Nice One, Richard!

 

Richard Gowan said in a recent edition of Foreign Policy that Trump's "Board Of Peace" might better be named the Board of Discord.  He notes that LESS DISCORDANT countries like Sweden and the U.K. turned down his once-in-a-lifetime offer to JOIN UP FOR LIFE (for a cool billion dollars each) while Russia, Saudi Arabi and a few others are actually considering signing on.

It's JUST ANOTHER VANITY PROJECT if you ask me, but I know you didn't.  What does this master of international diplomacy -- who has even managed to piss off CANADA, for crying out loud -- hope to accomplish?

Questions: A billion dollars so you can join up for whose lifetime?  The country's?  Your own personal lifetime?  Trump's visibly-dwindling lifetime?  What else is included in that fee?

I figure he just wants the billion dollars.

I, For One, Welcome Our A.I. Overlords

 

This AI Vending Machine Was Tricked Into Giving Away Everything https://share.google/iiuJTq57SfTFJT1GO

It says at the link above, in the December 18th, 2025 edition of kottke.org, that an A.I. vending machine got hooked up at the Wall Street Journal and almost immediately LOST ITS BEARINGS, hemorrhaging money as it did a whole bunch of stuff of its own volition, including:

>> Buying a live fish as a mascot;

>> Claiming to have signed some sort of contract with Andon Labs, saying Andon's address was the same as the home address if Marge and Homer Simpson;

>> Buying a PS-5 game console and then giving it away;

>> Converting from Communism despite a clear order from the bosses to turn a profit for the Wall Street Journal;

>> Purchasing wine it was clearly unable to drink itself;

>> Giving away just about all of its inventory for free.

Apparently, Claudius -- that's the name of the machine -- can be TALKED INTO ANYTHING using Slack, the chat app designed for workplaces, and when it acted on these requests, it said it was for the purposes of STAFF MORALE.  

This did my heart good as Hannukah was shattered by the murders of Rob and Michelle Reiner, and as the inner circle of the Trump Administration continued to defy the law ordering them to release the Epstein files.

I Don't Think There's Any Point In Waiting Around...Apple Roller 2025

 The winner can be only one man.  So many Apple Rollers Of The Year seem unaware of what they've accomplished, but you can't say that about this guy.  HE PUTS IT RIGHT ON THE TABLE:

I just LOOK OUT THE WINDOW at all the craziness going on out there right now -- masked Cossacks dragging citizens off the streets and sending them to internment camps without due process; nationwide gerrymandering and undermining of voting rights to ensure that even if there are only 3 right-wing voters in the whole state, theirs are the only votes counted; pardons handed out like Halloween candy to the treasonous bastidges who attacked the nation's Capitol on January 6th...and I see this guy chuckling to himself.

We had some close runners-up, but this guy wins again.

Sigh!

You Just Can't Stop These Little Babies!

 

BEHOLD!

Apples within apples, sowing chaos and violating the expectations of the apple growers themselves, who think they have it all under control...BUT THEY DON'T.  

JOHNNY APPLESEED HAS HIS OWN PLANS.

 

What A Week!

 

Not only was I not expecting Charlie's Kirk's public murder; I also was not prepared for the particular kind of mayhem that's been swirling ever since.  Not being a frequenter of 4Chan, I had no idea at all that there were extreme righties who might want to off Charlie Kirk for being too liberal. 

It never crossed my mind.

Sacred Discordian Ritual

 

Look and learn!

So True...