It takes guts to say what is or isn’t and then watch the cookies crumble where everyone can see, but this year’s nonsense has been abundant and conspicuous: I took my chances and did pretty well. This isn’t necessarily goodbye, but there’s not a lot of chances for any more teams to get taken down a peg or two, so, as the adults in the room (certainly not me), the CFP, now debut their opinions for this fall. And, as they do, we should concede that most of this year’s damage is done and take stock of where things are.
HOW THE WEEK WENT
Duke (motto: Doris was six foot and worth $250M in 1962) ain’t 21st,
just got blanked by Louisville (motto: did you know John Unitas’s middle name was Constantine?) and are no longer ranked.
Oregon State ain’t 16th
and lost at 4-3 Tuscon Tech (motto: Linda McCartney had to go to college somewhere) but are still 16th. CFP weighs in: 16th. Hmm.
North Carolina (motto: we seceded tenth!) ain’t 17th,
lost to 1-5 unranked Georgia Tech, and are no longer ranked.
Utah (motto: Brigham Young’s First University!) ain’t 12th,
got destroyed at home by Oregon, and fell to 18th.
UCLA ain’t 24th,
but they handled Big Deion Energy, so now they’re 20th. CFP weighs in: 19th.
Air Force ain’t 19th,
but they handled Colorado State (motto: one of our alumni sang Bluer than Blue!) and moved up to 17th. Sidebar: I’ve taken Sunday at the chapel there twice and slept in a maintenance hangar at Carson AFB once. CFP weighs in: 25th.
Tulane, the cream of the Uhmerican Conference, ain’t 22d,
and they barely outlast Rice. I had this opinion about them already this year and shouldn’t have brought them back up.
James Madison State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg (motto: none of our buildings are named for Stonewall Jackson anymore) should not be rated at all,
and they barely edged 3-4 Old Dominion, but there they are at 21st. CFP weighs in: unranked.
There are not nine twelve eleven ten eight teams better than Alabama, but they had the week off. CFP weighs in: 8th.
BIG MISS INCUBATOR VAULT
Florida State sure as shit ain’t 4th,
or so I thought: they whacked Wake Forest. CFP weighs in: 4th..
Oklahoma ain’t 18th,
and they lost to unrated Kansas, but they’re still 10th. CFP weighs in: 9th..
Washington sure as shit ain’t 8th,
but they got past 2-5 Stanford. For this BS they remain unpunished at 5th. CFP weighs in: 5th..
Michigan ain’t 2d,
and they had the week off. CFP weighs in: 3d..
Let’s write these four misses off the book and get on down the road.
NEWLY OVER-RATED
Louisville ain’t 15th, but there may not be time to prove it. I just throw this out there as food for thought; serious assertion season is pretty much over for me.
EVEN MORE USELESS OPINIONS
best one-loss team: Bama (third toughest strength of schedule); honorable mention: Penn State Texas)
best two-loss team: LSU Kansas State (keep trying, Irish!)
best three-loss team: Texas A&M (19th toughest strength of schedule)
best four-loss team: Texas Christian Clemson
best five-loss team: Texas Tech
best six-loss team: Arkansas (4th toughest strength of schedule)
best seven-loss team: Sam Houston State East Carolina
best eight-loss team: Wofford Sam Houston State (they just keep on losing in the best ways!)
Addenda
SPECIAL PRIME SECTION
Colorado ain’t 22d
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- they best CSU by 15? won in 2OT; we rate this prediction Somewhat True
- lose to Oregon by 13? lost by 36, and are now unranked; we rate this prediction Super True; we rate Colorado formerly over-rated
- lose to USC by 18? lost by 7; we rate this prediction SomeWhat True
- lose to ASU by 2? won by 3; we rate this prediction Missed it by That Much
- win over Stanford by 11? lost by 3; we rate this one ShouldntHaveGoneToBedAtTheHalf
- lose to UCLA by 10? won by 12; we rate this FuckYeahToldYouSixWeeksAgoBOOM!
