Wizard of the Howling Wastes

#ScathingAtheist 658 Diatribe by Noah Lugeons (10/9/25)

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He positioned the launch's speed bumps as learning opportunities. "Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there's going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that's fine, that's the way the world works," Altman said, adding, "We can use this window to get society to really understand, 'Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you've got to be ready for that."

The world works this way because of you, Mr. Altman. You created a world of runaway digital body snatching and SpongeBob meth labs. Don’t blame human nature to remove your culpability.

Quote from today’s article in @theverge.com

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

a crucial difference: leather shoes, smartphones, clothes, and pieces of paper uses lots of water while also providing a real-world benefit, while AI uses lots of water to generate plagiarism, misinformation, and ugly cartoon porn

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

In isolation a lot of what this administration is doing is laughable. But their brutish, arrogant, head-empty governance is killing thousands of people. Perhaps in a century someone will make a Death of Stalin style movie about this and our descendants can laugh at the grotesque absurdity of it all.

it really feels like you should need to be smarter than these guys to do the amount of damage they do

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Remember kids. Sask is a full on desert without the long cold winter pausing the water loss and storing up winter precipitation as snow.
The shorter the winter and the more thaws we have the worse it gets.

We should all be happy for any progress toward a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and especially for the release of the surviving hostages. That said: editors and writers need to be clear a temporary ceasefire is not a "peace" deal. What we're talking about is phase one of a multiphase plan.

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Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...

Well that's a baffling statement. Now do they actually think antifa is a terrorist network like Al Qaeda? Or do they know better and are just lying?

Both are bad.

It wouldn't surprise me if Noem is just lying and Kash actually thinks there is a shadow network of leftists.

Last weekend, the Trump administration sent 10 more people to an Eswatini prison, joining five other ICE detainees sent there in July.

None of the 15 men sent to the nation are from Eswatini. But they are now under the authority of its king.

Read Noah Lanard's full story: https://bit.ly/47gNtB1

Posobiec saying antifa was founded during the Weimar Republic, so that founder's girlfriend might not have been too hard to catch at her age.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

It's almost like an economic strategy predicated on pissing off the whole world might be self defeating.

1/ Russia's volunteer soldiers (known as kontraktniki) have evolved significantly since the start of the Ukraine war, with the quality of the soldiers steadily decreasing. A Russian commentary describes how the profile of the Russian contract soldier has changed over time. ⬇️

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

"You've got to try this recipe for 10 minute doughnuts."
-"Oh I eat doughnuts way faster than that."
"..."

"Sora removes all creative barriers and unlocks the power of everybody's imagination" and every other post is just "what if darth vader was a bird".

Insanity

incredibly funny use of "sober"

Syria holds first elections since fall of Bashar al-Assad After more than a decade of civil war, committee members will choose transitional parliament

Syria holds first elections since fall of Bashar al-Assad www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

Yes, this is what civil conflict looks like. A running street battle with buildings ablaze downtown, while other people attend Timmy's 6th birthday party with a funny clown at a playground in a neighborhood two miles away.