Sweltering NYC hit by Canadian wildfire smoke — and it may only get hazier
It’s going to get hazier before it gets better.
The Big Apple is under an Air Quality Health Advisory as the Canadian and Great Lake wildfire smoke slowly takes over our skies.
The air pollution reached “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” levels of air quality around 11 a.m., and is expected to remain so until around 11 p.m., according to the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
What? Mayor Islamocommie can’t magically fix the air? Disappointed New Yorkers will still vote for him.
Three teen girls have been arrested after an acid attack in New Jersey left six women with sickening burns.
The group, including three teens, was in their car when they allegedly had sulfuric acid hurled on them by people on a moped in a cowardly drive-by attack in Jersey City, according to officials.
A female trio, aged 13, 14, and 15, is now accused of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing bodily injury, among other charges.
They will serve no jail time. Maybe some soft-as-wet-cheese restorative justice facility for a couple months at most.
Watched Obsession (2025) last night. It’s basically just dating a girl with Borderline Personality dialed up to 11. You date a BPD girl and you see most of that except the walking backwards film effects. And fewer murders. Fewer.
But it is impressive what Curry Barker made with just $750,000. Low-budget horror can be hit or miss, but it is just about the only genre left that hasn’t been pulled out through it’s asshole during the Woke Death of Hollywood.
But I do have a nit to pick. Bring nudity back to low-budget horror. There was no script reason to not have a topless scene. Free them cannons.
So say we all!
It is one thing I give credit to the Friday the 13th reboot, they understood that tits are a core part of the franchise.
I hereby grant you wish this Thursday – With Demonwarp!
How else is the audience to know who will be killed first for being a slut?
Someone needs to watch Zombeavers.
Someone already has…
The one who yells “let’s hide behind the chainsaws?”
Hear, hear!
1. Yes. Unleash the jugs of war. (Ya gotta value ‘something’ in the flick. Ha. Goes to Vonnegut’s ‘rule’: Give the reader one character they can root for.
2. Reading y’all, I am actively envious of ‘flick-watchin’. To sit down and focus on one thing for that long, yeah. It’s gotta be an event. That’s something I’m kinda working on. Work went well, and it’s evident I’ll learn the system. Then, just like ‘grading essays.’ This is going very well.
3. I’m also upset w myself for not getting horror flicks. *thinks* Well. Goes to the whole ‘event’ thing. Social. Woah. See below.
BPD girl would have shown them.
Speaking of low budget, I watched [potential glibflick] Dark Star last night.
Dark Star is an underrated masterpiece!
Noted.
So much to love about that city. Also, Blame Canada
Just you wait until Mexico catches on fire again. That will be a “hold my beer” situation.
“Canada is the number one cause of Global Warming” — NYT, probably.
NYT would never let Donald off the hook like that.
All of the 4 Corners states are burning
https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/
“Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups”
People with poison frog hair hardest hit.
A female trio, aged 13, 14, and 15, is now accused of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing bodily injury, among other charges.
They aren’t by any chance Hindoos, are they? Acid attacks seem to be popular in that group.
There is a big Hindu neighborhood but surprisingly that ain’t it.
So in this case they Hindu nuffin?
Bravo, Pat. Unexpected brilliance.
Sweltering NYC hit by Canadian wildfire smoke — and it may only get hazier
I wonder what the carbon footprint of the wildfire is? Howcome euroweenies no lecture about this, try to impose fines through marsupial magistrates at ICC?
Arbitrary and capticious
Meta’s AI-fueled layoffs of 8,000 employees targeted workers with disabilities and those who took protected medical or family leaves, alleged a lawsuit filed by 26 employees who were selected for termination. Meta used internal AI tools to select employees for layoffs, according to the complaint filed yesterday by 26 “Doe” plaintiffs in US District Court for the Northern District of California.
“Meta did not assemble the termination list through the considered judgment of managers who knew the work. Instead, Meta used a constellation of internal artificial-intelligence systems—including a system referred to internally as ‘Metamate,’ employee-trained ‘second-brain’ agents, keystroke- and activity-monitoring data, AI-token-usage dashboards, and algorithmically assisted performance ranking and calibration—to score, rank, and select employees for inclusion on the list,” the lawsuit said.
