Link round-up for 2 August 2025
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Not everyone can do these moves.
He keeps bringing friends home with him.
Smile!
It's just everyday life in Australia.
Effing dogs destroy everything.
Don't ride me.
Bagged three for the price of one!
These animals will administer your pun-ishment.
They've invented a robot that can steal cars.
What a disgrace, to get falling-down drunk in public.
The driver cleverly dodged his trap.
Yeah, he can fly, but he's out of his league here.
See a huge wave with a nice visual bonus.
Behold the abominations of the sea.
This graphic illustrates the spread of the tsunami after the 2011 Tôhoku earthquake.
Orangutans understand medicinal plants.
A breakthrough HIV drug is now being released world-wide -- and the company that developed it is waiving royalties to keep it inexpensive.
Diet, not exercise, should be the focus for combating obesity (exercise has many other benefits, but it's not very effective for losing weight).
In the sixteenth century, even royalty led miserable lives poisoned by their own greed and hunger for power.
Darwinfish 2 remembers the great Tom Lehrer.
Ask CatCGC.
Use time travel to eat the rich.
Some creatures just don't make good pets.
Morning Coffee blog has an amusing image round-up.
You can help Virginia farmers feed the needy, of whom there are plenty these days.
Israel really blundered badly here.
The more your "AI" knows about you, the more the hackers will know eventually.
There is now a commercially-available video camera so small that it's built into an ordinary-looking pair of glasses. This could be useful for inconspicuously recording the authorities abusing their power, but could also be used to invade other people' privacy in various ways.
Don't rent a car from Hertz until they get rid of this system.
If you've ever used something called "Tea App", you need to read this.
Hackers are out there, attacking political (and probably other) blogs. Take precautions like strong passwords and two-factor authentication.
When you go to another country, don't be the asshole American. Or the dumbass one.
Product reviews on Google search are even less reliable than its other results.
Using "AI" in your education is self-sabotage.
Credit card companies should not be the arbiters of what you can and can't buy. Paypal, too. Remember, if today they get away with banning something you disapprove of, tomorrow they'll ban something you like.
The pressure campaign against the credit-card companies appears to be having an impact.
Sometimes it's refreshing when the assholes just straight-up act like assholes.
YouTube is now threatening to start blocking many videos for users it guesses to be under eighteen -- and the guessing will be done by "AI", so it will be randomly wrong in many cases.
Here's a good dissection of the currently-trendy "stolen land" narrative.
People will do anything -- anything -- to avoid confronting real anti-Semitism.
Right-wing podcasters are increasing their focus on the Epstein scandal despite Trump's tantrums.
Trump wants to encourage more oil drilling, but the oil industry isn't interested.
A jury has ordered Tesla to pay $243 million because one of its self-driving cars killed a person. Who knows whether this will hold up on appeal, but it's a positive sign.
The FBI and two other agencies are holding the real unedited camera footage from the night of Epstein's suicide.
What kind of asshole manager allowed this situation to happen?
Two weeks ago I linked to this story about Delta Airlines using "AI" to jack up ticket prices for individuals based on their personal data. Now two House Democrats have introduced legislation to ban the practice.
There's an easy way to spot fake feminists.
Q2 job growth was terrible, so Trump fired the head of the agency that keeps track of it.
Someone with access to the DHS Twitter account is dog-whistling up a storm here.
"AI" companies claim that their bots are rendering human workers unnecessary, but they themselves make their people work horrific hours, so evidently the bots can't do whatever they're doing.
Leave the kids out of this, dammit.
For all that voters are turning against Trump and the Republicans, they still dislike the Democrats far more. Voters in swing districts consider Democrats more corrupt than Republicans.
This asshole is replacing his company's customer service people with "AI". I'll be watching for the follow-up story in a few months when he's frantically trying to hire them back after the "AI" crashes and burns.
I remember this guy. Good riddance.
Trump's latest "trade deals" are predictably rubbish, with the other countries' concessions being things that either can't be done or would have happened anyway. Krugman flat-out calls the EU deal a scam.
This will be Elon Musk's legacy.
Citizens confront ICE abductors on the streets. I'm guessing this is California, based on the car license plates.
The FDA is using "AI" to fast-track drug approvals, creating a risk of disastrous errors.
Violent bullies march to demand their rights.
The UK's so-called Online Safety Act is an utter fiasco and a disaster for privacy. The public backlash against it is already gathering steam. In the meantime, there's this. And VPN use in the UK began skyrocketing within minutes of the law being passed.