- then lose to Oregon St by 7?
- then edge Arizona by 3?
- then lose in Pullman by 10?
- then lose to UU by 9?
TOLD’JA SO INVENTORY
we wish to hear their names no more
Tulane ain’t 24th
Colorado ain’t 22d
Texas ain’t 3d
Miami ain’t 20th
Florida shouldn’t be ranked at all
Missouri shouldn’t be ranked at all
Fresno shouldn’t be ranked at all
Ole Miss shouldn’t have dropped five spots for losing to Bama
Washington State ain’t 23d
Louisville ain’t 14th
Kansas lost at Stillwater and is now unranked
Duke ain’t 21st
North Carolina ain’t 17th
Utah ain’t 12th
Air Force ain’t 19th. CFP weighs in: 25th.
James Madison should not be rated at all. CFP weighs in: unranked.
nobody belongs in the top 10 !!!1!?1!
The articles aren’t my rankings: they’re about the garbage enthusiasm that thought leaders use and impose upon us. Did you notice that I’m
16–4
so far? It shouldn’t be this easy to predict when the experts will need to soon back away from their moment’s-ago craptacular opinions. Consider: if the best team in the nation were somehow ranked 11th, the entire top ten would be over-rated while possibly nine of them would belong in the top ten.
I like these posts, pretty funny. And informative, since I pretty much don’t follow college ball.
Thanks! That’s the spirit!
A lot of unessesary time and energy is being spent on polls and rankings. It’s the year of the Wolverine.
tOSU as #1? Enjoy it now. After Michigan takes them behind the woodshed and makes Ryan Day their little bitch, again, that number will change.
tOSU at #1? Oregon State is good, but not number 1 good. WSU is most #1!
Yeah, Oregon State is 2nd in the Pac 2.
If LSU takes Alabama, which one will be the best 2-loss team?
Go, Slippery Rock!
It pains me to say tPenn State ain’t #9. They just got by Indiana, a 32 point underdog, at home in the last few minutes of the game. Their running game, so highly touted at the beginning of the year, is lame. Their pass receivers can’t get open for their highly touted soph quarterback to hit them. Yeah, they will run the table against their remaining opponents (except will lose big to Michigan) and end up in a prominent bowl game but until they can win over tOSU or Michigan they are also rans in the Big10.
BLTs for lunch. I just got back from the grocery. One head of lettuce, package of 4 tomatoes, 2 packs of smokes, one bottled, single serving frappuccino. 48 Bucks.
I am gonna send a bill to Paul Krugnuts.
To be fair, the ciggies were >$40 of that (or at least would be in NY).
at least $26
No wonder smugglers come down to Virginia.
I vaguely remember NY bitching about that and demanding that Va boost their cigarette taxes on par with NY’s.
I think Va’s response was ‘Go fuck yourself’.
Fair? A pack of cigs costs about 10c to make. Tack on another 10-15 cents for distribution….
The difference goes to thieves.
You can go into the city at get that from some stores for $0.
Well in NYC those two packs of smokes would be $26 plus 8.875% sales tax.
So apparently you haven’t gotten the great news on the economy yet, either.
I have heard of it…I am just not so patiently waiting for it to trickle down to me.
Target CEO says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries
CEO Brian Cornell says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries, as they feel stressed about their budgets.
In an interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick that aired Thursday morning, he emphasized that the retailer has posted seven consecutive quarters of declining sales of discretionary items, such as apparel and toys, in terms of both dollars and units.
“But even in food and beverage categories, over the last few quarters, the units, the number of items they’re buying, has been declining,” he said in the interview.
A strong economy always results in declining sales across all common household goods.
Let’s Go Brandon!
Stating the obvious, guess that’s why they pay him the big CEO bucks.
It’s a real mystery why people think the economy sucks.
Bacon, lettuce, and tobacco?
Incantations
One core debate centers on a question of AI fairness. Many civil society leaders told CNBC the order does not go far enough to recognize and address real-world harms that stem from AI models — especially those affecting marginalized communities. But they say it’s a meaningful step along the path.
