St Patricks Day Tuesday Morning Links

by | Mar 17, 2026 | Daily Links | 182 comments

The NCAA Mens tournament field is set and the games start today. Venezuela rallied to beat Italy in the WBC and will take the USA on tonight in the final. Iran is asking for their WC matches to be moved to Mexico, but I doubt that FIFA does that out of an abundance of caution for the safety of the other teams and fans. And the UCL knockout second legs start up today. And that’s it for sports.

We’re on vacation and I haven’t really looked at the news at all, so I can make no promises as to the quality of these links. But here we go…

I can think of a way these people would be safer. It’s called staying home and not trying to illegally enter other countries by sea in rickety ass rafts. Or by booking a flight or passage on a real ship and going to a port of entry. But the AP would rather print a sob story and point fingers at the innocent third parties.

OK, this is absurd. Activist judges are blocking recommendations now? What’s next, telling federal officials from the executive branch that their personal opinions are illegal and must be changed?

Man, talk about some poor job security. Cleveland Browns QBs have a better rate of keeping their job than these guys.

Yeah, best of luck. You’re not just running against her. You’re running against the machine and the people who count the votes.

Sometimes it’s better to stay silent and be thought a fool. But this crazy broad ALWAYS decides to open her mouth and confirm it.

They deserve the backlash and then some. Because their rules are racist, sexist, and ableist.

I’m sure we’ll get blamed for this. Heaven forbid they blame the communist shitheads who drove the country into a ditch for 60+ years.

What a sad state of affairs. Will they offer MAID to people who are upset at the laws next?

San Francisco is gonna go after the real criminals here. No, not the bums who litter the streets everywhere, but the company providing a service. Because they have money.

I’m kind of surprised they were allowed in the first place. Anyway, I found the piece interesting.

And in honor of St Paddy’s Day, I have no real options that come close to this great band. And I’ll pour one out for Shane tonight. He’ll be missed. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely, but cold, St Paddy’s Day, dear friends.

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182 Comments

  1. EvilSheldon

    Good morning all!

    Activist judges are blocking recommendations now?

    You’re surprised?

    The Trump admin had their chance to say, “Well, you made your decision. Note let’s see you enforce it.”

    Now it’s too late.

    • Ted S.

      I assume it has to do with requiring insurers to pay for it or something similar.

    • rhywun

      Judge Brian Murphy of Boston sided with the American Academy of Pediatrics

      The same outfit IIRC that is still pushing hormones and surgeries on confused children.

      Yeah, the judges are out of fucking control.

      • AlexinCT

        They intend to destroy as many people as they can, for as long as they can, in order to get their army of disaffected, violent, mentally disordered, revolutionaries. It is not an accident that Antifa has a ton of the freaks affected by this lunacy committing violence for the political left… This is all by design…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ah, me bollocks.

    • WTF

      Now is their chance to say “this is an unconstitutional usurpation of executive power, and therefore invalid”.

      • R C Dean

        Every day they have the chance to say that, yet they never do.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Because they want the same and worse when they hold the reins.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Or, they would rather have the positive stamp of the courts at the highest level saying that this is the way it should be, as opposed to looking like dictators to the public.

  2. SDF-7

    I can think of a way these people would be safer.

    According to the discussion in yesterday’s afternoon links… I blame pods of orcas.

    Morning all.

  3. slumbrew

    Apologies for going off topic but I reverted the visual changes to Monocle – v4.11.2 is out.

    I didn’t like how it ended up looking on some devices; I’ll be giving it a rethink.

    Now back to your links…

    • Tonio

      This counts as old / ongoing business, so is always on-topic.

      Thanks for all your work on this.

    • trshmnstr

      Thank you for taking lead and moving monocle forward! Much appreciated!

      • slumbrew

        I stand on the shoulders trashcan of giants.

    • rhywun

      👍 – I did bitch about the appearance on desktop 🙂

      Thanks to you both.

