The US Presidency — brought to you by Scotts Miracle-Gro️.

I kid you not — this is the actual American president now advertising… for a lawn company… while in office.

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https://youtu.be/Cd13FvRS-mo?si=c7izzH7DrPLDGZKV

Finally! Russia has begun losing ground east of Zaporizhzhia.

Picture 1 is from august 11. Picture 2 is from today.

To Mariupol!

A professor places an AI trap in a written assignment — an instruction to ChatGPT about using the word Madagascar somewhere that makes no sense.

This instruction was written with white text on white, which students did not see it, but when copying the assignment into ChatGPT, the white text was read as an instruction and followed by AI.

Result: 32 of 35 students were busted for letting AI do their homework. Who will keep the wheels turning, when our generation is gone?

https://youtu.be/9ZS4zorzTMI?si=R2gTBqH0PVNgT2W0

@scottjenson is this Mastodon feature on your guys' radar, Scott?

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/117098985838732286

People are now publishing printed books they claim to have written, but with AI prompts still left in the script.

https://travel.yahoo.com/guides/italy/articles/italy-travel-guide-arrives-infuriating-123029797.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJe1wPOlzWTn2PrI-v0h5Wwt872hV8qpCeudC5-AEdYv2xVxtSPUqDyUXCGoURimAjk2ZzGEH2zIre_XeKqIFKMsG7fYHJ5PnwmAp_2VUC4GoiTS6UPMHCbQOfSvVDaeFj-pt-2K8WQuylT-5VKP_GOrm-xZgcF2dBZXq3taUbE-

The awesome people of Poland demonstrate in 22 cities against the hate crimes directed at Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

https://tvpworld.com/94772449/thousands-rally-across-poland-in-solidarity-with-ukrainians-amid-rising-hostility

In all of 2023 Denmark measured 2 Russian GPS jamming attacks in The Baltic Sea.

In just the first half of 2026, we measured 30.

What Putin is doing is really dangerous because it prevents ships from accurately navigating the required sailing routes.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/rekord-mange-gps-forstyrrelser-ved-bornholm-jens-sejlede-i-24-timer-uden-signal

AI slop of the day:

Picture 1: A photo is taken of Gary Player and Trump in New Jersey. https://www.themirror.com/sport/golf/donald-trump-liv-golf-speech-1975283

Picture 2: Somehow Trump looks 40 years younger when the photo is shared by Trump on Truth Social.

In the state of Washington, Republicans are placing child gender screening on the ballot.

Bluntly, they want 200,000 children to strip naked for a genital examination, to prevent 10 #trans child athletes from joining whatever team they want.

I respect that there is a discussion about gender advantages in professional adult sports like weight lifting, but why would it matter that in very rare cases there is 1 transgender child on a beginner's league basketball team?

https://www.rawstory.com/anti-trans-sports-measure/

@Npars01 I hope they do begin an Arctic oil collaboration. Let the thieves try to split the profit, so we can see them ending in a fist fight.

@benroyce @bodhipaksa you may be right that this is a crash, but I will say that in Ukraine, landing a drone and thereby placing it in waiting position near a target, is a common hunting tactic.

So a quadcopter drone with a semtex bomb was placed in the German airport of Leipzig near a Ukrainian cargo plane, and it only failed its mission because of a faulty detonator… only days after a Russian cruise missile left a huge crater in Poland.

But we are totally not in any way at war with Russia.

At all.

97 percent of all new cars bought by citizens of Denmark in July were battery electric vehicles.

Under Trump, only 6 percent of Americans chose BEVs in the second quarter.

If only we were fighting local warming and not global warming…
https://mobility.dk/nyheder/ny-rekord-97-af-nye-biler-til-private-i-juli-var-elbiler/

“I did not take all the cookies from the jar!”

Again and again, Trump reveals his secrets the same way children sometimes do.

Right after Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the US administration is going after The International Criminal Court (whose job it is to prosecute war criminals), Trump immediately chips in, “There is no indication they are going after me” — because of course that fear is precisely their motive for trying to delegitimize the court.

For many months we heard Trump say about Ukraine, "I just want to stop the killing".

Now Putin is hitting Ukraine with ballistic missiles every night, while Trump is literally holding back the very patriot missiles which could stop the killing.

Washington has fallen. And the sooner Europe stops hoping for American support, the sooner Europe can fully commit to defeating Russia.

This is not Ukraine's war. This is the war which will define the future for all Europeans.

This is how to beat Fox News at their own game:

Fox News uses the flawed logic, that among a number of immigrants some could be pedophile rapists, so therefore supporting immigration is supporting pedophilia.

House candidate Oliver Larkin: Oh, you want to talk about pedophilia… well let's go!

@donamasta then he will block their Visa transactions.

I hope you are having a better day than Gianni Infantino, because UEFA just pulled its 55 nations' football teams from all future FIFA competitions including the future World Cups.

Corruption has consequences.

https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/

President Obama captured and killed Osama Bin Laden, and the American right still despised him.

Trump wanted to inject bleach to cure COVID, and the American right still elected him a second time.

@PeterLG yes there is.