Thursday Morning Links

by | May 7, 2026 | Daily Links | 176 comments

I wonder if the Astros are gonna win 63 games this year. Buffalo jumped out to a 1-0 series lead on the Canadians/Canadiens. Anaheim knotted their series with Vegas. Mike Vrabel is in more hot water on the home front. And PSG advanced on to the UCL final, where they will face Arsenal in Budapest. UEL and Conference league finals will be set this afternoon. And that’s pretty much all I’ve got, so moving on.

Let the spin begin. I sure hope this trial is public rather than just publicized. Because no matter what evidence is presented, they’ll be painted as saints by the media.

Why are they so hellbent on keeping this secret? One would think they’d relish the scrutiny since they claim everything was on the up and up.

One might be led to believe that the entire city and state are run by imbeciles. But that’s who elected them, so I guess it’s good that they’re getting representation.

Rake him over the coals. And repeat the process all across the country, where this has clearly been happening for some time now. Then federally defund every sanctuary city/state possible.

I wonder if this is an overreaction. I don’t like the event, but I’m curious if other exclusive events have been held there or anywhere else that’s publicly-owned. Also, why is a water park publicly-owned in the first place?

They’re British, so of course a lot of them are proud of this. Their suicidal empathy appears to be nearly boundless.

I wonder how long Starmer is gonna keep his job after today. I suspect they will be routed and the calls for a snap election will start ramping up.

Will Hochul have him released on a $1 bond? I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’m sure they’ll call this racially motivated. But I’m not sure that accusation will stick this time.

Private property? I don’t think so. You own NOTHING, peasant. This is California.

Here’s a fun, catchy tune. And they had a few. And here’s another one. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.

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176 Comments

  1. Rat on a train

    Seattle’s government is of the people, by the people, for the people, which is why you should avoid Seattle.

  2. rhywun

    Rake him over the coals. And repeat the process all across the country,

    Except DA’s already have gigantic latitude to pick and choose winners and losers.

    • sloopyinca

      But when they make decisions based on race and/or national origin, they are violating the 14th Amendment. I’d very much think that if they’re offering sweet plea deals to illegals due to sanctuary policies or political beliefs that aren’t being offered to American citizens, that’s gonna be a violation.

      • rhywun

        I hope it flies.

  3. R C Dean

    OK, this is weird. I open the post, there’s two comments. I log in, it still says there’s two comments, but it doesn’t show them.

  4. slumbrew

    My town has also decreed that we don’t own our own property, since we now need their permission to cut down our own trees.

    The town-owned tree that’s jacking up the slab and possibly hitting my foundation won’t be touched, either – “we don’t cut down trees for cosmetic reasons”. Which is bullshit (I’ve seen them take down others).

    Talked to the actual tree workers (and not the “tree warden”) while they were working locally: “we didn’t say this, but just kill it”.

    My tax dollars at work.

    • sloopyinca

      I’m sure these rules are commonplace. I’m just curious how they came to the conclusion that the city deserved close to a million dollars from these people. That money won’t bring the trees back to life.

      • R C Dean

        a mature coast live oak valued at $95,000

        Talk about pulling a number out of your ass. There is no way to sell a mature live oak, so it has no market value.

        I’m sure what’s going to happen is the city is just going to seize the property so it can be properly neglected.

      • Nephilium

        R C Dean:

        Fuck. I hope they don’t start adding the “value” of the trees to my property tax.

      • The Last American Hero

        It does have a market value – neighborhoods with mature growth trees are valued over new developments that were clearcut and have a few saplings. Now the location and the age of the mature growth neighborhood also pushes prices the other way, but mature growth trees are valuable.

    • UnCivilServant

      Broken Pavement is a safety issue – that’s a trip hazard. Sue them for $4-5Million

    • WTF

      Seems like the local government is taking ownership of your property (the trees) without compensation, which is a constitutional violation. Maybe the IJ can pursue one of these cases.

      • Nephilium

        Already answered by the courts (at least here in Ohio). Homeowner is responsible for upkeep on sidewalks and tree lawns. The government technically owns the tree lawn, and can set all sorts of rules around it. There’s a reason it’s called the Devil’s Strip in Akron.

