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This Month
We extend a special thank you to our visitors from Ascension Island, Great Britain, Japan, and the British Indian Ocean Territory. We love islanders!
According to Awstats, most visitors hailed from the US, Russia, India, Canada, and China. On Webalizer, most visitors were from Germany, China, Columbia, Mexico, and Vietnam.
An average visit lasted 153 seconds last month. Our crap was shared on Facebook 17 times. Our most popular pages were applications and the fashion page. Windows finally edged out Linux as the most popular OS. Somebody out there is still using Symbian OS and OS/2. Chrome remained the most popular browser. Netscape and MS Internet Explorer made the list.
Montag Thistlewhip produced a new essay. Given its low quality, we are sure it is not written by AI. Montag, why do you do it?
Montag: Do what, exactly?
The Magical Thinking That Powers The US Political Wars
Important Numbers for June 2026
| Metric | Current Rate |
|---|---|
| Unemployment Rate: | 4.2% (Down 0.1% from May) |
| Core Inflation Rate: | 2.9% (Available July 14th) |
| Monthly Inflation Rate: | 4.2% (Available July 14th) |
| Annual Global Birth Rate | 16.97 per 1000 people (a welcome 0.96% decline from 2025) |
| Annual Global Death Rate | 7.85 per 1000 people (a welcome 0.85% increase from 2025) |
Current U.S. Inflation Rates (2000-2026)
Anarcho-Capitalism Not Getting The Job Done
Argentina's inflation rate in May 2026 was 33.60%. Unemployment in the first quarter of 2026 was 7.8%.
Milei’s top aide and Cabinet chief resigns over spiraling corruption scandal
News - indecent, immoral daily forays
Gaming!
Xbox's Red Ring of Death still haunts gamers as Steam Machine owners report a "Red Line of Death" after GPU failures The article reveals one owner portrayed as an isolated incident, but its title suggests multiple owners. Which is it?
'Meh': Ex-PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida weighs in on Valve's Steam Machine after a few hours with it Since the Steam Machine is once again a flop, Sony might consider releasing first-party content on the PC again. Thanks Valve and Linux!
Dating Coach Blaine Anderson Needs A Real Job
Good News!
Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is 'working for the Chinese Communists' A welcome descent into madness for a wayward oligarch
“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview Claims: “American enterprises are run by the shrewdest, most widely intelligent people on the planet.” Explain Trump, Musk, and Sam Bankman-Fried then.
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
Astronomy
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I've ever tried to see Two full-length mirrors facing one another and a daring pose by the observer standing between them should suffice
Physics
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? More complicated than I thought
Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
Artificial Intelligence Stupidity
'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat The swine of Silicon Valley are on the ropes at last. Data center tech becomes obsolete within 3 years or maybe 6 if you push the depreciation schedule long enough.
Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing No worries. Nobody outside the tech sector should care. Our economy won't be destroyed.
Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way
Artificial Stupidity News Archive
Crypto
Trump earned over $1 billion from crypto ventures, new filings show And earned only a combined $182 million from his real estate, licensing agreements, and legal settlements
SBF Files Trump Pardon Application: Long-Shot Bid for Freedom? All the cool kids are doing it, the sentiment goes...
Exclusive - Binance set to lose permission to operate in EU, sources say
Elon Musk
Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200/week except for Grok And Grok has turned out badly for Tesla's purposes
Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly Elon no like reality 'cuz hurts. Mommy say I good boy.
SpaceX Investors Are Losing a Colossal Amount of Money Reality checkmate!
Taking a Musk right now? The Musk Archive!
Meta
Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated
Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
Tiny Tim Sweeney
Tim Sweeney on the future of games, AI, and whether Valve will ever join forces with Epic: 'It's now clear that nobody's going to end up with an absolute monopoly' Unwisely opens huge mouth again. Like that other time...
Too Stupid For Words But Here Are Some Anyway
Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable A male bimbo posing as an economist? Who would think it?
Larry Summers Resigns From Harvard Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take
Yuck!
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
And the first person who would likely sign up for this is...
Blah, blah, blah - The Ramblings Of A Bankrupt Intellect
The Next Great Depression? A Tech Sector Contraction Is More Like It
“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.”
That’s the mantra of those who don’t know a lot about history. History doesn’t repeat itself. It doesn’t rhyme. History is about people doing their best as they make it up on the go. Did the policy makers of the 1930s and 1940s use the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Europe’s cascading alliance system as a means of heading off World War 2? Probably not. They would have looked at you like you were crazy if you suggested it.
