Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Monday on Fox News that he believes the FBI is “afraid” of President-elect Donald Trump and members of his incoming administration due to the possibility that they’ll “re-examine” that agency’s investigations.
Gosh! Them’s fightin’ words!!…
…straight from the mouth of the clown shmuck that sent political operatives over to Britain’s former colony to try to salvage Kamala Harris’s arse in the last election!!
(AKA “British Invasion”, Part 4??)
25 degrees and about 4 inches of snow, so far. So, it will be my 50 plus years old All Weather Jacket, knit cap, scarf, gloves, winter boots, when I go out to snow blow the snow.
Have been building my own desktop PCs for years…before 2006. Using a favorite older case (hard to find new cases I like) and it’s Kingwin KF-251-BK Dual-Bay Internal Tray-less Rack for 2.5” SATA HDD or SSD – I built a new “UFO” PC for Total = $1674.68 in June of 2023.
ASUS Prime Z790M-PLUS D4 LGA 1700 mATX MoBo – normally $190.99++ drop to $171.89 ($183.92 w/ Tax)
ASUS Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti OC Edition for $364.00 from Newegg ($390.54 w/ Tax)
EZDIY-FAB 5.25in 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen2 Hub and Type-C Port, Front Panel USB Hub with QC 3.0 Quick Charging from Amazon for $41.00 (plus $2.94 Tax = 44.93)
MS Windows 11 Pro OEM CD-KEY GLOBAL from VIP-URcdkey for ($19.89 w/ discount ‘n Code). Windows 10 Pro was less that $10 w/ discount ‘n code, but I didn’t fell like doing another Upgrade w/ this build.
Intel® Core™ i9-13900K CPU for $559.99 w/ $39.20 Tax = $599.99.
CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 64GB (2×32GB) DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Model CMK64GX4M2D3600C18 for $126.99 w/ $8.89 Tax = $135.88.
970 EVO Plus NVMe® M.2 SSD 250GB for $29.99 w/ $2.10 Tax = $32.09.
Total = $1674.68
A computer with those specs would’ve cost a lot more – I priced out a new one with most of those specs back then, but don’t recall how much over $2000 it was.
This desktop-sized system can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters.
.. The heart of Project Digits is the new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which packs enough processing power to run sophisticated AI models while being compact enough to fit on a desk and run from a standard power outlet (this kind of processing power used to require much larger, more power-hungry systems). This desktop-sized system can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters, and has a starting price of $3,000. The product itself looks a lot like a Mac Mini.
Each Project Digits system comes equipped with 128GB of unified, coherent memory (by comparison, a good laptop might have 16GB or 32GB of RAM) and up to 4TB of NVMe storage.
Doubtful I could even find the parts for something like that – Ditto on the Doubtful—that I could build it for less than $3000 even if the parts could be found.
NOTE that it can be “run from a standard power outlet” – so tales of “power-hungry systems” may be true on some AI systems, but not all as time moves on…
Looks like a respectable system.
Intel® Core™ i9-13900K CPU for $559.99 w/ $39.20 Tax = $599.99.
Given the modest GPU I’m guessing you’re not a big gamer. For a serious gamer, pretty much everyone agrees that AMD’s X3Ds are the best. The 8 core 16 Thread Ryzen 7 9800X3D is out now at $479 (although they’re currently out of stock pretty much everywhere until February). And they’ve just announced the 12 and 16 core varieties, although it remains to be seen if they’re actually better than the 8 core one since MOARCORES!1! doesn’t always equate to better performance in most games.
Documentary on John Eastman and the lawfare visited upon him. (1:04:43)
Nonapod
Yeah, not a gamer at all, beyond Windows 7 Chess Titans (chess, hearts, and solitaire & lots of pinochle when in prison). Can’t stand AMD products – nothing but trouble from my experience. Am sure they are good for somethings, but all my builds with AMD were terrible at Desktop Duty. Over rated, over promoted, and under performing, IMHO – and according to UserBenchmark.
UserBenchmark is a favorite of many gamers, and they have the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ #17 in their “Fastest average effective speed CPU” category—my old i9-13900K is @ #8. In the “Best user rated CPU” category the old i9-13900K is at #2, and nearest AMD is a Ryzen 5 3600 @ #5.
