Fitz

12/11/2024

Japanese Government: Have you ever a woman? Give them an actual extra day off and they are going goblin mode and napping. S*x is not on the menu

Tokyo is set to implement a four-day workweek for its government employees starting in April 2025, allowing them to take Fridays off.

12/11/2024

The arrest of Luigi Mangione is beginning to feel like a national Rorschach test

12/10/2024

Whoa! BizNasty does a pretty good job fight 8 dudes at once

Police released new videos of the fighting involving ex-Coyotes player Paul Bissonnette at a Scottsdale restaurant late last month and the 911 calls that were made.

12/10/2024

Oh damn!

"Hey fam, Ive been accused of the one crime that everyone in America agrees is terrible. Who wants to go see Mufasa?"

50 Cent trolled Jay-Z on social media for his unexpected red carpet appearance.

12/10/2024

Like Osama Bin Ladin, Mangione may be a self radicalized crazy ass from a super rich family.

As a cancer survivor and a man who had a heart attack, I will never be able to afford private insurance. My healthcare is tied to my job and no one can stay on the mound forever. And I wont lie, I worry about ir.

Still. Murder? No. No way. Come on now.

Still. Recognize the immense and real ambivalence people have about their health insurance? Yes. 100%

But still: Mangione is no hero

Luigi Nicholas Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, was arrested in the killing of Brian Thompson, who headed one of the United States’ largest medical insurance companies.

12/10/2024

Looking back at my my patent-pending Fitz-tradamus high probability "this is going to happen, its a lock bro" predictions for 2024 (more than 90% likely): I went 2 for 3

1. An "outlaw" large language model will become available. (THIS HAPPENED! Like 28 times at least so I will point out just one example: Grok on X. Need a realistic photo of a public figure in a compromising position? Elon's got you. Want to automate hate speech? Grok away. Tired of libs owning your search results? Grok cares about your feelings)

2. In response to AI, white collar workers will unionize in a way not seen since the 30's. (LOL wroooong. How I though this Ill never understand)

3. I will enjoy 12 months of lemon tree ownership and ALL THE LEMONS that comes with. (THIS HAPPENED! STAY AWAY FROM MY LEMONS FFS)

Here are my patent-pending Fitz-tradamus high probability "this is going to happen, its a lock bro" predictions for 2024 (more than 90% likely):

1. An "outlaw" large language model will become available.

Using an AI is to constantly run into its guardrails. That functionality, now off-limits, holds intrinsic monetary value. And money is never left on the table for long. The market for an unrestrained LLM, mirroring ChatGPT but unbounded, is assured.

That is a lock. This is going to happen.

2. In response to AI, white collar workers will unionize in a way not seen since the 30's. Using the rubric of the Hollywood writers strike as road map, we will see an expansion of organize labor in places we haven't expected.

3. I will enjoy 12 months of lemon tree ownership and ALL THE LEMONS that comes with. Because I have purchased a LemonCam and that s**t is monitored 24/7

12/09/2024

Looking back at my mid probability predictions for 2024 (less than 60% likely) where I went 2 for 3.

System of a Down announces world tour (ACTUALLY HAPPENED! https://www.ticketmaster.com/system-of-a-down-tickets/artist/726146)

Amazon branded urgent care centers (ABSOLUTLY HAPPENED! https://health.amazon.com/onemedical/)

Vince McMahon officially returns to the WWE (Yeahhhh....pretty wrong. He tried but then his crimes caught up with him. Watch Mr. McMahon on Netflix. Its great! https://www.netflix.com/title/81048394)

My mid probability predictions for 2024 (less than 60% likely) :

System of a Down announces world tour

Amazon branded urgent care centers

Vince McMahon officially returns to the WWE

12/09/2024

Looking back at my low probability predictions for 2024 (less than 30% likely): Went 1 for 3

Metallica announces retirement (Did not happen)

Negotiated end to war in Ukraine (Did not happen. 1000 days and 500k dead Russians later, the Ukrainians are still in it to win it. Syria's brutal dictatorship just collapsed because the Putin has sunk all his capitol into his illegal invasion and was no longer able to prop up Assad's regime. Very glad to be wrong about this one)

A CyberMonsterTruck (TOTALLY HAPPENED! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IASstrHGn1M)

My low probability predictions for 2024 (less than 30% likely) :

Metallica announces retirement

Negotiated end to war in Ukraine

A CyberMonsterTruck

12/09/2024

This smelled amazing for about 45 seconds

A truck carrying over 30,000 pounds of chocolate caught on fire in the middle of a busy highway, causing a massive spill of melted chocolate.

12/09/2024

A dude in his 50's who smokes a lot of pot being good at video games is normal. If snoop sucked at Madden would be surprising to me

There is finally something Snoop Dogg does more than smoke.

12/09/2024

A father of two shot dead in the street weeks before Christmas is a terrible crime and the gleeful online reaction to it is shameful. Full stop.

But there is something there: people love their doctors but really hate their health insurance. We pay more for less than any other nation and if someone, god forbid, gets sick it will bankrupt them. The leading cause of financial distress is a sick family member.

The only people in America who really love their health insurance are folks on Medicare. People love single payer government run insurance when its not called "single payer government run insurance" in public.

I hope they throw the book at this jerk

Luigi Mangione was arrested on a gun charge after police found him with a pistol consistent with the one used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

12/09/2024

At party a few ladies were commiserating how hard it was to find a good woman and I kept my thoughts to myself.

Because Im quite sure they did not want to hear a dude in his 50's say "Have you tried hanging out at the Subaru dealership?" but man did I think it

12/06/2024

My interview with Neil from Three Days Grace

fitzmadrid.com is where I post my interviews (and live performances!) from Finger Eleven (F11), PLUSH, Octomom (for real), The Fitz and Friends Podcast, and D&D nerd stuff

Fitz and Neil Sanderson of Three Days Grace talk about the new album, the return of Adam, guitars on the wall, pants optional interviews, and the bands bigge...

12/05/2024

Today is International Ninja Day. So. Tell me what you snuck into. Oh. My moms house? Several times? Ah. yes. yeah-ok

We've have all of the resources, tips, events, and information you need to make the most of International Ninja Day and take action for the cause.

12/05/2024

Waking up to texts I don't remember sending and my Spotify Wrapped are equally mortifying

"Oh god--what did I do? How did I Lana Del Rey 58 times in one day...oh no. Who did I send this too....oh man"

12/05/2024

War. War never changes.

First shot of Walton Goggins as The Ghoul from the second season of Fallout on Amazon Prime

https://gamerant.com/fallout-season-2-walton-goggins-ghoul-photo/

12/04/2024

She is clearly having a mental health crisis and, as fellow human being, I feel for her.

That's it; that's the quote

Britney Spears turned 43 on Monday but she claims in disturbing new Instagram videos that she's really 5 and moving to Mexico.

12/04/2024

The Yacht Rock documentary on Max is pretty damn good

HBO has released the trailer for its Yacht Rock documentary — watch it here.