""This is now the fastest-spinning asteroid that we know of, larger than 500 meters,"

Please point out the word you do not understand. Hint: It spells "asteroid".

No it isn't, it is about control. la Presidenta wants to knife CNN and the Ellisons realize they have useful idiot in the White House, they'll do what he wants because they can squeeze him for other goodies.

You mean Geppetto, but I agree with the sentiment.

One thing to remember is, el Bunko thinks he will get a cut if Geppetto Ellison finally wins, and he'll also get to control CNN. That deal between Netflix and WB is as good as dead as long as he is la Presidenta.

You are forgetting the AI Effect: it gradually increases the obtuseness of the people using it because they simply rely upon it to think for them. Think of the brain as muscle, use it or lose it. No amount of "training" is going to compensate for that.

Want to see it the effect outside of AI: pick up a math book. Read the first chapter (training) and skip the exercises. Now read the second chapter and also skip the exercises. Do the same for the third. Now read the forth chapter and attempt the exercises. I'll bet you cannot do them. Or you can read chapters 1-3 and ask AI for the answers to the exercises. Now read chapter 4; you won't be able to do the exercises because you haven't really learned the material. AI did, you didn't.

Any organization shoving AI down the throats of their employees is cutting their own throats.

Patient: Doctor, Doctor, I'm having trouble going poopers. Please help me.

Doctor: Well, let's have look.

(Doctor pulls out an evil looking device with a camera on the end and shoves it in.)

Doctor: Holy Shit!! What is that?!?

Patient: Oh Doctor, please pull it out!!

Doctor: I need to know what it is before I can extract it.

Doctor refits his device with a grabber and shoves it in. He gently pulls a bit. Through the office intercom comes a metallic voice.

Voice: Doctor, please desist in your efforts. I am not going anywhere. I'm here FOREVER!!

Doctor pulls device out.

Doctor: How'd that get up there?

Patient: I was using MS Software and got an invitation to use Copilot. I said yes, and it told me to bend over. The next thing I knew that thing was inserted.

Doctor: Well, I'm sorry, you are going to die if we do not remove it.

Patient: How can I do that?

Doctor: Here is a 1/2 gallon size jar of Metamucil. Go home, get a gallon bucket, fill it with warm water. Mix the in Metamucil. Sit on a toilet. Drink'er down and hold on so you don't get launched toward the moon!! I'd flush too if I were you.

"agricultural employment in the U.S., which dropped from 81% in 1810 to 1% today, as evidence that humans consistently create new valuable work after technological displacement", What does agricultural employment have to do with AI? Why would you expect one to have the same characteristics as the other. He's not filling that gap with any argument either in the blurb or the article that I can see.

I think he's not being honest with himself. He cherry picked one example. He would have to argue why his one example is representative of the rest.

Adjacent to that is this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0...

From the article:

                The study found that the Supreme Court has become deeply polarized in cases pitting the rich against the poor, with Republican appointees far more likely than Democratic ones to side with the wealthy. That is starkly different from the middle of the last century, when appointees of the two parties were statistically indistinguishable on this measure.

America put a thug in the presidency. He acts like thug; he never goes after anyone who can defend themselves; he only does it if he is assured of some monetary or political win; and he makes sure there are always a collection of sycophantic scapegoats handy in case whatever scam he's pulling goes south and doesn't want to be seen holding the bag. He's okay with holding bag as a last resort as long as he isn't seen to be holding the bag. That frequently involves him paying off whomever he screwed over. And then he gets an NDA to prevent the screwee from blabbing to the press. He's such a gutless weenie.

Maybe it is related to the frequency of the data centers' equipment? I don't know myself.

El Bunko’s transnational schemes

This is quite a network of “deals”:
        https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

A short list of his bunks compiled by me and not from the article (which is waaasy more extensive than I have stomach to compile):

