Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

EVERYTOWN SHOULD CHOKE ON ITS OWN PROPAGANDA: ‘I’m Sorry, Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Give You The Gun-Related Information You’re Looking For.’

It’s possible we’re one step closer to a future “open the pod bay doors” moment, with a report that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has allegedly just changed its “commerce policy” with respect to firearms.

Recently, we warned that an Everytown “white paper,” published on September 28, was demanding that AI companies censor and block access to AI-stored information when responding to queries related to firearms, even if the information is entirely lawful and accurate, and divert all such inquiries to local law enforcement.

We hardly expected that AI companies would capitulate so quickly.

Well, they’re run by lefty control freaks with contempt for normals.

NONE SO BLIND:

INCENTIVES MATTER:

THIN-SKINNED MERZ CAN’T HANDLE MOCKERY: In Germany, the police will start a manhunt for a person who calls a politician “fat.” Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, has filed somewhere between “hundreds” and thousands of complaints, with attached criminal penalties possible, over people insulting him online.

Okay, it was another German politician, Ricarda Lang, who sent police after someone for calling her fat. But “Fat Freddy” does have a ring to it, though judging by recent photos he’s not actually overweight.

SHE’S JUST THE ANDREW TATE OF THE FEMOSPHERE:

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Europe’s Space Rider vehicle comes crashing down during drop test. “The incident occurred during an Oct. 6 drop test of the full-scale Space Rider model, from the European Space Agency (ESA). The robotic vehicle’s initial drogue parachute deployed successfully, but its main parafoil detached during deployment, leaving the prototype unable to slow its descent before crashing into the ground, according to ESA officials. The cause of the failure remains under investigation.”

Still a few bugs in the system.

ICYMI:

HAHAHA:

IT’S NOT THAT THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT’S IN THE VIDEOS, IT’S THAT THEY HOPE YOU DON’T KNOW.

ANNALS OF CRAZY LEFTIST WOMEN: A Florida Attorney Walks Into a Mississippi Gun Store . . .

White identified herself to an employee as a protester and activist who wanted to buy a gun to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to the criminal complaint. White told employees she wanted a firearm for protection at a protest because she believed “ICE agents are becoming crazy and wild,” according to the complaint. She also told employees she was an activist and protester.

During her interactions with employees, White gestured toward her torso and asked whether the firearms for sale would penetrate an agent’s body armor, the complaint says. If they could not, she told an employee she would need to “hit them in the head, shoulder, arm or leg.”

“It probably won’t surprise you to hear that, not only did the dealer not sell her a firearm, but the store contacted ATF.”