Notices by B Kahn (bkahn@beige.party), page 2

I think this one is not fake news:

Trump Gives Speech; Offends, Alienates and Horrifies Audience

Do you think Elon Musk would get upset if someone posted a deepfake video of him romancing a couch on TwitterX?

Sauce for the goose, etc. 😇

Fake News!

Trump has disappeared! As a joke he dressed entirely in green screen green and smeared his exposed skin with matching dye. He then stood in front of a green screen and hasn't been seen since. The internet is buzzing with wild rumors--except for Mastodon, of course, where the general response has been to yawn & continue donating to #MastodonForHarris

If we breathed thru the skin on our hands, we could wear special N-95 gloves and be all set.

It's gonna be a sad Olympics if Covid starts running through the Olympic Village.

Imagination is great. Pretending can get folks in trouble.

Not much cash, but today I began donating to House candidates and I will continue donating whatever I can afford right up till election day. If a million of us donate $5 here and $10 there, it becomes serious money. Cheap compared to the alternative we're facing.

When did we go from teaching kids to tell the truth to worshipping a serial liar? No later than Bush & Cheney, of that I'm sure.

Remember the old story about Washington and the cherry tree? He wasn't the last cause we nicknamed Lincoln "Honest Abe." When did things really go off the rails?

The next time the House GOP hold one of their members-only caucuses or whatever they're called, I plan to use my stored-up superpowers to release a couple of dozen African crocodiles into their meeting and bar the doors. I know it's totally unfair to the cleaning staff, but the GOP reps are eager to meet their Maker and I'm just as eager to help them on their way. No more stalling. Afterwards I'll send a video of the Housecleaning by Croc to Chief Justice Roberts and ask him to share it with members of the Court who find a code of ethics too difficult to follow. 😇

Could it be that the people preaching hellfire and brimstone are on to something?

#GiftLink

https://wapo.st/4cyweLk

Seems like when the higher courts look at DeSantis' bans on this and that, he loses. Keep it up, Ron! Lookin' good!

Now that the other justices know how much more Clarence brought home in bribes than they did, are they jealous? Filled with admiration? Taking notes? Looking for their own billionaire friends to vacation with?

Fake News

Judge Cannon declares that trump showing, sharing, or selling government secrets to foreign governments is "no biggie, really. Lots of other presidents have surely done the same thing or worse. Since when is it a crime to supplement one's income?"

Last night I listened to a podcast about the great pyramid of Giza. And I thought if trump wasn't such a doofus, and if he knew squat about history, he would have started building HIS great pyramid by the 18th hole of one of his golf courses decades ago. It would have been sheathed in gold, of course, and the reflection would have blinded pilots up and down the east coast. Way bigger than the one in Giza. Lots of secret passages, and a 30,000 sq ft penthouse under the pointy tip. Hell, maybe an indoor golf course in one of the basements. Treasures, traps, trash, porn stars, his own TV and podcast studio. So many possibilities. A few condos inside to sell to billionaire sheiks.

Martyr Lago would have been a garden shed compared to his stone monument.

In fact, it would have been the greatest pyramid scheme in history.

FFE (fossil fuel exec) #1: Hey, look at this. Major power failure in Phoenix during a heat wave. Initial death estimates are 350,000 and rising quickly.

FFE #2: That's all? Same thing happened last week in Delhi or maybe Bombay. I can't remember. Million deaths more or less. Nobody's sure.

FFE #1: You know, if this keeps up it's gonna impact sales. Dead people are lousy customers.

FFE #2: Well it'll take a lot of fuel to run all those reefers to put the bodies in.

FFE #1: Reefers?

FFE #2: Refrigerated trailers.

FFE #1: True. That'll take a lot of diesel.

FFE #2: Still, hard to deal with that many corpses. Messy.

FFE #1: You going on vacation this year?

FFE #2: Of course, but we're having trouble choosing a place we like that isn't too hot. We might just go out on the yacht for a few weeks. Maybe cruise around in the Arctic.

FFE #1: I've got a lodge up in northern Canada. Let me know if you'd like to use it.

FFE #2: Thanks! We might just take you up on that.

FFE #1: I've got a private helicopter there. Pilot and mechanics live at the lodge year round. They can fly you back and forth if you'd like a lift.

FFE #2: Neat. You're so prepared.

FFE #1: Gotta spend my money on something. Can't take it with me.

And while I'm playing editor and critic, NO article on AI should be printed without including mention of its environmental costs. To tell me how Chatbot X is bad at geometry but okay at translation, to ask if I would let it tutor my child, without mentioning that AI is helping to destroy my child's world--it's just not acceptable. Sort of like touting the benefits of arsenic as a rat poison without mentioning the dangers of having bottles of the stuff sitting in the kitchen.