UserBenchmark rates for Gaming, Desktop and Workstation. Had my eyes on the old NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU when it first came out, but before I could save the money up for one all GPU’s went through the roof in price. I bought this one when the price finally fell again – a rare GPU performer that has a #4 rating in the “Best user rated GPU” category, a #8 rating in the “Best value for the Money GPU” category, but is waaaaay down @ #37 in the “Fastest average effective speed GPU” category. Will move to a faster one on my next build…even tho I have no need for more speed—just overkill mentality; however, am considering going for “Best value for money” category in the CPU & GPU on next build—if the savings can overcome my overkill tendencies…
Perusing the news this morning. The usual sites. I have to say, I massively underestimated how much fun it was going to be to watch the western world go batshit crazy after Trump’s election.
Karmi: Well, all I can say is that I’ve sucessfully built and run many, many AMDs for myself and others years and never had an issue related directly to them, and I’ve known a ton of people who have had the same experience. In fact I’m typing this comment on one now. As to their performance, they generally perform much better in multithreaded tasks than their Intel equivalents while Intel usually outperforms them in single threaded tasks. But given that most of the stuff I do for my work is heavily multithreaded (not to mention gaming) I’m willing to take a small IPC hit for the few single threaded use cases I face.
I found out about Trump’s press conference at the one hour mark and he kept going on for a while. Interesting that he is changing the name of the gulf to “Gulf of America.”
Oklahoma has a Canadian River, both a north and a south branch. However, after a couple MAPS projects renovating the river and the area, the river was renamed Oklahoma River as it goes through OKC. And, the area will probably be used for the 2028 Olympics for riversports as well as the Devon Park for women’s softball.
Meta/Facebook is getting rid of fact checking and going towards a community notes system.
Things are looking better so far this year.
Thanks for the FIB link, Karmi. The Fascist Insurrection Bureau is a very bad, terrible, no-good organization.
Also saw from that link that Trump proposed changing the Gulf Of Mexico’s name to the “Gulf Of America.” 🙂 Personally, I would keep the historic name, and save the taxpayer spending that changing it would entail. https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/07/trump-gulf-of-mexico-america/
That reminds me that the Mexican War has been renamed the Mexican-American War, I presume from PC, anti-American motives. But the Mexican War is still in the dictionary:
Mexican War
A war (1846-1848) between the United States and Mexico, resulting in the cession by Mexico of lands now constituting all or most of the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
Make The Gulf Great Again or The Great American Gulf or American Gulfness?
Not A Sh*thole Puddle
Will Mexico retaliate by renaming The Gulf of California?
If META follows through and eliminates the censorship, this is a big win for free speech and therefore for Western civilization. Elon Musk opened the door. If more walk through it, we may survive.
What we need next is an end to the advertising block against conservative media.
“When Did We Stop Being Naked?”
Who says I’m not?
Kate bring up an interesting point – ‘What we need next is an end to the advertising block against conservative media.’
I agreed when reading that – as well as agreeing that ‘Elon Musk opened the door.’
However, when I agree on something – many times I run it thru a search engine just to double-check my agreeing. AI’s are a great search engine, IMHO, and improving every day.
Most know the story of Elon stealing Twitter from the Progressives—and their MSM ‘n FBI puppets. Then how the Progressives pretty much warned any advertiser still with Elon’s new Twitter (soon to become X) and also warning any potentially new advertisers.
Now, during my AI search engine search, Grok 2 – is there an advertising block against conservative media:
2. Boycotts and Public Pressure: Conservative media personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly have faced advertising boycotts driven by activist groups or social media campaigns.
4. Market Dynamics: Conservative media often finds itself with a different set of advertisers, frequently smaller companies or those specifically targeting conservative audiences. This shift occurs because large brands might prefer to avoid controversy, leading to a niche market for conservative media in advertising, where smaller, less “blue-chip” advertisers fill the gap left by larger corporations.
Conservatives certainly don’t want to force advertiser to advertise on X – Rush Limbaugh would ‘roll over in his grave’ at such a thought. Bud Light has proven that Conservatives can be a force when they want to. Probably best to just let it play out…?