    • Threedoor

      If I ever run into any of you tech savvy people in real life I’ll have you install it for me.

  4. SDF-7

    What’s next, telling federal officials from the executive branch that their personal opinions are illegal and must be changed?

    Effectively yes — but the legalities of it seem to amount to “The ratchet can only go one way, and we’ll find it unlawful if you try anything else.”

    • AlexinCT

      The left uses law as a weapon for their enemies and something to ignore when they break it…

    • PutridMeat

      Add the uni-directional ratchet of standing. “You were actually censored by entities pressured directly and unambiguously by agents of the government? NO STANDING to challenge on 1st amendment grounds!” “Oh your a grifting organization of bureaucrats and some doctors? STANDING to challenge anything and everything! Not only standing, but your word is LAW.”

      As R.C. implies below though, nothing happens until someone says “Mr. Judge, I respectfully advise you to fuck right off and pound sand.” But that’s authoritarian and fascist. On the other hand, a single judge writing law and telling people what they can and can’t do, that’s not authoritarian, that’s democracy. It’s really an indication of how deficient our cultural education is when someone telling a judge to fuck off will be cast as the worst violation of freedom and puppies imaginable, but a judge telling the co-equal branch of government to fuck off is sage and wise governance. Unless the judge is curtailing the power of the grifting bureaucracies, then swap the roles. Almost seems as if the only principle involved is power and money.

      • juris imprudent

        The anti-federalists argued that Article III was a grave defect in the Constitution.

      • The Last American Hero

        I think like all branches, it relies on judges having at least some bit of integrity and objectivity. Congress has completely abdicated its responsibility for governance – was that a constitutional flaw or did it rely on some bit of faith that the pols would at least pretend to want to do their job?

      • WTF

        The founders knew that the branches would eventually become corrupt and authoritarian – which is what the second amendment was intended to address.

  5. SDF-7

    Yeah, best of luck.

    Based on observations in California over the last two decades — you’re also fighting the trend that the people more likely to agree with you are also more likely to throw up their hands and get the hell out of dodge before exit taxes or other insanity. Especially with Mayor “50% estate taxes, starting at $750k!” trying to steer state policy. I’d be getting out of New York if I were there, that’s for sure.

    • Strange Brew

      I’ve been in California my entire life. I’ll be retiring in 2032 and have already planned my escape. I just hope that whatever gets implemented over the next 6 years doesn’t impact me. But I own my house and will have over a million in retirement accounts, so in their eyes I’m a hog ready for slaughter. They’ll start with the billionaires and multi-millionaires first, hopefully I’ll have time to escape out the side door before they drop the hammer on me. Six years is a long time, I’m probably going to experience at least some of the punishment.

      • Threedoor

        The same envy is here in Idaho.

        Our property taxes are insane.

        Eventually I will have to find a different county and a smaller home to avoid some of them.

    • Gustave Lytton

      In Baja Washington and seeing the same trends. What upsets me most is I can’t fit the trees or the climate in a U haul.

    • rhywun

      I am getting out of NY soon but unfortunately it will probably be for NJ lol.

  6. SDF-7

    Will they offer MAID to people who are upset at the laws next?

    That sounds like the mistake of past socialist regimes… they weren’t work camps, gulags or reeducation facilities for political enemies… they were MAiD assistance facilities! Because your political opponents are, of course, so depressed at your policies and all… Mental health, citizen!

  7. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    So, NOW SF goes after public urination?

    (funny, as I will be there Friday night)

    • Tonio

      Just claim you’re an exhibitionist and piss fetishist, and you’ll be fine.

      Yeah, seriously, they do nothing about habitual street shitters but get torqued off because someone pees in an alley. Sheesh.

      • SDF-7

        It is because it is tied to personal vehicle ownership.

        If they were peeing in the corners / elevators of the BART stations like they were meant to….

