Trump pays Putin for diesel.

Putin sends missiles to Iran.

Iran bombs US bases killing US soldiers.

But remember, it is all Zelenskyy's fault.

I think I ran across another thing I could implement as an nlambda: (quasiquote). Haven't tried it yet. If only I could understand what (quasiquote) is actually for.

El Dorado

Best ferry

Pork banh mi from Viking in Glen Park

RE: https://furry.engineer/@Plan_A_to_Y/117414450272523760

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

It's time to vote California! As per usual, sharing my votes with BlueVoterGuide and I'll provide my reasoning below 👇

https://bluevoterguide.org/view-ballot?bid20=2003b2608d7dff84c4fb7a89796387327c

years ago I thought up a plot for a historical-fiction comedy film or something

Mid-20th century US: a few out-of-work fashion designers & photographers & editors find out that a painter friend is getting CIA money to do abstract expressionist painting, + a fiction teacher pal in Iowa is getting government funding for similar soft power reasons. They put together a hoax that the Soviet Union is trying to infiltrate Western fashion and get all our women to wear saggy grey &c., diminishing American beauty, undermining our culture, etc.

they successfully pitch US intelligence and ask for funding for their magazine/shows/etc. to counter the Soviet Fashion Menace

climax is at a big international conference/expo where they find out there are a ton of other groups all over both sides of the Cold War running the same scams on their governments to get funding for dance, music, sculpture, photography, all the fine arts, and all collude to keep it going

title: "The Devil Wears Pravda"

My recommendations for the 2026 California and Bay Area propositions: http://acme.com/jef/propositions/

....and now all my web ads are for meat slicers.

Turns out you can get laser cut sheet metal ~10x cheaper by pretending it's a solder paste stencil and ordering from JLCPCB. Suck it, SendCutSend!

It occurred to me, while waiting for one of my recent sandwiches, that these devices could easily be repurposed into high-capacity guillotine-equivalents.

The set theorist Asaf Karagila (a friend and colleague at Leeds) once promised a bottle of expensive whisky to anyone who resolves the Partition Principle negatively.

OpenAI has seemingly done just that. So can Sam Altman expect to recieve a bottle of 15yo single malt?

Asaf explains why not here, calling the recent drop a Denial of Service attack on mathematicians:

https://karagila.org/2026/openai-pp/

Wile. E. meets carma
#FridayFunnies #Funnies4Friday
h/t @anae

@card Could I have a Tarot card?

@alice Have you ever seen Now You See Me? It's a magic/heist movie and it ends (no spoiler) with a wonderful scene of the love locks at Pont des Arts in Paris. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/

"He is quite literally one of the greatest political success stories the U.S. socialist left has ever produced. So how does its extremist flank celebrate that success? By calling him a genocidal Zionist." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/10/8/800109366/news/far-left-eating-its-own-mamdani/

TIL that Nicolás Maduro started his career as a bus driver, cc: @that_mc

Relentless AI scrapers pushed DNA Lounge's web hosting bill from $800 to $3,500/month.

That is a $32,000/year cost shift caused entirely by companies training models on their content without permission. AI companies are externalizing their massive training costs onto independent web operators, effectively taxing the independent web to build their proprietary models. 📉

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/06.html

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