“I know what you mean, Blair. Trust’s a tough thing to come by these days.” – The Thing
Pretty soon they’ll just cast a bird. I can see it now, “Heron of Troy”. (all memes as-found)
I’m old enough to remember the song Land of Confusion coming out. It was from Genesis, which really should have been named “Phil Collins and some other white GloboLeftist dudes.” The video was and is hideous. It was intentionally hideous. I rewatched it again before writing this and ended up regretting it. If there is place for the True, Beautiful, and Good, well, brother, that video wasn’t it.
Okay. I assure you, this isn’t a review of a forty-year-old video, but rather the phrase that comes to my mind as I write this particular post. The world is really into WTF territory, a true Land of Confusion.
What’s going on? Is it time to start drinking heavily?
The largest product launch in the history of product launches is going on. Of course I mean Artificial Intelligence. A.I. has distorted everything, and I mean everything in our economy. There is (in my humble opinion that is more often wrong than right) no particular reason that the stock market should be doing as well as it is. A double Snack Wrap© meal with some fries and a drink costs $8.00.
The Dalai Lama went to Vegas last year because he loves Tibet.
That’s two tortillas, some Official Chicken Product®, a sauce, some shredded lettuce, potatoes deep fried in estrogen-laden oils, and, if you’re lucky and made the right choice, water or coffee. I guess this is an example of fake money for fake food.
Wouldn’t a bit a of steak be better? Even a little bit?
Gahhh! I keep wandering. Like I said, Land of Confusion.
If you really do a deep dive into the main prophet of A.I., Sam Altman, I assure you that you’ll become concerned that Sam is managing a trillion-dollar business with the potential that, if it fails, to lead to another Great Depression. But, hey, if it succeeds, there’s a 20% chance that humanity might be erased like mosquitos in a pup tent.
Honestly, I wouldn’t hire Sam Altman to manage a Taco Bell® in Modern Mayberry, but I guess that fast talking, double-dealing (according to Musk) and just plain greasy-seeming guy is the kind of person that we want to turn the economy over to.
If a robot commits a robbery and it’s caught after the battery dies, will police have plans to charge the suspect?
We’re riding the edge. And this sort of inflation on the bubble of reality has led to other inflations. Silver is following the classic signs of a bubble. But unlike A.I., silver is real. What’s real? Well, whenever I have a question like that I just leave it to old Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China):
Egg Shen: “(You) can see thins no one else can see. Do things no one else can do.”
Jack Burton: “Real things?”
Egg Shen: “As real as Lo Pan!”
Jack Burton: “Hey, what more can a guy ask for?”
Egg Shen: “Oh, a six-demon bag!”
Jack Burton: “Terrific. A six-demon bag. Sensational. What’s in it, Egg?”
Egg Shen: “Wind, fire, all that kind of thing.”
At this point I feel like Jack Burton. I’m just looking for something real. And silver is real. I can pick it up, feel its density, hear it go ‘ping’ like silver does, and give it to my sons when I die.
But silver went up. Then it went down. I hear rumors that a certain bank dumped all of its short positions when silver hit its recent low. Will it pop up in the next week?
I have no idea.
I’m not sure I care.
I’m just tempted to but a contract and go for delivery and show up to a COMEX® warehouse in a rented car from Budget™ and pick up 340 pounds of silver for the grins that would give me and then play Snake Plisskin from Escape From New York trying to get out of, well, New York where most of the COMEX vaults are.
The most famous human who bounces is that Irishman, Rick O’Shea.
The price of computers is also exploding. Why? Well, A.I., silly. Bill Gates (who the Epstein Files would indicate might have had to get rid of a nasty case of some Indonesian junk that’s going ‘round) has said, nah, man, why do you have a computer at all?
The idea, I think is to make computers like the one I’m typing on to be unaffordable. On one hand, I can see that if A.I. can do the calculations to weaponize the DNA from warts to infect humans into violent zombies or hack into the Pentagon instead of running a screensaver that might be a problem.
And yet . . .
A personal computing device has been available to me my entire adult life, and having my information in my house, on a hard drive I own is normal to me. Having to depend on the Indians running Microsoft® to not dump a tikka masala or a curry into the server and bring down my posts, family memories, and also kill Mabel’s life support in the ER in Cleveland doesn’t seem like the best idea.
Honestly, keeping Indians away from everything seems that way, but YMMV.
Then there’s Hollywood®. It appears that the only thing they want to create is unmitigated racist crap. Yes, racist. How else do you explain the cast for the latest Troy® movie, which features a black woman as Helen of Troy.
Here’s the take of one wag on X®:
What’s the difference between Syria and Detroit? How you get stoned.
