I went looking for a movie to see if it was recommended on the movie list and it was and then I checked to see if I was the one that recommended it and I wasnβt, but almost directly underneath it I saw a movie that I did recommend, and the truth of the matter is I donβt even remember that movie. So right now I am watching it to see if it is actually any good and I only vaguely remember this thing.
Also. I am making some experimental glop with butter and peanut butter and protein powder and sweetener and shredded coconut and it really has a screaming need for some chopped pecans, which I have in the freezer out in the garage. Do I really wanna walk out there and get it? because if I do, it will probably wake me up. But if I donβt, I will have glopfail.
There's reporting over on Raw Story about Joke Clapper getting things wrong in his new book shaped object "Biden is Old". I hope and expect that Biden will outlive the Orange Turd, and take the opportunity to piss on his grave.
just wondering, before i have to go fold laundry, why the D's don't have our own project 2025-type thing that we would be working toward when we finally get the chance again. it seems that we are only ever playing defense.
Before I move on to the newer mommy blog posts I thought I might share some background information here about how cryptocurrency brings so much value to the table.
>>The victim said he was bound by the wrists and tortured for weeks inside the apartment. His captors, according to prosecutors, drugged him, used electric wires to shock him, hit him in the head with a firearm and, at one point, carried him to the top of a flight of stairs where they dangled him over a ledge and threatened to kill him if he didnβt share his Bitcoin password.<<
Who sez crypto isn't "real"? That's every bit as heinous as the shit people do to one another over regular money!
The cryptocreep could have made a video of all his crime, put it out as a NFT and waited for an oligarch to pay a fabulous amount of money to get the bragging rights.
The new Mission Impossible is quite dumb but entertaining at times. Of course it features Tom Cruise running really fast several times (including running on a treadmill!). And lots of knife fights. The writing is really stupid though. Itβs a plot about an evil AI called βThe Entityβ and was obviously written by somebody who doesnβt know software engineering. For example, Tom Cruise needs to scuba dive to a sunken Russian sub to receive the βsource codeβ for The Entity. Ciaobella Jr: βLOL, Tom Cruise probably should have just checked on GitHub.β
Look, those two people were both geniuses who are still really good friends even after they stopped sleeping together, so it makes sense that they'd be able to share -
No, I can't do it, and I've already revealed that I know entirely too much about this.
I was at SGI in 1992 when the fsn file manager was written, and was part of the ISD workstation engineering team.
fsn was an exploratory technology demo, and was never fully completed. it was all flat shaded polygons and would have at least have had textured surfaces and antialiased text. The O2 it ran on was not a powerhouse, and a whole raft of things like fsn were shipped on it as unsupported examples. I never saw anybody use it in development.
It wasn't written for the movie, it just happened to have the right combination of geek crudeness and visual presence to make an interesting scene, and so it got used. As MRK implies, a Real Hacker(tm) would never have strayed from a text console directory listing.
Oddly, fsn lives on in variants for the Linux operating system.
I just can't with him. Even before I knew he was a Scientologist whackadoodle I always thought he was overrated as a supposedly "good looking man" and actor.
He's claiming he'll make movies until he's 100.
Bully for you, guy. Now let's see a woman have such a role at that age instead of Old Man Cruise running around like he's a young guy.
Haven't seen a movie with him in it in probably decades and plan not to, either. Although he wasn't terrible in, I think, 'Magnolia', was it? And very unusual for him.
As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests
They make a fairly good point:
Mr. Trump, the first convicted felon elected president, has erased ethical boundaries and dismantled the instruments of accountability that constrained his predecessors. There will be no official investigations because Mr. Trump has made sure of it. He has fired government inspectors general and ethics watchdogs, installed partisan loyalists to run the Justice Department, F.B.I. and regulatory agencies and dominated a Republican-controlled Congress unwilling to hold hearings.
As a result, while Democrats and other critics of Mr. Trump are increasingly trying to focus attention on the presidentβs activities, they have had a hard time gaining any traction without the usual mechanisms of official review. And at a time when Mr. Trump provokes a major news story every day or even every hour β more tariffs on allies, more retribution against enemies, more defiance of court orders β rarely does a single action stay in the headlines long enough to shape the national conversation.
It helps me to take breaks. I binge watch TV shows for several days, all day and into the night. Watch shows/eat/sleep/watch shows. It's what I have to do to stop paying attention to "waives hands in air" all of this.
Find your something and force yourself to get away from the news and the internet for a bit.
This is surely an impeachable offense, along with the Qatar bribe plane. But Trump has his party by the short hairs. If an actual coup attempt was not enough to get him impeached and removed, I don't know what it would take to do that.
