Althouse: Sunrise — 6:41, 7:00, 7:04, 7:16.

October 6, 2025

Sunrise — 6:41, 7:00, 7:04, 7:16.

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93 comments:

Iman said...: Beautiful photos!

UNACCEPTABLE!
some of these corksoaker Dems
gotta do some time

https://instapundit.com/749107/; 10/6/25, 7:37 PM
Beasts of England said...: Love the top photo!; 10/6/25, 7:52 PM
Jamie said...: I get to the evening and find that my patience with the still-constant discomfort of my knee is non-existent. So I'm watching dumb movies that usually make me laugh. Tonight's offering: the first Austin Powers movies.

My husband is keeping me supplied with chocolate.

All is going well, but I hate being so slow-moving and feeling that the most normal activities require so much effort! Sigh.; 10/6/25, 7:52 PM
Political Junkie said...: I have never been a fan of Sean "Puffy" Combs. 55 year old traditional white male is not his target market.
But....did he get a bum wrap? I think what he did was gross, but in a world where so much has been legalized/normalized, should he go to jail for his actions?
I am 50/50.; 10/6/25, 7:55 PM
Political Junkie said...: I vote for photo #2. Glorious yet missing sun.; 10/6/25, 7:56 PM
Narr said...: All amazing, but #4 is my fave of the lot.

Some of you will get a supermoon, but it's rainy here. It was pretty impressive last night, soon after rising.; 10/6/25, 8:11 PM
Clyde said...: Daily Caller article: France's New Government Collapses in Just 14 Hours

Clyde's comment: Still lasted longer than the Maginot Line!

24 likes so far.; 10/6/25, 8:13 PM
FullMoon said...: jeeze, all we get here is blue sky, boring white clouds. Gray sometimes, fun fog rarely, winter rain, seldom thunder and lightning.; 10/6/25, 8:23 PM
FullMoon said...: jeeze, all we get here is blue sky, boring white clouds. Gray sometimes, fun fog rarely, winter rain, seldom thunder and lightning.; 10/6/25, 8:23 PM
FullMoon said...: Now that I think about it, our sky was acceptable until being exposed to this photography.; 10/6/25, 8:24 PM
Rocco said...: I’m with Beasts: #1 is #1.; 10/6/25, 8:29 PM
BG said...: Iman said...

UNACCEPTABLE!
some of these corksoaker Dems
gotta do some time

https://instapundit.com/749107/
Ron Johnson is my senator. This pisses me off. He's probably pissed off also.; 10/6/25, 8:31 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: I knew it after her last race barely win after a short layoff.Was 1/9 in this weeks SPINSTER and had nothing afteer a 24 and change and 46 and change no excuses nothing crazy. Coming aound turn empty/ she has been amazing, one of Gods beautiful creatures. In the blush of Thorpedo Anna’s empty, fourth-place finish Sunday in the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes, trainer Kenny McPeek said retirement was an option for the reigning horse of the year.
“We’re going to make sure that she’s healthy and that she comes out of this race, and if it’s her last race, it’s her last race,” McPeek said in a selfie video he shot in Thorpedo Anna’s Keeneland barn stall. “If that’s the case, then we’re really proud of her, and we appreciate everybody’s support out there.”Over 4,5 million in earnings 12 out 15 races won(mae and female races) 7 GRADE 1 wins. I was fortunate to catch her in the OAKS AT 4-1 WITHA $50 WIN WAGER FOR A $250 CASHOUT. She was 1/9 in SPINSTER,unbettable. May she enjoy going to enjoy rest of life at a beautiful farm somewhere. Good luck Anna ,it was a jy watching you run ,beat the boys and thegirls and actually paying a good price early. They dont breed horses to run long and race a lot anymore as they did when I first start playing in 1964 .Its all about the stud and the breeding game ,the real $$$$

“We are going to contemplate next steps, and we’re not going to get in any hurry,” he said. “The notion that she’s going to go to California is probably the least of our worries right now.”

Thorpedo Anna has an automatic berth in the Distaff thanks to her win-and-you’re-in victories in the Fleur de Lis (G2) and the Personal Ensign (G1).

