The Xeno Witch

Okay, after the new EA buyout, I guess for their default enemies, they're going to have to quit using Muslims. Probably the next will be set in Portland, Oregon.

It feels good to see Pierre Poilievre lose his seat.

Sometimes when I see "Meta," I instead read it as "Meat." Which is somehow appropriate.

I bet TSLA's new robots are going to mainly be there to play your games for you.

You know, get you into the top ranks in PoE2 hardcore mode.

This could free up all your time from playing games!

Lol, Musk is hilarious. "Oh, the TSLA protests are all just disgruntled government workers, now they can no longer grift at the trough."

Meanwhile, he gets billions for bull.

While they were holding this country together.

While he tears it apart.

I'm surprised JD Vance is already back at the Vatican proposing that Grok become the next Pope. Or maybe he is. I don't watch the news that close.

Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue Former senior Tesla engineer Christina Balan has prevailed in a years-long legal battle against Musk, and is now able to speak freely.

Just Musk being Musk, back in 2014 and continuing:

electrek.co/2025/04/20/t...

It’s Easter and Trump is going on and on about how the people with the gold make the rules.

My concern is that the people tearing down institutions truly believe their penalty will be at most a fine.

And they might be right.

They aren’t even adventurers taking big risks. They think they’ll just go back to normal life once the wrecking crew is done.

When people say they are taking the "risk" for this, it has to be understand that this means jail and felony convictions plus bankruptcy.

If people think destroying the government is a viable gamble, they will do it.

Also, the people who execute are civilly responsible. With possible jail.

Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it

Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.

www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

This is what I'm referring to about DOGE. Not just this, but all their fraud and incompetence, should require long jail terms.

This NLRB data breach is kind of insane, but also a given after seeing how incompetent DOGE has repeatedly demonstrated it to be. From the first days, we should have taken it for granted that all of our systems were compromised. Everyone involved in DOGE should be in jail.

The modern US reminds me of doppelgänger stories.

It feels sometimes as if neighbors were replaced by monsters that almost look the same.

Or like the UK, entire countries. Of course, the US as well.

The truth is, the US no longer exists. It was a set of principles that are now null and void. Something will come next, and perhaps something after, and the thing that comes after might be good, but the US as we knew it is gone. These things that have happened could not happen within it.

After everything they've done, the Trump admin is pressuring countries to side with them against China.

If they do this (and this includes Canada and Mexico), then they are forever at Trump's mercy, and his opinions of their laws. Musk, for example, and Vance have clearly outlined their views.

I'm beginning to think that "The Thing" was a feel good movie, not horror. You're in the Antarctic, you basically know nothing about what is going on in the world. Also, I bet the Thing is pretty warm to cuddle with.

I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered inTouch says on its website "Busy life? You can’t call your parent every day—but we can." My own mum said she would feel terrible if her child used it.

And they said there would never be a valid use case for AI:

www.404media.co/i-tested-the...

Musk and Trump are absolutely the sadistic players of the Sims many of us were, except we were playing a game, and they're messing with the world just to see things happen at their beck and call.

As I go to sleep, I wonder again what I'll wake up to.

The modern vibe:

Musk is sleeping in the office and also playing Diablo IV fourteen hours straight. Trump is hard at work and also always golf.

I suppose it cuts down a bit on the time they spend robbing us blind.

Simultaneously a menace and useless to humanity:

www.404media.co/facebook-pus...

China's argument for years has been that the US created and exploits an order than enriches itself at everyone else's expense, and that the US isn't a good steward of the global economic (or climatic) order.

Everything that has happened is grist for their argument, including naked corruption.

Lol, Peter Navarro said: "Vietnam is essentially a colony of Communist China."

Woooooah. So, uh ... hmmm.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have competent leadership and people who challenge idiots.

The economic crash is a big deal, but it's kind of amazing to think of all the other things going on: Ukraine, illegal renditions to El Salvador, mass attacks on trans people, women, and minorities in general (including erasing them), DOGE (remember them? They're still at it and worse), etc. Wild.

Folks, don't worry. When Trump somehow bankrupted a casino, it was cleanly demolished when he was done, and now -- as President -- he has control of our nukes, so everything will be fine.

Being crazy can be an advantage in a negotiation, but people also don’t want to associate or deal with crazy people.

The weird thing about nowadays is every time you go to sleep, you’re not entirely sure a recognizable world will be there to greet you.

So the Asian markets aren’t doing well. Soon the wave hits our shores!

Thanks Musk and Trump!

Just remembered the Asian stock markets are already open, and well ... hmmm.

Anyway, how are things?