When Trump manages to replace Jerome Powell at the Fed is when things are really going to spiral into absolute chaos.
It’ll be bad before that. After, it’ll be absolutely apocalyptic. That’s when we’ll see unemployment ramping up to 40% and 20%+ inflation.
It’s inevitable now.
Someone made a pathetic attempt to out-troubleshoot me today.
LOL, as if.
I smoked ’em. More importantly, I fixed the problem. And it was a complicated one that involved cable modem issues, incorrect IPv6 DNS servers, HubSpot, and some other associated crap.
I’m disagreeable – and it’s backed by science.
I’m disagreeable and I love it. I don’t give a fuck about the science!
I hope defeating woke was worth your parents, grandparents, kids and yourself being unemployed, starving and homeless.
Doesn’t sound like a good trade to me, but then again I have a whole working brain.
dawg our whole economy is about to become crypto scams https://t.co/vtOuSxnquI
— Luke Metro – e/he/him (@luke_metro) April 15, 2025
GDP is going to crater, and unemployment will hit 20% within a year or so. It’ll only get worse from there.
Both the economy itself and the underpinnings of the economy are being ripped apart. Any idiot who voted for this deserves to suffer. Unfortunately all the rest of us will, too.
Get your emergency fund up if you can. It’d be best to have 2-3 years of reserves there, but I know that is not possible for most people. Just do the best you can because you absolutely will need it. This is going to be bad in a way that I am having trouble expressing to all of you who do not study history and who have lived soft lives.
Wow, they tear it up! They’re all so great musically.
Grace’s (the band leader and warrior princess-haired lead guitarist) style reminds me a lot of Samantha Fish, but more formal. That’s not a bad thing at all. There’s just a little classical influence there, like Eddie Van Halen had, but in a different genre. She’s amazing. Glad I found her.
That’s a really cool old Gibson SG Grace has. Must’ve cost a pretty penny. I think those usually sell in good condition for around $20K.
It looks like Russia’s “inevitably successful” (according to Ian Welsh types) massive recent offensive totally failed and everyone died with zero territory gained.
Winning!
Fucking clowns all around.
Social Media and News Fact Sheet.
The Bleeding Edge of Battle (Part I).
The Bleeding Edge of Battle (Part II)
Microsoft lets Copilot Studio use a computer on its own. Aww hell no.
Darwin’s Children Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript.
14 reasons why Trump’s tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back.
How Colleges Are Trying to Save Themselves. Arguarbly the stupidest thing the Trump admin is now doing is destroying the university system. Though there are so many moronic things, there’s really no way to tell.
TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days.
So fucking pointless and moronic, and will produce a lot of extra work among many, many people for absolutely zero increase in security of any kind.
I hate anyone who had anything to do with this very, very much.
West Point graduate becomes first woman to complete Army Ranger competition.
I went to (did not participate, watched!) the Best Ranger competition back in 1997. That thing is intense. I have respect for anyone who can complete it. The majority of the teams drop out each year.
Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in.
The attempts were "near real-time", and made and using one of the newly created DOGE accounts with the correct username and password. https://t.co/jBtJgXvdCU
— Jackie Singh 🇺🇸 (@HackingButLegal) April 16, 2025
I was not exaggerating at all when I said that we have enemies of the United States in charge of the nation. And no, I don’t mean “enemies” like the MAGA doofuses screech about, which to them just means brown people, gay people, anyone who believes science is real, etc. I mean actual Putin and China.
This is insane.
I have a tool that tracks prices on Amazon over time. It embeds a graph right on the page for me so it’s very easy to see. Any imported item you can observe the price rise as tariff expectations occur and then tariffs actually hit:
This is just a decorative item, but this huge price increase is and will be affecting everything else as well. Since January, the product has increased from $120 to more than $180. That happening across most of the economy is going to be very bad for everyone.
Recall going back into Windows.
People in the comments are puzzled about what this undesirable product is for and why it’s being pushed so hard. But it’s not difficult to figure out. Recall is all about employee surveillance. Of course that is not being touted as its purpose yet. It’d never gain acceptance if Microsoft came right out and said that and they’d be foolish to do so.
MBA types, though, are drooling at thought of something like this existing, and that’s built right into the OS so it’s much harder to disable, get around, or fool.
They love it. And that’s who and what it’s for and why Microsoft is shoving it down our throats so hard.
Thinking about CGI and all that stuff, here’s a clip of Anchors Aweigh! from 1945 that is another highpoint in visual effects.
— Emily ✨ (@emilyoram.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
That is amazing, but every one of those frames is hand-painted. That scene is 94 seconds long, so that’d be 2,253 frames. 2,253 frames x 30 mins animation etc. per frame = 67,590 minutes. Which is 1,127 hours or just under 47 days.
In other words, that scene alone would’ve taken just under 47 days of animator time to produce1. There’s no way CGI would take that long. A comparable scene with CGI would take a day or two of animator time. Big, big difference.
Behind the Scenes of Metropolis (1927).
A silent film still well worth watching today. It was the precursor of and a massive influence on nearly all filmed scifi that followed and had a huge effect on cinema in general.
Even though it’s silent and in black and white, it feels like it could’ve been filmed today. It shows how much 1927 was like our current era.