links upon your saturday

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Am considering that our dour young people bucking the advent of AI because it evaporates their future prospects might be better off considering that AI will be taking away the future prospects of the immigrants currently plaguing Clown World. Most citizens right now are retired, on the dole, on the streets or some combination of the three.

I mean, won't it eventually shake out that they'll be rid of costly geezers, costly unemployed and costly vagrants eventually if we keep snoozing along while they rip up all the rules? Induced mass mental paralysis yields bloodless coups.

Like socialism to death, man.

truth

just go snakeyed

poohwa wubio

he already acts like one

all the "democracies" are radically more totalitarian than the so-called dictatorships

michael caine retired [by the skin] of his teeth spy

laura — gene tierney, dana andrews, clifton webb, vincent price

the blue gardenia — nat king cole singing and raymond burr pretending to be a ladykiller heterosexual romancing anne baxter

well, but, we don't even have the most sophisticated weapons anymore

not most sophisticated and fatally-dependant on a broken supply chain

i don't think they should ignore him

vital information

data centers already obsolete

i usually enjoy them — but i have a feeling this time i'll get mad

ultimately, i think, it's really just crassus/caligula flapping his lips

the best years of our lives

latest massacre

giants, demons, advanced antiquity

sic your ai on cutting off their funding — and arresting EVERYONE involved

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Okay, man, I'd just been listening to Otis drone on in a couple of stories, wondering if I ought to invest a couple hours hearing about what it was like to work with Bob Dylan, when a guy he was interviewing started talking about working with Jack White. I immediately saw Jack White in my mind's eye singing Mother Nature's Son to Faul and Nosbaracktu at the White House, and he did it SO well I'm certain Faul was deeply shamed to hear it like that, which kept the irk and even loathing, that so quickly can start spreading through me whenever I think of him, down to a short, dull flash, and I zoned back into the Jack White stories going on in front of me.

Then I decided to cue up the Dylan stories to be here when I'd decided to listen or not. And there it was on the sidebar: a little list of the artists he hated the most. Despite knowing in advance that it's just AI pap, aka fiction, I had to click. Number One most hated: Faul.

A comment on the matter: "Dylan has said the only person on earth that he's in AWE of is Paul because he believes Paul to be the greatest performer ever and jokingly said he wished he'd retire!!" Heh. Yeah, performing Paul every flippin' moment in public for 60 years could be considered "greatest ever" and most of us who know have been wishing he'd retire for all that time.

Anyway, this business of something sliding into my head outta nowhere — in this case Faul hatred — and then sliding into my eyeprints moments later happens to me all the time — all unbidden from both ends. I mean it enters my head unbidden and then is followed by itself shortly thereafter also unbidden.

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the ancients held forth on this subject at length

drives the nail home with one stroke

someone linked this in reference to the little wwiii buds teetering — i love the original version best, but this one is best quality and does not suck even a little — i immediately go too verklempt to actually sing it with him — i think most people drop into the zone on this one so reliably because we ALL know and revile the kind of evil against which it inveighs....

big mike made me cackle so loudly i frightened the ravens off my roof


pipe up any time....