OpenAI to press ahead with data-center expansion despite midterm sweep, CFO tells CNBC

Because when you’re desperately pumping a bubble you can’t really afford to stop.

Trump says he offered White House press secretary job to Dana White

I see we’re doubling down on stupid in the lame duck years.

Vaguely Egyptian-themed mausoleum at the Eugene Masonic Cemetery.

Le Monde manages to print a truthful headline (unlike the namby-pamby US press):

Stephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration

Possibly I should start reading Le Monde more often.

Another tiny mushroom in the leaf litter. 15-image in-camera focus stack.

Crossing the Willamette River.

Reflected neon.

Stinking Iris seed pod next to a fence.

AG Blanche says license plate readers don’t affect Americans’ privacy

Americans say AG Blanche is a complete fuckwit.