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Well, I guess I just need to put on my pissing chaps, and all will be good.

    • rhywun

      I lost track of how many of those little alleys I let loose in over the 11 months I lived there – they are everywhere there.

      Unlike NYC later where there are very few such conveniences.

  8. Not Adahn

    Of course the guy was carrying a Shadow Systems.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m a little surprised it wasn’t a PSA…

      • Not Adahn

        You can run a private security company with a Dagger! You’ve got to look the part!

      • Not Adahn

        Er, can’t.

      • EvilSheldon

        IMO the PSA Dagger goes perfectly with the food-stained uniform shirt, expired OC spray, and fallen arches.

    • Tonio

      Is Shadow Systems a ghetto brand?

      • Not Adahn

        It’s definitely drippy, without any real performance boost. Does that count as ghetto? It’s something that someone who wants a “Glock, only fancier” would carry to show off their spend.

      • UnCivilServant

        I recall seeing them in the gun store – I noticed that the gap under the slide was so large I could see the return spring when it was sitting in the display cabinet.

      • EvilSheldon

        Eh, kind of but not really? Shadow Systems core business model is, “We can do Glock better than Glock can.” And they really can’t, but they do keep trying, and they’ve had some legit innovations.

  9. R C Dean

    Our current Constitutional crisis won’t be resolved until there are personal consequences for judges that overreach.

    There is absolutely zero prospect of personal consequences for judges that overreach.

    That is all. Carry on.

    • juris imprudent

      Well to be fair, what consequences attach to any other governmental official for their overreach?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Same lack of consequences for most Top.Men. inside and outside of government. And zero noblesse oblige.

      • Threedoor

        Retirement.

  10. Chipping Pioneer

    Because their rules are racist, sexist, and ableist.

    Yeah, ’cause they’re retards.

    • rhywun

      their rules are racist, sexist, and ableist

      Yeah but illegal? Hard for me to say. So Cruz can shut his pie-hole.

      I’m envisioning producers working on Oscar bait in their the back-room deals doing anything to rope in the required percentages of “diversity”.

      • WTF

        Yeah but illegal? Hard for me to say. So Cruz can shut his pie-hole.

        It would probably fall under the same umbrella as the civil rights act where you can’t discriminate in employment, etc. based on race, etc.

        You know, “bake that cake, motherfucker!”

      • rhywun

        I suppose that’s right.

        I know the government routinely discriminates against whitey which is obviously illegal in my mind but was less sure of it for private entities.

      • Threedoor

        As far as I’m concerned the CRA is the illegal piece of legislation here.

  11. (((Jarflax

    After we get done liberating Iran maybe we should consider a surgical strike on Sacramento?

    • Rat on a train

      Bomb NoVA first.

      • EvilSheldon

        Please, please let me know before the strike package is in the air. Give me some time to escape.

  12. rhywun

    the AP would rather print a sob story

    Who the hell isn’t sick and tired of this crap at this point? The sob stories, and the events behind them. Even Europeans are beginning to sour on all their new friends.

      • (((Jarflax

        Is coerced compassion like “I’ll make you sorry!”

      • juris imprudent

        More if you don’t care like I do, I’ll make your life miserable.

  13. AlexinCT

    May your day be joyous and your Shillelagh get some action!

  14. Gender Traitor

    …this crazy broad ALWAYS decides to open her mouth and confirm it.

    I was surprised Miss Thang didn’t affect her best ghetto fab and declare that “he di’n’t do nuffin’!”

    • R C Dean

      And without redistricting, she would have been a permanent fixture in Congress, representing Texas.

      • Not Adahn

        Also good riddance to the Bexar county judge Speedlin Gonzalez who let her bias flag fly, literally.

    • Grumbletarian

      He was just turning his life around.

  15. Sensei

    Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga—a nephew of former President and Communist Party chief Raúl Castro—said that the government is open to having a fluid commercial relationship “with Cubans residing in the United States and their descendants.”

