So yet another weekend in the biggish city. This time to attend a jazz festival. NPR Lady and I may have vastly different politics, but her taste in music uncannily tracks mine. And she has a mason jar stuffed with premium bud. If you don’t hear from me by Monday, send a search par… oh wait, no, don’t.
And birthdays track as well, today’s including a saint who swallowed; a decent and accomplished guy who is less famous than his daughter; a guy who should be more famous than Mark Twain; a guy who was the white Mike Tyson; a guy who’s the answer to the classic engineering question of, “What is butter worth to Chebyshev?”; a guy who will not make Old Guy Music, but perhaps should; a guy who was always steady; a piece of shit who did one good thing in his entire career; a guy who was truly the father of glam rock (and should have collected royalties from KISS); a guy who founded a band that had three great albums, then got popular; a pretty decent guitarist from the same era; a piece of shit who didn’t even do one good thing; and a vicious midget with outsized mendaciousness.
And with that, let’s Link.
This is how the movie Reptilicus started. Prepare to have Rochester stomped by a giant lizard.
The cover-up seems to get more desperate.
And what, exactly, would this accomplish?
They hid the lede: he’s going to work a grift as a “consultant.”
This is one of the guys we’re seeing tonight, and I’m stoked- Bill Frisell has always been one of my favorite guitarists. No flash, just pure music.
I routinely don’t hear from you for days at a time, so I wouldn’t fret over a mere weekend.
Peak Stupid is a myth.
It’s sounding like Prighozin is a drunken loudmouth dumbass.
“ He’s now saying the audio remarks were merely a call to justice and “march for justice”, denying it is a coup attempt targeting military leadership – so there may be a Wagner attempt underway to walk back the comments.”
War is nuts
Yeah… that sounds like “Oops… didn’t have the broad support of some key parts of the military / security apparatus I thought I did.”
If Putin doesn’t have him taken out pour encourager les autres I will be greatly surprised. You go up against the King — you’d better kill him, not just wound him.
It appears the officer corps wasn’t exactly on board and Prighozin got some delusions of grandeur.
I’ve done similar after a few shots of vodka.
I’m reading that Wagner has seized control of a couple of towns, is heading to Moscow, and there has been some fighting with Russian troops. Also that PUtin gave a speech last night which said Prighozin committed treason, turning point for nation, blah blah.
Who the fuck knows, but I don’t think this was just a guy shooting his mouth off.
We won’t really know for a while, but I don’t think this is going to have a positive outcome. The neocons will be encouraged and the Kremlin will probably feel the need to make a show of force to dissuade NATO and others.
Just one more escalation as we slouch towards Armageddon.
My first thought reading about it last night was actually “Wonder how much the CIA has been spreading that lovely slush fund money around?” Bribing Russian forces to change sides has to be in their playbook at this point, seed chaos — get a compromised / puppet into play in the best scenario. Not like they haven’t got plenty of money for “Ukraine” to do it with.
If you take Prighozin at his word, he’s trying to mobilize Wagner only to oust the head of the military, Shoigu.
Open rebellion to change the leader of the MOD. It’s bonkers.
Made me think of the behind-the-scenes factionalism in the Biden White House, or among the characters in The Death of Stalin.
Nobody knows what’s going on, but everybody in government, the press, and the hoi polloi knows it confirms their biases.
I see I forgot to close a tag….
I’m an utter plebian, bourgeois… however you want to say it. But deep in my non-interest in high art, high concept or artsy-fartsy restaurants is at least the assurance that I will eat something that is credibly food and enjoy it.
Call back to the “White people’s food” and my love of fried baloney sandwiches from growing up. 😉
And while it sounds like you’d shared that with us before, OMWC — I don’t recall reading it. Definitely more of a hostage scenario than fine dining! Thanks for sharing, good morning — enjoy your illicit substances ^W^W trip with NPR lady.
I found it enjoyable except for that is more people in one place with “food allergies” than I have ever encountered in real life. WTF?
Food allergies = stuff I don’t like and really don’t want to eat.
Favorite quote from a recovering alcoholic: “I’m allergic to alcohol – I break out in handcuffs.”
Hi, GT! Anyone I know? 😉
Not in this case, but it’s now a favorite of his. Heard it from a favorite singer/songwriter, Tommy Womack.
It’s one of my standard warm-up lines 🙂
😁👍🏼
If we’re going to live MST3K movies, I’d prefer Jack Frost — a Russo/Finnish production! (“Mmm… liver on a stick!” “Global chaos, the world thrown into disarray… but fine, you knit your sock!”).