Meanwhile:
Grok 2 – how is X doing with advertisers now?
Focus on Smaller Businesses: X has been attempting to pivot towards attracting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to compensate for the loss of big advertisers. This strategy includes lower costs per click (CPC) and cost per thousand impressions (CPM), making advertising on X more appealing to smaller businesses despite concerns about brand safety and platform reputation.<
Still up ‘n down with big corporations; however, X seems to be becoming a huge success as a news source in the new growing process…
A right-wing media baron offers a possible hint of the future of the Republican Party’s eventual post-Donald Trump future.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), a 30-year-old who created one of Facebook’s most popular MAGA news sites, was sworn in last week as the GOP’s youngest lawmaker and a staunch Trump loyalist.
New Conservative slipping past me!?
That year, Gill launched a hyperpartisan conservative news blog called DC Enquirer, [and] Gill told his wife on her podcast that he started the site to create the kind of ‘consistent pro-Trump, pro-Republican news outlet’ he felt was missing from the right-wing media landscape.”
The website was an instant smash, beating the Washington Post’s engagement – likes, reactions, comments and shares – just 36 days after publishing its first article thanks to a network of Facebook accounts owned by its parent company, which is listed as The Boswell Project LLC, and Trump has shared the site’s content on Truth Social nearly 150 times.
I Watched it All on My Radio! That’s the song I thought of before I clicked on the link! Loved that song. That was me, listening to the radio in bed, in a bygone millennium.
From a press release on a lawsuit by the New Civil Liberties Alliance:
“George Orwell, call your office: The Disinformation Governance Board is back! Worse, it was here all along quietly operating out of the State Department through three presidential administrations with the admitted intent of cutting off advertising dollars and viewership from conservative media outlets,” NCLA senior litigation counsel Peggy Little said in a press release.
“Your State Department — which may only address foreign affairs — has been secretly scheming with and funding private companies to create blacklists of conservative media outlets to defund and silence speech with which it disagrees,” Little added.
Conservative sites like the Townhall family of sites frequently say that posts the powers that be consider “controversial” will be demonetized. The same thing happens on YouTube and other video sites.
om, I’ve been thinking for a while about whether it would be good for the various microstates of the Caribbean to unify in a manner which I suppose would be something like Indonesia, in the sense of a multi-multi-island republic. (Or the Philippines?) Bigger is of course not necessarily better and the siren call of centralization of the government of all of those islands down south would probably have downsides of which I’m completely ignorant. Still, I keep asking myself what is the point of Aruba, for example, being an independent state.
In the meantime, though, it seems evident that Canada should be annexed.
Bof…I think there really are psychological & social effects of each new medium, whether writing, printing, radio, tv, or Internet….some good, some bad. A lot of people lately have been talking about the malign effects of the Internet in general and of social media in particular. But would we really be better off if the Internet had never come into existence and the mass media still ruled unchallenged?
Gulf of…WTH cares???
Trump is getting seriously sidetracked.
Ms. Summerall’s gonna have to reign that alpha husky in!!!!!!
File under: No elk meat fer you tonight!
Hey, found someone else whom Decent Joe might wanna pardon…(or maybe give a Presidential Medal for Originality and Creativity…or—a new category—Gumption.
‘Be afraid. Be very afraid.’
Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why He Believes FBI Is ‘Afraid’ Of Trump’s Return
Enslaved by Devices, 1920s Version:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72830.html
Naked ambition (Socialist Goofballs of the World, UNITE!! edition…)?
“UK-US ‘Special Relationship’ Under Threat Due To Musk’s “Incendiary” Rhetoric On Grooming Gangs; BBC Claims”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-us-special-relationship-under-threat-due-musks-incendiary-rhetoric-grooming-gangs
Gosh! Them’s fightin’ words!!…
…straight from the mouth of the
clownshmuck that sent political operatives over to Britain’s former colony to try to salvage Kamala Harris’s arse in the last election!!(AKA “British Invasion”, Part 4??)
25 degrees and about 4 inches of snow, so far. So, it will be my 50 plus years old All Weather Jacket, knit cap, scarf, gloves, winter boots, when I go out to snow blow the snow.
