“Small and focused” my fucking ass. Karp and his Krew built a knockoff Twitter for crazy millennials. Then they sold it to a corporation, who cracked down on the (vast amounts of) sexual content and purged a large percentage of its obsessed users. Then it was sold to another corporation. Where it continued to lose $$$. They will either max-monetize it or (most likely) kill it off. See you in blog hell, fools.

Similar crap is going on at G/O Media aka Gizmodo. How many times have I said that Spanfeller is a money-grubbing piece of shit? So the other day he killed off Jezebel. Why? As this 404 Media post will tell you, it’s simple: advertisers do not want their ads on websites next to “controversial content”. The old days, when big advertisers rarely objected to their copy appearing in a newspaper or broadcast news next to horrible things, are gone. No one needs to censor the internet – it will censor itself. Because money.

In other shit: remember that Vancouver guy who tried to start a shop that sold heroin and cocaine openly? What a surprise, in July he died of a fentanyl overdose. And it was all forgotten.

Maybe the Roman idea of a vomitorium wasn’t such a bad idea, eh?

Sexism in academia? Try asking Katalin Karikó about it. Needless to mention…..Penn failed to bring up the fact that she was forced out. This is typical Penn bullshit.

Nothing says “slow news day” like “GAY FURRY HACKERS”.

YouTube shit: I suspect this is the work of a teenaged boy. No doubt a Great Future Leader Of American Business. And if you don’t understand how a gang of Reddit manchildren can fuck up the stock market, Folding Ideas has one of the best explanations I’ve seen yet. You could do a lot worse than to watch Folding Ideas videos. Twenny buckaroos sez they’ll be forced off YT someday, soon.

If you need more proof that The Autopian is a joke, read this, then read this. Nowhere does Mr. Tracy say anything about fixing the battery pack–because he’s a grease-covered nimbo and Jeep fanboy who doesn’t know how. He gets the readership he deserves.

You missed Rent A Hitman. It was intended to be a joke website. But someone took it seriously–and now she’s gon’ to jail.

That’s not disturbing. What is? The suicide rate among veterinarians is sky-high. Because pet owners of the modern era are miserable assholes.

Yep, Musk is getting the Twitter he wants. So be it.

And the proof….one, two. They are dumping employees right and left and saying nothing about the resultant scandals. Many former Gizmodo, AV Club, and other site “reviewers” are ending up elsewhere (Ars Technica, Verge, etc) to write their pissy little complaints about crappy TV shows/other trivia. And two of them went off and started The Autopian, a thing even worse than the thing they left. And are now forced to constantly beg people to buy memberships. Wonder what all these “blogging geniuses” will do when their new employers decide to ALSO ditch the humans.

Speaking of OCD (which is inevitable on the internet)….consider the long, long rant Tyler Vigen posted about an old pedestrian bridge in the Minneapolis suburbs. He beat it into submission. Did anyone need that?

Haven’t bitched about Gitlin lately. This and this aren’t bad and showcase actual technical innovation. But he also had to go off and jack it over an absurd “hypercar thing”.

“News flash”: not only is the Pentagon a big turd. It has taken to bitching about the poor quality of recent recruits. Cheap labor is cheap, assholes.

But I hasten to add: salon.com is setting new records for stupidity. (On top of their endless bleating about TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP. For a left-leaning publication-thing, they certainly give him a lot of free publicity. Remember: all publicity is good publicity if you’re a pro-grade political troll.)

…and the feed is full of people bitching about Twitter’s new post lockdown. Whinewhinewhine. Tumblr has its own problems. Hypocrites.

Jaron Lanier is one of the prime “digerati”. When he says “There is no AI” we are expected to take him seriously. No one is, of course—crypto is dying out as a “trendy investment” so now the swells are pumping AI developers instead. Suckers.

YouTube shit: a few words about “fake rednecks” on YT. I’ve already complained about the “cream” of that crapcrew, like “Cleetus McFarland” and “Goonzsquad”. It turns out that Vice Grip Garage, as fake a redneck car-hacker as you can find (he used to be a sheriff’s deputy), has joined the “top tier”. His stupid videos, of trying to get assorted junkyard carbuncles to run and roll away, routinely draw millions of views. He has a website with endorsement deals and merch. This indicates he’s a “celebrity” lol. “But people LIKE him! He talks like Misterogers!” etc. On deck are endless wannabes: SuperspeedersRob, BoostedBoiz, Junkyard Digs and a thousand more. Hope you enjoy looking at rust.

Also, the popularity of Daily Woo is real ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to me. People who make “travelogues” should probably not be mouthy numbnuts who know very little about locations they go to. (He DOES NOT talk like Misterogers.) PS, is Omar Qazi still obsessively posting boring videos of his fucking Tesla driving itself? You betcha. Even when it almost runs over a pedestrian, Omar remains a blindly loyal Musk stan. And YT is now even more boring/stupid than “old TV”.

