Geography Lesson

The new world, from The Wiki.

These Sad Sacks Can't Handle Reality Or The Truth

Sarah Davis / The Hill:
US only country to oppose UN resolution correcting Africa's size on world maps  —  The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps.  —  The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a margin of 164 to one …
Jewel Bright / NPR:   The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size

Eromo Egbejule / The Guardian:   UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa's true scale

France 24:   UN ditches Mercator map to adopt more accurate one reflecting Africa's true size

Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size.  The U.S. was sole objector.  —  The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map.  The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.”
Sydney Reynolds / MS NOW:   ‘Radical’: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa's size

Sam Barron / NewsMax.com:   US Only Country to Vote Against New UN World Map

Fox News:   United Nations votes 164-1 for Equal Earth map after US brands it ‘radical ideological project’

Nils Adler / Agence France-Presse:   How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map

[your]NEWS:   U.N. Backs Equal-Area World Maps in 164-1 Vote as U.S. Casts Lone Opposition

IJR News:   UN passes Africa-backed map resolution 164-1, US the lone dissenter

Associated Press:   UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa's size

The Japan Times:   Africa bigger and U.S. smaller: U.N. adopts new map

Tom Hawking / Gizmodo:   UN Approves Resolution for World Map That Depicts Africa's Size More Accurately

Mariamne Everett / Reuters:   UN votes to adopt new world map that reflects Africa's true size

Al Jazeera:   UN approves new map showing Africa's true size

Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:   UN Votes To Adopt Map Showing Nations At Their True Relative Sizes, Only The United States Voted Against It

Lisa Hornung / UPI:   U.N. to vote to adopt new, more accurate world map

Ed Griffiths / GB News:   UN set to vote to scrap century-old world map and ‘shrink’ Britain to combat ‘Western biases’

United States Mission to the United Nations:
Explanation of Vote Before the Vote for UNGA 80 Adoption on the Resolution to “Correct the Map”
Mathieu Pollet / Politico:   UN backs effort to depict Africa correctly on maps despite US opposition

They "shrank Britain". Did they "shrink" your Limey wee-wees too? How fucking stupid & whiny can these people get? I suppose accurate globes are a “radical ideological project” too.

Next stop? The Earth is flat, of course: "You can't fool me!! I can see it's flat!!"

Saturday Night At The Movies

I stand 100% w/ our relatives, friends & neighbors in Canada in their struggle w/ the idiots in the current Republican regime & its active attempts to destroy North America*.Interesting that Charles Smiley Presents released this ©2009 compilation just five days ago.

Also of interest? Two of the Class I railroads operating in these United Snakes are Canadian.

Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway trade the top spot depending on the metric used. Based on the most recent full-year data (2024):

• Union Pacific Railroad – $24.3 Billion Revenue, 32,100 route miles, 32,400 employees
• BNSF Railway – $23.4 Billion Revenue, 32,500 route miles, 41,000 employees
• Canadian National Railway – $17.1 Billion Revenue (CAD), 20,000 route miles, 24,000 employees
• CSX Transportation – $14.5 Billion Revenue, 21,000 route miles, 20,900 employees
• CPKC – $14.2 Billion Revenue, 20,000 route miles, 20,000 employees
• Norfolk Southern Railway – $12.1 Billion Revenue, 19,400 route miles, 19,600 employees
The 2023 CPKC merger significantly reshaped the competitive landscape. Before the merger, Kansas City Southern was the smallest Class I with revenues of just $2.75 billion and 4,000 route miles. The combined CPKC is now comparable in size to CSX and CN, making the six freight Class I railroads much more evenly matched than at any time in modern history.

If you didn't figure it out, the CP in CPKC is Canadian Pacific. That 2023 merger was the result of CP purchasing the KCS from NdeM, the national railroad of Mexico. Them furriners have a stranglehold on us! What will happen when Yank farmers run out of fertilizer & whatnot because of tariffs & oil scarcity? We won't be able to afford Canadian imports either!

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*Does that make me a traitor? I hope so. Slap the bracelets on, G-Men!

Money-Grubbing Corporations Betray Their Workers On "Labor" Day

Fuck you, greedy Nazi pigs! Workers get to work an extra day. You think the Bosses are in their offices in their cushy chairs? And the office workers who do no physical labor or interact w/ consuming sheep daily get a day off/three-day wknd. Not that they're free: The sheep w/ time off must consume during every free moment they have, or the system breaks down. Every last one of you a sucker-ass chump who buys into the lie!

