Another week, another Monday, and another attempt to grin and bear it while showing up to put in as little effort as possible to ensure you get paid at the end of the month. At least, that is how most of us see the day, and with, admittedly, very good reason. Mondays are simply CRAP.
Of course, that is why we have the Great Mondaydact Browser Mulcher, which makes the day go by a lot faster – unless your browser goes into vapour-lock when trying to load this thing. Which, actually, is kind of the point.
This week, we start by looking at the world’s busiest bald YOOTOOBER, who suspiciously seems to be literally everywhere on the platform. I have no idea how Simon Whistler manages to produce so much content without actually being an Abominable Intelligence himself, but someone else did the research, and realised that his whole shtick is essentially that of a giant slop-machine:
And, to be fair, this is actually a legitimate business model described here. It works really well. He simply creates a whole shitload of EWCHOOB channels, hires some relatively cheap writers from Central and Eastern Europe, and then produces a colossal amount of content using his unique voice, persona, and charisma.
Hey, no hate here – the strategy is simple, powerful, effective, and brilliant. You will not hear one word of criticism from me about this. I wish Mr. Whistler every possible success. He is a great example of a successful entrepreneur who took a simple idea and scaled it.
I will say, though, that this kind of lowest-common-denominator slop is going to become much more common over the coming weeks, because Abominable Intelligence has reduced the Total Cost of Operations to near-zero (though not quite there yet). We will soon get to the point where it will take very little effort for people to enter in a few lines to a prompt-engineering AI, which will then produce an extremely detailed prompt to enter into a GPT, which will then produce the fully detailed script, and then enter that into a video-editing AI that will generate a video that is about 80% of the way there in terms of content and quality.
And it will not be very long – perhaps a year or two at most – until we see the video-generation AIs becoming nearly seamless and believable in terms of their outputs.
We are, indeed, in a brave new world.
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has lots of stuff for us this week:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Death Smiles At Us All…
Culture Beats
Veterans’ Day
Judge’s Ruling
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
Новый-Царь Приказывает
Профессор Бровкин Учит
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Дядя Стас Объясняет
Русские Оружие
Polonium
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…
Bad Medicine
Warriors of Faith
Manly Men of Manliness
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Reading Too Much Into Things
Linkage is good for you:
- Timofey Bordachyev maps out the unfolding of the true new world order – of a polycentric one run by adults, not sadistic demented children;
- Tarik Cyril Amar marvels at the endless German capacity for ritual self-abasement and masochistic humiliation;
- Murad Sadygadze explains how a resumption of the war between Israel and Iran is merely a matter of time;
- Robert Bridge wonders whether spurning Drumpf over the Ig Nobel Pees Prize is going to turn him into a war-hawk;
- Ladislav Zemanek notes that China is now renouncing certain WTO special privileges – after, of course, squeezing that system for all it was worth;
- The CEO of Ford admits that the push into electric shaver cars was a pretty dumb one without serious business thinking behind it;
- The Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation is having to cut programming because nobody wants to pay their stupid TV tax anymore – and good bloody riddance to them;
- Despite not having a serious 5th-generation fighter programme, the YURPEENS think they can create a “super Eurofighter” that will compete with the Turducken Plane;
- Not to be left behind, the Turnips want to get in on the action by designing a successor to the JAS-39 Gripen;
- Indeed, the Swedes, in particular, ought to be careful with experimenting in military technology, given they once mistook farting herrings for Soviet submarines;
- The 404 War has proven very clearly that the Limeys don’t know how to build tanks properly for modern warfare;
- The ‘Murkins, on the other hand, seem to have absorbed at least some lessons from the 404 War in their design for the upcoming M1E3 Abrams upgrade;
- Trying to figure out whether the Universe is finite, is actually a lot harder than you might think, and will likely give you a headache;
- GrapheneOS, which does a privacy-focused spin of Android that only works on Google Pixel phones, just announced that it will make its OS available on other Android handsets;
- Pipewire is the new Linux sound control utility that solves a huge number of major issues;
- Mr. Softy is dropping support for Microsoft Publisher, so if you like and use it, well, sucks to be you;
- And Microsoft continues its superb track record of breaking its own software with endless “updates” and “patches”;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- A couple of teenagers pissed all over a restaurant in China, and you can imagine how the ChiComs reacted to that one;
- In Portland, they staged a naked bike ride against Federal police, and inevitably, no one turned up to watch, because PORTLAND, which is full of weirdos;
- A farmer in Clownipornia has grown a record-shattering pumpkin, which is now officially the largest in the world;
- ChatGippity is useful for masking one’s complete lack of skills and knowledge, and so it proves with the Norks, who are using it for precisely that;
- Here’s your “bitches be crazy – Floriduh Edition” for the week;
- They really do rip you off in Vegas – even if you just unplug a power outlet over there;
- Paxos, which vends stablecoins, made a gigantic mistake that ended up “printing” 3 times the entire world’s GDP on their blockchain;
- It’s that time of the year again – LotR is RACIST!!!, which means it’s well past time to do some good old-fashioned Orcposting;
- If you are a woman and you want to get married, here’s a word of advice – skip the traditional hen night, it’s a waste of time that always ends in regret;
- In case you were still under the illusion that the United Kingdom is actually a British nation, the scenes from London around Diwali should disabuse you in a hurry;
HALO Nation
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Big Boyz Toyz
Oh No! Anyway…
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain:
And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:
Animal Planet
Real Men Watch REAL Sports
REPS FOR JESUS!!!
