JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: The AI singularity … then what?

Technically, you can’t know what’s on the other side of a singularity. If you can, it’s not a singularity.

HOW TO HANDLE DEMOCRATS WITH ANGER ISSUES:

🚨NEW: A Hawaiian man knocked out a Democratic congressional candidate with one punch after he allegedly threatened to shoot a woman at a Maui beach.

Police say Kirill Basin, 40, became enraged after a 61-year-old man asked him to lower his music.

Basin allegedly threatened to… pic.twitter.com/awddZb1aPz

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) August 4, 2026

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This is wild. Howard Bryant, the writer trying to smear Sophie Cunningham as "anti-trans and anti-black," was arrested for choking his white wife, then assaulting a police officer, and then blamed his arrest on — wait for it — racism. https://t.co/YBTmVpY39n pic.twitter.com/NnNi0LIzEJ

— Bobby Burack (@burackbobby_) August 4, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Make it your best.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: AI is ready to run spacecraft. Is the space industry ready for it?

SECURITY: Armed suspect arrested at SoCal golf course days before Trump’s visit.

Reminder:

Remember…

They don't kill you because you're a Nazi.

They call you a Nazi so they can kill you.

The Left’s rhetoric is encouraging their mentally ill supporters.

It’s all by design.

— C3 (@C_3C_3) August 4, 2026

OUR DECADENT CULTURE:

I just can’t get over this. She says women’s ambition should be encouraged while men’s ambition should be discouraged. I’m tired of people demonizing male ambition. They’ve been doing it for decades, then wonder why many young men are struggling today.https://t.co/u3nP5iydgL https://t.co/5pal0n1V0P pic.twitter.com/u876ahYRyv

— Lisa Britton (@LisaBritton) August 4, 2026

I’VE BEEN HEARING THAT ABOUT THE THYMUS FOR MY WHOLE LIFE: This Tiny Organ Plays a Far More Profound Role in Human Longevity Than We Realized, Study Finds.

IT JUST GETS BETTER:

Ohio State University?

This guy didn't just take Cambridge for a ride, he's fucking with them.

Question now is, not how long he stays, but who's he taking down with him?

To save their sociology department, they'll have to destroy it. https://t.co/JyjnnQ6m0h

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 4, 2026

THEY SAID THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: New Research Questions Decades of Low-Fat Dairy Advice. “The higher dairy groups also recorded lower blood pressure and consumed more calcium, protein and vitamin D, nutrients that support functions such as bone maintenance, muscle health and immune activity.”

Nina Planck was telling us not to worry about dairy a couple of decades ago.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut protein mapping captures microbial and host responses during intestinal inflammation.

ZOOM: I Road-Tripped the Lucid Gravity Grand Touring. Here’s My Experience with the 828-hp Family EV.

WE SHALL SEE.

If there's any silver lining to the current situation it is that the revolution in military affairs has made international aggression, at least for the present, a losing proposition. War is a dead end.

I think *China* understands just how difficult it will be to mount an…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 4, 2026

AMERICA IN 2026: The Great Sort in Action: Students Choosing Colleges Based on States’ (Gun) Politics.

HMM: California-led study finds shark-finning rules did little to curb global shark trade.

YOU’RE 99 AND A BIRTHDAY’S APPROACHING? 6 Signs You’re on Track to Live to 100, According to Longevity Experts.

I THINK IT IS: People are paying for assisted stretching. I tried it for two months to see if it’s worth it.

BURGERS AND FRIES, BEST THING FOR YOU! What Experts Are Eating and Avoiding During the Cyclosporiasis Outbreak.

DO WOMEN KNOW ABOUT SHRINKAGE? ‘Gym penis’ is real, says nurse — why it happens and when to see a professional.

SCIENCE: Penn professor claims ‘cisness’ is unnatural, ‘sex isn’t real’ in new book.

If you think sex isn’t real, you’re doing it wrong.

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: WVU closed DEI office, but faculty DEI toolkit remains online.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Fauci’s follies — time to toss the ‘science is settled’ groupthink.

DON SURBER: It’s the candidates, stupid: Democrat nominees are creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky. They’re all together ooky.

THIS IS NOT A RECIPE FOR SOCIETAL SUCCESS: Status matters so much for success in our world now because we so often just trust high status folks to run stuff, without much accountability re concrete performance metrics.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Democrats Want to Close the Prisons, Except Not for People Like You.

Socialism is not about making lives better or creating prosperity or security or any of those things. It’s about jerks living out their personal psychodramas while they get off on making you miserable.

Nothing demonstrates that more than the idea of defunding the police and getting rid of prisons. After all, you wicked normal people deserve to have thugs, junkies, murderers, rapists, and other Democrat constituencies turned on you to make you pay for the crime of being you. You need to understand the deep hate that lives within all these people, and that’s why, in every single leftist sector of society, you see the actual criminals not merely being ignored but being idolized. The DSA types would free these barbarians for the express purpose of allowing those barbarians to hurt you, because you deserve to be hurt. You deserve to be killed. You deserve to be raped. Why? Because these freaks don’t like you and it amuses them to see you in pain.

But there’s a practical side to it too. The old Soviet Union understood it. Regular criminals were victims of society, and you, being the foundation of society, need to be victimized in return. If you were a regular criminal, you were treated infinitely better than someone who committed a real crime, that is, a political crime. If you opposed the regime, then you were a real criminal.

Leftists still think that way.

IF THEY SUCCEED, THEY WILL BE JUDGED AND FOUND WANTING:

Bill Gurley on Anthropic: "I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity" https://t.co/H1DlxyuH1R pic.twitter.com/h3kAIpbUyp

— Ruben (@rdominguezibar) August 1, 2026

“Sinners in the hands of an angry AI” would be fun to write.