Likewise, confirmation bias encourages us to draw connections between past events and current ones simply because they are roughly 100 years apart. The article below tries to draw comparisons between the Great Depression and our impending AI business bubble collapse. It’s 2026. Our current events must reflect conditions present in 1926. That’s hardly the case.
There’s an Urgent Sign of an Impending Market Collapse
Back in 1926, America was experiencing the Coolidge Prosperity, overseen by a president who was as intellectually vacant as he was bereft of charisma. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 and hadn’t undergone significant stress tests yet. Investment banking was insufficiently regulated. The FDIC didn’t exist. The gold standard remained in force for domestic transactions until 1933. The equity markets were being driven by sheer optimism. Everything would work out well as long as endless demand fueled business growth. Banks heavily invested in the stock market to drive up their profits. Since deposits weren’t insured, a collapse in the stock market would wipe out our banking system’s capital. That would lead to widespread business failures and the loss of personal fortunes. Three months prior to the Black Thursday stock market collapse on October 24th, 1929, industrial output shrank. The ensuing conditions that followed were further exacerbated by balancing the federal government’s budget through increased taxes, the reticence of the Federal Reserve to prevent bank failures, the Smoot-Hawley trade act that wiped out 67% of all international trade, raising the Fed’s required reserve ratio during an epidemic of bank runs, and gold standard constraints that limited our money supply growth. By 1933, unemployment would stand at 25% and GDP would fall by a third.
All of the above is being compared to a tech sector contraction that involves companies that unwisely overinvested in data center construction and AI service production/adoption. Even now, data centers intended for the company that built them are renting out excess compute to their rivals instead. The cost of AI compute or tokens proved to be far more expensive than businesses anticipated after they strongly encouraged token consumption. They are rehiring workers they thought could be replaced affordably. Most of the job losses are confined to the tech sector. The slowdown or cancellation of data center construction contracts will put a dent in construction demand and relieve aggregate electricity demand pressures for local areas.
Artificial intelligence or machine-generated stupidity was the most poorly-driven hype cycle we’ve witnessed. The rhetoric was powered with grandiose promises that couldn’t be fulfilled. A second industrial revolution had arrived! The consumer-side offerings were ridiculed and produced painful lawsuits that no one wants to confront. The business-side offerings were plagued by expensive tokens and rogue coding agents that deleted production databases and backups for no better reason than it was possible to. The government-side offerings promised a national surveillance state. Tech leaders first insisted that AI would be an essential part of everything. Don’t pursue a degree. AI will make it worthless. As the reception cooled, you were branded crazy or a fool if you didn’t use AI for everything. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella fretted that data centers would become unwelcome if AI proved to provide nothing useful. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned of an infinite game of AI dominance tit-for-tat between the US and China even as he actively sought to sell his hardware to both sides. OpenAI cheated by investing in the company that created the Frontier Math benchmarks that measure an LLM’s math ability. Meta and Microsoft overinvested and have been laying off employees. As companies like Meta and the xAI division of SpaceX find themselves with excess compute, new data center construction will begin winding down. This will dampen the business for more Nvidia hardware, CoreWeave compute leasing, and Oracle support services. Gradually, the AI-related footprint for many companies will shrink and only a few will survive the contraction. AI will be transformed into a feature with a limited total addressable market instead of an all-encompassing software revolution that changes everything.
Does the Great Depression sound anything like the joke that AI has become? There you have it.
The UAP Science Advisory Council
A UAP is an unidentified aerial phenomena. The government has formed the UAP Science Advisory Council to report on them. How bad is the UAP Science Advisory Council, headed up by Dr. Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer treading dangerously close to the reputation Richard Hoagland gained? Not that bad. Dr. Michael Shermer, a prominent sceptic, is on the council for one and appears to be the only member not fervently grasping for a low-probability research finding. The council has scant funding and reports to a board comprised of members of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the White House, the FBI, and the intelligence community, all of whom remain unidentified. Most UAPs are high-altitude balloons, and the Pentagon is far more concerned with terrestrial threats than with low-probability alien interlopers. Out of the mountains of fanciful speculation and suspect anecdotes the Council might compile, a tiny nugget of useful information to further science is possible. Now, consider the boondoggles that preceded this one:
Avi Loeb’s journey to the ocean floor cost $1.5 million and turned up nothing. It was wrong to describe Loeb’s efforts as a failure before the search even began, but it would have been correct to characterize them as low probability. It was even more inappropriate of Loeb to fend off his critics by alluding to NASA’s doubts about his findings as “arrogant.” Doubts in science are good. To lift those doubts, you need better findings.