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
JUST BLEED!!!
Facefisted
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Arrow to the Knee
Knives Out
Drumlines
Guitar Heroics
MOAR DAKKA!!!
La Cucina
Mambo Italiano
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
AVENGED SEVENFOLD for the win, boys:
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Thot Shots
And finally we have the Instathots to begin the week. I have no idea who these are, but they are sufficiently plastic and ridiculous for the day.
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This newest Windoze 11 update fiasco might be the last straw for me. I shouldn’t have to worry about a forced update potentially ruining my PC, and it’ll keep getting worse so long as Mr. Softy keeps relying on AI and subcontinentals to maintain its code base.
I’m going to tweak it into oblivion and then I might check out Lunix Mint. Then again, I only really see Windoze for 15-20 seconds before launching a game. Productivity is what my work computer is for.
The good orthodox father isn’t necessarily right about Roman Catholicism. I teach fail formation in a parish, and I haven’t seen any material that teaches Satan, sin, demons, or a vengeful God. If anything, it’s too lightweight. You know, when Jesus saved the adulterous woman, he didn’t say ‘you’re fabulous the way you are” he said sin no more. The way it’s taught is God is loving and will forgive nearly anything. They gloss over the teachings that you must seek forgiveness and reconciliation with those you hurt, before he’ll forgive you. “And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
Hell, I know a great, young priest that was put on sabbatical because the purple parish he served wasn’t digging what he was saying about sin and forgiveness. Especially when it comes to divorce, which is like contraception. It’s a sin in the faith, but you aren’t allowed to call it out. He gave a homily where he said if you divorced, you are compelled to file for an annulment. Stroked a lot of fur backwards that day. Being in that boat, I looked into it. 2-3 years of misery for some Pharisees to decide yay or nay.
Far as Winders 11, fuggit. I have a laptop running Mint Linux, and bought a Macbook to replace my old tower. There is very little Microsoft does that I can’t do elsewhere, if I even need it at all. Office comes to mind.
I just installed Linux Mint on my PC to test out. I do not want to upgrade to windows 11. It seems easy. Just need to remember all my password and accounts. I can not wait to test a few things. Hey Didactic what do you use for video editing?
OBS Studio for streaming/video capture, and OpenShot for video editing (well, the one or two times I’ve attempted it). Both of which are completely free and available via the Linux Mint Software Manager.
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Thank you I will give it a try. I am having trouble with Linux Mint to play certain games. I am going to install Bazzite to see if that is better if not I will go back to Mint, it is more steam and the EA app is not working well. Discord and other great
From what I have seen and heard, some of the Arch-based distributions might be better for Linux gaming. Garuda Linux, in particular, is one I can recommend – I have tried it, and it has a slick KDE-based interface with some great features designed specifically for Steam-based Linux gaming.
As a general rule, Linux is still not a native gaming platform, though Steam has gone a long way to changing that.
Also, try installing Steam using the .DEB package from their website, instead of through the Linux Mint software repository. That might help.
I was trying to run mass effect 3 which I own on the ea app on lutris on mint. Graphics were bad and it lagged, I read it was made for arch Linux, so I installed Bazzite. It worked straight away, after setting up, also command and conquer generals. With steam on mint I tried their flat pack, it was bad, I went to the steam store and download the DEB. Package and it sort of work. The games were hit or miss, on Bazzite so far I tried several games, with only total war shogun 2 crashing my system (turning it off part way into a campaign. Civ 5 work great, Left for dead great, and some roms. I will give Garuda a try, I am also going to Drauger, Catchy Os and Chimera Os. It weird addiction so far. I will 100% agree Linux is not yet the best for gaming, windows still has it beat. A part of it is too many options and different distros, and many programs made for windows. A steam Os would solve some of the issues