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The Trump administration recently dropped its
National Security Strategy
and, like all things Trump,
it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol.
It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership
and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part,
but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
If you fed a low-rent knockoff version o…

We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.

Submitting to an academic conference and once more am completely amazed that people who call themselves academic technologists use LaTeX to make PDFs to communicate their research. This is by far the worst widely-adopted software I've ever used, and I really hope I don't ever use it again. Awful nonsense, which I think is only still in use for the purposes of gatekeeping other disciplines away from interacting with computer science.

ChatGPT is useful for getting the average of the information in its weights on a given topic
Grok (Expert) is useful for filtering search engine slop into a summary with relevant, sourced, checkable web links
Neither of these necessarily produce The Truth, but in this example, Grok generates significantly more reliable output when precision matters. As time goes on and the volume of hallucinated nonsense on the Web mounts higher, Grok's ability to attribute its assertions t…

We’re rewinding to the turn of the millennium this week with a track from alt-rock icons Placebo, back when eyeliner budgets were high and guitar tunings were morally ambiguous...
Check it out and see what we had to say about the track, the band behind it, and whatever other nonsense fell out of our heads in the process.
Follow us for more curated music picks from across the epic world of #rock

Placebo - Special K
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

from my link log —
Readable code is unreadable: Arthur Whitney’s J incunabulum.
https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2025-06-06-readable-code-is-unreadable.html
saved 2025-12-08

@… that’s because they aren’t science-based, same as they have probably never been due to lobbying and/or pseudo science nonsense.

Google is conducting a small test for some Discover users, replacing original news headlines with short AI-generated ones that are sometimes misleading or inane (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intell…

Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Google Discover, the company’s smartphone news feed, is experimenting with AI headlines. Many of them are very bad.

"...using science-backed methodology and AI‑driven insights to support data‑informed hiring and talent management decisions."
(nonsense words I encountered during job search, describing an automated "assessment" I was given)
This is AI driven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMoONIKPmRw

Does nonsense make sense? A springboard to studying dynamic reconfiguration of large-scale networks during semantic and intonation speech processing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192500641X "Scrambled speech engages salience/executive …

Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are. Offer people all the slop extensions in the world and see who will download them.

Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)
https://x.com/stevesi/status/2019167552794948020

Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) on X
Death of Software. Nah.

It's not a contradiction to be opposed to the Online Safety Act, and to also think that this is Clown World nonsense
> Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said [...] “If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward with legislation that is currently being drafted to sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole."

Elon Musk’s Grok curbs AI image editing usage after deepfakes backlash
The tool is now limited to paying users.

I absolutely detest FIFA and the IOC for this nonsense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HX_tQBA-Iw

No Nonsense News
Your not so serious deep dive into the day's news, pop culture, relationships and events of Australia and the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/no-nonsense-news/

I'm not interested in this car but others might be and I really like this car review channel the best. No nonsense or fawning over stuff only car enthusiasts like.
2026 Chevrolet Equinox EV | This Is The *Almost* No-Compromise EV America Needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbfUtGxJJ8

Why Brian Flores should be on the Raiders’ head-coaching short list https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/08/why-brian-flores-should-be-on-the-raiders-head-coaching-short-list/

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Waarom Ohhh. Leuk!?
Nou .. Hierom:
Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (Live at Glastonbury, 1984) - YouTube
#FelaKuti

Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…

Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others
His frivolous damages theory concedes that Trump views the presidency as a for-profit venture

Dutch @nieuws.nos.nl had clear videos of the cold-blooded execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, yet still had texts like "The Trump administration said its ICE agents acted in self-defense, but the Democratic Governor of Minnesota said this was nonsense."
Its correspondent also talked about the roughening (verruwing) of ICE's conduct. Understatement of the year.

How am I supposed to fit all my books into such a tiny, tiny bookshelf? I don’t. In reality, I’ve resorted to buying e‑books— not because I prefer them, but because I’m rapidly running out of storage space, bookshelves, and places to hide the growing stacks. And don’t listen to anyone claiming I ran out of space years ago. Absolute nonsense.
I simply need a house for my books. A house just for books.
I wonder what that would be called…

What's The Go?
Hosted by comedian Ibby Akbar, and failed footballer turned social creator, Daniel Olaniran (aka OlanTekkers), this unlikely duo chat nonsense, react to the internets madness, and explore topics they know nothing about....
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralian…

Damn. Realizing I can never really enjoy cool nature photography online ever again. Half of it is just going to be AI nonsense. That's a real bummer.

