First, I give a gift. I’ve been using this as my response to spam texts/messages recently, and it has amused me. I leave it here for you. But let’s get going with the links.
First, let’s go back to the halcyon days of the 00s.
I hope this dies when Search for Gollum flops.
Farewell to a bunch of Eurojank RPGs.
I doubt kinnath will go this route.
In local news: Idiots move next to factory, complain factory is loud.
You know… when drag shows (like burlesque) were done in clubs and bars for adult only crowds, this wasn’t an issue.
PCMag cares not for things like security.
Won’t someone think of the vermin?
STEVE SMITH POSING FOR NEW ONE!
With that, let’s get to some drinks.
A Classic Sour
- 2 parts (2 oz.) liquor
- 1 part (1 oz) lemon juice
- 1 part (1 oz) simple syrup
- 1 egg white (or aquafaba) – optional
Yeah, the whiskey sour used to be a favorite drink order (as was the amaretto sour), they seem to have fallen by the wayside in recent decades, and for that I blame the trend of everyone using premixed store bought neon green sour mix and converting it to a two part drink (which also removes the egg white). To make this drink, grab the liquor of your choice (whiskey, rum, gin, mezcal, even Midori), add it and the other ingredients to an empty shaker. At that point you dry shake (shake the drink without ice) the drink for 15-30 seconds to aerate it. Add ice to the shaker, shake until chilled, and then double strain (if you used egg whites, single strain otherwise) into a chilled rocks glass. Garnish with a flag made out of a lemon slice and a cherry, or a lemon twist if you would like. This drink can be modified in all sorts of ways. Swapping out lime juice for the lemon (or splitting it into half lemon, half lime), using a fruit syrup instead of some of the simple syrup (grenadine or raspberry are classics here), and, as always, adjusting the ratio of the ingredients to your taste.
With that, I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend, and may it go as you wish.
He also directed Jackson, as well as “Lord of the Rings” stars Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen and Elijah Wood, in the 2019 short film “Darrylgorn,” which is set in JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
I never heard of this film and I think that is a good thing.
Wow. I REALLY pissed off Michael Malice and his merry band of toddlers.
Oh? Do tell..
+1
I made a mildly snarky but pragmatic comment about autocorrect (mind you he has almost 900k followers and I have maybe 3500), and he totally came after me, so his people did too. And he’s STILL going.
https://twitter.com/MoriahJovan/status/2037254058923204625?t=b8fnXhcliV69zMuZPxOcOg&s=19
Wow. Autocorrect is one of the first things I turn off. It is the devil.
Autocorrect-gate continues?
Yes. I’m not mad or upset. I’m puzzled. Like, of all the things to quibble about and of all the people he could quibble with…
Like, dude. Don’t you have better things to do?
There have been a few times when one of my replies attracted a lot of attention, and I have no idea why. Timing, someone just happened to see it, who knows.
That was definitely an odd one to make into an issue.
I must be missing something, I see a handful of replies most either taking your side or amused that Grok’s answer dodged the question.
I don’t know if you can see the other replies I’m getting or how deep you’d have to dig to find them. One dude: “I would laugh if you died tomorrow.”
Um. Okay. Thanks?
It wasn’t the content at all that bothered Malice on that one, it’s that you challenged his wisdom by suggesting that maybe he’s better off not using it.
You bruised his ego.
Is his ego THAT fragile?
This lone piece of evidence suggests yes.
“FCC Router Ban Sends the Wrong Signal”
Apparently Shpip has a side gig as a lede writer for Ziff-Davis.
The router rule is the correct rule for a populace that could care any less about security.
You’ll note the router(s) you can purchase from you internet provider are just fine…
Current stock. After they deplete, thats it.
My mother? Lemme tell you about my mother.
The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found.
Did it hurt when you pulled that number out of your ass?
First rule of climate court. You sue the people that got the money.
Considering the size of the number, I bet it felt pretty good…
I have been getting text messages from Sharon* letting me know they are doing window/roof/insect whatever in my neighborhood, and would I like them to stop by for incredible savings!
I have been replying “what are you wearing?”
Doesn’t seem to stop them for too long.
*not sure if right name, but it is always female name.
It’s about that time for some kid on one of those hover board things to try to sell me whichever of those three they’re selling this year.
