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My Beloved Readers, I'm sure you would agree that it's been another wildly unexpected crazy week here on the Third Stone. The crazy train continues to barrel down the tracks with no sign of slowing in coming days, with another possible 'October Surprise' coming just anytime to create more bedlam and insanity, major proliferation of lies, insults, misrepresentations, kicking and spitting, and media meltdowns. So Your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, against her own best judgement, turns things over to you.

Regular ground rules apply.

 .....and if you're so inclined, say a prayer of protection and comfort for those in Florida and the affected East Coast.

Your Government Wants You to Know Your Sacrifices Are Making a Difference

We here at the Department of Energy wanted to thank you for being conscientious about your energy usage this summer. Your efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. As a token of our gratitude, we wanted to highlight all the small but powerful steps you’ve taken to conserve energy over the past few months—and how that energy has instead been used to fuel the insatiable beast that is AI.

• By turning off your lights all day every day for a month, you conserved about 1 percent of the energy needed for AI to generate a picture of a duck wearing sunglasses. Isn’t he cute? Aside from the fact that he has the feet of a human man, of course. 
• By hand washing your dishes instead of using your dishwasher, you made it possible for an elaborate, four-story digital billboard in Times Square to advertise a seven-dollar bottle of water for twelve seconds. The display runs 24-7, naturally, but you personally contributed twelve seconds of that. You are making a difference! 
• By not showering for two whole weeks, you enabled an AI Facebook bot to create and post several images of Jesus eating breakfast at a Denny’s, which ultimately convinced 837,000 people that Christ had returned to Earth. Did you notice his legs are two dolphin tails? You’re the only one who did. 
• An AI-generated bot account was able to comment “TITS IN BIO” on 2.1 million Instagram posts, all thanks to you switching from AC to a big box fan that just kind of pushes the stale, hot air in your apartment around. We’re building a better world—together.
• By switching all the lightbulbs in your house to LED, you saved enough energy for a self-driving car to make an unprotected left-hand turn across three lanes of traffic.
• With the energy you conserved by scrapping your refrigerator entirely, a bored twenty-something was able to use an AI Tik Tok filter to see what they would’ve looked like in the 1970s. Spoiler alert: it’s exactly the same but in ’70s clothes.
• By dropping $7K on better, energy-efficient insulation for your home, Google AI was able to tell someone how to prepare chicken incorrectly, and they got, like, super sick—thanks to you!
• Hang-drying your clothes instead of using your dryer provided enough energy for one AI bot to get really good at online chess.
• Waking up at 4 a.m. to do your laundry conserved a ton of energy—energy that was used by ChatGPT to help a seventh grader plagiarize his entire essay on George Orwell’s 1984. Who needs to read a book on technology, totalitarianism, and propaganda, anyway?
• By unplugging all of your appliances, you freed up the exact amount of energy needed to create an AI-generated video of Adele’s “Hello” being sung by Plankton from Spongebob Squarepants.  

We know you adopted energy-saving practices to help conserve our planet’s resources and bring down our collective carbon footprint, but what you ultimately accomplished is just as important: helping AI do something menial and stupid. We hope seeing how much energy AI needlessly and uninhibitedly consumes inspires you to continue implementing practices that make your life incrementally more difficult during the hottest months of the year. We need you.

 

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A Good Monday Morning

Sunday Soothingness

Says Kunstler

Well, everybody and his uncle has heard by now that FEMA (and many other agencies under Mayorkas’s DHS) commits tons of money to pamper the millions of mutts from foreign lands sneaking over the US border, with lots of assistance from NGO cut-outs funded by your tax dollars, who marshal groups of aliens south-of-the-border for the crossing, and then fly or bus them around our country for the special purpose of distributing them in swing voting districts to then coordinate with other NGOs devoted to registering non-citizens to vote in order to “harvest” their ballots. Quite an operation. Completely lawless and corrupt. And official!