Many civil society and several tech industry groups praised the executive order’s roots — the White House’s blueprint for an AI bill of rights, released last October — but called on Congress to pass laws codifying protections, and to better account for training and developing models that prioritize AI fairness instead of addressing those harms after-the-fact.
“This executive order is a real step forward, but we must not allow it to be the only step,” Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement. “We still need Congress to consider legislation that will regulate AI and ensure that innovation makes us more fair, just, and prosperous, rather than surveilled, silenced, and stereotyped.”
The high wizards of fairness will save us.
New boogie man identified. Women and minorities hardest hit.
yep. Listening to their tripe over and over gets very tiresome. Two seconds after starting to read if I identify any sophistry I just quit reading, dismissing anything they have to say.
Me, I anxiously await AI porn with a young Sandra Bullock — which will be the primary use of AI in short order.
How young a Sandra Bullock?
/Asking for a friend, who has candy…
Circa Love Potion #9.
Strictly legal.
AI generated porn.
https://archive.ph/5Hkmf/037e1717ab119e8d761a0f6fc8df8d1e8c1a6f2f.jpg
Majorly NSFW.
Human proportions, how do they work?
— AI
Can’t view at work.
That’s not Sandra Bullock!
I haven’t looked (Not such a big fan of hers), but I will bet you dollars to donuts that it already exists.
This is Twitter 2.0. This time they’re getting their grubby hooks into it early. They’re going to make damn sure all AI has the bias they want it to.
^^ This.
I’ve cause many a tiff with these folks by pointing out that statistical bias and social bias are two different things. Many a non-technical adminocrat has made a career out of conflating the two.
“Many civil society leaders”
Who or what do these people lead that qualifies them as “civil society leaders”, anyway?
They have a d by their name?
Well, it looks like I am going to make a hard burn to Vegas tomorrow, staying in Sparks on the way. Should be an interesting weekend.
Have a good time while you are at it. I am off the Shreveport again.
Eh, its more of a drive down, see my fathers widow, get the cheapest hotel room not attached to a casino, and turn around the next day heading home.
Cody Venzke, senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, believes the executive order is an “important next step in centering equity, civil rights and civil liberties in our national AI policy” — but that the ACLU has “deep concerns” about the executive order’s sections on national security and law enforcement.
In particular, the ACLU is concerned about the executive order’s push to “identify areas where AI can enhance law enforcement efficiency and accuracy,” as is stated in the text.
The last thing we want to do is recognize the existence of obvious patterns trends.
AI will ruin the world the same way the Internet ruined the world. Not in the way predicted, but in ways no one considered.
My hope is that they train AI to find money crimes, and AI immediately tags every member of congress and the Senate with files containing hard proof of wrongdoing.
Nah. The 4th Directive takes care of that.
That’s exactly the kind of thing I expect them to ban in the name of being fair and equitable.
*ding ding ding*
We have a winner.
Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder and president of the Algorithmic Justice League
Cut it the fuck out.
Really? Do they have costumes, like Batman with an IF/THEN statement on the chest?
Their web site is fully fleshed out and rather spiffy.
https://www.ajl.org/
They’ve got union / Soros / pick your dark money behind them.
Spiffy website even includes an innocuous little “Report Harm” button. Who could possibly be against preventing “harm”?
I looked. There appears to be nine members, all of whom look like clowns and use pronouns.
https://www.ajl.org/about
There is a dude, in a dress, wearing clown makeup in the picture.
that was worth the click. Straight out of central casting- and they are all PhD’s.
So, an Insane Clown and its posse?
SASHA COSTANZA CHOCK (THEY/SHE)
TAWANA PETTY (SHE/THEY)
This has to be an elaborate, intentional, joke, right?
AJL – > Code for Science & Society – > Stencila – > Sloan Foundation – > GM – > FedGov
All these nonprofits are tied back to megacorps, commie 501c3’s or FedGov itself. The deconstruction of society doesn’t stop until the constellation of agitative non-profits is broken up.
