Link round-up for 14 November 2026

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week.

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It was time for him to kick the bucket.

Look at the damage a hypothetical dog can do.

The police go after beastly criminals.

An icy driveway can't stop him from delivering the package.

The child can read!

These things just go together.

Elephants can be kind of goofy.

Open this door!

Blogger Mr Shife can't sleep, so he counts Star Trek marketing taglines instead of sheep.

"I did not order the cat."  But did you order the Hitler tea kettle?

Being inside one of these would definitely be "wrong place, wrong time".

Even wronger place, even wronger time.  But at least the original non-censored video would have the idiot's license plate.

Guns don't kill people, carrots kill people.

With this man's help, you need fear no puddle.

Bohemian Valhalla blog reports on a very rainy but successful Halloween.

"Fallmaxxing" includes some impressive sunrise/sunset photos and a house that went all-in on Halloween.

They don't write 'em like this any more.

I can well believe this is the world's largest whatever-it-is.

Such a magnificent garden indeed qualifies as a work of art.

I don't know whether this is real or not (bioluminescent micro-organisms can make waves look like that), but it's nice.

Blogger Bilbo suggests some new government programs.

He works to protect the safety of others.

What did people do before duct tape was invented?

Here's a couple of things you didn't know about the Apollo Moon missions.

The ability of some bacteria to survive for long periods in space has some interesting implications.

This Tuesday, the 17th, there will be an Emergency Alert System test throughout the US.  More info here.

Watch out for this phone scam that's going around.

Those weird "energy drinks" you see everywhere are probably very bad for your heart.

If you have a smartphone, check to see if it's making your phone number public in ways you don't want.

The Chrome browser may be installing "AI" on your computer without your knowledge.  The post is from March, so I'm not sure whether it still does this.  It includes instructions for disabling it.

If people use their real names on the internet, they have to expect consequences.

PayPal says it will stop fucking with people's accounts based on accusations that they promote "hate" and "intolerance".  It's an ironclad rule that when a company does have a policy against those things, any viewpoint the upper management doesn't like will be classified as "hate" and "intolerance".

"The more insecure a person is about his religion, the more aggressively he defends it."

This story is partly paywalled, but the headline alone is worth a giggle.

This one is almost as embarrassing.  JFC these people are idiots.

Even though "AI" can't replace workers, bosses can still use it as a threat to keep wages down.

"Get your head out of your ass or you idiots will hand everything back to the Republicans in 2 years."

This company fired most of its engineers and replaced them with "AI".  Here are the results.

Small, cheap, lethally-armed drones will soon change the face of political violence.

Media company Paradium is imploding after fully embracing "AI".

Groveling before the haters won't save you.

What a disgusting hypocrite.

Think of it as natural selection in action.

This was settler colonialism.

There is grounds for concern that House Democratic leaders may be weak on the struggle against "AI" and the billionaires pushing it, due to bribery ("donations") from those same billionaires.

Here's a collection of abortion news from around the country.

Just days after the FAA imposed an "AI" tool on the air traffic control system nationwide, the entire system had to be shut down temporarily on Friday due to a "communication issue".  If Trump wants to keep claiming that using "AI" is safe, this guy has a suggestion for him.

In this election, non-religious voters substantially outnumbered white evangelical voters.  In the US population as a whole, white evangelicals are now just 13% (down from 23% in 2006), while the non-religious are 28% (up from 16% in 2006).

"AI" agents that handle your business for you are being pushed as the next big thing, but nobody wants to use them or deal with them.

"Stop being such a drama queen.  We women have had enough."

Here's a series of interviews with Democratic elected officials about their plans for action.

In Philadelphia, haters organized a boycott of Jewish-owned restaurants on the anniversary of Germany's Kristallnacht.  The community responded with overwhelming support for the restaurants.  There is hope.

Finally someone on the left-wing internet, Muriel Vieux at the Daily Kos, has explicitly called out the poisonous anti-Semitism festering on the left.  There needs to be a hell of a lot more of this.

Teenagers and parents are suing xAI because its Grok chatbot allegedly allows perverts to convert their childhood photos into kiddie porn.

"It is authoritarian for the state to force everyone to accept a blatant lie at the expense of our rights."

Cindy Holscher, a Democrat who promised to halt new data centers, has been elected governor of Kansas.

Employees who use "AI" on the job work substantially longer than those who don't use it.  Here's an effective metaphor for using "AI" in the workplace.

If this is true, it would be the worst mistake the Democrats could possibly make.

American leftism is increasingly irrelevant because it is no longer focused on the class struggle.  Talarico, at least, seems to understand this.

A woman inmate in a Colorado women's prison is suing state officials over their policy of keeping some male prisoners there along with the women.

"I'm so sick of seeing people across social media claim Abdul El-Sayed is only getting heat 'because he's a Muslim man.'  That's not the reason.  Other Muslims have been elected to office without this reaction.  Repeating it just makes you look stupid.  Here are the actual problems....."

The blue tsunami was an anti-data-center tsunami.  But the CFO of OpenAI still wants to keep forcing data centers on us.

"Deluded Western activists must stop shouting over actual Palestinians like me."

NRO says the reasons for the Republican defeat boil down to just one issue -- "Trump has governed like a lunatic".  But the defeat will, at least, force the party to change.

Bosses who forced workers to use "AI" are starting to realize they made a mistake.

Transgenderists denounced an anti-rape march as being anti-trans.  Think about that.

In the UK, "AI" has brought almost no increase in productivity.

"The fans just walked straight past them and went in."

This was completely predictable.

This was a Russian factory making missile parts.

See more drones hitting miscellaneous targets at the front.

Here is some of the damage from Wednesday's attacks in the St Petersburg area.

A major Russian internet hosting provider has been wrecked by hackers.

A mass drone attack on Moscow Thursday night disrupted air travel again.

On Wednesday Ukrainian drones attacked Russia's largest oil refinery, about 1,500 miles from Ukraine.  Later they also hit this refinery at Volgograd, which seems to be burning extensively.

Many different sources agree -- Russia has suffered enormous casualties.

These are the four principles on which Gadi Eisenkot plans to form the next Israeli government.

China's pressure-cooker society is causing widespread mental issues among young people.

More links at Red State Blues, Legal Mama Reviews, and Comedy Plus.

My posts this week:  what the voters care about, an image round-up, and what the Democrats should do now that they control Congress.

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