Showing posts with label Evil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evil. Show all posts

14 April 2026

Osama, Take Me Now!


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There are always political events which surprise me.

I'm not omniscient, and I acknowledge that.

But nothing could have prepared me for Republicans have come out in favor of teen pregnancy.

As Anna Russel would say, "I'm not making this up, you know."

During a Friday segment on Fox News's America’s Newsroom with anchor Dana Perino, senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel called a declining birth rate among people aged 15-19 a "problem."

The discussion revolved around new CDC data showing the United States fertility rate, based on birth rates, has fallen to a record low based. The fertility rate fell 7 percent in 2025, from 53.8 births per 1,000 childbearing aged women—defined as age 15 to 44—in 2024 to 53.1, according to a report released by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics on Thursday.

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But when reviewing the graph of birth rates by age of the mother over year of birth, Siegel remarked:

"We still have 3.6 million births a year. But the problem is teens and young adults from ages 15 to 19."
Siegel added:
"The fertility rate is down 7 percent, and it’s down 70 percent over the last two decades, meaning we’re telling people that are young not to have babies, to wait until they’re in a more stable life situation, until they’re more financially secure. Maybe they haven’t found the right partner."

I'd ask what the f%$# is wrong with these people, but it would be a multi-hour effort just to index that list using a super-computer. 

13 April 2026

So Much for Judicial Independence

The Trump administration just fired a number of immigration judges after they followed the law when making their decisions.

That seems just a little bit ……… Fascist.

It's certainly an explicit attempt to intimidate judges into breaking the law. 

The Trump administration has fired two immigration judges who dismissed high-profile deportation cases against international students who had advocated for Palestinians.

The firings of the judges, Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, marked the latest efforts by the Trump administration to reshape the country’s immigration courts.

The administration has dismissed dozens of immigration judges and, according to those on the bench, has put judges under pressure to deny asylum claims and order deportations. Unlike federal judges in the independent judicial branch, immigration judges work for the Justice Department and are hired and fired by the attorney general.

The two judges, who were terminated alongside four colleagues on Friday, oversaw two high-profile cases filed by the government against the students, Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi.

 If there is an election in 2028, and if the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) doesn't shoot itself in the foot again, every one of these bastards, from Trump, to Miller, to Bondi, to Blanche, to Rubio need to spend the rest of their lives in jail.

From the Department of, "About F%$#ing Time"


This picture should refresh your memory
The Ramsey County Minnesota District Attorney and Sheriff are investigating the detention of ChongLy “Scott” Thao by ICE as a possible kidnapping.

Thao, a US citizen, was dragged out of his house wearing a pair of shorts and Crocs by ICE agents after they broke down his door.

It was all without a warrant.

Ramsey County is investigating the January arrest of a St. Paul Hmong American man by federal immigration officers as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment, officials announced Monday. 

Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and Sheriff Bob Fletcher said at a news conference they will pursue information from the Department of Homeland Security that they need for their investigation into the arrest of ChongLy “Scott” Thao on Jan. 18, calling it a violation of the U.S. Constitution to forcibly remove Thao without probable cause.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers bashed open the front door of Thao’s East Side home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him outside half-dressed in freezing conditions.

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Thao later told the Associated Press that his daughter-in-law alerted him that ICE agents were banging at the door. He told her not to open it. Masked agents then forced their way in and pointed guns at the family, yelling at them, Thao recalled.

“I was shaking,” he said. “They didn’t show any warrant; they just broke down the door.”

Thao, a naturalized U.S. citizen and Hmong elder, was quickly handcuffed and was seen on video being led outside bare-chested in freezing temperatures, wearing nothing but Crocs, boxer shorts and a children’s blanket. A photo of the incident drew immediate attention on social media.

 Throw the book at them.

Amazon Delenda Est

You are supporting a company that tells everyone to keep working when another employee dies on the job.

Management at Amazon is by design a bunch of, "Little Eichmanns," to quote Ward Churchill. 

Amazon does not just need to be broken up, it needs to be razed to the ground, and salt needs to be sowed in its ruins.

This is what your Amazon Prime membership funds

Sam was helping unload trucks when a heavy thud against concrete echoed across the Amazon warehouse. An employee’s lifeless body lay on the floor.

Work halted in the loading docks on the south side of Amazon’s distribution center in Troutdale, Oregon. Sam and other employees stared at the person who’d collapsed just 20 feet away. Conveyor belts of packages continued to roll.

