The AI reconstructions are a distraction. With a period photograph, it would be challenging enough.
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What’s disconcerting about Hackman is that the photographs taken of him in 2023 look nothing like what he looked like 15 years earlier. We have a 95 year old in our family; she’s lost a great deal of mobility over the last 14 years, but she’s still recognizable. We had an Alzheimer’s case; his grooming suffered and (near the end) he was losing control of his limbs. He still looked like himself. My grandmother at age 90 didn’t look much different than she had at 75; she just had trouble walking.
[Senator Rick Scott’s] Stopping Adversarial Foreign Exploitation of Kids in Domestic Surrogacy (SAFE KIDS) Act would create criminal penalties for third parties who facilitate surrogate contracts with people from foreign countries of concern.
The legislation cites a report from The Wall Street Journal out of Arcadia, California, that uncovered a Chinese couple contracting with multiple American women to be surrogates for their children.
When authorities showed up at the residence, they found more than 15 3-year-old children with shaved heads being cared for by nannies.
‘ Sam Altman (WTFIH?) is on a waiting list to have his brain digitized a process that would kill him, so that his “consciousness” would love forever in the “cloud.” ‘
Sammy must think very highly of his own consciousness and also trust very much in the reliability of all known modern storage media.
How would it “feel” to be on the next scheduled scrub of stored records because no one in the future ever looked at it?
Thinking of “Hal’s” last conversation with “Dave” in the film 2001.
Old Timey Vanished Diner Foods–
For all of you old timers, me included, here is a nostalgic YouTube video about 12 vanished diner foods, many of which grew out of the Depression and WWII.*
Turns out a lot of the dishes I grew up on—creamed chipped beef on toast, chicken croquettes, tongue sandwiches (I remember my mother peeling and cooking huge cow’s tongues–boy was that thin sliced meat tender)–and liked are included among these 12.
I never thought about it, but the reason a lot of them vanished was that they required a lot of time –and some expertise—to make, and diners took them off their menus when they had to compete with the new fast food joints.
“Expertise,” now that’s something that’s really and very evidently in short supply these days, and in any number of areas.
P.S. Looking back to my early childhood in Philadelphia, right after the end of WWII, we must have been pretty poor, because I can remember a lot of breakfasts of black coffee, corn meal mush with syrup, or of scrapple–which is just like it sounds, the less desirable, left over scraps of the pig–tails, snouts, ears, etc.
Incidentally, I actually had fond memories of these two and, a couple of years ago, I happened upon some Philadelphia scrapple in a local supermarket, and when I tried it, it wasn’t anywhere near as good as I had remembered it to be and, one look at the label and what it contained, and in the trash it went.
OPTIMISTIC News about Ukraine.
This video quickly gives us a report on a battlefield game changer that utterly defeats Putin’s Shahed drone attacks.
A Japanese – Ukraine partnership, Terra Drone and Amazing Drones in Ukraine, have created a cheap, versatile, and effective counter-attack drone.
It is stealthy. Virtually the only detection must be visual. It can loiter for hours. And it can travel fast, nearly 200 miles per hour. It can be field launched and controlled. And all for around a miserly $2000!
EFFECTIVENESS? Pravda on March 3 announced that 70% of Russian drones were taken out by Ukraine launched interceptor drone during February!
@ TJr (are you related to TJ?) – there have been a lot of warfighting tactics & improved munitions innovations coming out of the Ukraine-Russia war.
Are the Ukrainians really that good, or are they getting help?
In interviews, George Conway laments how he gave the Biden campaign one million dollars — instead of benefiting his children.
Let the Schadenfreude begin!
Dagnabbit_42 at Instapundit helpfully analyses this as extreme TDS that too many sensitive folks are prone to feel:
It’s important to understand: TDS at this level comes from magical thinking. This guy believes that words are like magical spells: The tone and the choice of words bends reality.
I don’t mean that he consciously professes this; I mean that his instincts cause him to interpret reality this way at a gut level.
He thinks that if Trump says something in a way that reminds him of Hitler, it means that reality is bending towards Nazification.
He thinks that if Obama speaks in a way that reminds him of a college professor teaching in a mild-mannered way, it means that reality is becoming more reasonable.
It is the tone-of-voice, the vibe, that he instinctively treats as the most-reliable data for interpreting the world around him.
Many Leftists are that way. The hardcore leaders are not: They are themselves consciously and coldly authoritarian revolutionaries. But their left-liberal dupes are often musicians, painters, and the like. The wiring which makes them creative also inclines them to process data about the world through a lens of “vibe.”
