Peter Wick

When masked agents descended on a Chicago suburb, residents sprang into action, hollering and documenting their operation | CNN Residents near Chicago are joining a coalition of resistance and opposition to ICE raids and the President Trump’s unwavering determination to detain and deport undocumented migrants en masse.

Sometimes I'm proud of grass roots Americans and the tradition of raucous protest...

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YouTube video by The Daily Show "No Kings" Protests Defy GOP Expectations & Jon Gives Trump a Royal Inspection | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart just keeps on being brilliant. It's really quite amazing:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggIB...

Lou Piniella ejected from game, kicks hat | 08/26/1998 Mariners manager Lou Piniella is ejected from the game and kicks his hat across the field

As this Mariners playoff game goes to the 14th inning, the Fox Sports guys keep reminiscing about the great Edgar Martinez-Griffey Jr. play from 30 years ago. Here's an equally great Mariner moment from the 90s....
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Trump watches TV and thinks Portland is 'burning to the ground.'

When do we get a grown up human as President?

Hm...maybe gen z will also turn out ok also.

Waymo driverless car stopped by Bay Area police during DUI operation Police in one Bay Area city expected to spend Friday night looking for impaired drivers. Instead, they found themselves pulling over a car with no driver at all.

Someday in the future the robots will actually be drunk, and DUI tickets issued...

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Trump has made me so sick of watching news, that I've actually started following the WNBA playoffs.

Jimmy Kimmel’s show to return on Tuesday | CNN “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to air on ABC on Tuesday night, the network announced in a statement.

These are the moments that show greatness, the fact that as a country, even our most $$ focused corporations can self-correct on principal:

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YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers Trump Returns from U.K. Visit and the White House Cracks Down on Free Speech: A Closer Look

At some moments in history, societies celebrate their artists and comedians. At other times they throw them in jail (or just cancel shows). These comedian are, currently, right at this moment, real-time heroes:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGpY...

YouTube video by 100lizi Iconoclasts Robert Redford and Paul Newman part 1/4

Redford and Newman only made two films together, Butch and Sundance, and The Sting, but it was fun to watch them together in 2005:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2uK...

Flying cars crash into each other at air show in China Footage shared on social media shows burning wreckage on the ground after the mid-air collision.

Yeah, uh...I'll take being stuck in traffic...on the ground.

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One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Robert Redford, magnetic Hollywood icon and Sundance founder, dies at 89 Redford was best known as a go-to leading man of the late 1960s and 1970s, instantly recognizable for his windswept hair and widely beloved for his easy charisma.

For as huge a superstar as he was at the peak of his fame, probably the most interesting thing he did was start Sundance, giving support to indie artists worldwide.

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new Simple Displeasures - #138 Artificial Intelligence, Art, and Comedy:

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Trump Renames White House Fridge Department Of Ham

Trump Renames White House Fridge Department Of Ham https://theonion.com/trump-renames-white-house-fridge-department-of-ham/

WE ARE LEAGUES CUP CHAMPIONS!

A friend of mine and I decided that CGI stands for Country Gravy Intafada, and we're trying to decide if it's also a band name, or gastro condition you get after eating too much at certain southern restaurants.

Key West - Special Edition Key West - Special Edition - Kindle edition by Wick, Peter. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Key West - Special Edition.

Just read an interesting statistic that 96% of books sell less than 1,000 copies in their lifetime. This means that my Key West series is in the top 4%! Basically 2 books, under 3 titles, going back to 2013. The three titles are averaging more than double the stat!

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How Gavin Newsom trolled his way to the top of social media Inside the MAGA-parodying strategy that has rocketed the California governor to algorithmic dominance — while annoying leading Republicans.

I'm glad Newsom has taken over for me. I tried 'The Prezidunce' parody posts through Trump's 1st term. Tried to bring it back at the beginning of this term, but it was too annoying to even read Trump's real posts, so I quit. Go Newsom! Troll on!

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying It's time for a reckoning.

Look, I'm not saying this makes my book, How To Confuse A.I. more relevant, but it does seem to to match up a little...

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Exclusive: ESPN will not air Spike Lee's docuseries on Colin Kaepernick, citing 'creative differences' Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick ignited a national debate in 2016 when he knelt during the U.S. national anthem to protest systemic racism and police brutality.

Smells like Disney owned ESPN bowing to political pressure. Not a good smell...

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Ok...that's an interesting development...

Spain vs. England in the Euro women's final...Spanish Women's team keeping 2010 era Spanish men's tactics alive ..tiki taka lives!

As they say...history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Nixon was totally fine...until Republicans started to look closer.

Why does @duolingoverde.bsky.social feel like it's ok to be asshole-ish and arrogant to customers when they send nightly reminder emails?

Meta Says 'No Thanks' to Europe's AI Code of Conduct A senior Meta executive says the EU’s ‘overreach will throttle the development and deployment of frontier AI models’ in the 27‑country economic bloc.

Europe is 100% on the right side of this

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Company linked to couple on kiss cam at Coldplay concert says it's investigating In a post on X, Astronomer addressed the now-viral moment and said its CEO had been put on leave.

Someone has to explain to me why it's a scandal for two adults to be in a relationship;
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new Simple Displeasures:
137 - Delirium Sets in - One More Anza Borrego Sneak Peek

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YouTube video by Center for Humane Technology Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity? with Prof. Michael Sandel

Important discussions, but the most important is that A.I. is now a religion, and will never fulfill it's 'promise.' Like all technology - it will fail to live up to the sales pitch, and like my own book, How To Confuse A.I., it must be mocked relentlessly:
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