“I didn’t have a direct line of sight of the person’s face, but I saw a body form laying lifeless,” Sam told The Western Edge. Employees who spoke for this story requested anonymity to protect their jobs and their names have been changed.

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The man who collapsed on the floor died Monday, April 6 on the second level of the Amazon warehouse as machinery filled the cavernous loading dock with a dull hum.

In 911 calls, obtained through a public records request, one employee called for an ambulance at 1:55 pm. The dispatcher coached a confused employee over speakerphone on how to use a defibrillator.

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For more than an hour, several employees said, workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out their next steps. News of the fatality quickly spread through the building, but workers say top managers did not call operations to an immediate halt. A week later, several workers said they still do not know what caused the man to die. Records indicate he was 46 years old.

Rather unsurprisingly:

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A 2019 investigation by Reveal found the Portland area facility had the worst injury rate out of 23 major distribution centers analyzed using data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In 2018, more than a quarter of all workers at the building - known as PDX9 - had some type of injury on the job.

If you work at Amazon, I suggest thinking about the humble wooden shoe,  known as the sabot in French.

In the past, workers found alternate uses for said shoes, throwing it into the machines. 

08 April 2026

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

It comes as no secret that Pope Leo is not a fan of  Trump and Netanyahu's war against Iran.

After Leo XIV gave an anti-war "State of the World" speech, Apostolic Nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre was summoned to the Pentagon and the Pope and the Church were threatened.

If we are looking for signs of the apocalypse, I think that they found one.

Relations between the U.S. and the Catholic Church have not been the same since January, when senior U.S. defense officials shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official.

Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture.

“The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
An important note here, the Free Press, formerly Common Sense, is a propaganda rag founded by Bari Weiss, and as such I would not take anything that they write at face value, but I am quoting the New Republic, which has been a reliable source of news ever since Marty Peretz got dumped.
One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the 14th century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France.

Credit where credit is due, someone knows their European history.

It appears that the threats were so blatant that the Pope canceled his planned visit to the United States,

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But the blatant intimidation tactic is the first of its kind ever made by American officials to the Catholic Church. There are no public records of any previous meetings between Vatican and U.S. officials at the Pentagon, let alone an instance in which the world power suggested that it could force the Bishop of Rome into captivity.

The Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo cancelled his plans to visit the U.S. later in the year, reported Hale, who noted that “many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.”

This is f%$#ed up and sh%$.

06 April 2026

Now Start Kicking Down Doors and Hauling Them Off to Prison

You may not have heard the story of Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

He was a refugee from from Myanmar, a Rohinga.  He is also blind and spoke very little English.

He was arrested in what was clearly a case of over aggressive policing, and spent much of the next year in jail.

His family would not bail him out because they believed that he would be seized by immigration officers and deported.

He was released following a plea deal which included no deportable offenses, but CBP seized him in response to a no longer in force detainer, and then they promptly dumped him in the parking lot of a closed coffee sErie County Medical Examiner has now ruled his death a homicide.

On Wednesday, the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office announced that it ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, a homicide. Neither Shah Alam’s family, who had waited to meet him outside the facility where he was being held, nor his lawyers, who had been attempting to contact him, were notified of his location. Shah Alam spoke very little English.

The Associated Press reported that the medical examiner’s office did not “reach any conclusions about responsibility” for the homicide and that Shah Alam’s death was “caused by complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer, precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration. “

“The designation of homicide does not imply intent to cause harm or death,” Erie County official Mark Poloncarz said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Manner-of-death determinations are neutral, non-legal, and exist for vital statistical purposes only. They do not indicate criminality, which is the purview of the justice system.”………

The Department of Homeland Security claimed on X that Shah Alam “showed no signs of distress, mobility issues, or disabilities requiring special assistance,” despite being blind and experiencing other health issues. “DHS is lying,” New York Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer responded in a quote post.

Poloncarz said that he has spoken to Erie County District Attorney Michael Keane and New York Attorney General Letitia James about the case, and he encouraged questions about criminal investigations to be directed to them.

The CBP officers involved with this, including supervisors who knew, or should have known, about this should be in custody right now.

I want to see COPS style footage of them being frog marched out of their homes in their underwear. 

04 April 2026

Snark of the Day

We Were Wrong, Years Ago. We Should’ve Rooted for the Jocks to Win, to Stuff Those Nerds in the Locker for All Eternity.

