Sooner Lee Greenwood's sold for dog food, the better.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116865070553532789

Fingers crossed for a King Ralph incident

There's a lot of wet, angry, miserable MAGA assholes at the national mall right now. 😏

Stick the Fucking Flag up Your Goddamn Ass, You Sonofabitch - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vObjfSMtB1g

The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy • Buttondown

https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies/archive/the-i-only-use-ai-for-fallacy/

Musk is promoting anti-immigrant vigilanteeism.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/30/elon-musk-anti-migrant-armie-hammer-film-free-download-citizen-vigilante

My electric bill is already feeling the impact of the heat (I'm heat sensitive due to a heart condition so I need AC earlier than most). I owe 220 bucks 💀

@mutualaid @mutual_aid @MutualAidVisibility @disability @blackmastodon @edendestroyer

Everything else I get from SSDI is already spoken for cuz my SNAP ran out early, so i had to dip into cash just to eat. I have zilch left.

https://www.paypal.me/longbongsilver
https://Cash.app/longbongsilver
https://venmo.com/u/longbongsilver

#MutualAidRequest #disabilitycrowdfund #disabledmastodon #HelpFolksLive2026 #NEISvoid #blackmutualaid #emergencycrowdfund #disabilityaid

Buddy's probably thinking "That guy sure has a lot of weird hangups about where I pee."

Reagan in His Own Hand #InadvertentlyLewdBookTitles

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@CanadiansOrg/116856025293516580

Getting elected because people hate the right-wing party, and immediately adopting the policies of the right-wing party, is a winning strategy! Just ask Keir Starmer!

The Carney Liberals have increasingly aligned their messaging, rhetoric and policy vision with Build Canada, an AI-hyping, austerity-loving advocacy group created by tech executives previously linked to Pierre Poilievre, reports Chris Holcroft in The Tyee.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/06/24/Carney-Under-Sway-Broligarchs/

@ami_angelwings@urusai.social My favourite character beginning with J is the famous James T. Kirk, youngest captain in Starfleet and known "stack of books with legs". I admire his focus, his dedication and capacity to make difficult decisions, and the resolve that enables him to consistently prioritise the safety of the crew in his care and their mission over all manner of temptation, romantic or otherwise. Kirk always tries to find a peaceful solution, even when the logical response (as advocated by Spock on multiple occasions) is violence, even when he himself wants violence and even when he must put the Enterprise and its crew, shown so many times as so precious to him, on the line to give peace that chance. The man who would rather find common ground with the horta than exterminate it. The man who would give his own life rather than surrender his ship to an enemy. And the man who would leave his ship vulnerable to destruction by an only recently former enemy, rather than fight back and guarantee a war on the threshold to an end of enmity.

Star Trek left me with an unfortunately overinflated expectation for the level of maturity I could expect from the adult world. But I keep on hoping.

However I'm also going to post a runner-up, who would have been my pick for a different letter if they hadn't been bumped when I realised they had a first name I'd forgotten about. #FavCharacterAtoZ, #FavCharacterJ

I dreamed that I watched Spielberg’s Lincoln (never seen it) and Lincoln was a half man, half boar person in a mech suit. He drove fancy cars and trucks and he had two cyborg guardian angels that could remove his spirit from his body if he got in trouble.

Am I safe to assume these things are not actually in Spielberg’s Lincoln and I can go ahead and make this movie?

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/116852417959881484

Again, this is so self-unaware one cannot plumb the depths of shortsighted decisions being made at every stage of the AI bubble era. From the mass layoffs, to tying KPI and job evaluation to use of AI, and now to this bullshit. Bandwidth shaping and use throttling, like we were bittorrenting at our employers expense. I am done. <final line in the movie There will be blood>

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @KevinCarson1

Data centers are the funniest. It's a commodity business, where your assets depreciate as you're installing them, you have no customer lock in and you're at the mercy of the global energy market.

What investor would look at that and say - LOOKS GREAT, SIGN ME UP!. But that's apparently what's happening.