Have been building my own desktop PCs for years…before 2006. Using a favorite older case (hard to find new cases I like) and it’s Kingwin KF-251-BK Dual-Bay Internal Tray-less Rack for 2.5” SATA HDD or SSD – I built a new “UFO” PC for Total = $1674.68 in June of 2023.
A computer with those specs would’ve cost a lot more – I priced out a new one with most of those specs back then, but don’t recall how much over $2000 it was.
Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits
Doubtful I could even find the parts for something like that – Ditto on the Doubtful—that I could build it for less than $3000 even if the parts could be found.
NOTE that it can be “run from a standard power outlet” – so tales of “power-hungry systems” may be true on some AI systems, but not all as time moves on…
Looks like a respectable system.
Given the modest GPU I’m guessing you’re not a big gamer. For a serious gamer, pretty much everyone agrees that AMD’s X3Ds are the best. The 8 core 16 Thread Ryzen 7 9800X3D is out now at $479 (although they’re currently out of stock pretty much everywhere until February). And they’ve just announced the 12 and 16 core varieties, although it remains to be seen if they’re actually better than the 8 core one since MOARCORES!1! doesn’t always equate to better performance in most games.
https://www.madisonmediafund.org/eastman-dilemma/
Documentary on John Eastman and the lawfare visited upon him. (1:04:43)
Nonapod
Yeah, not a gamer at all, beyond Windows 7 Chess Titans (chess, hearts, and solitaire & lots of pinochle when in prison). Can’t stand AMD products – nothing but trouble from my experience. Am sure they are good for somethings, but all my builds with AMD were terrible at Desktop Duty. Over rated, over promoted, and under performing, IMHO – and according to UserBenchmark.
UserBenchmark is a favorite of many gamers, and they have the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ #17 in their “Fastest average effective speed CPU” category—my old i9-13900K is @ #8. In the “Best user rated CPU” category the old i9-13900K is at #2, and nearest AMD is a Ryzen 5 3600 @ #5.
UserBenchmark rates for Gaming, Desktop and Workstation. Had my eyes on the old NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU when it first came out, but before I could save the money up for one all GPU’s went through the roof in price. I bought this one when the price finally fell again – a rare GPU performer that has a #4 rating in the “Best user rated GPU” category, a #8 rating in the “Best value for the Money GPU” category, but is waaaaay down @ #37 in the “Fastest average effective speed GPU” category. Will move to a faster one on my next build…even tho I have no need for more speed—just overkill mentality; however, am considering going for “Best value for money” category in the CPU & GPU on next build—if the savings can overcome my overkill tendencies…
Perusing the news this morning. The usual sites. I have to say, I massively underestimated how much fun it was going to be to watch the western world go batshit crazy after Trump’s election.
This truly was a worldwide election.
https://pjmedia.com/daniel-mccarthy/2025/01/07/donald-trumps-worldwide-election-n4935734
Charlie Hebdo attack was 10 years ago today.
Karmi: Well, all I can say is that I’ve sucessfully built and run many, many AMDs for myself and others years and never had an issue related directly to them, and I’ve known a ton of people who have had the same experience. In fact I’m typing this comment on one now. As to their performance, they generally perform much better in multithreaded tasks than their Intel equivalents while Intel usually outperforms them in single threaded tasks. But given that most of the stuff I do for my work is heavily multithreaded (not to mention gaming) I’m willing to take a small IPC hit for the few single threaded use cases I face.
I found out about Trump’s press conference at the one hour mark and he kept going on for a while. Interesting that he is changing the name of the gulf to “Gulf of America.”
Oklahoma has a Canadian River, both a north and a south branch. However, after a couple MAPS projects renovating the river and the area, the river was renamed Oklahoma River as it goes through OKC. And, the area will probably be used for the 2028 Olympics for riversports as well as the Devon Park for women’s softball.
https://www.okc.gov/government/maps-3/maps-history/original-maps/oklahoma-river
Meta/Facebook is getting rid of fact checking and going towards a community notes system.
Things are looking better so far this year.
Thanks for the FIB link, Karmi. The Fascist Insurrection Bureau is a very bad, terrible, no-good organization.