Atrios, on Mark Andreeson's recent incoherent philosophical statements

Mark Andreeson has been hitting podcasts and social media insisting that self-examination is not a real thing, but rather it is an artifact of a dysfunctional modern world.

He has in fact said that, "The whole idea of self-examination, he explained, is basically a Freudian fad— an invention dating from around 1910 that serious people have no business indulging."

I think that the Delphic Oracle, Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu, Cicero, Lucretius, etc. would like to have a word with you.

It really is amazing how aggressively tech bros try to find a moral justification for their own selfishness.  

03 April 2026

Maybe It's Just a Jewish thing

But when fascists demand a list of all the Jews in an educational institution, it makes me uneasy.

I know that this could just be dismissed as just another attempt by the anti-Semite in the White House to use antisemitism as a political cudgel against his opponents, but they said exactly the same thing about that unpleasant little man with the funny mustache.

The Trump administration was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about Jews on campus as part of a federal investigation into discrimination at the school, a federal judge decided Tuesday.

The government’s investigation had united Penn leaders with Jewish students and faculty members as they opposed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s subpoena. Many on campus drew parallels between the government’s approach and methods deployed in Nazi Germany.

But the Trump administration has said that its request was typical for discrimination investigations to seek potential victims and witnesses, and Judge Gerald J. Pappert of Philadelphia’s Federal District Court agreed on Tuesday. He gave Penn until May 1 to comply with the administration’s subpoena, though the ruling appeared unlikely to quell the debates around how the administration has pressured top American universities. 

So, they are remaking the movie, only they have recast Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich with Stephen Miller. 

Lovely. 

27 March 2026

Subhed of the Day

None of This Would Have Been Legal If They’d Sent Competent Adults. But the Fact That They Sent Smirking Little Sh%$s Makes It So Much Worse.
—Liz Dye at Law and Chaos, describing how the DOGE bros comported themselves when forced into sworn depositions. (%$ mine

Yeah, these smirking assholes make it much worse.  (BTW, the hed is, "DOGE Bros Had More Fun Burning Down Government Than Testifying About It."

In the spring of 2025, the Elon Musk’s DOGE slashed and burned through various congressionally-created and -funded federal agencies, systematically destroying them as part of an effort to … well, who the hell knows. Something-something deficit. Blahblahblah waste, fraud, and abuse. Eradicate DEI!

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On March 12, the code monkeys descended on the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent agency established by Congress in 1965 to “foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants.”

Which is a little on the nose, to be honest.

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None of that interested Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh, the 20-something tech bros dispatched to raze the agency. They’d never worked in government or the humanities, and they didn’t know didn’t know the First Amendment from the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Fox and Cavanaugh instructed NEH staff to rate the agency’s active grants for the presence of DEI, “gender ideology,” and “environmental justice.” When this failed to yield enough cuts, Fox and Cavanaugh turned to ChatGPT, feeding it the database of grants and instructing it to flag anything that relates to DEI.

A $349,000 grant to replace the HVAC system at the High Point Museum in North Carolina was DEI because, according to ChatGPT, it “enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences.” A documentary about the Colfax Massacre — the 1873 slaughter of Black Louisiana freedmen, one of the bloodiest atrocities of Reconstruction — was canceled “because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race.” A project to digitize local newspaper archives was nixed because digital accessibility “aligns with DEI goals of inclusivity and representation.” A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust was flagged as DEI because it focused on gender and religious oppression.

In short, every bit scholarship or art involving anyone who wasn’t white, male, and able was cut.

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If all this sounds wildly illegal, that’s because it is.

I really hope that the DOGE Bros get prosecuted to the fullest extant of the law, and that they then get sent to a Federal PMITA prison. 

22 March 2026

Headline of the Day

Palantir Is Nazi Cancer
Jim Stewartson, describing how Peter Thiel's monstrous enterprise is successfully inserting itself in the very highest levels of power.

If evil has a face, it is the face of Peter Andreas Thiel, who, when not being a literal vampire, is working to eliminate democracy, strip civil rights from women, and make himself god king.

Peter Thiel founded Palantir. 

Palantir is Nazi cancer. It is metastasizing beyond the point of saving the patient.

This is a metaphor I’m prepared to explain and defend because it’s barely a metaphor at all. We have reached a very bad place; America is dying; and I need to be direct about how serious its condition is.

