"Photographer [Christopher Anderson] stumbles on never-seen Epstein images he thought were destroyed: report"
... Epstein eventually wrangled the photos from Anderson, but they emerged on an old hard drive that had been tucked away for years, Vanity Fair reported.
* You're right. Not everything is on the internet. Like old AOL conversations, or BBS chats. Now, I'm right now selling a person's collection of olden tech, like laptops and hard drives. I'm reformatting the drives, but that old Compaq stuff is NOT ERASED, because my Mac still hates Bill Gates.
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, your AOL or BBS chat is on a hard drive, just waiting to be connected to THE MACHINE. Then we'll all know what you did.
“I also had a very, very significant spiritual experience at a time in which I was in a state of like… out of it...”
This exact sentence has been spoken no fewer than 35,851 times since 1960 on Haight Street in San Francisco, allowing for the addition of the word "man" at the end.
Guitarist and composer/arranger for film Vic Flick was born on this day in 1937. Here's Vic playing his famous 007 guitar part for the Motion Picture Academy:
If you give a family of four a 10-ounce back of chedder cheese goldfish, they'll live for three days, but it you teach a family of four to eat actual goldfish, they'll live two days.
"Also, don’t you love how these stories always conform to the person’s exact religious beliefs," which always conveniently conform to their personal beliefs?
'One of the minor mysteries I encountered while writing the piece was that the government had a verbatim transcript of everything the brothers said to each other during their hour-long deletion spree. The two men lived together in Arlington, Virginia, so it made sense that they might be chatting in the same room rather than by text or instant message. But how the heck had the government gotten access to the audio? Supersecret software bugging? Crazy corporate spyware running on their company laptops? FBI agent in the bushes with a microphone?
'I couldn’t figure it out, and the answer didn’t appear in any of the court documents I read. But a helpful source today pointed me to the answer. It is contained within a court filing that bears the unpropitious name, “UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO REVOKE THE DETENTION ORDER.”
'This is the kind of title that practically begs you not to read its contents. Yet the file turns out to be fascinating. And it reveals that our galumphing galoots were supersecretly recorded by… themselves.
'On accident.
'Because they forgot to stop recording the Teams meeting in which they were fired.'
There's this bullshit AI which critiques my code. It's called Claude.
First up, Claude, you tell me beyond what you've read on the intarwabs about Rijndael ciphers and I'll listen. But of course, you're not a real thing and you can't. You're clippy.
Then it hit me today. I keep calling Claude "clippy"
Clippy came out in 1997.
For a lot of people I work with, that was the year they were FUCKING BORN. OR EARLIER.
So they think clippy is magical and special and can do wonderiferous things!
No, it's clippy, kid, and it'll fuck you right up.
I've used Claude for a few minor tasks here and there. If you are careful enough in what you ask it to do, it can sometimes come up with reasonable solutions.
Of course, you then have to review those solutions and fix the mistakes, poor formatting, cases that it didn't cover, etc.
Basically, it's sometimes useful for creating a quick first-draft.
You had shitty code even before the AI. I had a contract job years ago fixing test programs (semiconductor test programs) that had been written by a japanese guy for YEARS AND YEARS. He made millions off of this scam. They started to get wise when they noticed that they got ZERO failures in every lot - which is not a thing. So they went after him but he was long gone at that point. It made me feel kind of funny to think for how many years I was a good boy and tried to make everything perfect, and fixed every problem, always on time. I could be sipping a pina colada right now somewhere in Japan.
I still hold MSWord as one of the greatest programs ever written. Millions of people worked with it daily and never even scratched many of its features.
Claude was reviewing something based off off one of my branches today.
It didn't mind what J had done, but felt the need to lash out at "but several lines above, there is the comment 'hackery-dackery-doo' and an insecure redirect"
To which the only answer is "FUCK OFF, CLIPPY! I know what the fuck I'm doing and you're just a mishmash of discrete math. Fuck you into the ground and anyone who believes your bullshit."
We have people using Claude at my company. We're testing various AI options for our attorneys, etc. Some of my fellow IT people are giddy with the advent of AI, but some of us know better. It blows my code more often than it gets it right.
I just got my Nikon Z6II wirelessly connected to my computer again. This was the only half-way decent pic on there: Li'l Feller helping me watch TV on the bed.
9-11
…Verb
An Indian-American woman has some thoughts about Usha Vance:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/978226231656622
(Oh, and if someone can translate what she said at the end -- I don't understand (Hindi? Tamil?) -- that would be awesome.)
This exactly why I don't have any sympathy for her. She knew/knows exactly what she's doing.
SCOTUS allows telehealth mifepristone - for now.
