I BELIEVE IT:  I’m seeing a correlation. Looks to me like the people in open source who are anti-AI are pretty much the same people who were completely captured by the woke mind virus.

X-cancel.

THIS IS WHY IQ* BY ITSELF IS USELESS AS A MEASURE OF A PERSON:  Cole Allen is the Dunning-Kruger Assassin. Allen is not some random nut job from the fringes of society. He’s a very articulate graduate of Caltech, which means he has a high degree of native intelligence. He’s in the education profession. He is on BlueSky. He goes to No Kings protests. He’s your basic rank-and-file Democrat. But it’s that high native intellect that led him astray.

X-cancel.

Horse sense understanding of humans is at least as important. And not being by personality a patsy is more important.

*No. I don’t say it to compensate for anything. Nice try. I can give you my Mensa card number. It’s been expired for 20 years, but the test doesn’t expire. It is because of it that I understand the limits of the measurement.

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

THEY’RE JOINED AT THE HIP TO THEIR OWN AGITPROP LIES NOW:

Yeah, they're not going to do that. Too invested. Alienate their base.

Some things to too false but true to be acknowledged as false.

You're asking pathological liars to admit they are pathological liars. Not gonna happen. https://t.co/23pxJYQnsf

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 26, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

SHOOTER’S MANIFESTO RELEASED: He Believed All the Lies the Democrats Now Claim They Never Said.

SPACE: SpaceX, Anduril among companies to win Golden Dome contracts.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut Bacteria Could Be a Hidden Trigger For Neurodegenerative Diseases.

TAKE TWO AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING: A common medication may be taking on an unexpected role in cancer care. “What if a cheap, everyday painkiller could help keep cancer from coming back after surgery? New clinical trial results suggest that for some patients with colorectal cancer, aspirin may do exactly that. In a study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, patients with colorectal cancer who took a daily low dose of aspirin after surgery were far less likely to see their disease return, but only if their tumors carried specific genetic changes.”

HISTORY DOESN’T REPEAT, BUT IT DOES RHYME:

Now is a good time to familiarize yourself with the prelude to the Spanish Civil War

Because if the right doesn’t learn that particular lesson of history very quickly we’re about to repeat it https://t.co/5BjEVJbx3C

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) April 26, 2026

An old colleague got into prepping after Obama’s election in 2008, saying, long-term, he didn’t see how we got out of where the Democrats were taking us without bloodshed.

CHECKS OUT:

Libertarians think guns are for shooting criminals, because that's what we use them for.

— MyPetJawa (@mypetjawa) April 26, 2026

LIFE GOALS: The Men Who Repair Multi-Million-Dollar Duesenbergs Behind the Bowling Alley.

THE LEFT KEEPS THEM WOUND UP UNTIL SOMEBODY SNAPS:

Van Jones: we have to stop with this kind of violence, on all side….
No. There is no ALL SIDES political violence epidemic in this country. There is a left-wing violence problem and pretending it's ALL SIDES doesn't help solve the issue.

— Kira (@Kiradavis) April 26, 2026

REVIEW: Ford Maverick Hybrid Long-Term Test: Going Small for the Win.

HIS TRUE MOTIVE — INDEED, EVEN HIS INTENDED TARGET — MIGHT NEVER BE KNOWN:

We can’t even be certain who the intended target was.

— Rhonda Rhoades (@NewWaveIngenue) April 26, 2026

GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Chocolate Shake. #CommissionEarned

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Change: Acting AG Todd Blanche Lays Out Second Amendment Realignment at DOJ. “In a wide-ranging conversation with nationally-syndicated talk radio host, Tom Gresham, Blanche touched on upcoming regulatory changes, a reshaping of ATF enforcement priorities, active Supreme Court litigation, and a deliberate strategy to embed Second Amendment protections so deeply into federal regulatory infrastructure that future administrations would struggle to reverse them.”

READER FAVORITE: Crocs Unisex-Adult Classic Clog. #CommissionEarned

WE DON’T KNOW ENOUGH TO ENGAGE IN THESE GEOENGINEERING PROJECTS: Building a massive dam between Alaska and Russia could prevent AMOC collapse, scientists say.

Related: China Planted 78 Billion New Trees—and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle.

GOOD: Placebo Pain Relief Isn’t “All In Your Head” — It’s Linked To Brain Circuit.

We need a placebo!

IT’S CALLED PUSHING AWAY FROM THE TABLE: 3 Trainers Reveal the Most Effective Exercise for Reducing Lower Belly Fat.

Meta Quest 3 512GB | VR Headset. #CommissionEarned

PRETTY SURE I CAN: Think You Can Swim? There’s a Good Chance You’re Wrong.

ROGER KIMBALL: Chekhov’s Lesson for Tehran: Trump isn’t negotiating with Iran—he’s dismantling its regime piece by piece, leaving a hollow state with nothing left but bluster and collapse.

What I notice is that in the on-again off-again negotiations that lead nowhere, Trump is doing to the Iranians what they once did to us: “Asked what he had recommended to the President when no hostages were freed after arms shipments to Iran in February 1986, Mr. Regan said, ‘I told him that we’d been snookered again, and how many times do we put up with this rug merchant type of stuff?'” He’s jerking them around with vague prospects of getting something while the clock continues to run. Serves ’em right. He’s a better rug merchant than these guys.

WELL, IT’S A TOWN RUN BY LEFTIES, SO: Once-charming, US mountain escape has transformed into ‘nasty, crazy, and scary’ city.