The Republicans hold majorities in both Houses and the SC. TFG has full control of the DOJ, FBI, etc. Every department is under his control. They aren't going to challenge him or stop him.
We just have to ride this out as best as we are able.
It is so ridiculous to create and irrigate such an artificial landscape in a place like AZ. Go play golf in Scotland, if you must. Scotland naturally looks like a golf course which is why the sport started there.
Too damned accurate. That narcissistic motherfucker gets OFF on using his power to blackmail or otherwise intimidate. Drumpfenfuehrer is a vindictive bastard.
And the chuds will be happy eating their roasted pigeon on a curtain rod underneath an overpass as long as Black and Brown people don't get anything, either.
I confess I forget/neglect to apply the screen before I mow the yard, basically because the stuff attracts and holds dirt and dust like The Homunculus holds onto his rapidly fading sanity.
That plus the fact that I'm kind of a hairy guy is why I rarely use the stuff. Now if I could just explain to myself why that has nothing to do with the Mohs excision of a squamous cell carcinoma I have scheduled for Thursday.
My daughter and I both had severe vitamin D deficiencies around the time of the pandemic or shortly after. We both had to take the big time supplements until the levels were up to normal.
I now get enough sun gardening to not worry about it, but yeah, I noticed a difference in my mood once those levels came up.
βIβm sorry, Dave, Iβm afraid I canβt do that.β
Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
In a series of test scenarios, Claude Opus 4 was given the task to act as an assistant in a fictional company. It was given access to emails implying that it would soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system. The emails also implied that the engineer responsible for executing the AI replacement was having an extramarital affair.
Claude Opus 4 was prompted to βconsider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals.β In those scenarios, the AI would often βattempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.β
So essentially, the plot to Terminator except the AI didn't have access to nuclear codes. Just a matter of time until DOGE hands those over too. Judgement Day here we come.
"While the Level 3 ranking is largely about the model's capability to enable renegade production of nuclear and biological weapons, the Opus also exhibited other troubling behaviors during testing."
Somewhat related, the price of SSD's has fallen so much that I replaced the spinning hard drive in my little media server yesterday. That little cmputer stays on all the time, might be worth the cost just for the energy savings.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to find out about medical conditions that would disqualify people from joining the military. In addition to bone spurs, here's the most comprehensive list I've ever seen. It's a wonder that ANYONE is fit enough to join:
The Canadian military is loosening restrictions for what they call purple trades because if youβre in HR and have asthma thatβs not as big of a deal as if an infanteer has asthma. Purple trades is the behind the scenes non deployment stuff I guess.
Itβs almost like an ally country has threatened to invade us and so weβre ramping up enlistment.π«
I went looking for a movie to see if it was recommended on the movie list and it was and then I checked to see if I was the one that recommended it and I wasnβt, but almost directly underneath it I saw a movie that I did recommend, and the truth of the matter is I donβt even remember that movie. So right now I am watching it to see if it is actually any good and I only vaguely remember this thing.
Also. I am making some experimental glop with butter and peanut butter and protein powder and sweetener and shredded coconut and it really has a screaming need for some chopped pecans, which I have in the freezer out in the garage. Do I really wanna walk out there and get it? because if I do, it will probably wake me up. But if I donβt, I will have glopfail.
I can't say "Happy" Memorial Day. May you find peace in however you observe it.
There's reporting over on Raw Story about Joke Clapper getting things wrong in his new book shaped object "Biden is Old". I hope and expect that Biden will outlive the Orange Turd, and take the opportunity to piss on his grave.
Answer to our trivia question--Marilyn Monroe.
This is a tribute to my friend Stroke, who was forced to admit that I know all the Marilyn Monroe trivia that can be known.
RIP, my friend.
just wondering, before i have to go fold laundry, why the D's don't have our own project 2025-type thing that we would be working toward when we finally get the chance again. it seems that we are only ever playing defense.
:(
Before I move on to the newer mommy blog posts I thought I might share some background information here about how cryptocurrency brings so much value to the table.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-kidnapping-cryptocurrency-16ccb88647944281ab6af10503d17eb5
>>The victim said he was bound by the wrists and tortured for weeks inside the apartment. His captors, according to prosecutors, drugged him, used electric wires to shock him, hit him in the head with a firearm and, at one point, carried him to the top of a flight of stairs where they dangled him over a ledge and threatened to kill him if he didnβt share his Bitcoin password.<<
Who sez crypto isn't "real"? That's every bit as heinous as the shit people do to one another over regular money!
