Just to be clear, I was not the pinch hitter this morning. I don’t know who was, but I did my Wotansday like I was supposed to. Did anybody even notice there were no links? Today was reptile show day at the day care. I have videos of a bunch of kids swarming an extremely chill iguana. I call it “Florida kids playing with their food.”
Hazmat incident at the Pentagon. Just need to track down everyone who had Chipotle today, right?
You don’t see the former B1G Chairman being picked for National Intelligence Director. What’s that? The Security and Exchange Commission SEC? How many national championships do they have?
Always nice to see another Brett make good.
Just another day where cops shoot each other while “messing around”.
I love this jazzy little rock number.
I don’t think anyone claimed it. Like Winston’s mom, I don’t do mornings. I should have been more diligent in either noticing the slot was unclaimed, or scheduling an open post, JIC.
You do a lot to keep us all entertained. TYFYS.
Seconded.
You guys are about 95% of my non family outside interaction.
The police chief said the officer who was shot has since recovered and that disciplinary action has been taken.
So the shooter has been reinstated with back-pay?
They may have forfeited some vacation…
One dipshit draws his gun as a stupid joke, and the other dipshit shoots himself while panic-…er, responding. If either one of the dipshits are still bonded law enforcement, then the ‘disciplinary action’ was nonsense.
See this is why Barney Fife wasn’t allowed to keep his bullet in his revolver.
Even Barney Fife wasn’t stupid enough to wave his piece around as a practical joke.
Shooting someone who does that is, by my lights, a reasonable and measured response.
I’m guessing promotions all the way around.
Union: EPA’s new call software sparks safety fears https://share.google/z5DLSIwNAvI9PwkhR
1. This is a known issue. Naturally fedgov fucked it up.
2. Nobody had a cell phone?
911 from call centers is a known problem. General guidance for most call centers is: “Use your damn cell phones you retards.”
Otherwise you run into issues with agents split between WFH and the office. If they’re logging into the same softphone on the same computer, which address do you want to send when they call 911?
If the EPA head office burns down with everyone in it and 911 dosent work, where do I send my thanks?
Trump Sets New World Record By Winning War With Iran 27 Times In One Year
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-sets-new-world-record-by-winning-war-with-iran-27-times-in-one-year
LOL
Hahahahaha
And still counting.
https://www.news18.com/world/us-still-making-new-requests-iran-rejects-trumps-claims-says-no-deal-has-been-finalised-ws-l-10144240.html
Reptile show?
= unlicensed pharmacist.
The man told me that there was a lizard inside of his shoe box….
Calm down EvilSheldon, its nothing like a donkey show.
Appeal to Higher Power
Tech executives have told us that AI will remake our jobs, schools, relationships, and wars. But we were also asked to believe we would all benefit from a change unfolding without our consent or participation. For many Americans such as myself, that promise doesn’t fit: we sense that our future is being decided for us, rather than by us.
The past several decades of technology policy have been treated as a narrow technical affair, the domain of scientists, industry CEOs, procurers, and lawyers. This spring, a Pope and a President made it a moral and political question. On May 25, Pope Leo XIV published “Magnifica Humanitas,” his first encyclical on AI and the human person. Then, on June 2, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security.” The two documents could hardly differ more.
The Pope’s encyclical focuses on humanity and demands that power be constrained by morality. On the other hand, Trump’s order asks how America stays ahead of China. The first is a meditation on dignity, the second a strategy for dominance. Yet neither statement is only about AI. Both turn on a shift: authority passing from citizens to machines, and from public debate to private hands.
The gap between the two documents is widest on the topic of war and national security. The encyclical’s strongest warning is that lethal and irreversible decisions must never be entrusted to artificial systems. A machine should not decide who lives and who dies. A weapon can read a heat signature, track a figure, and recommend a strike, but cannot understand what it means to end a life. It cannot answer to a family, a court, or history. In the words of Pope Leo, “No algorithm can make war morally acceptable.”
Our stupidest choices must be guided by an external power greater than ourselves, so we can evade responsibility.
Reptile show?
Wasn’t just Democrats balking on Pulte.
Pulte might have asked uncomfortable questions.
I have no real idea of the inside baseball and haven’t been paying attention to Pulte. My general guess is the honeymoon for Trump’s non deep state picks is over and he’s teetering on lame duck status.
That’s my take too.
The one I did catch was Bessent smugly recounting threatening to kick Pulte’s ass. Very professional from the treasury secretary.
OMG. Where was Comey?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/8647-grass-national-mall
King of dumbasses did that. The mowing crew will be suspect #1.
I’m sure there are few if any cameras as well.
Yes. Whoever did it will be in custody by tomorrow.
That’s just so incredibly clever I can’t even.
Paywalled CNN. Reader mode no JS.
Why thousands of Americans are giving up their citizenship
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/travel/renouncing-united-states-citizenship
Good news. They have no income or assets for the U.S. to tax abroad. And now they can’t vote. Win.
I’d only give up citizenship if I had lots of ex US wealth.
And could take my guns with me.
“I never felt overly patriotic or connected to the country,”
Exactly this. Proggies are locusts, devouring host countries because they never really cared about them. Good riddance, go bespoil Europe or something.
They are citizens of the world. “Country” means nothing to such elevated spirits.
Drumpf? What do I win?
So the first lady is upset about the US global taxation and politics. I think her side is the one more likely pushing to tax global income. The second lady just got Italian citizenship. I think Italy just recently banned dual citizenship, so she had to make a choice. FATCA was mentioned as a major factor, and I can attest that it is a pain in the ass for regular people who happen to have a foreign bank account for whatever reason. It ain’t the fat cats that are hurt by it. And again, which party pushed for that? I like the fact that the Trump admit reduced the fees to renounce citizenship. Let them leave.
