Saturday evening Links

by | Jun 7, 2025 | Daily Links | 123 comments

I spent a LOT of money dealing with trees last year. It appears the new season has started.

Links?

Elon is finding out the hard way that sometimes it’s not good to latch yourself to the government tit, and then publicly piss off the most powerful man in the world.

It’s only a matter of time before we have our first AI CEO.

Speaking of AI. What did you think was going to happen? Humans are involved.

Put your geek hats on.

We need to pay attention to possible military action in our own backyard. This is going to get much hotter before it is settled.

Stay off social media when you’ve been drinking, Simone.

OMWC may owe this man $10,000.

Okay, that’s good for today. Off to the garden to pull weeds. Peace out, Glibbies.

This is really bad.

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Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

123 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    Hatchet
    Axe
    and Saw
    Beautiful pics

  2. SarumanTheNotSoWise

    AI Blackmail: Schmidt just threw 30M down the toilet.

    Astrocytes: I wonder if they go into overdrive when you sleep.

    Rush’s ‘Trees’ The lyrics annoy me because it is oaks that don’t do well in the shade of maples whereas the reverse isn’t true.

    • CPRM

      That’s because there is no more Oak oppression, they passed a law.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Very noble of them

  3. The Late P Brooks

    Lol you’re just mad that you’re not even 5 feet tall. Go back to your dwelling little hobbit.

    That’s just mean.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Ha! That’s something I’d say to Munchkin. She’s (IIRC) 4’10” or 11″, same as my mom. (Dad’s 6’1″ or 2″. I think I get ‘It’ and don’t want to know further.)

      Li’l bunches of oatmeal also accepts ‘Ewok’ as a diminutive nickname. I strongly approve.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    “Selfie flotilla”

    I can’t wait for the lifeboat scene.

  5. Gustave Lytton

    Godfather of AI Alarmed as Advanced Systems Quickly Learning to Lie, Deceive, Blackmail and Hack

    Huh, didn’t realize Marvin Minsky was still alive.

    • juris imprudent

      The Lou Reed of the computer world.

  6. Chipping Pioneer

    Yep. That Brazilian guy is totally tapping Greta.

    • Suthenboy

      I am sure he isn’t the only one.

    • Evan from Evansville

      That made me think of bonin’ with maple syrup for lube. That friction would create problematic, sandpaper squelches. Pleases the Canucks, I s’pose.

      Imagine banging Greta being a Proud Bang you’d talk about at parties. Yet Suthen ain’t wrong. Even I couldn’t hate-bone her. AOC and especially Ilhan Omar/ Uh. I. Uh. Would report back from those trenches after several weekends of indoctrination. They require me.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Eh, probably bunny-boilers. “I will NOT be igNORED!”

      • Evan from Evansville

        You’re making it hotter, Tox…

  7. Gustave Lytton

    Donald King was unceremoniously laid off from his data science job at consulting firm PwC

    Zero sympathy for any consultants getting whacked. Especially with no notice or fanfare. Eat your dog food, bitch.

  8. Gustave Lytton

    We need to pay attention to possible military action in our own backyard

    Because it’s a clear and present danger?

    • CPRM

      Jack Ryan will take care of it.

  9. Suthenboy

    Hey, wait a minute. Guyana has a military?

  10. rhywun

    OFFS Elon is not going to bankroll Democrats.

    • Tres Cool

      Why? Democrats are the ones that stood in line to buy his products.

      Although I think the whole high-school spat between them played in the media is OMB doing 36d level marketing.

      • rhywun

        I guess if his complaints about the budget deficit are complete bullshit… but he’s a sperg so I don’t think his mind works that way.

    • Tonio

      I see what you did there. It’s slightly disturbing and my first reax was “browser error?” Heh.

      • Mojeaux

        😬

  11. rhywun

    It’s only a matter of time before we have our first AI CEO.

    Sounds more like they’re cutting middle management flab – oh wait, it says that specifically in the article.

    Those jobs are not being replaced with AI – they’re just being eliminated.

    FUD.

  12. rhywun

    OMWC may owe this man $10,000.