As his stable crew was in the background giving Thorpedo Anna a post-race once-over, McPeek said he could not use any health or fitness problem as an alibi for the 4-year-old filly’s disappointing loss as the 1-2 favorite to 18-1 long shot Gin Gin.

“For everybody out there that’s worried about her, you can rest at ease. She’s fine,” McPeek said. “We got her back here to the barn. There was a notion that maybe she came back with a little bit of a case of the thumps. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s maybe a little electrolyte imbalance. ... We’re probably going to do a little blood work. ... Physically there’s nothing major at this point. She scoped clean, which is great news.”

“She was very nice and relaxed before the race,” said Flavien Prat, who stepped in Sunday for injured jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. “I thought I was in a good spot going into the first turn. Even on the backside, I thought I was driving all right. When we got to the half-mile pole, that was it. I was in deep water.”

Thorpedo Anna is owned primarily by John Sikura’s Hill ’n’ Dale Equine Holdings, which bought 50% of her in August with the original intent to race her through next year. McPeek said Sunday the breeding timetable might be accelerated.

“The notion right now is that if this is going to happen, if she’s going to run a poor race where she falls off form, the best time for it to happen is this time of year,” McPeek said. “Then we can work with John Sikura and the Hill ’n’ Dale team to figure out who she’s bred to.”

McPeek’s wife Sherri, Mark Edwards and breeder Judy Hicks own the other 50% of Thorpedo Anna, who failed to hit the board Sunday for only the second time in a 16-race career that has yielded $5,440,913 in earnings.

Thorpedo Anna’s past performances are top-heavy with superlatives that climaxed in her winning two Eclipse Awards for 2024. Her seven Grade 1 wins came in the Kentucky Oaks, Acorn, Coaching Club American Oaks, Cotillion and Breeders’ Cup Distaff last year and the Apple Blossom and Personal Ensign this year.; 10/6/25, 8:36 PM
Scott Patton said...: In SW PA outside (and inside) of Pittsburgh, traffic laws and basic human decency on the road are a joke. People do get pulled over very occasionally. Mid to late Friday afternoon is lord of the flies. It's not surprising that two wheeled vehicles of various means of locomotion in a much larger city are any different.; 10/6/25, 8:37 PM
TeaBagHag said...: Puff Daddy will get full pardon and be named as the head of a special task force to investigate sex crimes.
-MAGA; 10/6/25, 8:49 PM
Scott Patton said...: "something somebody dreamt up and others went along with"
Is that new?
Reminds me of that certain type of dog that's always up for anything.
Although.. "something" and "others" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
I asked Grok if there's a word for the relationship between "something" and "others" in that sentence (with some elaboration):
Reply:
"contingent affiliation" or "contextual grouping"
"dependent set" or "relational grouping",
"conditional subset"; 10/6/25, 8:51 PM
Inga said...: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-talk-doj-about-maxwell-pardon-says-diddy-asked-one-2025-10-06/

“WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday left the door open to a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Maxwell's bid to overturn her conviction, Trump, when asked whether he would set Maxwell free himself through a pardon, said he would speak to the Department of Justice.

"I haven't heard the name in so long. I can say this, that I'd have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look," he said. "I will speak to the DOJ."”

Seriously, who believes anything Trump says anymore? He must think his followers are stupid or he’s depending on the loyalty of his cultists.; 10/6/25, 8:51 PM
LibertarianLeisure said...: David Bryne played in Boston this weekend. Still going strong in his 70's. Performed some Talking Heads' songs.; 10/6/25, 8:55 PM
Old and slow said...: When my mother had her knees replaced she asked me to come live with her for a few weeks to look after her and drive her around. At the time, I was still a very heavy meth user and a real waste of space. I went to Phoenix and drove her around in her Prius and cooked her dinner every night. We had a grand time together. I took her to little places around town for lunch every day and assorted scrapyards where I knew people. Then we'd shop for dinner and come home and I'd make dinner. She told me that she didn't mind me smoking around her because it reminded her of her father who smoked all her life. It was one of the best times I ever spent with her. She never really spoke to me in a meaningful way except for those days. You might chalk it up to the opioids she was taking for the pain, but I expect that was just a means of alleviating inhibitions. Life is difficult for everyone, and honest expression of feelings is damn near impossible for many people. Her parents were immigrants from Orkney and Lithuania, and they expressed nothing to her. We all try to do a bit better than our parents. In some ways we succeed, in other we fail.; 10/6/25, 8:55 PM
TeaBagHag said...: LOL, yes Inga, he thinks/ knows his followers are stupid. MAGAts are all hopped up on shit news and fascist fever dreams.; 10/6/25, 8:55 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Nice pics today.; 10/6/25, 8:56 PM
Iman said...: “The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.”

