behind. Do not go quietly.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 06:11 AM (t9FTy)

73 This concludes today’s rant. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 06:12 AM (t9FTy)

74
Things just stop working and trust among people fades away. What's not to look forward to in that bright future?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 06:14 AM (xG4kz)

75 That movie was shot in my little part of Western PA. The graveyard that they filmed in, Evans City Cemetery, my great great grandparents are buried there. Some other family too. So, I can say I had family in 'Night of the Living Dead'. Ok, technically they were under it but still, it's something!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 06:04 AM (sAmhv)

Are you sure they weren't zombie extras walking in the background.

Posted by: Roy at April 14, 2026 06:15 AM (qwype)

76
Good morning, Hordians. My Flyers, left for dead in early February, made the playoffs last night, beating Carolina 3-2 in the shootout. And, pleasure of pleasures, all three New York teams - Rangers, Devils and Islanders - are out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 14, 2026 06:18 AM (tgvbd)

77 75 That movie was shot in my little part of Western PA. The graveyard that they filmed in, Evans City Cemetery, my great great grandparents are buried there. Some other family too. So, I can say I had family in 'Night of the Living Dead'. Ok, technically they were under it but still, it's something!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 06:04 AM (sAmhv)

Are you sure they weren't zombie extras walking in the background.
Posted by: Roy

It is possible. I suspect they just rolled into the local bars around closing time and pulled out some of the drunks. A little zombie makeup and then just let them shamble about a graveyard.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 06:19 AM (sAmhv)

78 61, yup, they've been at it for a long, long time ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 14, 2026 06:19 AM (MIIRH)

79 I read the Flyers are playing my Penguins. Nice way to start the playoffs. Play a 7 game series against your hated rival! GO PENS!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 06:20 AM (sAmhv)

80 - @60 Malachi 3:2

See also Isaiah 13:9-13, Joel 2:31, Matt 24:29-31, Rev 6:12-17, Isaiah 1&2,,, to name just a few.

Pro tip, should it occur in your lifetime, you want to be counted with those Matt 24:30-31/1Thess 4:16-17 folks.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 14, 2026 06:22 AM (EcT7r)

81
Rangers, Devils and Islanders - are out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Which teams sited in Canada are this year's honorees who will uphold that nation's long running streak of failing to win the Stanley Cup?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2026 06:23 AM (xG4kz)

82 50 I have a hypothesis that urban life overwhelms our senses and so urban humans disconnect from reality to cope.
Posted by: Accomack at April 14, 2026 05:47 AM (8jVAy)

Good one.The overwhelm seems to be tied into a sort of over-stimulation.
Maybe a variation on crowd aversion, like NRPax mentions here:

34 I went to one of the town hall meetings regarding this. I'm not crowd adverse but I had to leave after about 20 minutes because it was packed with a lot of angry people and you couldn't hear anything being said.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2026 05:31 AM (RjOoY)

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 06:24 AM (fNISR)

83 73 This concludes today’s rant. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 06:12 AM (t9FTy)

"Let that sink in."

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 06:28 AM (fNISR)

84 >>>Which teams sited in Canada are this year's honorees who will uphold that nation's long running streak of failing to win the Stanley Cup?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

>The Canadians will cry, whine and cheat like they do at curling, and still get their asses beat.

Step up, hosers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 06:31 AM (Fbc0I)

85
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 14, 2026 06:12 AM (t9FTy)

"Let that sink in."
Posted by: m

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A PEAT BOG IS OFTEN CITED AS A SITE INTO WHICH SOME POOR CREATED WANDERED, BECAME ENTRAPPED, SANK, AND DIED.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 14, 2026 06:37 AM (xG4kz)

86 >>> The Canadians will cry, whine and cheat like they do at curling, and still get their asses beat.

Good grief. Are people so blind to the nature of professional sports? Did the Blue Jays reach the World Series last year because there are so many talented baseball players from Toronto?

The top hockey talent and organization is in America because of economics. Canada can easily take pride in the origin of hockey and its deep local roots.

Maybe we should just place an MLB team in the Dominican Republic and make it all local.

Posted by: fluffy at April 14, 2026 06:39 AM (AN2gy)

87 Before you congratulate Maine for sticking it to the supposed evil AI overlords just know that the government also banned...

