I was reading in the staff lounge yesterday post-lunch afternoon, one not-my-department colleague present, quiet, over there on his phone, when his same-department colleague, the loudest yappiest complainingest person in the building (yinz have all known, know, and will know a new one or dozen more in what remaining time we have left) commenced kvetching. Today's waah: the AI-created, AI-driven, supposedly mandatory AI training sessions that I've refused to do (with my boss' full awareness) and have garnered no grief
To be fair, both colleagues have elementary school-age children, and the focus of their yapping centered entirely, as it should, on their kids, so their bitching necessarily for their sanity's sake assumed the shitlord sociopaths using AI to help collapse world order so they can immiserate us for profit before eradicating us as rodents are not using AI to immiserate us for profit before eradicating us as rodents. Not enough people are freaking the fuck out, a key function of our shitlord sociopaths' constant relentless reprogramming of our heads. Believe it or not, I kept my mouth shut. Believe it or not, there's new Guided By Voices
Adrian mentioned his son's eighth birthday past Sunday, when his son is my age it will be 2084, the Earth will be here, what world? August 28, 2084 I will be 125. Nick Lowe turned 77 yesterday
My two colleagues also talked about our current nightmare ending and a restoration of democratic normalcy and I did not say the shitlords and their demonic proxies (see link below, eg) have not amassed this power to give it back, they will destroy the world before relinquishing power
"At this point the Democratic gerontocracy can only be viewed for what it is: the modern day Spoils System. Any bullshit about radical change or providing the best effort for maximal effect falls in place of people who simply want to keep a job until they die at their desk"
Wednesday past's New York Times had two articles (here's one) atop the digital fold on AI in general and Nvidia is particular, Nvidia now a five trillion dollar company, and both articles expressed the now gospel truth that AI's triumph over everyone and everything now a fait accompli and that everyone and everything should fucking give up any and all resistance and comply now before AI assigns you your draft number for eradication. You are designated for eradication, yo, that's a primary and non-negotiable end goal of your AI-ensured enshittification and immiseration. No other alternative is possible. It's been decided, it's algorthimically locked-in.
That's me 95% of the time. That's down from 99% of the time. 99% of the time that 4% decline frightens me but that's down to 95% of the time too. It's not by design, it's not a latent wish. My first impulse when the thought that I should disconnect for even a second from observing and then obsessing over the clusterfuck is to think disconnecting a shameful act of cowardice, that I'm obligated to record and futilely scream about Shitlords and the Clusterfuck at people who 99% of the time agree with me, though perhaps you've noticed a 4% decline of late too. Why do I think it damning and sinful to want and try to be like this?
Well it seems so real, I can see it. I've incriminated myself enough treasonous hate speech-wise that if the Thielverse (see Thielverse in grid below) wants to off me for thought crimes they've silos full of evidence - not that they need it - so that's not driving this. I'm currently averaging, according to blooger stats, over 10K pings by AI bots (and those are only the pings that blooger sees), no amount of shutting up now will save my ass when it's my turn for state violence. Still, for the first time in my life the idea of disassociating, distancing, decoupling from engagement much less embrace of the civic and political world in exchange for what? peace of mind? a good night's sleep? occurs to me, each time microscopically less spiritually repulsive than the previous. Saving myself from constant anger and anxiety (far more for my daughter than for me) at the clusterfuck by opting out of daily swimming in the shitstorm now a infinitely distant possibility, as the grid with a fuckton of angry and anxious links below proves. Would it surprise you to learn there's a new Guided by Voices album? Here's the first single:
"The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism"
I have been screaming about these whack motherfuckers for more than fifty fucking years
"A 67-year-old unarmed man. Driving home after a run in Chicago. Didn’t move his car fast enough for ICE, on his own street… so they ripped him out, threw him to the ground, and kneeled on his back until his ribs broke and he bled internally"
The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State
"The ballroom is such an obvious winning political issue for Dems, it’s breathtaking how little they want to talk about it. It will be ugly, omnipresent, a literal metaphor for Trump‘s disinterest in doing anything that actually helps American voters. Run on it, you fucking morons"
"it’s so fucking satisfying to find out, over and over again, that these people really are just as vacuous and idiotic as you imagine. pure, unadulterated narcissism in service of a senile ghoul who had no shot of winning"
Gilbert and his wife Jane were unfailingly sweet, generous and kind to me when I knew them as my brother-in-law's first wife's (who was unfailingly a jerk and an asshole) parents, Gilbert and I talked the above-the-fall-line Potomac, C&O Canal, the AT, and hiking western Maryland
A friend urged Elias Canetti’s “The Book Against Death” on me, gave me a copy, it's on my night stand, maybe, someday, maybe next, probably not, my fault
After my root canal yesterday morning I checked out books (I work in a university library) to a tenured professor and enthusiastic 2ionist who was talking at a student accompanying him/her/they and extolling Gigi's benocide, 2ionist professor exclaiming he/she/they just signed with a major publisher for his/her/their book on October 7th as justification for Gazan eradication, when I finished and handed him/her/them the books he/she/they said, Good to see you again, Jeff, you're quiet today, and I said... have a nice day. He/she/they said, I'll get you a copy of the book, I plan to mention you in the acknowledgments (I've helped him/her/they for three decades with course reserves, with finding and acquiring material necessary for his/her/their research, with waiving literally tens of thousands of dollars of fines when he/she/they wouldn't return that and other material on time if at all, with locked private space in the Library). Please don't, I said, he/she/they said, what, with the copy? no, I said, with the acknowledgment. He/she/they looked at me, got it. As of now I still have my job
Vanity domain name renewal time, email from blooger itself and from two of the three companies who they subcontracted to handle domain names since I first domained this shitty blog in 2010, due to autorenew or not between today and July 19th, usually works without a flaw though twice it's been a shitshow, if this shitty blog disappears that's why, probably. It may surprise you that Robert Pollard has a new project and the project a new album
"A top adviser for Hakeem Jeffries is threatening to "go after the democratic socialists" because Team Jeffries is upset that average, moderate, run-of-the-mill Dem Party voters are unhappy and uninspired with him as a House leader"
The option to Fetterman Pennsylvanians were offered was the horrifyingly ickyoily and psychopathically greedy Dr Oz, mentioned only to remind you the choice our shitlords give us is Shittier or Shittiest, amen
"Can’t tell you how many times I’ve set out to write a piece attacking the theory behind MAGA rationalization of Trump policy only to give up because there’s no theory to attack. It’s just racism and personality"
"This sounds batsh*t crazy but it's, quite literally, a straightforward an purely factual description of what's going on here"
The head of the Shitlord Post emailed his staff and warned anyone who is not on board with the Post's "champion(ing) the timeless American values" of shitfunneling shitlord shitnarratives better take the shitty buyout off or else
"Here's a fact: Glenn Kessler is politically conservative, heir to not one but two large fortunes, absolutely despises Bernie Sanders, and frequently gets confused and/or lies about elementary statistics"
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"Joe Davidson, longtime Washpost columnist, quit due to editing restrictions. He couldn't call a pay raise for fed'l employees "well deserved" or say that a hallmark of Trump’s "turbulent months in office is his widespread, ominous attack on thought, belief & speech”
"The man below is the founder of Al Qaeda in Syria. The US just took his organization off its terror list and lifted sanctions on him. The woman below is the UN rapporteur on Israel and Palestine. The US is about to impose sanctions on her"