The best part of this recent Ars Technical article about the 2016 Fort McMurray fire: the comments below it pointing out all the errors.

Brits love to whine about poor little furry critters being hurt. When cops shoot a dog in the US, few people notice. In London, you get web memorials and protests. But the cops still get away with it.

It has existed on the web since 2005 but I only recently learned of it: the Condiment Packet Gallery. MONETIZE it, you fool. Or don’t. Meh.

Lessee, is IBM still dumping their aging employees? Not only that, their spinoffs are doing the same.

Suck it, Jonah. Ha ha.

Academics are shocked, shocked to discover something. That nuclear power plants, which people have been frantically trying to get rid of since the 1980s because “oooh scary”, actually cause far less pollution, less CO2 production, and fewer deaths, than the “replacements”. Which are usually gas turbine plants. Modern reactor designs will be safer than the old BWRs. Even environmentalists are changing their tune on nuclear power. (Meanwhile, the feds are bailing out Diablo Canyon, the most hated/feared pile of concrete in California. Fuck you, PG&E.)

Is the Free Software Foundation dying? Consider this blog post. Or this. Yet the FSF continues–partly as a personality cult for the golden showers of Richard Stallman. The blog made a good case, yet the white male incels who still dominate the open-source world screamed rage at him for his “trouble”.

A guy, fed up with deaths and misery in Vancouver caused by addictive drugs, opened a store to sell clean supplies of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine. The very next day his arrest was loudly trumpeted by the Vancouver cops. Let me tell you a little more about the “glory” of Vancouver. Bah.

Dooce, among the most beloved/hated bloggers in internet history, finally killed herself. After 22 years of blatant public self-flagellation. And only her Karen-ish fans noticed. The perfect example of a “jack Mormon”. Dollar sez her blog will be abandoned in a few years, and some spammer in Indonesia or Thailand will take it over. The internet remembers nothing.

YouTube Hell: I still wonder what happened to the British Empire. And suspect people like Mangy Dog happened to it. His pocket game console was successful (?), his tricorder was moderately successful albeit only with a few insane Trek fans. His model stargate was a massive flop, mainly because he’s an obsessed perfectionist who can’t live with a 2mm gap between complex 3d-printed or cast parts. His videos tend to be unwatchable whinging ordeals.

Should I complain about Gizmodo some more? Does anyone care? By all appearances, their front page is turning into titanium-plated garbage. Consider this, this, this and especially this. And, believe me or not, this was briefly the top story. Being as stupid as BuzzFeed is NOT something to brag about.

Boo hoo hoo. Boo hoo hoo hoo.

Musk was posting weird shit on one of his throwaway sock accounts. Someone on 4chan noticed, so he deleted the weird shit. Dammit.

I was wondering why Ben Edelman, current “chief economist” at Microsoft (and probably VERY well compensated for it), left Harvard. And now we know–he fought with a local Chinese restaurant over a $4 overcharge. Which led to Harvard denying him tenure. Lol.

Insane Artist Corner: Pray tell, why do incels keep talking about ass-fucking?

Josh Davis tried to start a Substack blog. And his first post was not only Unix-fanboy drivel, it was apparently ignored. Because it was originally hidden behind the full paywall. But now it’s publicly visible–as the ONLY post on his blog.

Yes, buy that electric car. Be prepared for insurance company hijinks.

The Verge is usually okay, but when they go full retard, they run things like Andy Baio whining about his color blindness. And complaints about the disappearance of iPhone buttons. Now I’m starting to wonder how many of their “contributors” don’t actually exist as humans.

Could be worse, you could be reading Gizmodo.

Some Canuck-o-crap: never ever take your car to Canadian Tire. And beware of the “CreepCatchers”.

Some YouTube crap: GGEXOTICS, better known as spoiled rich boy Gage Gillean, is only famous for one thing: wrecking his father’s Pagani Huyra. Otherwise his channel is a bit of a flop. And this assclown is Ukrainian, and tries to use it for “sympathy”. When he’s not smashing iPhones. At least he’s “more successful” than Gage?

Plus, YT is becoming a “haven” for stupid AI-generated “satirical” videos. Consider this. Or maybe this.

Remember the butthole. It remembers you.

To see a fine example of someone twisting statistics to make some kind of political point, have a look at WTF Happened in 1971. I still have no idea what “point” is being made, other than the 1970s were an era of miserable “stagflation”, followed by the Reaganoid greed-good/deregulate-everything 80s. The result: growing inequality. Things were a LOT crazier and worse in the 19th century. Not that your spoiled little assholes would care.