Fury over Trump's slur against British troops: Kemi Badenoch leads attack on president for 'flat-out nonsense' claim that NATO allies 'stayed off the front line' in Afghanistan (Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15490863/Fury-Trump-NATO-slur-Presidents-claim-UK-allied-troops-stayed-line-Afghanistan-absolute-insult-disgraceful.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p8#a260123p8

This is an AI 2026 nissan leaf review on youtube that says nothing but nonsense and only shows images from the wrong Leaf car.
#cars #ai #youtube

Good Morning #Canada
No nonsense news or fun facts this morning. I'm taking a few days off due to a busy schedule and a compressed family gathering. My oldest daughter has scheduled radiation treatments this morning and early on Boxing Day, so we're having a Christmas Eve dinner and exchanging gifts early tomorrow. I might post if something snark-worthy pops up but otherwise look for the next Good Morning post on the 26th.
I hope all Canadians have a safe and happy holidays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas

Not-really-hot take:
Thinking `<button role="link">` is ever acceptable in place of `<a href>` is dogmatic transubstantiation belief nonsense.
Does not…
• fire on Space;
• show URL in status bar;
• have right-click options;
• etc.
It is never meat. Er, I mean, a link.

I regret to inform you all that I went back in time intending to only fix one little thing, but I couldn't help myself and I messed with some other things too. Now I've changed the present to be all wrong; not only do you have to deal with that Berenstain Bears nonsense, but you also now have to deal with Trump and Mamdani being besties. I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm really not - it was totally worth it*.
* My lawyers have advised me not to say anything further.

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration?” TRUMP: “I would. I really would.”

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

What are the odds that instead of building this W nonsense from scratch they'll simply start with Mastodon and disable federation?
(It's what Trump did with truth dot social)
We get the exact opposite of what we want: all European institutions on mastodon software, but not on fedi, and not decentralized.

At this point, I must sincerely and publicly apologize to Mr. Daniel Micay and the entire GrapheneOS team! In my rant about US products and US services and as part of my boycott of these services due to the new fascism in the US under Trump, I mistakenly referred to them as American or an American project – which, according to a clarification from the GrapheneOS team, is absolute nonsense! I would like to thank GrapheneOS for clearing up my misconception!
It was absolutely not my inten…

Some sort of nonsense is popping off at bayshore

If anybody knows how to convince city leaders and police chiefs that they •can• enforce traffic laws against ICE, or convince ICE officers that they will be prosecuted for their actions, or convince everyone that ICE officers who do not provide proof of identity can legally be treated as unknown assailants and kidnappers, or convince judges that Minneapolis / St. Paul is not “the border,” or…or…or…undo any of these nonsense beliefs, please do that! But it’s the •convincing•, not the being correct, that matters there.

Right, we're back to 1977. There won't be any drug-induced nonsense in bands in that era, I'm sure. #TOTP

Reading Capital, I'm often tempted to skip the footnotes, but I'm glad I read the one savaging Jeremy Bentham just now. "This is the kind of nonsense with which the good man...has filled mountains of books. If I had the courage of my friend H. Heine, I would say that Mr. Jeremy is a genius of bourgeois stupidity." Marx would be such a shitposter today

I keep getting ads for “boxing week sale”, and it has real “that person with the whole birthday month” energy.
(For the Americans: Boxing Day is Dec 26, which we get off here in Canada and elsewhere, and it’s known for its retail sales. Boxing Week is insufferable nonsense.)

Thanks to the new folks following me on PeerTube and Pixelfed!
I drop random nonsense on PeerTube while I share more personal updates and small stories on Pixelfed.
Thank you again!
Pixelfed: @…
PeerTube @…

re the nonsense units on kettles
most kettles are made by a company called Strix from the Isle of Man
https://strix.com
with superficial design features and branding added by breville or whoever
you can probably find the strix name on the side of the power connector of your kettle’s base
anyway…

homepage
...