    You can buy back the property we stole from you. Sound good?

    https://www.wsj.com/world/cuban-regime-wants-diaspora-to-own-businesses-on-the-island-7a0eaf86?st=TjVMxh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      If I were a Cuban-American, I wouldn’t trust the commies not to steal anything that got built.

      • WTF

        Now I want a Cubano sandwich….

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sounds about as good as demanding that Russia, China, or even France make their revolutions’ victims whole.

  16. R C Dean

    Cars blaring bass, causing traffic snarls and blocking residential garages became commonplace.

    If you don’t want to be surrounded by assholes, you probably shouldn’t be living in San Francisco.

      • Ted S.

        Petri dishes have culture, too.

    • WTF

      The UK is hell-bent on committing cultural suicide.

  17. rhywun

    You’re running against the machine and the people who count the votes.

    Yeah, godspeed. She seems to have the chops. Unlike the mediocre leftist city council-critter who used the do-nothing “Public Advocate” position that was created as the usual stepping stone to mayor to improbably achieve her current position where she has caused so much damage.

    • Not Adahn

      The Jacobin should move its headquarters there. They wouldn’t need to provide health insurance for their writers!

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        This is the winning take.

    • UnCivilServant

      Those three women have never built anything. They’re not workers, they’re the sort of professionally offended people the company doesn’t need.

      They’re built like office workers. Their PPE is way too clean. There is no wear and tear on their attire.

      Real construction workers don’t want their labor being appropriated to support the parasites who pose for commie propaganda photos.

      • Threedoor

        Their kneepads may be scuffed.

    • Fourscore

      I’ve seen those workers carrying 2-90 lb cement blocks

      or was it two workers carrying 1-90 lb cement block.

      Most often a contractor’s assistant carrying a clipboard but wearing a hard hat, ’cause that’s the rules on the job site.

      • rhywun

        LOL

        The bottom pic looks like it was lifted from my town. It’s one of those cases where the potholes stop immediately after you cross the city line (or enter the Cornell campus).

      • UnCivilServant

        You will notice two things – First, the Japanese sinkhole causes actual issues. Second – the Romanian pothole has not even changed size or shape in 25 years – meaning it gets so little traffic that it has not grown.

      • rhywun

        I was gonna call bullshit on the Romania pic but the angle does look slightly different in the two snapshots so maybe it’s real? But there is almost no change anywhere from the pothole to the buildings even.

      • UnCivilServant

        Rhy – You could take the shot with two different people on the same day and apply a filter on the one you turn greyscale – boom, the results as seen.

      • Threedoor

        Rhy, the potholes start when you get into the city where I’m from. The state and the county spend less per mile on road maintenance but do a better job.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      No one should ever use Academician in a sentence and be considered a man of the people.

    • kinnath

      Cycling temperatures is bad for booze.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Does it even save energy?

        All those bottles are going to have to be chilled the next day when the pub opens. Probably cheaper to just run the fridge all night.

        At least that is what some of the “experts” say about AC.*

        * Found a bunch of “experts” who also said that this only works when the air outside is very hot. Otherwise turn off the AC. All of the articles seemed long on theory and short on actually doing an actual physical test.

    • rhywun

      Blame Donald or Bibi.

      • PieInTheSky

        everything was great for pubs in England until a month ago…

      • PieInTheSky

        Also i still blame America at the time the shah fell… should have never let that happen.

      • rhywun

        I think we put him in there so that’s probably our fault too.

      • PieInTheSky

        neah the alternative was worse.

    • Threedoor

      How the heck was the brakes on that truck cooked?! There isn’t a grade within a hundred miles

  18. Sensei

    Several Stellantis brand vehicles use electric door latch technology, designed with multiple layers of protection to ensure that doors can be opened quickly and safely in all situations. This includes equipping doors with a supercapacitor energy storage device to ensure there is power for the door latch even if the vehicle’s main power supply is interrupted.

