Dave Taber

The VIX (a measure of stock volatility) has set all-time records.
IOW, boing, boing, boing...
We need to brand the Orange Jesus as "Ricochet Rabbit"

Putin’s TV Goons Jump for Joy at Trump’s Tariff ‘Buffoonery’ “It looks like the end of the global system is coming, the global system that is about fifty years old,” political scientist Dmitry Kulikov said.

www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-tarif...

12 famous AI disasters Insights from data and machine learning algorithms can be invaluable, but mistakes can be irreversible. These recent high-profile AI blunders illustrate what can go wrong.

www.cio.com/article/1908...

Looking at my email, received a message from SSA indicatinga new message in the mySocialSecurity website. Typed the URL to get to the main SSA home page. Tried to log in, received an HTML 400 error (bad request). Replicated on different browser.

A result of the merry pranksters in DOGE???

Gaza --> Real Estate Deal
Ukraine --> Real Estate Deal, mineral rights deal
Greenland --> Real Estate Deal

You'd think we were being lead by a demented real estate developer.

Skype announces it will close in May The internet chat and phone service, which is owned by Microsoft, made the announcement on X.

WOW!! MSFT paid $8.5 B (a ton of that money went to Andreessen) back in 2011. They shut it down this month...
www.bbc.com/news/article...

There are a bunch of Christians who think Trump was sent by God.
I think they're right, but it's not the god they're thinking of.
It's Shiva.

"If you're income hasn't gone up, that is the economy's way of telling you your skills are becoming obsolete." No wonder they call economics the dismal science...

This will creep into professions in different ways, and will cause many to exit their professions. No question that if you can't figure out how to leverage AI as a tool to improve your output speed & quality, you'll be in trouble. See below...

Do you own/run a company? There's a new "FinCEN" requirement to file a BOIR report in 30 days. It's 5 minutes work, but do NOT go to www.boir-registration.org -- total scam site. They charge $379 to file "for you"...but the correct site is free and only slightly clunkier. GO TO: fincen.gov/boi

It's all about branding.
Tesla --> Swasticar
X --> Xitter (pronounced like "Xi" in Chinese)
Truth Social --> Pravda Social (Pravda means truth in Russian)

Several administration officials tell workers not to reply to Musk email Leaders at defense and intelligence offices were particularly wary of Musk’s demand over the weekend asking workers to outline what they did last week.

This innocent-looking request is a huge security risk. Why did Musk do it? To put all those responses into an AI engine to find out what agencies are really working on (vs what they say they are). Not just sneaky: totally illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

@Todd (TJ) We Definitely Are 🤣🤣🤣🤣#🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 TikTok video by ChrissyLafaye

I couldn't say it -- or sing it -- any better myself.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YbcgoY/

Trump Threatens to Deport Chickens Unless They Lower Price of Eggs “We are not going to be held ransom by some birds that are, quite frankly, disgusting,” he said.

www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-thre...

A metaphor

Over the last couple of weeks, WSJ had a series of editorials condemning Biden's pardons. All so that when the OJ pardons 1,600 criminals, nobody will pay much attention. Always ask yourself, "why am I reading this now?"

I use the WSJ opinion page as the early warning system for incoming bullshit from the administration. Following the dictum, "market your weakness", there will be a flurry of op-eds there condemning somebody for something the Orange Jesus is about to do. Preparatory carpet-bombing...

In case you're wondering, Tesla powerwalls' savings estimates are complete BS. I don't know how they calculate it, but the cheery little year-end summary Tesla's app gives you is at least 5x larger than reality. At least for me...other folks' experiences???

The cartoon that WaPo killed...not the final version, but you'll get the idea...

Check the 12 volt battery. this is the kind of symptom we had on our Volt hybrid.

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Oooooh, just found start.me -- allows you to build a home page with widgets. Every feature I want (except 1...) is free. YAY!

my.yahoo.com is now gone. It was a nice build-it-yourself news-feed home page. What is your favorite? I'm messing around with Feedly and Google, but neither of them is visually very flexible. Ideas??

<Bad music/math joke alert>
John Cage's 4:33 of silence is an example of Fermata's last theorem.

3 isn't enough

I've started to report the junk accounts to the "moderation service." Hope they actually do something...

Sad to see so many BS "people" following me. Girls, gambling scams, you name it.
I guess this is totally unavoidable without -- what -- verification that you are actually a human that is not on the make. Guess we need to have a "scammer demotion method" here!!!

BREAKING NEWS!

Per, Swedish journalist, Peter Imanuelsen, "The European Federation of Journalists representing 320,000 journalists have announced they will stop posting on X."

THIS IS BIG!

Some good news: Google's Gemini is getting better than ChatGPT for general information questions with a clear answer. Gemini doesn't try to answer every query...whereas ChatGPT tries too hard to please...generating an answer even when it really doesn't know. Gemini also will point to its sources.

Trump got 75 million votes.
90 million voters voted for "don't give a shit" by not voting.

Blame them