Just while I'm continuing to procrastinate on some admin today I get an annoying call claiming to be from from my (generally good) ISP with the usual "just give me all the secret info needed to get into your account" to 'verify' me nonsense. So my head explodes and I say "put it in email" and hang up.
On calling the company back it seems the 'necessary' upgrade he was pushing may well not be needed at all. So I've lodged a complaint on proc…

Firefox is jumping the shark with this AI thing. A web browser helps you browse the web. it doesn't steal and summarize web content in order to prevent you from visiting web sites.
I think it's barely less disgusting than the blockchain web nonsense. But I acknowledge that it is possible that it is actually even more disgusting.

Ok, so I thought that Mastodon just showed me posts from my follows. But now I see a post from someone I don't follow. Why? It was uncritical nonsense. Why do I see things like this?

After fully working from home for three months while the office was renovated, I had to RTO today. This is what was in the "welcome back" bag waiting at each of our desks. I dunno if everyone got identical items or if there was a larger selection of cheap trinkets with different nonsense motivational phrases on them.

WH national security memo: Alibaba provides tech support for China military's "operations" against targets in the US; Alibaba says it is "complete nonsense" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/30fb83a0-8cb9-4805-b5d2-19b5ef…

By now you’ve seen Trump’s big speech at Davos.
The slurring,
the confusing of Greenland and Iceland,
the nonsense about wind power,
and the racist smearing of Somalis before the whole world
—it was an unmitigated disaster.
But things got worse when Trump’s propagandists spun it all as a world-historical triumph:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed an extraordinary stream of obsequious praise,
absurdly declaring that
…

Trump Press Sec. Goes Full Cult as Reviews of Davos Fiasco Turn Brutal
As Karoline Leavitt and others struggle to spin Trump’s speech as a world-historical triumph, a critic of Trump’s unfitness explains why it was a disaster for our whole country and its future.

Over and over, DHS goons descend on areas where immigrants congregate,
grab every non-white person they encounter,
and drag them away with little regard for their citizenship status.
Then they send out indignant liars like DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin to spew nonsense about how this is all perfectly legal.
“Our officials use reasonable suspicion,” McLaughlin claimed on Fox News,
explaining the standard federal law enforcement officers use to detain…

Kristi Noem's assault on the Fourth Amendment
Thanks, Brett Kavanaugh.

I’ve been researching #Italian #immigration to the #US for my #novel and every other primary source I open from 1890-1915 gives me major DéjŠ vu to how the #Republicans talk about immigration today.
“They aren’t white enough”, “they are a drain on our resources”, “deported because they would be a public charge”, “uneducated”, “barbaric”, “increasing crime”.
All the arguments are the same. Some of the laws are the same. And yet people in 1890 were arguing about the lack of race purity and “dirty blood” of people from Europe who the current conservatives would wholeheartedly consider white Christians and part of the great West or whatever.
Really makes you see as clear as day how BS and arbitrary all of this racist and anti-immigration rhetoric is. It’s nonsense. Always was. Always will be.
People deserve dignity and respect. Immigrants deserve to be welcomed in and accommodated.

Brian Greene has a new video out today, of himself talking to Edward Witten, mainly about string theory.
Pretty much the usual decades-old hype, with nothing even slightly different than what a similar conversation would have consisted of 20 years ago.
Of historical and psychological interest, Witten explains that when the anthropic landscape nonsense arrived, it made him uncomfortable and unhappy:
"I made my peace with it by accepting the fact that the universe wasn’t c…

Morning. Just woken up and took a quick glance at the cricket news to see how quickly England's second innings collapsed, but it looks like every sports site in the world has been mysteriously hacked and they're just putting out nonsense instead. #cricket #TheAshes

It's only been on 5 minutes and it's gone full-on wrestling nonsense already. #Gladiators

We had our kitchen done last year. The first design that the kitchen company produced for us had two ovens.
"There's only the two of us" we said, "and with the air fryer & the microwave we hardly make use of one oven. We definitely don't need two."
"Oh but it's very fashionable at the moment" they told us, "and it looks better".
Suffice to say we didn't stand for any of that nonsense (or extra expense!) and ended up with just one oven.
Now today Mrs LT has pointed to a house she's seen for sale just down the road from us that has three ovens. THREE!
And it's not even Downton Abbey, just a 4-bed suburban house. When on earth will they ever make use of all that cooking capability?