    Stellantis + Electronics. What could possibly go wrong?

    https://www.theautopian.com/the-fact-that-some-modern-electronic-door-latch-systems-use-supercapacitors-as-emergency-backups-should-have-stopped-all-of-this-madness-right-then/

    • UnCivilServant

      A door handle performs an inherently mechanical function of latching or unlatching a door. There do not need to be electronics involved.

      • Threedoor

        Tell the 2014 ford raptor I had that. Total death trap design.

    • kinnath

      keep
      it
      simple
      stupid

      Fuck these people

      • Sensei

        Are you suggesting a mechanical linkage which has had moisture slowly degrade it might still have a higher chance of working properly as compared an electronic module in the same conditions?

    • PieInTheSky

      the key point is a car needs as many electronics as possible. More than you might think. The more the better. Also make many of them with a bunch a redundancy. double and triple the chips used in the average car.

      • UnCivilServant

        Pie, you know you have transferrable skills. You don’t need poorly designed cars increasing demand for your current employer to improve your own situation.

      • Sensei

        Exactly. And make sure all the devices are discrete and strewn throughout the vehicle in places where the wiring harness will break and/or be subject to water ingress.

        You need at least 25 modules to be safe.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sensei:

        Don’t forget to install 2 modules for ABS systems and have them pair with each other. That way when one breaks, you have to replace both with a new set of paired modules.

        Sure, you could manually pair the old module with the new one, but that would take a special computer and a lot of know how. Easier to just buy two new ones.

      • PieInTheSky

        brainstorming I like it

      • R.J.

        Don’t remind me. It’s a nightmare to diagnose.

      • Gustave Lytton

        How about rodent attractant baked into the wiring looms?

      • R.J.

        I dealt with that too. Also hate it

      • Swiss Servator

        Damn, Gustave….that is top notch!

      • Threedoor

        Was it also Benz/dodge that designed wiring looms that had biodegradable insulation?

  19. The Other Kevin

    I just read Bobbo’s thing from last night. That is a cool hobby. Last summer we stumbled on an RC day at an airport, and they were flying for-real jets. I had no idea they make simulators, that would hopefully take the edge off being terrified to crash a plane worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.

    • EvilSheldon

      Very interesting indeed. Right up there with amateur radio and model railroad engineering, as far as a good hobby for tech nerds who like working with their hands.

  20. Pope Jimbo

    I for one, will not be celebrating St. Pat’s Day. Instead, I will be drinking (although a couple days late) to honor St. Urho.

    Fuck snakes and Micks. I’m on Team Finns & Grasshoppers.

    According to the city of Menahga, Saint Urho is the legendary patron saint of Finnish vineyard workers. Wild grapes in Finland were threatened by a plague of grasshoppers until Urho banished them. “Heinasirkka, heinasirkka, menetaalta hiiteen” is translated to English as “grasshopper, grasshopper, go away!” It’s what Urho is believed to have said to make the grasshoppers leave. Today, saying that phrase is an important part of the celebration.
     
    To honor what Urho did for the vineyards, people wear royal purple and Nile green and drink grape juice. The day is celebrated not just in Minnesota but in other places in the U.S. and Canada with large Finnish populations.

    • Pope Jimbo

      And it is just as fake as St. Pat!

      It should be noted that Saint Urho was not a real person. The origin goes back just a few decades to the 1950s, when in Virginia, Minnesota, a department store worker created a Finnish counterpart to Saint Patrick, whose feast day is celebrated on March 17. In the original legend, Saint Urho drove out frogs, but later a Bemidji professor updated the story to grasshoppers, according to sainturho.com. The story is intentionally similar to that of Saint Patrick, who drove the snakes out of Ireland.

      • WTF

        Except St. Patrick was a real person.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      Pope, I believe there is even a stone status of Saint Urho somewhere in Minnesota. Hat top The Roadside Geology of Minnesota (written naturally by a Team Finn geologist).