There are several reports that the former Department of Defense has established Peter Thiel’s surveillance software company Palantir as the “program of record” for all branches of military service. The man who announced it is the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Steve Feinberg, an investment banker worth $5 billion. Feinberg’s company Cerberus has a 5% stake in Bank Leumi, one of Israel’s largest financial institutions. Feinberg is also reportedly close to Peter Thiel.

Palantir was heavily involved in the early stages of the Iran attack, “assisting in identifying and engaging 1,000 targets within the first few hours.” Presumably those targets included the girls’ school in Minab where 168 children were massacred by an American Tomahawk missile based on bad intelligence. Nevertheless, despite the slaughter, Peter Thiel’s long-held dream of being able to kill people at scale has been permanently granted.

Thiel’s Naziphilia has been clear for a very long time. And there is a reason for that. Thiel was raised in the most Nazi town on Earth in the 1970s: Swakopmund, in apartheid-controlled SW Africa (now Namibia). Thiel’s apartheid Christian school—and the town itself—used “Heil Hitler!” as a normal greeting, just as they did in Nazi Germany. Thiel’s father Klaus moved his family to Swakopmund when Peter was a baby to develop a secret uranium mine outside of town—which fed apartheid South Africa’s illegal nuclear weapons program. 

Imagine what it was like to be a young gay boy growing up in a Nazi-soaked apartheid town in southern Africa, and being brought back to the U.S. at ten years old. Peter Thiel has reportedly described the early part of his childhood as being formative in his thinking—about who should have power and who should not.

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When Thiel blamed women’s suffrage for the fact that he “no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible” 17 years ago, it should have set off alarms across the Defense Department and the intelligence community. When Palantir planned to target Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald with a psychological operation in 2011—and got caught—the government’s should have ended the relationship.

But despite Thiel’s many years of broadcasting his fascist beliefs—and his plans to overthrow the federal government—America kept feeding the beast.

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Palantir itself is a remarkable story of unremarkable software. Thiel has invested heavily in making the product look cool, but it’s really just standard business intelligence software with AI chatbots bolted on. The main thing that distinguishes Palantir from its competition is its willingness to be totally evil. The IDF, just as one example, used Palantir extensively in its destruction of Gaza, and its genocide of civilians.  

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Thiel’s salesmen for his death-creating product are people like his co-founders, fascist dudebro Joe Lonsdale and nerdish psychopath Alex Karp—and baby-faced Louis Mosley, head of Palantir UK.

Lonsdale is openly fascist, pro-Russian, and pro-violence. In 2015, he was accused of raping a Stanford intern. In 2023, he started a failing “anti-woke university” in Austin with Thiel mouthpiece and now-editor of CBS News, Bari Weiss.

Alex Karp, Palantir’s CEO, has completely absorbed Thiel’s Nazi goals and sees “liberal white women” as the enemy of America:

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters…”

Finally, out of everyone in the United Kingdom, Peter Thiel chose Louis Mosley to run Palantir UK, which has taken over the National Health Service, and is getting into business with the British military. Mosley is the only grandson of Oswald Mosley, the most infamous fascist in British history, who was so enamored with the Nazis that he had his wedding at Joseph Goebbels’ house so Hitler could attend. 

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Palantir is just one tooth in the jaws of Peter Thiel—a man obsessed with not just overturning democracy in America but determined to repeal the Enlightenment. He says the last 200 years of history were a huge mistake. Like Epstein, Thiel is obsessed with “young blood,” genetics, eugenics, and transhumanism. He sees dealing with humans as a messy requirement of running a business. But to him, America is just a pile of resources, with a population which needs to be purified, segregated, and purged of undesirables. 

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When Trump leaves office by death or disability—I will be shocked if Trump makes it three more years—there will be nothing in between Peter Thiel and total control of the country. JD Vance was plucked out of Yale by Peter Thiel. Vance has done nothing with his life but live off Thiel’s largesse, including adopting Catholicism after Thiel gave him $15 million. JD Vance is just Thiel’s personal robot. 

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It must be the highest priority of any politician that wishes to save America to remove this metastasis from the body politic. It must be burned out of every corner of the government before the tumor replaces the brain entirely. Peter Thiel is not just cosplaying the Antichrist. As an atheist, I assure you he’s the real thing. 

Mr. Stewartson, tell us how you really feel. 

 

20 March 2026

They are Beyond Redemption

The Trump administration has decided to validate conversion "therapy" by forcing transgender inmates in federal prisons to participate.

