Wednesday Morning Links

by | Mar 25, 2026 | Daily Links | 120 comments

UNC is firing their basketball coach because he chokes. Joe Flacco is headed to Cincy at 41. Mo Salah is leaving Liverpool (a year later than he should have). And that’s about all I’ve got for sports.

This is all very fascinating, but I don’t see how the decision can stand. A platform is merely a place to go. I don’t see how they are any more responsible for what happens there, especially when someone violated their TOS, than a city would be if a violent felon attacked and murdered somebody in a city park. I guess it’s easier to just blame them and steal their money than it is to aggressively prosecute people who commit crimes and tell parents that it’s their responsibility to monitor and/or control who their kids are interacting with online. I also think there are some perverse incentives for juries when the state they’re in can fill their coffers from these lawsuits and shore up state budgets and the company will lose a mere fraction of their earnings should they fine them a ton of money.

Good luck with that case. Could have just gone back to your home country, I suppose. And your complaint is with El Salvador, not the US.

This would be awesome. Which is why I don’t expect the Senate to ever take it up.

Damn, dude. Relax. Also, his lawyer is an idiot. “Horseplay” isn’t a very sound legal defense when you go all Jaws (James Bond villain, not rubber fish) on someone.

Check that judge’s hard drive. Seriously, what the fuck?

I don’t know what this means, but I know it’s of great interest to you tech people. If it results in fewer people asking clankers to craft their response to every question online, then it’ll be a good thing.

This could be worse than the George Floyd aftermath. Hopefully it stays in Georgia and Florida.

I’m sure you’d have found another way. There was plenty of online whoring before this guy and will be after he’s died.

I sincerely hope this isn’t true. And with the track record of these guys, it probably isn’t. Besides, we can just pump our own and the Venezuelan stuff and cut the entire Middle East off if we wanted to. Europe, OTOH, will be forced to deal with the situation of their own making. Enjoy those windmills, dumbasses.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! What a shitshow of a state.

BONUS ANGER-INDUCING LINK Where’s a suicide bomber when you need one.

Here’s a jaunty little tune. Toe-tapping fun. And this one is great, even of you’re just listening to the intro. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.

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120 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    This would be awesome. Which is why I don’t expect the Senate to ever take it up.

    but will it impact the climate? sounds like rich people destroying Gaia to me.

  2. PieInTheSky

    Check that judge’s hard drive. Seriously, what the fuck?

    Let he who never made a small innocent mistake cast the first comment.

    • rhywun

      I’d say the UK is deliberately destroying itself but honestly I would not expect anything different in many of the blue jurisdictions in the US.

    • R C Dean

      Isn’t the main thing that the guy rapes children, not that he didn’t disclose that he rapes children? Why isn’t that good cause to deport his ass?

      • PieInTheSky

        the children were asking for it.

      • rhywun

        something something you know who holds the power

  3. PieInTheSky

    I don’t know what this means, but I know it’s of great interest to you tech people.

    Stop calling the glibs nerds ya jock

      • UnCivilServant

        Why do I not believe you?

        🤨

      • bacon-magic

        “sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads,” who all think he is a “righteous dude”.

      • PieInTheSky

        are you some sort of entomologist or something?

      • UnCivilServant

        Juris has a sideline biting the heads off of chickens at circuses.

      • rhywun

        I’m not your buddy, guy!

      • rhywun

        I read somewhere that “geek” and “nerd” have swapped connotations… IDGAF at this point. Anyone using those terms unironically should be slapped in the face either way.

      • kinnath

        Geek has always been about obsession. It’s common (at least in my circles) to talk about beer-geeks and wine-geeks which have nothing to do the with the topic of nerds.

  4. PieInTheSky

    This could be worse than the George Floyd aftermath. Hopefully it stays in Georgia and Florida.

    All Posts Filed Under…
    Games

    on gliberarians dot com is not worse than the George Floyd aftermath

    • PieInTheSky

      NOT fair stealth editing

    • Drake

      We will have to put our faith in Bojangles.

      • sloopyinca

        Your faith should have already been in Bojangles. Because it’s the best chain fried chicken in the world.

      • R C Dean

        I was always partial to Popeye’s, but it’s been awhile.

      • UnCivilServant

        Popeyes is all breading and no chicken.

      • DrOtto

        I liked Bo’s till they started opening around here and they have dropped bone-in chicken on new store menus. It’s only chicken strips and sandwiches. That ain’t what I mean by fried chicken.

      • Not Adahn

        Church’s has the best biscuits.

      • slumbrew

        Hot take:

        Fried chicken is just… fine. I don’t get how people get rapturous. Same for biscuits.

        (I have had high-quality versions of both, multiple times. Meh.)