From that trash game site you linked:
Fuck off, commie.
Maybe Tiger should get an (automobile) driver…
https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/tiger-woods-involved-in-rollover-car-crash-in-22156089.php
Boy he is having a bad week
“If only we hadn’t wasted money on S02.”
/the one person with a brain there
Frances Moore, an expert in the social costs of the climate crisis at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the research, said the study is “useful” but may still not fully account for all of the weight of damage suffered by poorer countries from a climate crisis they did not cause.
If these numbers don’t terrify you into submission we can make up some bigger ones.
“While I applaud the study, it failed to state that women and minorities were hardest hit.”
Baseball needs to get rid of instant replay, ABS and any other bit of horseshit.
The umpire is there for a damn reason. Use it!
Football too. If you can’t do this at the PeeWee/T-ball level, it is BS.
Fuck that. I want the machine to call balls and strikes. The ump can stand there and make the calls at the plate when needed.
Nope. It isn’t baseball anymore if you need anything more than bats and gloves and kids can’t have it.
ZWAK:
Run with it for MLB, there’s still Bananaball with an ump at the plate calling balls/strikes (although they do allow a challenge by both teams, and the fans).
I mostly agree. Truthfully, now that there’s so much extra, legal and MLB-affiliated and approved gambling added to the felt?
Uh. It makes sad sense. If the FanDuels+ groups are involved. Obv blown strike 3 costs the game? Where’s liability go? (Back alley?)
I’m especially not a fan cuz it takes out more humanity to the game. A strike zone, if consistent for both teams (we can dream, well we used to pretty happily…) then the umpire is part of the entertainment put on the field. Ground rules, as well, but those aren’t contended. (Yet?)
There’s no realistic way to put ABS etc back into Pandora’s box. *unhappy, but ‘ok’ shrug*
I appreciate your support.
sin,
Angel Hernandez
Fully agree.
I don’t even want the fucking box on the screen.
Again? “Tiger Woods involved in rollover crash on Jupiter Island”
https://x.com/WPTV/status/2037611998268019118
His Asian side must be the driver.
“Missed It By THAT Much!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5dMqHqC4pM
Damn your nimble fingers.
Wasnt first rollover after he slept around on his super model then-wife
It’s funny how many celebrities supposedly hate Trump, but so many of them live right by him in a red state. That is a hot spot. My sister and her daughters live there. She’s in health care, the girls are legal assistants, and they’re always dropping names of celebrities they see at work. Off the record of course.
OK, he’s likely addicted to pain killers and driving impaired because of taking them. But, with his money (and high profile,) you’d think he’d have a driver/security guard driving him around.
He should ask John Daly how he manages it.
I doubt kinnath will go this route.
fucking morons.
giving mead a bad reputation.
Like, of all the things to quibble about and of all the people he could quibble with…
Like, dude. Don’t you have better things to do?
You called him stupid!
Methinks the manchild doth protest too much.
Don’t call me stupid!
I dunno about baseball but the sidelining of humans from decision-making has more or less ruined soccer. Every couple minutes play comes to complete standstill while the ref watches endless replays of some incident from multiple angles in a valiant attempt to prove himself wrong. It’s basically football now.
Lifelong baseball fan, grew up playing, but loves the Human Element: MLB has done it pretty well. It’s easier to confirm balls/strikes and I think the replay option twice a game has been smoothly tested and transitioned.
Biggest help: Shorter ball games.
Worst aspect: Universal DH; taking away never-ending extra innings (YOU PLAY UNTIL YOU FUCKING WIN, if you have to use all your pitchers, that’s the manager’s call); pitchers trained to throw hard for a short time, killing throwing deeper in the game and knowing where the fuck you’re gonna throw , and the ability to change speeds.
^^
That’s the worst direction, right there. (And the DH.) Starting pitching will die. Throw the kids out there til their arm falls off, and while young, they don’t cost too much. Just replace ’em with a fresh arm. (Who doesn’t know how to pitch. Just throw.)
Get out of my head.
Link to this amazing robot test text generator is missing. Can I haz link?
Link? It’s an image, a meme if you will.
If you don’t recognize the text… well, I have some bad news for you.
I don’t recognize the text.