The fat cats have lots of accountants and lawyers both foreign and domestic.
The U.S. is a dick to its citizens abroad.
I need to see three more zeros on that number.
Don’t be left out
Betting that people will soon grow more comfortable having artificial intelligence agents shop for groceries, plane tickets or diapers on their behalf, payments giant Visa said Wednesday that it has embedded its payment network inside of ChatGPT, empowering the chatbot to independently shop and complete transactions.
It means AI agents can not only recommend products but complete the purchase on the user’s behalf at potentially any merchant that accepts Visa. The payment network’s previous attempts at this technological leap were confined to a single retailer or a small set of enrolled merchants.
Visa’s collaboration is different from OpenAI’s previous attempts, as it will allow users to link their Visa cards to ChatGPT to shop and make it easier for merchants to accept transactions initiated by agents.
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Speaking at a company event Wednesday in San Francisco, Forestell gave an example of a customer telling ChatGPT they’re looking for a pair of wireless headphones under $150. The chatbot would find a pair for sale under those parameters and buy it on behalf of the customer.
“I think we’re generally at a place where most people are very comfortable with the shopping aspects of it and have discovered this as a superior discovery experience,” Forestell said in an interview. But, he added, making the leap from having AI agents recommend what to buy to doing the purchasing “just requires a whole different level of trust.”
What could possibly go wrong?
Sweet Mother.
I seem to recall several people who hooked their agents up with their crypto wallets. Most were complaining that the agents wiped out their holdings.
Dear Amex:
Please don’t do this.
kthxbai
I know someone who found out after the fact that AI wrote a thank you letter for them.
Just wait ’til you’re watching Amazon Prime on your smart teevee and an ad comes on and you say, “I want one of those” and your artificially intelligent credit card buys it for you.
“I bought that pack of a dozen black vibrating dildoes for you. I saw you giggled at them earlier.”
Why thousands of Americans are giving up their citizenship
It’s a shithole. A racist fascist misogynist late stage capitalist shithole.
I don’t care much for New Zealand either but isn’t that a bit strong?
Fox just reported a poll showing 55% of Democrats would rather live elsewhere than U.S. I’m willing to drive a certain number of them to the nearest international airport.
Absolutely, they can go buy a $1 house in Italy.
https://www.maigomika.com/akiya-top-questions/
Good luck with getting citizenship, however. They looked at Europe and the U.S. and said we gotta stop this now.
Democrats love regulations. They’ll be fiiiine.
I have a suburban.
I can take six at a time.
Another tree if they want to get close.
Japanese countryside looks pleasant.
High trust culture. Costal NW climate.
I could do that.
I thought Japan’s climate is more like our NE. NW Europe has our NW climate.
Heat. Way more heat than the NW. pretty much countrywide.
I’m inland NW.
used to 100-110 summers.
I’ve seen 117 in my hometown down to -20 in central Washington.
I would guess Japan is far more humid which would not be my ideal.
Another Ray Wylie song
I noticed there were no links! I pay attention! (The others picked up your slack, right quick, so good on all.
I’d say today’s the most tired I’ve been from work. Let’s check, 11.53 miles with much lifting. And much sneezing, damn, the wrong sort of something got up my nose, apparently.I’ll sneeze my through the links now, thank ya very much. *phew*
If there’s a hazmat incident, that’s bad, yeah? Well, “The Department is executing standard protection protocols, including a shelter-in-place order for the affected area.” Why the fuck would or should I stay in the vicinity of “the potentially deadly problem.”
Maybe it’s one of those neurotoxins that make everyone wanna fuck each other. If I get to pick my team, and I’m omnipotent, so I luxuriate in such, I could shelter in place for quite a while. My team knows the code words. *wink*
Enough with your Yasha Yar fabrics Evan!
Fantasies.
Looked her up. Hrm. They wrote an ep or a scene therein to explicitly verify she’s heterosexual, cuz there was confusion, apparently. I could be convinced to sail through her port.
No, that’s from Flesh Gordon.
TW Doug DeMuro
The last M3 model I care about. E92. One owner car, no mods, 17k.
https://youtu.be/d5yvnak4x8U?si=8_I7fORGOWkghfe1
It’s turn signals work?
Was gonna come home and ‘have’ to flip between the Cubs (who’ve been, uh, yeah) and the Stanley Cup, which certainly gets precedence, considering. But the Cubs game was earlier. Whoops. I accidentally saw the score, which I try not to do. Whoops-a-million. I was wondering beforehand if I *wanted* to watch the game, considering how shitty we’ve been. (Strange team. We’ve also had two 10-game winning streaks.) It’s being shown again at midnight, so chill night’s entertainment is lined up. (I love reading Movie Nights, RJ, but it’s tricksy to watch live.)
I have five days off, which’ll be strange. Mon/Tues are for appointments I have, so I’m working Wed-Fri. Pretty perfect timing forgetting my work search better organized. I let AI help me out along the way, which was a good idea. Feels a good mental time and space for that gear change.
Tonight: Grizzly II! Will America’s favorite teen actors from the 1980s survive the fearsome… Grizzly?
No clue, but the family is on edge after the two week vacation, and are remaining in quiet time all evening. The better to hear the shitty rap/dance music blasting from the downstairs of this Memphis Hilton Tapestry hotel. I cannot wait to leave tomorrow morning.
Can you drill through the floor and dump some Zyklon B on them?