Of course, given the trend, I’d say we actually drew Touch of Satan if anything.
I admit it, i check in every sat morning to see whats going on with NPR lady.
From a medical cannabis state, is it a “big deal” to have a container of bud? I don’t understand.
I don’t even drink — so I’m way too much of a square to know these days. You reefer addicts go do your thing, y’all. 😉
In New York, it’s not only legal to possess, but it’s legal to smoke anywhere that you can smoke a cigarette.
Wait… you can still smoke cigarettes in New York? 😉 (What are they now… $400 a carton with all the taxes?)
Out here in the sticks, the reservations (relatively autonomous, tax-exempt) do a booming business in both cigarettes and weed.
$15-$16 a pack in NYC.
$8 or $9 when I was upstate a few weeks ago.
Sheesh. How are there still alcoholics in NYC? Someone I once knew consumed 10 or more shots and beers and smoked 3 packs of unfiltered Camels per day. This would cost north of $500/week at today’s prices. Black Market helps, I suppose.
So… nowhere?
ThisBREAKING story last night supposedly is the DNI releasing the intelligence the admin has been refusing to past the deadline… and if that 3 page PDF is it… they either need to fire the entire IC (oh wait, they need to do that anyway) or ask to stop being trolled. It just summarizes what everyone already knows anyway, heavily implies the “from an animal” theory without flatly stating it and is 99.999996% f’ing useless.
“But we released it!” I’m sure will be said.
Keeps them from having to take over the Universities so they can rewrite the history books? Otherwise… I got nothing.
Well, I suppose “throw red meat to the stupidly rabid base” as is typical… but yeah, even the rabid base has to realize that’s only optics at best and doing some actual governing in that time would be nice and all.
If sincere… the ole good times, weak men saying leaps to mind. Suck it up, Buttercup — yeesh.
Probably not sincere, so “Look at me as I go suck up the graft I’ve been pushing for!”, yeah.
Pandering attorney generals just means it’s a Tuesday or something.
Watch Ralph Baric get his vaccine, not…
https://youtu.be/XeIrGrIv7eE
I did not, in fact, see a shot given in that clip. I’m also wondering why it took two nurses to do . . . Whatever they did.
I’d happily administer a few (dozen) to him.
Favorite restaurant story: going to a nearby new nouvelle cuisine joint for dinner to hear a favorite local music ensemble and being so hungry afterward we had to stop at a c-store for some filling food. (Band in question – they’re the first one shown, in the loft with the giant kalimbas: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cABVKIPk_u0 )
Back in the day, the SF Bay Area had a star restauranteur named Elka. Her places were notorious for that but continued to get massively favorable publicity.
“The Emperor has served no food” syndrome.
caloric restriction is good for longevity
Your life doesn’t get longer, it just seems that way.
well true
Two weeks ago, I was unsure if I should bother ordering the 40k Leviathan Box.
I got in a preorder via the local game store, and struggled with buyers remorse for a bit.
I’ve since come up with an idea for the really stupid looking ‘Nid ‘centerpiece’ model created for Oldhammer nostalgia purposes (nostalgia I don’t have). I have enough bitz to do 60-75% of what I need, and the rest can come from a single source. I wonder how people will react if I get it built and painted in time for the “Best of Leviathan” painting contest.
No, I’m not going to spoil the idea.
Airbrush clean and working?
I haven’t tested it since the last bit of deep cleaning.
How is “go and drown in a melting ice cap” a threat? And then they don’t publish “the much more menacing” threat. Was it something like “I’m going to gay bash you”? My guess is he wasn’t beloved by his audience and was offered the chance to quit before they sacked him to go with a young hottie to bring back viewers.
‘I’m going to gay bash you’
That’s my favorite fake hate crime
Back in the day, I had an after school job as a security guard at the local ABC affiliate. There were constant mail and phone threats against the on-air personalities. The women tended to get “I’m going to fuck your brains out” stuff while the men were accused of being too in favor of the Vietnam war, or too critical of the war, or too anti-LBJ or too in step with warmongering capitalists. None of these anonymous threateners ever showed up at the studios.
Good morning, Old Man!
Have we hit Peak Stupid yet?
Surely you can’t be serious.
We’re about to start a nuclear war. That’s Peak Stupid.
Excellent Old Guy Music!
Yeesh, that might actually qualify.
Game of Thrones but in Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6l6a9b56lA
U.S. officials released an intelligence report Friday that rejected some points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, instead reiterating that American spy agencies remain divided over how the pandemic began.
