Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Don't Join The Panopticon
I'm not sure dystopian scifi ever predicted that people would pay for the privilege.
So They All Know What The Number Is
Trumpers and affiliated are all panicked about the jobs numbers. I suppose they could just be guessing, but I'm so old I remember when any hint that government data would be broadly disseminated before the official release would have been treated as a nuclear event by economists.
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Nobody Knows In America
Being in SoCal at the moment, the freaking out about Spanish is very "funny." One thing about East Coast big metro provincialism is the people (liberals and conservatives) who live there think diversity and multiculturalism are uniquely East Coast things.
Painting with a very broad brush here, but diverse (Latino, Asian) populations and their culture presences are much more integrated and visible generally here than on the East Coast, and that's the case in other non-NYC/DC metro parts of the country as well. That isn't unique to supposedly liberal California, either.
And Is That True
Not sure if this is an "open the schools" or "stop assuming rich con men are smart" thing with this reporter.
The tech billionaire, who aims to launch an initial public offering for the newly combined company this year, argues that vast fleets of satellites powered by solar energy and cooled by the vacuum of space will become the cheapest way to generate AI computing power. Musk believes this will happen within the next three years.
Ah, yes, cooled by the vacuum of space, notable for lack of its conduction and convection and of course unimpeded solar radiation exposure much of the time.
You don't actually freeze instantly when your spacesuit gets a hole, though it is very unpleasant in other ways!
About Those Vaccines
It is all fun and games until children start dying.
Dr. Mehmet Oz has urged Americans to get vaccinated against measles, one of the strongest endorsements of the vaccine yet from a top health official in the Trump administration, which has repeatedly undermined confidence in vaccine safety.Dr. Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services director, told CNN on Sunday that there was a simple solution to the raging measles outbreak in South Carolina, which has infected more than 900 people and become the largest U.S. outbreak in recent history.“Take the vaccine, please,” Dr. Oz said. He also pledged that there “will never be a barrier to Americans getting access to the measles vaccine.”
Monday, February 09, 2026
A Genuine Problem
That we went from "gambling is a thing you can do in Vegas, and then a few other places" to "bet the farm using your phone" in a few short years is a problem!
The Supreme Court unleashed this craze in 2018, ruling in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association that federal prohibitions against states legalizing sports betting were unconstitutional. Eight years later, 40 states and the District of Columbia have allowed some type of online gambling. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing.I used to think limited sports betting was relatively healthy (relatively), in that there was a time lapse between "pushing the button" and the result. No constant hamster treat rush like slots or similar. But that was before gambling on your phone, the immense variety of parlay bets partial game betting, and half of sports coverage being devoted to gambling.
The Inscrutable Acts of Elon Musk, Supergenius
The author of this piece is a longtime Elon fluffer.
We cannot know Musk’s full rationale for pivoting to the Moon, at least in the near term.
Because he is a con man!!! Lol:
All of this may sound like it’s straight out of the pages of a science fiction novel, and it pretty much is.
People Didn't Actually Vote For This
I don't say that to defend Trump supporters whose reasons for voting for him were Not Good, regardless. And some of them do want and love "this."
I say it to point out that Trump does not have any kind of popular mandate for what is happening. You can think they were racist idiots for this, and generally cruel still, but plenty of Trump supporters truly believed that the country was filled with violent criminal "illegals" and that this was the problem Trump would be "solving."
I say it to point out that Trump does not have any kind of popular mandate for what is happening. You can think they were racist idiots for this, and generally cruel still, but plenty of Trump supporters truly believed that the country was filled with violent criminal "illegals" and that this was the problem Trump would be "solving."
Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.People believe stupid things about immigration and immigrants. They believe that the solutions to these fake problems are something other than what they are. Again, that isn't a defense of them, mostly, but that people love the idea of removing all of those criminals that Joe Biden brought in to rape your wives, and illegally vote for Democrats does not mean they love "this."
Culture Wars
Even if we believe "objecting to shitty banh mi in the college cafeteria" and "objecting to a Puerto Rican singer doing the Superbowl halftime" are somehow equivalent complaints from the Left and Right, it is important to note that Obama was not loudly objecting to the banh mi, something we only heard about because notionally liberal media outlets were including it in their Wokes Gone Wild coverage
Needless to say, that coverage was not on the side of wokes.
The people who spent a decade thinking occasionally misguided (if they even were) college students were a threat to civilization are absurd and also they run our prestige publications.
Re-Evaluating
Any Dems who attend are just spraying themselves with loser stench.
This year, President Donald Trump is adjusting the guest list for the long, bipartisan tradition. Democratic governors have been excluded from the business meeting, and two of those governors, Wes Moore of Maryland and Jared Polis of Colorado, were not invited to the dinner, according to a source familiar with the matter.
“We are disappointed in the administration’s decision to make it a partisan occasion this year,” interim National Governors Association CEO Brandon Tatum said in a statement.
He added: “To disinvite individual governors to the White House sessions undermines an important opportunity for federal-state collaboration.”
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With Moore and Polis disinvited from the dinner, two Democratic officials said several governors were re-evaluating whether they planned to attend.
If "not going" isn’t 100% obvious then they are useless.
Sunday, February 08, 2026
What Are We Going To Talk About Today, Brain?
Same thing we talk about every day, Pinky. Whatever conservatives want us to talk about.
I didn’t watch this. It might even be good! But I do want to highlight how "we" talk about whatever stupid shit they are whining about, daily, as liberals are constantly lectured about how we need to leave our "bubbles."
We can't escape this shit!
Left Coast Time
I am traveling with some obligations and also I am in that very annoying time zone which is not very compatible with my normal schedule. Just a warning!
Nothing to the rumors I am joining Newsom! 2028.
What Is The Goal
I am still not sure what Bezos thinks he is doing with the Post, or what Will Lewis thought his job was.
Did this really make Bezos mad or was it just what he wanted?
Senior management at The Post were livid when they discovered Lewis was attending Super Bowl-related festivities in San Francisco around the time of the news of the job cuts. It came off as “callous”, said one person in the newsroom familiar with the situation, adding that “the Super Bowl thing was the last straw”. “Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing,” the person added.
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