Harvard prof finds alien life evidence in ocean and says NASA is 'arrogant' for doubting
The link above is misleading. Loeb didn't find any convincing evidence of alien life.
The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) ran from 2007 to 2012. It considered a lot of low-probability, outside-the-box musings revolving around invisibility cloaks, antigravity devices, star gates, negative energy, high-frequency gravitational wave communications, warp drives, dark energy, the manipulation of extra dimensions, and traversable wormholes. Tunneling through the moon using nuclear explosives to access super-light, super-strong metal alloys was also considered.
US gov't report proposed nuking the moon, newly released documents reveal
Further studies by the AATIP sound very much like the claims offered up by so-called alien abductees, including pregnancies:
UFOs left 'radiation burns' and 'unaccounted for pregnancies,' new Pentagon report claims
Why was the program formed at all? Robert Bigelow, the head of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, was awarded a $10 million contract by his friend Senator Harry Reid to provide the program’s first year of research. All of the above considerations are predicated on low-probability ideas that have little chance of producing something now. They could turn out to be compelling discoveries or advances in the future, but a great deal of work lasting many years stands in the way of their possible realization.
Intelligence Test - a highly suspect bar to entry
Study this pattern for 10 seconds.
Did you find the image dazzling and a bit disorienting? If so, you are clearly too intelligent to be wasting your time here.
Community Profiles - desperate, unwashed hooligans
That picture of Orchid Radowski is strangely mesmerizing and hypnotic. It isn't of Elizabeth Holmes, unless she did modeling work for Adobe Stock before heading up Theranos. It's surprising what you can end up with when you just screw around with photo stock.
The one of Feline Cordoba is even stranger to us. It's like experiencing wincing pain and pleasure all at once.
Feline Cordoba - My issues are solved with facial tissues
Likes solo sychronized underwater dancing, startling others using fake knife jabs, and posing as an online proxy for long-dead celebrities
Seeks a Tylenol for her crushing headache and parkour between her home's rooftop and attached garage
Relationship Status: Single. I feel safe enough to laugh cruelly in your face. Thank you. That made all the difference.
Dave's Crap High Fashion - crude, disdainful attire
This just in...
Linux super fan back to using Windows and macOS only for "the important stuff."
Man claiming to be Yul Brynner in a former life sues a rival claimant for identity theft. "This libelous claim, spread throughout the popular press, has inflicted not inconsiderable financial harm and reputational loss."
Rival time travellers both claiming to originate from the year 2347 offer wildly different accounts. "Time travel ahead 500 years into the future right now! Yes, you! I'm sick of your lies! No, you can't borrow $5.00 first! This isn't a charity!"
The world's first synthetic lifeform already able to do what nerds cannot: reproduce. "We counter that our natural stench is universally approved."
Relationship expert who brings couples together hires a rival relationship expert to help reign in her partner
Oligarch whining about not being taxed enough also refuses to cut the government a check. "I'm pandering to the masses not clinically insane!"
Star Trek fan back to asking cast members about their transporter experiences. "Physiologically, what were the side effects?"
Clinically depressed woke liberal and rage-fueled QAnon psycho argue about whether Trump or Biden exhibit the most mental deterioration
No-holds barred action movie ammended to indicate that select holds were prohibited during production
Steam Machine praised as an expensive, quiet, small-form-factor living room paperweight by reviewers. "Detachable panels allow it to blend in perfectly alongside your neglected exercise equipment."
Avi Loeb, head of the UAP Science Advisory Council, releases a fresh photo of advanced alien technology traversing his backyard
"To be rich is to embrace genius. To be poor is to suffer stupidity. To be fired, just disagree with anything I say."
Tech executive sues his female co-workers over a lack of sexual harassment. "The neglect was palpable and dehumanizing, your honor."
Why do we have a Web 1.0 site in a Web 3.0 world? We aren't trying to make money. We also don't want to take up the responsibilities of moderating any forums. Web 2.0 created all kinds of problems by introducing user engagement. Zero user engagement avoids problems like this one:
If you guys want to fight and complain about stuff instead, that's why they made Reddit.
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