73 thoughts on “MeMeing InTo Chaos”

  4. To someone more artistically inclined than I, a thought for a Meme;

    Tampon Timmy shown in a men’s room by a urinal dropping tampons as he tries to refill a dispenser, while a Somali flag standing next to him picks his pocket of his wallet.

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  5. “Thank you for listening to PLVI, Radio Free Tehran! We’d like to dedicate the next two to the Supreme Leader and his loyal supporters.” *Cues up “Burning Ring of Fire” and “Bad Moon Rising”, goes on smoke break*

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    1. Also in the play list:

      • “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty
      • “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones
      • “Change the World” by Sunspot
      • “I’m Free” by the Soup Dragons (or the Rolling Stones’ original version, if you prefer)
      • “Change” by Blind Melon
      • “End of the Line” by Traveling Wilburys
      • “Get Off This” by Cracker
      • “Chimes of Freedom” by Grateful Dead
      • “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
      • “Eye in the Sky” by the Alan Parsons Project
      • “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” by U2
      • “Freedom ’90” by George Michael

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      2. Pantera has a few songs that could apply:
        Cowboys From Hell
        Clash With Reality
        Shattered
        Psycho Holiday
        Message In Blood
        Mouth for War
        A New Level
        F@$king Hostile
        Walk
        Becoming
        Rise

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    2. And I can’t believe I left off:

      • “Fight the Power” by the Isley Brothers
      • “25 Miles” by Edwin Starr
      • “A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke
      • “Stand” by Sly and the Family Stone

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      2. Turisas Stand up and fight comes to mind.

        I’m not sure that Sabaton’s uprising is culturally sensitive, but it could end up an Iranian anthem for I know.

        Not sure I want to dive myself back into my musical way of thinking for that stuffs.

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      3. I would add:

        Divine Wind (Blue Oyster Cult-the original song about the Mullahs telling Khomeini “If he really thinks we’re the devil, then let’s send him to hell”

        Hell Awaits-Slayer

        Don’t Tread on Me: Metallica

        Damage Inc.,-Metallica

        And turn all of them up to 11

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    3. “To wrap up this commercial-free two hours, we present the classic, ‘Rock the Casbah.’ PLVI, Radio Free Tehran, sponsored today by StarLink and the Boring Company. ‘We may be boring, but we’re never dull’.”

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    4. ‘Revolution Calling’ by Queensrÿche

      I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth
      But now I see the payoffs everywhere I look
      Who do you trust when everyone’s a crook?

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  6. Until the new owners institute a regime change in the Star Trek franchise, I’d say being sentenced to Trek would be the worst on Marco’s list…

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      1. It appears he’s already doing the jobs of four people so Sec. Rubio would have no issue with the Mentor gig. I wonder what his current view of the Cosmic All is. I have to say it’s muddy as heck for me… I’m not sure what the Author is up to for the Year of our Lord 2026 but here 11 days into it I’m trying to decide if it’s time to celebrate or time to get in a hole in pull it in after me.

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      2. Don’t say numbers. Don’t give your readers any numbers. Because *I* am the motherfucker with the niche PhD – in reptilian brumation.

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      1. The ones who can’t get their brothers/husbands to ‘burgle’ their facilities to make off with the evidence . . .

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  11. Nice picture of Venezuelan immigrants! :-)

    Re don’t use numbers in your SF stories: I had some fun calculating the projectile energy of the ship’s cannon in Rolf Nelson’s “The Stars came Back” (42 MJ, yowza).

    It reminds me of a tale told by Robert Heinlein in one of his essay collections. I think it was in a talk he gave at a military academy. He described needing to check orbits for a space race story he was writing, so he talked the local butcher out of 50 feet of wrapping paper (this is when butcher shops had a big roll of kraft paper and would cut off a piece to wrap your order), then did the calculations — non-linear integral equations — in longhand in pencil.

    After the talk, one of the cadets asked “Mr. Heinlein, why did you not use a computer?” In the essay Heinlein comments: I don’t usually address adults in this way, but I had to make an exception here. I told him “my dear boy, this was in 1946”.

    Yeah. Some writers will go to GREAT lengths to have the real parts of their stories be entirely accurate.

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    2. The annoying part is when someone does their own set of calculations, and makes an obvious error when doing so. But their flawed calculations become the narrative.

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  13. WPDE set the title as MeMeing InTo Chaos, and my first thought was that this was going to a discussion on how “All About Me” is arriving at it’s destination…..

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  14. I’m going to say some controversial things, but fuck microsoft updates.

    Satya Nudella apparently has a blog post about his optmism for the new year’s software engineering and agentic OS stuff. https://snscratchpad.com/posts/looking-ahead-2026/

    It says something about the generosity I may bring to reading PRC technical literature that I can’t tell (with certainty) if he is onto something I don’t understand yet. Also, I don’t know anything about software engineering. Anyway, I am basically still pretty unskilled, so a lot of time I read PRC papers and go “well, I don’t see an obvious problem, so I need to find out more about how this phenomena actually works”. I am definitely not fully and evenly sampling the scientific literature, so I have no clue about scientific papers as a whole.

    The one issue I have confirmed in a PRC author is a failure to read and comprehend literature cited. Or a failure to honestly report on the citation. The newer citation was of a respected authority (American) in the sub-sub-field, who was saying ‘whupps, my bad’, about papers he or they had previously written that was basically the foundation of the sub-sub-field. Basically, it looks like the sub-sub-field is a mistake, and effectively on par with the more conventional way of doing things, but we haven’t finished finalizing that discovery. I might have a stronger opinion about quality of that literature, if I had come back later to the sub-sub-field, and found people still cranking out derivative research full speed. (I haven’t gone back at all.)

