AI slop of the day:
Picture 1: A photo is taken of Gary Player and Trump in New Jersey. https://www.themirror.com/sport/golf/donald-trump-liv-golf-speech-1975283
Picture 2: Somehow Trump looks 40 years younger when the photo is shared by Trump on Truth Social.
Data centers are now the physical manifestation of how billionaires and their political cronies have become parasites on the body of society, working to enrich themselves by making us ever more dependent on them for our daily lives, especially with but not limited to AI Slop in all its various evil guises.
Dr. Fauci And His Inquisitors
#COVID19Pandemic #SenateHearing #DrFauci #PoliticalScrutiny #RandPaul
The sunk cost fallacy keeping millions of people on multiple websites that directly pay Nazis is one of the darkest fucking marks of the current epoch. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-caught-paying-nazis-to-post-on-facebook
Project Panama: How Anthropic secretly destroyed millions of books to train its AI
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/08/05/project-panama-how-anthropic-secretly-destroyed-millions-of-books-to-train-its-ai?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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There are a lot of heated words being shouted about trump's war against Iran. Few of them seem to adequately articulate the underlying problem.
trump is in the process of bankrupting the USA. He's stealing as much as he can and burning up all that remains in a Middle Eastern bonfire. Warfare is insanely expensive, and modern, high tech warfare even more so.
Whether we win or lose, we go broke.
It all reminds me of the way putin stole all he could from Russian citizens and is now burning up all that remains in a Ukrainian bonfire. If trump doesn't exactly work FOR putin, he works LIKE like putin.
The USA is deeply in debt and tax relief for corporations and billionaires throttle our revenue stream. In another year or two, there won't be much left to fight over.
Explosive diarrhea spreads to 47 states. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/report-cdc-finally-plans-formal-response-team-for-explosive-diarrhea-outbreak/
Founded by Trump ally and right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, Palantir has attacked the press and works in the digital surveillance space. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/07/state-department-palantir-free-speech-surveillance
Eleven times. That's how many times Josh Hawley asked "can men get pregnant" at one January hearing — a man with one novelty ringtone and a whole Senate to play it in.
Here's what isn't unverified: he voted against the Respect for Marriage Act. He claimed almost half of Netflix's catalog pushes "transgender ideology". #TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Journalism #Accountability #Resist #Hawley #Politics #Missouri #Democracy #Solidarity #News
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These two sons of his are raking it in, and they need to be hauled before a Democratic controlled Congress.
This is just ludicrous, a total waste of US taxpayers money to prop up #fossilFuels while undermining the shift to #RenewableEnergy. Bad policy, bad budgeting, par for the course for the #TrumpRegime…
Trump administration to pay German firm to halt US wind projects https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o #RepublicansOwnThis #energy #AlternativeEnergy #wind #WindEnergy
Ron Johnson has no spine, and couldn't give two shits about Wisconsinites, or he would have been a hard NO on confirming Blanche. He's not against weaponizing the DOJ. He just wants to hold the ammo belt.
check the date on this comic -- 2003-08-08
we've known about the problem for decades
There you have it, Todd Blanche is now head of the DOJ. A registered Democrat up until 2024 when he switched parties to represent Trump. Couldn't be more obvious where his loyalties lie, not to the Republican Party, not to US citizens. For all the smack talked about Democrats weaponizing the justice department, Republicans sought only to weaponize it themselves. To hell with the will of the people.
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/08/g-s1-137631/senate-confirms-todd-blanche-attorney-general
Roll Call
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00230.htm
Who wants to tell him?
Trump administration declares war on a ghost
For anyone who was under the mistaken impression that the RAM situation would get better in 2027, I’m afraid I have some bad news:
https://www.digitimes.com.tw/tech/dt/n/shwnws.asp?CnlID=1&id=0000763847_DVY7YHX65GMLYZ6UQEEMP
The article says the memory market is currently undergoing a structural shift. If you’ve been following my posts, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
The headline roughly translates to:
Memory production for all of 2027 is already sold out. Buyers are keeping quiet because they’re afraid they might not get enough themselves.
According to DigiTimes, the 2027 production capacity of the three major DRAM manufacturers, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, has essentially already been allocated.
And China isn’t going to save us either. Even Apple just hit a wall there:
https://www.techpowerup.com/351401/tsmc-sits-on-usd-1-billion-of-apple-chips-as-it-waits-for-dram
This affects both regular DRAM and HBM. The situation with NAND is a little less extreme, but even there, large chunks of 2027 production are already being reserved.
So we’re moving from
“RAM is getting scarce.”
to
“The big customers aren’t buying memory chips anymore. They’re reserving factory capacity years in advance.”
DigiTimes paints a pretty vivid picture: some buyers are deliberately keeping quiet about just how aggressively they’re reserving capacity, because they’re worried that too much attention will bring even more companies into the bidding and leave them with a smaller share.
Memory manufacturers are increasingly signing three- to five-year LTAs, Long-Term Agreements, with their major customers. Large cloud and AI companies use these deals to secure fixed volumes or production capacity. On top of that, manufacturers are sometimes demanding advance payments or deposits to reserve that capacity.
Interesting times ....
Ron Johnson, already stinking up his new chair.
U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs amid strain from the Iran war, unemployment dips to 4.1%
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-employers-unexpectedly-cut-23000-jobs-amid-strain-from-the-iran-war-unemployment-dips-to-4-1?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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