      • WTF

        Not sure what a tree lawn is, but if it is on your actual property, and not a right of way or easement like a sidewalk, then I don’t see how the government can constitutionally claim ownership without it being a taking where compensation is due.

      • WTF

        Oh, I see it is part of the sidewalk easement, I just never heard it called a tree lawn. My understanding was that the trees in dispute in the article were within the owner’s property, and not in a narrow tree lawn.

      • R C Dean

        An easement is a right of way over someone else’s property. So, I suspect you own the sidewalk and the strip of greenery between it and the road*, its just that there’s a public easement/right of way over that piece of your property.

        *On at least two occasions, I have owned the land under an actual highway which was built on a public easement over my land.

        Now, if the sidewalk/green strip actually belongs to you, does the public easement give the government the right to dictate what you do with your trees? Unlikely. If it doesn’t belong to you, under what theory does the government make you responsible for its upkeep?

      • Nephilium

        WTF:

        Sorry, tree lawn is another regional term, but it’s more widespread.

        R C Dean:

        A brief write up, IANAL so I’m going on my understanding over various conversations and news stories over the years.

  5. R C Dean

    Why are they so hellbent on keeping this secret?

    Yeah, they could hardly look guiltier.

    I mean, they set the bar pretty high, with the fake plumbing emergency to clear out observers during the multi/swing state coordinated counting, err, recalibration election night. But they seem determined to meet that standard.

    Keep in mind, also, that AZ flunked the audit of its ballot handling and counting for 2020, as well. And Nothing Else Happened(tm).

    • Common Tater

      Didn’t the guy in charge in 2020 Arizona have an anti-Trump PAC?

      • R C Dean

        Yup. The McCainite “Republican” in charge of Maricopa (Phoenix) County voting was a hardcore anti-Trumpite. In an ordinary election, Maricopa is rotten with fraud (ballot-harvesting). They layered on an extra layer of crunchy shenanigans for 2020.

  6. Common Tater

    “A view of the Seattle skyline (Nik Lanum/Fox News Digital)”

    WTF is that thing on the right? Some kind of dinosaur statue?

      • Common Tater

        Doesn’t look like him.

      • UnCivilServant

        Modern Art isn’t supposed to be relaistic.

        Or so I’m told.

    • sloopyinca

      Not sure, but I find it funny that Fox picked the most unflattering photo to use as a skyline shot for Seattle.

      That’s some quality pettiness.

  7. juris imprudent

    The Labor govt could collapse in Britain and still get returned. They won their last “landslide” with less votes than in the preceding election they lost. The Brits are sick of all of their party choices.

    • The Last American Hero

      How many votes are there for the Caliphate Party?

  8. R C Dean

    Texas water park forced to ditch ‘Muslims-only’ day after Abbott threatens to pull funding

    Yeah, state funding for an event restricted to members of a particular religion violates about half a dozen statutes and the Constitution.

    • Not Adahn

      They can still have a “modesty dress day.”

      • EvilSheldon

        So, Victorian bathing costumes? I could get behind that.

      • Nephilium

        ES:

        Viva Las Vegas routinely had people showing up in 50s/60s styled bathing suits, and had a bathing suit competition in three divisions (men, women, and couples). Pretty sure I’ve got the picture of the dude in the yellow terrycloth bathing suit and robe somewhere.

    • rhywun

      I bet there about a 100% chance there have been race-exclusive events. I’ve seen that shit at other theme parks, going back decades.

  9. Not Adahn

    Anybody have an in at SpaceX? I read where the TeraFab is going to be, and it’s less than an hour away from TX Renfest, near where I used to live in Bryan. While it would suck not having any trees that are more than 15′ tall, it would be great for my hobbies and mom-visiting.

      • Not Adahn

        Admittedly, it’s in the media so who knows how accurate it is. But I could really use the bump in pay one gets by changing jobs, especially if they’re throwing money around as is often the case during a fab startup.

    • R C Dean

      I swear, when I was in College Station years ago, there was no shortage of full sized trees.

      • Not Adahn

        The Live Oaks on campus are actively tended, and even they aren’t 20′ tall.