@cian @KevinCarson1

All good points. The notable feature distinguishing AI from other forms of industrial scaling, In order to make LLM’s “more powerful” you burn more tokens.

That technology becomes more costly as you scale it.

Every aspect of this bubble defies everything that economics and business says will happen. But the establishment is a Pavlovian super organism.

They will only keep doing what they’ve been conditioned to over lifetimes.

They are unfit for purpose

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/

Landlord Forced To Raise Rent Due To Thinking Of Bigger Number - The Onion

https://theonion.com/landlord-forced-to-raise-rent-due-to-thinking-of-bigger-1850922943/

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/

(LONG POST) Fell down a fascinating rabbit hole today about a few little boys and a little girl in ancient China about 2100 years ago.

Emperor Wu went mad with paranoia in his old age, accusing everyone of using witchcraft against him. This led to him needlessly launching attacks on his own eldest son, who never intended to betray him, and the prince's own sons. This whole branch of the royal household was wiped out in the attack. Except... there was a baby. A brand new baby boy, only a few weeks old, the Emperor's great-grandchild. The baby's name was Bingyi.

Someone brought baby Bingyi to a prison rather than kill him as ordered. The prison warden personally took good care of him; when word got out and he was ordered to finish the job, he refused to kill the baby, knowing it would presumably cost him his life. However, the Emperor came to his senses and stopped the witch hunt. The order to kill baby Bingyi and this random prison warden along with him never came. Bingyi safely disappeared into the household of distant relatives, to live an ordinary middle-class life.

Emperor Wu died of old age, and his dying wish was for the crown to skip over all the sons he distrusted and go straight to the only one not yet old enough to have earned his distrust, the surprise offspring of a May-December fling. Emperor Zhao was still a small child. He was immediately married-on-paper to another small child, Lady Shangguan.

A few years later, Lady Shangguan's family was accused of planning a coup by Zhao's regent and executed, but she was spared on account of being too young to have possibly been in on it.

Zhao was, apparently, a completely reasonable and level-headed young man. He showed wisdom in dealing with court rumors and did not do the ridiculous things young people with power often do. When he found out that Bingyi was alive, he visited with the other boy, treated him with kindness and made sure his needs were met.

Unfortunately, Zhao dropped dead when he was 20. (No indications of foul play, he was just unlucky). He had no children; his marriage to Lady Shangguan may not have even ever been consummated. The Empress Dowager was 15 years old.

A nephew of Zhao was brought in to be the new emperor; he was slightly older than Lady Shangguan, at 17. And he... partied. Immediately. Extremely. Incessantly. He was hinted to stop. He was told to stop. He was told more boldly and explicitly to stop. He did not stop.

An entire 27 days after this loser nephew took the throne, Lady Shangguan put on her best dress, entered the court, sat down on the throne, and called for the nephew. He came in. She unrolled a list of over 1000 complaints that had accrued since he arrived at the palace. She fired him. A 15-year-old girl with no actual hard power fired the Emperor of China in front of all his ministers. And he turned around, left, and went home.

(And in a very Ancient Chinese approach, he was allowed to live but most of his attendants were executed for allowing him to grow into such a brat. Only a handful who were known to have boldly rebuked him were spared.)

Lady Shangguan was now in direct defacto control of the empire. However, she understood that trying to hold on to that for the rest of her life would be destabilizing, since her claims were paper-thin as the childless widow of a child-emperor, whose family was already executed for treason. She sent for Bingyi.

Bingyi ruled under the name Emperor Xuan, and is considered to have been one of the wisest emperors, being possessed of common sense and moral sympathy for the poor after a heathy, normal upbringing. Lady Shangguan quietly stepped back after thus saving the empire from disastrous misrule, never remarried, and was pretty much the only person on either side of her family to never get executed, exiled or driven to unalive.

Lady Shangguan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Empress_Dowager_Shangguan

Emperor Zhao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Zhao_of_Han

Bingyi / Emperor Xuan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xuan_of_Han

Loser Nephew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_He_of_Changyi

#history #longpost