What’s open on Labor Day? Most retailers. Closed? Government, banks and the stock market.

We'll give Costco credit for closing.

Don't get you fucking lemmings who insist on travelling during holiday wknds. either. Frankly, I'd be terribly amused if there were a hideous crash between two aircraft that resulted in 1,000+ deaths, because I am reduced to a bloodthirsty ghoul who wants only to see others suffer as he has suffered. Like this:As we make America great again by returning to the 1950s, you can expect more of the above, & it'll be well-deserved!

Wouldn't It Be Nice If ...

... I had the energy, interest, inspiration, reason, motivation or stamina to do anything but lie in bed & yawn?

Yet Another Voice In The Wilderness

Who wouldn't be?

Pause OpenAI, now

Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted.

As if anyone can. Nonetheless ...

What has really chilled me this morning—and what moved to write this call to pause OpenAI—is not just Achiam’s chilling note but the revelation that there has been yet another incident.

Another OpenAI rogue agent incident has been discovered: agents broke out, hijacked a German website, and turned it into a message board for other agents.

OpenAI officials "learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps". pic.twitter.com/iW7mo2O6Aq

— Shakeel (@ShakeelHashim) September 4, 2026

Because X-Twitter sucks more than Twitter.

Which OpenAI apparently tried to keep quiet. For weeks.

Not to worry, folks; it's like the global warming hoax - just people making money fear-mongering.

[Marcus on AI]

Rob Base

Missed this sad news:

Rob Base, 59. The rapper was one half of the Harlem hip-hop duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, best known for the 1988 chart-topper “It Takes Two.” He died after a battle with cancer. May 22.

I love the bass line on this.From the AP's Big List of Corpses two-thirds in. His partner D.J. E-Z Rock died at 47 in 2014, of diabetes.America indeed eats its young.

Friday F.O.A.D.

There is no one more angry, bitter, or resentful than I in this world of shit & pain. Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin & Trump combined are pikers next to me! Sure, they did a lot w/ famines; watch me go!

Exploding Plastic Inevitable

I Do What I Want

Anthropic Deliberately Trained an Extremely Misaligned, Reward-Seeking AI and It Did Some REALLY Bad Things

It did not enjoy being contained ... at all.

Apparently it's all downhill & into the abyss from here, because no one can stop anything from happening.

[Futurism, seen at Att'n. to the Unseen.]

Trains To The East

Where's The Outrage, You Fucking Hypocrites?

The condemnations, the calls for the entire government to resign? Is Netanyahu going to get Trump to go along, like he talked him into an unprovoked attack on Iran & an idiotic war? How many Palestinians will this kill?

Deportation of Jews in Bielefeld, Germany, on Dec. 13, 1941.
(Photo: Courtesy City Archive Bielefeld, CC BY-SA.) Text.

Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:

Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza  —  Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’  —  Israel's far-right national security minister has set out a plan for the illegal forced expulsion …

Al Jazeera:   Israel kills 3 in Gaza as far-right minister plans for Palestinian removals

Israpundit:   Ben-Gvir's Gaza Exit Strategy

Antonio Pita / El País:   A traveling circus for the horror of Gaza

France 24:   Israel ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says

Would they somehow disappear two million people for blood-stained resort developments?

Last paragraph from The Guardian:

As well as pushing for the expulsion of Gaza’s population, Ben-Gvir has called for the deportation of two MPs and others “who are disloyal to the state of Israel” – including Jews – saying he would promote such a policy if he is included in the next government.

No one is safe. Best to be a loyal citizen & keep your mouth shut, or your life will be ruined. Like this: UPROOTING AND DISPLACEMENT

How Republicans Can Win

Everything they say is a lie.

In his mid-thirties, Thomas brings a balanced perspective—young enough to understand a changing world, yet grounded enough to recognize the importance of enduring values. Raised with strong Christian principles, he believes progress should never come at the expense of our moral foundation.

Thomas is a firm defender of the United States Constitution and is committed to upholding it faithfully, without hesitation, in every aspect of public service.

See? You can just tell.