    There’s this new paper at science advances written about as science dot org, and it claims that the PRC experimentalists have gotten a significant density increase with magnetically contained fusion. Not really my topic of choice, so all I can say is that we shall see if it replicates.

    Govendor the Floral sounds like a dragon or a wizard to me.

    I want to joke about Marco Rubio taking over the higher learning comission, or the university of oklahoma.

    under reacting: have said this elsewhere, but I don’t think the ‘gay’ is the key point. Elementary school girls do at times collude to lure and murder other elementary school girls without it being sex preference or political activism. It is a statistical effect of evil females finding compatible evil females. Now, activist politics might have helped toxic women to find each other, and helped them escalate. Anyway, I don’t think ‘gay’ or ‘retard’ are entirely the best labels. Beyond that, the analysis was correct.

    I don’t think the government is the key thing stopping our working class from lynching communists. The issue is that our working class is smarter, more compassionate, and more thoughtful than communists are. The working man wants to lynch communists, but the working man stops himself.

    roach-works, don’t include numbers. Yes, this is my opinion, and has been for some time. Largely inspired by my Bleach (manga) reading years, when I estimated the size of Soul Society (inside the mobile wall) from being given a single number. (Someone who was writing a Blach/Fate fic later (I think not skillfully) also insisted that Fate was better for giving more numbers. I found myself in disagreement.) Anyway, whether or not I am explicitly rejecting writing something scientifically accurate, an excess of number details is more opportunity for me to screw up, and or stall out overpreparing. Adding number-details willy nilly is just disrespect for what the audience actually needs or wants, but is easy to get into depending on how you were trained, or if you have read too much Tom Clancy. I’ve mixed nuances in my opinion on autistic PhD critics. Sometimes they tell you about a bunch of cool stuff you haven’t studied yet, sometimes they are less useful.

    I’m not sure Geordi would not enjoy that joke.

    2026 might settle down and prove really boring, no matter how wild and cool it has been to date.

    Agree on the horse looking at the volcano.

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    1. All I know is that “agentic OS” is a term that gives me hives. Not just no, but HELL to the no. I don’t even know anything about it; I just know that “agentic” implies some degree of volition or autonomy, and I don’t want my computer to have even the tiniest degree of either. Even if an agentic OS *could* be a good thing, the fact that Micro Satya is excited about selling them gives me the willies.

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      1. You have the right idea. I don’t know precisely what agentic OS would involve, but it would include some of the things that “agentic AI” does. Used to be, you’d query the LLM, “recommend me a NPM package for XYZ” and it would tell you, “You want the just-xyz package. To install it, run ‘npm install just-xyz’, then check the package.json and package-lock.json changes into your Git repo”. These days, people are saying “Hey LLM, install an NPM package for XYZ for me” and the LLM tool, which you are running under your user account, runs the ‘npm install just-xyz’ command for you, then runs the appropriate ‘git commit’ command to check in the package.json change for you. (For anyone who knows what steps I’m leaving out, hush, I’m simplifying so this command doesn’t become essay-length).

        Given that one person’s agentic AI has already deleted his D: drive due to a misconfiguration, I wouldn’t trust agentic OS one micron. Sure, most of the time you’ll tell it “buy me two airplane tickets from Miami to LA” and it would go buy the tickets and charge your credit card. But if you’re blindly trusting an LLM with your credit card, you’re already a fool. Sooner or later it’s going to hallucinate that you want two tickets to Jefferson Airplane rather than two airplane tickets to Jefferson City, MO. And never mind that Jefferson Airplane haven’t been active as a band in 30 years, it’s going to find a way to buy those band tickets anyway, probably from some scammer charging you $10k per ticket. Good luck getting your money back after THAT mess-up.

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  15. Things have changed in the time of the Federation. Today, microWaves are teeny tiny members of the women’s naval volunteers.

    Someone needs to clone Marco Rubio.

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  16. As we see once again, stupidity kills and it recognizes no privilege nor does it discriminate about your skin color, sexual preference or social economic status nor political party. You be stupid and Karma will kill you. Karma takes notes and has a very long memory it is out there waiting to give you just what you asked for.

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      1. I found a good meme on gacrbook once, and tesponded “Stolen.” The poster came back, apologizing profusely snd sayong she didn’t know it was copyrighted.

        SMH. Um, no. I meant I am stealing it.

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          1. My almost favorite pass time is noting typos and figuring out what was intended by what keys are close to the ones actually stricken. Gacrbook is primo.

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      1. When I was young and dangerous in my skinny black jeans and workboots in the 80s I listened to the Doors, which was considered dangerous and a sign I was on the road to perdition.
        Now it’s musak. Sigh.

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  21. BTW, the kid in the dryer?

    You probably know that the big-box type stores always check in containers, trashcans, etc.

    Typical customer reaction: “Well, I’m not stealing anything!”

    Checkout person: “Sir/madam, we found a kid in one of these once.”

    NOT. JOKING.

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  22. I don’t see any bacon in the meat pyramid. There must be bacon in the meat pyramid. Otherwise it is fatally incomplete and the world will self destruct. Honest, trust me. I know things. This is one of them.

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