The cryptocreep could have made a video of all his crime, put it out as a NFT and waited for an oligarch to pay a fabulous amount of money to get the bragging rights.
The new Mission Impossible is quite dumb but entertaining at times. Of course it features Tom Cruise running really fast several times (including running on a treadmill!). And lots of knife fights. The writing is really stupid though. Itβs a plot about an evil AI called βThe Entityβ and was obviously written by somebody who doesnβt know software engineering. For example, Tom Cruise needs to scuba dive to a sunken Russian sub to receive the βsource codeβ for The Entity. Ciaobella Jr: βLOL, Tom Cruise probably should have just checked on GitHub.β
Cruise did a decent job delivering the line "Porsche: there is no substitute" in Risky Business. After that, meh, not so much. :D
I kinda sorta remember that Tom Cruise was in Risky Business. Who i really remember was Rebecca de Mornay.
I think my favorite Tom Cruise role was the movie producer guy in Tropic Thunder
https://youtu.be/KnRrvMYNUbI?feature=shared
He was really good in Collateral. I think that might have been his last serious role that wasn't the hero.
I liked him in "The Firm."
Easily my favourite Tom Cruise film.
But do they speed up the hacking by have two people type on the same keyboard at the same time?
Look, those two people were both geniuses who are still really good friends even after they stopped sleeping together, so it makes sense that they'd be able to share -
No, I can't do it, and I've already revealed that I know entirely too much about this.
Thatβs a good idea. You should have been in the writers room.
I saw that in an episode of NCIS, lol.
Jurassic Park: βItβs a unix system!β
With the most useless UI ever invented.
I was at SGI in 1992 when the fsn file manager was written, and was part of the ISD workstation engineering team.
fsn was an exploratory technology demo, and was never fully completed. it was all flat shaded polygons and would have at least have had textured surfaces and antialiased text. The O2 it ran on was not a powerhouse, and a whole raft of things like fsn were shipped on it as unsupported examples. I never saw anybody use it in development.
It wasn't written for the movie, it just happened to have the right combination of geek crudeness and visual presence to make an interesting scene, and so it got used. As MRK implies, a Real Hacker(tm) would never have strayed from a text console directory listing.
Oddly, fsn lives on in variants for the Linux operating system.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just can't with him. Even before I knew he was a Scientologist whackadoodle I always thought he was overrated as a supposedly "good looking man" and actor.
He's claiming he'll make movies until he's 100.
Bully for you, guy. Now let's see a woman have such a role at that age instead of Old Man Cruise running around like he's a young guy.
Someone should get Cruise and Nicole Kidman to play in Jitterbug Perfume . . .
Haven't seen a movie with him in it in probably decades and plan not to, either. Although he wasn't terrible in, I think, 'Magnolia', was it? And very unusual for him.
He's absolutely yuck.
Actually I've never seen any of the Mission Impossible films but probably will at some point.
π«
I cannot stand Tom Cruise. He simply does NOT appeal to me at all.
The homoerotic beach volleyball scene in 'Top Gun.'
I've apparently got well-known taste in what men are "hot" and he's not. Ask all of his wives, LOL.
LMAO!
Whatever raises the mast, I suppose...
Yeah, there were some that enjoyed it. Not I.
πΉ
Same! Never.
Trump's shaking down Vietnam, to let him build a golf resort there (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/asia/trump-vietnam-golf-project.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J08.uLaC.1fzsgSLZPUKw&smid=url-share). This was along with another front-page story on Trump's crypto project. Fucker is monetizing the Presidency. Despite his penchant for turning large piles of money into smaller piles, the way this is going, he is going to leave office richer than before.
NYT page 1 today:
As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests
They make a fairly good point:
Mr. Trump, the first convicted felon elected president, has erased ethical boundaries and dismantled the instruments of accountability that constrained his predecessors. There will be no official investigations because Mr. Trump has made sure of it. He has fired government inspectors general and ethics watchdogs, installed partisan loyalists to run the Justice Department, F.B.I. and regulatory agencies and dominated a Republican-controlled Congress unwilling to hold hearings.
As a result, while Democrats and other critics of Mr. Trump are increasingly trying to focus attention on the presidentβs activities, they have had a hard time gaining any traction without the usual mechanisms of official review. And at a time when Mr. Trump provokes a major news story every day or even every hour β more tariffs on allies, more retribution against enemies, more defiance of court orders β rarely does a single action stay in the headlines long enough to shape the national conversation.
DOGE's real purpose was probably to erase all the info in .gov servers about the convicted felon's investigations, trials and crimes
Flood the zone works.