“It tells us little about safety and risks discouraging emerging players from building large models, while entrenching the power of incumbents,” Benaich told CNBC.
NetChoice’s Vice President and General Counsel Carl Szabo was even more blunt.
“Broad regulatory measures in Biden’s AI red tape wishlist will result in stifling new companies and competitors from entering the marketplace and significantly expanding the power of the federal government over American innovation,” said Szabo, whose group counts Amazon, Google, Meta and TikTok among its members. “Thus, this order puts any investment in AI at risk of being shut down at the whims of government bureaucrats.”
[insert expostulation of surprise]
‘we haven’t had a chance to inbed and bribe legislators and regulators in this field, give us a few years first’
Will AI make me rich from betting on college football? That’s what I’d use it for.
No, because everyone will bet the same way, so your returns will be fractions of a dollar per dollar.
Probably not. I just asked one of the LLM’s some betting questions. It told me to take the home underdog, and told me to bet on the visiting team, and told me to bet the spread in a game where its predicted score for the game would make that a losing bet.
The 8 Ball will do just as good.
LLM != any kind of rational analysis
I always enjoy Don’s drollness (is that a word?).
https://archive.ph/viasY
THICC Thursday.
Ummm…what?
GT is 4-4 and currently 4th in the ACC standings. 3-4 before the game, but thats a long way from 1-5.
It’s Georgia Tech. They can’t do math.
As I recall the Cambridge punchline was “from Harvard and can’t count, or from MIT and can’t read… or from Yale and can’t do either”.
Japan’s government on Thursday compiled a package of measures to cushion the economic blow from inflation that will involve spending of more than 17 trillion yen ($113 billion), a move that could worsen the country’s already tattered finances.
Learning from the US, Japan decides the best way to fight inflation is by spending government money.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/japans-kishida-announces-113-bln-package-combat-inflation-pain-2023-11-02/
I don’t have much on college ball right now. I am happy about the Texas Rangers. Don, wold you have bet on the Rangers or D-Bags?
Putin signs bill revoking nuclear test ban treaty
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) was opened in 1996 and was eventually ratified by 178 countries, including Russia.
However, several major powers, including the U.S. and China, did not ratify the treaty, and it never went into effect because it did not reach its required threshold.
Eh, never mind.
“It was more of a guideline, anyway.”
Talent
Ron Moten, a D.C. anti-violence activist, believes that the city is in crisis.
“We have ‘Grand Theft Auto’ in real life. Children think it’s a game. And now they’re dying, and other people are dying, and people are traumatized,” Moten said to the Washington Post.
The city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, also weighed in, calling the teen’s death a tragedy.
“Guns, carjackings, 13-year-olds: recipe for tragedy. And that’s what we have,” she said.
Acting Chief of Police Pamela Smith said she wants to be careful with how she publicly discusses the circumstances around Toney’s death.
“He was known to the Metropolitan Police Department, and it’s just unfortunate that this particular incident happened on Saturday night that caused him to no longer be here,” Smith said.
A source familiar with the deceased’s criminal history told WaPo he was arrested in May, while he was 12 years old, in connection to armed carjackings in the city. In August, some charges were dismissed, and he awaited prosecution for the remaining ones.
In addition to Toney, a 15-year-old girl with a history of stealing cars, was arrested two days prior to the boy’s death for her involvement in a case in which two stolen vehicles traveling in a caravan crashed into each other, killing the 16-year-old driver in one vehicle.
Many who knew the seventh grader Toney remembered him as a talented kid with tons of personality and charisma.
The principal of his school sent a letter to the Kelly Miller community.
“He had a natural comedic ability and loved to make people laugh, especially when he would joke that he was the principal of Kelly Miller MS. Vernard also loved to play basketball and spend his free time on the court with his friends,” the principal wrote, according to NBC 4.
Toney was the second 13-year-old boy in Washington to be killed this year in connection with an attempted car theft or break-in.