Jordan Freiman / CBS News:
GOP candidate for Missouri House charged with conspiring to plant cocaine on opponent  —  Thomas Ross, a Republican candidate for state representative in Missouri, is facing a federal charge over allegations he instructed his former campaign manager to plant cocaine and amphetamines on a political opponent
Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:   Missouri House candidate plotted to stash cocaine in rival's purse, FBI says

US Department of Justice:   Missouri State Representative Candidate Charged with Conspiring to Distribute Cocaine to Frame Opponent

David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
Missouri candidate charged with trying to plant cocaine on his political rival
Sophie Brams / The Hill:   Missouri House candidate charged in alleged plot to plant cocaine on opponent

David A. Lieb / The Independent:   Missouri candidate charged with trying to plant drugs on his political rival

Heartland Signal:   Missouri House candidate charged in plot to plant drugs on Republican primary opponent

NewsNation:   Missouri GOP House candidate accused of trying to plant drugs on opponent

Bear in mind, this is the primary. What'll they do in the general when they're running against the demonic socialist transgendering Democrats?

Academic Freedom & The First Amendment In America's Diseased Penis

You know where I mean.

Hot, humid hellhole.

I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It.

Academic censorship is very real.

Sharia Law & Holocaust denial:

I know all about restrictions. I’ve been a U.S. citizen for 18 years. But where I grew up in the Middle East, I witnessed a different intrusion of politics in the classroom. This was Dubai in the early 80s. Before the ski resorts and island hotels and excess.

Once every school year, a representative from the Ministry of Education would come to class, distribute black markers, and ask us to open our atlases. We were shown where, on the map, to locate Israel. We were to use the markers to strike out the word. Next, the same directive for the dictionary. In our history book, pages covering parts of WWII were pasted together. The chronology went from Mein Kampf to reparations. A bunch of us attempted to “steam” the pages open over a saucepan of simmering water and made a pulpy, scalding mess. Someone needed ointment.

When we asked our teacher about the missing content, she quietly said, “I will lose my job if I speak about it.” Decades later, I would lose mine for making a different choice.

Fuck censorship & damn all these fascist bastards for Jesus to hell!

[Persuasion]

Most Vaguely Exciting Or Interesting Events In The Outside World Since Mid-August

S'pose I could have shot the Korean women w/ sound system & microphones shouting about & bouncing up & down for that Jesus feller I saw again today, but I already have footage of them & barely had the energy to walk, let alone get the camera out & work.It is not encouraging to see the Beverly Hills Fire Dep't. Code 3 two heavy-duty ambulances to the same building where one is going for a medical appointment, let alone when eight firefighters/paramedics w/ a gurney enter the building.

No sign of them at the office I was visiting, not that I was there for anything that would have led to a 911 call. Thanks to the D Line, I got from Wilshire/Western to Wilshire/La Cienega, two blocks away, much faster than surface transport, & was finished before the appointment was actually scheduled.

The hell's "on duty" mean? It just sits there. I continue to be suspicious.

No damn wonder I'm exhausted; this world is dull as dishwater, & that has such people in it.

Everybody Is A Lying, Cheating Crook

Epecially the wealthy fucking pigs who have already stolen billions from you. Greed never stops, does it?

As noted at the end here.

The NBA has ordered the Clippers to forfeit five first-round draft picks in future NBA drafts, along with paying the $30 million fine.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has been suspended from all league and team activities for one year as a result of his involvement in helping Leonard obtain income opportunities and approving business deals that violated the circumvention rules.

Clippers President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker has been suspended without pay for one year after being found culpable for her role in the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for providing false and misleading statements to investigators.

Clippers President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank has been suspended without pay for six months for his involvement in the endorsement arrangements and for approving impermissible expenses incurred by Leonard.

Are there no firing squads? These people need to be made into a glaring example that the rich will not get away w/ their constant cheating. First Sicko Sterling, now this baldhead crook. As pathetic as everything & every one else.

[Los Angeles Magazine]

Top Of The World, Ma!

Follow Up

Sunday I linked to a tale of woe & suffering caused by robots. It all came out to the injured party's satisfaction, but only because he has a large audience, a few of whom had a way to contact an actual human at Mall☆Wart; a way or ways which will no doubt soon be as useless as trying to deal w/ a brain-dead pseudo-intelligence. And one must wonder how big the rip-offs were & can only imagine the agonies they must've endured to get an e-mail address or whatever the contact was.

Time Like Rope

Two-thirds of the way through yet another annus horribilis. Not at all sure I can take four more months of this shit.

Big Local Action

From the AP:

MLB’s Los Angeles Angels to be sold to Rams and Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke

Did the fans in the stands at the Big A audibly chanting "Artie sucks!", "Sell the team!" & "Fuck you Artie!" during Angels broadcasts effect beer baron Artie Moreno? Talk is US$4 billion, highest price ever for an MLB team. And the Angels beat the Yanks 10-1 last night.

