ALSO CORRECT:  The Deconstruction of Scotty as an Indictment of Our Times. Competence is invisible on screen. What fills the gap reveals what the culture has lost.

I’D LIKE TO BE SKEPTICAL ABOUT THIS:  What if the largest experiment on human beings in history is a failure? A report from an Indiana life insurance company raises serious concerns.

UNLESS HE CAN PROVE IT, IT COULD BE PARALLEL DISCOVERY:  OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT:  Other People’s Words, Sept. 2026.

I HAVE TO SAY TOLERANCE SHOULD GO BOTH WAYS:  Guest Author: Hillbilly on Religious Tolerance and Mosques in Your Neighborhood.

HARD TO TELL, BUT THE COVIDIOCY WAS AN ATTACK ON US BY OUR OWN INSTITUTIONS:  What Event Was More Catastrophic – Covid or 9-11?  One might argue the government’s RESPONSE to both events was equally devastating. Basically, the experts and our ‘leaders’ made things far worse than they needed to be.

APPARENTLY ONLY THE ‘RIGHT’ SORT OF PEOPLE CAN DONATE TO CAMBRIDGE:  I set up a scholarship for students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, only for Cambridge to accuse me of “racism”.

OTHER BUREAUCRATS WOULD REALLY LIKE THIS ALSO:  Australia’s top bureaucrats want protection from ‘harmful’ social media videos. The clips can ‘invite ridicule’ of public officials.

Including ours.

THE PEOPLE TELLING YOU AI IS DANGEROUS HAVE FAILED AT EVERY PREDICTION:  This was obviously true as soon as the early LLM systems a few years ago became good enough that if you tried Eliezer Yudkowsky’s stupid “get my mother out of the burning building” thought experiment on them, they explained how they would reasonably rescue her rather than (say) ejecting her at mach 3 into a wall which was what he claimed they might do just as easily. Once you could type into an AI “if you needed to save my mother from a burning building, what would you do” and a reasonable answer popped out, it was clear that this particular problem was no longer at the top of the list.

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RAISE WARRIORS, NOT HOTHOUSE FLOWERS. IT’S HARDER. ALSO MORE REWARDING:  QotD: The spiritual immune system.

IT’S TIME TO STEP BACK FROM THE ABYSS OF INSANITY:  This is Not Justice or Compassion–This is Insanity.

THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED:  We Remember. In September.

IT’S A TRAP!  This Los Angeles company will freeze a woman’s eggs for free … with a diabolical catch.

LISTEN TO THE BELLS. IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP:  What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell Us. After 25 years, it is time for the West to face the true cause of 9/11.

IF YOU’RE SURPRISED YOU HAVEN’T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION:  Ilhan Omar ‘married her brother’ and could be deported: DHS secretary.

THAT THERE AREN’T A DOZEN SONGS ABOUT THIS IS A MEASURE OF WHAT WE’D ALREADY LOST:  “Let’s roll!”

I REMEMBER THIS:  I was told by a number of “Based Trad” lunatics on here that we have to align with these people, because the Jews made them a bad bagel sandwich or something I’m good. Hard pass.

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I’ll also pass, thank you so much.

SO SHOCKED. MY SHOCKED FACE RUNNETH OVER: Cuban doctors claim they were forced into slavery as propaganda for the Communist regime — seek $129M in new lawsuit.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  Imagine it’s the 1940s. You’re a carpenter. Power tools are beginning to replace hand tools for ordinary work. Furthermore, jobs that would have been impossible or ruinously expensive are suddenly within reach. You show up at a worksite one fine morning and it’s being picketed. STOP POWER TOOLS! the signs say. WOODWORKING UNDER THREAT! Puzzled, you accost one of the demonstrators and ask him why he has a signboard in his hand rather than tools.

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IN MANY WAYS IT’S GOTTEN WORSE:  25 Years On. And not enough has been fixed.

But we are finally fighting back.

ON SATURDAY I RUN A MEME POST: I was too busy to share in a timely manner, but here it is:  laissez faire, Laissez Memer!

I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING IN, BUT GOOD FRIENDS DO, AND YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT: The 2026 BasedCon Based Book Sale. Runs Today through Tuesday, September 15, 2026.

THE BREAK IS STILL RAW AND BLEEDING:  The Rift Across Our World.

FOR CERTAIN VALUES OF ‘GREATEST’:  An American Professor Is Calling Mao ‘Perhaps the Greatest Historical Figure of the 20th Century’.

Academia in its present form is a walking corpse that simply hasn’t fallen over. Yet.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOREVER PEEING ON YOUR LEG TO CONVINCE YOU IT’S RAINING:  No One Believes Mark Kelly’s Story About Getting a Letter From a Fellow Airline Passenger.