Coffee makers. Yes that's correct. They banned coffee makers because of supposed "forever chemicals".

I hate my state so damn much.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 14, 2026 06:40 AM (WYStd)

88 87 Before you congratulate Maine for sticking it to the supposed evil AI overlords just know that the government also banned...

Coffee makers. Yes that's correct. They banned coffee makers because of supposed "forever chemicals".
Posted by: Defenestratus at April 14, 2026 06:40 AM (WYStd)

How is this even possible?

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 06:43 AM (fNISR)

89
Montreal, Ottawa and Edmonton are the Canuckistan teams in the playoffs. Edmonton is the only one I think has a realistic chance.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 14, 2026 06:43 AM (tgvbd)

90 Let’s spend hundreds of millions to resurrect an obsolete technology because we don’t have the collective will to approve and implement solutions that exist and are readily available because our current governmental structure allows endless delays and impositions at no cost to the people imposing the delays.
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Vote harder.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 06:45 AM (Ts8qw)

91
I have a hypothesis that urban life overwhelms our senses and so urban humans disconnect from reality to cope.
Posted by: Accomack at April 14, 2026 05:47 AM (8jVAy)

The same people who scream about industrial livestock husbandry are the same ones who cheer "15-minute cities".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 14, 2026 06:48 AM (tgvbd)

92 If we can't bust on the Canadians, it's no longer as fun. We love our retarded, drunk brethren in the North.

And we welcome them as new states in the United States of America.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 06:49 AM (Fbc0I)

93 Act Blue says it raised a record $568 million in the first quarter, which amazes me because shouldn't all that money be going to the homeless?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 06:51 AM (hKlEp)

94
And we welcome them as new states in the United States of America.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 14, 2026 06:49 AM (Fbc0I)

No thanks. They're fine as they are.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 14, 2026 06:51 AM (tgvbd)

95 Clusterfuck is the best word to describe it.
****

Well, we do live in a clusterfuck nation.

Posted by: clarence at April 14, 2026 06:52 AM (H1EjZ)

96 >>> And we welcome them as new states in the United States of America.

Bleh. Maybe one or two big states covering from rural BC to western Manitoba. Definitely not Quebec. We should protect our local maple syrup industry.

Posted by: fluffy at April 14, 2026 06:53 AM (AN2gy)

97 Morning, rons and 'ronettes. 56 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high in the low 70s predicted.

I'd like to enjoy the sunny weather, but I've got a full-blown cold, with wheezing, congestion and all the trimmings. I've been living on soup, tea and lozenges since Sunday night and I expect this nonsense to last right through the week. Ugh.

I've fallen behind on my writing, so I must get at least a page of my novel done so that I feel I've accomplished something. Of course, I did write my new Book Thread post and sent it to CBD, so that's something, at least.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 14, 2026 06:55 AM (qRla/)

98 “ActBlue’s engineering team has built robust safeguards into every layer of the platform,” Jason Wong, ActBlue vice president of engineering, writes. “We are committed to staying ahead of emerging threats and evolving our systems to protect the integrity of our infrastructure.”
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"Threats" do not include billionaires who want to funnel money from Shanghai or Switzerland, in hopes of, this time, doing communism the right way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 06:55 AM (hKlEp)

99 Thank you and congrats MP4, we look forward to reading it

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 06:57 AM (hKlEp)

100 100

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 06:57 AM (fNISR)

101 Coffee makers. Yes that's correct. They banned coffee makers because of supposed "forever chemicals".

Wut?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 06:58 AM (sAmhv)

102 11 That New Yorker piece is a must read if you are trying to keep up on stuff that is going to affect us on a generational scale.

It's available at archive.is and was posted by pixy the other day. Heavy read.

Thanks pixy!

https://archive.is/H4iKV#selection-3373.485-3373.502

Posted by: pawn at April 14, 2026 04:48 AM (qVdj1)

I'm halfway through it--it's 34 pages!--and so far, to me, it reads like Mean Girl writing.

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 06:59 AM (fNISR)

103 101 Coffee makers. Yes that's correct. They banned coffee makers because of supposed "forever chemicals".

Wut?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 06:58 AM (sAmhv)

I know!

