Don’t want to interrupt the festivities, but you can post your independent thoughts independent of topic.
Archive of entries posted on 4th July 2025
Another Reason We’re Well Rid of English Rule
George Orwell didn’t have to be creative; he just had to know his countrymen.
[UK] Aldi, Tesco and Sainsbury’s Set to Introduce Major Change to Store Layouts Amid Obesity Crackdown
This is Money | 1 July 2025 | Angharad CarrickSupermarkets will reportedly be required to make significant changes to their stores as part of a government crackdown on obesity. …
Major supermarkets will have to report on healthy food sales and ‘increase the healthiness of sales in communities across the UK’, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.
This means that they may have to reformulate products, change the layout of stores, offer discounts on healthy foods, or change loyalty schemes to promote healthier options. …
In 2022, supermarkets were banned from displaying products high in fat, salt and sugar in shop entrances and till areas.
Maybe iMamadan in New York is better off just creating government grocery stores from the ground up. The ground-up being the plebians, of course.
I’m Looking at You, Gene
People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”
Futurism | June 28, 2025 | Maggie Harrison DupréAs we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality.
The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what’s being called “ChatGPT psychosis” have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness.
And that’s not all. As we’ve continued reporting, we’ve heard numerous troubling stories about people’s loved ones being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — or even ending up in jail — after becoming fixated on the bot.
“I was just like, I don’t f*cking know what to do,” one woman told us. “Nobody knows who knows what to do.”
Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He’d turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project; soon, after engaging the bot in probing philosophical chats, he became engulfed in messianic delusions, proclaiming that he had somehow brought forth a sentient AI, and that with it he had “broken” math and physics, embarking on a grandiose mission to save the world. His gentle personality faded as his obsession deepened, and his behavior became so erratic that he was let go from his job. He stopped sleeping and rapidly lost weight.
“He was like, ‘just talk to [ChatGPT]. You’ll see what I’m talking about,'” his wife recalled. “And every time I’m looking at what’s going on the screen, it just sounds like a bunch of affirming, sycophantic bullsh*t.”
Happy Fourth!
Straight Line of the Day: A Russian Warship Snuck by the British in the English Channel. How?
Much like Washington’s Crossing of the Unaware.
Russian naval ship ‘disguised’ itself while passing through English Channel
BBC | 06/24/2025 | Ned Davies, Joshua Cheetham & Matt Murphy
{Very glad they assigned Mr. “Cheetham” to this story.}
A Russian warship disguised itself using a fake ID signal while travelling through the English Channel with two sanctioned oil tankers, a BBC Verify investigation has found.
The Boikiy – a corvette armed with guided missiles – broadcast the fake ID code as it passed through the Channel on Saturday.
- Transmitted: “Would you like to come back to my place, Boikiy Boikiy?”
- Pretended to be fish looking for chips and greasy capitalist newspapers.
- Nobody expects the Spanish Borschtmada!
- Pretended to be zlotysom and nyetsome.
- Pretended to be battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.
- Endorsed — in the clear, loudly — rum, sodomy, and the lash.
- Pretended to be filming remake of “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” with Shelley Winters in the role of Jonathan Winters. Who doesn’t want to see that?
- Told Prince Charles — I mean, King Charles — they were Greta on yet another mission.
- Signalled “England Expects Every Man Will Pay His Duty.”
- Pretended to be a flotilla of illegal muslim immigrants from Iraq of Gibralter.
- Sang “Rus Britannia” in thoroughly vodka-soaked voices.
- Went at tea-time.
Happy Fourth!
Bond Girlathon Friday : Results from 6/27/2025 : New Matches for 7/4/2025
Happy birthday America!
Results
| Lana Wood | No Preference | Martine Beswick |
|---|---|---|
| 132 | 0 | 48 |
| Aliza Gur | No Preference | Lola Larson |
|---|---|---|
| 103 | 2 | 37 |
Matches for 7/4/2025
Match 1
Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) vs Trina Parks (Thumper)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Honor Blackman | 2 – 0 – 0 | 269 – 4 – 150 |
Actress: Honor Blackman Nationality: English Bond Movie: Goldfinger (1964) Synopsis:
The evocatively named Pussy Galore was an original Ian Fleming character from the novel. Ms. Galore ran a flying circus of female pilots, who were hired by Auric Goldfinger to fly over Fort Knox and gas the soldiers, so that Goldfinger could break in to the gold vault.
VS
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Trina Parks | 0 – 2 – 0 | 26 – 4 – 364 |
Actress: Trina Parks Nationality: American Bond Movie: Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Synopsis:
Thumper and Bambi attack Bond, kicking him and using their martial art skills to overcome him. Bond was at a loss, the two girls too nimble for him. However, Thumper and Bambi then throw Bond into a pool, and they lose their advantage, Bond managing to push their heads underwater until they give in and reveal where Willard Whyte is being kept.
Match 2
Shirley Eaton (Jill Masterson) vs Denise Perrier (Marie)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Shirley Eaton | 1 – 1 – 0 | 243 – 1 – 209 |
Actress: Shirley Eaton Nationality: English Bond Movie: Goldfinger (1964) Synopsis:
Jill Masterson was the scantly dressed girl who used binoculars and an ear piece to help Auric Goldfinger cheat at cards. Bond caught her at the game, and together they blackmailed Goldfinger into losing his money. After enjoying a few bottles of Dom Perignon with Bond, Masterson was killed by Goldfinger’s henchman Oddjob, in revenge for her betrayal. Bond awoke to find her covered from head to toe in gold paint.
VS
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Denise Perrier | 0 – 2 – 0 | 66 – 22 – 238 |
Denise Perrier Nationality: French Bond Movie: Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Synopsis:
As Bond seeks out Blofeld to get revenge for the death of his wife, the trail leads him from Tokyo to Cairo, where he interrogates a gambler about Blofeld’s whereabouts. “Marie… ask.. Marie.” Bond finds Marie, who asks “Is there something I can do for you?” Bond replies with “There’s something I’d like you to get off your chest”, and then removes her Bra and begins to strangle her with it.He gets the information he wants and pursues the lead.
