Notices by Guillotine Jones, Flâneur (guillotine_jones@beige.party), page 2

@lowqualityfacts
I always thought that kangaroos hopped because the ground in Australia is venomous, Mr Facts.
Thank YOU for setting me straight.

We're moving house in a week.
Anybody have any good tips about packing?
I mean, aside from "get rid of as much stuff as possible rather than moving it."

Columnist Bill Palmer on Mr Person Woman Man Camera TV who sits in the White House:
"We’re at a point where even Donald Trump is spending every day focusing on his worsening dementia. Wouldn’t it be nice if the mainstream media did the same"?
We in the US are living through the children's tale of the president who has no brain.
https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/oops-trump-did-it-again/62220/
#Dementia #Trump #USPolitics

We are all canaries in a coal mine.

@inthehands
Your mom shared some valuable wisdom with you there, Paul.

Jeff Tiedrich tells us about the right wing cookoo bird who looks like his daughter, Ivanka, and that qualifies her to stand at his right hand and whisper sweet lies into his battered ear.
Don't worry, all his henchpeople get to feed him lies the same way. This is just what government with a useful idiot leader looks like in the US.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-lies-have-preznit-fuckwits-handlers
#USPolitics #Minneapolis #NatalieHarp #TrumpSenility

Noticed that the US hasn't invaded any other nations today, nor kidnapped any heads of governments, nor announced any boat sinkings, so it's probably a good day to post this meme:

@mayintoronto
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, May, that after an hour you've garnered only this smattering of memes, so here's one from me:

@mayintoronto
Here's a meme that I just saw, May:

Something to consider when counting your generative Ai profits that haven't materialized yet, and may NEVER show up:
"... investments in AI do not appear to be driving much economic growth at all, other than in the revenue driven to NVIDIA from selling these GPUs, and the construction of data centers themselves. Had Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon sunk $776 billion into building housing and renting it out, the world would be uneven, we would have horrible new landlords, and it would still be a great deal better than one where nearly a trillion dollars is being wasted propping up a broken, doomed industry, all because the people in charge are fucking idiots obsessed with growth." --Ed Zitron

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

#StockSpeculation #StockMarket #Capitalism #Ai

Okay, so some people swear that "Die Hard," is a Christmas movie, and I'm not going to argue with that.
What I want to know is: Is there a Kaiju Christmas movie?
And pleez DON'T say "It's Christmas Godzilla," because I'm pretty sure that hasn't been made yet.
#ChristmasMovies

Generative Ai is waging a war on financial sanity:
"Between 2001 and 2014, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost the US an estimated $1.5 trillion to $1.7 trillion in direct spending. Global AI spending, according to Gartner, is forecast to reach nearly $1.5 trillion this year, putting today's AI boom in the same cash-burning league as two major wars."
I'd say the the pace of Ai spending is in a league of its own.
When this bubble bursts -- as it soon will -- the effects will be far reaching.
Will the perpetrators get off unscathed while the rest of us underwrite their escape?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/ai_spending_cooling_off/
#Economics #PoliticalEconomy #Ai #Bubble

@skinnylatte @idzie
These baby gulls are about as cute as baby pigeons, Adrianna.
(Not very, in other words. But I'm NOT their mom.)

California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom helpfully shared 2 logos that Trump has created for 2 Washington, DC landmarks.
#USPolitics #GavinNewsom #Trump #KennedyCenter #TrumpEpsteinCenter

@skinnylatte @index
You go, Adrianna!

:loading: In case you were wondering, yes, some of the Dutch cloth inspectors depicted in the banner image on my profile page ARE judging you. But they're also judging me.
This was possibly immortal artist Rembrandt's last great group portrait.
By 1662 when, "Syndics of the Drapers' Guild," was unveiled, Rembrandt had perfected the Baroque technique of making it appear that the eyes of the figures in the painting could follow the viewer around the room.
So no matter from what angle you observe this masterpiece, some of the masters in it will be watching you in judgment. Choose to focus on the judgers or the non-judgers, as the spirit moves you.
The animated GIF in my avatar image is the late esteemed and immortal thriller director Alfred Hitchcock.
That's NOT a guillotine behind Mr Hitchcock. The great British auteur is managing his figure by working out on an exercise device in his California home. :loading:

Elon Musk in the News!

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has built its sprawling data center using more than 2,000 metric tons of Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that could leave it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage."
But, heck, that's allowed Musk to save money from his US government contracts to stick in his pocket.

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/musks-ai-supercomputer-used-by-us

#ElonMusk #SecurityRisk #AI #China #USGovernment

@art_histories @carstenfranke @raymierussell
Did NOT know of the Breugel painting satirizing the 17th century Dutch tulip mania.
Thank YOU for sharing, Ms Histories!

John Mastodon sez:
Put a content warning on your posts and give Fedizens a decent clue about what you're hiding, and see your interactions increase.

@WarnerCrocker
To dogs we say, "Go, dogs, go"!
To Fall we say, "Fall, Fall, fall."