        There’s just not enough rain there. It only gets worse as you go west.

        You are right about the (loblolly?) pines near Bastrop though, those do get decently tall.

    • sloopyinca

      It’s just an hour from us. 45 miles or so, as the crow flies. I wonder if they’re gonna destroy the reservoir if this goes through.

      • Not Adahn

        I am going to have to figure out how to get my resume into their system. Opening up this fab was the most fun I’ve had working.

  10. juris imprudent

    Guess I’ll drop this here again, if anyone is feeling ambitious.

    And as I said before, even if the SPLC is dissolved, another entity will be formed to replace it. The financial eco-system (federal regulatory scheme) demands that niche be filled.

    • R C Dean

      Something would be set up, sure. But I wonder if it would have the scope and reach of the SPLC, which sort of bootstrapped its way up during the heyday of the grievance industry (at least, I hope that Peak Grievance is in our rear view mirror).

      • Not Adahn

        The new org would be competing for funds with pre-existing orgs. No honor among thieves.

      • juris imprudent

        I doubt it could be as bad, at first. Given time, who knows?

  11. Common Tater

    “Honduran national Jose Ignacio Bonilla-Garcia was arrested in Fort Bend County, Texas, on a criminal arrest warrant from Suffolk County, New York, for “allegedly beating a man unconscious and then dragging him behind a dumpster and raping him while he was incapacitated,” ICE said.”

    I’m sure it was just a misunderstanding.

    • R C Dean

      “Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? Because I gotta say, in the country where I come from . . . “

      • juris imprudent

        “Beating and raping is the second favorite national sport, just behind football!”

  12. R.J.

    “Local elections could hasten exit of embattled British Prime Minister Starmer”

    No it won’t. He will be there for years to come.

    • UnCivilServant

      Labour(sic) will find a new figurehead to try to clear some of the negative PR associated with Two-Teir Kier.

    • sloopyinca

      If Labour want to survive, I think they’re gonna have to dump him soon.

      • R.J.

        They will cancel as many elections as possible, and ignore election results. I shall bet you a beer on it. Labour has put a lock on power and their popularity no longer matters.

      • juris imprudent

        They wouldn’t even be in power now if Britain had any kind of real alternative.

      • UnCivilServant

        You forget the circumstances of the last election. The Tories Blitzed it out to have it happen before Reform could get its ground infrastructure in place. Nobody shows up to vote Tory. The dwindled Labour bade came out and handed the plurality to Labour, but in terms of actual voters, they had very few. Had the election come even a few months later, Reform would have taken a decent chunk of the constituencies.

        Now we’ve got another party coming along, I think it’s “Reclaim” or somesuch, where the platform is actually closer to “kick out the foreigners”, and they’re also doing well when not deliberately excluded.

        I’m reminded of The difference in the systems

  13. R.J.

    “Taxpayers Foot Staggering £629 Million Bill For Foreign Nationals In UK Prisons”
    I am going to channel UnCivil on this one:
    Make a deal to export them as slave labor to any number of states, and dispose of them. Make it know that anyone arriving without a passport will indeed get a free ride, in chains, to a pro-slavery country.

    • Common Tater

      I don’t see any way the UK can get rid of the Islamists that won’t look racist, fascist, etc.

      • UnCivilServant

        Then the answer is to go “The bad names are less harmful than the invading Islamists. We are going the knuckle down and rid ourselves of them.”

      • R C Dean

        I’ve been saying for quite awhile that so many migrants have been imported that “remigration” (that matters) is going to to be ugly and look a lot like ethnic cleansing.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve gotten to the point where that does not bother me.

      • Common Tater

        Yes, it’s armed men in uniform rounding up brown people.

      • The Last American Hero

        This was part of the plan – same plan they are trying in the US.

  14. Rat on a train

    I recently started receiving text spam for tree services. Still not as good as the junk mail I get from a funeral home.

    • Ted S.

      During the pandemic I actually got a letter from the Jehovah’s Witnesses trying to proselytize and apologizing for being unable to visit in person.

      • UnCivilServant

        “You should take this as a sign from God that you are not going his work by pestering people to join your heretical sect.”