    I don’t think I’ve seen a bunch of commies smiling that hard. WTF.

    • rhywun

      Yep. That Brazilian guy is totally tapping Greta.

      Oh, that must be why.

  13. Suthenboy

    Speaking of the Freedom Flotilla, shouldn’t they be there by now? Are they paddling with teaspoons to string it out for as much publicity as possible?
    I dont remember who did it but didn’t the original Greenpeace boat get sunk in harbor by ….never mind I will look it up.
    The Rainbow Warrior, sunk by the Frogs while it was docked. I remember that. They fucked it up and someone was killed.

    • Old Man With Candy

      It’s a difficult approach- the waters there are very shallow and it’s tough to wedge in. Much like Greta’s bunghole.

      • Suthenboy

        I doubt that. I imagine that boat is doing a lot of rocking.
        I haven’t been around people like that for a long time but I do remember that their morals are what you might call ‘flexible’.
        I imagine the approach is not that shallow nor difficult.

        Sean, I am restraining myself so as to not out class the old man.

  14. Old Man With Candy

    OMWC may owe this man $10,000.

    Nope, it has to be ME doing the fetal alcohol chick’s bunghole.

    • Sean

      One of the classiest sentences ever posted here.

      • Animal

        Mildly disturbing but true.

      • Spudalicious

        Hey Animal, I LOVED my ’89 LX5.0!

  15. cavalier973

    I am still enjoying West With the Night by Beryl Markham, which I read aloud to my wife.

    She is now telling about her work finding elephants for big game hunters by flying over the plains.

    An excerpt (upon seeing a large bull elephant grazing alone):

    A bull like that is a challenge to a hunter. It is one thing to track down a herd with its cows and calves and it’s Republican method of formulating communal policy, but it is another thing to tackle a seasoned individualist unfettered by responsibility—selfish, worldly-wise, and quick to act.

    Her narrative is building a world in my mind of a small group of people who are acquaintances rather than friends, who are from different parts of the world, who are skilled in adventuring—flying, exploring, hunting, defying death. Driving across the Sahara in motor cars. Gambling on race horses in picturesque third world locales.

    It is quite a good book.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And drunk posting is drunk

      • Tres Cool

        HEY YUFUS!

        TALL CANS!

  16. Derpetologist

    I expected Trump to follow through on his threat of a pricey, garish military parade. Since I voted for him twice, I have only myself to blame.

    Perhaps he or one of his entourage will realize that such a spectacle barely 4 years after the longest war in US history ended in a catastrophic defeat will not only waste money, but make us look like arrogant fools to the rest of the world. All the more so since the chief organizer weaseled his way out of the draft when it was HIS time to go.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk

    • Suthenboy

      The price of empire.
      I have said before a number of times…I asked my Pommy buddy “What happened to your empire?” and he answered “You’ll see.”
      He couldn’t have been more correct.

    • Derpetologist

      At this point, I’m tempted to run to the front of that stupid parade wearing nothing but my grandpa’s WW2 Army helmet, a bandolier of ammo, and a bamboo cane in my hands.

      Perhaps a chorus of local children will join in and march to this song:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpYnUyUr8Ak

      • Tres Cool

        I do like the brigade of turbans/beards/Honda C90

      • Suthenboy

        Derp, stop. doing shit like that. The world does’nt want to be saved. You are just yelling at clouds.
        There is a reason that all wise men are depicted as living in a cave or on top of a mountain away from everyone else.

        Did you ever go check out the Santa Fe at unnamed springs?

      • Derpetologist

        No, but I’ll go swimming tomorrow at Manatee Springs and try to swim to the bottom, despite being a lazy fatass.

    • rhywun

      look like arrogant fools to the rest of the world

      Nothing we could do would ever dispel that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  17. Tres Cool

    “Greta Thunberg’s Brazilian Flotilla Buddy Attended Funeral Of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah”

    Flotilla is the next Whale Wars. Animal Planet needs new material since Paul Watson started an OnlyFans.

    • Ted S.

      Are you suggesting Greta Thunberg start an OnlyFans?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      “Greta Thunberg’s Brazilian Flotilla Buddy Attended Funeral Of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah”

      So when’s catfight between Greta and Taylor Lorenz over this guy?

