Kenny Smith

Next class’ AI FAIL slide is now decided.

Haven’t had the chance to use this gif in a while.

I just received the protip of using Command-F.

Time well spent.

I’d imagine so.

Is the betting pool open for when they try to jump in and leech some credit?

Thanks for the explanation.

I won’t try to speak to another country’s policy and law, but that’s real something when a baby is stuck to suffer in a legal loophole.

That we’ve overcome some of the weird toilet seat fears people imagined in the 1980s?

And probably killed the toilet seat paper cover industry.

If you forced me to pick which tech company gave off the most Gilded Age vibes, it'd be Meta only because it's been playing this cynical game longer than the crowded field.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

This one needs a little explanation.

I remain surprised that no one has referred to this as “gate opening” yet.

(Unless, of course, someone has and I missed it. In which case, very clever of them.)

It is a neat trick, isn’t it?

Makes you wonder about the engineering of inefficiency.

screenshot of a website for the Olympic Shop selling a t-shirt commemorating the 1936 Olympics. At the top is information about the shop and below is a t-shirt with images from Berlin 1936 on it. To the right there are sizes for the t-shirt and a tab to click to add to cart.

The IOC has banned the courageous & principled Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych for his “helmet of memory” commemorating Ukraine’s war dead.

Meanwhile the IOC is selling a $42 "Heritage T-shirt" commemorating the 1936 Olympics, known as the Nazi Games. shop3.olympics.com/en/olympic-g...

Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

Most anything with chlorophyll at this point.

Any sentient being and some potted plants could see this coming.

Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

"Deux morts, des milliers de personnes arrêtées, deux villes ébranlées et Donald Trump défait. Ainsi s’achève l’opération anti-immigration « Metro surge », conduite par l’Etat fédéral dans les « twin cities », les villes jumelles de Minneapolis et Saint Paul, depuis début décembre. Tom Homan, le « tsar des frontières » de la Maison Blanche, a annoncé jeudi 12 février le retrait prochain des troupes de l’ICE (Immigration and customs enforcement, la police de l’immigration) et de la CBP (Customs and border protection, l’équivalent des douanes)."

How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.

In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:

"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

I ask the question because we’ve not had a widespread media failure such as this in living memory.

Students flee bus stop as ICE agents arrive at N.J. apartment complex Dozens of students scrambled from their bus stop in Camden County on Thursday to avoid an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, according to officials.

Dozens of students scrambled from their bus stop in Camden County on Thursday to avoid an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, according to officials.

All this ice — three weeks of it now — is just boring.

What is all that green stuff on the ground and on the trees?

This is the year a lot of people are going to find out — sadly too late, in some cases — that they don’t like some of these things when they finally find out about them.

And then they’re going to wonder why they didn’t find out about them.

What do you think happens after that?

Thank you.

Here's a quote in the MN Daily from me on this concept.

mndaily.com/opinion/opin...

Do not skip the video.

every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame

That’s some quality information gathering.

Ukrainians rally in support of Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych, banned for his helmet Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion.

Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion. n.pr/4rqEdSs

My favorite Pete thing is watching with no audio because his nonverbals are really something. Big angry-with-impotent-rage-dad energy.

I can’t wait.