George Conway is one of those dupes. Trump has made the world vastly more orderly and peaceful, by using his communicative tone to create chaos among bad actors, and to push the Overton Window towards normalizing helpful policies.
So, perceiving the communication style but not the substance, Conway naturally thinks of Trump as an agent of chaos. People paying attention to the real-world results recognize him as an agent of peace and prosperity, setting up the U.S. for dominant superpower status for the rest of the century. https://instapundit.com/788738/#disqus_thread
Conway is projecting, of course, as do most if not all of his pals.
“Agent of chaos”?
I like it.
…describing, as it does, Conway and the Democratic Party to a “T”.
Trump’s so-called “chaos” is a supreme effort to upend the chaos so carefully planned and—almost perfectly executed—by the Democrats.
Chaos (AKA “transformation”) disguised as “policy”.
Chaos disguised as “humanity”.
Chaos disguised as “patriotism”.
So of course they’re upset.
(It’s TANTRUMS ‘R US 24/7.)
Yep. “T” is for tantrums. A whole policy of choreographed hysteria the result of which is perpetual crisis…leading to destruction at the personal, social, political and national level.
Thus it’s not only artificially performative; it’s deeply ideological…
(How does one “tell the dancer from the dance?”)
In fact the hysteria, the seething hatred has all “positively” conditioned—thank you Media and Social Media—while Truth has been obliterated, an ESSENTIAL feature of the Democratic Party/WEF PROJECT.
Another stomach churning professional / faculty member for your inspection. She is Christine Bentley-Wang of McMaster University, who informs us that it is a ‘violation of the human rights of children’ to punish the convicted criminals who bore / sired them by sending said convicts to prison.
== https://pediatrics.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/clinical/divisions/palliative-medicine/
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The AI reconstructions are a distraction. With a period photograph, it would be challenging enough.
==
What’s disconcerting about Hackman is that the photographs taken of him in 2023 look nothing like what he looked like 15 years earlier. We have a 95 year old in our family; she’s lost a great deal of mobility over the last 14 years, but she’s still recognizable. We had an Alzheimer’s case; his grooming suffered and (near the end) he was losing control of his limbs. He still looked like himself. My grandmother at age 90 didn’t look much different than she had at 75; she just had trouble walking.
Israel Update where Mike and Gadi discuss “A Messy Victory” (1:07:51): https://youtu.be/kpyhwmm7qrY
sdferr:
Thanks for the link! It was very good and informative. I added it to my bookmark list on the phone (second to neo).
Will the real Schumer PLEASE stand up!!
(Actually Chuck, don’t bother…)
Here’s a find:
“Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Want You to See This Video About Iran.”—
https://instapundit.com/788706/
+ (sicker than sick) Bonus…
“Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.”—
https://instapundit.com/788698/
Aaand he’s back!
(And crazee as ever…)
“Michael Moore torches US as ‘bad guys,’ hails Iran as ‘greatest civilization’ in deranged rant”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2026/04/09/michael-moore-torches-us-as-bad-guys-hails-iran-as-greatest-civilization-in-deranged-rant/
China is weaponizing birthright citizenship.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/9/seen-heard-whispered-todd-blanche-rises-dhs-fears-noem-related-purge/
‘ Sam Altman (WTFIH?) is on a waiting list to have his brain digitized a process that would kill him, so that his “consciousness” would love forever in the “cloud.” ‘
H/T Instapundit
https://x.com/RyanAFournier/status/2042245920520040942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2042245920520040942%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F788704%2F
Sammy must think very highly of his own consciousness and also trust very much in the reliability of all known modern storage media.
How would it “feel” to be on the next scheduled scrub of stored records because no one in the future ever looked at it?
Thinking of “Hal’s” last conversation with “Dave” in the film 2001.
Old Timey Vanished Diner Foods–
For all of you old timers, me included, here is a nostalgic YouTube video about 12 vanished diner foods, many of which grew out of the Depression and WWII.*
Turns out a lot of the dishes I grew up on—creamed chipped beef on toast, chicken croquettes, tongue sandwiches (I remember my mother peeling and cooking huge cow’s tongues–boy was that thin sliced meat tender)–and liked are included among these 12.
I never thought about it, but the reason a lot of them vanished was that they required a lot of time –and some expertise—to make, and diners took them off their menus when they had to compete with the new fast food joints.
“Expertise,” now that’s something that’s really and very evidently in short supply these days, and in any number of areas.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7teAfB8soM
P.S. Looking back to my early childhood in Philadelphia, right after the end of WWII, we must have been pretty poor, because I can remember a lot of breakfasts of black coffee, corn meal mush with syrup, or of scrapple–which is just like it sounds, the less desirable, left over scraps of the pig–tails, snouts, ears, etc.