Posted by: m at April 14, 2026 06:59 AM (fNISR)

104

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 14, 2026 07:03 AM (DDJSl)

105 OK, folks, writing time. Probably won't be back until tomorrow morning.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 14, 2026 07:04 AM (qRla/)

106 Well later day walkers. Time to wander off to bed and hopefully try to get more than 3 hours of sleep.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 07:04 AM (sAmhv)

107 There is one positive thing Karen has done for this country. When we came within a hair of our evil government taking our gas appliances away, the AWFL backlash forced Biden's handlers to backpedal and ludicrously claim that Republicans made it up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2026 07:07 AM (BI5O2)

108 It really is the little things that lay it bare.

"Take their coffeemakers," and "take their gas stoves" are initiatives that make no sense and have no point except in the context of leaders who want to make their hated subjects miserable for the simple, sadistic pleasure of dominating them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2026 07:11 AM (BI5O2)

109 the AWFL backlash forced Biden's handlers to backpedal

It also helped that the internet is a thing and a lot of dems were getting bullied with "Why do YOU have a gas appliance if it's not good enough for us?"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2026 07:11 AM (RjOoY)

110 Coffee makers. Yes that's correct. They banned coffee makers because of supposed "forever chemicals".

Correct. The forever chemicals get stored in places like the testicles making the scrotum swell and become large, red and distended.

Or maybe it's the saline I injected into mine...dunno.

Posted by: Barney Fag at April 14, 2026 07:17 AM (4eiIm)

111 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 14, 2026 07:19 AM (S+2Xo)

112 "I'm halfway through it--it's 34 pages!--and so far, to me, it reads like Mean Girl writing."

I get that. I read it a couple of days ago and most of the stuff has faded away in my mind.

As with anything you read where there's lots of money involved you have to sift through to find stuff of value. A lot of these people throwing shade are competing against each other.

I found it interesting the Sam doesn't really have a good handle on the nuts and bolts of what makes this work. To many technically orientated folks that makes him sus out the gate.

It's pretty much who can beat the drum the loudest and longest.

The dumbest thing is that most people know you really can't trust anyone, period. It's the wild, wild West.

Posted by: pawn at April 14, 2026 07:23 AM (qVdj1)

113

Posted by: Don Black at April 14, 2026 07:23 AM (ZxPkt)

114 Only if the god is man, who made the AI.
Which is actually the point of AI for some.

Posted by: GWB at April 14, 2026 07:29 AM (IxSmD)

115 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2026 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

116 Transcendence (2014): A story about a scientist uploading his consciousness into a supercomputer, raising questions about technology and consciousness.

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 07:31 AM (r9UdA)

117 The gym kindly requests my presence

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 07:34 AM (fiklB)

118 >>> Transcendence (2014): A story about ...

My curiosity was piqued, so I looked it up.

IMDB is a great resource and has top notch search, but they load their homepage with so much crap. I used to a search engine then clicked through. Fewer ads for you, IMDB.

You may all get off my lawn now.

Posted by: fluffy at April 14, 2026 07:39 AM (AN2gy)

119 "Transcendence (2014): A story about a scientist uploading his consciousness into a supercomputer, raising questions about technology and consciousness.
Posted by: SMOD "

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Dr Daystrom at April 14, 2026 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

120 119 "Transcendence (2014): A story about a scientist uploading his consciousness into a supercomputer, raising questions about technology and consciousness.
Posted by: SMOD "

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Dr Daystrom at April 14, 2026 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

Robocop II

Posted by: davidt at April 14, 2026 07:42 AM (Q+gd/)

121 Energy riots going on in Ireland - fascinating. Like Newsom, the government is trying to blame all of the people’s problems on Trump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2026 07:42 AM (tgZLi)

122
JJS
is here

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 14, 2026 07:44 AM (/+uur)

123
JJ es nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 14, 2026 07:44 AM (2/MrR)

124 How come ever reform immigration policy is really to just let more in"

It's simple - too many believe that "more people" = "always betterer", and cannot comprehend that populations move and fluctuate.

Witness the worldwide (well, mostly) animus directed at Japan over the past decade.

Posted by: man at April 14, 2026 07:45 AM (XuXeR)

125 a war of civilizations is coming, I think before the end of this century

Posted by: Don Black at April 14, 2026 07:52 AM (ZxPkt)

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