It is amazing that even with videos like the below each side sees exactly what they want to see. Even without AI manipulation, video and photos are worthless. They are often worse than having nothing. The confirmation bias and selective vision is too strong for most to overcome.
Day: January 9, 2026, 5:00 PM
ICEd
The woman’s wife who got killed is an idiot. The woman who got killed was also an idiot.
I still don’t think it’s a justified shooting. But it’s also not prosecutable. The ICE agent was pretty clearly not in fear for his life, but when you do stupid, unpredictable and completely-avoidable shit around not-that-bright men with guns, very bad things tend to happen.
I don’t think Renee Good intended to run over that agent1, but I don’t think she cared if she did or not. Bad decisions all around. And as with most things of this sort, no side will agree and nothing good will come of it.
RW Mor
That was right-wing moronicism at its most moronic, I agree.
Not the Cause
Gen Z is not able to deal with complex thoughts; they do not read and have no sense of nuance. And they are huge prudes, which also harms cognition. What a cursed generation.
But it’s not their fault! We did this to them.
Big Cash
What is the most money you have made in 24 hours?
~$100,000 in 1998.
Amazon and Yahoo stocks, as well as some others. Bought them, they went up 400%, sold them. That’d be nearly $200,000 in today’s money.
Those were some wild times. I’ve never had as much fun while also white-knuckling it. And that’s also why I don’t seriously day-trade anymore.
Not Even Wrong
This is something that I’ve debated with a couple of friends about. My position is that most social phenomena are too multicausal, too contingent on unknown factors and too multivariate to model. On the other hand, they generally argue that having any analysis is “better than nothing.”
I do not agree. Often, a “scientific” analysis produces false certitude and absurd conclusions that are then taken as truth while in no way resembling reality — and in fact, that in many cases that are farcically absurd on their face. One good example is the “scientific” contention that there are no differences between generations. There are many more.
Knowing is better than not knowing of course. But false knowing is even worse than either of those.
Let There Be Lux
If you call me anything other than “His Glorious Majesty, Conqueror of the Known Realms, Future Overlord of All Realms, Ruler of the Spaces Between and Beyond, Chosen of the Unknown and Unknowable Numens of the Infinite Black, Dreamer of All Dreams, Finder of All Lost Things, Scourge of the Gutless and the Insipid, the First and Only of His Name: The Eternal Galactic Overlord Lux Null,” you are deadnaming me.
And I will not stand for it.
18 to Now
Sopro TTS: A lightweight text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning.
This tool only requires 3-12 seconds of audio to do voice cloning. And it’s not even a very large model. The Reddit “wisdom” is that voice cloning takes hours of audio and/or is “impossible.”
And, sure, voice cloning did require that much audio — in 2018. Things are changing faster than people can keep up.
Most Most
Most people are wrong about most things most of the time, but never seem to learn anything from it at all.
That’s humanity, I guess.
We learned nothing from Jan. 6.
The Efficacy of Vaccines Is Settled Science.
Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago.
Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement.
Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty.
How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation — and Blinded Us All.
Does Congress Even Exist Anymore? The fast fade of a co-equal branch of government.
Big Tech promised jobs. Cities gave millions. Where are the workers?
The downside to using AI for all those boring tasks at work.
Michigan man learns the hard way that “catch a cheater” spyware apps aren’t legal.
Homes Remain Less Affordable Than Historical Average in 99% of U.S. Counties Analyzed.