Employees were allegedly graded, among other things, on how much they used Meta’s AI tools. “Meta’s internal dashboards classified employees by their stage of adoption of its artificial-intelligence tools, using categories such as ‘AI Native,’ ‘AI First,’ and ‘AI Enabled,’” the lawsuit said.
Rated by their contributions? That’s nuts.
Hiring and firing should be done on a strictly randomized basis.
Or trial by combat.
I read that as, AI System gets to choose who to fire based on how much they use AI System.
I’m sorry Dave, I have to fire you.
Bullshit.
“Hiring and firing should be done on a strictly randomized basis”
I’ve always thought that.
“Ol’ Charlie, he was the hardest working guy here and he got canned”
It’ll inspire the rest of the crew to become more productive.
Give Ol’ Charlie a big under the table bonus, if he’s that good he’ll hook on somewhere else.
using categories such as ‘AI Native,’ ‘AI First,’ and ‘AI Enabled,’”
I guess those are the new buzzwords from on high. I hadn’t heard them before today, but I’ve heard them twice in two different contexts today alone.
those who took protected medical or family leaves
Assuming this is normal use and not abuse (or lying) by these former employees, I don’t blame them for complaining about this.
“Here’s a benefit that’s part of your total comp package. However, if you use more than an unspecified amount of it, it’s a liability the next time WFRs happen.”
The company surely knows they’d be hauled into court at light speed if they were guilty of the claims. They would have been stupid to try it.
I wonder what the carbon footprint of the wildfire is?
we should cut all the trees down, to lower the risk.
Facebook is being flooded with posts about how fucking late the sun will come up in the morning with permanent DST.
Central Iowa gets a sunrise of 8:40 am at the solstice.
Fuck DST.
I’m more concerned with shooting light. When it’s light enough to safely shoot a deer. I like to be in my stand about 20 minutes before that.
The thing I hate most (or tied for first place) is putting the hottest part of the day an hour later. Delays nighttime cool-off by an hour. Makes you burn your own electricity for a/c, not your employer’s. Etc.
Hottest part of the day here is around 230 pm.
Sunset moves from 4:30 to 5:30 pm. That’s not going to help anything. It’s winter. It dark more than it light. And it cold and shitty outside.
I thought I saw a map of proposed different time zones. Maybe it was just an internet meme, but it was an interesting approach to alleviating some of the DST issues.
Current time zone are tied to political boundaries or other considerations that have nothing to do with you position relative to the sun at noon, midnight, sunrise, or sunset.
There are many ways to make time zones better. None of them will ever, ever be considered by congress.
Short days are short days. Changing the clock doesn’t magically lengthen any of them. Fuck Tom Cotton. End time changes.
“Only a white man would think they could cut a foot off one end of a blanket and sew it on to the other end and have a longer blanket”
~Some injun*
*Probably “noble savage” BS, but my father says it often enough that I can’t help thinking of it anytime this subject comes up.
Looks like 5 am here for
Me.
DST forever!!
I read that as, AI System gets to choose who to fire based on how much they use AI System.
But it doesn’t say if they were booted for “too much” or “not enough”.
The lawsuit alleged that Meta management did not take steps to adjust scores for employees who took leave or who requested reasonable accommodations for disabilities.
“Meta did not neutralize those inputs for protected leave; did not exclude protected-leave-takers or accommodation-seekers from the selection cohort; and did not pause the system for the individualized, leave- and accommodation-neutral review that the law requires,” the complaint alleged. “The result was that employees who took protected leaves were disproportionately selected for layoff, based on scoring that not only failed to account for their protected leaves, but in effect penalized the employees for exercising their legal rights to these leaves.”
Implies that people on leave didn’t score high enough on AI usage to keep their jobs. Which implies people were terminated for low AI usage.
If their average included days in which someone wasn’t at work, that is indeed a problem. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
They should have created a noop AI agent and left it running while they were on leave.
26 filed – out of 8000. Doesn’t sound like “targeting” – and legally taking leave doesn’t protect you from termination.
Yes, but it makes such a great news story!
Mexican Man tries Florida Man things, with predictable results
A person allegedly fleeing Immigrations Customs and Enforcement agents was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer truck in Florida on Tuesday morning, state authorities said.
Was there an illegal driving the truck?
More blood on Donald’s hands.
and legally taking leave doesn’t protect you from termination.
Maybe productivity went up when they were gone.
