Maybe the funniest thing about TV shows set in NYC is the same actors who usually play mafiosi also play coppers. It raises some implicit commentary on the nature of both.

I mean, every fucking summer is warmer than the last, the economy is based on bullshit, people can't make a project of life that doesn't go beyond the next year (if so long), birthrates fall, people are burned out if they have a job, and most have difficulties thinking their job has any social value at all, and many try to search the next grift because the social message of the last forty years has been "There is no such thing as a society". OK, nice, that sounds like a solid foundation.

You have to be very isolated of things to not understand that the fact that there are protests by young people about everywhere in the world is not only a matter of current contextual reasons of each of those protests, but also of a more general world situation that can be summarised as a perception that their future was mortgaged by capitalists and their servants and that the payment day is nearing, and they have no intention to bear that debt. But OK, maybe it's just me.

The Slopbros are trying to sell that if Rick Deckard came to our timeline he would be going after the LLMs, but I am fucking convinced he'd be hunting down Zuckerberg, Altman, Amodei, et al.

So, how are things going in the Anglosphere? Here in Spain, today, in parliament:
1) a congresswoman of the right-wing party brought a pepper spray (a weapon) to the chamber to make a point about insecurity in Ceuta;
2) she was expelled from the chamber;
3) to argue the pepper spray was empty, she or one of her minions emptied it in a bathroom; leading to
4) the set of bathrooms of that wing and some more halls and spaces being evacuated and sealed.

The other day I discovered that Eliezer Yudkowsky, is a dropout. Since middle school. And you have cartloads or arseholes in Silicon Valley treating his words as if they were revealed truth over the careful, methodical, and peer-reviewed words of real Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence researchers with decades of time on their backs. I guess when you tell moronic arseholes what they want to hear you can make a career ouf of it.

I don't believe, worship, or pray, but don't I hope the universe rhymes sometimes…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_mutiny

La contaminación acústica es una cosa que existe y si me montaran un concierto que no me puto interesa delante de mi puta casa, me quejaría. Dicho esto, organizar estos eventos en sitios que no están preparados para ello poniendo chismes que se cargan la base del asunto no es solución. https://archive.ph/C6buD

In this historical moment, the <decision> of making a film about Robin Hood where Robin Hood is a ruthless, killing bandit, is certainly <a thing>, I would say.

It's musical chairs to the tune of whoever is the fucking slowest to ditch the stock at the culmen will lose unimaginable quantities of money, probably somebody else's, in the shape of pension funds. There is no real value behind the fucking stupid company of the ketamine-addled nazi nepobaby arsehole.

We are living in the late capitalist age phase of the "who cares" and that explains how a company that's gone public on exploding rockets, sinking AI, overpaying for GPUs and a head honcho who is a fucking nazi wired on ketamine, who wouldn't recognise a good business decision if it was biting ahold of his arse, can be valued on a ridiculous amount: nobody fucking cares that it is a con, a scam, everybody is joining the fucking scam in the hopes of leaving somebody else bag-in-hand.

McSweeney's shot to kill. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

Anyways: don't deal with Bricks & Minifigs. Do not recommend them, do not promote them, ban them from your experience and promote banning them also.

I don't know if you are following the 200.000 dollars in stolen LEGO saga, but fucking hell, it is as if there was a writers' pub game of one writer giving the premise and another writing the story and the one with the premise was Terry Pratchett and the one with the story was Dashiell Hammett.
You can follow it in Reckless Ben's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RecklessBen/videos

These days, if I take a moment to think about it I am not really sure if the "middle-of-the-road" average "apolitical" USAmerican realises how the last almost year-and-a-half has turned much of the worlds' attitude towards the USA imperialism from "I wouldn't mind if things didn't go their way" to "I wish their country balkanised. Fast." I am sure most lefty people will think so, and the maga arseholes already lived in paranoia about the rest of the world but the "average" USAmerican…

There is a main reason I no longer consider the pro-nuclear power advocates as really serious people. Right about now, solar power has a qualitative advantage: building time. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05052026/california-battery-power/

¿Between 1 and 10 of hubris, how much do you think would score if you named the subunits of an AI platform after Greek gods and goddesses as they did in 'Horizon Zero Dawn' and 'Horizon Forbidden West'?

@peter About AIs ans shit: I saw yesterday this short vid about Chinese AI apps, and I also have the feeling that the USAmerican companies are putting effort in hiding how Chinese companies are "comiendoles la merienda": https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cgAROeq0oFk

Welcoming Kanye West back into the mainstream is just because the mainstream is the racist, fascist, sexist patriarchal bullshit that it's always been and it loves nothing like a good Minstrel show.

Notice that "The system’s own output was the only measure of its performance" is something that can apply not only to the military field, but everywhere, and, I bet, you can find perfect examples at your own work.