One of the voices in my head informs me I'm deluding myself, all that will happen is that more channels will disappear, the price will increase again next yr. & Spectrum will tell its customers to keep fucking themselves.
Sunday, June 30, 2024
More Mortality To Report
The self-described "Conference of Champions" is no more. Th' hell? How'd that happen?Can't wait to find out what the reduction in the monthly cable bill will be. Or the rebate for the recent outage. Perhaps we'll get seven new channels to replace the departed ones. (Still waiting for MeTV Toons to appear. It's been on the air a week already.)
More Martin Mull
Must admit, post America 2 Night this reporter didn't follow Martin Mull's telebision/movie actor career that closely. Always thought of him as a musical/visual artist. Anyway, the AP & m.e..Only McKean is still w/ us. (And maybe some band members.)
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Orlando Cepeda, 1937-2024
Extra sad when people about whom I feel obligated to type something on the occasion of their death die, because I seldom have anything to add. Now Orlando Cepeda, one of the first baseball stars from Puerto Rico, has passed to the Candlestick in the sky, where he, Willie Mays & Willie McCovey are probably freezing in the wind. The Giant sluggers of my youth (& perhaps my youth itself) are history.Orlando Cepeda, the slugging Hall of Fame first baseman nicknamed ‘Baby Bull,’ dies at 86
Corporate America Says "Fuck You!"
No Free Water!!
Friday, June 28, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Gentrification Propaganda
Didn't their pig gawd (or Moses) tell the Judeo-Xian-Islamo sacks of shit not to lie & murder? Why hasn't that message gotten through to any of them after several thousand yrs.?Will Tel Aviv get the same treatment as the Russians and Chinese? Likely not.
Yet Another Reason To Kill
Not that any sane person needs more reasons, but ...
At least I have the sense not to get iNternet service from the greedy, incompetent bastards.
Appears to have been out for several hrs. already; it's going to be another four? What the hell?
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
"Double-Haters" Hoping For Guy Fawkes-Style Debate Explosion
I'm an eight-billion hater; Atlanta can (& probably should) be nuked from orbit, just to be damn sure.Joseph Stepansky / Al Jazeera: As Biden and Trump prep for the 2024 presidential debate, what's at stake?Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner: Trump can turn the biased CNN debate to his advantage
How Dare They?
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Yesterday's Demo Today
Koreatown Or Palestine, Gentrification Is Genocide: Kill All The Landlords Now!
The police, at the ready to break up the demonstration or to ignore landlord counterprotestors brutalizing demonstrators, depending on what the landlords have told the L.A.P.D. to do.
One-Hit Album Wonder
Think I bought it 'cause it was on sale, & I knew who Felix Pappalardi was.Unfortunately for The Devil's Anvil, their one and only album, Hard Rock from the Middle East, was released during escalating tensions between Israel and neighboring Arab countries and the subsequent Arab–Israeli War.
Monday, June 24, 2024
Hitting The High Notes W/ Yma Sumac
You'll have to click to watch this one.
Eddie Cantor intro.
Yma Sumac Sings Virgin Of The Sun God
Photo Bomb
Didn't spot the hawk until I was in the bunker reviewing the day's product; the clouds were the point.
Hawks
Looking for rats, of whom there are millions in the city. And there are plenty of rodents, too.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Holocaust Humor
"Hey Jewboy, why aren't you laughing?"Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump taunted Jewish employees with jokes about Nazi ovens: Ex-Trump Org VP — During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, a former executive vice president of the Trump Organization revealed that her former boss thought it was funny to make jokes about the Nazi ovens around Jewish employees.Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: Trump Joked About Nazi ‘Ovens’ to His Jewish Employees, Says Former Trump Org VPCorbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Trump Made ‘Nazi Ovens’ Joke Around Jewish Execs: Ex-Trump Org VP — CRUEL AND UNUSUAL — “Everybody was shocked,” the former Trump Organization employee said on Sunday. — Donald Trump has claimed he's better for Jewish Americans than Democrats, but according to a former senior Trump …
Cricket's Revenge
She isn't even trying any more.Kristi Noem: 'Any Mom' Would Have Killed Cricket The Puppy
Alexander also pressed Noem on the claim that she met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un."There was no evidence that that meeting happened," Alexander noted. "So how did it make it into your book, Governor?"