The büngwads are even going after Wikipedia.
Here are some alleged work-arounds for the Bluesky age verification requirement in the UK.
Sandie Peggie is a working-class heroine who refused to knuckle under.
Ireland is piecing together the story of Catholic atrocities from decades ago.
Lesbians are under attack in Australia.
This was Europe in July.
Trump caves! Trump backs down! Brazil and Mexico stood up to him instead of rushing to make phony "deals", and so he "postponed" his threatened extreme tariffs yet again.
Russian authorities in occupied Ukraine threaten to take away people's children if they don't accept Russian passports.
Hackers massively disrupted Aeroflot, Russia's main airline. A lot of people in Russian counter-intelligence are gonna be in deep trouble.
See the results of Ukrainian drones dropping mines on Russian troop shelters.
Your tax dollars at work -- US-made guided bomb vs Russian base.
A railway hub in the Rostov area, near Ukraine, goes kaboom.
There was a time when Israelis were more willing to compromise. Then they saw where that leads.
These Arab countries at least recognize what the actual problem in Gaza is.
As the new Islamist regime in Syria attacks its Druze minority, only one country is standing up for them.
More links at Red State Blues and Comedy Plus.
My own posts this week: some light music, an image round-up, and mendacious memes.
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No, you fatuous jackasses, Republicans gerrymandering the shit out of Texas does not make it OK for Democrats to do the same in California. What matters is being fair to the voters, not being fair to the political parties. If Republicans rob Texas voters of a meaningful choice, then Democrats robbing California voters of a meaningful choice is a further attack on democracy, not a response.
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The potential costs for the US of tariffs on India:
Can people please stop being abjectly, pathetically ridiculous?
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posted by Infidel753 at 12:28 AM
8 Comments:
The cartoon of humans as pets (followed with barrage of companies pushing hard to bring AI in to drive the workforce) is very spot on!
It's good to see the push-back against companies like Delta taking effect, but I look at companies like Hertz using AI to scan for ANY blemish on a vehicle as going way too far.
I also don't get how any human would possibly want to work "996", but I've worked with people from other cultures. They are driven; have no issues with working around the clock.
I loved the video of "Brad vs. Everyone" - spot on!! I've had it with the likes of MSNBC for that reason; everything is "HAIR ON FIRE!" hype of the worst of the worst information, when there it really nothing of note in the content.
Thank for the shout-out!
Rade
Thanks so much for putting my blog up about the Virginia farm co op feeding the poor. I really appreciate the help.
Trying to box a Kangaroo doesn't seem like the best of ideas.
Abominations of the sea is right. lol Sea bugs. Yum. lol
There's so much AI just everywhere now.
The Waves camera glasses sound like a good invention.
The little videos are great. I especially liked the deep sea creatures one.
Rade: A lot of the "damage" Hertz finds via "AI" is non-existent -- the system misinterprets reflections as damage and things like that. If there's enough of a public outcry and loss of business, they'll get rid of the system, but I wouldn't use them until then.
Some people work insane hours because they're given no choice (as in China); others are fanatics about business and think it's normal. Unfortunately the latter tend to rise high in management and set the tone at companies.
Brad Polumbo has a lot of good content, pushing back against the craziness these days. Well worth watching.
Leanna: Glad to help, in such a case.
Mary: I hear kangaroos can be pretty aggressive. You have to get tough with them to get rid of them.
The ocean is full of horrible-looking things that spend all their time trying to eat each other. I stay well away from it.
Those video-recording glasses could be fun, but people might get pretty mad if they realized you were recording them.
Ricko: There seems no end to the nightmares that are lurking down there.
You do keep your eyes on many many goings-on.
I listened to a similar report from Le Monde this morning about how Trump's tariffs will effect American consumers. One of the points they also mentioned used French wine as an example. Not only will Americans need to pay more for French wine, they may also have to pay more for American wine. If a greedy producer of Cabernet in the U.S. no longer has to compete with French cabernets, they may hike their price simply because they can.
The Sweeney controversy is indeed ridiculous. Talk about giving your adversaries fuel for their fire!
Anvil: I try.....
CAS: I'm sure there are many greedy corporate executives out there planning to raise prices because the tariffs force their competitors to do so. And their workers won't see a dime of it.
The infuriating thing is that, as I've discussed numerous times here, the West really is seeing an explosion of anti-Semitism and Nazi-like ideology, but the media would rather blither about nonsense like jeans/genes in that ad than talk about the real threat.
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