No one who cared about the purpose of the Washington Post or the purpose of the Washington Post archive would have ever allowed the Ask The Post AI to be deployed. But the world has allowed the management of knowledge to be taken over by ignoramuses, and now the ignoramuses have built ignoramus machines in their own image, manufacturing non-knowledge on a scale previously unimaginable.

There’s the guy fighting for justice! Hell yeah this ain’t no shower thought! I say we burn this place to the ground!!

I also filter email from Matt Gaetz to Junk.

“We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps,” Meta says on X. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.”

“We know there’s a technical issue impacting some people’s ability to access Instagram,” Instagram says on X. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and are sorry for any inconvenience.”

X. Lol.

Slaughtered.

Putin’s regime is not yet at this point but it would only take one more change in the Middle East to bring matters to a head. If the Saudis again decide to flood the world with cheap crude to recoup market share – as many predict – oil will fall below $40 and Russia will spin out of economic control.

The Ukraine war may end in Riyadh.

The Grok data center in Memphis, Tennessee runs off gas generators without proper permits.  [Reuters, archive; Memphis CAP]

LInkedIn has nothing. It’s running on pure momentum from early 2000s and this gambit will probably kill it. Which is good.

A lot of folks don’t know this, but the Mottled Wood owl is full of caramel. Probably. More investigation is called for at any rate.

That said, The Buffster is the Underdog Rockstar, I gotta go Buff.

I’m letting my freak owl flag fly, baby - Crested! Oh yah! Rockin’ the Judgements!

He came to wish you a happy cake day

Did Lopez get a little promise from the new oligarchy overlords as to his legal career?

SpinfoWars says YES

Hey, you gotta buck up, man. You can not bring this negative energy into the tournament.

I think everyone was surprised at how low the bids were.

Why

Historically, against Nazis.

Whoa woah there - slow down there partner, that’s too much activity.

i need to take a rest just reading all that. Just resting my eyes y’know.

Not to worry, when they go bankrupt again, the taxpayers will open up their savings and bail them out again. It’s all set.

Sure, but that’s just what you pay them. What they pay the medical professionals is still zero. That’s not even in the fine print -that’s in the missing print.

*mumbles approvingly*

And as for media literacy? Negative numbers.