      • UnCivilServant

        Whose so-called “high-quality” versions did you have?

  5. PieInTheSky

    I’m sure you’d have found another way. There was plenty of online whoring before this guy and will be after he’s died.

    The man who did most to empower women…

    • PieInTheSky

      Heloooooo…. Anyone here?

      • R.J.

        Sorry. Busy morning.

      • UnCivilServant

        Pie, it’s early workday here. I was working.

    • PieInTheSky

      google dot com did America just get nuked?

      Hmmm nope

  6. rhywun

    Mo Salah is leaving Liverpool (a year later than he should have)

    “potential destinations including the Saudi Pro League and Major League Soccer”

    I was gonna guess Arabia but MLS is another popular retirement league. A player of his stature only goes to either LA or Miami and all the superstar slots are filled there IIRC. And Arabia probably pays WAY better.

    • sloopyinca

      He’s Muslim so I’d expect him to go to the Saudi League and make a shitload of money for a few years. Then maybe America, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him start a management career instead.

      • sloopyinca

        You know who I’d really like to see coaching him next year in the Saudi league?

        Arne Slot.

      • juris imprudent

        Ah, what have you done for us lately, as in I’ve-totally-forgotten-about-last-season.

      • sloopyinca

        Almost every decision he made in the offseason WRT transfers has not worked out. And he’s stuck with Salah all year even though his production has been absolutely horrible.

        Last year was last year. This team should never fall below third in the table with their resources. But they blew a boatload of money to bring in a bunch of guys from the less physical German league and expected them to do the same thing in the English league right out of the gate?

      • juris imprudent

        Is Slot really in charge of transfers? I read something a while back that head coaches aren’t the managers of yore, and transfers are falling outside of their control.

    • Raven Nation

      I see Griezeman has signed a deal with Orlando.

      • juris imprudent

        That will go about as well as Shaqiri did in Chicago.

  7. rhywun

    A platform is merely a place to go.

    I’m not sure I buy that anymore.

    Really, they are publishers. But I don’t know if that makes any difference in this case which was plainly decided on “feels” more than anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Common Tater

      They should ban algorithms.

    • R C Dean

      The social media platforms do so much to manage what you see that I struggle with “content-neutral platform”.

      I also struggle with, why the fuck should the state get paid if Meta did fuck up?

  8. Ownbestenemy

    Fire truck in deadly LaGuardia crash lacked equipment needed to trigger warning, NTSB says

    Im not sure NTSB understands how the ASDE surface radar actually works if they truly think this. While a transponder on the vehicle would improve the display presented to ATC (such as providing a tagged target like “Fire1” or some such), it in no way impacts the safety logic of the radar processing and prediction logic of an un-tagged target encroaching on the runway.

    • Ownbestenemy

      However, NTSB is claiming that the ASDE didn’t issue an alert…

      A runway warning system failed to sound an alarm before an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck that crossed its path while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, federal investigators said.

      For me since this is equipment I work on (not at LGA specifically), I want to know did ATC have any inhibit area drawn, did the system not pick up the raw target and include it in its safety logic, were they in ‘limited mode’ which would, cause an issue here and sometimes after restoring the system after maintenance, will go into that mode until AT takes it out. What does the last ‘golden map’ look like? A ‘golden map’ is basically a noise floor of raw radar data when the airport is least busy to help filter out stationary targets like signs/building/etc.

      In the end though, a controller lost their situational awareness with the two separate issues going on at once.

      • robodruid

        Hey OBE.
        As part of my job, i have to escort contractors across a military runway. Fro mlistnening to the recordings all went per training.
        Up to the point where fire truck was told to stop. I do not understand how they did not hear that on the radio.

        yes controller screwed up.
        But so did the fire truck. Do not understand why they were not listening.
        Also did they not see the plane’s lights?

      • UnCivilServant

        robodruid – In re the plane’s lights – in the online chatter regarding the situation, a pilot discussing the issue of lights pointed out that it was difficult to tell if it was a small plane closer to you or a big plane further away. Could be they did see the lights but thought it was a more distant bigger plane until it became “oh, crap” and too late for anyone to stop.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The full report will be a cosmic set of circumstances that all happened at once sadly — and really speaks to how safe it really is. I mean, basically in this instance it appears there were FOUR separate circumstances that led to it.

        – Controller situational awareness
        – Firetruck only monitoring ground (when we are on the field, we carry a handheld separately from our truck radio to monitor local for aircraft landing/departing)
        – Separate emergency with the United? plane
        – Firetruck seeming to also lose their situational awareness.