In other words, “We don’t know.”
They must need a bigger budget.
It’s better than that. The reader or decision maker can base pretty much any conclusion on it, whichever direction. Completely actionable work product.
Fancy joining us as a Behaviour Change Officer? We have a #JobOpening https://buff.ly/3NKLv2j
“Through my work I have the opportunity to get to know different areas of London, become embedded in local communities and support people to walk and cycle more,” says one of our team.
https://twitter.com/SustransLondon/status/1672329438237736960
Sounds like those tema members need their behaviour changed.
Club them until they stop idolizing walkable space and focus on arresting criminals like Sadiq Khan and his fraudsters.
Totalitarianism wrapped in a velvet glove
Projects giant MS signal into the dawn sky.
Like an Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove
The RIT story is hilarious to someone in industry. They had 2 years or research worth 1 M$ if it was accidentally lost in a chiller.
How was there no lock-in with a tamper evident seal on the breaker, a back up supply, or a backup cooler.
I know that the uni is not industry, but to me the fault is the institution and the maint. company.
always blaming the victim
OI!
Don’t accuse RIT of RPI’s fuckups.
Yeah, I was confused by the mention of Rochester and not Troy above.
My bad.
Just Stop Oil
@JustStop_Oil
🚨 Marcus, a peaceful earth protector, is being threatened with deportation, after scaling the bridge over Dartford Crossing last year.
💀 This sentence is unjust, compared to the genocidal project our government induces in the Global South.
https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1672292324292870160
being deported to Germany is sort of like genocide, I would say
I agree, that’s the wrong punishment.
He should have been thrown off the bridge.
Arrested for protecting his children?
He should be deported for spreading the plague of brutals across the earth.
Fancy joining us as a Behaviour Change Officer? We have a #JobOpening
Does it involve shock collars?
Sounds like on the job training for Political Officers soon to be set up in the Police and Military.
Come be a Commissar! We have cookies! (Well, gluten free, nut free, taste free crap cookies… but… cookies! … and getting to lord it over and push around your fellow citizens! What’s not to love?)
The Culture War Doesn’t Exist
Call it what it is: class war.
https://novaramedia.com/2023/04/19/the-culture-war-doesnt-exist/
When we frame border violence as part of a culture war, we obscure its ideological roots: white supremacy, which is the dominant ideology of the political class precisely because it serves capital. The escalation of such violence is part of an internally coherent strategy to maintain the production of a migrant underclass and discipline citizens by manufacturing consent for “law and order” (as explored compellingly in the recent book Empire’s Endgame).
It is striking that the culture war framing is rarely applied to what we might most easily recognise as class struggle – such as industrial strikes or campaigns like Don’t Pay – and mostly applied to the struggles of minoritised communities. While there are exceptions – Frances O’Grady accusing Boris Johnson of “stoking a culture war” against unions last summer, for example – this division between class and culture war reflects a failure of parts of the left to recognise liberation struggles as integral to and constitutive of class struggle.
“serves capital” — let me guess what the author’s solution to this class struggle just might happen to be….
I guarantee it involves committees
Some sort of union of committees, perhaps
All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.
Unrelated: how bad do West Coast suck this year? Sydney (who aren’t even that good), 31.19.205 vs. WCE 5.4.34
LOL I’ve never seen a 200. Too bad it had to be Sydney *spits*.
First time since 2011.
Glass cylinder engines, also commonly called optical engines, are designed for research and education, as they allow non invasive access to run tests like high speed imaging
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1672583551290580994
Kept waiting for that to blow up in his face.
Depends on whether it’s pyrex or PYREX.
attorneys general from 14 states and the District of Columbia have written to the CEO of Target voicing support for its LGBT Pride merchandise
Want to show support? Go to a store and buy some.
Otherwise, STFU with your sanctimonious posturing.
In late May, a man in a Missoula, Montana, Target tore down a Pride merchandise display and harassed two college students described as a transgender couple, The Daily Montanan reported.
He should have known better than to go to Missoula.
The fact the Shoigu won’t debate Prighozin on Joe Rogan’s show tells me all I need to know
https://twitter.com/GoatlockerChief/status/1672445926676340736
“It is mentally exhausting and at times I have not been ok,” Gloninger tweeted at the time. “The threat of course was concerning, but the stream of harassing emails is even more distressing.”
Being reminded of how wrong you are, on a regular basis, must be Hell.
Apparently, he should just move to Michigan: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/06/24/michigan-is-criminalizing-opinions-n560291
A statement from KCCI about his departure said Gloninger plans to go into climate consulting: “Gloninger is leaving television to focus on caring for his family and his own mental health. He plans to pursue work in climate consulting.”