A black woman as Helen of Troy? That’s bad. It’s not only bad, it’s offensive. It is, again, the opposite of the True, Beautiful, and Good in every single sense. And if the opposite of the True, Beautiful, and Good is Evil, well, there you go. And Zendaya (yes, that poor dog-faced girl Zendaya) playing . . . Athena. You know. A god. And Zendaya is a Midwest 5/10 on a good day.
Sigh. Land of Confusion. Again.
The most non-crazy item I’ve seen this week is Elon Musk saying that he’s thinking about putting a million data centers in orbit for creating A.I. processing. At least they won’t be subject to Sanjay dumping his sambar into the SanDisk® and stopping sanitation in San Francisco.
Oh, too late. Have you seen San Francisco?
Imagine how insulted Elon’s girlfriends feel when he says they look like a million bucks.
When Elon is fantasizing about putting a million of something into space is the most sane item of the week so far, it should tell you something.
When I read the headlines, I think back to my New Year’s resolution: drink more water.
So far, with the news in January, I’ve only gotten to: drink more.
Musk has stated that he thinks there is a 10 to 20% chance that AI will go rogue and do bad things. He then turns around and suggests that we put data centers and AI in space where it will have an infinite power supply and so they can’t be turned off. Safety features???? Apparently we don’t need no stinkin’ safety features.
This kind of stupidity is why Asperger’s cases like Musk and Altman should not be given access to large sums of money (particularly taxpayer money). There brain may excel in one area but they usually have the social intelligence of a child in many others.
And will be extremely vulnerable to a Kessler cascade, should the need arise.
Saw one projection that it was inevitable at this case. Dunno. Maybe we need a cleaner for the vacuum? A vacuum cleaner?
And it’s why I wrote my song The Last Dawn. We’re not thinking straight here. But, hey, think of the quarterly profits!
I miss the Halle Barry era of replacement media. Who knew all those years of not-exactly-White mystery meat types would be the salad years. Back when they at least had the decency to replace us with arguably physically attractive people of other colors. But now that we are post-beauty, every single time the agitprop strays from black man white woman it must go all the way over to the double-dipped beast of burden.
The gloves are off the monkey. The era of ugliness is upon us. This might be a good thing. But looking around at the kids these days I’m not so sure.
Maybe Nolan will run this one backward and helen of wakanda will get replaced by a White kkkaren with perky tits and a penchant for Jen-O-Ciding savages. They wuz kangs.
No, they won’t. Truth, Beauty, and Good are their enemies, so they revel in the opposite. Prove me wrong.
Oh, I’ve lost my entire fortune taking the other side of the long march. I will never bet against Progress and the rate of uptake by normie america. Thats how you go broke. NOT going woke.
They print money and lauder it at will. Some stonks go down or they sell less poison than last year is not going “Broke” but believing there is some other way, some parallel economy, or community that is not some approximation of the death cult itself is indeed a way to lose everything in the same way millions of men have been gutted by the divorce industrial complex believing in the old set of books while under the LAW of the other set of books.
The put-option on White men and thus Western Civ, is being exercised.
Truth & Beauty are eternal and must be lived and so the good news is that the more we embrace those things in daily life the more their inverted empire of lies diverges. Sadly, a great many are being left behind for the reasons above. Keep mouth shut. Go along to get along. Profit motive requires submission. And so on.
If the “right” begins to understand that simply playing their coin but heads up instead of tails up is still feeding their entire system, we might have chance. “our sloot is prettier than your sloot” is not winning the war on Truth & Beauty. Upending the tables is winning. But go ahead and take my advice at your peril. It all becomes a lot less funny.
The law seems to apply only to us, not to them.
To be fair, if you were a scrawny, narrow-skulled (physiognomy is rael, kids) homosexual vegan like Sam Altman and Yuval Noah Harari (there’s an additional commonality between those men, but I just can’t think of what that is right now 🤨), you’d probably be against Beauty and Truth, and slavering for some Transhumanist escape from your personal physical reality too.
(Thank Freya I’m pretty. Whew.)
Hahahaha! Yeah, Altman isn’t going to come to a good end. And Harari is horrid, but will probably get to Wormtongue forever.
And then there’s the NFL and the white-shame of the Super Bowl.
The what? Oh, yeah, are they still doing that?
That is awfully generous to call Zendaya a 5/10. Even with professional make-up and filters she is still homely and I can only imagine what she looks like on days she isn’t going anywhere.
Bow.
Wow.
It’s ok to be white! The net pigs can lick my white ball sack.
Pig pig pig pig!
Come. I wait.