So the WaPoo takes a baby step in the direction of THE TRUTH. Also true is that for them, the NYT, the alphabet networks and many others, knowledge will only come with death’s release.; 10/6/25, 8:59 PM
TeaBagHag said...: Yes, Iman! That’s the answer; the way to make health care better is to take away the tax subsidies and make it less affordable.
- MAGAt Braintrust; 10/6/25, 9:02 PM
Canadian Bumblepuppy said...: Brewers vs Cubs game is fun for the neutral. 3-3 top of the 3rd.

Very nice photographs today, thank you!; 10/6/25, 9:05 PM
Iman said...: Haginga… just ask your Party of Douchebags not to continue murdering people they disagree with. You can at least do that.; 10/6/25, 9:07 PM
wildswan said...: Boost Bari!
There's been a lot of comment about the choice of Bari Weiss to head CBS News. I think she'll succeed because she's in touch with a lot of writers who can replace the people she fires. And in general so many conservatives have been excluded from newsrooms that she has a very large selection of people, even cameramen and so on, to choose from. She could have the only large mainstream entity which had a balanced staff. This, I think, would result in better coverage for 50% of the nation and that would lead to better ratings. Plus I'd be interested to watch to see what was going on - staff quitting on air and other fun. Again, a ratings boost. And I think conservatives should tune in a bit to help her.
Boost Bari!
She is a lefty who believes in free speech and she knows what can happen in a cancel culture newsroom. She quit over a conscience issue but she got $185 million for the news business she founded and now she's heading CBS News. She isn't just anybody.
Boost Bari!

If you want to get a clear picture of her watch the podcast she did with Jordan Peterson; 10/6/25, 9:24 PM
Old and slow said...: Chet Atkins really is one of the all time guitar greats. Him, Knopfler and Prince.; 10/6/25, 9:36 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: I missed the SNL thread, so I'll say it here. There is no "Old Comedy". There is no "Nostalgia comedy". There is only good comedy and bad comedy. The comedy of today SHOULD be funnier because it should be addressing things going on right now. If its not better than stuff from 50 years ago, its because it stinks.

I can watch Bob Hope, WC Fields, Groucho Marx stuff that's funnier then crap on 2024 SNL. That's not "Nostalgia". How can I be "Nostalgic" for comedy bits made before I was born?

People should not - not matter what their age - be going "wow, that old stuff was funnier". The current stuff SHOULD BE fresher and funnier. Again, if its not, its because it sucks.; 10/6/25, 9:59 PM
Iman said...: Been listening to some classic Marshall Tucker Band. I always appreciated the guitar of Toy Caldwell… especially that tone and the string bending he employed.; 10/6/25, 9:59 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: THe Entertainment Industry wants to have everyone think in terms of Generations and time. "Oh, Im a Gen Z, i should like this". "Oh, that old stuff, not my Generation, so yuk".

I think the Boomers were the first ones who got this propaganda. "Don't like that, that's old people stuff. This is what you - a young boomer - should like".