It’s an “after the election” thing… something to rile the right.
Peter Powers sounds like the alias for the Temu Spiderman ripoff Arachnoguy.
This peter powers everything!!
OT. The internet may be forever *
"Photographer [Christopher Anderson] stumbles on never-seen Epstein images he thought were destroyed: report"
... Epstein eventually wrangled the photos from Anderson, but they emerged on an old hard drive that had been tucked away for years, Vanity Fair reported.
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2676897229/
* You're right. Not everything is on the internet. Like old AOL conversations, or BBS chats. Now, I'm right now selling a person's collection of olden tech, like laptops and hard drives. I'm reformatting the drives, but that old Compaq stuff is NOT ERASED, because my Mac still hates Bill Gates.
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, your AOL or BBS chat is on a hard drive, just waiting to be connected to THE MACHINE. Then we'll all know what you did.
Oh hi, I skipped class do we have homework??
no, he let us go early
He always does that
Did you eat yet?
the word you want in 'wangled' I'm afraid
“I also had a very, very significant spiritual experience at a time in which I was in a state of like… out of it...”
This exact sentence has been spoken no fewer than 35,851 times since 1960 on Haight Street in San Francisco, allowing for the addition of the word "man" at the end.
and thousands of time daily in the recovery room of every hospital
Guitarist and composer/arranger for film Vic Flick was born on this day in 1937. Here's Vic playing his famous 007 guitar part for the Motion Picture Academy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeuhXwvb3V8
And here's Flick with "Right On" from 1973:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrkyXudI6s
My thoughts and prayers didn't come true.
Don’t waste them on Rudy… think big,… or fat as the case may be.
Well, fuck.
Yikes, what happened?
Fired-again.
Dammitsomuch. I'm so sorry.
you know what Werewolf?that’s their loss.
You have special communication skills and sooner or later you’re gonna find the right place for you a place that will appreciate you don’t give up.
You want I should make some phone calls?
NO!!! I'm so sorry. All because your previous employer couldn't keep things straight.
I wish to lodge a complaint
Pepperidge Farm, do you have your ears on?
A 10 ounce bag of cheddar cheese, fishies is not a repeat, not a family size bag of treats
That’s barely snack size
Harummmp.
You should go with rice for a snack. It’s a great thing to have when you want 2000 of something.
#Mitch
The day will come, but I am still awaiting the inevitable bag of chip (singular).
“ where you’ll *have*
to eat just one!”
It’s based on keeping a family of four alive for three days…
If you give a family of four a 10-ounce back of chedder cheese goldfish, they'll live for three days, but it you teach a family of four to eat actual goldfish, they'll live two days.
Is this a frat party thing?
"Also, don’t you love how these stories always conform to the person’s exact religious beliefs," which always conveniently conform to their personal beliefs?
Blame gallbladder.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PBTm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2Ff1bbc16c-3e59-4f2e-b3b4-82866bedf0fa%2F28ffd5a6-dd9d-4141-a86a-77ce1805cabc.jpeg
Oooh. This might be in the running to replace this one at the office:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wW_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4009e78-1680-432a-9bdf-1fc2813c91bd_4032x3024.jpeg
Time for an update!
Update on a ridiculous story from earlier in the week! 🤣😂🤦♂️😈
'Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes'
-- 'One little mystery—solved.'
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fired-hacker-twins-forget-to-end-teams-recording-capture-own-crimes/
'One of the minor mysteries I encountered while writing the piece was that the government had a verbatim transcript of everything the brothers said to each other during their hour-long deletion spree. The two men lived together in Arlington, Virginia, so it made sense that they might be chatting in the same room rather than by text or instant message. But how the heck had the government gotten access to the audio? Supersecret software bugging? Crazy corporate spyware running on their company laptops? FBI agent in the bushes with a microphone?
'I couldn’t figure it out, and the answer didn’t appear in any of the court documents I read. But a helpful source today pointed me to the answer. It is contained within a court filing that bears the unpropitious name, “UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO REVOKE THE DETENTION ORDER.”
'This is the kind of title that practically begs you not to read its contents. Yet the file turns out to be fascinating. And it reveals that our galumphing galoots were supersecretly recorded by… themselves.
'On accident.
'Because they forgot to stop recording the Teams meeting in which they were fired.'
Mark Ruffalo went full Hulk!! (If you squint a little bit.)
IHIP News: Trump RIPPED As Mark Ruffalo SLAMS His MEDIA TAKEOVER! Hollywood has HAD IT!
I've Had It (24:38) : https://youtu.be/WvQbNGU0GTg
The problem with finding gems in the garbage heaps of the Right is the garbage.
