Tuesday Links - 6 May

Bayou Renaissance Man starts us off with Is the NRA swamp finally going to be drained? It's long overdue.

Readers who've followed the glutinous, corrupt, fetid swamp that has engulfed the management of the National Rifle Association (NRA) for the past decade or more can finally see some light ahead of them. Whether it's a new dawn, or an oncoming train, remains to be seen.

Stephen Green at Instapundit - HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Replacing “gentleman’s C’s” with “warm-body A’s” was not an improvement.

Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat - I Bought Two Silencers

Following is a recap of the entire process of acquiring the silencers, start to finish.

Miguel Gonzalez - This is why I don't respect them.

Idiot TDS sufferer commenting on Trump’s Executive Order that truck drivers should be able to read and write in English.

The Other McCain - The $500,000 N-Word: Shiloh Hendrix Becomes a 21st-Century Legend

Man, if saying the n-word is worth $500,000, I know some people who would be richer than Bill Gates. But beyond the cheap laughs, what exactly is going on here? In part, I think it’s a reaction to the absurdity of a Kamelo Anthony fundraiser that collected more than $500,000. Some people are just fed up — they are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 3 May 2025: Blargh Edition

Apple is teaming up with Anthropic on a new vibe coding platform. (Bloomberg) (archive site)

Vibe coding is a term where a developer has no idea how to program - let alone build a complete application - and also no idea about the problems inherent in the application domain. So someone trying to launch, say, a map to guide mining of rare earth elements when you not only can't program but also have no idea what an element is.

Tom Knighton at Townhall - FBI Busts 'Satanic' Child Exploitation Ring

Child exploitation is terrible in and of itself. It's one of the worst things a person can do, so that this happens is awful beyond words.

The fact that you're looking at a group that is, essentially, a satanic cult that engages in child exploitation for any purpose whatsoever is horrifying.

The Vodka Pundit - Beaten to Death in His Own Home — After ICE Was Ignored

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons confirmed to Fox News this weekend that two of the suspects were previously caught and released at the border during the Biden administration. The third "overstayed a tourist visa and had two ICE detainers on him ignored in the past due to sanctuary policies."

Please note that Los Angeles is a sanctuary for illegal aliens and not for Los Angelenos like Modebadze.

Meep at Stump - The Next Pope and Vatican Finances

Can we get somebody to finally clean things up?

Again from Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 5 May 2025: Tonstant Weader Edition

Yasuke - the pseudohistorical star of Ubisoft's latest commercial catastrophe Assassin's Creed 14: The Assassining, was never a samurai and all the claims to the contrary were cooked up very recently by a single lunatic. (AP News)

The article doesn't mention that. The article in fact is completely useless.