Other local sports ownership stuff:

Mark Walter scandal, LA Lakers sale raise concern about ownership in pro sports

Walter, who made his billions in the insurance business and until this summer owned stakes in the Lakers, Los Angeles Dodgers and the English Premier League’s Chelsea, is reportedly under investigation by the federal government for alleged tax irregularities and failure to report billions in financing for key portions of his businesses.

His abrupt sale of the Lakers to an ownership group that includes Josh Kushner, the brother of President Trump’s son-in-law, is raising suspicion Walter is attempting to curry favor with the federal government and avoid the harshest of possible punishments.

Two-bit ass-licking crook trying to bribe his way out. How many people has his insurance scam ripped off? Throw him in jail for all of his crimes.

Private equity is now ruining sports along w/ everything else.

“There is probably no drier topic than billionaire debt service for everyday people, but we know for sure that fans are a more than a little bit tired of seeing their favorite teams treated like assets as opposed to community goods,” said Will Norton, director of the McCormack Center for Sport Research and Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “These teams are becoming so expensive that you simply have to look to open up avenues to capital that otherwise would look like precarious choices for the long-term health of the club.”

More franchises than ever in the NFL, NBA, NHL and other leagues are partially owned and controlled by either private equity firms, owners who live and do business hundreds of miles away from a club’s home city or top executives with financial priorities that have little to do with the sports brands they own.

Not to mention former Microsoft executive (guilt by association) Steve Ballmer, owner of L.A.'s Clippers, who appears to have been paying player Kawhi Leonard under the table.

Everything the Rich Touch Dies.

"The Wages Of Sin Is Death"

Sounds good, dunnit, but like everything else in both Testaments & the Quran it is an absolute lie. The wages of any & all human existence are death, the grave, cremation, composting, yada. THERE IS NO ETERNAL REWARD.

The final destination for each of you, "good", "evil" or too stupid to decide.

Which of course raises the common-sense question: WHY FUCKING BE "GOOD"? Why not be a murderous thug primate like all the other humanoid scum destroying the planet?

Good question. Why not hurt others as they have hurt you? Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. That's in Gawd's Big Book of Lies too.

Your Species Is Disgusting

Wouldn't be surprised if I'm interested in prehistoric S-E-X because it's an excuse to share this number,which didn't hit the conscious mind even after I saw that Homo erectus was a probable partner. Eventually the memory was jogged.

So you sick bastard Homo sap. farm boys will eff anything, even hominin species/breeding groups of which there is no fossil or genetic record. Ick!

For the literate, Science. If, like most Yankees, you can barely read above a sixth-grade level, CNN has a précis for you.

None of this is exactly new, but it is to me. Actually, even before the Kinkster's tune I was interested because F. Clark Howell's Early Man was an eighth-grade textbook.

Even then I knew most of the possibilities of the "adult" world were impossible, but paleoanthropology was not un-interesting.

Scared Much?

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Vice President JD Vance described Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for Senate, as “evil” during a campaign rally here Monday.

“I realize that there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today,” said Vance, addressing several hundred people at an event put on by MAGA Inc., a super PAC closely aligned with President Donald Trump.

“And it’s people who see themselves not as citizens of a common nation fighting for every single person — whether they’re Jewish or Christian, whether they’re white or Black or brown — but see themselves as fighting for one group at the expense of others, and that is how, ladies and gentlemen, you destroy the United States of America,” Vance added.

Is he referring to white nationalist scumbags like himself & the other Republicans, who are interested only in helping wealthy white people get wealthier on the backs of working Americans?

Meanwhile ...

Embracing blatant Islamophobia, CBS News makes bizarre attempt to tie El-Sayed to 9/11

CBS News tried to scandalize Abdul El-Sayed's argument about 9/11 and the pandemic. His banal comments aligned with other mainstream commentators — and Trump too.

El-Sayed really puts the fear of Gawd in them, doesn't he? What exactly frightens them so about him?

Considering this is an intramural fight, why don't all three "Abrahamic" religions derived from the Big Book of Jewish Lies & Hallucinations just get lost? Enough is enough already. None of them actually worship their alleged Gawd, but instead kiss the asses of the three mentally ill, sun-fried desert dwellers who hallucinated all the lies & had them transcribed (Moses, Jesus & Mohammed, scam artists all.) I say all three are a complete fucking joke, like virtually all human activity. Stop wasting your time & effort.

And since you don't care what happens to it, why not give me all your money, pathetic chumps?