      • Spudalicious

        Three way.

      • rhywun

        I’d hit it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        I’d probably have to tape his mouth shut, though.

      • Tres Cool

        I’d bang her, and whisper to her how much I love coal/oil-fired boilers.

        Being on the spectrum, I bet she wails like a deaf chick.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ooh Greenpeace vs. The frogs pt deux
      Yes!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Am I the only person thinking Israel needs to pull a Rainbow Warrior on that boat?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Refresh. Refresh before posting.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Great minds…

    • Akira

      As Anthony Esolen pointed out in his book “No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men“… In previous eras, a little girl histrionically shouting about issues for adults to solve would have been gently escorted out of the room and told with a smile, “Sweetie, you’re getting in the way, why don’t you sit out here while we talk it over?”

  18. Brochettaward

    Wasn’t in the CIA that ensured us that the Venezuelan government has no control or direction of the gangs who are flooding the streets of America?

    The media buys that, but then reports on how they’re using them as an instrument of war with no sense of hypocrisy or shame.

    • Suthenboy

      Ugh, and we haven’t even tried to spike Maduro’s margarita. Or have we?

      • Brochettaward

        Asshat commies will do what asshat commies do across the globe.

        I’m more annoyed that our wonderful intelligence agencies are running cover for them. And the media buys it and then reports this shit like a month later.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Are we sure the CIA isn’t controlling the Venezuelan gangs?

    • Brochettaward

      I really don’t see the connection here. Some guy dies in a training accident and you act like it proves some point.

      • Brochettaward

        There’s concerns about what the public would tolerate in terms of casualties, but there’s no existential threat to us outside nuclear war because of things like gaudy F-35’s.

        I don’t see what a report on a training accident and investigation has to do with that. You’d prefer they just shrugged and let potentially shitty leadership or equipment off the hook for a needless death in what was supposed to be just training?

      • Derpetologist

        If there is no existential threat to us outside of nuclear war, then our military is grossly mis-designed, misallocated, and overfunded.

        I’m certain there are many young Americans with the right skills and attitude to succeed in combat. But how many and for how long? Not much or long, I think. And here are some reasons why:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKgxkNES4Zs

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-Yslv4PME

        I really wish the powers that be would come to their senses before even more blood and treasure is lost in pointless wars.

      • Brochettaward

        It is overfunded. Few here would argue otherwise, but all those toys are nice deterrent to real war, as well.

        I’d say there’s tons of shit they’re funding we have no idea about, as well.

      • Tres Cool

        $200 toilet seats are how black ops are funded.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m sure someone had a long talk with Elon when he talked about auditing the Pentagon even as a thought.

    • Tres Cool

      We keep 1950s-era B-52s for a reason.

      • Derpetologist

        If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

        I wish that truism was followed more often.

      • Tres Cool

        F-35 is/was a bureaucratic boondoggle, just to wet the beak of the MIC.
        No all-purpose anything does 1 job well, and they knew it from conception.

    • rhywun

      I’d like to think that it’s a little more obvious this time that it’s just commie agitprop but I’m not confident.

  19. Muzzled Woodchipper

    It’s pretty amazing how much restraint is shown towards “protestors” in LA. They think immigration raids is fascism. Fascism would have mowed them down in the streets, and left them there as a warning.

    • Brochettaward

      I mean, it’s probably all agitprop so of course the authorities aren’t going to crack down locally.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        No. But if it were fascism, as these “protestors” scream from the hilltops, there wouldn’t be any more of them left. Scores would be killed, and the rest disappeared.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Funny, because they’re the quislings supporting an ongoing invasion of their own country.

  20. Yusef drives a Kia

    When we get into another Real shooting war we are going to get our asses handed to us. We as a nation are hollowed out pussies stuck to our phones, well and deservedly fucked.

    • creech

      Yeah, we need to import those tuf gais vigorously belting out “Oh Canada, we stand on Guard for Thee” at sporting events lately.

      • Brochettaward

        I think people overestimate how tough Russians and Chinese men are by a mile. Then who is there? Europeans? Please.

