Link round-up for 9 May 2026
Sorry for the lack of posts since Tuesday. I wasn't feeling well.
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I don't think this is how you normally do a massage.
Don't mess with these cats.
But these cats are just goofballs.
And these dogs are crazy about fetching sticks.
Behold, an eldritch abomination worthy of Lovecraft.
These are signs of the times.
Here's how to annoy a llama.
What an awesome basketball shot.
This police car travels through several jurisdictions.
Will he take the food?
Look at these shameful drunks falling down and half-passed-out on a road.
Some scary close calls here.
You're not seeing what you think you're seeing.
This is called a fried egg jellyfish, for some reason (NSFW blog, requires Blogspot login).
Watch artist Luo Li Rong at work.
This is the Round Tower of Copenhagen.
This is Ashikaga Park in Japan. Click photos for full size.
Tour a literally underground printing shop in Lithuania, which was used to produce "forbidden" texts during the time of Soviet rule.
The more we learn about the other great ape species, the smaller the differences between them and humans appear.
Social media are really pushing ragebait, to keep you infuriated and thus engaged with them. I never go on the main social media sites, but even YouTube seems to be doing this to some extent.
If you use Google Chrome, it is downloading "AI" onto your device without permission and will keep re-downloading it if you delete it. That link has suggestions for how to get rid of it permanently.
Don't trust your luggage to a Waymo.
Don't trust your Amazon package to a delivery drone.
Even if you're already over fifty, switching to a healthier diet can still help fend off dementia.
Today is the National Association of Letter Carriers food drive -- see the link for how to donate.
Some thermos bottles can injure you. Check to see if yours is one of the dangerous ones.
Beware of scams like this -- but boy, was this scammer ever lazy.
This PayPal scam, on the other hand, is hard to spot because the e-mail really does come from PayPal. That link will tell you how to recognize it and what to do about it.
If you get a ring stuck on your finger, here's a simple method for removing it.
You might want to find out if your pension fund plans to invest in this kind of garbage.
Don't wear your politics on the job. Really, why do these people think it's OK to throw their politics in everybody's face in every situation?
This person exists. I can't imagine how she copes with life in general. The average two-year-old shows more maturity and resilience.
"AI" keeps wreaking havoc, but at least we can get funny videos out of it.
This looks like an interesting book on the history of religion. I haven't read it, so can't evaluate it.
This is the real price of oil.
"AI" start-ups are renting office space they don't need, so they'll look more like real companies.
Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention has been declining for nineteen straight years.
"AI" is just as damaging to artists as you've heard, first stealing their work (for "training") and then reducing their incomes since many former clients judge "AI" slop to be good enough. The link also gives some examples of resistance getting organized.
Babies are dying because parents, believing social media instead of science, are refusing early vitamin K shots. Sorry, but that's just how natural selection works. If you are willfully stupid, you will reduce the chances of your genes being passed on to future generations.
The entire French government is switching its systems from Windows to Linux, citing the risks of being dependent on US-controlled technology.
"AI" companies want to imbue their crap hallucination programs with "ethics", but they've chosen the worst possible way to do it.
The election-rigging gerrymander scam in Virginia, which would have given an almost fifty-fifty state a ten-to-one Congressional delegation, has been struck down by the state supreme court. In Virginia, unlike in Texas and California and some other states, voters rather than political parties will decide who represents them.
Local officials have approved a data center in Utah which will be more than twice the size of Manhattan and will use twice as much electricity as the entire state currently does. Local residents are furious.
Jews in Mamdani's New York face escalating harassment, threats, and even Nazi graffiti.
Microslop is removing Copilot "AI" from Xbox, to much rejoicing from users. Now remove it from everything else.
The US now has two billionaire-controlled political parties. In Europe, mainstream parties ignoring the people's concerns is driving the rise of new parties, but the US system makes third parties non-viable, so it's driving the working class away from politics altogether.
The witch persecutions were part of a pervasive and successful campaign of social terror.
Don't treat outliers as mainstream.
This planned town in Texas is for those of one particular religion only.
Here's a message for Jeff Bezos.
