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On Jan. 7, 2015, masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor, before escaping. (Two suspects were killed two days later.) 

 

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Today in "Short Attention Span Theater"...

Wow!  Wouldja look at that!  Candy that plays music while you eat it!!!

 

 

I.... I think I may have identified the problem with the American psyche.  We don't give a rats ass about the smug, demented shit bag who has destroyed this country - let's watch a video about musical candy, K-Pop robot dogs and Lego's!

 

Oh, yes, and that Venezuela thingie... 

 

 

We are so fucked.

 

 

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Simple Dork

Good evening!  Thank you, Pat and Ricky - I thought it was just something screwy with my browser.  I had been using the "Simple Dark" theme, but Blogger made some changes to it.  Then I noticed the text in ALL my posts had changed, not just recent ones.  

 

 

This theme is "Simple Pale"; I kind of like the light blue hue on the border, and now I can read the headings and links...  

Progress!

Onward.

R 

 

 

A New Dance Craze Sweeps Across The Americas

 

Spot on... 

Anti-AI: OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift.

As reported by SFGate and MSN - Greg Brockman, the ChatGPT-maker's president, is helping fund Republicans congressional fights; gives $25M to super PAC for 'MAGA' causes.

 

Definition: Smug  

"More tech money is flowing into Donald Trump’s coffers. In September, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump’s super PAC a whopping $25 million — the largest of the six-month fundraising cycle. 

The gigantic donation is a sign of Brockman’s political allegiances, and of the ChatGPT-maker’s attempt to curry favor with the Republican administration. As Bloomberg reported, MAGA Inc. currently has more money in its accounts than the main super PAC for House Republicans spent in the entire 2024 election cycle. And people like Brockman are a big reason why. The OpenAI executive’s donation makes up almost a fourth of the super PAC’s $102 million fundraising haul from the back half of 2025. The money arrived on Sept. 12, according to a Thursday filing by MAGA Inc. with the Federal Election Commission. Most recently, the PAC helped the Republican Matt Van Epps win a special congressional election in Tennessee. "

More reason to hate AI. It's not a money faucet, it a spillway.  I've been wondering why... we just are not hearing ANYTHING... anywhere... about opposition to Trump.  The voices are buried under the piles of money. From the same article;

 

Brockman, with OpenAI President, Altman, and Apple's Tim Cook at

a Trump fundraiser in September 2025. 

"His spending isn’t limited to swaying Trump. Brockman and other tech leaders announced this summer that they’re launching a super PAC to push for candidates who support AI industry. That places Brockman’s effort in the same vein as Fairshake, the pro-cryptocurrency lobbying group that successfully helped tank Katie Porter’s run for Senate in 2024."

How... do we mere mortals... combat this?  "Boycott AI!" in fucking in everything we touch.  The Week recently updated their list  of the top billionaire doners, "While the majority of mega-donors back the Republicans and Trump, some of the richest Americans have risked the administration’s ire by throwing their support behind the Democrats";

• Elon Musk - Republicans
• Jeff Bezos - Republicans
• Mark Zuckerberg - Republicans
• Larry Ellison - Republicans
• Michael Bloomberg - Democrats
• Warren Buffet - Democrats
• George Soros - Democrats 

I look at the Democratic supporters, though they seem to have a passion to maintain American ideals and democracy, honestly... not "young money" in any of them. Muck, Bezos, Fuckerberg, Ellison... all greed at any cost. 

I can only hope that WHEN the AI bubble bursts, it takes all of them and their support down with them. I keep hearing speculation that the burst is coming.  IT'S COMING, I TELLS YA!, but I am just not seeing it. 

Still pondering the question - how do we combat this... surge?  When I get routinely accosted by the AT&T sales reps when I go into the local warehouse club, I tell them I'm a Luddite and mobile phones are against my religion.  Is that the answer?  We just give up technology?  

Luddite: "The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organized raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of "Ned Ludd", a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.

The Luddite movement began in Nottingham England. Mill and factory owners took to shooting protesters and eventually the movement was suppressed by legal and military force, which included execution and penal transportation of accused and convicted Luddites.

Over time, the term has been used to refer to those opposed to the introduction of new technologies.^{" - Source - Wikipedia}

I guess I am in good company; I just wish I didn't feel... so fucking numb.

Rade   

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