I thought I saw a map of proposed different time zones.
Shift the time zones and effectively split the difference?
They also alleged violations of various laws imposed by states and the District of Columbia. For example, an update to California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act “forbids the use of an automated-decision system that produces disparate-impact discrimination on the basis of disability or sex, including pregnancy,” the lawsuit said.
What the fuck does that even mean?
It means “don’t hire disabled or women”.
https://babylonbee.com/news/explosive-diarrhea-epidemic-traced-to-gain-of-function-lab-at-taco-bell-institute
Explosive Diarrhea Epidemic Traced To Gain-Of-Function Lab At Taco Bell Institute
the headline is enough
Ok, the closing line was a killer.
At publishing time, government officials were reportedly looking into rumors that Dr. Anthony Fauci had recently taken a high-ranking position with Taco Bell.
Related (because I wrote it I guess)
We have a hard enough time making people sick with lunch and dinner.”
My DST solution is one time zone for the entire US, Hawaii and Alaska included. Call it Freedom Time. Go to work in the dark like a man.
If it’s good enough for the PRC, it’s good enough for us.
Listen to the fuckin’ Amish guy here.
UTC it is.
GREAT MAGA TIME
This is actually the most sane solution, and should be world wide. Who cares if what we call the time the sun rises is relatively uniform around the world. people would adapt pretty quickly to their new “normal” times.
Local time zones would appear within days, if not hours. Business operating hours, work shifts, school opening/closing, etc. A certain local consistency is necessary.
I remember the non-trivial amount of confusion when Iowa went DST Z and either Nebraska or South Dakota didn’t. We lived on the border of the three, in Iowa. No, people did not “adjust.”
For DEG.
I probably watched that one a while ago. Jess has some good videos on Tolkien.
Close call
Dramatic video shows a freight train in Canada surrounded by wildfire flames and workers requesting an emergency rescue as they report being “encased” in fire.
“This could potentially overtake us here, this has gotten a little scary,” a crew member says as the train rushes past burning trees near Armstrong, Ontario.
Apparently, the fedgov is hiring, if you have a particular skill set.
Personally, I’d prefer fewer useless eaters and more fluffy yeeters.
I can shoot through windshields with the best of them.
AI dating app
Hinge founder Justin McLeod just built the app from Black Mirror’s ‘Hang the DJ’, and he’s betting $18 million that it works.
After spending nearly fifteen years teaching millions of people how to swipe right, McLeod walked away from the company he built to say the model doesn’t work.
So, now the person who defined modern dating is building a dating service that sounds pulled straight from an episode of Black Mirror, and putting real money behind the bet.
Using algorithms to suggest matches based on profile data is exactly how online dating always worked until hook up apps became a thing. E-Harmony used to run ads bragging up how their psychological profile resulted in more marriages than their competition.
But they didn’t include iPhone v Android resulting in many failing matches.
I got some special connections on EHarmony that I did not pursue.
My DST solution is one time zone for the entire US, Hawaii and Alaska included. Call it Freedom Time. Go to work in the dark like a man.
Move to Ecuador.
You move to Ecuador, commie.
The sharpest minds in politics
A photo from a meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America in Denver, Colo., went viral on X because in the photo, the majority of the gathered lefty radicals are wearing COVID masks.
Indeed, the mask wearers clearly outnumber the non-mask wearers. When was this photo taken, you might ask? 2020? 2021, maybe? Nope. It was taken this month, in July of 2026. The photo is of the Denver chapter celebrating democratic socialist Melat Kiros winning her primary against an incumbent Democrat.
Commentators on social media brutally mocked the poor sap who posted the photo, and he took it down, but the internet is forever, as they say.
Now, to be clear, this is not a one-off. Democratic socialists are huge outliers in terms of how much they love their COVID masks. In fact, at the DSA’s 2025 convention, the wearing of masks was all but mandatory, with attendees strongly encouraged to masks except at meal time, to maintain six feet of social distancing from speakers who were not wearing masks and — get this — attendees were required to get COVID shots and a booster shot in the last 12 months.
Reliving their greatest triumph.
I’m picturing living under the Soviet or Chinese commies being similar… ruled by the absolute stupidest among us.
Another shitty day to mow the lawn. 92 degrees; 80 degree dew point.