      • Rat on a train

        The JW stopped coming by. I think they gave up but they send me cards for the holidays. The Mormons also stopped coming by but don’t send me anything. People still come by selling products or politics.

      • ron73440

        I got a couple of those, they were hand written by a lady with beautiful penmanship.

        My wife felt a little guilty throwing them away.

      • Ted S.

        The JWs need to be more stoic about their proselytization attempts failing.

      • juris imprudent

        Ted I think the JW are already heretical enough.

      • creech

        Back in the day, my Dad used to invite the JWs in for a religious debate. No minds were ever changed.

      • Nephilium

        I still get letters from them and the LDS.

    • Grummun

      I had to manifest my own tree service. Had a bunch of trees blow down during the winter, and some were actually not rotten. Made a bunch of firewood, and I’ve got three logs worth of walnut milled that I need to find space to rick up.

    • The Last American Hero

      I get those as well. Must have hacked the servers in the Gulch.

  15. rhywun

    ICE also cited examples of dozens of men who were convicted child rapists in their home countries, illegally entered the U.S., including more than once, and were later convicted of sexual assault of a child in Texas.

    It’s almost like Mexico deliberately sends them to us. Some, I assume, are fine people.

    • R.J.

      There are many fine people on both sides…

      • R C Dean

        On both sides of the border, indeed there are.

        And all these fine people should stay on their side of the border.

    • sloopyinca

      Nobody wants to admit it, but we experienced a multinational Mariel boat lift on steroids for the entirety of the Biden admin. And they welcomed them in with open arms, criminals and all.

  16. rhywun

    And they had a few

    So many. Great band.

  17. Common Tater

    “Dire wolf pups that were brought back from extinction are now ready to breed, the company behind the breakthrough has revealed.

    Last year, Colossal Biosciences announced it had managed to ‘de–extinct’ the species, 12,000 years after it vanished from Earth.

    The first litter included two male pups, Romulus and Remus, who were joined six months later by a female called Khaleesi….

    ‘The plan is to create an inter–breedable population of dire wolves in which they would eventually breed naturally to create a sustainable population of the world’s first de–extinct species,’ Matt James, the company’s chief animal officer, told The Telegraph.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15797453/Dire-wolves-extinction-ready-BREED-biotechnology.html

    Don’t murder me.

    • rhywun

      They have reached several milestones so far, including learning how to pick apart a whole deer carcass.

      lol Good doggies.

    • WTF

      They’re not dire wolves, they’re just wolves/dogs with some dire wolf characteristics. They’re not even closely related to modern wolves:

      A 2021 DNA study confirmed that dire wolves (now classified as Aenocyon dirus) are not closely related to modern wolves or dogs, but rather a distinct, ancient, and highly divergent lineage that split from other canids roughly 5.7 to 6 million years ago.

    • The Last American Hero

      Why do we get Dire Wolves, when miniature mammoths would be way more fun?

      • kinnath

        Because there were no mammoths in GoT.

      • UnCivilServant

        Dogs to be surrogate wombs are easier to come by than elephants.

      • The Last American Hero

        Fair point, it would be pretty hard to get a baby elephant squeezed out from dog hips.

  18. PieInTheSky

    CONCEPT: Political ideology solely involving taking Anglos and putting them in the sun. Mass transformation of ‘Battery’ Anglos into ‘Free-Range’ Anglos in order to elevate the type and make them more robust, attractive, taller and healthier

    https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2052177293808714141

    • UnCivilServant

      That sounds stupid. You put them in the sun you get rid of the naturally attractive pallor.

      Just keep the spray tan and propaganda away from them.

  19. Common Tater

    “A Texas judge was publicly warned for her mishandling of four child sex crime cases and conduct in the courtroom.

    The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct (SCJC) slapped a public sanction on Melissa Morris after they say she curtailed probation for four pedophiles who pleaded guilty in a 2024 sex crime case….

    The commission also wrote Morris ‘breached grand jury secrecy’ after she sent sensitive information about the subpoena to defense counsel….

    The former DA added that the early probation termination ended up benefiting the pedophiles – who were later deported – because it ended before they were required to register as sex offenders.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15796231/texas-harris-county-judge-melissa-morris-public-sanction.html

    Another woke “pro-immigrant” DEI judge.

