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October 13, 2025

This is probably going to be a (very) unpopular post.

I've just watched about 10 minutes of Krasnov's addressed to the Knesset. I could not stomach more than that. But anyone thinking that he is going to be shuffling off this mortal coil from dementia is mistaken. This was the Trump of old: lucid (for him), concise (for him) and in clearly touch with his audience.

Here is my takeaway: it's not Stephen Miller who is perpetrating monstrous evil against the United States, it's Krasnov himself.; His cruelty knows no bounds. 'Is he dead yet' Is the most important question that has been posted on DU. Rot in hell, Donald.

EDIT: I thought this would be unpopular for suggesting that Trump's dementia is not as severe as imagined. He is the author of the cruelty, no one else.

October 12, 2025

Trump does not get humiliated.

He gets angry, incandescently angry, blaming everyone but himself. Video clickbait titles saying Trump was humiliated are ridiculous. That would require a degree of self awareness and self criticism which are absent in the psychopathic monster that he is. A defining feature of psychopaths is that they have no empathy nor guilt, nor shame let alone remorse. Trump is never wrong, never in the wrong, only wronged. Humiliation is nowhere in his reptile brain.

October 8, 2025

Krasnov: ''we're very close to a deal [on Gaza]...and they're going to need me pretty quickly'

Rubio: “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first,”

Note that Rubio hands Trump says Gaza deal is 'very close' and requests approval for a social media announcement

The Associated Press is reporting that the note Marco Rubio just handed Donald Trump appeared to say that a deal was “very close”, along with a request for Trump to give his OK to a social post related to a Gaza deal.

“Very close,” the note says underlined in a photograph captured by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci. “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first,” the hand-scrawled note on White House stationery continues.

A senior White House official has told CNN we can expect a post on Truth Social soon from the US president.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/08/gaza-ceasefire-talks-israel-hamas-trump-us-qatar-turkey-egypt-live-news-updates

I did it. It was me. Here's the photo op. So gimme my peace prize.
October 7, 2025

Deloitte sent a report littered with ChatGPT hallucinations to the Australian Government.

Now they're doing refunds

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

The Australian Financial Review reports that Deloitte Australia will offer the Australian government a partial refund for a report that was littered with AI-hallucinated quotes and references to nonexistent research.

Shortly after the report was published, though, Sydney University Deputy Director of Health Law Chris Rudge noticed citations to multiple papers and publications that did not exist. That included multiple references to nonexistent reports by Lisa Burton Crawford, a real professor at the University of Sydney law school.

"It is concerning to see research attributed to me in this way," Crawford told the AFR in August. "I would like to see an explanation from Deloitte as to how the citations were generated."

Deloitte Australia said it will repay the final installment of its contract with the government, though it's unclear which portion of the total contract that represents. A spokesperson for DEWR told the AFR that "the substance of the independent review is retained, and there are no changes to the recommendations."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/deloitte-will-refund-australian-government-for-ai-hallucination-filled-report/
October 5, 2025

David Bowie: The Jean Genie, San Francisco, October 28, 1972.



IMO, David would have had more success on that tour if he and the band were wearing more down to earth clothes..

Still looks good to my eyes, though.
October 5, 2025

Liam Gallagher 1994 Interview

talking about Noel's songwriting before Oasis were famous.



(not wearing a parka)

October 4, 2025

Krasnov is sending Kushner (!) and Witkoff to Egypt to help reach deal to end Gaza war

Witkoff, Kushner, heading to Egypt to help reach deal to end Gaza war

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are traveling to Egypt this weekend to help finalize details of the US plan for ending the war in Gaza, a US official confirms to The Times of Israel.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/witkoff-kushner-set-to-travel-to-egypt-to-help-reach-deal-to-end-gaza-war-us-official-confirms-to-toi/

A 'deal' that includes a nice commission for Trump/Kushner no doubt. And the Grift goes on ...

September 30, 2025

Chappell Roan: Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl

Live at Lollapalooza 2024



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