They do that to sell product. But there's only good and bad.; 10/6/25, 10:04 PM
Peachy said...: Inag and Magat-Hag - two pees in a toilet.; 10/6/25, 10:16 PM
Peachy said...: The Progressive Flight From Reality; 10/6/25, 10:25 PM
effinayright said...: I keep telling you, Althouse, to offer a calendar with your best photos---but I now see it would have to be a five-year calendar, because those "bests" keep piling up!! Bravo!; 10/6/25, 10:26 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, you are considerably to the left of me. Can you explain from where the left's war on Christians comes? Do they hate Christians because Christians are more generous when contributing to charities? Is it because Christians are more apt to volunteer for good causes? What gives?; 10/6/25, 10:29 PM
Big Mike said...: I really enjoy how Victor Davis Hansen has been characterizing the Democrats leading cities like LA, Portland, and Chicago (Chi-raq) as neo-Confederates. Like Southerners in the years leading up to the Civil War they seem to think that they can pick and choose which federal laws they wish to obey and which they can nullify by blocking enforcement. This point was settled in favor of the federal government 160 years ago at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, but there are people who ignore the lessons of history — at thee peril.; 10/6/25, 10:38 PM
Peachy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/6/25, 10:43 PM
Peachy said...: Andrew Sullivan on Kline and Coates
RTWT

a taste:
Sullivan: "This, of course, remains anathema to the woke. In their critical theory worldview, those who oppose them cannot be reasoned with — because reason itself is a form of oppression — but only opposed, canceled or demonized, because all opposition to wokeness is rooted in ineradicable “white supremacy”. Coates is still peak 2020:

Coates lies and says: "[Kirk] just slurred, across the board, all sorts of groups of people ... if you ask me what the truth of his life was — and the truth of his public life — I would have to tell you it’s hate."

Sullivan: " There were many things I disagreed with Kirk on, but the idea that the truth about the public life of this avowed Christian was “hate” only makes sense if you conflate the term “conservatism” with “hate”. Which Coates, of course, does. And he is lying. There are no “slurs” or slur words in Kirk’s beyond-voluminous record. None. Google it yourself. You think you wouldn’t know by now if he had? (Coates’ sole evidence is that Kirk said “tranny” twice in 752 pod episodes over six years, a word that was ubiquitous among gay men until ten minutes ago.) Against this false claim, Klein caved, refusing to defend himself on the substance of Kirk’s views and conduct."; 10/6/25, 10:45 PM
Peachy said...: BTW - Coates is a racist leftist heartless asshole.; 10/6/25, 10:46 PM
effinayright said...: Old and slow said...
Chet Atkins really is one of the all time guitar greats. Him, Knopfler and Prince.
***********
When I was in high school back in the Jurassic I really liked Atkins' finger-picking, and spent hours learning his stuff. I managed to figure out "Yankee Doodle Dixie" [both tunes played at the same time], but later heard he had an electronic assist from very early computerized accompaniment.

Dang!

But AI tells me that isn't true. The only tracks added were for drums and a piano, not the guitar.

Whew!

I still enjoyed seeing my friends react when I did the whole song by myself. Guitarists out there should try it themselves.

Much of Chet's recordings are now considered schmaltzy, but if you can see him on then-live TV, you'll agree he was exceptionally good. Glenn Campbell-level good.

