There’s a surprising spike in the suicide rate during the “Morning in America” period. I don’t have an explanation for, or a story to tell, about that. I am eager entertain yours!

AIDS. It was AIDS. A lot of gay men offed themselves when they knew they had a death sentence already on their heads.

Video shows train derailing after crashing into tractor-trailer.

Well there goes a couple hundred thou and some jobs.

If I were a woman alone on the street, I can’t think of anything scarier than a buncha obviously-Islamic men approaching me.

Too bad they can’t carry big-ass guns in Europe. I used to be against concealed carry, largely. But a woman has no hope against that. She needs the boomstick and to lay down shots non-stop till they Quran-thumping asses drop.

Hong Kong firefighters searching through 2000 flats like these to look for survivors.

One of the many reasons I dislike living in apartments or condos is that if a fire starts, you’re fucked. You can’t get out. By the time you know about the blaze it’s often too late.

In a house, you can just break out a window and jump out. Even if you’re on the second story, you might fracture your ankle or something but you’ll live. Good luck jumping from the 23rd floor of a tower.

It’s odd to think that even the first Harry Potter book would now be too complex for the younger Gen Z folks and all of Gen Alpha. They don’t and cannot read and, basically, their brains are broken.

The future is not looking so bright. The only glow I see there is Putin nukin’.

Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females show for their own allies.

As I’ve said many many times before, female intrasexual competition is fucking brutal.

Explosion throws a tanker over 1000ft.

The safe distance from shit that might explode is much further away than most people think.

Source: spent a lot of time around exploding shit.

The sad fact is that already nearly all the extant LLM are smarter than nearly all humans.

Not as capable, no. That’s a different thing. But smarter, yes.

I don’t think I realized when it began how much Covid would deeply mentally scar people. A lot of people just went frickin’ nuts and never recovered. I knew one personally. Tons more on the internet.

The Covidians really will be ranting about Covid in nursing homes in 50 years and the poor attendants will have no damn idea what they are going on about.

I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”

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— Shannon Vallor (@shannonvallor.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Huh. This might make the depredations of social media look like a minor cigarette habit.

I mean, I could fall in love with a bot too. But it’d have to be out in the physical world and make me pizza. Then it could be love. But the above is just frickin’ insane.