Speaking of massive financial rot, the Wirecard scandal happened only last year. But hardly anyone noticed.

Poor, poor little boomers. Remember, they helped to build the tower of shit.

It’s ALL shit. All rotten. According to Rolling Stone, Taylor Swift’s cat is worth $97 million. And a woman who likes to pose as Swift on Tiktok is unhappy because Swift’s fans are bullying her.

Meanwhile, Apple is going to have no buttons on the next iPhone. And the complaining has already started. They are sweatshop products, and no one cares.

I despise the “Dude Perfect” YT channel. If these fucks showed up at my hotel, I’d call the SWAT team and have them gunned down.

Yes, let’s have a mission to your anus.

Did you know that “prominent” Brazilian attorney Leandro Mathias de Novaes, former Tiktok star, took his gun into an MRI room? And the gun went off when it was yanked out of his belt by the MRI field, and he was killed. Oops…..

Remember ozy.com? I mocked it on this blog years ago. It went down hard…shortly after this happened.

Also remember: Catholics are not “nice people”.

Ever heard of a Maine businessman named Kevin Finkenaur? Well, now you have! Such a wonderful patriot!

BuzzFeed continues to circle the drain. This story ran last year and almost no one noticed. I still think Jonah Peretti isn’t as smart as he evidently thinks he is. Anyone trying to suck traffic away from Facebook? Deserves what they get.

This nut decided to make a “universal” wrench from an old patent. And found it useless. (Well, at least he’s not as annoying as that Strange Parts guy.)

Dude, she just wanted free hotel breakfast! And she posted it on Tiktok! And was busted by Daily Dot! Genius!!!

Guess what, IBM is still lying about its business. What a “surprise”.

And one expects no less from “Charm City”.

WTF is going on in Canada these days? Poisoned poutine?

Prepare to see more abuse of facial-recognition software in the future. For stupid, insane, or no reasons.

Wanna see two idiots screaming at each other in Irish? Yeah, I bet you do. There’s still no Irish equivalent for “fuck off”, I’m guessing.

This madness led directly to the little bastard’s mother starting a GoFundMe. To beg for money to bury the “young man that just needed to find his way”. Everything remains shit.

Apparently the meanest RV park in America is this outfit in Quartzsite, Arizona. Which is still one of the worst towns I’ve ever seen. A paragon of desert ugliness and squalor–in the summer. Overrun by tens of thousands of old farts in RVs in the winter.

More than a month ago, Scoble claimed that Twitter was dead. Meanwhile, that idiot in Philly was still eating his chickens. And after a brief dip in traffic, Twitter is back to where it was in the summer. Fuckheads gonna fuckhead.

Wanna talk about some intensely stupid YouTubers? What about the Nelk Boys? That stupid enough for ya? How about “Treasure Hunting With Jebus”?

Damn, these things are butt-ugly. Might as well make giant angry-looking pickup trucks.

Is Xpression Camera a bad idea? Just can’t imagine how people would misuse it….

Looking for public land to kill things on? Want someplace isolated? And want to avoid being arrested for trespassing? There’s an app!

Nothing says “I love you” like “You bought the wrong nipple clamps”.

50 years after Hunter Thompson made his infamous joke about the music industry being a “cruel and shallow money trench”, it has only gotten worse. Today this Billboard story ran. But if you actually go to the Billboard Hot 100, it looks like the below. (Lil Baby, a classic money-grubbing “influencer rapper”, apparently has 24 songs on the Hot 100 as of today. Never heard of him? You’re not alone.) There is NO trace of any Taylor Swift material. Given that most music sales are online or streaming now, and I suspect the record labels lie in their teeth about all their traffic, how the hell are we supposed to “trust” anything Billboard says?

Yes, once again the Ars Technica resident auto-industry slut Jonathan Gitlin is raving about an exotic “hypercarthing”. Instead of reviewing ordinary family cars or new technology. “Oh, that’s BORING”.

Want some stupid Twitter crap? Coinfessions has been getting loads of posts lately, thanks to the massive collapse of the crypto-NFT scene. And Fidomaster, an account notorious for incessantly criticizing eBay and Paypal, has become completely private. Might have something to do with eBay trying to harass him. You deserve this shitpile, Lord Elon!

Have I bitched about Jack Dorsey lately? Okay, here you go.

Barely mentioned in the media was this horror story, about Texas law enforcement run amok. Boomers, eh.

I could go on and on about the stupidity of Gizmodo Media, and their continuing (unadmitted) traffic and revenue declines. Only a fucked-up blog run by whiny millennials would run “stories” like “When My Motorcycle Project Looked Grim, The Furry Community Saved Me”, “Aye-Aye Caught on Camera Picking Its Nose and Eating It”, and James Whitbrook’s incessant search for gay people on TV.