"I'm not going to talk about that," Noem insisted. "I took that line out of my book, and I'm not going to talk about it."
Sunday Sunday
Everything sucks & is stupid & I want to die
Everything sucks & is stupid & I want to die
Everything sucks & is stupid & I want to kill someone, anyone.
The dead don't have to suck or be stupid.
In a democracy, all are responsible, none are innocent, stupid suckwads or not.
This isn't a democracy, but there are still more of you than of them. You should've done something.
This is a world of shit & pain because of you, typical humanoid.
Your very existence makes this planet a death trap.
Go away, all of you.
Forever.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Clean Up Your Mess Already,
Lazy Irish Drunks
Over 48 hrs. later there was still debris on the sidewalk. Have you no civic pride, bog-monkeys?
Exciting pix of the actual conflagration. More blah blah yada, if you want to open a private incognito window.
Never been to this dump in the 51 yrs. I've been in town, 'though it's been local to me virtually all that time.
Of course, drinking in bars of any kind is a chump's game, & this reporter is the world's greatest non-fan of the
banshee-screeching the Irish call music.
banshee-screeching the Irish call music.
Worst Person Piece Of Crap In The World, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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| Mme. Murati speaks. |
Information Superhighway Robbery
People are angry (Read 'em all.) but few are willing to defend themselves physically until it's too damn late.Beyond fucking belief, innit? None of this can end well. Even if the robots manage to make all the humanoids redundant they'll probably destroy everything else on the planet as well.Kate Irwin / PCMag:
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says “some creative jobs maybe will go away” due to AI, “but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place” — OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati isn't worried about AI's impact on creative professions.Jon Neimeister / @andantonius: This is one of the most revolting things I've ever heard one of these leeches say. Their models are trained on OUR work and you have the AUDACITY to say our jobs shouldn't have existed in the first place? Mira, Sam, the lot of you, I say this with the utmost venom: go to hell.@perpetualmaniac: Remember how the elites said AI is nothing to worry about then they turn around and admit many jobs are going away but “maybe they shouldn't have existed at all in the first place.” More rug pulls coming.Oli Franklin-Wallis / @olifranklin: When you spend much time with tech people, as I have, you realise many are just like those who work for defence companies. They develop their own distorted ethics, in order to avoid the fact that what they do is morally unconscionable.Reid Southen / @rahll: This is insane. Won't say OpenAI didn't train on YouTube, and now basically implies some of those jobs shouldn't have been there in the first place if the “content is not very high quality.” So, they'll steal from and replace you if they think you're of “low quality”. Yikes.@dartmouth: .@OpenAI Chief Technology Officer @miramurati, @thayerschool '12, predicts that as AI gets smarter, it will not only be more helpful, but safer. Her thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence ⤵️ https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/ ...Ed Zitron / @edzitron: this is a declaration of war against creatives and it should be reported as such@iamhappytoast: 'Maybe artists shouldn't have existed' says woman who makes money stealing from those artists and destroying their careers while also pushing a tool that will put children off learning to paint or draw in the future.Meg / @meganroseruiz: The thing that gets me about Gen AI is that it literally doesn't have to exist. It doesn't fill a previously untapped market. The only thing it accomplishes is making it easier for corporations to avoid paying creative people. It's useless. Also Mira Murati's job shouldn't existNeal Stephenson / @nealstephenson: Started a Substack. Have soft-pedaled it as I was learning my way around. Then along came today's Mira Murati furor, which happens to dovetail perfectly with the first post I put up just a few days ago after OpenAI's previous gaffe https://open.substack.com/...Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: I've always found it gross that people praise OpenAI's “noble mission” to create AGI when it's a bunch of ex-Googler's with $10M pay packages working to kill the jobs of people making 1% of what they do. https://www.businessinsider.com/Nick Murphy / @nickmurftweets: If the creative jobs weren't there in the first place, Mira, there'd be nothing for you to steal.Abeba Birhane / @abebab: this is too much for a company that has been built on the backbone of stolen work, largely from the creative communityDare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati, says AI will cause some creative jobs to go away, but maybe they shouldn't have existed in the first place. OpenAI's mission is to create AGI that can replace people in every viable economic activity. Killing jobs is the end goal. [video]Seamus Blackley / @seamusblackley: Tell me why people hate Silicon Valley without saying the word Silicon Valley.Rob Freund / @robertfreundlaw: “If our new product can eliminate your career, maybe you should never have had that career” is an absolutely wild position to take. The sheer arrogance and inability to read the room.Kevin Parry / @kevinbparry: My wisdom is that if you're celebrating this and thinking you can finally have a creative career because you can prompt, you'll for sure be replaced by the evolving tech or someone who can type faster. Art is hard, and even harder to turn into a career. There are no shortcuts.