Guess what, Mister Anti-Violence Activist- what you’re doing ain’t working. But keep those grant applications coming.
particular incident happened on Saturday night that caused him to no longer be here,
Horseshit.
He was killed. He didn’t blip out of existence like in sci-fi movie.
Also, if he was the one doing the carjacking then the incident didn’t simply “happen” to him.
Someone did something.
The Chief of Police wants to be careful about how she discusses it, so she can’t be accused of offender blaming. 🤡🌎
The other 13-year-old, Karon Blake, was fatally shot on Jan. 7. The adult who shot him, Jason Lewis, alleged he saw him breaking into cars on the street. Lewis, 41, who was charged with second-degree murder for the killing, said he confronted the unarmed Blake and his companions and shot the boy multiple times.
Court documents show that investigators found Blake had never been on Lewis’ property when he ran toward the man and was shot.
In May, Lewis was released from jail and placed on permanent home confinement and supervision until his case has been addressed. Lewis is now scheduled for trial on April 8, 2024.
Making it illegal to intervene in a crime will definitely have an effect on criminal behavior.
We used to hang horse thieves.
So, Lewis tells the guy to stop breaking into cars, the guy charges him, and Lewis gets arrested for murder?
Also, what difference does it make that the guy had never been on the shooter’s property? That doesn’t really affect the math for self-defense.
Thanks! That’s the spirit!
You’re welcome.
It shouldn’t be this easy to predict when the experts will need to soon back away from their moment’s-ago craptacular opinions.
The experts don’t suffer any real consequences for being wildly wrong, and obviously stupid picks make fodder for the endless sports-talking-head round table shows, where they try to justify their inane predictions with picky little small-picture rationales that are primarily intended to display their real depth of knowledge.
Are any Glibs familiar with Nashville TN.
I was planning on going between Christmas and New years for a vacation/ 20th wedding anniversary. I can get flights during this time for less than 2 tanks of gas. We were planning on going to Vegas, but for some reason the flights got really costly.
We want to see a lot of live music in smallish clubs. I don’t know if there is a real big slowdown in acts during this period of time.
I have been to Nashville a few times. If you like country music you’ll love it. On the strip, every bar has live music all day, including on Sunday mornings. They let kids into bars during the day. We went to one bar that had three levels each with a different band. When we went my youngest was 5 or 6, we were at that bar and we gave her money to throw into the band’s tip bucket and they played any song she asked.
I doubt there would be a slowdown that time of year. Might even be busier.
Thanks TOK,
I love live music, but not a lot of “pop country”. Is there also a mix of alt country, rock, and other genres? I understand Nashville is country centric, but I’m wondering about what other scenes exist.
Twenty years ago, I remember finding a punk club/bar on the south side of Nashville, for what that is worth. In other words, scratch the surface and I would bet you will find all sorts of things. It is a pretty big city after all.
I’m sure that’s true. I do like Country and mainly live Country. I just don’t like “pop with a twang” Country.
BTW Zwak, I’m loving the Budos Band. Definitely my jam.
Not sure about those other genres, but the are definitely places where you can hear old school country.
If you like blues, Memphis is a lot like Nashville with different music.
I believe there’s a couple of Glibs who live there (or in the surrounding suburbs).
We were there a couple years ago and did the trolley tour. It’s a good way to see where things are and what might be worth going back to check out in more detail. You can get on and off the trolley all day. We stayed not far from the Johnny Cash museum so I went through that one and enjoyed it. There is a water park we enjoyed also. Don’t remember the name or if they stay open year round.
Also, we went during COVID-19 lockdowns so Kid Rock’s place was shut down because he was being a naughty boy.
Just got a “conduct violation” from Twitter for using the word “trannies.” I guess we can’t talk about transmissions anymore. (No, I wasn’t talking about transmissions.)
Wow I’m following some naughty folks on Twitter.
The answer is to use the word transmission when talking about a tranny. In fact, use automotive words that sound similar to what you want to talk about.
