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Trump in the China Shop

Trump isn't making peace, he's breaking it across the globe, and instilling ill will for the US around the world. He's on the brink of an illegal invasion of Venezuela, possibly Iran, and escalating the Ukraine proxy war with Russia. As a finale for the political circus ring master, there are tariffs and sanctions here, tariffs and sanctions there, tariffs and sanctions everywhere...all bound to boomerang right back to the US. Looks like the Don's goal is to hasten the end of the US/NATO empire...that certainly appears to be the inevitable outcome to me.

Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can’t Give Us What We Actually Want

Afternoon folks!

There's some great blues for you all to listen to this week. Starting off, there's an album of mostly live recordings from the American Folk Blues Festival in Europe from 1962 with a great lineup of talent including Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Matt Guitar Murphy and Sonny Boy Williamson. Following that are albums from Eddy Clearwater and west coast harmonica player William Clarke. After that it's on to the rock department with a band you've likely heard of, Los Lobos recorded live and we finish up in the diversity department with a 1980's album from Canadian folk-rock guitarist and songwriter Bruce Cockburn.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Hey, good people!

Monday in el's ot, I bitched about a judge being insulting to me, my client, and the attorney aligned with my client's child.

On Wednesday, the ruling was sent out to the parties, and it was in favor of my client.

Hi everyone, I’m filling in today for Social, who's out of town. I don’t have much to contribute photographically at the moment, as I am also in the process of preparing to leave home and travel overseas in 10 days to visit my daughter and two little granddaughters.

A photo taken out of the window yesterday in the rain, of the flowering Cabbage Tree, which sends intoxicating wafts of fragrance through the window at night. In the background on the left is the Nikau Palm standing proudly, and on the right are Manuka Trees about to flower …

A few months ago I posted "It Could Get Even More Ridiculous."

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Makes Announcement About 2028 Rumors

'I have no desire to be a politician, but I’ve decided that I’m no longer going to close that door...'

Print What?

Here's something I encountered a few days ago which made me happy and sad at the same time.

I was reading Cory Doctorow's new book, Enshittification (yes, he made up the word, and yes, it's now part of the modern vocabulary, I think ). I will probably go into a full review of the book once I'm finished with it. In a short part of the book Doctorow writes about the enshittification of HP inkjet printers; no surprise there - HP wants to force you to buy their ink, for like 30 times more than other companies' ink products. Anyway, one of the things inkjet printers can do now, with the right kind of ink, is print electrically conductive circuits! That is so cool, from a geek point of view!

A circuit printed on paper in silver ink from this instructables.com article