Don’t look now (seriously don’t), but X and its cousin Grok have a CSAM (child sexual abuse material) problem. And nobody is doing anything about it because nobody cares. And it has been coming (and happening) for awhile. Hell, Grok has been gross since at least last August. It’s been going on for weeks (since at least January 2, probably earlier)! Thousands of users are asking Grok to make them pictures of all sorts of women and girls in all kinds of variations of disgusting. I’d like to think that if any application or service introduced a...
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Predictions, 2026
Wow still not used to typing “2026” even this late into the year. Anyways, everybody else is doing predictions, why not us? Let’s get started. The economy will finally break down Trump does seem to have the ability to escape gravity time and time again, but can number go up forever, despite him doing everything in his power to make number go down? The only thing anybody cares about is rising prices, and all he has done has been to make prices go further up. Despite what he says, consumers pay tariffs. Overwhelming immigration raids make construction...
Continue reading...Happy 20th birthday YouTube
On this day twenty years ago, December 17, 2005, YouTube was born. By which I mean the SNL Digital Short “Lazy Sunday” was aired during an episode featuring guest host Jack Black and musical guest Neil Young. Youtube was nothing before this dropped, just one among many burgeoning video sharing sites, and immediately after became one of the most popular sites on the internet, despite NBC doing everything they could to take the video down. YouTube just a couple of years later would sell itself to Google for a then-massive $1.65 billion. Not bad for a platform...
Continue reading...A tale of two search engines
Just a quick post here from the webmaster to show how much Google sucks and how Bing may be a little less sucky? Let’s see what happens when you search the name of the blog. Google: And, Bing:
Continue reading...Emails
Instead of writing a post tonight I wrote an email to a friend. Remember that? Writing an email to a friend? It was like letters that you would send, through the post office. “Remember me when I am killed at war,” I imagine them seeming like. It was a long time ago, but before email, people would literally put pen to paper to compose a letter to a friend. Eh, maybe I’m being too stupidly nostalgic. But times are weird, man. It always feels good to be thought of, and the opposite of fascism is community. Write...
Continue reading...What even is TV now
I wake up, in what amounts to some kind of haze. I’ve never been much of a morning person, so usually it takes an hour or so to just get back to cogent thought. If I have nothing urgent to do (work, or commuting to work, or the sporadic brunch appointment), I’ll shuffle downstairs, plop onto the couch, and throw on the television. What do I watch? Who cares. It doesn’t matter. So I fire up Hulu with Live TV, the modern equivalent of cable, and see what is airing live. Turns out, these days, it’s nothing....
Continue reading...Plumbing the series of tubes
Did the internet somehow break while I was away? Did something change in the past 30 or so years since the internet went mainstream? Because there are a couple of weird undercurrents happening right now, in earnest, with great urgency, that seem to suggest that maybe something changed about the internet that really needs fixing. First, for some reason, laws requiring age identification are sweeping not just around the US, but globally. Why now? Well, at least in the US, the Supreme Court changed its mind and said it’s okay now. Sure, fine, whatever, they’ve been doing...
Continue reading...Energy blogging
We’re currently living through two trends that are quickly converging with force. First, the electrification of the energy system: a long-running focus of environmentalists, who know that there is no way to combat climate change without changing things that run on fossil fuels to work off the electric grid. Sure, the electric grid currently is pretty dirty, but it’s long been far cleaner than burning straight fossil fuels, and the electric grid has the capability to get cleaner. So, we have things like cars, stoves, hot water heaters, furnaces, etc., joining the electric grid in massive numbers....
Continue reading...Wake up in the morning feeling like [REDACTED]
WSJ reports that President Trump is going to give TikTok another extension to get their shit together make a effort to be legal: President Trump is planning to give TikTok another lifeline. With a mid-June deadline approaching and trade talks with China in limbo, Trump is expected to sign an executive order staving off enforcement of a law banning or forcing the sale of the app, according to people familiar with his plan. It would be the third extension since Trump took office in January. The current one expires June 19. Just a note that this, once...
Continue reading...Watch: This Apple video from 1987 about 1997
Back in 1987, Apple made a (cheeky) video predicting what 1997 would be like. In it, Apple predicts that they will be basically the biggest company ever. Of course, we know that by 1997, they were basically bankrupt. Let’s at least be happy that basically none of this came true, especially the glasses (or Vista Mac). Make sure you catch the Pepsi joke, as that’s where CEO John Scully was CEO before joining Apple.
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