OH, CHILLUNS. IT WAS ALL PALLYWOOD:  If Gaza’s famine was real, how come it went away so fast?

MANY SUCH CASES, TOO:  BREAKING: The official X account of the Democrat Party has DELETED their post claiming President Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 He was literally the President, dumbasses. You don’t think someone would’ve noticed?! Trump should BANKRUPT the DNC for this.

AND FOR THE: Xpelled.

AH! BUT WE WERE MADE FOR TIMES LIKE THIS. ALL OF US WHO STAND UP:  At a time when submission is called “virtue” and fear “prudence,” Sydney Sweeney’s simple frankness serves as an act of insurrection.

For the times, they are achanging.

MANY SUCH CASES:  Everything’s Swell in Maryland… Except for Reality.

THE DAYS OF MICROSOFT — THE DAYS OF ALL THE GIANTS — ARE PASSING: I’m going to connect two dots that have been active conversation topics on X recently. One is Microsoft corporate blather about Windows turning into an “agentic” OS stuffed with AI; the other is increasing hype around the Steam Machine from Valve. Reaction to the Microsoft trial balloon has been, to put it mildly, negative. People hear AI from Microsoft and think “Oh great – superintelligence to spam me with yet more ads and spyware.” (Think Clippy with vampire fangs.) Slightly more sophisticated users worry about prompt injection. As they should.

It’s like watching the dinosaurs die after the asteroid, with no idea what hit them.

Oh, yeah, and a link for the X-communicated.

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS WRONG, IT DOESN’T MEAN THE SCREAMING ISN’T A PSYOPS:   The Economics of Chaos.

WELL, IT IS THE 21st CENTURY:  New Glenn successfully launches Escapade orbiters AND lands 1st stage.

FOR I’M ALL AT SEA (WITHOUT A PADDLE):  An Humble Bleg!

THEY NEEDED TO TEST THAT IDEA TO SEE HOW DUMB IT IS???  WHAT’S WRONG WITH THEM?  Zohran Mamdani wants social workers responding to 911 calls — but test program is already failing.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EASTASIA:  The BBC’s lies about Trump are straight from 1984.

ANYONE NOT AWAKE TO THE ROT IS COMATOSE:   This Report From UC San Diego Should Be a Wake Up Call for America’s Education System.

HAS TRUMP SIMPLY BEEN TROLLING DEMS INTO CHASING THE EPSTEIN FILES TAR BABY?  Trump-obsessed writer Michael Wolff encouraged Jeffrey Epstein to blackmail then-presidential candidate Donald, emails reveal.

HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO’S NOTICED:  5 Years Later: COVID Thoughts.

I’D COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN THESE SELF-LOBOTOMIZING SPECIMENS UNTIL I STUMBLED ON THIS TODAY — AGAIN:  Thousands of Authors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions.

Most of them are people you never heard of. Most of them are succès d’estime at best and academic darlings at worst. But, I regret to say there are some well-selling science fiction authors in the lot. Including a few I thought had more sense. Ah well.

IF YOU CAN AT ALL GET THE KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS (OR PRIVATE SCHOOLS THAT TAKE PUBLIC MONEY):  Historical proof that today’s public schools are nothing but indoctrination mills poisoning minds.

Do it now. The left reproduces by stealing the children of the productive.

UM:  Chinese scientist pleads guilty in US smuggling case and will be quickly deported.

I actually understand not punishing the individual. This wasn’t an individual’s act. Also, frankly, nothing we can do to her is as bad as what will happen to her when she’s deported home.

LET THE SUNSHINE IN!  Prosecutors turn over 130,000 pages of evidence in the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker.

AT THIS POINT IT SHOULD TICK FASTER:  The Clock May Be Ticking for British PM Keir Starmer.

I’M NOT THAT OLD, BUT I’VE LIVED LONG ENOUGH THAT CLIMATE SCAMS ARE RECYCLING:  Deja Vu? Climate Study Hints at New Ice Age.

THE BBC DEFINITELY ISN’T CRICKET, CHAPS:  BBC-ed.

THE IDYLLIC 1950S WEREN’T:  An Amazing Global Transformation.

YES, I KNOW I HAVE NO SHAME WHEN IT COMES TO AI CLANKERS:  Betrayal! Lyrics Video.

I HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THIS IS BEING DRIVEN BY FOREIGN ACTORS WHO WANT US TO FALL:  Much of the politics and discourse of the so-called dissident right, or Postliberal right, whatever, is based on the assumption (hope) that America is going to collapse and it’ll be a Spanish Civil War situation. Some are more open about it than others. They’ll even go on podcasts and talk about “their roles” in the “new regime.”

And for the Xculpated.

I’d liek to point out they’d have a better chance of bringing this off if they could find reality with two hands and a seeing eye dog. But, of course, if they could do that, they wouldn’t want something this crazy. Or even be the type of people who’d want it.

WHAT HE SAID:  Most of the financing is equity based. Transformative technologies are always accompanied by malinvestment to a greater or lesser extent because investors are not psychic and cannot predict with certainty which businesses will win. This happened with railroads, with the telegraph, with automobiles, and with the internet. It’s healthy; if there wasn’t a considerable amount of malinvestment it would mean that people were too scared to put capital on a giant society-improving opportunity.

And for the X-cused.

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO:  Embracing the Suck.