The Other McCain is up first with Five — Count ’Em, FIVE — Flaming Skulls for FBI Whistleblower Report on Biden
Am I a conspiracy theorist for suggesting this? It doesn’t matter. The loss of credibility of the Deep State regime — which is their fault, not mine — predictably gives rise to paranoia, as the citizens witness the blatant double standards: Antifa rioters walk free without prosecution, while hundreds of pro-Trump protesters are sentenced to federal prison.
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 10 June 2023: Working Five To Nine Edition.
The CEO of Reddit has accused the creator of Reddit app Apollo of larceny, pettifoggery, mopery, dopery, and intimate relationships with barn animals, but says he's open to discussion with other developers. (The Verge)
The other developers aren't buying it and are shutting down their apps as well.
MEEP at StumpFailure, Sunk Costs, and Candace Wheeler
...and opportunity cost, constrained optimization, and that time I dropped out of grad school
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 11 June 2023: Musikanten Sind In Der Stadt Edition
TThe FBI says that renewing FISA Section 702 is absolutely critical to allow them to continue their job of legally spying on American citizens. (The Register)
Without it, they might be forced to go back to doing it illegally
Animal Magnetism - Rule Five Urban Meltdown News
A San Francisco store owner and immigrant from Afghanistan – Afghanistan – is aghast at what is happening in his adopted home. [SNIP]
What a massive Charlie Foxtrot. San Francisco has become such a shithole that an immigrant from Afghanistan is shocked at the disorder.
Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: Frank Kelly Freas
One of the great science fiction artists of the late 20th century was Frank Kelly Freas, who usually went by Kelly. and whose artistic talent was matched by being just a really neat and friendly guy. I was blessed by being able to hang around with him at various DC-area SF conventions in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he was always willing to talk about his work, other artists and their work, and to sing the old songs.
Clusterfuck Nation - We’re Not Finished
The business model is broken. We’re a shadow of the industrial economy that won a great war and enjoyed a boisterous peace. You can’t replace ball bearing factories with theme parks and hedge funds. Sorry. The full faith and credit of the USA is not embodied in those frivolities, so our money is losing its mojo fast.
Watts Up With That - SCMP Admits a Regional Asian Carbon Tax Could Lead to Human Rights Abuses
I’m horrified. Are carbon taxes going to be a path to normalising human rights abuses and forced evictions? Is it going to become OK for governments and corporations to mistreat vulnerable people, providing that abuse leads to more carbon offsets?
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