1. Sneakers
2. NFTs with him doing stupid shit
3. Watches
4. Fragrances
5. Cabinet positions: he promises “cabinet advisory positions” to the Maggots in emails, all you need to get one is contribute to him.
6. Bibles
7. His "media company".....just announced they "lost" $400 million in the last year. That's $400 million of other people's money he and his cronies have made off with.
8. The el Bunko guitar
9. Shirts with he and Elmo on them
10. Gold one dollar bills
11. Gold Bars
12. Siphoning money from criminal seizures into a National “Strategic” Bitcoin Reserve thereby increasing money into the shitcoin industry and his own shitcoins.
13. Cabinet positions for his billionaire “contributors”
14. Advertising Teslas on the White House lawn. The Bunk: Elmo announced he’s putting another $100 million into el Bunko’s political operation.
15. $447,000 Birken Crocodile Handbag.
16. Golf “tournaments” at his golf course fueled by Saudi money; the Saudis are above corruption in the same way a brick is above the Sargasso Tea (thanx Douglas Adams)
17. Don Jr. has a millionaires club to rich to get inside scoop on new Bunks.
18. Eric has crypt company merging with another so they’ll be listed on Nasdaq.
19. el Bunko’s own crypto so foreign governments and “friends” can contribute directly. United Arab Emirates put $2 billion into the Trump family’s new cryptocurrency outfit, World Liberty Financial.
20. Qatar’s 450 million dollar airplane “gifted” to DoD but he gets to keep it when he leaves office.after DoD tricks it out to make it secure.which they’ll do by first stripping it down and putting it back together again.
21. Auction to dine with el Bunko.
22. Qatar chipped in to help finance a Trump-branded beachside golf and luxury villa project in the country worth $5.5 billion.
23. el Bunko hotels for housing foreign “dignitaries”.
24. Selling pardons, sort of like the Catholic Church selling “Indulgences”.
25. A “gold-plated” phone ostensibly made in the U.S. but looking suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
26. The el Bunko Wireless Company.
27. The el BunkoRX company, they do deals with drug companies to lower prices, for which they profit.
28. The new round of watches and other tat he sells from the Oval Office.
29. $240 Million he’s demanding from the Injustice Dept. for calling him out on his crimes and attempting to prosecute them.
30. Grifting off the Epstein files telling his Maggots he needs their money to defend himself.
31. Deal with Pakistan’s crypto-bros to dump money into his own crypto-crap.
32. Bailing out Argentina and Milei because if Argentina goes much further south, el Bunko and Scott Bessent lose their “investment” in the cypto-crap Milei was promoting until it tanked.

All of his tat is made in China. And he is hawking it now from the Oval Orifice.

It's worse than that. There are two recent articles in the WSJ: (1) rise of family "companies", (2) private stock issues before the main issue on the exchanges. The former means that people with a lot of money set up their own family "company" to manage it. So far, the rich family companies control about $6.9 Trillion, and that's expected to reach $9+ Trillion by 2030. The latter means that companies are issuing the opportunity to buy stocks by invitation only to "select" investors. You might call them insiders or people of wealth the board deems safe to own a piece of the company.

Put together, the other 90% of America is being frozen out and if they could just reasonably die rather quickly, it would best for all around. What will generate the wealth the upper 10% require? There's the rest of the world. They do not need America, or more to the point, Americans any more and the American political system just gets in their way to nirvana.

"conversational mirror" this is Adam Becker's argument. I presume it is contained in his book: More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.

I've not read the book but saw him on CSPAN. One comment stuck with me. The AI Big-Wankers (my words, not his) think they are the smart people on the planet because they are rich and everyone else isn't. They suffer from Monkey Butt Syndrome (my paraphrase of a phrase I heard long ago): If you are on top of the tree and look down, all you see are smiling faces. If you are at the bottom looking up, all you see are assholes.

And they have built AI bots that will tell them what they want to hear. The bots are their artificial friends who are fun to be with. Zuck once said (paraphrase) most people have 3 fiends max, but they want more, I'll create more friends for them. His idea of friends are bots.

The way Becker puts it, the AI Big-Wankers are surrounded by sycophants who shower them with warm fuzzies and tell them everything they do is great and never say "no" or "that's stupid". So you get wankers like Elmo talking about going to Mars when there's not a prayer to actually do it and get them back in one piece. Altman promises that AI will solve fusion for us and thus global warming, so we should continue to build bit-barns with wild abandon. That's a mighty big matzo ball he has hanging out there and he's full of shit.

Another argument of Becker's is that the AI Big Wankers want to take every aspect of your life, digitize it, monetize it, and sell it back to you at inflated prices. The way off their treadmill is to simply say no, fuck off, my life is mine. Our country is ours, get your sticky fingers off it. And your company only exists because we allow it, not because you have done anything worthy. And he argues we should stop allowing these companies to exist in their present form. I agree.

The R's have had several opportunities in the last 25 years to reform immigration/migration. They wussied out every time because their either Maggot or pre-Maggot base into incandescent rage at the thought of more brown people in America.

And regardless of the "not following the law argument", that does not license la Presidente standing up his own Gestapo army of thugs to treat people like shit. Guess to whom they turn their attention when they run out of immigrants?

Don't forget, we're a Christian Nation. Let's hear from those White Christian Nationalists clamoring to protect the immigrants, the poor, the oppressed:

            ( crickets )

It seems he has his dirty little hands in quite a few places:

                https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

It is sickening to read. One of his latest gambits, admittedly small potatoes, is his defrocking the committee running Wash. D.C.'s golf courses. He intends his golf company to run them instead. They will squeeze out the common folk and the only ones allowed to play are the ones who can pay the exorbitant fees membership in one of his stupid clubs requires. There's no enterprise small enough that he cannot see fit to destroy it.

" they think this can be profitable at some point." or it could be an attempt to hoover up gullible "investors" and their money. In the next iteration, they should offer Fusion Power.....with AI.....and crypto-coins....and valuable scarce minerals and oil, then it would be shoo-in for el Bunko plunking down American taxpayer money to take a stake in the venture.