        As for not seeing the plane’s lights — couple things. At night, can you tell me the distance of an aircraft landing not knowing what type it is? This is where the Port Authroity drivers were complacent. Once they got the clearance to cross, which by timing wasn’t even at the hold line I don’t think, and didn’t assess. Hindsight I know.

      • robodruid

        @ Ownbestenemy on March 25, 2026 at 7:55 am

        No I cannot tell what is comming down the runway by lights. And where i work, its only about 4 types of planes. And I dont do this stuff at night. Its honestly the scariest part of my job. (feel free to mock)

        A terrible accident.

      • Ownbestenemy

        No way I’d mock that. We don’t do it often either in my discipline so we are always hyper aware.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Better article on NTSB preliminary findings

      This part is a grey area in the ASDE system and where the transponder on the firetruck would have helped

      “ASDE-X did not generate an alert due to the close proximity of vehicles merging and unmerging near the runway, resulting in the inability to create a track of high confidence,”

      That means there were multiple radar targets and the one mover (the firetruck) was lost in the noise.

      This part though, now has me leaning to multiple astronomical f-ups on both the controller and the fire truck.

      “They’re flashing red because it knows there is an aircraft on the runway and it’s unsafe to go on the runway,”

      If you are curious on how they work, check it out here

  9. Plinker762

    They are probably shutting down Sora because it lacked the proper training to prevent all the politically incorrect videos people were producing. Youtube is full of Sora produced videos which would result in life sentences in England.

    • UnCivilServant

      Might also be that it was losing money.

      I mean, I don’t think OpenAI can charge enough to cover its costs and have any customers, but the video generation takes more compute horsepower than the text.

  10. rhywun

    “I’ve never been a gang member”

    Well, that settles it.

  11. rhywun

    Damn, dude. Relax.

    I have a feeling that Experian commercial he is in and which airs about fifteen thousand times a day will not be airing much any more.

  12. DrOtto

    Regarding Nacua’s “Fuck all the Jews” I think he meant this in a sexual connotation based on his behavior. The story suggests he did an “antisemitic in nature” dance 2 weeks prior to the biting event. I’m not sure what that even means?

    • Ted S.

      He did a pole dance with a Torah scroll on Simchat Torah?

    • sloopyinca

      “I’m not sure what that even means?”

      I think it was the rubbing his hands together greedily TD dance. People said it had a happy merchant look to it.

      • rhywun

        Oh that was him too??

        I guess Experian doesn’t give a shit then cuz I’ve seen that commerical probably dozens of times since.

  13. rhywun

    Enjoy those windmills, dumbasses.

    Watching them trying to refrain from cozying up to Russia is going to be darkly amusing.

  14. rhywun

    “We are a minority-majority state, and the idea that the four candidates of color are not going to be on the stage to bring those perspectives, to really speak to those communities, is really not doing right by the voters,”

    Literal racism. But the good kind, I guess. And of course the NYT plays right along with the madness.

    • R C Dean

      Are they a majority-minority state if you don’t count the illegals?

      • WTF

        NNOBODY IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND!!!11!!!!
        RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!11!!!

      • rhywun

        Or the white hispanics?

    • Ownbestenemy

      So they denied the minorities? /laughing at the stupid

  15. Common Tater

    ““He bit (Atiabi) on her left shoulder, on the scapula, with such massive force to leave a complete circular impression of all of his teeth as marks on her skin,” Atiabi wrote in her restraining order request.

    “The bite broke some skin and caused visible injury that was photographed shortly thereafter.””

    I hope he didn’t catch anything.

  16. PieInTheSky

    Today in commie X bios that make you wonder if parody, though it does not seem like

    E-M
    @EuropeanMarxoid
    ☭🚩🇧🇫🇨🇩🇨🇳🇨🇺🇰🇵🇵🇸🇸🇩🇻🇪🚩☭
    🚩Marxist,🚩
    🌐Third Worldist,🌐
    ✊Proletarians of all countries, unite✊
    🇵🇸Death to Israel and its allies🇵🇸
    Česká republika

    While this fellar is from the EU, the USA jholds its own on the commie front

    Bailey ☭ 贝利
    @b_thomas_2103
    ♻️☭ Eco-Leninist| ♀️ Feminist| 🏳️‍🌈| 🇨🇳 Friend of Socialist China| DSA-PSL| Hoosier| BA Poli Sci| 💕🇵🇸🇸🇩🇻🇪🇨🇩🟩☫🟥💕
    Commie goddess (she/her)

    • UnCivilServant

      Lets skip the commie claptrap, line them up at the ditch and give them the end they are advocating to get.

  17. Not Adahn

    There was plenty of online whoring before this guy and will be after he’s died.

    True, but creating a much lower barrier to entry and ease of payment shifted the balance more towards the “camgirls good at camgirling” from the previous equilibrium of “tech savvy + business savvy + high work drive + nice rack.”

