“Quiet Garden of Magnolias” by Anastasia Trusova.
Month: May 2026
Door Back
Oh, absolutely. That has all the hallmarks of a deliberate backdoor, probably put there at the behest of US intelligence agencies. No other explanation makes sense.
There will be another one created, just harder to find accidentally.
That Judge Is Wrong
A lot of people say I light up a room when I enter it.
But the judge said that was arson and those people are called “witnesses.”
Clowns All Around
Any idiot clown who thinks AI is “fake growth” because companies buy shit from one another does not understand even a little bit how economies work, how large corporations function, how they scale, what is involved in gigantic high-CapEx businesses, why circular buying and entangled supply chains are incredibly common1, nor why certain models not only make sense but are inevitable in certain fairly-predictable situations.
Jesus Christ, you fucking mooks. Read a book. Read anything. But mostly, just shut up.
Vitesse X – Take A Picture (Filter Cover)
Nice cover.
MXMS – OMG | Sofar Los Angeles
That’s a damn good mic. Too good; you can hear background noise (sirens). But even though in actuality it’s kind of poor sound design I like it. You can hear Ariel breathing, and swallowing, and her lips opening and closing. Just makes it more human in an age of AI songs and ubiquitous autotune.
A condenser mic was probably not the right choice here, especially without a mic shield, but it was nevertheless the perfect choice in this instance.
The Dance – Morgan G Farris (Garth Brooks Cover)
This is a lot better than the original, which is too schmaltzy. This has depth.
The Missile Genius America Lost—and China Gained.
Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back.
On Google declaring war on the Web.
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale.
I think we are in the process of discovering that humans are bad at mathematics. Correct. Humans have no business doing math themselves.
U.S. Military’s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Is Getting Hivemind Swarming Capability.
Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to ‘China Shock 2.0’.
Nissan to close UK production line, cut 900 jobs across Europe.
JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away.
Strikedown
And this is why Russia is now losing.
Actual Observed
The culture is more overall sex-negative and sex-phobic in general than any time since perhaps the 1740s. I mean in practical terms and observed behavior, rather than “I saw someone in revealing clothing on TV, therefore people are sex-positive.” That’s a wholly different thing (and is dumbass logic to boot).
Seaside
That is deeply ok. Not a fan of that style in general. And I do not say this because it’s revealing (women should be able to wear revealing clothes IMO) but it kind of looks like she’s wearing her underwear on the outside.
But mainly, it’s just not goth-y enough for me. Too sunny.
Client Side
Exhausted Everything – Mail Disappearing.
Some of the commenters are correct. This is clearly a client-side rule running on some other device (personal computer/laptop, tablet, something). I’ve seen it too many times. It always looks just like this.
Find that and problem will be solved.
Worst one of these I got was in 2013 or so where a user had some rule set up on a tablet that he had not used in two years. I tracked it down by making him assemble all his devices, even ones he “didn’t use,” and go through mail rules+settings over the phone with me device by device.
Found the rule deleting email on a first-gen (IIRC) iPad and all was well. I was the ninth or tenth person to work on that problem over the course of a few months and I solved it in a day.
Convergence
Strange how both modern feminism and Islam have converged on the ideas that women are helpless children, should be covered up at all times when in public, and do not possess agency.
How in the world did we let that happen?
Noah Right For Once
Correct. The best frontier models are only at 130-140 IQ equivalent, and only in some realms. Many humans are smarter.
But no human — not even me — has read every scientific paper, book, article, blog post, white paper, RFC, S-1, 10-K, 10-Q and SOP. AI has. And that gives it an enormous advantage over even super-geniuses. And that de facto super-genius is now available to everyone.
That this fact will not change a lot of things is fucking ludicrous.
Shape of It
Solar+batteries is the future.
Anyone who claims anything is else is absurdly, insanely wrong, no matter what mistakes the US is making there currently. That isn’t evidence. That’s just typical US clownery. Absent nuclear apocalypse, it’s just going to win as it’s cheaper, abundant, cleaner and available nearly everywhere.
Simple as that.