Real Mycenean-era men and women didn't wear white togas like Classical Greeks. They dressed like this, and note that the women often wore gowns that exposed their breasts.
Florida pastor is suing OpenAI, claiming its ChatGPT chatbot gave him bad health advice, including telling him to avoid going to a doctor for his symptoms. He eventually suffered a pulmonary embolism (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/well/openai-chatgpt-health-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z1A.CbW8.gfZWi8mqpftI&smid=url-share). Welp, sure sounds to me like the company might be liable for that. Yeah, you shouldn't ask it health questions, but people do. And there are supposed to be guardrails around its answers. I've never seen a set of AI guardrails that worked 100%, though. Hard to test something like that, when the whole corpus of possible English sentences are possible inputs.
So I guess Trump's winning strategy is to continue to make things more expensive by renewing 10 percent tariffs, and continuing war on Iran to drive oil back up to $100 per barrel? It's like he wants the GOP to lose the mid-terms. The GOP must be losing its mind. Good.
(forgive me, I thought it was meatballs, but this should go fine with any kind of your making, these are his own words)
Dead easy.
Cut up your onions, put some olive oil in yer pan, put those on medium. You're looking for them to get transparent.
Meanwhile do a bunch of garlic. I love garlic so I do about eight cloves. Find the tomato puree. Open a bottle of cheap red. Find your herbs.
When your onions are looking ready, stick the garlic in. Careful now. No more than 30 seconds for that.
Stick in a bunch of tomato puree. I use half a tube of amore. Stir fuck out of it.
Now add a big old slosh of red wine and a bunch of oregano and italian seasoning and red pepper flakes.
Wait until that has thickened. Taste it and adjust herbs.
Now add crushed tomatoes. I use my own canned stuff, but anything San Marzano works. Give that a stir. Simmer it.
After maybe ten minutes, add a bit of sugar. Add balsamic vinegar, just as dash. Those two cut the tomatoes.
Simmer more. Taste. Add more red wine if you're like me. Adjust herbs. Simmer another ten minutes+. Longer you simmer, better it is.
At this point you have a great base sauce. You can freeze that shit.
It'll need salt, but sometimes you add parmesan which is salty, or sometimes you add straight salt. Depends what you're doing and whether you're vegan.
One adjustment if you're making meatballs - add herbs early, before the garlic, and when the garlic is done, take half that mix and put it in in a bowl for yer meatballs.
Yer Tersenurse has been in a shitty mood all day, little black cloud hanging out over my head. I'm not entirely sure why; Fukui's passing has something to do with it, and you know (waves hands vaguely) all this. Plus middle-age.
Saw my PCP today, because of the syncopal episode I had on Monday. He's referring me to a cardiologist, probably do an EKG, and echocardiogram, an ultrasound of my carotid, and make me wear a Holter monitor for a week. Bah.
I feel old and fat and flabby and fucking dis custard.
Interesting - James Dolan has for years claimed his invasive biometric cameras and scanners at Madison Square Garden were necessary for maintaining the security of the venue.
And yet, he turned them off for Taylor Swift's wedding to Travis Kelce.
The sleep center was really nice. The room was like a hotel room almost, with a big bed and decent decor. The bathroom was Accessible, compared to my apartment bathroom it was like a basketball court.
I just chilled out watching a terrible old Western until it was time to get the sensors attached a good to bed. I slept great, like 6 hours. The sleep tech said my sleep state, airflow, and REM were all great.
I won't need CPAP, but I'm glad my doctor had me checked.
I have to talk them into skipping the no CPAP part. They expect to see REM sleep and all w no CPAP, but after 27 years my nervous system and fight-or-flight is wired to never enter sleep without CPAP, since it could be life threatening, eventually.
Real Mycenean-era men and women didn't wear white togas like Classical Greeks. They dressed like this, and note that the women often wore gowns that exposed their breasts.
https://gorgeoustangents.home.blog/tag/mycenaean/
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1723/beauty-in-the-bronze-age---minoan--mycenaean-fashi/
John Woodman's cyclops in O Brother, where art thou? Is the best cyclops ever.
Andrew Tate is already whining about his incarceration.
https://substack.com/@campcallout/note/c-300359078?r=x9ha&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Boo fucking who? Oh, THAT guy.
Florida pastor is suing OpenAI, claiming its ChatGPT chatbot gave him bad health advice, including telling him to avoid going to a doctor for his symptoms. He eventually suffered a pulmonary embolism (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/well/openai-chatgpt-health-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z1A.CbW8.gfZWi8mqpftI&smid=url-share). Welp, sure sounds to me like the company might be liable for that. Yeah, you shouldn't ask it health questions, but people do. And there are supposed to be guardrails around its answers. I've never seen a set of AI guardrails that worked 100%, though. Hard to test something like that, when the whole corpus of possible English sentences are possible inputs.
So I guess Trump's winning strategy is to continue to make things more expensive by renewing 10 percent tariffs, and continuing war on Iran to drive oil back up to $100 per barrel? It's like he wants the GOP to lose the mid-terms. The GOP must be losing its mind. Good.
Wandering BERTHA ... now with animations! https://hurricane.terrapin.com/storm/02A
looks like a drunk staggering home to Huston.
𝐆𝐚𝐯'𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐞
(forgive me, I thought it was meatballs, but this should go fine with any kind of your making, these are his own words)
Dead easy.