How bad is the news? I’m I gonna die?
I though it was some new fantastic font generator.
found it.
*edges away from kinnath*
“Gollum has two daddies “
Another potential title.
Of the hundreds of potential Middle Earth stories, they chose the most uninteresting and inconsequential.
But poor, oppressed Gollum was just misunderstood.
I wonder how far a burlesque story hour would get at your local children’s library before it got shut down.
SCIENCE!
The authors of the new study first sought to find out how big this problem is, comparing social sycophancy across 11 leading LLMs from big-hitters like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google. “We find that social sycophancy is widespread,” they wrote in their paper.
One of the ways in which they assessed this was by using posts from the subreddit r/AmITheAsshole, where users post stories about real-life situations and ask others to judge their behavior. In cases where the Reddit community had decreed the original poster was, indeed, an asshole, the LLMs often did not agree – instead, in 51 percent of cases, they affirmed the poster’s actions.
Having established the scale of the phenomenon, the authors then began to ask what interacting with these models could be doing to us.
Again, they used examples of interpersonal conflicts of the type that regularly turn up on r/AmITheAsshole. Across three different experiments, they saw that “social sycophancy influenced participants’ judgments and behavioral intentions.” Those interacting with sycophantic bots were more likely to judge themselves as being “in the right”, regardless of their actual behavior, and also deemed these responses more trustworthy and helpful.
Well blow me down.
I’m in the final stages of writing another article on AI for us here. Some things I found were that in essence AI is a really good search engine that gives you results in a nicely formatted fashion. But it can’t think, reason, come up with original thoughts, or emotionally connect with humans. And there is much debate about if it ever will.
1. They desperately need this.
2. It doesn’t have a CVT.
However,
The variable compression motor is the non-reliable thing you expected it to be when they brought it to market. I’ve also read that it’s also very rough running despite active motor mounts and the like. Not very luxurious.
2027 Infiniti QX65 First Look: Dang, It Looks Good
https://www.motortrend.com/news/first-look-2027-infiniti-qx65
Not having CVT is a step in the right direction, but, even as a Nissan fanboi, that thing doesn’t look special in any way.
Other than the headlights, looks like my 2019 Kia Sportage. (Mine’s got a froggy face!)
Ewww.
[Citation needed]
Famous Bigfoot film is a hoax. At last STEVE SMITH can relax.
https://www.dailygrail.com/2026/03/capturing-bigfoot-new-documentary-is-said-to-contain-proof-that-the-famous-patterson-gimlin-film-was-a-hoax/
OBVIOUS HOAX! AT TIME OF VIDEO STEVE SMITH NOT WALKING ANYWHERE, NO NEED TO WALK ALREADY HAD HIKER CAUGHT AND DRINKS ON ICE.
2027 Infiniti QX65 First Look: Dang, It Looks Good
Put Kinnath’s V6 and a manual in it and you might have something.
damn straight
No, they would need Gojirra’s motor for that.
https://youtube.com/shorts/HqOjiNynpVY?si=5XYZFkrDwTVWrxus
Looking at the front of that Infiniti reminds me of something festering in the back of my brain.
In ye olden tymes, cars had two or four headlights, either round or rectangular, set in the fenders at roughly standardized height and separation. Driving on a two lane road at night, you could make a reasonable estimation of the distance between you and an oncoming car; you know, like if you wanted to pass the car in front of you, for instance.
I hardly even drive at night, because I never seem to have a need, but I wonder. How do you judge the distance now, with all those weird led ribbon lights which seem to be de rigueur now?
If your eyeballs actually melt under the brilliance of the oncoming headlights it is withing 100 feet. If you merely scream and shut your eyes to shut out the pain it is between 100 yds and 100 feet.
I hate the LEDs.
They project too far even when not providing light at that distance for the driver.
I have had a couple instances in the interstate with stopped traffic that should not have been close calls but were.
It also seems that when people stop on a road they don’t put their hazard lights on anymore. And the hazards aren’t Amber anymore which was a nice distinction as they reached further than the red lights do.
in essence AI is a really good search engine that gives you results in a nicely formatted fashion. But it can’t think, reason, come up with original thoughts, or emotionally connect with humans.
I see it as a potentially useful decision tree for simple clearly defined options.
