September 30, 2026
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Jan. 6 Themed ‘Social Reckoning’ Expected to Bomb at Box Office.
World of Reel shares a pointed reaction to the film and its subject matter:
January 6th eventually comes up, the entire film builds toward it. The film’s arc leads naturally to the suggestion that January 6th was, in part, a product of Facebook itself.
Sorkin has literally said the same thing on the record regarding Facebook and Jan. 6.
The problem?
Who will actually see the movie? Box office projections have “The Social Reckoning” opening to a very soft $6-$10 million on its opening weekend. The competition won’t be stiff.
$6 million seems high.
CHANGE:
BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth announces that Elon Musk will co-lead a new War Department effort studying the future of warfare during his State of the Force address.
Hegseth unveils Project Meridian, naming Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to co-lead the effort under the… pic.twitter.com/stxOPThY8z
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 30, 2026
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Chefman TurboFry Touch Dual Air Fryer. #CommissionEarned
ADAM THIERER: What Hayek Can Teach Us About AI Safety.
This is where a dose of Hayekian thinking is particularly useful. Hayek would tell us that AI alignment is not a computable math equation, and that efforts to treat it as such will lead to the sort of authoritarian thinking and proposals we witnessed with previous efforts to remake economies and humanity according to some grand design.
In his 1974 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Hayek warned of the “pretence of knowledge,” or the belief that experts understand society well enough to direct everyone else’s choices according to their supposedly enlightened plans. He argued that the “limits to his knowledge ought indeed to teach the student of society a lesson of humility which should guard him against becoming an accomplice in men’s fatal striving to control society—a striving which makes him not only a tyrant over his fellows, but which may well make him the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals.”
Hayek teaches us that technical “alignment” can be a pretext for dangerous political control of our economy and liberties. Empowering global elites to guide humanity’s acceptable risks and technological future raises other risks in the process. Aligned with whose values? Imposed by whose authority? And at what cost? “Progress by its very nature cannot be planned,” Hayek wrote in The Constitution of Liberty, but instead “civilization [is] the accumulated hard-earned result of trial and error,” and “the sum of experience.”
As a general rule, put your guard up whenever powerful people suggest a political solution to a technical problem.
PRETTY MUCH, YEAH:
This hijacking story is INSANE but I’m looking forward to hearing the terrorists side of the story on Miss Rachel today.
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) September 30, 2026
RECOMMENDED: Republicans Need to Put This in a National Ad Right Now.
KRUISER: Dems’ Haplessness Makes Them an Even Bigger Existential Threat to the Republic. “What does worry me, though, is that the Democrats are not unlike an unhinged, cornered rabid animal these days. Because it’s now a party dominated by coastal elites, there is also an almost feral quality when Dem politicians are out in normal America. There is a complete lack of regard for civility and convention that makes them unpredictable and dangerous.”
UCLA WOULD RATHER YOU DIDN’T READ THE SYLLABUS. Not just UCLA, I suspect.
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EAT MORE MEAT: Nearly a third of Americans eating fewer fresh vegetables after ‘explosive diarrhea’ virus outbreak.
Nearly a third of Americans cut back their produce consumption and nearly two-thirds changed their behavior this summer after an “explosive diarrhea” parasite ravaged rectums across the country, according to a poll.
At least 30% of people said they were buying less fresh produce at grocery stores over the cyclosporiasis parasite outbreak, which left tens of thousands of people cramping on their commodes from vicious bouts of viscous diarrhea.
I like to think I was ahead of the curve on this one. Way out ahead of the curve.
IS IT REALLY A GOOD IDEA FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO OUTRUN US? Robot dog runs a marathon faster than the average human, all on a single charge.
NEVER BEND THE KNEE: Why Jews Who Turn on Israel to Be Loved Still Get Hated.
THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK:
Best way to sandbox an AI is to put it on a Delta flight – it will have no chance of accessing the Internet!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2026
In-flight Starlink ought to be industry standard — it’s just that good.
CHANGE: Airbus A350F Makes First Flight. “Airbus’ next-generation A350F freighter, which the manufacturer confirmed to be under development in July 2021, has finally conducted its maiden flight.”
TOP-HEAVY: Hegseth to double cuts to generals, admirals in major Pentagon shakeup. “War Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce plans to reduce by 20% the number of positions reserved for generals and admirals during his State of the Force address on Wednesday.”
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO HATE WHAT GOVERNMENT DOES TO CAPITALISM:
"Gen Z voters hate capitalism—but they’ve barely even seen it…look at where their pain is concentrated: education, housing and health care…the most regulated, subsidized sectors of the American economy, and therefore the least like capitalism" https://t.co/Cn5sGB8GBA
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) September 30, 2026
COFFEE, IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Since it’s National Coffee Day, let’s talk about this massive study that says coffee helps women age better.
I’m not impressed with that. Humans anthromorphize everything. Cars, boats; research even shows kids see Alexa and Roombas as moral beings. Even Tim The Pencil.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Anti-Gun Orgs Bullied YouTube Into Squeezing Gun Content Creators Even Harder. “Gun control advocates appear to have succeeded in pushing YouTube to change its policies to restrict firearm-related content and tighten its rules governing manufacturer-supported videos. Is it just a coincidence? The implications extend beyond whether “GunTubers” can publish a product review. They reach the increasingly consequential question of when independent firearm coverage becomes corporate advertising.”
DANIEL GREENFIELD: Bari Weiss is Destroying CBS News.
It would be awful indeed if Bari Weiss were to tamper with the journalistic legacy of CBS greats like Walter Cronkite, Les Moonves (accused of forcing a woman into oral sex), former 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager (accused of sexually harassing women), former 60 Minutes correspondent Charlie Rose (accused of sexually harassing women), former 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt (accused of sexually harassing women) making “accused of sexually harassing women” into an official requirement for CBS News legends.
At least there was Dan Rather, who broke the network’s curse of sexually harassing women by merely trying to pass off a Microsoft Word document as if it had come from the Vietnam War.
Obviously, Bari Weiss doesn’t belong at CBS News. She hasn’t even raped anyone yet.
Read the whole thing.
When Dick Ebersol returned to produce Saturday Night Live after Jean Dumainian’s disastrous stint replacing Lorne Michaels in 1980, one of his first hires was original head writer Michael O’Donoghue, who returned because he wanted to give the show a “‘decent Viking funeral.’ He thought it would be fun to see the show go out in a blaze of glory, to make one last courageous charge into the banal maw of network TV,” according to Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad in their 1986 book, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. With the legacy media fading into senescence in general, perhaps Weiss can actually accomplish a well-deserved Götterdämmerung at the formerly self-described “Tiffany Network.”
