Thursday, November 12, 2026

Will Robots Replace Women?

This is not a good idea. Unfortunately, I can see people buying it.

 

SPAIN: Protestors Riot and Set Cities Ablaze In Massive Nationwide Strike

Unruly protesters set fires, smashed storefronts and launched fireworks at riot police across parts of Spain on Wednesday as a massive nationwide strike over soaring housing costs disrupted transportation and businesses.

Violent scenes unfolded in Barcelona, where some demonstrators vandalized stores along the city's popular Paseo de Gracia shopping boulevard, set small bonfires and launched fireworks at officers arriving in riot gear and armored vehicles, according to The Associated Press.

The violence erupted after a largely peaceful march as Spain experienced its first general strike in 14 years, with workers demanding relief from skyrocketing rents and the rising cost of living.

The nationwide walkout disrupted public transportation, forced some businesses to close and blocked major roads. Police made arrests across the country, while officers used pepper spray against demonstrators in Madrid, according to the AP.

CNN Director: We Focus on the Race of the Criminal When He's White But Hide It When He's a "Minority"

CNN Director: We Focus on the Race of the Criminal When He's White But Hide It When He's a "Minority"

You do not say.

This is a hidden-camera sting admission, of course. He would never admit this publicly.

This is standard CNN practice. Jake Tapper is very big on reporting crimes committed against Jews -- but, when black men were playing the knockout game with Jews in NYC, he did not report it, or if he mentioned it, he made sure he didn't run the video or name the perpetrators.

But he would generally complain of violence against Jews while avoiding any mention of the actual perpetrators of what he was talking about.

But then came the Tree of Life attack, where a synagogue was attacked by an Acceptable and Approved Villain, a white man. And then Jake Tapper really talked up the problem of violence against Jews, with the none-too-subtle suggestion that White Men, Republicans in particular, were responsible for it.

You see the same thing with rapes. White feminist women love to complain about rape... so long as it's a made-up allegation about presumably white Cornell students. (Note: It turns out most of them weren't white, but they assumed they were.)

Russell Brand, safely white, makes for an excellent Morality Play about concent.

Muslim rape gangs, on the other hand? Never heard of them. What are you talking about, Racist?

Humpday Blues

Rory Block
Statesboro Blues

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

BELIEVE ME, NO ONE IS QUESTIONING THE ELECTION RESULTS

No One Is Questioning The Election! NO ONE!!!!!!!
 

Another Historical First: Four Democrat US Senate Candidates Received More Votes than Kamala Harris in Prior Presidential Election – Odds of This Happening is “Effectively Zero” in Historical Record



SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: AI Caught Favoring Dems, AI Advanced Mode Finds “ZERO” Individuals Questioning Recent Election Results Using Math or Graphs – And Much, Much Worse!


Even simple tasks, like graphics, seemed to be deliberately tanked to create more work.

Asking for a simple border space increase would get the entire graphic redesigned, and the AI stating “My mistake”, repeatedly.

A few days ago, we asked ChatGPT to find those skeptical of the recent and provided math, tables, graphs, or charts supporting their claims. Meta, X, Instagram, and other sources were desired.

Certain settings can provide better results. Enabling “Deep Research” is for more accurate and complex investigations, comparing evidence, and producing detailed reports.

The “Thinking Effort” allows for more extensive analysis, calculations, and problem-solving. It improves accuracy on complex questions. Both of these settings were activated to find election analysts and their math.

ChatGPT – Deep Research setting activated, Thinking Effort set to High.

ChatGPT came back with ZERO RESULTS, which is impossible to believe. Several individuals can be easily found on X alone, including the legendary Jeffrey O’Donnell (The Lone Raccoon). In fact, TGP reported on “Truth Is Freedom,” whose data was reposted by the President of the United States.

Yet, GPT found nothing!

In the past, GPT has stated they aren’t allowed to discuss election infrastructure. But this lack of skeptics is something entirely different. It smells of . It’s as if AI doesn’t want the public to hear from election skeptics, especially those with interesting data.

EL SALVADORAN PRESIDENT BUKELE IS BLOWING UP GANG COMPOUNDS IN HAITI

Metallica
Whiskey In The Jar

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Musk admits Tesla doesn’t have enough talent to build more than one car at a time after exodus


Musk admits Tesla doesn’t have enough talent to build more than one car at a time after exodus

“The biggest thing most people fail to understand is that there are a very limited number of smart, dedicated people! They can only do so many things.”

He added that if Tesla has to “maintain a complex production line, supply chain and allocate engineering for Cybertruck, we can’t use those people” for scaling Cybercab.

By this morning, the explanation had shifted again, to the “opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck.” But the Saturday version is the one that matters. Musk is telling us the bottleneck at Tesla isn’t factory space or money. It’s people.

The Cybertruck is the second casualty this year. In January, Musk announced the end of the Model S and Model X on Tesla’s Q4 earnings call and summed up the reason in one word: “Autonomy.” The Fremont line is being converted to build Optimus robots.

Don’t be surprised ten years from now if Tesla is known as the android company that got its start making cars.