    ::edit faerie on duty today::

    • PieInTheSky

      also they made it easier to use blockquotes

      • UnCivilServant

        Does this mean you’re going to start?

    • Not Adahn

      Thanks, edit fairy!

  18. Not Adahn

    What’s Sindarin for “Morgoth’s cockholster?”

      • juris imprudent

        Illustrating the nerd v. geek distinction?

      • Not Adahn

        Bonus link.

    • (((Jarflax

      I think it is colbert.

    • WTF

      To translate “Morgoth’s cockholster” into Sindarin, one must reconstruct terms for anatomical slang, as J.R.R. Tolkien did not provide direct Elvish translations for modern profanity.

      The closest literal construction is Morgoth en-Gwael-Chathol, which translates to “Morgoth’s scabbard-sword” or “Morgoth’s sheath-blade.”

  19. Common Tater

    “Last week, Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University freshman, was gunned down on a Chicago beach during a late-night walk with her friends while looking for the northern lights….

    “The kids were out doing normal things people do in the neighborhood,” Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden said about the killing, in a video posted to X….

    “And it sounds like this might have been a wrong-place, wrong-time, running into a person who had a gun. They might have startled this person at the end of the pier, unintentionally.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/24/opinion/lefts-response-to-sheridan-gormans-murder-is-jaw-dropping/

    Tres will avenge her death.

    • PieInTheSky

      wrong-place – Chicago ?

      • Drake

        Wrong time – 2026.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “She was asking for it with that skirt she was wearing”

      Jesus the hoops and pretzels politicians will go through to protect their narratives.

    • (((Jarflax

      The shooter was just out doing the normal things kids do in that neighborhood. The people out looking for the northern lights were the anomoly.

    • juris imprudent

      running into a person who had a gun

      Whoa sister – ain’t that kinda illegal in Chicago?

      • Ted S.

        Indiana guns for the win!

    • rhywun

      Ouch.

      But yes, the left is not exactly covering themselves in glory here. I don’t know what depths they will sink to to favor illegal aliens over citizens but JFC this is pretty deep.

    • Rat on a train

      The kids were just out doing the normal wilding. They didn’t expect to encounter people looking for the lights.

  20. (((Jarflax

    The idea that every successful book or movie must be a ‘franchise’ annoys me. It especially annoys me with something as carefully crafted as Tolkien’s work. Not everything is a comic book. Go make something new.

    • UnCivilServant

      “What? You want us to take a chance on something that isn’t a proven property?”

  21. Toxteth O'Grady

    Re Haha: Nooo, not the other place too!

    Local 91X DJ said Johnny Marr visited the studio not long after the Smiths broke up. After they’d borrowed an expensive guitar (“Play something for us?”), he strummed an E chord.

    @ rhy and Evan, very belatedly: I thought I was the only European Vacation fan! Great cameos.

  22. juris imprudent

    No enrichment ever. Islamist warmongers shouldn’t get their hands on weapons of mass destruction today, or in 10 or 20 years.

    Nuclear supremacy yesterday, nuclear supremacy today, nuclear supremacy forever!

    Every time we do this, we illustrate exactly why other countries should pursue nuclear capability. Because we sure as hell leave the NORKS alone.

    • Common Tater

      We probably wouldn’t if North Korea had better missiles.

    • rhywun

      Well, yeah. The question is more, what will a country run by suicidal death-cult nut-jobs do with them?

      • Drake

        Hey! Antisemitism!

      • juris imprudent

        Well, even for those nut-jobs, let’s say they launch one or two – what is the outcome? Full nuclear retaliation and obliteration of the country. I suspect even the most devout believer in the return of the Mahdi isn’t asking for that.

      • WTF

        I suspect even the most devout believer in the return of the Mahdi isn’t asking for that.

        Your faith is touching.

    • WTF

      Of course the Norks have also left us alone, so there is that as well.

      • juris imprudent

        It wasn’t Shi’a fanatics behind 9-11.

      • Sensei

        Our friends the Saudis?

    • Drake

      Have to assume Turkey is working on a bomb right now. They are next on the list.

    • Not Adahn

      So why do other countries still fuck with Israel? Or is it the claim that only the US is deterred by nukes?

    • Not Adahn

      Some guys pay for that.

    • (((Jarflax

      You went no true Scotsmen while calling out a no true Scotsman argument! This has created a square Scotsman which can now be used to calculate the ideal haggis!

      • UnCivilServant

        The ideal haggis formula was already derived using Pict^(n-1)

    • rhywun

      Meh that amount of circlejerking is way above my pay grade.

      Much like the next depression, it was inevitable so might as well get it over with.

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