        I’m not going to pretend we have an endless reserve of fighting capable men, but there’s enough. Russia and China rely on a meatgrinder approach to war for a reason. It’s not a good one.

      • Brochettaward

        I have far less concern for what the average infantrymen is going to do in combat than how the people back home would respond to mass casualties.

        It’s a political issue, and hopefully one that doesn’t get tested.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It will be tested and Americans wont tolerate, as we get our ass kicked

      • Gustave Lytton

        Same shit was being said in the summer of 1990.

        My experience is out of day by a generation, but I assume the average joe will do his job as he always has. Infantrywomen and their corrosive effects I’m more concerned about.

      • Ted S.

        The people back in 1990 were comparing Iraq to Vietnam, deliberately not understanding desert vs. jungle warfare or Saddam Hussein’s traditional army vs. a guerrilla force that could be restocked over the border.

  21. Gustave Lytton

    The anti-burners continue their multi year ratchet. Burn season ended ten days early this year but is being passed off as normal.

  22. whahappan

    Where is everyone on the zoom?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Batin…go’way

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        This is the correct answer

      • Brochettaward

        I’m Firstin’. Are you Firstin’?

      • Akira

        Is that you, Mr. Toobin?

  23. Evan from Evansville

    Up and atom, Glibs. Or sleep ‘n sleep ’em. (With pleasure.)

    Off to pick strangers’ produce. They best like me, darlings…

    • Sean

      These euphemisms…

      • Ted S.

        He really likes their peaches,
        Wants to shake their trees.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Please don’t talk about our future President Harris like that (it’s actually gonna be Newsome but they’re essentially the same person).

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., EfE, Stinky, and Tater!

      Sean, dude! You got my hopes up! I thought your musical link was going to be “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead.” 😞

      • Sean

        😎

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If someone has a lot of belly and lower abdomen fat their wang will appear longer when they lose it and the improved blood flow should help as well. It’s simple, uh, is it physics?

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      Ozempic about to be sold out

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Pass? Doug E Fresh is going to be there, I know he’s no Slick Rick but come on.

  24. Common Tater

    “A São Paulo court on Tuesday sentenced Brazilian comedian Léo Lins, 42, to eight years and three months in prison for charges of defamation and hate speech, following a criminal case brought by federal prosecutors in 2023.

    The charges stemmed from a stand-up comedy performance in Curitiba in 2022, in which Lins targeted several minority and vulnerable groups. The show was later posted on YouTube, where it quickly went viral.

    Before a crowd of roughly 4,000 people, Lins made jokes targeting elderly people, Black and Indigenous Brazilians, people with HIV, the LGBTQ+ community, evangelical Christians, Jews, people with disabilities — and even referenced pedophilia in his routine.”

    “Judge Bárbara de Lima Iseppi ruled that Lins’ remarks went beyond free speech and became hate speech.

    Lins’ legal team said that this decision by the court showed that free speech was under attack and would “criminalize comedy.””

    https://justthenews.com/world/latin-america/brazilian-comedian-receives-8-year-prison-sentence-making-bigoted-jokes

    But Bolsonaro was the fascist.

  25. Common Tater

    In other news, Los Angeles is a shithole.

    • Fourscore

      It’s just the beginning, summer hasn’t really started yet.

      • Common Tater

        New York isn’t doing so well either.

  26. Not Adahn

    Good morning! The special Benny variant is:

    Garlic toast
    Prosciutto
    Fresh mozzarella
    Pesto
    Poached eggs
    Shaved parm

    Served with potatoes.

    • Common Tater

      That’s too much of a variant to still be eggs benedict.

  27. Not Adahn

    I can only imagine how irked thr Belmont crowd was yesterday.

    • Ted S.

      Did the rain not end, or did something else happen?

      And post time keeps getting moved later and later.

      At any rate, horse racing is just NASCAR for the bigots who think people not like them are déclassé. I feel sorry for you for having to put up with it for six weeks every summer.

    • Gender Traitor

      Why? All I saw were the top three results in the crawl while watching the Savannah Bananas play banana ball on The Deuce. (Go ‘nanners!)