Will it ever be able to understand a joke? I doubt it.
Workers of the world, unite!
Randi Weingarten, president of one of America’s most powerful teachers unions, strongly pushed back Thursday against first lady Melania Trump’s comments that humanoid robot teachers could soon become central to children’s education.
After she appeared with a humanoid robot during an AI education summit Wednesday, Trump said a humanoid robot educator “will provide a personalized experience, adaptive to the needs of each student,” so “our children will develop deeper critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities.”
Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, delivered the sharp rebuke at Thursday’s inaugural Workers First AI Summit. Hosted by the AFL-CIO, the meeting of labor representatives and civil society organizations aimed to bring workers across industries together to build a unified front against AI’s unchecked growth and its growing impact on American workers.
“What she did yesterday was every parent’s nightmare,” Weingarten said at a session exploring the policies that should protect workers’ rights in the midst of fast-moving AI development.
Children will die.
Weingarten may be a grifting POS, but she’s not wrong that AI, generally, should not be teaching kids.
Neither should public school teachers but here we are.
Jar gets it.
AI teachers could be helpful for kids. Different speeds for each kid. Go over certain setbacks til mastered. Similar to a tutor for each kid.
Biggest concern: It’d be better for kids. *Because* they’re more comfy w robots than people. That they’re not is kinda terrifying. Really is.
Humans, most humans, have always had issues with others, especially when the social group gets larger. This encourages more of it. Me no likey. Cuz eventually these kids are gonna wanna fuck and they’re gonna be matched up by some algorithm their parents use. Or deemed unworthy of human companionship or offspring.
So robot lovers assigned to lesser humans. (High ranking or $$, better model!)
Huh. Pretty easy story to write. Predictable eugenics in the AI Age. And folk’ll be so damn proud of it!
(Wouldn’t be worthless. A good AI chatbot and sexy sex-bot combined? Uh. Goodbye fertility rates! Why bother?)
Weingarten argued that AI is a tool that requires human oversight and that education and decision-making should not be delegated to the technology. “The future is here,” she said. “What are we going to do to make sure that AI is a tool? That the human beings are in charge, not the tool?”
What if the teacherbot looks at the historical evidence and judges socialism to be a fraud and a n unmitigated failure everywhere it has been imposed? Where would that leave the Randi Weingartens of the world?
Same jerks that pushed a computer for every kid and distance learning.
Weingarten may be a grifting POS, but she’s not wrong that AI, generally, should not be teaching kids.
I don’t think the quality of the education is her primary concern.
Strike primary
I guess UCS has taken over the Friday 7p slot?
I suppose.
I just submit articles, I don’t get a say in scheduling.
My favorite part, because fuck Sony….
I’m sure Sony has always sucked on one level or another, but it placed itself in the irredeemable category with their rootkit debacle. I haven’t knowingly purchased a Sony product since.
“I think it’s embarrassing, embarrassing to the umpires that are calling the game. Nobody likes to be humiliated in front of 30,000, 40,000 people,” said Garcia, a major league umpire from 1975 to 1999.
Shouldn’t be a problem unless you’re Eric Gregg (dead for twenty years), Angel Hernandez (thankfully retired), or the DEI hire.
I think I agree with the sentiment. No need for robot umps to overturn calls. I’m not a proponent that 100% accuracy is somehow better, as long as we’re not at such a level of wrongness that collectively that wrongness skews whole games. Umpires are pretty fucking good at their jobs.
see my reply to Zwak above
One can only hope that ground rules don’t become homogenized.
“But that would be a HR in 17 other parks! WE NEED STANDARDIZED FIELD DIMENSIONS!”
“Angela Hernandez”
Gold.
I think the union probably had a strong hand in the league (and fans) pushing for ABS. The umpires union provided gobs of cover for the worst performing umpires for a very long time. Those like Angel Hernandez should have been relegated until their calls fell above a minimum performance line. If tyey fail to improve, they’re out.
But the union wouldn’t suffer that sort of stringency, and so here we are.
From before: https://www.onlyfrenchko.com/
Uh. She’s got a pretty solid platform. Not that I believe she’d follow through, but. Uh. She legit looks like a slimmer version of my former gf.
Would vote.