First, the science shows that it does not work, and second, and more importantly, they are conducting involuntary medical experiments on prisoners.

Paging Dr. Mengele.

It's enough to make me rethink my position on capital punishment.

Last Thursday, the Trump administration released its new policy outlining how it will treat transgender people in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) custody. Under it, the approximately 2,200 trans people held in federal prisons will be denied access to medically necessary healthcare, subjected to constant misgendering by staff, and have all of their gender-affirming items—including binders, bras, and makeup—confiscated.

Instead, the policy will impose a treatment that targets “psychological distress/dysphoria” through “psychotherapy” (talk therapy) and “psychotropic medication” (like antidepressants) until the gender dysphoria diagnosis can be marked as “resolved.” Additionally, the new policy designates gender dysphoria as a “mental illness” that requires “routine mental health care.”

In other words, the Trump administration won’t just medically and socially detransition trans people en masse; it will actively try to ‘cure’ them of their gender dysphoria. And if this is beginning to sound like conversion therapy, that’s because it is. The BOP is giving trans people no other choice but to conform to their sex assigned at birth by forcing them into a societal role that they reject and ignoring clinical guidelines—all hallmarks of harmful and dangerous conversion practices recognized by the United Nations to be a form of torture.

This is quite literally lifted straight from the Nazi playbook in the 1930s.  (Also lifted from Florida policy today under Ron DeSantis, but I am repeating my self.)

These people need to be broken like the Nazis were, and the willing executioners among the bureaucracy need to be rooted out of government and public life completely. 

18 March 2026

Classy

Neal Dunn (R-FL) is retiring from the House of Representatives.

It's generally been assumed that he had health issues.  This was confirmed when made a snarky revelation about him having a terminal illness.

Trump should have been drowned at birth.

President Donald Trump on Monday revealed that retiring Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Florida) is fighting a terminal illness and said that doctors previously told Dunn he could be “dead by June.”

In January, Dunn announced that he would not seek reelection to the House after five terms representing Florida’s 2nd District. Dunn, 73, did not offer details about the reasons behind his retirement, but it has been widely reported that he has been dealing with health issues.

On Monday, Trump divulged details about Dunn’s diagnosis while speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Center, where he attended a board meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), among others.

With Johnson seated beside him, Trump riffed on how difficult it is for the speaker to operate with a very slim majority, particularly given recent resignations and the January death of Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-California).

Trump said that another Republican lawmaker “was very ill and looked like he wasn’t going to make it.” At first, Trump did not share the congressman’s name but then encouraged Johnson to divulge details.

Johnson identified Dunn and said he “had a pretty grim diagnosis.” After some prodding from Trump, Johnson added that it was a “terminal diagnosis.”

“He would be dead by June,” Trump added, interrupting a stunned Johnson.

He then went on to brag about he personally got Dunn into Walter Reed for treatment.

What a miserable excuse for a human being. 

17 March 2026

As if the Washington Post Could not Get Any Worse

Now the Jeff Bezos' disaster zone will start using AI and algorithms to price gouge subscribers.

I'm thinking that destroying the Post was always his long term goal.

Amid its pivot to AI, the Washington Post is abandoning the traditional fix-priced subscription model.

According to new reporting from Washingtonian, the once-venerable newspaper will now be setting readers’ subscription rates based on an AI-driven algorithm that interprets their personal data, mirroring controversial schemes used by services like Uber, Ticketmaster, and airlines.

Readers were informed of the change in the fine-print of an email they received last week warning them that their fee was being set at a higher price. “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data,” it stated.

The Post is being opaque about how the pricing algorithm works. When Washingtonian asked the Post for comment on the new pricing mechanism, it directed the paper to a blog post from its engineering team which explains its new AI-driven “smart metering model.” The model determines the number of articles that anonymous users, who aren’t registered on the Post’s website, and registered users, who’ve signed up but don’t pay for a subscription, can read before being shown a paywall.

It’s the latest sign of how the newspaper has undergone a tech- and AI-inflected pivot under the ownership of Jeff Bezos. Bezos’s Amazon, for instance, uses a dynamic pricing scheme that determines prices based on details like demand and location.

The Washington Post is complete sh%$.  Amazon is complete sh%$. 

To quote Zathras, "At least there is symmetry."

Jeff Bezos had better pray that there is no afterlife, because he will not fare well if there is. 