So, no aid for you, baskets of deplorables, shivering in the dark in your hills and hollows of Appalachia, your houses splintered, scant chattels lost, and your beloved hound-dogs carried away in the roaring torrents. The money that might have helped you begin to recover from the complete devastation of your lives is paying for Guatemalans to bunk in the Roosevelt Hotel and order-in quesadillas and churros, and refill their government-issued debit cards so they can afford a few nice things as they wait for mysterious others to cast ballots in their names.

This is the work of your Democratic Party, the party of chaos, party of the Woke mentally ill, party of wrecking the country, of America’s end times. And you’re going to vote for more of it?

One surprising October surprise is advanced by whistleblower Mike McCormick on Substack (Midnight in the Laptop of Good and Evil). Mr. McCormick was White House stenographer under Presidents Bush II, Obama, and Trump. His job was to transcribe meetings, speeches, and interactions between major political figures. He was the proverbial fly-on-the-wall for years and years. He has seen and heard a lot and still hears a lot from people who know a lot. He says the Obama-Biden-Harris faction of the Deep State blob is anti-Israel and that Israel understands what this means. He says that Benjamin Netanyahu has told “Joe Biden” (or, let’s say, told errand-boys Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan) that if the blob engineers a phony victory for Kamala Harris, he will blow up the oil fields in Iran and the anti-Israel Democrats will have to pick up the pieces.

There it is, raw power politics, like so much meat on the table. “Joe Biden” cannot control Bibi. “Joe Biden” is too far gone and two weak, and Israel does not aim to let itself get wiped off the map, as Iran’s leadership never tires of saying. The blob, McCormick says, has to ask itself: does it help rig the election for Harris or stand down on all its ballot harvesting and other trickery and actually allow a real election to roll out? Surprise! - James Howard Kunstler  

<jameshowardkunstler@substack.com>

George Carlin’s Irreverence Mixed with Ricky Gervais' Fearless Humor.

The woke movement has been and remains a blight on society. They perpetuate lies, corrupt historical facts, and excel at applying labels to anyone that dares raise their voice against them. Shrouded in self-righteous rage and coddled in a cloak made from their participation ribbons, they sow chaos, destroy culture, and are a plague on humanity.

And those are their positive traits.

Against this backdrop,  AJ Rice has written The White Privilege Album, a collection of cleverly interwoven stories, each short, punchy and biting. Much like his first book, The Woking Dead, he goes to the root causes and arguments of the leftist woke movement and dismantles them individually with cunning prose. Each section is short, with little in the way of fluff. He takes on a broad array of subjects ranging from sports, to history, to the realities of movements such as BLM and ANTIFA. Serving up these topics in short segments propels you through the pages at a fast pace.

I love the way Rice uses words the way a pirate wields a cutlass, slashing and brutally cutting into the woke, their methods, and most importantly, the lies they tell themselves and the rest of society. He doesn’t mince words, but uses them to dismantle this twisted cultural phenomena. This is a stunningly well-researched book, backed with the appropriate footnotes and the narrative presents the information in a logical yet hilarious format.  

The topics cover the full spectrum of society. From Madison’s Montpelier becoming a race reeducation camp to how critical race theory is, in itself racist. It's funny the way that Greg Guttfeld’s show on Fox News makes you laugh; by being witty, bold, and painfully accurate.

This is the kind of book that you slip under a liberal's door, fully knowing that it will give them a brain aneurysm once they read it. Rice understands his conservative audience and gives them less of what they want, and more of what they need. He’s unabashed and devoid of any fear of offending the criminal left, which only adds to the enjoyment factor of the book.  I highly recommend it.

 

Tugs McWilson is Middle Finger News Senior Book Review Editor. Tugs is a father of 9 (that he knows of) and holds a degree in recycling from the California School of Sanitation. A retired manager of Minute Oil Change, Tugs is an avid reader, or at least that's what we've been told.

Your Official Early Midweek Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Big Ass Open Thread!

Your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, knows y'all done got more smarter than last time we got together and knows you're anxious to share with us all.  And Your Blog Editrix knows the score. Do You? Therefore, despite every fiber of her being yells NO! - she now reluctantly turns things over again to you.

Regular House Rules apply. Penalties will be administered with extreme prejudice.  Therefore and forthwith, the floor is now open. 

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