He also promoted a whole lotta musicians, making "Nashville" a powerhouse generating music millions of Americans loved, and love to this day.; 10/6/25, 10:46 PM
Mark Nielsen said...: Old and Slow: If you haven't heard it before, you should check out the album Chet and Mark did together in 1990 ("Neck and Neck"). The third track ("There'll Be Some Changes Made") is pretty funny. I think this project was Knopfler showing his respect for Atkins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwTg409JuWI; 10/6/25, 10:48 PM
Old and slow said...: I saw Knopfler and Atkins perform together many years ago in Sun City Arizona. It was. a great show, and very peculiar. Lots of rockers and punks, and a whole lot of very old people, all enjoying both musicians.; 10/6/25, 11:12 PM
Old and slow said...: The surprising thing was that most of the punk rock looking people seemed to be there for Chet.; 10/6/25, 11:19 PM
Old and slow said...: Apple Blossom Time by Chet Atkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSldMTikzU4; 10/6/25, 11:33 PM
Iman said...: Coates is a racist clown whose 15 minutes expired a long, long time ago.; 10/6/25, 11:42 PM
TickTock1948 said...: Spectacular photos, all of them. In 2 & 3 I can imagine a sea of lava just beyond a spit of land. But just for the color alone they are wonderful. 1 and 4 have patches of light and dark, leavened with yellow that look more like an artists imagination than anything likely to occur in real life. Many hurrahs.; 10/6/25, 11:55 PM
Prof. M. Drout said...: Those of you who are not in academia right now have no idea how rapidly college education at every institution up to the near-Ivies is being converted into high school. And it's not some good high school, or even an average high school from the '70s or '80s, but a "Common-Core" fragmented, atomized, lowest-common-denominator high school from the 2010s.
The vector is "Classroom management software," which forces faculty to adopt "modules" and "sub-tasks," and "measurable learning goal X" and "measurable learning outcome Y" and all kinds of edu-speak gibberish instead of a normal syllabus.
You will not believe this, but the software forces professors to break down all the assignments into DAILY "units" of rigidly defined "work." Even though classes meet MWF or T Th, there has to be a fixed assignment EVERY day: so you can't say "read The Miller's Tale by class on Monday," but you MUST break that up into arbitrary segments and assign one every day. And then the program harasses the student until they click "started assignment" and then "completed assignment" every day, ostensibly so the professor can "keep track of student 'progress.'"
It's also almost impossible to use any kind of individualized grading system: if you try to grade assignments as +, -, or "check,", it converts these to numeric terms, so you end up having to deal with freaked-out students wanting to know why they got all those Cs on 1-page response essays that aren't worth "grading," only making sure that the student did them, and so giving + or - ratings to only a few egregious examples.
Students have started to arrive on campus EXPECTING to be micro-managed like this. They talk like brainwashing victims. I say "You can read the book at whatever pace you want as long as you've completed it by Thursday" and they've been trained to find that terrifying. IN COLLEGE.
All this fragmentation reduces everything to the absolute lowest common denominator. The whole system is set up to enable dumb people to teach other dumb people mostly trivial stuff by essentially reading scripts to them. If a professor who actually went along with this idiocy dropped dead, a new person could walk in the room, click on the "module" and "teach" the class without knowing anything about the subject--and that's the point.
I know a lot of commenters here loathe, for good reasons, the "tenured radicals" in academia (though note that those are pretty much all going to retired and probably dead in less than 10 years). And I know many other people (out of jealousy?) despise the very idea of tenure (though it was the ONLY thing that prevented a full scale purge of anyone non-political--much less conservative--in the Cultural Revolution of 2017-24). But be careful what you wish for, because what is obviously being done right now is preparation for a completely centralized system in which barely educated people (with an M.A. in "Higher Education Administration") can hire legions of barely educated babysitters to mindlessly recite scripts to the students shuffling dutifully from class to class for a couple years in exchange so that they can receive, for the small price of their parents being bled dry of all their savings, not an education, but a credential.
This isn't a specifically "Liberal" or "Left-wing" project: it's a takeover of the institutions by the Managerial class.* Really, it's the same phenomenon as Private Equity firms buying up all the companies in a sector, homogenizing them and reducing them to mindless algorithmic practice so that they can cut labor costs by only employing drones. What happens there, and what is going to happen to all but maybe the top 50 universities, is that the "product" will get steadily worse as all the equity is sucked up by the Managerial Class, and once they are drained, the institutions will be broken up so that their real estate can be developed and put to "higher value" uses.; 10/7/25, 12:11 AM
Mark Nielsen said...: Amen, Prof. Drout!; 10/7/25, 12:30 AM
Achilles said...: Prof. M. Drout said...

Those of you who are not in academia right now have no idea how rapidly college education at every institution up to the near-Ivies is being converted into high school.

Right now on your own you can get a complete personalized PhD instruction level course in any subject using LLMs.

Within a year there will be individual agents set up to teach you every college level course for a few hundred dollars including grading and remedial content.

Within a few years there will be video professors that are better than any professor out there. They will never get tired and never go to sleep and they will answer all of your questions and pause lectures and start lectures on your schedule.

I am not worried about how bad Universities are. They are finished one way or another. Professors will be like vinyl records. It will be a race to see if professors are out of business before truckers are.; 10/7/25, 12:44 AM
rehajm said...: they seem to think that they can pick and choose which federal laws they wish to obey and which they can nullify by blocking enforcement.

