'...precursors of the Dunning–Kruger effect were expressed by... Charles Darwin ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge") and Bertrand Russell ("in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt").'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning...
Except that Calvinball was almost always played by just two characters who actually enjoyed it.
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
“AI is here to stay” says the makers of NFTs, the metaverse, Google Glass, Windows Phone
In the 1990s, the working class of this country was told that unfettered free trade would create millions of new jobs and raise wages.
As many of us understood then, that claim was a lie.
Now they’re being sold the same false promises about AI.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
If trickle-down economics worked at all, the world gaining 400 billionaires last year would have set off an economic boom, given everyone raises, and lowered our prices.
But it didn't. Because trickle-down economics is a scam designed to make the rich richer off the rest of us.
Can John Woo get an exemption?
Except it's not always about the use. Sometimes the harm is in the making.
That anonymous wire eater needs to up their game if they want to beat this weasel.
www.npr.org/sections/the...
Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United.
Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%.
Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit.
But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
Every layoff is a failure of management and leadership.
I usually wear a size 1101 AI.
BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.
The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.
Every time there's talk of increasing the minimum wage to an actual livable wage, monied interests act like it'll be the end of civilization. Their predictions of doom have *never* come true. It's time to stop listening to people who spread the lie that living wages spell doom for an economy.
Never give this sort of person power in government. They are obviously wrong, and willfully so, but will try to prove themselves right by destroying what others have built.
Expected: "Nobody ever thought of blocking the strait before me."
I was recently told that if a user wants a genAI product to be less sycophantic and more critical, they should frame their prompt as ideas from a competitor.
I guess this is satire because it's OpenAI vs Altman.
(Disclaimer: I don't intentionally use any generative AI.)
Maybe he shouldn't have sent Vance to kill the last one, then.
(allegedly)
In a data center, when a component dies, the rest keep working while it is replaced and trashed. Amazon apparently expects the same when a warehouse employee dies.
Life imitates bad cinema:
'Scientist Jean Karl Michael invents a death ray which, according to him, is for “peaceful purposes”.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger!...
Screech owls tonight! Feels like winning.
I had no idea you also wanted to be a rumpled library detective! That's more we have in common!
My favorite part of this Southeast Boise neighborhood as a late-night sorta person: Sitting by the window, listening to the western toads call to each other, and maybe, if I'm really lucky, hearing a screech owl.
A screenshot of a Facebook post by CBS 2 Boise. The post text reads: "A new state law required the City of Boise to take down the Pride flag outside City Hall. Tuesday morning, the City wrapped flag poles in Pride colors and added a new sign to the window on City Hall. CBS2 reached out to the Mayor and Governor’s office for comment." Below the text is a collage of three photos showing these updates: Left: A tall metallic flagpole in a plaza at night, with its lower section wrapped in horizontal stripes matching the colors of the Progress Pride flag (black, brown, light blue, pink, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). Top Right: A closer view of a flagpole base, also wrapped in horizontal Progress Pride flag colors. Bottom Right: A large window on City Hall featuring a graphic with diagonal stripes in the Progress Pride colors alongside the text, "Creating a city for everyone."
Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors.
This is amazing.
Oracle just laid off 30,000 people
In 2025 Oracle made $57.4B in revenue & saved $3.3B in federal taxes due to Trump's tax cut for billionaires & mega corps
$57.4B revenue, $3.3B additional tax savings, 30K workers fired
"Trickle down" is the greatest scam in history to rob working people
In Peanuts, the kids have voice bubbles. Snoopy has thought bubbles. When Snoopy types, it appears at the top of frame with no bubble. Woodstock gets a voice bubble but it only contains vertical scratches.
Now, please, FIX YOUR DAMNED MEMES.
Thanks,
--Grumpy Old Man
I lost interest in rocketry when it became mostly about the egos and wealth of horrible people, but I'm genuinely pleased by all the excitement I see here about the latest.