Dang I must be getting old……I thought Zendaya(tm) was one of those medicines being advertised for weight loss.
She’s the anti-Viagra.
I was giving her the benefit of a facebag. Also: she’s gonna go linebacker in a few years.
They must expect The Odyssey to be going straight to Netflix.
Sadly, no.
we ain’t seen nothin yet…wait till the “aliens” show up
Based bluebeam enjoyer.
The word Babylon means confusion. Artificed, managed confusion.
Babylon Uno was big on women’s rights, equality, polytheism, fertility rites, sexual license, and occult practice so incrementally seeded into daily life and culture as eventually to be invisible. Put Egypt to shame.
Bible talks about a Babylon-the-Great, which is the rare sequel FAR more impressive than its sire. ‘That Great City’ [of iniquity] is the core and central shrine of Babs II, which is a global religion masked as ideology.
I believe Ole Babs’ founding and favored city just elected a Madmani to please its AWFLS and its ravening territorial spirts . . . sodden, arrogant and wicked now after so many centuries in power. The Atlantic coast is a fen. All things that come of it reek.
We are there, or at least can see it from here.
John: “I hear rumors that a certain bank dumped all of its short positions when silver hit its recent lows”.
Ricky: “Without a doubt a certain bank deliberately engineered a 10-sigma low in silver on the January option expiration day so they wouldn’t have to pay off on the billions and billions of short options contracts they had previously written.”
Fixed it for you.
AI in orbit? Madness. For fifty years there has been a fringe aerospace movement to legitimize SSP, Space Solar Power. The idea is to build solar panels in space (usually using lunar raw materials) and beam the electricity they harvest back down for use on Earth via microwaves that are routed onto the terrestrial power grid after conversion from EM waves to moving electrons. The numbers never work, starting with launch costs. The numbers still won’t work even if Elon has lowered launch costs considerably and skips the “beam to Earth” part. Even Mini-reactors out in the parking lot of a server farm with all their issues are still a better idea than solar powered AI in space. Surprisingly, one of the biggest problems would be waste heat rejection. All AI really does is turn electricity into waste heat. It’s hard enough to generate gigawatts of electricity. Just try then radiating all of that away in the vacuum thermos bottle of space when half the time you’re baking away at 250F in unfiltered sunlight. Madness.
Madness, we do indeeed live in a world of madness. I just heard about the ridiculous casting of Helen earlier this week. Maybe next Christopher Nolan will consider a remake of The Woman King and cast Sidney Sweeny in the role Viola Davis played as head of the female praetorian guards for the kingdom of Dahomey. Nolan could emphasize the historical role Davis’ character had in herding slaves onto ships to enrich her King, a minor detail glossed over in Davis’ portrayal. I’d pay double to see Sweeny up on the silver screen correcting THAT Hollywood madness…
I will end this comment by repeating a post I made elsewhere about the current ongoing madness known as Star Trek : Starfleet Academy:
“True Star Trek was last seen in 2005, back when the colorblind Roddenberry franchise featured noble, strong leaders like Janeway and Sisko who respected the uniform, respected the chair, and optimistically explored a universe full of alien wonders. Since that time, a bunch of deranged lunatics like Abrams and Kurtzman have decided that the ST story arc going forward is with terrorist attacks on London, San Francisco and Mars; the obliteration of the Vulcan, Romulan and now Klingon home worlds; even the destruction of warp drive and the Federation itself, all while loading up the cast with gay, feminist, racial and nihilistic identity tropes.
At least they were up-front about the (literal and figurative) disastrous direction they have taken the franchise: “Star Trek: Into Darkness”, indeed. They know themselves what they pump out isn’t True Star Trek. Their slop is anchored in a “dystopian Kelvin timeline”, or an “android slave rebellion” or a “fix-it puzzle from a dying (!?!) Q set in a flawed 2024” or a “wormhole to a post-apocalyptic 32nd Century” all populated by “potty mouth Admirals” and “turncoat Captains” and “untrustworthy Section 31 spooks” and “juvenile snarky Ensigns” and “juvenile vulnerable and sensitive Cadets” and even a “Frank Oz puppet whose Mary Sue superhero lawyer girlfriend loses her starship and crew but still saves the universe from evil”.
Just. Give. Us. To. Boldly. Go.
Prove me wrong. And bring back The Orville.”
I seem to recall that Abrams had never actually watched an episode of Star Trek when he was given the job.
It shows.
200% chance that the initials J.J. stand for Jar-Jar.
He should be banned from ever directing any franchise that started before he was born, and probably set on fire while still alive for good measure. Ideally while tied to Kathleen Kennedy, with both of them standing in a swimming pool filled with aviation gasoline.