    • sloopyinca

      Texas needs to keep going after these idiot woke judges. I believe they got rid of Speedlin Gonzalez, although she avoided prosecution. I hope they ramp it up.

    • Shpip

      Speaking of judges in Texas:

      A Texas judge has agreed to resign immediately and accept a lifetime disqualification from judicial service to resolve multiple complaints of misconduct.

      Bexar County Court at Law Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez signed a formal agreement filed April 20 stating she “has officially and formally resigned her judicial duties effective immediately” in lieu of further disciplinary proceedings, according to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

      She was Texas’ first ever open-QUILTBAG on the bench, and she looks exactly how you’d expect her to.

      Of course, if I was saddled with the name Speedlin-Gonzalez, I’d probably have a chip on my shoulder, too.

      Still, a sweet deal. Off the bench, but no disbarment and the criminal charges were dropped.

      • R C Dean

        She lost her reelection bid in the March 2026 Democratic primary to challenger Alicia Perez.

        So she was off the bench in a few months regardless. That looks more like a sweetheart deal to avoid real consequences than a victory for accountability.

        Silver lining: at least she was voted out, although who knows how bad the primary winner is.

      • rhywun

        saddled with the name Speedlin-Gonzalez

        OMG that’s real??

        LOL

      • Common Tater

        Maybe trans and changed her name?

  20. Evan from Evansville

    Cubs have had three walk-offs in a row over Cincinnati. Gave up four in the 9th, but PCA+ sent it to the 10th. Eight in a row, after winning 10 straight not long ago. I believe we’ve won 19 of 22. Exciting ball, it’s been. (Lost another pitcher for a spell. We don’t have many left, though I’ll admit, it hasn’t mattered much. 🙂 )
    (It will, but these games count, dammit! If we just played .500 ball the rest of the way, IIRC we’d win 88 games.)

    Think about it.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought he was telling me to “Think about IT” aka “get back to work”

      • Nephilium

        To keep your significant other happy?

      • creech

        Don’t diss Lennie Briscoe.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Creech is correct. Briscoe-era L&O is fabulous for many reasons. Jerry Orbach’s a big one.

        ‘New’ talent first Big Breaks are another.

        Fuck post Briscoe, SVU and all the other versions . Wisdom, I have dropped.

      • rhywun

        I like the show – at least the Briscoe years – but later years got a lot more annoyingly preachy. The current iteration is unwatchable.

      • The Last American Hero

        Don’t forget about young Jill Hennessy.

    • Common Tater

      “Federal prosecutors were able to get an equally absurd case handed down against the Southern Poverty Law Center in Mississippi by fatuously claiming that because the organization had paid informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups, it was supporting terrorism. Then there is what could be the biggest case of all: the Justice Department’s investigation of the Obama administration in the Southern District of Florida for allegedly violating Trump’s rights — by investigating him.”

      LOL

      • R C Dean

        I don’t recall them paying anyone to infiltrate anything. I thought they were paying the leadership to conduct certain activities. I’m still waiting to hear what information these “informants” provided and what the SPLC did with it.

      • kinnath

        These people continue to intentionally obscure the fact that SPLC was not charged with paying members of terrorist organization but for banking violations for the elaborate steps that were taken to hide those payments.

      • R C Dean

        It was both money laundering (which should be a laydown win) and defrauding their contributors (using their contributions to financially support the people/organizations it said it was trying to shut down).

        The real game here, I think, is using these charges to freeze and ultimately seize their $800MM plus warchest. Not sure if the government has made that move yet.

      • The Last American Hero

        Maybe they can get one of those settlements where they are forced to contribute to TP USA or Kyle Rittenhouse/Daniel Penny’s legal bills.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its a Nazi thing isn’t?

    • rhywun

      Someone’s obsessed with racial bean-counting and it’s not Donald nor “virtually every Republican candidate for president and Congress”.

  21. sloopyinca

    Longtime Dem mayor of Charlotte, NC just resigned out of nowhere. I wonder what brought that on.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Weren’t they pushing back on election/registration records? Specifically their motor-voter laws?