“Hey, my roof just collapsed because of all the snow piled on it. Is that climate?”
“Sorry, no. That’s just weather.”
“Hey, it’s so hot I don’t feel like mowing my lawn. I just want to stay inside and crank the A/C.”
“OMG CLIMATE CHANGE!”
Hello. I am still with us (and plan to be).
Cubs v Cardinals in London in 2 hours. They suck and we are kinda on a roll. Weak division. Legit, we can win it. I’d like to just to get the young kids a taste. I’d rather lose (win it all if we can, but unlikely) to give the kids a taste and hunger for more.
I think I’m checking into the hospital on Monday. I pondered. I cannot think of a place I hate more. Every other adult in my family has SOMETHING positive to bring back from That Place. Children. Grandchildren. Something worth it.
It’s a place where my legs get amputated. It’s a place they shuffle me when I’m in a coma and rewire my skull. When I awake, they politely treat me as I can’t recognize my family, don’t know how to walk, eat or what language to speak.
It’s a factory of pestilence and disease. No place for s̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ me.
It needs to be done. And I’m gonna do it my own way.
BBQ ribs and chicken thighs today. Smoker is smoking and getting stabilized. Cole slaw is done and soaking in the dressing and the beans are slowly becoming more delicious.
1st proper bbq of the season. I had to move the Smokey mountain of the deck on to the covered porch due to Tstorm risk.
Ribs are traditional Memphis dry rub and the other is cumin schezwan with real peppercorns. Chicken is Cajun and “Asian”
Sounds delicious. Tomorrow I’ll be prepping another 3 lbs of pork belly to cure. Prices were $3/lb for a slab so more economical to once again make my own.
If not windy tomorrow we also plan a backyard BBQ
Great! Curing the pork belly prior to smoking or just cured “bacon”
Man I like the smell of peach and cherrywood smoke. Great for pork and chicken.
I shall now have to find the complete Devil’s Dictionary. My favorite from the excerpts in Wikipedia (tough choice):
“Conservative
(n.) A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.[32]”
White Mike Tyson?
Hiram Dempsey and his family returned to Logan County when Jack was a small boy where he was raised until shortly before commencement of his boxing career. Said the Logan Banner: “While he was a mere child they returned to Logan county. Jack remained here until a young man, having been employed by the Gay Coal and Coke Company as late as 1913, and then went west alone to seek pugilistic fortune.
They really are playing the long game, aren’t they?
Support tech early this morning:
“Got an alert for a long-running process so I killed it’.
Me:
“It was just about to complete. Don’t worry, it restarts automagically and should complete in about 30 minutes if left alone.”
This is how we get Mecha-Reptilicus.
The folks running long sims typically do them overnight or over the weekend to prevent issues with others. If the admin cancels thier sims it can really delay work.
It makes sense to cancel them if they are running work that is clearly frozen or not progressing
This was a regular production process. Runs every day, and this was normal behavior.
If you have multiple users running jobs in a shared environment, perhaps consider a job scheduler/resource manager: https://schedmd.com
You can run Slurm on a single system. Prevents users from oversubscribing available hardware, and limits jobs (using cgroups) to just the resources requested.
And you can still use Prometheus to dashboard utilization.
This is why you need to instrument your programs so you can query progress metrics.
https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/
We actually use prometheus. This was a case of ready, fire, aim.
You can write a non-noticing In Progress alert for the process and use that to inhibit the long running process alert, if you don’t want to futz with the latter.
(Can you tell I spend a lot of my time with Prometheus?)
*non-notifying
You’ be a star here 😉 Our alerts need some work, too much noise. Unfortunately i don’t control them.
I put a bunch of effort into making the alerts, etc. user-defined; all just pull-requests that we give a quick sanity check and then get automatically deployed.
I don’t want to be “the alerting guy”. I’ve learned that lesson…
Walk more. Ride a bicycle.
Pedestrian deaths in the U.S. are the highest they’ve been in 40 years, in part because Americans are buying bigger cars that are more likely to kill cyclists or pedestrians in a crash.
By the numbers: Drivers struck and killed at least 7,500 pedestrians last year, according to new estimates from the Governors Highway Safety Association, a nonprofit organization focused on road safety
Ooga boogah big heavy trucks and SUVs should be outlawed.