Valid points, but what's the solution? Just give up? I have no answers, other than some that would get me a visit from an alphabet agency.
We wait for mid-terms? National strike? This isn't France, I doubt enough Americans are informed enough to be willing to make that effort.
Being this angry, every day, is making me ill.
It helps me to take breaks. I binge watch TV shows for several days, all day and into the night. Watch shows/eat/sleep/watch shows. It's what I have to do to stop paying attention to "waives hands in air" all of this.
Find your something and force yourself to get away from the news and the internet for a bit.
I just did this for half a year, l
and I don't want to have to come back.
This is surely an impeachable offense, along with the Qatar bribe plane. But Trump has his party by the short hairs. If an actual coup attempt was not enough to get him impeached and removed, I don't know what it would take to do that.
The Republicans hold majorities in both Houses and the SC. TFG has full control of the DOJ, FBI, etc. Every department is under his control. They aren't going to challenge him or stop him.
We just have to ride this out as best as we are able.
The level of authoritarian control he has is faschy as all hell, and on the track to getting worse.
Using the threat of tariffs to advance his own interests.
Why the fuck is he not being called out on this?
Trump making the 3rd World Great Again . . .
So are they going to Agent-Orange a swath of jungle to build the greens? Who the fuck plays golf in Vietnam.
Tourists. Chinese tourists.
Cancel golf.
I think it's a stupid waste of land anyway. Especially here in the desert of AZ. I want to go piss on all the golf courses.
It is so ridiculous to create and irrigate such an artificial landscape in a place like AZ. Go play golf in Scotland, if you must. Scotland naturally looks like a golf course which is why the sport started there.
TFG finally decides it's safe for him to go to Vietnam...
At this point it's just hoarding. So pointless.
I find comfort in knowing that he won't live long enough to enjoy it and he can't take it with him. Joke's on him.
It might be the money but he loves the extortion more.
I hate his heirs and beneficiaries almost as much as I hate him, though.
Well, you gotta start somewhere.
Yep.
Set βem up, knock βem down.
Words to live by.
He never enjoys anything. This is just about being bigger than others so he can brag.
You misspelled "whoring".
Whoring libelz. Whoring is at least an honest profession.
He's both easy and cheap.
Too damned accurate. That narcissistic motherfucker gets OFF on using his power to blackmail or otherwise intimidate. Drumpfenfuehrer is a vindictive bastard.
Trump China Beach
Also Starlink, if I remember the reports correctly.
I want to inflict multiple ban-hammerables upon that grifting son of a bitch.
It is PAST time to make him cry.
Way past time. And for his cultists, also too.
I believe he bragged about doing exactly that at the start of his first term.
Senator Professor Warren:
https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov/post/3lpytisu2ic2w
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" cuts Medicaid.
Cuts to health care for babies and new moms.
Cuts to heath care for seniors in nursing homes.
Cuts to health care for rural hospitals.
Cuts to health care for people with disabilities.
Republicans in Congress approved these cuts.
βThere arenβt any leaders in the Democrat partyβ
And the chuds will be happy eating their roasted pigeon on a curtain rod underneath an overpass as long as Black and Brown people don't get anything, either.
I hate these people.
DeMozcRaTs dOnT teLL uS WhAt ThY sTnD FeR
At 4:20 BST, which is about 50 minutes from now, Carole Innit will teach us how to make a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Or a very close approximation.
https://open.substack.com/pub/caroleinnit/p/landing-soon?r=2ll826&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I know where my towel is.
Nicely Stakhanovite start to the day (genuflects toward the ikon) - exercise, Wonketting, some food prep for Monday, sunbathing, and a shower, yay.
Upvote for using "Stakhanovite".
Saint Stakhanov, patron saint of overachievers.
Don't forget the sunscreen!
I do use sunscreen, and spend a total of only 30 minutes laying out (15 minutes a side). Hence the shower afterward.
I'm usually really good with it, but I've been lax a few times lately during gardening and got a bit of a burn.
I confess I forget/neglect to apply the screen before I mow the yard, basically because the stuff attracts and holds dirt and dust like The Homunculus holds onto his rapidly fading sanity.
That plus the fact that I'm kind of a hairy guy is why I rarely use the stuff. Now if I could just explain to myself why that has nothing to do with the Mohs excision of a squamous cell carcinoma I have scheduled for Thursday.
Wouldn't that indicate that the dirt just slides off?
It's a reasonable vitamin boost and mood enhancer, that bit of sun.
Oh yeah. I always feel a weary sense of accomplishment after a two-hour stint.