    • Rat on a train

      developer versus tester

      • Pope Jimbo

        Build a foolproof system and they will build a better fool.

    • rhywun

      LOL future Glib for sure.

  21. PieInTheSky

    This is how Alsatian language sounds.

    I found a rare video of football manager Arsène Wenger speaking in his native Alsatian.

    The former Arsenal manager grew up in a small village of Duttlenheim, where everybody spoke Alsatian, and only learned French in school.

    https://x.com/LandsknechtPike/status/2033818775154209029

    • Rat on a train

      The French still have work to do if they want to ethnically cleanse Alsace.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, they only won that region after one of the WW’s, right?

        I can understand everything he said there – unlike French.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    The price of my favorite beer went up 25%. I guess I should blame Mad King Donald.

  23. Common Tater

    “Ex-NFL first-round pick Robert Nkemdiche ripped by cops after alleged almond milk heist: police bodycam …

    “You can say whatever you want to say. But I just watched you walk out of here with a big-ass bulge in your pants. I asked you what it was. You said nothing.

    “Then, to give you the benefit of the doubt, I was like, ‘OK. Maybe he’s just got, I don’t know, like, a condition.’ I let you go, and I see you just take off running behind the gas station.””

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/sports/robert-nkemdiche-ripped-by-cops-after-alleged-theft-police-body-cam/

    LOL

  24. Common Tater

    “A retired US Air Force launch officer claims UFOs disabled multiple nuclear missiles when they appeared around the Montana base where he was stationed decades ago.

    Robert Salas claims a mysterious force paralyzed the military’s ability to control 10 Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads at Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967, the 85-year-old veteran said on the “Danny Jones Podcast” Saturday.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/17/us-news/former-air-force-missile-officer-claims-ufos-disabled-nuclear-arsenal-at-montana-base-during-cold-war/

    doubt

    • WTF

      And are these UFOs in the room with us now?

      • Raven Nation

        That story has been around quite a while.

      • R.J.

        Not those ones, thankfully.

    • Fourscore

      Can’t believe anything an old person tells you, not even me. Just sayin’

      • Threedoor

        But we like you so we sit, nod and smile.

    • creech

      Shit! Now the aliens are a bunch of pro-commies too?

  25. Common Tater

    “An elementary school special education teacher is accused of raping and molesting a 10-year-old student up to “five times per day” — and even recording the sick crimes on her phone.

    Mahayla Benavides, 32, abused the boy for months at Stevens Elementary School in Spokane, Washington — usually in a “time-out room” in the classroom and even while other students were present, the boy told investigators, according to an affidavit obtained by KXLY.

    The perverted teacher also allegedly showed the boy sexual videos she took of herself while saying his name — and she even filmed herself performing sex acts on him in the classroom, according to the disturbing affidavit.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/17/us-news/teacher-accused-of-abusing-10-year-old-student-up-to-5-times-a-day-and-even-filming-it/

    special education?

    • EvilSheldon

      Ten years old. That teacher should be impaled on a sharpened phone pole in the town square.

      • Threedoor

        Hang her from the Red Wagon in the park.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Kill it with fire

    A group of universities that oversee the country’s largest federal climate research center filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the lab.

    The suit challenging the decision to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) alleges the Trump administration is waging a “widespread and coordinated campaign of punishment and coercion” against the state of Colorado over ongoing tension between President Donald Trump and the state’s governor, Jared Polis.

    It was filed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit research group made up of colleges and universities that operates the center, which is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, and is the country’s premier research institute for weather modeling and climate science. The Trump administration announced in December that it planned to break up the center.

    Waste fraud and abuse.

    • rhywun

      I’d settle for just not spending my tax dollars on it.