There is Hope for Justice After All

Of all the horrors of colonialism, the Belgian's behavior in the Congo was among the worst, from its initial days as the private property of king Leopold to its post-colonial actions, when Belgian authorities orchestrated the coup against and the subsequent murder of the duly elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.

This happened 65 years ago, but finally, Ã‰tienne Davignon has been charged with murder and crimes against humanity.

Unfortunately, the 93 year old former diplomat is the only person still alive who can be charged.

A former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what was then the newly independent Congolese state, a Brussels court has ruled.

Étienne Davignon, the only person still alive among 10 Belgians the Lumumba family accuses of involvement in the killing, is charged with participation in war crimes.

The decision, which follows a surprise referral by the Brussels prosecutor last June, can be appealed against. Davignon, a former vice-president of the European Commission, has denied the charges.

In a statement the Lumumba family welcomed what they called a significant step: “For our family, this is not the end of a long

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If the trial goes ahead, Davignon will be the first Belgian official to face justice over the assassination of Lumumba 65 years ago. In its decision, the court went beyond the prosecutor’s decision, extending the scope of the trial to cover Lumumba’s associates, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, who were murdered alongside him. 

Davignon is accused of participating in war crimes on three counts, according to information provided by the court of first nstance in Brussels:

  • The illegal transfer of Lumumba and his associates from Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) to Katanga.
  • The “humiliating and degrading treatment” of the men.
  • Depriving them of a fair trial.
Maybe one day we'll see this in the United States.

16 March 2026

Good News

US Judge Brian Murphy has struck down the decision by HHS to remove vaccines from their recommendations.

This is cause for hope, at least until the Supreme Court overrules with a tersely worded shadow docket ruling. 

In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked the government from implementing a series of decisions on vaccines made over the last year by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The ruling also reversed, at least for the time being, all decisions made by the panelists that Mr. Kennedy appointed to the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations on which vaccines Americans should take. The court decision will prevent the committee from meeting later this week, as it was scheduled to do.

The judge’s ruling brought an abrupt halt to the major changes that Mr. Kennedy, who has long been skeptical of vaccines, had set in motion, upending national vaccine policy and making sweeping revisions to the recommendations for what shots are given and when. Those included cutting down the number of diseases covered by routine immunization, and restricting access to Covid vaccines, two pillars of Mr. Kennedy’s vaccine agenda.

In his decision, Judge Brian Murphy, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, noted that the vaccine committee has historically made decisions through careful review of scientific evidence, “a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements." But, he added “unfortunately, the government has disregarded those methods and thereby undermined the integrity of its actions.”

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Judge Murphy made the ruling in a lawsuit brought by six medical organizations, that contended Mr. Kennedy and his appointees had made “arbitrary and capricious” changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, bypassing the careful, evidence-based practice that in the past has underpinned the recommendations.

"Arbitrary and capricious," pretty much defines RFJ, Jr,s whole life.

Gee, Fascism Much?

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is threatening to revoke broadcaster licenses because they are insufficiently pro-Iran war.

Rather unsurprisingly, Donald Trump gives his wholehearted approval to this.

Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened on Saturday to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the war with Iran, his latest move in a campaign to stomp out what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts.

As the war entered its third week, Mr. Carr accused broadcasters of “running hoaxes and news distortions” in a social media post and warned them to “correct course before their license renewals come up.”

“Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not,” he said.

Mr. Carr shared a Truth Social post by President Trump that criticized the news media for its coverage of the war with Iran. Mr. Trump referred to a story published by The Wall Street Journal that reported five American refueling planes had been struck in Saudi Arabia, claiming its headline was “intentionally misleading.” He accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.

When the worm turns, Carr needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extant of the law.

Hell, they all do. 

If there are Presidential elections in 2028, I will not support anyone in the primaries who does not promise to prosecute Trump and his minions to the fullest extant of the law.

15 March 2026

Nightmare Fuel

The fact that people are planning to use human brain cells in artificial intelligence data centers is so evil that it would give Peter Thiel an erection.

We really need to rein these folks in now. 

Last year, researchers at Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs showed off its CL1, the “world’s first code deployable biological computer” that’s made up of 200,000 living human neurons.

In February, the company showed off its progress, demonstrating how the neurons could be taught how to play the seminal video game Doom — a far more complex and impressive showing than much earlier attempts to have them play Pong in 2022.