@thayerschool: During Commencement weekend, @OpenAI CTO and Thayer alum @miramurati spoke at a special “AI Everywhere” event at Thayer, and received an honorary degree from @dartmouth. AI is getting smarter, but she predicts that smarter AI will be more helpful AND safer. https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/ ... [image]@cake_of_canola_oil@threads.net: She's certainly quite smart in her chosen field. It's also pretty obvious her chosen field is not “media”. Every time she does one of these it highlights everything wrong with OpenAI, I'm surprised they keep choosing her as the messenger@darthbluesky.bsky.social: i can think of other things that maybe should not be here in the first place tbh [embedded post]Brendel / @brendelbored.bsky.social: Writers, artists, actors, musicians, all those things are bullshit. Being a “Chief Technology Officer”? That's real as hell dawg [embedded post]Andy Meek / BGR: OpenAI CTO thinks AI will kill some jobs that shouldn't have existed in the first place@moviessilently.bsky.social: There's a scene in LITTLE CAESAR where Edward G Robinson's character sees a painting in a gilt frame. He asks how much, is told that it was $$$$$ and remarks “Boy, them gold frames sure cost plenty of dough.” — He can't understand the painting itself being valuable and he would have cleaned up in AI [embedded post]@cyanogic.com: “maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place” — AI bros are not beating the allegations of hating art/artists and wanting to make the entire profession suffer [embedded post]@jann@twit.social: SO SO SO tone deaf! — #Apple, are you REALLY partnering with this company???? #OpenAI — In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says “some creative jobs maybe will go away” due to AI, “but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place” (Kate Irwin/PCMag) — https://www.pcmag.com/...@rhymeswithnick.bsky.social: The creatives who survive this era of bullshit won't forget. [embedded post]Micah / @rincewind.run: they lie about how this will help and not hurt people until they feel that they don't need to do that anymore — and then we get the truth — the breathless headlines should keep that in mind next time, but they won't [embedded post]Whet Moser / @whet.bsky.social: “AI is going to replace work that didn't need to be done” huh? [embedded post]>Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie.bsky.social: When they tell you what they are, believe them. [embedded post]@evacide.bsky.social: I have known many CTOs that did not need to replaced by AI because they could have been replaced much more easily with a very short shell script. [embedded post]Greg Pak / @gregpak.bsky.social: Imagine the deep moral vacuity you'd have to have to use the phrase “shouldn't have” here. Like it was somehow WRONG or IMMORAL for creative people to get paid for their work. Work that OpenAI has pirated to fuel their immoral, unethical machine. Deeply, deeply repugnant worldview. [embedded post]Jesse / @jesseltaylor.bsky.social: The jobs will go away for a short while, then come back, but the people hiring will use their unsuccessful foray into AI to lower the amount paid for the creative work under the threat of pivoting back to the thing that didn't work [embedded post]Luke Larsen / Digital Trends: GPT-5 will have ‘Ph.D.-level’ intelligenceAdam Downer / Know Your Meme: OpenAI's Mira Murati Says AI May Kill Some Jobs That 'Shouldn't Have Been Jobs In The First Place' And Draws Ire From AI's Critics
Friday, June 21, 2024
Today's Forecast
Soft-On-Crime D.A. Wimps Out Again
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Pro-Palestinian protestors defend themselves against a pro-Israeli supporter at an encampment at UCLA early on the morning of May 1. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) |
Why haven't the UCLA police all been suspended/fired/charged for negligence & incompetence? And why hasn't the very concept of "private security guards" been completely debunked? What the Limeys call "Little Hitlers" should be criminalized, not paid, especially when they do absolutely nothing.On was identified as a counterprotester at an April 30 pro-Palestinian demonstration at the UCLA campus. In widely shared videos, a masked man in a white hoodie can be seen repeatedly striking protesters with a pole. Law enforcement sources identified the man as On and video of his actions were first aired by CNN.The UCLA Police Department interviewed witnesses and victims in connection to the violence that erupted at the encampment, reviewed security camera footage of the masked man and later identified him as On. Pro-Israeli counterprotesters armed with fireworks, gas irritants, and blunt objects violently attacked students and faculty in the encampment for hours as private security guards and campus police watched from a distance.
