Id In Black

A record of one man screaming into the void that is social media.

[Kyle Whitmire @WarOnDumb]

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Instead, where once there were vistas, there is particle board. Where there were marble obelisks and sandstone columns, there are paintings of obelisks and columns blocking the sightlines.

The fair is a TV dinner at a Michelin-starred restaurant.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Freedom 250 rehearsal stage falling apart is the perfect analogy for the Trump administration.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

One of the many problems with countering lies is it takes two seconds to lie and a lot more effort to share truth.

The truth in this case is that 13 years ago some terrorists stole a USAID tent.

13 years later a trillionaire manipulates that photo to lie.

I'm going to bed.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@JDHaltigan Most leftists know that Haiti isn't in Africa; it would be one of the dots in the Americas. Learn to read a map, you illlitterial twat.

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@nickmmark @forallmankind_ I never understand why big studios mess things up this badly. They could get a team of graduate students from the top universities to read through your scripts for like 5% of the coffee budgets on most of these productions, but they would rather insult their audience.

[Spencer Allan Brooks @SpencerSays]

The reflecting pool, national mall, and ellipse this morning.

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@TheBabylonBee Jeez. @TheRickWilson, it's so bad they have lost the Babylon Bee.

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. https://t.co/3lGn15PndO

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?  

Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@wtfahhh0 Travels to a planet with a red sun, gets them pierced, and travels back.

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@mcuban @PeterDiamandis Well, for one thing, a quality college education will teach you the historical precedents and rhetorical fallacies that prevent you from falling for this sawed-off bullshit and firing half your workforce only to find out AI is twice as expensive and half as efficient.

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@TotalSeasons I don't know, maybe he has a point, he seems like an expert in giving blow jobs to me.

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@JoJoFromJerz In fairness most Russians have never eaten either.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Remember that time Trump canceled his visit to the American cemetery in France during the WWI commemoration because of rain?

But I’m sure he’ll proudly show up at Arlington National Cemetery today to lay a wreath honoring service members who made the ultimate sacrifice.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@AndrewYNg You don't even realize the effect Grade inflation has had on your thinking. How do we define success? It used to be that a C was average competence, a B was above-average competence, and an A was excellence. All were levels of success. Now, anything less than an A is failure.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔This one happened yesterday but is still worth flagging. Starbucks killed its AI-powered inventory counting tool after nine months in North American stores. The system used LiDAR sensors and cameras to count syrups and milks, routinely confused similar products, and missed items entirely. A Starbucks promotional video from the launch literally captured the malfunction, with the system scanning around a peppermint syrup bottle on the shelf without registering it. Stores are returning to manual counting.

My Take
I love that the failure mode showed up in the promotional video meant to advertise the product. Starbucks did not pilot this in 50 stores and measure error rates against manual counting before deploying it. The company pushed it across the entire North American network because the CEO wanted to show technology leadership, and the syrup bottle the system could not see was right there in the launch materials.

Pizza Hut Dragontail, Glendale Community College, and now Starbucks all ran the same script. AI sales pitches demo well in controlled environments and break down in actual operations. CEOs sign these contracts because the alternative looks like falling behind, and the costs of the failure land on the franchisees, store employees, and customers. The vendors get paid for nine months of being someone else's QA team. Nobody in the chain of executives signing these contracts is the one absorbing the cost, and until that incentive flips, the rollouts continue.

Hedgie🤗

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@BuckSexton In inflation-adjusted dollars, spending $5 on a coffee in 2026 is like spending $1.23 on a coffee in 1980.
Spending $15,000/year on $5 coffees in 2026, buys 8.2 of them A DAY! (so yeah, you should cut back, but the money is the least of the reasons as to why.)

[Id In Black @IdNBlack]

@AlexReimer1 Just ran it through an inflation calculator an $28 in 2026 had the same buying power as $7.12 in 1980. Doesn't seem unreasonable in those terms.