Notices by Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 (f800gecko@mastodon.online)

Some fool on a CBC radio call-in describing Trump as a 'businessman' who strikes a hard bargain.

Let's correct that, Mr. Gullible Imbecile, shall we?

He's a monstrous grifter, groper, criminal, rapist (judicially recognized on that latter count in a US court of law) and a decades-long cultivated agent of Putin and the KGB/FSB.

That's why it's impossible to 'negotiate' with him.

#cdnpoli #uspol #trade

The existential threat AI presents to humanity.

Another species of toxic waste we've created, this one also uncontainable in a universe governed by entropy.

14-day gift read

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/openai-hacks-panic/688264/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK8fLKYCA89Z4qnoff5S1RDY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#ai #technology

@pluralistic

Another good one.

'When capital allocators' kids end up allocating capital too, well, that just shows that "merit" is a heritable trait and the people who have it are born to rule over us. Meritocracy cashes out to a eugenic belief in royal blood and royal dynasties.'

The contemporary billionaire mentality neatly and accurately deconstructed in a few pages.

If Iran's not careful with the 'we want Trump's head on a pike' stuff, they could get banned from 'X'.

Sure, a few swastikas and establishing bona fides in white supremacy would get them back on, buy why risk the climb-down?

#trump #epstein #politics #iran

Still a fave...

edits: alt text fixed

#mastodon #fediverse #comics

Imagine how imprisoned Gazans have been treated by the anti-Jewish Netanyahu regime.

I say anti-Jewish because what more could a 'leader' of Israel could do to undermine Zionism in the eyes of the world?

Genocide, the punishment and humiliation of other nationals aiming to deliver humanitarian aid; a longstanding ban on journalists (not to mention the execution of 100s of them), rogue war-making...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/anita-anand-canadians-flotilla-israel-abuse-9.7208369

#gaza #canada

Epstein is dead.

His island is history.

Iran resists collar and leash like a scallywag Labrador rubbing and rolling its arse on the lawn.

China, silent, watches and waits.

Trump is bored.

How's your ass?

(w/ apols to the late R. Brautigan)

14-day gift read

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/05/iran-war-trump-deal/687100/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK5-fjs3caWy2gS1AKnQu800

#trump #epstein #iran #uspol #politics

@RealJournalism

One question:

How long until Netanyahu starts targeting the Pakistani leadership for assassination?

@evan

Why didn't this survey show up in my CLI where I could have completed it way faster?

@thiswomanswerk

Americans have burned draft cards in the past. Thrown dye on fur. Gone nose-to-nose with lined-up cops. Shot HMO executives. Even moved to Canada. The problem with a piece like this is it offers no alternative recipe and does not even mention these things, let alone help anyone figure out where the red line is at this particular moment.

Discouragement is not what America needs right now.

@thiswomanswerk

I read it. I respect the message. We could all do with thinking about 'what next?' is where it lands with me.

@cstross

Wouldn't it be wild to learn some millennia down the road that some advanced machine culture of long ago had reverse-engineered itself into biological 'machines' (from which we humans have evolved or to which we’re related) in order to survive in the cosmos by reducing its monstrous energy demand on the environment.

https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/whole-brain-emulation-achieved-scientists-run-a-fruit-fly-brain-in-simulation/

@pluralistic

'The Justice Department has removed or withheld dozens of pages related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor decades ago.'

An Epstein victim made the complaint.

Let no one forget until the truth is out.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/g-s1-111316/up-first-newsletter-trump-sotu-mexico-cartel-epstein-files

#politics #uspol #epstein #trump

David Frum is alternately insightful and obdurately partisan, but he gets right this brief deconstruction of sex-offender Trump's SOTU address.

14-day gift read

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trumps-childish-state-of-the-union/686133/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAKw-q7jxKsdcCD8BxHa1KMN0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#politics #uspol #sexoffenderpresident #trump #maga

@VeroniqueB99

Minnesota is the new Gaza.

Eons ago, Bill Gates (same guy today saying climate change no problem) whined about hobbyists 'stealing' overpriced Altair BASIC microcomputer code (developed on Harvard's gov't funded PDP-10).

Thus was 'Tiny BASIC' born, along with the notion of 'copyleft' and the sprawling #foss world of today.

Suck on that, Bill.

Uplifting, inspiring reading this New Year's Eve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC

#it #oss #science #technology

Things have worsened since I last had time to post these.

'Donald Trump’s unprovoked and unceasing aggressions against Canada warn an astonished and worried world of the limits of diplomacy with such an irrational player. There is clearly little value in compromise with an ally who has become so dangerously mercurial.'

14-day gift read

#politics #uspol

ps:// www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/canada-us-foreign-policy-trump/684719/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK4Frz-sQOKvA0lZwip_-xMU

Trump is no Napoleon.

Excerpt from 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines.

#uspol #politics #cdnpoli #alttext #science

The other thing that bugs my ass w/ all the Charlie Kirk faux outrage is our supposed 'neutral' balanced media presenting the story as if Trump's issue is Kimmel having called the shooter a RW nut (he was raised by them) when the real issue was Kimmel's direct focus on Trump's total lack of concern or empathy for anything but his latest construction project.

Everything is lies and bullshit these days.

Our entire world is built on lies and bullshit.

#politics #uspol #cbc #media #journalism

There's a word for what Charlie Kirk was:

Groomer.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/charlie-kirk-appeal-young-conservatives-1.7631690

#uspol #politics #groomer #charliekirk