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Open thread 6/23/2026 — 14 Comments

  1. Ha! When I saw the title for the vid, I thought… Uh oh!

    Aside from the tech involved in making it, and it’s intent… It’s rather strange. The first thing is that it would seem that the controlling intelligence, AI??, doesn’t have any idea how a record player works.

    Then there are the choices made. 8-track tapes. I’ve never owned one in any form, but I’ve seen them in cars, way back when. I did know that some people had them in home player formats, but I’d never seen one.

    Led Zep II and some notepad with Whole Lotta Love. What is that on the notepad? Tic tac toe? Or some kind of lyric crossword?

    I didn’t quite realize how much the film Inception had made a cultural impression, until just recently.

    And of course, music cassettes are obvious. Interesting tech history there. Philips corp. invented the compact cassette for voice and possibly low grade monaural music recordings. But, Henry Kloss, of AR, KLH & Advent fame; converted it to a Hi-Fi stereo recording format when he created the first music cassette deck.

  2. The teen in the video did not age one bit from 1950 to the present.
    Simply extraordinary !
    This is just further proof that aliens, not of this earth , exist.

    Would be best if the video is removed from social media immediately to prevent panic and rioting that is sure to develop amongst ordinary earthlings.
    After all, is this not one of the reasons why the US govt. refuses to release any real info (aside from indecipherable cloudy images of who knows what) they have on not-of-this-earth creatures??

  3. He sat there and did what he did under his own volition. May seem harsh and unreasonable, but it is true.

  4. Highly influential music executive Clive Davis died yesterday. Among many other artistes he signed,

    Davis is credited with having hired a young recording artist, Tony Orlando, as a music executive for Columbia in 1967 who provided Barry Manilow with his first recording contract a few years later.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Davis

  5. Hair?? Wouldn’t the kid have had a crew cut early and something much longer like a center part feather cut later on?

  6. the Nintendo entertainment system wasn’t really available in the us until the end of 1986…and it took a while to get popular after the video game crash earlier in the 80s. I would guess the AI saw that super Mario was released (in Japan) in 1985 and assumed American kids were all playing Nintendo in 1985, when that wasn’t the case

  7. I assume everyone’s seen this?

    https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2069490267749515348

    A group of Antifa terrorists were just SENTENCED to HUNDREDS OF YEARS in prison after a violent attack on the ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas

    FAFO, LOCK THEM UP! I voted for the law and order! ?

    The group’s RINGLEADER, Benjamin Song, got 100 years.

    The others got as many as 70 years and 50 years.

  8. The Internet and X.com and YouTube have been ablaze with foreign reaction to American culture lately, brought here for FIFA’s World Cup matches.

    Here’s verbal habit evidence of American Exceptionalism, an Aussie now living in Tennessee, explaining to the viewer “Why Americans Talk to Complete Strangers?” 11m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLK8ddkXRw

    You can profit by staying to end because his understanding is quite complete in explaining Aussie and other mostly Europeans how this openings and effort at social inclusion is so definingly native to the American experience.

    But I could not listen to much of it without immediately recalling Alexis d Toqueville’s observations from the 1830s. Specifically, him telling us that people here re proud of being a people who “rule here” — not Monarch’s or any other alien authority.

    Americans engage stranger talk also to keep the socio-political fabric alive — not just to be welcoming and open. Strangers give us a chance to measure the temperature of the room. Neighbor’s or not.

    Thus, this verbal American Exceptionalism is a deep expression of how this oldest representative democracy continues for 250 years.

    This novel observation is even a huge difference between us and the world. The comparative experience surely defined my first travels abroad. It’s also a vital secret between ourselves worth close remembering. And keeping on hand.

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