WELL, THIS EXPLAINS WHAT BASS WAS DOING IN NIGERIA:  Shocking fraud racket uncovered in California — with tentacles stretching to Nigeria.

LISTEN!  What A Time To Be Alive!

UM… DO WE EVEN KNOW?  OpenAI is being run like a wartime industrial project. $121 billion of compute burn before real profit means the objective is not clean business economics. The objective is dominance. Own the best models. Own the best developer habits. Own the enterprise workflows. Own the user dependence. Own the default intelligence layer people build on. Profit can come later once the dependency is locked in.

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FREEDOM IS ALWAYS BETTER: And if you think Twitter is garbage, have you seen other, still controlled by the left social media?  Thank You, Garbage Dump.

AND SPEAKING OF THOSE CRISIS:  Advice for foreign leaders trying to deal with Donald Trump.

FUNNY, IT MATCHES THE UN’S. I WONDER WHAT THE CRISIS HAVE IN COMMON:  NATO’s sudden-onset existential crisis.

IT ALWAYS IS:  Situational Awareness. It’s a little more complicated than that.

UP FOR PRE-ORDER, THE SEQUEL TO WITCHFINDER, (BUT ALSO A STAND ALONE) FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter (Empires of Magic Book 2).

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

REMINISCENCES:  Memories of Easter in Greece.

GOOD:  Maine Supreme Court Shoots Down Dems’ ‘Unconstitutional’ Ranked-Choice Voting Scheme.

IMMIGRATION DEPENDS ON WHO YOU LET IN:  Refugees.

Which is why everyone coming in needs to be carefully vetted.

AND PEOPLE IN HELL WANT ICE WATER:  Iran Rejects Cease-Fire Proposal.

WHOM DOES THIS SURPRISE?  NPR didn’t quote a single member of Michigan synagogue after attack — but interviewed terrorist’s pals in Lebanon.

BECAUSE WE CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH MILITARY HEROICS NO MATTER HOW THE INTELLECTUALS LECTURE US:  How US used SEAL Team 6, a CIA ruse and death from above to rescue missing F-15 airman in Iran: ‘They’ve been schwackin’ dudes chasing him’

WE MUST GO FURTHER. MUCH FURTHER:  Artemis II Crew Breaks Distance Record, Will Reach Maximum Distance From Earth Monday Night.

THEY ALL SAY THE SAME THING AT THE SAME TIME IN THE SAME WAY:  Democrats Blast Trump’s Easter Ultimatum to Iran in Typical, Homogenized Messaging.

OHIO’S SHORT A DEPUTY SHERIFF:   He Used Drugs to Exploit His Victims – Now He’s Facing Decades in Prison.

IF YOU’RE THE PRAYING KIND, PRAY FOR CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA:  Nigeria on Easter: Military Rescues 31 Christians, Terrorists Kill Over 20 in Three Attacks.

THEIR OWN HOPE, REALLY:  Iran’s Greatest Ally Is the Left.

OH, HONESTLY, FOR SURE:   STEP RIGHT UP, FOLKS!  The Greatest AI Nonsense Show on Earth is here! Get your official vintage AI Myths Bingo card — packed with gloriously untrue claims about sentient AIs, magic prompts, and instant utopia! Mark those wild myths as you spot them!

I DON’T KNOW. PERHAPS IT’S JUST ME, BUT THIS SEEMS SUBOPTIMAL?  The Authorization Layer. European military command structures were designed to produce no defendants.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth. I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy? Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every Marine is a rifleman, and as a priest he can’t carry a weapon. He’s hoping to get assigned to a Marine unit anyway. All chaplains are Navy officers, so that’s the only door in.

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OR “THE PROBLEM WITH MBAs”:  Taylorism.

SOMETHING FOR THE THEOLOGICALLY — OR HISTORICALLY — MINDED TO PONDER:   You Won’t Get What You Expect. Five essays on what actually happens when you try to destroy Christianity.

A FRIEND OF A FRIEND NEEDS HELP:  Many of you have doubtless read articles in gun magazines and related publications by Kat Hel. Lately she’s written under her married name of Katherine Ainsworth Stevens. She’s a friend to most of us in the North Texas Troublemakers, and to my wife and I. She visited our home just a week ago.