      Let them spin all up that bullshit on their own dime.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, describes “a campaign of retaliation” in which several federal agencies — including the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Commerce Department and the Office of Management and Budget — are alleged to have targeted NCAR as part of the larger fight.

    It’s a vast right wing conspiracy. No other explanation is possible.

  28. Common Tater

    “A British strength coach faced criticism online after filming herself working out at a popular Bali gym and complaining that the men around her were “intentionally” ignoring her.

    Danica Kennedy, 37, a British fitness and breath work coach based in the digital nomad hub of Canggu, shared a clip on TikTok doing an unusual mobility exercise….

    When one commenter pointed out that no one was looking at her, she replied, “That’s my point. Trying too hard not to look. I could feel the awkwardness”….

    “You were clearly going out of your way to not look my way. We women pick up on everything,” Kennedy replied.””

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/health/fitness-influencers-gym-entitlement-exposed-just-trying-to-open-your-toes/

    The duality of man.

    • Grumbletarian

      Male Gaze is bad, but how dare you men ignore me?

    • Ted S.

      Free advertising for another shitty influencer….

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Fishing in deep pockets

    Three Tennessee teenagers have filed a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, alleging its large language model powered an app that was used to make nonconsensual nude and sexually explicit images and videos of them when they were girls.

    “Like a rag doll brought to life through the dark arts, this [AI-generated] child can be manipulated into any pose, however sick, however fetishized, however unlawful. To the viewer, the resulting video appears entirely real,” reads the complaint. “For the child, her identifying features will now forever be attached to a video depicting her own child sexual abuse.”

    While the perpetrator didn’t use xAI’s chatbot, Grok or the social media platform X (also owned by xAI), the lawsuit claims that the perpetrator relied on an unnamed app that used xAI’s algorithm, citing law enforcement.

    The plaintiffs accused xAI of deliberately licensing its technology to app makers, often outside the U.S. “In this way, xAI could attempt to outsource the liability of their incredibly dangerous tool,” said the complaint.

    “Be vewwy vewwy quiet, We’we hunting witches.”

  30. Common Tater

    “Donald Trump’s top counterterrorism official has resigned in protest over the Iran war, accusing Israel of pressuring the US into a conflict he says was built on lies.

    Joseph Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Iran posed no imminent threat and the war was started ‘due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,’ adding: ‘I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war.’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15654215/Trumps-counterintelligence-official-resigns-protest-Iran-war.html

  31. Common Tater

    “WHAT??? Irish President Catherine Connolly Rewrites the Story of St. Patrick, Says it’s About ‘the Resilience and Courage of Migrants’ (VIDEO)

    “Patrick’s story invites us to respond with hospitality and kindness to those suffering the consequences of war and displacement, those fleeing their countries because of persecution or violence.””

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/what-irish-president-catherine-connolly-rewrites-story-st/

    OFFS!

  32. The Late P Brooks

    The plaintiffs’ attorney, Vanessa Baehr-Jones, said the teenagers, identified as Jane Does 1, 2 and 3 in the complaint, want to change how AI companies make business decisions about sexually explicit content, “We want to make it one[a business decision] that does not make any business sense anymore,” she said.

    The plaintiffs are asking the court for damages for emotional distress and other harms caused by the images.

    Stop the presses.

  33. Common Tater

    “Despite receiving over 300 years in prison for sex crimes against multiple children in the 1990s, a convicted child molester has been granted parole through California’s elderly parole program.

    Gregory Vogelsang, 57, was convicted of nearly 30 counts of kidnapping and molesting multiple children between the ages of five and 11 in the 1990s in Sacramento. He had been sentenced to 355 years in prison, however, a three-person board granted Vogelsang parole in a November hearing, after serving just 27 years of his sentence.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/child-predator-granted-parole-just-27-years-into-355-year-prison-term-in-newsoms-california

    Narrator: He was far from the worst person in Sacramento.

      • Threedoor

        Right?
        I was thinking 80.
        Guy is going to be raping again.

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