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Month: July 2026
Lucky Ducky
I know the show Lucky got mixed reviews, but I quite liked the first episode.
Sure, it has a lot of clichés but they are executed well. And Anya Taylor-Joy is always captivating to watch. Is it high art? No, certainly not. But it manages to be fun and entertaining, which is more than I can say for most shows.
And the conversation Lucky has with her imprisoned dad while she’s fleeing on the bus was incredibly well-done. It’s hard to write realistic dialogue. Or at least dialogue that feels real. And then to deliver it well. The writers and ATJ managed both perfectly.
However, the FBI does not shoot at fleeing suspects who are not an imminent threat to anyone. That was just stupid. Can someone please do some research?
But the fight where Lucky lights the road flare off in the moving car was really fucking good.
tiny yawn – sparkler
Really beautiful song.
Claude AI Shared Chats Reportedly Exposed in Google Search Results.
Meet the Americans learning to go without after the biggest grocery inflation in 50 years.
Inside the Wild Rescue Mission That Took 4 Beluga Whales to Chicago.
Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?
Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat.
Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent 'observer' sensation.
How Massive AI Data Center Investment Pushes the Economy & Prices: See Durable Goods Orders.
Weight Light
I can immediately tell that someone is an intellectual lightweight if they cite the book Gödel, Escher, Bach as an influence or describe it as amazing. Or, really, liked it at all.
That turd is cognitive Doritos, a magnum dope-us, an exercise in epistemic errancy. I hate it so much.
Rit Noi
Oh, here’s another intro that just happened:
“Ritual Noises is small — one room, one voice, and the long stretch after dark where the world forgets to turn on.”
“Ritual Noises” is the name of my radio station by the way. This is awesome.
Wall Street is selling more rental homes, as buying ban takes effect.
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge.
Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years.
Donald Trump’s food-stamp overhaul is beginning to bite.
2026 Tesla Model Y vs. 2026 Toyota bZ Comparison Test: Two Bestsellers, One Winner.
Tell-Tale
I set up a personal network local radio station with a pitifully small local AI model for a DJ as it’s all our hardware can really run (no GPU). And it says absolutely insane things sometimes. Like this is one of its intros:
“It’s past midnight, still breathing. The lights are out, the walls are quiet, and the station keeps ticking like a pulse under the floorboards. You’re here. Just you. And this hum. That’s enough.”
A “pulse under the floorboards.” What kind of goth-ass Edgar Allen Poe shit is going on in that model’s mind? This new world of AI is if nothing else highly amusing.
Best CPU
The 6 best CPUs of all time, ranked.
I know this is just a clickbait article that has no real meaning and was probably mostly AI-written, but still. Computers have been a whole lot of my life. I’ve spent tons of time thinking about CPUs, installing them, and overlocking them.
These days, there’s no real reason to overclock. But that time was fun while it lasted.
Anyway, I started writing this to say that I think the AMD K6-2 should have been on this list. So many of us poor but geeky people used it back in the day because it was reasonably fast and often less than half the cost of the competing Intel product while still providing about 80% of the performance.
I loved my little K6-2 in 1998. Used that one for quite a few years.
New Mo’ No Mo’
I do wonder how much worse prudery under the New Morality is going to get. Conservatives seem to be pushing back against it now, principally because this new moral code of extreme restriction and anti-sexuality is mostly coming from so-called liberals.
The problem with prudery is its perniciousness; once its latches on to the collective psyche and becomes a performance and a method of virtue signaling, it is difficult to let go. It becomes a way to demonstrate that you are good person. So we end up with athletes in burqas and sharia.
Let’s hope it doesn’t get that far. But it is headed that way currently. Conservatives are resisting, but it’s not enough.
Vada
What is one movie you cannot watch without almost crying? For me it’s the polar express movie.
My Girl.
Everyone cites the funeral scene and Vada’s “he can’t see without his glasses.” For sure, that’s a damn good scene. Anna Chlumsky absolutely nails that one and in fact the whole film; she’s amazing throughout. But the part that got me is when Dan Aykroyd with the best acting of his career as Vada’s father comes to tell her that her best friend has died and her realization of that over the course of the conversation.
Seeing her face change from childish innocence to disbelieving grief so subtly yet so effectively…that is what really got to me.
I think I have a special connection to that film because it wasn’t all that long before that my family had concealed my close friend’s (and cousin’s) death from me for weeks. I did not get to go to his funeral. I did not even know he’d died or have any confirmation of it until I basically went on a hunger strike to force the truth out of them.
When I watched My Girl, I was envious of the respect and tenderness with which Vada was treated — that everyone deserves — that was never afforded to me. Vada was surrounded by people who loved her, who cared for her, who would fight for her and be there when needed. And I was not.
Transverse
Anthropologically, this is correct. That said, cultures can evolve and different forms do emerge over time. However I also think it’s fair to say that feminization of low-status males is a large part of what is happening with the trans movement, but for somewhat different reasons than it does in purely patriarchal societies like exist in Pakistan.
Spit lulu’s – weird world
You didn’t know you needed some Japanese shoegaze. But you do. We all do.
Anni Dominia
That the left is willing to accept and even welcomes an infinite number of rapes and assaults mostly committed against women so they can greet with open arms those who would Islamicize their countries is why the left must be annihilated.
There probably is no more important political project worldwide now.