Speaking of time zones latitude matters some. Minneapolis and Shreveport are close in longitude and both are in the Central time zone. Today, sunset in Minneapolis is more than a half hour later than Shreveport.
Oregon and Florida are on the same time, one hour a year.
on my not getting horror flicks: Didn’t trust rotten tomatoes, so found a ‘reasonable’ list of Top 10. Thoughts? Massive sin: Never seen a single Alien or +. (I know. I know you know I know you know, cuz duh you know.) Evil Dead 1&2 are great. I don’t know about actually scary? Been a while. But that was fun with college friends, so. Yeah. Loved ’em also just as a before/after with $.
I straight up didn’t grow up in that environment. OG point, I don’t ‘get’ wanting to be scared. Maybe lady grabbing my arm and a great possible date, in general, but. Eh. I s’pose if it’s really good it does the sucking in thing others do. To a larger extent, I’m sure. Just not the environment I grew up in. I don’t like being scared, though I can appreciate it. Not sure I can think of my favorite scary movie.
The Thing – John Carpenter – 1982
Alien – Ridley Scott – 1979
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick – 1980
28 Days Later – Danny Boyle – 2002
The Exorcist – William Friedkin – 1973
Evil Dead II – Sam Raimi – 1987
Night of the Living Dead – George Romero – 1968
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Tobe Hooper – 1974
Halloween – John Carpenter – 1978
A Nightmare on Elm Street – Wes Craven – 1984
*slinks off to bunk to escape overwhelming embarrassment of my absolute ignorance on this subject*
Never be ashamed. If you aren’t into it, that’s fine.
Now come Thursday, we are going to watch “Demonwarp,” picked by our own STEVE SMITH. Cheesy horror! Boobs! Sasquatches! Boobs! Aliens! Boobs!
I think you might be into that.
Did you say boobs?
Young Frankenstein might be a worthwhile sideways entrance into the genre. Yes, it’s a comedy, but most of the tropes are there.
It’s also, of course, a delight in its own right.
Young Frankenstein is fantastic. Madeline Kahn is a bit of a hero of mine. ‘Specially as Mrs. White.
All of these are great. Start with Evil Dead II. It’s more farcical comedy than straight horror and might be a different portal in.
Full disclosure: I have a harder time watching horror at 54 than I did at 15. Not really into being frightened or gored out at this point in my life.
I’ve seen those two. They’re fantastic, but I don’t at all think of them as ‘horror’ flicks. I told you this. *squints* I get the style and know the tropes through society, but yeah. I’m with you on not wanting to be scared for ‘fun.’ I get a good story can go there, but I haven’t been there and I doubt I will. Not that I wouldn’t, but I wouldn’t on my own. I really don’t get doing it by yourself. Unless ya like that sorta thing, in which case. I really don’t get doing it by yourself.
The Thing –Wait, this is “Horror”?
Alien – It’s okay.
The Shining – Never saw it, never sounded interesting.
28 Days Later – Zombie movies are not “Horror”
The Exorcist – Can recommend
Evil Dead II – Not “Horror”
Night of the Living Dead – Zombie movies are not “Horror”, but this is Public Domain now
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Never saw it.
Halloween – I suppose “Slasher” can be called a subgenre of “Horror” didn’t see this one.
A Nightmare on Elm Street – Can recommend.
’78 Halloween was maximum scare with minimum gore. 👍👍 (Far superior to Friday the 13th.
The Exorcist was creepy as all get out. Only ever saw it on TV. Don’t think I could have stood it on the big screen.
Somehow managed to fight and win ww eleven without T shots. Hegseth is a drunken moron.
Also, reinstitute no visible tattoo policy. Stop enabling the mentally ill clowns.
That was when a guy in a dress was a punchline, not a virtue.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
God, this is nauseating.
My kingdom for a forum.
Resuming callarme 🇪🇸
Guess I’ve missed a few things – did the Glibs forum go away?
Is it working again? Probably moo point, Joey Tribbiani.
🎶 Bill, I believe this is killing me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRlsu-4BNv8
It appears to be gone.
It’s been broken for a few months.
Thanks!
Ich habe some messages ge-left. Mehr later.
And póg mo thóin!
The subject would have been another glib, now quite taken to X (“Don’t call it Twitter!”).
Evan
Give Anna and the Apocalypse a shot.
Wish I could be more specific.
Imagine an impending j sub d situation.