Ammo Recall

Apparently there are three lots of Magtech 5.56mm ammunition that may have been loaded with "incorrect" powder charges and are being recalled.

You can see the affected lot numbers here.

The fingers you save may be your own!

Memeday Monday!

Signifying Nothing

So, apparently a digital services company that used to have a contract with the Indiana state government got hacked, and this resulted in some scam ring getting a whole trove of Hoosier phone numbers.

Folks have been getting a pretty steady trickle of texts like this one:

Now, a reasonably well-informed person would glance at this, notice immediately that that's not an actual government URL (notice that the ".gov" is in the middle of it and it actually ends in ".vip") and would also know that the Indiana state government does not dun citizens via text message under any circumstance anyway, and send this straight to the spam file.

However enough people apparently fell for this that it made the news.

And everyone who saw it on the news immediately ran to NextDoor (or, as I call it, "Karens-dot-com"), where they temporarily paused their incessant monitoring of their Ring doorbell cameras for people walking through the neighborhood while Black and breathlessly reported to everyone that "THOSE TOLL MESSAGES ARE A SCAM PHISHING TEXT!!!ONE!"

There must have been fifty or a hundred more or identical posts by semiliterate people who apparently couldn't be arsed to check first and see if someone had already posted on the topic.

I don't know what the actual lowest common denominator social media site is... normally I'd be inclined to say Facebook or TikTok ...but NextDoor has got to be in the running.

Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• A clear-eyed look at military hardware journalism: "It’s not objectivity—it’s Stockholm Syndrome with tracer rounds."


• Meta's all up in your business, snooping...again.


• Uber comes up with an idea for shuttles that run fixed regular routes and carry a bunch of passengers. I thought those were called "buses"?

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Close the Week Out With a Meme!

Automotif DLXXXII...

Only 2,400 Citroën SM coupes were imported during the 1972 and 1973 model years, making this sighting of a '72 SM just out driving around Broad Ripple on Tuesday afternoon a rare occurrence indeed.

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Robo-Grope

If the TSA gets their new tech to work, they'll be able to feel you up without touching you.

Basically, using the combination of augmented reality goggles, haptic feedback devices in gloves, and sensors like backscatter X-rays or millimeter wave radar, an airport blueshirt will be able to cop a feel or fondle your junk remotely.

The future is really gross and squicky.

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Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• Global automakers feeling the pinch of China's rare earth export restrictions.


• Meanwhile, the U.S. continues disengaging from one to the globe's other abundant sources of those strategic resources.


• Jim Grey's monthly "Old Cars Parked" roundup for May of 2025

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Midweek Memes!

Meme Dump!

"L'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

Here's a gift link to a video-heavy article on Ukraine's decapitation strike against Russian strategic aviation assets.

The level of planning and preparation this took is just off the chain, to the point that the guys driving the trucks with the little prefab conex "houses" that concealed the racks of drones under their roofs were just patsies who had no idea what they were hauling.

You could walk into the "house" and look around and not notice anything because the drone racks were concealed in an 8" deep space between the interior ceiling and the external roof. So some guy hires you to tow his tiny house for him with instructions to just drop it off in a specific parking lot at a specific time and his buddy will come get it from there... what's so hinky about that?

To put this all in perspective, remember that Russia set out in February of 2022 to duplicate the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. If OIF had gone like that, we would have been recommissioning M48 Pattons to use as mobile artillery pieces in the bogged-down fighting around Basra in 2006, when a surprise attack blows up half our B52s on the ground at Barksdale, AFB.

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Monday Memes!