Incidentally, I actually had fond memories of these two and, a couple of years ago, I happened upon some Philadelphia scrapple in a local supermarket, and when I tried it, it wasn’t anywhere near as good as I had remembered it to be and, one look at the label and what it contained, and in the trash it went.
OPTIMISTIC News about Ukraine.
This video quickly gives us a report on a battlefield game changer that utterly defeats Putin’s Shahed drone attacks.
A Japanese – Ukraine partnership, Terra Drone and Amazing Drones in Ukraine, have created a cheap, versatile, and effective counter-attack drone.
It is stealthy. Virtually the only detection must be visual. It can loiter for hours. And it can travel fast, nearly 200 miles per hour. It can be field launched and controlled. And all for around a miserly $2000!
Terra A1 may be the miracle worker that gets Putin needing peace. One hopes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvzmazMemvk
EFFECTIVENESS? Pravda on March 3 announced that 70% of Russian drones were taken out by Ukraine launched interceptor drone during February!
@ TJr (are you related to TJ?) – there have been a lot of warfighting tactics & improved munitions innovations coming out of the Ukraine-Russia war.
Are the Ukrainians really that good, or are they getting help?
In interviews, George Conway laments how he gave the Biden campaign one million dollars — instead of benefiting his children.
Let the Schadenfreude begin!
Dagnabbit_42 at Instapundit helpfully analyses this as extreme TDS that too many sensitive folks are prone to feel:
It’s important to understand: TDS at this level comes from magical thinking. This guy believes that words are like magical spells: The tone and the choice of words bends reality.
I don’t mean that he consciously professes this; I mean that his instincts cause him to interpret reality this way at a gut level.
He thinks that if Trump says something in a way that reminds him of Hitler, it means that reality is bending towards Nazification.
He thinks that if Obama speaks in a way that reminds him of a college professor teaching in a mild-mannered way, it means that reality is becoming more reasonable.
It is the tone-of-voice, the vibe, that he instinctively treats as the most-reliable data for interpreting the world around him.
Many Leftists are that way. The hardcore leaders are not: They are themselves consciously and coldly authoritarian revolutionaries. But their left-liberal dupes are often musicians, painters, and the like. The wiring which makes them creative also inclines them to process data about the world through a lens of “vibe.”
George Conway is one of those dupes. Trump has made the world vastly more orderly and peaceful, by using his communicative tone to create chaos among bad actors, and to push the Overton Window towards normalizing helpful policies.
So, perceiving the communication style but not the substance, Conway naturally thinks of Trump as an agent of chaos. People paying attention to the real-world results recognize him as an agent of peace and prosperity, setting up the U.S. for dominant superpower status for the rest of the century.
https://instapundit.com/788738/#disqus_thread
Conway is projecting, of course, as do most if not all of his pals.
“Agent of chaos”?
I like it.
…describing, as it does, Conway and the Democratic Party to a “T”.
Trump’s so-called “chaos” is a supreme effort to upend the chaos so carefully planned and—almost perfectly executed—by the Democrats.
Chaos (AKA “transformation”) disguised as “policy”.
Chaos disguised as “humanity”.
Chaos disguised as “patriotism”.
So of course they’re upset.
(It’s TANTRUMS ‘R US 24/7.)
Yep. “T” is for tantrums. A whole policy of choreographed hysteria the result of which is perpetual crisis…leading to destruction at the personal, social, political and national level.
Thus it’s not only artificially performative; it’s deeply ideological…
(How does one “tell the dancer from the dance?”)
In fact the hysteria, the seething hatred has all “positively” conditioned—thank you Media and Social Media—while Truth has been obliterated, an ESSENTIAL feature of the Democratic Party/WEF PROJECT.
Another stomach churning professional / faculty member for your inspection. She is Christine Bentley-Wang of McMaster University, who informs us that it is a ‘violation of the human rights of children’ to punish the convicted criminals who bore / sired them by sending said convicts to prison.
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https://pediatrics.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/clinical/divisions/palliative-medicine/
==
https://x.com/MichaelARothman/status/2042214533855637945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2042214533855637945%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F788856%2F
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I suspect the reality is that the criminal ‘justice’ machine in North Carolina is constitutionally stupid and Gov. Cooper cannot be bothered to do anything about it because it’s just not an issue about which he cares. In any case, doing something about it offends occupational guilds who like the stupidity and volunteer on Democratic campaigns. (You’ll recall that Michael Dukakis to the extent he gave any thought to such matters favored replacing punishment with social work even in egregious cases).