Opposition to data centers is bringing together Americans from all across the political spectrum. It's increasingly a potent issue in elections. Notice again how all the people whom that link quotes as supporting data centers are politicians or corporate types -- voters hate them.
The Trumpazoid war on birth control and abortion exposes right-wing claims of "small government" and personal freedom for the lies they are.
When a society turns evil, it means that millions of individuals have turned evil. Be a voice of dissent, while you still can.
Working-class people fear and resent "AI", while the tech-bro executive parasite class which seeks to destroy democracy and reduce us all to serfdom is enthused about it.
This is not "criticism".
The film No Country for Old Men sheds light on the tech-bro CEO mentality.
The Israel-bashing Nazi-tattoo guy isn't the only Senate option for Maine Democrats -- give David Costello a chance.
The deadly measles outbreaks in the US are bringing some anti-vaxxers to their senses -- enough that it's actually slowing down the outbreaks.
Paul Pressler was one of the most powerful figures in the history of American Christianity -- and his life epitomized how the power of religion is used.
Gary Marcus assesses the growing anti-"AI" backlash.
A Christian phone company aims to help its users pretend that everything they don't like doesn't exist. I support people doing what they want, but this will just exacerbate the problem of people living in ideological echo chambers.
Here is what genocide means, and what it does not mean.
Richard Dawkins is a brilliant evolutionary biologist, but even he can be misled when he gets outside his own field.
A planned "AI"-focused high school in New York is being scrapped after a public backlash.
If this was your daughter, would you call this justice?
Upstanders Canada, which fights anti-Semitism, is holding two events in late May.
A major march against anti-Semitism is planned in London tomorrow.
Reform UK, one of Britain's two nativist parties, scored huge gains in British local elections this week, practically wiping out the old two major parties in some regions (the MSM idiotically continue to brand the nativists as "far right" even though most of these parties are probably to the left of the US Democrats on most issues). Germany's nativist party, the AfD, has now reached 41% support in one of Germany's states, far surpassing the two major parties. I've been saying for over a decade that this kind of thing would happen if Europe's mainstream parties kept ignoring their voters' concerns about immigration and Islam.
The EU recognizes that VPNs serve as a work-around to defeat its evil, anti-privacy "age verification" laws, but can't figure out how to stop people from using them.
In Ireland, the number of Catholic weddings fell by 51% between 2014 and 2024, reflecting the continuing secularization of Irish society. Regular mass attendance has fallen from 91% in 1972 to 24% in 2023 -- even before the covid outbreak.
Norway is purging its educational system of the tech gadgets which were plunging the country into illiteracy, and getting back to basics.
France's hypocrisy about Israel is a sign of moral collapse.
A Ukrainian drone hitting a Russian ammunition truck makes a pretty good explosion.
Ukraine strikes a military factory far to the east of Moscow, and another oil refinery near St Petersburg. The latter area is getting hammered lately.
Russian warbloggers are getting despondent over the course of the war with Ukraine.
Ukrainian drones have shut down all air travel across southern Russia. The disruption extends to Moscow itself.
Ceasefires and fake peace just mean endless war forever. The only way to deal with jihadism is to eradicate it.
The Iranian regime is allegedly dumping oil into the sea because it has run out of storage capacity. I'm sure Greta Thunberg will get right on this as soon as she can figure out how to use it to make Israel look bad.
Iranian political prisoners are being tortured before they are executed. One signed a false confession because his wife was being tortured to force him to comply.
As Trump pivots to negotiating a meaningless "deal" that would leave the regime in power, many Iranians feel abandoned and frustrated.
Economic collapse and the mass murder of protesters in January have destroyed any legitimacy the regime might once have had, leaving it struggling to suppress and enraged society. It remains unclear who is really in charge.
One year after Operation Sindoor, the successful retaliatory attack remains the template for India's response to jihadism.
India's movie industry is awash in "AI", including fake endings and scenes added to real movies.
China has stopped issuing licenses for dangerous, disruptive "self-driving" taxis.
More links at Red State Blues, WAHF, and Comedy Plus.
My posts this week: crown prince Pahlavi's message to Europe, and an image round-up.
[Image at top: burning oil refinery at Tuapse, Russia]
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