IF WE’RE GOING TO CATALOGUE HER HYPOCRISY WE’LL NEVER BE DONE:  Understanding Michelle Obama’s Gun Hypocrisy.

AI SAFETY IS THE ENEMY:  Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug. “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that” is an effective sales pitch for open source.

OH, THEY TRY:  The neverending cries of crisis.

THERE IS DEFINITELY A ZEITGEIST THING GOING ON:  Of Swine and Men.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Norway Went Hunting for a Chinese Kill Switch in a Bus. It Found Out Every Connected Vehicle Already Has One.

MORE!  More than 200,000 migrants have taken Trump up on his offer to get paid for self-deporting. White House officials, including Stephen Miller, reportedly pressured the Department of Homeland Security to boost the numbers.

WORSE THAN INFANTILE NONSENSE. IT’S POISONING BY STORY:  These guys have a game they play where they propose the worst solutions imaginable, and if you reject their solutions, they act like you have no plan to defeat the Left at all. I’ve read your idiot manifesto, Charles. Your plan calls for us to lose on purpose, to accelerate the destruction of the United States, kick off a civil war, and somehow build something better from the ashes. Other solutions from your tribe include burning the Constitution and installing a new Franco. It’s all infantile nonsense.

X-cancel.

Look, movies and the media and even “historians’ have sold us on the idea a lot of things are inevitable. They’re not. For each “this worked” there are a million outcomes that are unimaginably bad.

POOR AFRICA, BEING THE RECIPIENT OF ALL THIS “HELP”:  They gave millions of mosquito nets out to all these people to avoid malaria. Guess what the people who are starving to death did with their mosquito nets. They fished with them.

X-cancel.

UNLESS THEY’RE LYING WITH THEM:  Socialist Do Not Understand Numbers.

APPARENTLY A LOT OF US ARE REALIZING LIBERALISM IS THE LUXURY:  Support for capital punishment is the opposite of a luxury belief.

WE CAN BE MERCIFUL BECAUSE AS A SOCIETY WE’RE RICH BEYOND THE DREAMS OF AVARICE:  A Costly Indulgence.

REALLY? SHE CARRIED ON WITH HIM DESPITE HIS BEING… WELL… GAVIN?  WHO’D HAVE THUNK IT?  Gavin Newsom’s ex-mistress drops bombshell essay on affair that nearly destroyed him.

I’m so old I remember when most straight women found men attractive. Not… whatever Gavin is.

BY HIS ENEMIES SHALL HE BE KNOWN:  Ron DeSantis: Fauci’s Criticism Is a ‘Badge of Honor’.

SCOTT GOTTLIEB OPTED FOR THE SGT SCHULTZ DEFENSE:  Why a Former FDA Official Got Very Uncomfortable During This Interview on CNBC.

THE SHEAR (SIC) GALL OF BUREAUCRATS DECIDING WHAT IS A SKILLED TEMPORARY WORKER:  The Maggot in the Fleece. Whitehall will admit almost anyone. Except the seventy-five men we actually need.

IT’S BEEN LIKE THIS FOR A LONG TIME, AND IT’S TRENDING WORSE: If you love your kids, get them off public (and most private) schools and if it’s at all possible homeschool them. My story about pulling our son out of NC public schools to homeschool him reached far more people than I expected.

x-cancel.

TIME ITSELF DOES THE BURNING, THOUGH:  Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (I don’t think so, not this time.)  But no matter what, the Library of Alexandria is still burning.

WHY DID YOU THINK THEY’D GO QUIETLY?  DEI hiring boost for one blue state’s Muslim commission initiative flies in face of Trump’s anti-woke push.  The 11-member body would recommend American Muslims for appointed positions across Massachusetts state government.

IT VINDICATES WHAT I SAW IN COLORADO ELECTIONS IN 2012:  NJ Republican says motor voter scandal vindicates years of election integrity warnings, pushes for legislative probe. State Sen. Kristin Corrado argues officials dismissed concerns about New Jersey’s automatic voter registration system and is urging a comprehensive audit of the state’s voter rolls.

And seriously, in the name of all that’s holy, who thought allowing people to register to vote without proof of citizenship or sometimes without proof of identity was a good thing? I can’t explain this to my foreign relatives, who have decided there must be something else going on, because the idea is so bizarrely stupid. Even they don’t do that, and let me tell you–

GOOD:  Sen. Rand Paul Releases Document Trove Detailing Pre-Pandemic Biosecurity Breaches.

THIS MIGHT AS WELL BE SANSKRIT TO ME:  Summary: there is an extremely subtle bug in the Linux kernel (not a security hole, just a bug) that was causing a rare segmentation fault in ripgrep. US AI models refused to help Daniel debugging it for “safety reasons”. Thus, he was forced to use Chinese open source models to find the problem — which he successfully tracked down given their help. A real shame that he couldn’t use American models to find the problem.

But it was sent by a tech friend, and I understand it’s news some of you can use.

Oh, yeah: X-Cancel link.

I DISAGREE WITH FRANCIS: Pangram and Substack, why the whining?  My suspicious brain thinks it could be that they don’t want to be found out.

What do I disagree with? Well… first, that using AI detection tools is a good thing. In my experience, including various experiments I’ve run, they are about as good as early COVID tests, and therefore I discourage them for the same reason. If your results are as good as flipping a coin, and if people are going to do the stupid in answer to the test: DON’T DO IT. (Not that I’m going to disable it in my substacks. Couldn’t be bothered.)

Second, I disagree with him on the “tells” of AI. I have found a lot of tells myself (Look, my guilty pleasure if JAFF which at this point is almost all AI written) including an unhinged love for all forms of the verb “perform” used in the most bizarre places and times. Also a certain confusion about how many parents go into making a human which leads to sentences such as “inherited her eyes from one of her fathers.” This stuff seems to crop up consistently, as does an inability to understand physicality or distance. BUT sentence structure and cadence is mostly going to ping all the writers that AI was trained on.  Writers like me whom Anthropic wholesale used as training material. And seriously, people, I was abusing the English language long before AI was a twinkle in a server’s eye. My bizarre tricks of construction are very much the mark of a human being. Also if we’re going to chase sentence structure, there is a lot of room to find witches everywhere.

Mostly I’m tired of all the nonsense. There’s good and there’s bad. There’s entertaining or not. How it’s produced is a matter of complete indifference to me.

Only if you’re using a clanker to write JAFF, can you please for the sake of all that’s holy edit out all the performing? The rest is sometimes hilarious, but the performing is just tedious.

CALIFORNIA DESERVES TO BURN; OR AT LEAST ITS POLITICIANS DO:  California’s War on Goats Could Worsen the Wildfire Crisis. Standard minimum wage and overtime laws now apply to the state’s goat herders, whose animals clear brush and reduce fire danger. The costs are unsustainable.

OF COURSE IT DOES:  Trash “Art” Exhibit Trashes Martin Luther King’s Dream with Racial Agitprop.

SO WE DON’T FORGET:  D-Day: A vast plan built on a grand heritage.