  22. Sensei

    In the name of fighting climate change, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized United Nations agency, in 2027 is set to require airlines to report their greenhouse-gas emissions for international flights and buy carbon credits to offset emissions. This mandatory expense will raise flight costs—and give an unelected global agency the power to tax an entire industrial sector without any democratic input from those being taxed.

    Do you want to see my shocked face?

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-n-will-make-airfares-more-expensive-d1b2a66e?st=ZQH7JC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ah the next step after they (the UN) floated the idea of a global tax. Instead, go after specialized industry.

    • UnCivilServant

      We should issue fines to the ICAO equal to double any revenue raised by such credits sales, an fine the UN for not shutting them down, double whatever we fine the ICAO.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Sadly, the FAA is intricately woven and in bed with ICAO.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sounds like the perfect opportunity to disentangle, and throw whoever enabled that entanglement into jet turbines.

    • WTF

      So, let’s see them try to enforce it.

      • juris imprudent

        Exactly. Oh, you don’t have men with weapons – then you don’t really have the authority to tax!

      • rhywun

        Every Democrat will enthusiastically support this so it will almost certainly happen, if not now then soon.

        None of the politicians will give a fuck since you’re paying their airfare anyway.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Enforcement will be via landing rights and fees at their airports processed through the airlines and passed onto your ticket cost.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sounds like a reason to seize their airports.

        What do you mean they’re in foreign countries?

        I guess we must bill the UN and use that money to refund the airlines and the passengers.

      • WTF

        Enforcement will be via landing rights and fees at their airports processed through the airlines and passed onto your ticket cost

        Hence the value of tariffs as retaliatory tools to curtail this crap.

    • R.J.

      Sounds like the truck STEVE SMITH takes to a campsite emergency.

    • Common Tater

      ““Currently almost half of the federal budget is being spent on tanks, bombs and infrastructure to prepare the country for war,””

      doubt

      • UnCivilServant

        More than half of the US budget goes into welfare waste fraud and abuse.

        If they’re talking about Germany, they are probably even worse ratio-wise.

      • Sensei

        “In the 2026 budget passed in late 2025, Germany allocated approximately €82.69 billion to the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces), which accounts for roughly 15% of the total €524.54 billion federal budget.”

        – Google Gemini

      • Rat on a train

        “I only include discretionary spending. All the automatic welfare spending is excluded.”

    • WTF

      Hard to believe the Germans of all people have become so pussified.

    • Not Adahn

      Kurzgesagt had a recent video about how Germany was screwed, ’cause demographic collapse.

      Interesting (to me things):

      -They declared the German Welfare Stare the country’s greatest achievement.
      -The said importing arbitrarily large numbers of Turks and Syrians wouldn’t actually fix the problem.

      The rest of it was normal “kill the boomers and take their stuff, they’re screwing the future” respectable opinions.

    • The Last American Hero

      Yeah, that’s what those American troops are for!

  23. R.J.

    I just can’t pull off the whole working thing today. Too much bullshit, no resolutions.

    • Common Tater

      Then say fuck it, crack open a beer, and do tonight’s move post.

      • R.J.

        This place is collapsing into a black hole, Neph. I have the unfortunate talent set that is “essential” to making sure things move forward anyway. And to try and rebuild for the future. God help me.

    • R C Dean

      And he just drives off like he didn’t just wreck his own bumper.

      I’m also curious what the random collection of orange cones in the left turn lane is for.

    • EvilSheldon

      I guess getting shot by ICE isn’t trendy anymore. Now you have to get called in for a meeting with the USSS to score your progressive street cred.

    • Ted S.

      I remember when a rodeo clown wearing a mask of the sitting president was the height of evil.

    • The Last American Hero

      Luke deserved better.

      Hammill deserves whatever.

      • Not Adahn

        He had a point? I was just enjoying the snark and Dawkins-shitting-upon.

      • UnCivilServant

        No clue. I didn’t get to one.

      • Not Adahn

        So, his point was actually kind of dumb, even if I agreed with his conclusion.

        Conclusion: “AI isn’t conscious”

        Support: guided outputs with semi-random inputs (pachinko machines) are clearly not conscious, and that’s what markov chains are.”