Cut up your onions, put some olive oil in yer pan, put those on medium. You're looking for them to get transparent.
Meanwhile do a bunch of garlic. I love garlic so I do about eight cloves. Find the tomato puree. Open a bottle of cheap red. Find your herbs.
When your onions are looking ready, stick the garlic in. Careful now. No more than 30 seconds for that.
Stick in a bunch of tomato puree. I use half a tube of amore. Stir fuck out of it.
Now add a big old slosh of red wine and a bunch of oregano and italian seasoning and red pepper flakes.
Wait until that has thickened. Taste it and adjust herbs.
Now add crushed tomatoes. I use my own canned stuff, but anything San Marzano works. Give that a stir. Simmer it.
After maybe ten minutes, add a bit of sugar. Add balsamic vinegar, just as dash. Those two cut the tomatoes.
Simmer more. Taste. Add more red wine if you're like me. Adjust herbs. Simmer another ten minutes+. Longer you simmer, better it is.
At this point you have a great base sauce. You can freeze that shit.
It'll need salt, but sometimes you add parmesan which is salty, or sometimes you add straight salt. Depends what you're doing and whether you're vegan.
One adjustment if you're making meatballs - add herbs early, before the garlic, and when the garlic is done, take half that mix and put it in in a bowl for yer meatballs.
"Stir fuck out of it."
HA!!!
Gav had a great recipe and even more style.
That was him.
Real Mycenaean-era armor didn't look like that lead photo. The armor in that photo doesn't look like bronze, either. The real armor looked like this:
https://www.hellenicarmors.gr/en/armor/odysseus-armor/
Also, I dunno about that cape.
Much more interesting.
That's fascinating! Almost looks like Japanese Samurai armor. WOW!
Yes, it does look like Samurai armor, which I find very historically interesting.
Those were not nearly as horrible as you had made me think they were going to be.
Dickens. Tombstones, a Pyramid and more tombstones . A fine time at the Substack! You should go look!
https://brawlatthepoetscafe.substack.com/p/the-earth-had-donned-her-mantle-of-c98?r=insr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Yer Tersenurse has been in a shitty mood all day, little black cloud hanging out over my head. I'm not entirely sure why; Fukui's passing has something to do with it, and you know (waves hands vaguely) all this. Plus middle-age.
Saw my PCP today, because of the syncopal episode I had on Monday. He's referring me to a cardiologist, probably do an EKG, and echocardiogram, an ultrasound of my carotid, and make me wear a Holter monitor for a week. Bah.
I feel old and fat and flabby and fucking dis custard.
You hike and run and all that shit.
It's ME who is old, fat and flabby. Not your fit ass.
Do your tests. I wish Gav had gone straight to a doc after having that blackout a couple weeks back.
Tbf, if my recollection is correct, he told us the same thing as Judy, and was given an all-clear when he *did* go. Guess they missed something. Sigh.
I am still broken, with no end in sight as of yet.
Me, too. This has been hard.
Oh, he loved you dearly and respected you to the highest.
I am still in shock, as if I've just heard the news.
"Fukui's passing"?? How did I miss this?
Here's the best place to start, James.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-last-best-place-our-wonkparty
Sadly, it's true. 53 years old.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-canadian-tariff-tantrum-and/comment/299128315
Many of us have been there, done that and survived stronger for the experience. I see no reason that you would be an exception.
Hopefully, it’s nothing serious!
And ditto. His passing hit me harder than I would have thought.
I hear you. I run my ass off and go weigh myself and I’m a fatass.
I'm sorry you are going through all this, I'm glad they are monitoring it though.
Honestly, I just want the AI bubble to burst and get on with Dems cleaning up the mess. Again.
20+ minutes on ai being bubbly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyAviaf1Ko
Interesting - James Dolan has for years claimed his invasive biometric cameras and scanners at Madison Square Garden were necessary for maintaining the security of the venue.
And yet, he turned them off for Taylor Swift's wedding to Travis Kelce.
https://www.wired.com/story/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark
James Dolan took money for an American Nazi shindig.
I liked it when Odysseus said "OK", but shouldn't that have been omicron kappa?
The sleep center was really nice. The room was like a hotel room almost, with a big bed and decent decor. The bathroom was Accessible, compared to my apartment bathroom it was like a basketball court.
I just chilled out watching a terrible old Western until it was time to get the sensors attached a good to bed. I slept great, like 6 hours. The sleep tech said my sleep state, airflow, and REM were all great.
I won't need CPAP, but I'm glad my doctor had me checked.
I'm glad it went well and that you don't need CPAP.
Thank you! The sleep tech was really sweet too, a lady about my age. She was like a Mom.
Christ, I wish I could get it done.
I have one of the most severe cases of apnea anyone has encountered.
So many different factors have meant no success with a study yet.
Glad to hear yours went well, and no need for CPAP is good news!
Thank you. I really hope you get better health news soon, too.
I have to talk them into skipping the no CPAP part. They expect to see REM sleep and all w no CPAP, but after 27 years my nervous system and fight-or-flight is wired to never enter sleep without CPAP, since it could be life threatening, eventually.
Good news. <3
Indeed. I'd get the CPAP if indicated, but I'm really happy it isn't.
A child of the 70's here. Once upon a time music festivals, political debate and the narrative belonged to the hippies. We cared, it mattered.
Now we call it content and the right has bunkered down to their advantage.