Also saw from that link that Trump proposed changing the Gulf Of Mexico’s name to the “Gulf Of America.” 🙂 Personally, I would keep the historic name, and save the taxpayer spending that changing it would entail.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/07/trump-gulf-of-mexico-america/
That reminds me that the Mexican War has been renamed the Mexican-American War, I presume from PC, anti-American motives. But the Mexican War is still in the dictionary:
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Mexican+War
Make The Gulf Great Again or The Great American Gulf or American Gulfness?
Not A Sh*thole Puddle
Will Mexico retaliate by renaming The Gulf of California?
If META follows through and eliminates the censorship, this is a big win for free speech and therefore for Western civilization. Elon Musk opened the door. If more walk through it, we may survive.
What we need next is an end to the advertising block against conservative media.
“When Did We Stop Being Naked?”
Who says I’m not?
Kate bring up an interesting point – ‘What we need next is an end to the advertising block against conservative media.’
I agreed when reading that – as well as agreeing that ‘Elon Musk opened the door.’
However, when I agree on something – many times I run it thru a search engine just to double-check my agreeing. AI’s are a great search engine, IMHO, and improving every day.
Most know the story of Elon stealing Twitter from the Progressives—and their MSM ‘n FBI puppets. Then how the Progressives pretty much warned any advertiser still with Elon’s new Twitter (soon to become X) and also warning any potentially new advertisers.
Now, during my AI search engine search, Grok 2 – is there an advertising block against conservative media:
Conservatives certainly don’t want to force advertiser to advertise on X – Rush Limbaugh would ‘roll over in his grave’ at such a thought. Bud Light has proven that Conservatives can be a force when they want to. Probably best to just let it play out…?
Meanwhile:
Grok 2 – how is X doing with advertisers now?
Still up ‘n down with big corporations; however, X seems to be becoming a huge success as a news source in the new growing process…
Might be going over my limit with this one…?
Clickbait mogul’s ascension to Congress said to be ‘harbinger’ of GOP’s future
New Conservative slipping past me!?
Here’s his site:
DC Enquirer
David Foster:
I Watched it All on My Radio! That’s the song I thought of before I clicked on the link! Loved that song. That was me, listening to the radio in bed, in a bygone millennium.
From a press release on a lawsuit by the New Civil Liberties Alliance:
Link from here: https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/06/ncla-daily-wire-federalist-state-department-lawsuit-censorship/
Conservative sites like the Townhall family of sites frequently say that posts the powers that be consider “controversial” will be demonetized. The same thing happens on YouTube and other video sites.
om, I’ve been thinking for a while about whether it would be good for the various microstates of the Caribbean to unify in a manner which I suppose would be something like Indonesia, in the sense of a multi-multi-island republic. (Or the Philippines?) Bigger is of course not necessarily better and the siren call of centralization of the government of all of those islands down south would probably have downsides of which I’m completely ignorant. Still, I keep asking myself what is the point of Aruba, for example, being an independent state.
In the meantime, though, it seems evident that Canada should be annexed.
Bof…I think there really are psychological & social effects of each new medium, whether writing, printing, radio, tv, or Internet….some good, some bad. A lot of people lately have been talking about the malign effects of the Internet in general and of social media in particular. But would we really be better off if the Internet had never come into existence and the mass media still ruled unchallenged?
Gulf of…WTH cares???
Trump is getting seriously sidetracked.
Ms. Summerall’s gonna have to reign that alpha husky in!!!!!!
File under: No elk meat fer you tonight!
Hey, found someone else whom Decent Joe might wanna pardon…(or maybe give a Presidential Medal for Originality and Creativity…or—a new category—Gumption.
“New Orleans stuntwoman-turned-lawyer busted in staged car crash, fraudulent lawsuit scheme…”—
https://nypost.com/2025/01/07/us-news/lawyer-vanessa-motta-allegedly-had-role-in-staged-crash-scheme-feds/
Well, he has 12 days left to think about it…while he trashes whatever’s left to trash…in grand Democratic Party tradition…
We do not want Canada!
They are a bunch of weenies.
That year, Gill launched a hyperpartisan conservative news blog called DC Enquirer…
He needs to lose the ALL CAPS on his website.