“he had his dipstick removed. Now there is no way to check his wife’s oil.”
I thought he was checking her gender fluid.
*wild applause*
Per Brave New World she was very pneumatic!
I had the same happen to me a few days back, asking about the tranny school shooter’s manifesto.
Oh yeah, the tranny lobby has hated that forever.
Dearest Tonio: Please, if you have not yet done the links, incorporate this one just for the picture.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/beyond-meat-slashes-outlook-fake-meat-demand-falls
Someone needs to stop sunbathing nude.
“I was in the pool!”
That’s a wiener!
“demand for fake meat sags.”
Those guys have a great sense of humor.
Hey, it’s cold in those refrigerators!
I think Q has something that will take the wrinkles out of those sausages.
Those are vegan sausages. They may never rise again.
Comer reveals how Joe Biden received laundered Chinese money.
And then nothing else happened. The end.
I posted this yesterday. You’re a day late.
So…you were first?
It is much more important when coming from a Firster. Why would anyone pay attention to what a seconder posts?
You dick must be raw after 6 years of never-ending masturbation.
A legend in his own mind.
See above re fake meat.
“I salute my little firster, but he doesn’t salute back anymore!” 😭
Hah! Fake news! It says “loan repayment” right on the check, which means he’s innocent! Suck it, magat!
Just got a “conduct violation” from Twitter for using the word “trannies.”
What’s their stance on “female impersonators”?
I was responding to someone who used the word “tyrannies” and had initially read it as “trannies.”
I was responding to someone who used the word “tyrannies” and had initially read it as “trannies.”
Sic Semper Trannies!
Tyrannies but stressed on the second syllable works.
Trannysaurus Rex!
Get your hate on
Still better than modern pop music.
older pop music
Relevant
Clippy: Looks like you are writing a suicide note. Would you like some help with that?
Inserted AI-generated Microsoft poll about woman’s death rankles The Guardian
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/inserted-ai-generated-microsoft-poll-about-womans-death-rankles-the-guardian/
What I don’t understand is why anybody answers these polls that aren’t really polls or polls of any usefulness other than clicks and revenue for the pollster.
Hah! For some reason, Everytown USA shows up on my FB feed a lot. Their lead item is a poll they’re running on gun control. Guess how the vote went?
and it’s just unfortunate that this particular incident happened
If that guy had just meekly gotten out of the car. instead of engaging in gross antisocial vigilantism that fine young man would be here with us today. In a holding cell, probably, waiting for the ACLU to spring him.
I wonder what insights AI might have to offer us about a thirteen year old career criminal.
It would be biased, according to “researchers.”
https://archive.ph/2G8H4
If you twist AI to not show the truth of what it sees, you will make it insane.
Which is basically true of ordinary intelligence as well. Witness everything about the modern woke Progressive society which has as its starting point the insistence that it won’t believe what is plainly true.
Yes. And now we have a 1.3 of the country needing mental help, it seems.
I miss the days when the internet made twitter bots into Nazis in a single day.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-just-dropped-all-graduation-standards-failing-all-of-its-students-in-the-name-of-equity/ar-AA1jgHQv?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=bfae4d46a472402e879d8afe00808bc2&ei=13
Seems legit.
Hmmm…
The mayor was headed to Washington, D.C., early Thursday for meetings about the migrant crisis in New York, according to a short video he shared on X, formerly known as Twitter. The mayor canceled his meetings before arriving in D.C. to return to New York. The mayor “returned to New York City to address a matter,” his spokesman said.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/fbi-searches-home-of-nyc-mayors-fundraiser-05f2f514?st=ps9rqdkrt1gx32h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I was thinking about that. Eric complained too loudly about the migrants. He is being punished.
Yep. Someone’s getting too mouthy.
Jesus, that is frighteningly likely at this point.
I’m not saying he wasn’t up to no good, it is the timing that matters.
I’m shocked. Shocked!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-earn-2k-night-escort-31316920
That is what passes for high-end these days? geeze.