black sites in america begin here; 

The topic of the day is the fact that Donald Trump and his people have built a half billion dollar detention facility in a nature preserve in Florida. They are calling it “Alligator Alcatraz,” because I guess there are alligators in the swamp and you know, alliteration (the kids love it).

It’s funny to put immigrants in a swamp full of alligators.

But… are we talking about an American black site?

To be clear, a “black site” is defined as “a clandestine detention center operated by a state where prisoners who have not been charged with a crime are incarcerated without due process or court order.”..........more............

 waiting for the list was the last item keeping me with any modicum of trust in their future efforts. this is the fork in the road that breaks it;

The DOJ and FBI announced in a late Sunday night news dump that they've found no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein "blackmailed prominent individuals," was murdered, or had a "client list" and declared they won't be releasing any further Epstein-related materials.

From Axios, "Exclusive: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no 'client list,' committed suicide":

President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list" or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.

- The administration is releasing a video — in both raw and "enhanced" versions — that it says indicates no one entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.

- The video supports a medical examiner's finding that Epstein committed suicide, the two-page memo claims.

Why it matters: The findings represent the first time Trump's administration has officially contradicted conspiracy theories about Epstein's activities and his death — theories that had been pushed by the FBI's top two officials before Trump appointed them to the bureau...........more............

 i've been avoiding ai but this makes it even more necessary to avoid windows 11;

A few months ago, I needed to send an email. But when I opened Microsoft Outlook, something had changed.

Microsoft asked me to use Copilot to write my email. Copilot is my AI companion. (That’s the cute word they use.)

Hey I don’t want a companion—especially not a fake AI buddy. I never asked for this.

And what about the people receiving my emails? They don’t want this either. They want to hear from me, not a bot.

How do I turn my companion off?............more.........

 three minutes of 1960's video; how to get in a fight in an aussie bar;

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 nine minutes review of current cruise culture;

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t he most mexican man in the world;

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 forty six minutes with redacted and a jewish anti-semite who happens to be half of a famous ice cream company, speaking about how he came to get that label and more;

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