Pedestrian deaths in the U.S. are the highest they’ve been in 40 years, in part because Americans
are buying bigger cars that are more likely to kill cyclists or pedestrians in a crash.are busy staring at their phones and wandering into the street instead of looking both ways and crossing the road at an intersection.FIFT
^^^This. Hereabouts it is common to see deer waiting patiently for a break in traffic before crossing a road. Humans, not so much.
Yes, most pedestrian deaths in Philly occur at night. Don’t the peds see the headlights of on-coming cars? Funny how the news reports never mention if dead ped was drunk, stoned, or texting.
“because Americans are buying bigger cars that are more likely to kill cyclists or pedestrians in a crash”
It asserted, without evidence.
Rip Chef
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Forrest
The decision was not easy, Gloninger told the Washington Post, but in a tweet announcing his exit, he cited a “death threat stemming from my climate coverage” which he said resulted in post-traumatic stress. He also mentioned the need to address family health issues.
The emails from the viewer, according to screenshots Gloninger’s tweeted, called the meteorologist a “liberal conspiracy” theorist and told him to “go east and drown from the ice cap melting.”
Kids today thinking that is a death threat.
Have we hit Peak Stupid yet?
There is no such thing as Peak Stupid.
Touche
In a move the DeSantis administration likely did not see coming, Presnell cited previous laws passed by the Florida governor in his reasoning for placing an injunction on the law. Presnell wrote that the Florida government had failed to sufficiently narrow the breadth of the ban to prevent its unjust application and its “inevitable clash with the Florida ‘Parents’ Bill of Rights’ and other laws.”
The “Parental Bill of Rights” was signed into law by DeSantis in July of 2021. The law, as quoted by Presnell states that “all parental rights are reserved to the parent of a minor child in this state…including…[t]he right to direct the upbringing and the moral or religious training of his or her minor child.”
You’re not free unless you’re free to be wrong.
There is not discernible difference between left wingers who want to control how you raise your children ad right wingers who want to control how you raise your children.
The lefty ones have scalpels and drugs.
I’ll take my chance with the righties for now.
FEDERAL JUDGE GREGORY Presnell
Appointed by Clinton on his way out the door, assumed senior status in 2012. I.e., a firm believer in “results-based jurisprudence” who DGAF now that he’s in his dotage.
Expect his injunction to be swatted away (without the newspaper and magazine headlines) by the Eleventh Circuit before Halloween.
Hunter Biden drama, or in other words, a day that ends in “y”.
Hunter Biden got kicked out of a private sex club for “grabbing women’s asses” and acting “like a spoiled child,” the founder exclusively told The Post.
The president’s troubled son is “a really bad guy — not a good person. He’s just not,” said Damon Lawner, who founded the notorious SNCTM club, where membership ran as high as $75,000 a year. And Hunter’s $10,000 payment led to Lawner receiving an IRS subpoena.
Hunter should run for office tbh
The president’s troubled son
Give me a fucking break. If he was anybody else he’d be in a medium security federal prison by now.
Lockdown meeting that never happened
There was a brief moment in Spring 2020, just a few days into “15 Days to Slow the Spread,” when we had a chance to change our trajectory. A distinct inflection point where if we had done just one thing differently, and caught the crazy COVID coaster before it got locked in its tracks, things could have turned out very differently over these last three plus years.
In the third week of March a secret emergency meeting was scheduled to take place between President Donald Trump, the COVID Task Force, and eight of the most eminently qualified public health experts in the world. This elite group of scientists was slated to present the highest-level decision-makers in our government with an alternative POV to lock down; a much-needed second opinion on national turtling.
We didn’t know it at the time, but this would have been the most important meeting of the COVID-19 era. But it never occurred.
#Titanic
https://twitter.com/causticbob/status/1672397092566728707
SEA SMITH SET RECORD STRAIGHT SUNDAY MORNING. IT NO HE!
Is Putin finished? He could disappear and enjoy his stolen billions for the rest of his life. But can someone that prominent actually hide? I wonder how many dictators and authoritarians (like from Africa) get away scot free with their loot and die peacefully in their beds.
Depends on whether there are defections in the actual Russian military. I fail to see how the Wagner Group can succeed on its own, but stranger things have happened.
Regardless, this is exceedingly dangerous. Prighozin appears to be unstable at best, and Putin is a relative moderate in the Kremlin. I shudder to think what happens if a real hardliner gets their hands on the nukes.
I have to say, I am a bit surprised that Prighozin didn’t “fall out a window” before now. But I have never been a despot, so I can’t say how I would judge my grip on power, even if I had held it for over 20 years.
*shrug*
A pity Yeltsin drank himself to death.