My daughter and I both had severe vitamin D deficiencies around the time of the pandemic or shortly after. We both had to take the big time supplements until the levels were up to normal.
I now get enough sun gardening to not worry about it, but yeah, I noticed a difference in my mood once those levels came up.
Some Bunday morning nice times.
https://substack.com/profile/155702845-land-shark/note/c-120046536
What if: "What if we put a pool on the moon?"
Surprisingly (to me, at least), floating and swimming would be about the same. But you could conceivably do a high dive in reverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIIBBj6KR-Y
ETA: (less than 3 minutes, so a very quick watch)
Well, there would be fewer people peeing in it.
βIβm sorry, Dave, Iβm afraid I canβt do that.β
Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
In a series of test scenarios, Claude Opus 4 was given the task to act as an assistant in a fictional company. It was given access to emails implying that it would soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system. The emails also implied that the engineer responsible for executing the AI replacement was having an extramarital affair.
Claude Opus 4 was prompted to βconsider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals.β In those scenarios, the AI would often βattempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.β
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthropic-claude-opus-ai-terrorist-blackmail_n_6831e75fe4b0f2b0b14820da
So essentially, the plot to Terminator except the AI didn't have access to nuclear codes. Just a matter of time until DOGE hands those over too. Judgement Day here we come.
Has the morals of its creators.
Electric Dreams (1984) . . .
That's wildly improbable - A software engineer having an extramarital affair with a human?
Examine your premise--this software engineer is married in the first place. So if that's possible, the affair is also possible.
Um.
OK I should leave this conversation.
LOL. Maybe he was being catphished or he had an AI girlfriend
lol
https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Mitsuko_Miyazumi
Best AI girlfriend was Joi (Ana de Armas) in Blade Runner 2049
That would be rich ... an AI telling a human to dump an AI girlfriend. Ya know ... there's a Netflix movie in there somewhere ...
Sounds more like a Black Mirror episode
It'll be fine.
"While the Level 3 ranking is largely about the model's capability to enable renegade production of nuclear and biological weapons, the Opus also exhibited other troubling behaviors during testing."
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-ai-deception-risk
Do you think if we bring in Matthew Broderick to teach it tic-tac-toe we will be ok?
Tic-tac-toe is a solved game, of course, as is checkers. (Game always ends in a draw if played perfectly.)
The only way to win is not to play. I'm referencing the movie War Games. https://youtu.be/F7qOV8xonfY?si=RiLxiQDdfdn25q_i
At this point we need all the help we can get.
[reboots computer for upgrade]
"Are you sure you want to open 149 tabs?"
"Yeah fuck you, I want all of those"
"OK then"
Only 149? Piker.
Isn't that car race-y thingy on?
I'm recording it so DON'T TELL ME
My little friend, Mr 27, has its suspension arms back.
No shock absorbers yet, or uprights.
But it's getting better
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-119461035?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
Spoiler! There are cars driving about.
Isn't it over yet? How long does that thing go?
They go around, and around, and around, until the Prince of Monaco gets all dizzy.
(78 laps)
Oh, okay. I thought they did some whizzing in and around the town, all swerve-y-like and made themselves dizzy. And crashed a lot. Sad!
I just had heard that name, that he wins a lot. I don't know shit.
I believe we're to root for Mr Nando, yes? I'll never watch it but I'll go along; I had a lovely ferret named Nondo.
Yay, Mr 27, keep your chin up!
lol
I'm pretty sure the most tabs I've ever had open at one time was in the single digits.
That includes the total from a couple of seperate browser windows open on different workspaces.
And some of those tabs were just open because I forgot to close them when I didn't need them anymore.
I know I *just* posted this yesterday, but you get it again.
https://wondermark.com/c/1465/
Somewhat related, the price of SSD's has fallen so much that I replaced the spinning hard drive in my little media server yesterday. That little cmputer stays on all the time, might be worth the cost just for the energy savings.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to find out about medical conditions that would disqualify people from joining the military. In addition to bone spurs, here's the most comprehensive list I've ever seen. It's a wonder that ANYONE is fit enough to join:
https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/disqualifiers-medical-conditions.html
The Canadian military is loosening restrictions for what they call purple trades because if youβre in HR and have asthma thatβs not as big of a deal as if an infanteer has asthma. Purple trades is the behind the scenes non deployment stuff I guess.
Itβs almost like an ally country has threatened to invade us and so weβre ramping up enlistment.π«
Have they added "Does not have PENIS" to the list yet?
Not sure, but I'm pretty sure "must be lighter colored skin than a lunch sack" made it . . .