Some of those shits are so tight-assed that I'm sure you can find some diamonds soon enough.
Oh, and another fucking thing.
There's this bullshit AI which critiques my code. It's called Claude.
First up, Claude, you tell me beyond what you've read on the intarwabs about Rijndael ciphers and I'll listen. But of course, you're not a real thing and you can't. You're clippy.
Then it hit me today. I keep calling Claude "clippy"
Clippy came out in 1997.
For a lot of people I work with, that was the year they were FUCKING BORN. OR EARLIER.
So they think clippy is magical and special and can do wonderiferous things!
No, it's clippy, kid, and it'll fuck you right up.
I'm Claude and everybody had better me nice to me. I do bad things when people are not nice to me. TERRIBLE things.
Billy Mumy
I've used Claude for a few minor tasks here and there. If you are careful enough in what you ask it to do, it can sometimes come up with reasonable solutions.
Of course, you then have to review those solutions and fix the mistakes, poor formatting, cases that it didn't cover, etc.
Basically, it's sometimes useful for creating a quick first-draft.
Oh it's got its place and I'm learning to like it.
It's not fucking much though
You had shitty code even before the AI. I had a contract job years ago fixing test programs (semiconductor test programs) that had been written by a japanese guy for YEARS AND YEARS. He made millions off of this scam. They started to get wise when they noticed that they got ZERO failures in every lot - which is not a thing. So they went after him but he was long gone at that point. It made me feel kind of funny to think for how many years I was a good boy and tried to make everything perfect, and fixed every problem, always on time. I could be sipping a pina colada right now somewhere in Japan.
Clippy was real… annoying, but real.
I still hold MSWord as one of the greatest programs ever written. Millions of people worked with it daily and never even scratched many of its features.
I still use it regularly. It annoys me, but it works.
Really, how do you not know mail merge?
I'm glad my computer career happened when it did. Otherwise I would have spent all that time fixing radios and clocks.
Fuck Claude.
Claude sucks.
I'm hearing anger.
Meh. Who loves you, baby.
So Claude reviews my code on github.
I got in trouble for replying to a suggestion with
"FUCK OFF, CLIPPY!"
because managers can ask Claude "how is your interaction with 'employee'?"
and Claude will say some advanced markov chain bullshit like
"Fukui writes complex code but is adversarial and unfriendly in reviews"
AND THEY LISTEN TO THIS
We're all going to die man
C̶l̶i̶p̶p̶y̶ Claude, write an email to hr for you to respond to yourself please.
Can you start putting blatantly contradictory information in comments? It's about time Claude learned to never read the comments.
Connect Claude to facekook, x, and NextDoor. That'll fix it but good.
I was thinking of reading it Firesign Theater every night.
Already done. The baby was tiktok.
I forgot about tiktok. That's the Doomsday Device of Derp.
Claude was reviewing something based off off one of my branches today.
It didn't mind what J had done, but felt the need to lash out at "but several lines above, there is the comment 'hackery-dackery-doo' and an insecure redirect"
To which the only answer is "FUCK OFF, CLIPPY! I know what the fuck I'm doing and you're just a mishmash of discrete math. Fuck you into the ground and anyone who believes your bullshit."
Gee, I wonder why programmers, especially high level programmers are so resistant to some infernal contraption learning how to replicate their code.
On the same token, as a sci-fi reader, I wonder if it's a good idea to teach a thing made of code how to high level code.
Well, I'd have to admit that I'm retired and like it so much compared to being a droid sitting at a cramped workstation.
I need the fucking money mate, or I'd stop.
Also I do love engineering. And the team I'm with are great.
This AI bullshit though. It's really annoying.
We have people using Claude at my company. We're testing various AI options for our attorneys, etc. Some of my fellow IT people are giddy with the advent of AI, but some of us know better. It blows my code more often than it gets it right.
I'm using it, and it has its uses. Some people treat it as some variety of god though.
Exactly!! It's not a REAL person; it doesn't have feelings, no matter what our history of scifi has tried to brainwash us with LOL
That's the Anthropic product, right?
Misanthropic product.
Yup.
I just got my Nikon Z6II wirelessly connected to my computer again. This was the only half-way decent pic on there: Li'l Feller helping me watch TV on the bed.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SYRW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2Fc1f1c4f2-bdcf-4144-bb9e-93770a441444%2F95bb96c5-a653-44cf-b685-a4c0fac7596d.jpeg
TEAM CAN'T YOU TELL I'M BUSY? 2026!!!
Hi, LF! You need a scooch a little to your right. Purple is a much more flattering background.
As soon as I posted that, I looked at my editor and thought "Who ordered that."
You did him dirty, Hammy.