        This doesn’t interact at all with the claim that “sufficiently deep staking of non-conscious processes results in consciousness and we just haven’t specifically defined when that happens but some people believe that line has been crossed and some don’t.”

      • R C Dean

        It might help if we had any clue what “consciousness” actually is.

  24. Common Tater

    “Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide note was finally revealed — and the convicted pedophile appears to claim investigators “found nothing” on him….

    The note was purportedly written after Epstein tried to hang himself in his Manhattan jail cell in July 2019, just days after his arrest for sex trafficking.

    He was unsuccessful in that attempt and blamed his cellmate — disgraced cop and convicted quadruple murderer Nicholas Tartaglione.

    Tartaglione found the note and gave it to his lawyers as purported proof that he did not attempt to murder the disgraced financier.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/06/us-news/jeffrey-epsteins-barely-legible-alleged-suicide-note-revealed/

    Who knows?

    • R C Dean

      Tartaglione, a bona fide psychopath who strangled at least one of his murder victims.

      WTF was he doing in a cell with anyone, much less Epstein?

      Has the suicide note actually been authenticated as being in Epstein’s handwriting? It’s awfully convenient to both Tartaglione and anyone who might have arranged his murder.

  25. UnCivilServant

    Glibs – do you guys have a preferred network KVM?

    I’ve got various headless computers around the house and am debating the best way to have ready console access to them in case it’s needed.

    Since I haven’t run cat5 through the walls, it’d have to be reached over wifi. Just soemthing I can connect to the computer in question and get a console session from my main desktop without running cables to physical keyboards and monitors. (not all of these are conveniently located to put the accessories in place)

    • EvilSheldon

      If you mean KVM over IP? TinyPilot is what I’ve used in the past, when I still worked with physical servers.

      • UnCivilServant

        yes, exactly that type of solution.

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        “Hold me closer, TinyPilot.”

      • slumbrew

        Cheaper than ES’s suggestion, at any rate.

        KVM is cloud based by default but you can connect directly on the same LAN.

        Their cloud is also at least partly open source:

        https://github.com/gl-inet/glkvm-cloud

      • UnCivilServant

        “Cloud based by default” is an unhappy phrase.

        A lot of these boxes are there to avoid cloud exposure.

  26. R.J.

    Well, power is down for 2+ hours. Cell towers not doing great either.

    • Gender Traitor

      I guess you don’t have to worry about that “work” nonsense for a while. But it might interfere with your Glibbing. 😟

  27. Gdragon

    I don’t always watch Tucker, but when I do it’s Rep. Massie.

    Stay thirsty my friends.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Leave it to the expert

    As the federal health department launches a plan to wean patients off antidepressants, mental health advocates and psychiatrists say blaming the United States’ mental health crisis on overmedicalization and overprescription of psychiatric medications is an inaccurate portrayal of a complex problem.

    “It really is an oversimplification,” says Dr. Theresa Miskimen Rivera, president of the American Psychiatric Association. “And it really ignores the larger reality, which is that too many patients really cannot access timely, comprehensive care that is much needed for our nation.”

    But, she adds that she and the American Psychiatric Association support any plans to better train healthcare providers to safely prescribe and wean patients off antidepressants.

    “We’re also very much in support of the administration’s plans to further investment in research and the efforts to improve quality, safety [and] evidence-based mental health treatment,” says Miskimen Rivera.

    Give us more money and stop looking over our shoulders. We know what we’re doing.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long claimed that psychiatric medications are overprescribed and that their serious side effects harm people. He has also in the past claimed — without any evidence — that these medications cause mass shootings.

    Haha, everybody knows mass shootings are caused by global warming.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I am surprised that they didnt then say it was violent video games instead that was the cause.

    • (((Jarflax

      Without any evidence is doing its usual job of conflating the ideas of logical proof and evidence. A strong correlation is not proof, but it damn sure is evidence.

    • Common Tater

      “It was during that chaotic time that he accidentally removed Bryan’s liver rather than his spleen.”

      HTF is that even possible?

      • Ted S.

        Well it’s not *im*possible….

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