It’s the only way to be sure.
“Just. Give. Us. To. Boldly. Go.
Prove me wrong. And bring back The Orville.”
All of the above, and THIS.
Well, to interject, I gave up on The Orville when they had one too many Bortis (not gonna look up the right spelling) is Trans or Gay episodes.
So much we agree on. Starfleet Academy shows a new low each week (I watch the reviewers only – they’ll never get my attention – NO HATE WATCHING!!!)
Turns out that to produce a universe that is post-human, applied scientism, infinitely diverse, and completely devoid of private property and borders – but for those “civilizations” yet to be discovered, or retrograde in their desire to remain homogenous and territorial, and brought to submission into the great communist space agency has a few really “problematic” missing links in the narrative. Sorta like Evolution.
The equality-diversity multi-cultie end-of-history culture of Star Trek original flavor was at least held in check by Kirk’s pimp hand and penchant for fisticuffs and flings and general swagger that once removed, or rather, evolved, lets loose the sort of progressive mission drift that spills bad ideas across the universe to this day.
We took the Patriarchy off the bridge of the Enterprise. Starfleet HQ was in San Francisco, after all. The results follow our own journey through space where we encounter totally predictable behaviors from all matters of invaders and little green men.
‘Ricky: “Without a doubt a certain bank deliberately engineered a 10-sigma low in silver on the January option expiration day so they wouldn’t have to pay off on the billions and billions of short options contracts they had previously written.”’
The smart money and the institutional investors were way ahead of the silver curve and took their profits early, long ago. By the time the general public was hip, the engineered trough was already is place, waiting for the public to pour its doomed money in.
Subjugating male authority under (Captain, later Admiral) ‘Jane’s Way’ was the beginning of the end. It is about preparing mass populations for accecptance of male submission to female command. The stoopid episodes are the cotton candy you are given as distraction.
You still have not learned your lesson. Once the camel’s nose is under the tent, it is the camel’s tent.
Helen is proof that everything is Fake & Gay. She’s “The Face That Sunk (not Launched) 1,000 Ships”.
And rename it “The Odd-essey”.
Why would someone invest $1 in a venture that’s guaranteed to fail bigly? Can’t wait to see Taki’s take on the casting.
She is objectively unattractive.
‘Why would someone invest $1 in a venture that’s guaranteed to fail bigly?’
For the same reason they invested billions in similar ventures, Hollywood etc.: the imposition of the Woke-Fem religion is FAR more important to these interests than accruing more billions. Shit if they need more billions they can just soak you down in another commodities scam.
Hollywood/Entertainment is first a foremost a propaganda tool, and only secondarily about moolah.
It is about the ubiquity of the (new) religion. About the unconscious acceptance of its satano-prog doctrines and principles in a percent of the population sufficient to claim consent. Repeat the Message has been a proven tactic for a century.
One of the reasons computer prices have skyrocketed is the demand for memory chips has far outpaced the supply. Micron is investing billions to expand chip production facilities in Idaho, but it will probably be a few years before the first new fab comes on line and even longer until the second is completed.
As for Nolan’s “Helen” it is just part and parcel with the elimination of red-headed characters in Hollywood. We also saw this with the docudrama a few years back about Cleopatra and, of course, the Disney live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. My working theory for this is that Satan hates red-heads and so Hollywood, being devotees of Satan, likewise hate red-heads.
Good Point. Had 5 relationships with pure redheads or auburn haired girls. All great. Am trying to find one back from 30+ years ago. She had a unique quality that dealt with grass-fed cream.
Yup. And it will continue for now.
Nolan? Dead to me.
He hates how their auburn hair kinda sparkles and glitters in the sun. Like his don’t.
Just hates that part. It is not equal and therefore not fair.
Helen was supposedly the daughter of Zeus. The newest Helen makes me wonder what was going on in the woodshed.
Well, ain’t no Zeus in that woodpile.
Meanwhile, the (expensive!) EV madness has begun to abate….
https://nypost.com/2026/02/01/opinion/us-european-car-brands-have-lost-114b-on-evs-as-idiocy-abounds-in-electric-market/
You can only avoid the consequences of being irrational for so long.
Good Lord,we are all insane. One comment somewhere above me said:
“The gloves are off the monkey. The era of ugliness is upon us.”
That’s almost Hunter S Thompson, style. And that sentiment is a good way to consider what Hunter called “the end of football season”.
But for them. Not us.
Yes.
Slipping the Cheap Trick reference in was a boss move worthy of Dennis Miller.
h/t
Thank you! Though I think Bill Gates did a better job of slipping something in.