You might need incognito mode to read it all, & the links. If the pigs aren't rioting, they let their little friends do it. Real shame there wasn't a Kyle Rittenhouse type to stir things up. Well, they start w/ sticks, gas & fireworks, who knows where they'll finish?
Friday Finger
Thursday, June 20, 2024
We Don't Care Until You're Dead
But as soon as you're history we'll drag out the flags & hypocrisy.
"You're born alone, you die alone."
— Richard Meltzer.
— Richard Meltzer.
Soft-On-Crime D.A. Lets Vicious Vigilante Murderer Skate
In America, Rich Peoples' Property Is More Valued Than Poor Peoples' Lives
The message the D.A. is sending is: Threaten a frat boy's car & he has the right to stab you multiple times. Wouldn't having a knife w/ you make it premeditated? Are there no fucking laws?Jesus you rat bastard, this reporter is in genuine fear for his life & the lives of others every time he sees a police car. Does that give him the right to pump a few RPGs into the next black-&-white he sees?“After careful consideration and a thorough review of all available evidence, we have decided not to pursue charges against USC student Ivan Gallegos,” District Attorney George Gascón [sic] said in a statement. “We believe that Mr. Gallegos’ actions were driven by a genuine fear for his life and the lives of others. Our heart goes out to the deceased’s family, friends and everyone impacted by this tragic incident.”
Summer: Already Over
Don't believe the seasonal hype; periods of daylight will now be shorter each day for another six months. Wonderful.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
It's TV Girl!
"Say Hey!"
This looks good (& short).
In 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev visited San Francisco and members of the International Longshoreman’s Union greeted him with cheers, newspaperman Frank Coniff quipped: “This is the damnedest city. They cheer Khruschev and boo Willie Mays.”
Up At The Crack Of Noon ...
... To Tell All Humanoids To Shut Their Mouths, Stop Moving, & Stop Breathing!
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Committing Murder To Protect The Holy & Sacred Automobile
Priorities?
What kind of vigilante bullshit are they teaching at U.S.C.? Killer frat-boy Gallegos doesn't seem to have gotten the lesson right. Or has he gotten it exactly right, in that property is infinitely more valuable than mere people?A 19-year-old USC student was in custody Tuesday for allegedly fatally stabbing a man he apparently witnessed breaking into cars near the university’s Greek Row.Ivan Gallegos was booked on suspicion of murder and was being held in lieu of $2 million bail, according to the Los Angeles Police Department and jail records.
The victim, who police said was in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene, LAPD Officer Tony Im told City News Service. His name was not immediately released.
The stabbing was reported around 8:15 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of West 28th Street, east of University Avenue.
LAPD Interim Chief Dominic Choi told the Police Commission Tuesday morning that the student confronted the man who was breaking into vehicles. That man allegedly told the student he had a gun, resulting in the student stabbing him, Choi said.
The victim of the stabbing tried to flee through an alley, where responding officers eventually found him suffering from multiple stab wounds, according to Choi.
Witnesses described seeing a pool of blood near the fraternity.
I suppose property owners on a jury of bourgeois pigs will let him off w/ a "well done", although he is a vicious murdering thug who deserves the gas chamber. Carrying a knife makes it premeditated, dunnit?
Tee Vee Toy Time Tuesday
Why Is This A Nation Of Gun-Crazed Murderers?
"Not A Flying Toy"Remember when adverts on the telly were all 58 seconds long?A young Kurt Russell, & the voice of William Cannon.Dig the car wash at the end. Certainly wouldn't have amused me, even at a very young age.Monday, June 17, 2024
Blood On The Tracks
(I'm Only Bleeding)
Sunday, June 16, 2024
T.I.L.T.
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Hope the No Fun League doesn't hear about that schedule.As of 2024, it features a 21-week regular season in which each team plays 18 games with three bye weeks. This season traditionally runs from mid-June to early November. Following the regular season, six teams compete in the league's three-week playoffs.
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