Tag archives for apocalypse
Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?
It might be the Third World War. Or not. It might lead to a new Great Depression. Or not. Iran might be destroyed in four weeks. Or maybe Israel will…
No luck, plenty of fun, and you’ll definitely die! (You, not them.)
I don’t do film reviews. Here’s a film review. Sorta. A 5-bit one. (I know, it’s “You, nor they,” but nobody observes grammar rules in English. And you won’t understand…
Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!
Just as I thought that the worst thing that could happen to humankind and the worst possible thing in America was Donald J. Trump, wokism in Socialist California struck again!…
Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!
On YouTube, there are thousands of channels with the following characteristics: They stream music 24/7 or for 2, 3, 8, 12 hours, after which they create another live stream that…
Today, I cannot take sides
Donald Trump's administration began “major combat operations” against Iran, allegedly to disable “imminent threats” to the United States. Bibi Netanyahu's regime doubled down with “preemptive strikes” against Iran, also citing…
Sam Altman in India, and other AI news
❶ The Indian Express hosted a Q&A session with Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO. As usual, this lunatic has proven his brain damage. The most discussed and criticized answer was the…
SJVN and the fragile bazaar
In a recent opinion column in The Reg, SJVN describes a severe problem that open-source software is facing today, namely the burnout of the (unpaid) software developers: Feeling the burn:…
Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI
There are a lot of things generative AI can be blamed for, but some people seem to take this issue personally. It also seems to me that people are not…
The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM
In a previous post, in the chapter “On RAM prices because of the AI madness,” I explored the possibility of purchasing a cheap laptop with 24 GB or 32 GB…
Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend
There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…
I asked a few chatbots about a possible nightmare scenario
“Let's imagine the following scenario. Ten years from now, the world will have had a generalization of GenAI in all forms, and people will almost exclusively acquire information from AI…
The Braver and Braver New World
I can't keep up with everything that happened lately because I busied myself with something else than witnessing the approaching apocalypse. But I still heard of a few relevant things.…
Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!
Remember how I said that I have Windows software from 1999-2000 (originally on CD-ROM) that still runs under Win7-Win10-Win11, and how the Linux mob couldn’t care less about backward compatibility?…
Which one comes first, Greenland or Iran?
I bet on Greenland, even if “informed people” swear that the US will attack Iran within the next 12 hours (in the night or early morning of Jan. 15 local…
I don’t believe in Iran’s future
I was born to be skeptical, and I believe that some countries and nations are meant to be fucked up forever. Therefore, regardless of a possible and hoped-for change of…
Happy Trump’s Kampf
I don’t read the NYT regularly, mostly visiting it via links from newsletters, but yesterday morning I’ve been informed of his interview with the NYT. Here's what you might be…
Operation ‘Emperor of the World’
The shit-orange infused Monroe Doctrine, dubbed “Donroe Doctrine,” was not invented in the last couple of days. The term that appeared on a January 2025 cover of The New York…
Plans for US Imperialism 2.0 predate Trump 2.0
I stumbled upon a video excerpt on X, and I wondered whether it's authentic or AI-generated. I googled “Laura J. Richardson lithium triangle” and Google's AI Overview spitted this: General…
I’m literally sick of this much AI
I started to write this blog post on Dec. 30, being triggered by one too many proofs of AI madness. Meanwhile, I found one more video to discuss, so I'm…
„Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian
După catastrofa de la „Colectiv” din 2015, credeam că doar noi, românii, putem fi atât de retardați, incompetenți, nepăsători și corupți. Își putea cineva imagina că un episod (că n-am…