For the time between a Hawaiian judge’s ruling and a SCOTUS reversal they are correct. In cases of standinglachesmoot and ‘we don’t do that’ the time is forever.; 10/7/25, 1:02 AM
gadfly said...: Prof. Drout: Can I assume that the next step for smaller private colleges will be Project 2025 colleges programmed using AI installed by the Trump administration to “establish institutions of higher learning that champion the pursuit of truth, scientific inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse, and that is independent of government, party, religious denomination and business interest in all matters?"

I am not holding my breath on that hope.; 10/7/25, 2:34 AM
Two-eyed Jack said...: LibertarianLeisure said "David Bryne played in Boston this weekend. Still going strong in his 70's."

Same as it ever was.; 10/7/25, 3:13 AM
rhhardin said...: There are no “slurs” or slur words in Kirk’s beyond-voluminous record. None. Google it yourself.

The Random House New College Dictionary, I think it was in the 90s, rates each word with its degree of offensiveness, if you want to tailor an insult.

On reading of a slur of Indians, I didn't know any Indian slurs so had to make some up. Hey Wampum-nose.; 10/7/25, 4:35 AM
Jim at said...: The commentariat got Bruce to break down his writing into paragraphs.

May I be the first to suggest it to Prof. M. Drout?; 10/7/25, 4:45 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Wow. Great photo array.; 10/7/25, 5:45 AM
Kakistocracy said...: "There's been a lot of comment about the choice of Bari Weiss to head CBS News."

In fairness, Weiss's ideological commitments have always aligned with her donors. Israel first, America last.

The real lesson of her career is that propaganda for the rich and powerful is lucrative. In this moment in time, in particular, doing straight-up propaganda for a genocidal regime that lives off U.S. taxpayer money, is especially lucrative.

Journalism that involves an honest accounting of the deeds of the rich and powerful is often a much greater challenge.

People who think that Weiss is a journalist, are not looking for honest and hard-hitting reporting. Her readers and watchers are people who want to be spoonfed propaganda. They are not interested in understanding what is actually true.; 10/7/25, 6:06 AM
rehajm said...: some of these corksoaker Dems
gotta do some time

Nobody will even try. Sombrero memes are the crime of the century at the moment…; 10/7/25, 6:17 AM
Leland said...: Reminder that it is Amazon Prime Days, so click the Althouse link and do some early holiday shopping.; 10/7/25, 6:21 AM
Iman said...: Who the heck is David Bryne ?; 10/7/25, 6:21 AM
rehajm said...: …meanwhile…anybody notice the lack of sky is falling economic ‘news’ from the lefties? There’s not much for them to cheer about- all good news I’m afraid, even with the shutdown. Consumer and corporate still strong, fed favoring easing…but ¡sombreros!; 10/7/25, 6:23 AM
Humperdink said...: Do Trey Gowdy and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson share the same barber? Asking for a friend.; 10/7/25, 6:27 AM
rehajm said...: …while the U.S. public sector is a critical part of the economy, the main engine of economic growth in the U.S. is the private sector. No economy in the world is better positioned to absorb exogenous shocks or unexpected policy decisions…; 10/7/25, 6:29 AM
Iman said...: This just in… Dinky’s father was a mudder.; 10/7/25, 6:31 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Great photo set there! All winners.; 10/7/25, 6:38 AM
rehajm said...: Who the heck is David Bryne

Talking heads, man. Big suit. Best concert movie ever. Jonathan Demme, back when the goal of movies was to be entertaining…; 10/7/25, 6:41 AM
Prof. M. Drout said...: "Right now on your own you can get a complete personalized PhD instruction level course in any subject using LLMs."

I wish you luck, because it will be a complete, personalize, and WRONG course, since LLMs just make crap up ALL THE TIME.

I was trying to see if there was any relevant bibliography I had missed for a recent article and so dropped into Grok "What other scholarly publications have noted that there is a brief moment at the end of The Lord of the Rings when Sauron and Frodo both have nine fingers." I got back "That Frodo and Sauron both have nine fingers after Shelob bites off Frodo's finger demonstrates [blah blah blah] (Hayes 2013)."
But Shelob doesn't bite off Frodo's finger, and there is no "Hayes 2013" that talks about this thing (that didn't happen), and that is just the single thing I chose to try to check using Grok.
And the stuff that LLMs hallucinate is precisely the stuff most people who haven't done the research or read the books won't know to question.
So people can go ahead and get their PhDs from an LLM, but I don't think I'm going to ever be driving over the bridges they design, ingesting the medicine they invent, or taking the legal advice they offer.