Now, Cortical Labs is ready to scale up the operation. As Bloomberg reports, the company says it’s working on “biological data centers” in Melbourne, Australia, and Singapore. Simply put, instead of relying on Nvidia chips like AI companies, Cortical Labs is planning to outfit its futuristic facilities with racks of CL1 biological computers, powered by many more human brain cells, instead.

The company refers to this approach as “wetware,” an unsettling new take on software and hardware terminology. Simply put, the computers send electrical signals to neurons derived from human blood stem cells. The chips embedded within record those neurons’ responses as the output.

 It's like these guys watch The Matrix, and thought, "I gotta have me some of that."

13 March 2026

Guck Foogle

So, the Artist former known as Google is selling Google Fiber to a private equity firm, which will doubtlessly enshittify it beyond recognition, because that is what PE firms do.

Google Fiber, now officially called GFiber, is being sold to private equity firm Stonepeak and will be combined with cable-and-fiber firm Astound Broadband to create a larger Internet service provider.

Google owner Alphabet announced Wednesday that it will keep only a minority stake in the fiber ISP that launched with grand ambitions in 2012 but scaled back its expansion plans in 2016. Alphabet and Astound owner Stonepeak announced “an agreement to combine GFiber with Astound Broadband, creating a leading independent fiber provider,” with the merged company to be “majority owned by Stonepeak, an investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets.”

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It’s unclear whether the combined firm will be called GFiber, Astound, or something else. “The combined business will be led by the existing GFiber executive team, utilizing their expertise in high-speed fiber innovation to manage the combined network footprint,” the announcement said. “The combination of GFiber’s high-growth metropolitan networks with Astound’s established infrastructure, team and capabilities creates a highly complementary, national network platform.”

Alphabet President and Chief Investment Officer Ruth Porat said the merger will let GFiber reach more parts of the country “while continuing to provide their award winning customer experience.” The announcement said that Alphabet maintaining a minority stake “reflect[s] its confidence in GFiber’s growth opportunity and leadership.” Stonepeak Senior Managing Director Andrew Thomas said that Stonepeak “look[s] forward to supporting the company with Alphabet as a co-investor.”

Bullsh%$.  Google is selling it so that Stonepeak can loot it to both of their benefits, customer be damned.

It's kind of what PE does. 

11 March 2026

Today in Tech Bro Psychopaths

Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey donned a baseball cap with "Love" lettered on the front while announcing that he was firing 4,000 employees and replacing them with AI.

Next time, just be honest, wear a hat with a Totenkopf. 

Twitter co-founder and Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey ain’t your typical corporate suit. For one, he doesn’t always wear them. He brings up “world peace” when endorsing his favorite tech like crypto. Nobody really knows where he lives. He meditates frequently and sports a longish beard. He comes off as more New Age guru than CEO.

So perhaps it was very on brand that, when Dorsey announced he was firing 4,000 employees at Block, he was wearing a hat that said “LOVE” on it in prominent lettering.

Was the “LOVE” hat was tone-deaf? That may seem a silly consideration compared to the broader concern of Dorsey eliminating around 40 percent of his company’s workforce, especially given his explanation that AI motivated the cuts.

There is something very wrong at the core of Silly-Con valley.

07 March 2026

It Gets Worse

It turns out that staff at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas were running a betting pool on which detainees would commit suicide.

Yes, I think that we can call them concentration camps now. 

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Owen Ramsingh, a legal permanent resident who spent several weeks at the Camp East Montana detention facility in Texas, told AP that he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool for which detainee would next die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into the pot, which would all go to the winner with the most accurate predictions on detainees harming themselves.

Without providing details, the Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told AP that Ramsingh, who was brought to the US at age 5 from the Netherlands, was lying about the suicide bets.

In January, staff at Camp East Montana called 911 to request emergency help for Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old from Cuba. DHS described his death as an attempted suicide. A medical examiner later ruled it a homicide. That same month, staff at the detention facility called 911 to report that a 36-year-old Nicaraguan man died by suicide. The AP reports that “detainees attempted to harm themselves while expressing suicidal ideations on at least six other occasions that resulted in 911 calls.”

Once the site of an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, Camp East Montana is made up of six long tents at the Fort Bliss Army base outside of El Paso. On an average day, the facility holds around 3,000 detainees who are living in harsh conditions: They lack sufficient food and often go without proper medical care, according to AP’s review of 130 calls made to 911. Those calls took place in just about five months—from when the tents were quickly constructed in mid-August to January 20.

The cruelty is the point.