Anthropic IPO Sounds Like Total Bullshit

 

I Voted For Mamdani

When Anthropic’s S-1 went public on Oct 26, the headline number was a $974 million operating profit on $11.6 billion of second-quarter revenue. It also came with what we tallied as roughly $800 billion in compute commitments, including up to $120.5 billion owed to Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI.

Monday’s amendment filled in the blanks, and it’s not looking any better. Third-quarter revenue came in at $16.96 billion, up 1,127% from a year earlier. But operating profit lasted exactly one quarter, with Q3 swinging back to a $567 million GAAP operating loss as Anthropic paid up for $5 billion of short-term compute. Its committed spend is now officially $895.4 billion – more than $1 trillion once deals without a fixed dollar figure are counted – and $69.8 billion of it comes due in the next 12 months, more than the company’s entire annualized revenue run rate.

Let me get this straight: Anthropic made just under $1 billion in profit for one quarter (it’s first profitable quarter), yet it has committed to spending an additional $1 trillion, so it only needs 250 years of similar profits or so to pay off its projected capital costs!

Of course, Anrthopic is counting on continuous exponential revenue growth to pull its chestnuts out of the fire.

Wishing really hard is not a business plan.

But wait! We haven’t even scratched the surface of the crazy yet.

Here are ten disclosures that should raise eyebrows.

1. Your Vote Won’t Count

As we laid out last week, public buyers receive Class A shares and very little say. The Long-Term Benefit Trust – five financially disinterested trustees holding a single Class T share with no economic rights – elects a majority of the board. Meanwhile, a single Class F share held by the co-founders’ Founder LLC casts 50.1% of the vote on everything else, including the remaining board seats. Class A holders will be generally unable to change the outcome of any stockholder vote or director election “regardless of how they vote,” the filing concedes. The lone exception occurs if a majority of the founders deadlock among themselves, in which case Class F votes are cast proportionally to the Class A vote.

So you theoretically own a share of the airplane, but you never get a vote on where it’s going. If I wasn’t already a hard pass before, I would be now.

Also buried in the fine print: the co-founders have each pledged to donate 80% of their personal Anthropic equity to charity – pledges the S-1 describes as voluntary, revocable, and not legally binding.

But they totally pinky-sweared!

As the founders give shares away, their economic stake shrinks while their voting control through the Founder LLC remains intact.

This is not “stakeholder governance.”

The recipient charities are free to sell that stock, which the filing flags as another potential overhang on the share price. Anthropic will also qualify as a “controlled company” under Nasdaq rules, exempting it from standard governance requirements under a structure it notes has no direct public-company precedent.

This sounds less like a company and more like a conceptual comedy skit by the late Andy Kaufman as a satire of corporate management.

2. Profits Optional, Sentience Unknown

Because Anthropic is a public benefit corporation, its directors are required to balance shareholders’ financial interests against those of stakeholders affected by its conduct and its stated Company Purpose – a mandate the S-1 plainly states may not maximize stockholder value. The filing cites several commercial sacrifices already made: refusing to allow its models to be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance despite the lucrative revenue at stake; initially releasing Mythos solely as a gated research preview through Project Glasswing; and forgoing image- and video-generation models entirely to dedicate compute to research and safety.

The filing also points to the growing debate over whether AI systems could develop sentience or moral status. Given its internal stance on model sentience and moral status, Anthropic says it could impose limits on how it develops, deploys, or modifies its models that go beyond legal requirements, further curbing their commercial potential. Put simply, prospective shareholders are being warned that Claude’s potential moral status could one day cost them money.

I’m pretty sure that Ford isn’t warning potential investors that profits may be impaired by F-150s suddenly being declared human beings.

3. Washington Has Already Hit The Off Switch Once

In June, the Commerce Department imposed worldwide export restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic disabled both models for every customer until the curbs were lifted following updates to its safeguards. The S-1 warns that other models could face the same – or similar – restrictions down the road.

Then there is the Pentagon. In February, after Anthropic stated its technology should not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, the President directed all federal agencies to stop using its products. Simultaneously, the Secretary of War ordered the company designated a supply-chain risk, barring defense contractors from conducting any commercial activity with Anthropic. The Department of War also suggested early this year that it could invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to strip out those usage limits, the S-1 discloses.

The resulting legal battle is split. A federal judge in California initially ...

GRTWT. 


2020: STERLING AND RAFFENSBERGER

Duane Betts
Manatee River

Monday, November 09, 2026

Oil markets are also confronting the possibility of a growing global supply surplus


Oil markets are also confronting the possibility of a growing global supply surplus

According to JPMorgan Chase, worldwide petroleum production exceeded consumption by approximately 1.4 million barrels per day in October.

Middle East petroleum exports have recovered substantially, while production from the United States, Brazil and Canada continues to support global supply.

Reuters reports that Middle Eastern crude producers are increasingly competing for customers by reducing selling prices.

These developments suggest that international crude markets could face additional downward pressure if Middle East transportation conditions continue improving.

Chapelle Says He Feels Better That Charlie Kirk Was Murdered, But When Chapelle Was Violently Attacked On Stage, Charlie Kirk Came To His Defense




AND THEN THERE'S THIS GUY, PROVIDING SOME CONTEXT.

NOT SURPRISING! U.S. Strikes Iran - Trump Tells Israel To Prepare For WAR With IRGC