P.S.:"Within a few years there will be video professors that are better than any professor out there."

I functionally AM one of those "video [and audio] professors," and I can tell you that the vast majority of students don't learn anything from people talking on screens. Yes, they'll stare, mindlessly, but video and distance learning only works for people with very substantial motivation for those particular courses, and even for those people, the attention curve rapidly collapses with extended exposure. Try to apply that to a very large population without that motivation and you get zero learning, or worse, the "learning" of things that aren't true. Thus far the only thing I've seen that can get people not intrinsically motivated to really learn a subject is in-person teaching.; 10/7/25, 6:49 AM
rehajm said...: …I was contemplating the ‘government didn’t tell you Democrats were funneling treasury money to their political allies so it never happened’ argument…sometimes the timing is what tells you the thing you need to know like when the Clinton Global Initiative rolled out the burn barrels after Trump’s first win…I noticed Senator Not That Senator Kennedy revealed Barbara Lee’s political group as a recipient of some government largesse right before it shout down after Trump’s second/third win. This is a woman who lives for art and leftie politics, Emily's list and what brought you great Americans like Ayanna Pressley. Why would the best time to shut down be when Hitler is about to take office? My gut would say that’s when they should be redoubling their effort, yet here we are…; 10/7/25, 6:54 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: David Byrne hears the beginning of a possible song.; 10/7/25, 6:56 AM
technochitlin said...: REALLY nice pix, Miz A.; 10/7/25, 6:58 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I saw you guys mentioning David Byrne and I rushed to look if he was ... you know, when I found him very much making art. (click on the link above); 10/7/25, 7:00 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Iman said...

"Who the heck is David Bryne ?"

David Byrne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Byrne; 10/7/25, 7:01 AM
rehajm said...: …with the latest iPhone hardware and the new software update images have become too sharp for my eye, like when bitd the sharpening macro slider was cranked up too far. I can no longer take good images of watches, there’s too much definition dar a pleasing totality…perhaps like the way people favor vinyl over digital music…; 10/7/25, 7:02 AM
Peachy said...: Coates lied about Charlie Kirk.

Coates can eat shit forever; 10/7/25, 7:29 AM
Humperdink said...: Now that it has surfaced the Obama and Biden administrations surveilled 8 GOP senators plus my former house rep, will anyone go to jail? Of course not. The solution? Start surveillance of every lefty politician. Their game, their rules.; 10/7/25, 7:32 AM
boatbuilder said...: rejahm--I bought a new, mid-price level Samsung TV earlier this year. I have it set for "Eye Comfort" (the softest of the four available settings) and then crank down the contrast and sharpness settings, because the picture is way too sharp for my eyes (and my wife's). Any other setting looks like a 3D cartoon.
I don't think geysers are the target demo.; 10/7/25, 7:39 AM
Big Mike said...: …meanwhile…anybody notice the lack of sky is falling economic ‘news’ from the lefties?

@rehajm, funny you should ask. The other day Instapundit reposted a complaint that an a**hole leftist (but I am being redundant) posted on Reddit complaining that Costco was lowering its prices. The leftist thought Costco should be raiding its prices in sympathy with the left’s belief that Trump’s tariffs must necessarily cause inflation. That Costco might go out of business if it raised prices when other companies were lowering them must not have computed.; 10/7/25, 7:45 AM
Mary Beth said...: "Who the heck is David Bryne ?"

Byrne had a cameo in "Etoile" and the character he was talking to also did not recognize him and had to Google 'Talking Heads'.

"Etoile" had been originally scheduled for at least two seasons, but was cancelled after the first. I'm still salty about this.; 10/7/25, 7:46 AM
boatbuilder said...: I'm a big fan of the Talking Heads and David Byrne.