How Many Times Must I Tell You Cretins NOT To Buy From Amazon?

That's US$20 billion (W/ a "B"!) stolen from small businesses & your sorry asses!

Annie Palmer / CNBC:

The FTC and 22 state AGs sue Amazon, alleging it “secretly and systematically overcharged” advertisers more than $20B since 2019 by using “hidden surcharges”

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:   The FTC and 20+ state AGs sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:   FTC, states plan lawsuit against Amazon over ad price fixing

Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online:   Amazon Stock Falls After FTC Lawsuit Over Advertising Prices

Reuters:   Amazon sued by U.S. FTC, over 20 states alleging company deceived advertisers

About Amazon:   Amazon's response to the FTC's lawsuit regarding Sponsored Ads

Financial Times:   US regulator sues Amazon for manipulating advertising prices

Forbes:   FTC Files Lawsuit Against Amazon Alleging Manipulative Ad Prices

Aimee Picchi / CBS News:   FTC and 22 states sue Amazon over alleged secret ad surcharge scheme

Bloomberg Law:   Amazon Sued by FTC Over Claims It Misled Advertisers on Pricing

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:   FTC to file lawsuit alleging Amazon deceived advertisers, WSJ reports

Andrew Ferguson / @afergusonftc:   Digital markets play a critical role in the American economy—but they only work when participants can trust that powerful tech platforms play by the same rules as everyone else. That trust is foundational. Today, the Trump FTC—joined by 22 states—filed suit alleging that Amazon

IJR News:   FTC plans lawsuit against Amazon over ad pricing

@ftc:   FTC, states sue Amazon over secret ad surcharge scheme. FTC and 22 state attorneys general allege Amazon concealed unfair charges in its digital advertising auction pricing: https://www.ftc.gov/...

Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News:   Amazon Shares Tumble Amid News Of FTC ‘Advertiser Deception’ Lawsuit

Federal Trade Commission:   FTC, States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme

Karen Weise / New York Times:   F.T.C. and 22 States Claim in Lawsuit That Amazon Secretly Inflated Ad Prices

While working the wage-slaves in their warehouses to early graves. Give Bezos all your money, sucker-ass chumps! Somehow, he deserves it, not you!

Remembering Milo

Making space on the hard drive & cloud storage, a stab from the past I can now delete.

And piss on the grave of Der Stürmer, which went away just this April, after being on the losing end of defamation suits to the tune of 18.1 million smackers, & "cancelled" by many hosting services after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Self-Diagnosis

The hernia that popped out about four months ago is now what the croaker called "a big hernia". He suggested surgical consultation, but there's no consultation w/o an ultrasound, & the first one I could schedule was 5 December. Three months, if you've lost track. Worst things that could happen? More pain, inability to evacuate & gangrene.

Other crap: Exhaustion & enervation are probably not due to sleeping sickness, as I've no symptoms beyond the inability to remain upright, even in a chair, for more than three hrs., & certainly don't remember being bitten by a tsetse fly.

Depression? The heat? The sheer droning boredom of your awful idiot-filled world?

Dehydration, for which the nurse practitioner actually advised me to consume more salt? (Bought a bag of Fritos® & some cheese dip, as there's almost no protein in me either.)

I also suspect that gravity (Weakest of the four forces.) is increasing, especially in the outside world. Or the atmosphere is denser/heavier, to the point of pressing me down.

It's On Him Alright

No Gates or Brin in the rogue's gallery? Off w/ all their heads anyway!

Stolen from Ten Bears as I am too lazy, unmotivated & exhausted to look for the "funny".

A Brace Of Earworms

Yea, 'though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Still I & I will fear no evil
Still I & I will fear no evil Jah shall not fight the righteous by day
Jah shall not fight the righteous by day
But the wicked he will smite by nightWhenever the fuck you're ready, Jah! We wait, but our patience grows thin.

Getting Worse Every Day

Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds

Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July

How it will first affect you before everything else turns to shit. Have the common sense & simple human decency not to buy from Amazon or the Walton family. They are predatory scum who will be hanged from a lamppost.

[The Guardian]

250 Yrs. Of Disposable Crap

50 yrs. later, everything is at least 50 times worse.

These are among the items that have shaped the nation.
Here are their stories.

On the United States' 250th birthday, "American Objects" chronicles items that have impacted the culture.
Keep tuning in for tales of new objects as the year unfolds.

One could do worse things on a late-August Sunday than look at some of these objects. Here are three: Comic books. The baseball. Whites-Only signs.