This is concerning, however:

Byrne is known for his activism in support of increased cycling and for having used a bike as his main means of transport throughout his life, especially cycling around New York.[86] In Los Angeles, Byrne drives a Citroën DS, but in New York, he does not drive a car.[87][88] (Wikipedia); 10/7/25, 7:47 AM
Breezy said...: Government subsidies never cause costs to go down.; 10/7/25, 7:47 AM
rehajm said...: rejahm--I bought a new, mid-price level Samsung TV earlier this year

Yah that’s definitely the phenomena my eyes are enduring. The tv thing is bad- some have a ‘display’ setting for when they’re side by side at Best Buy, apparently with the belief consumers go for the most oversaturated, over sharpened image..:; 10/7/25, 7:49 AM
rehajm said...: Ya Byrne has stayed consistent with the bike thing. He promoted aesthetically pleasing bike racks and stuff. Seeing as Talking Heads was my teenage go to band I’m biased but Byrne’s brand of bike advocacy is a solution to the San Fran bike Nazi culture we were attacked with there for a while.; 10/7/25, 7:54 AM
Iman said...: Oh, I see. Spelled correctly, it all becomes clear.

Now that… makes sense, MadTownGuy, lol.

Saw two of the TH’s shows in 1983… one in the Summer in Costa Mesa and one of those December shows at the Pantages Theater that was used for Jonathan Demme’s movie. That show was the best, most creative of all the concerts I ever saw. And I saw a lot of great bands over several decades.; 10/7/25, 7:57 AM
Peachy said...: October is lovely in Wisconsin.; 10/7/25, 7:59 AM
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Peachy said...: If Coates is considered an intellectual on the left - what a sad state. He is nothing but a hack a fraud and a hate-fueled liar.; 10/7/25, 8:05 AM
Iman said...: Before the Costa Mesa show started, I hit the concession stand to grab my wife and I some beer. Came back to see a solo Byrne with an acoustic guitar and boom box singing about a psycho killer. I sat down an my wife said , “this is going to be very different”. And it was.; 10/7/25, 8:06 AM
boatbuilder said...: I don't do a lot of concerts, but seeing the Heads in 1983 at Chapel Hill was fantastic. He did the boom box thing, too.; 10/7/25, 8:12 AM
boatbuilder said...: My comment about Byrne and the bikes was tongue-in-cheek. I do a lot of riding myself.; 10/7/25, 8:16 AM
Peachy said...: When do we Indict the Biden family? Screw that auto-pen pardon.
"Matters Of Corruption"; 10/7/25, 8:31 AM
Jamie said...: Why is everything tiny again?! "m=1" in the URL, so my phone knows to choose the mobile site, but the font shrank to ant footprints overnight.; 10/7/25, 8:56 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Vicki McKenna on X:

"The Middleton [Wisconsin] HS issue just got worse. First, parents reported to me their kids were forced to out themselves by their political beliefs in public, and post them on a bulletin board in the public hallway of the school. "Red" kids were called Nazis. The teacher(s) dismissed their concerns. (See pics) I heard from other parents their kids WERE threatened/harassed because of this assignment.

Then those parents complained to the school and heard nothing back. Until yesterday, that is--when they were told the assignment was voluntary and kids could opt out. It wasn't--and they couldn't.

Now this. Not only were kids required to out themselves on a bulletin and risk harassment and threats (which DID occur, according to parents)--they were also required to create POLITICAL ADS about themselves--AND their families, including detailing RELIGIOUS convictions.

THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 12 YEARS."; 10/7/25, 9:15 AM
Narr said...: What Prof. M. Drout said.

I've been retired for ten years and was not a full-time classroom teacher, but the seeds of what is growing now were visible back then if you paid attention.; 10/7/25, 9:46 AM
john mosby said...: Iman: “ This just in… Dinky’s father was a mudder.”

Yes, and Dinky fed him his fodder. CC, JSM; 10/7/25, 10:45 AM
john mosby said...: Humoerdink: “ Do Trey Gowdy and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson share the same barber? Asking for a friend.”

Yes, once the Dems implode, the two of them are going to start the Alfalfa Party. CC, JSM; 10/7/25, 10:47 AM