ICYMI:

It was clear last week that Talarico was trying to get ahead of some bad things coming, now they are arriving. https://t.co/ZhOm1WEZvD

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) September 16, 2026

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: James Talarico’s Lesbian Minister Just Outed Him.

HMM: Stealth Startup Kepler Computing Says It Cracked the AI Memory Shortage.

Kepler Computing has come out of stealth with the kind of claim the AI industry badly wants to believe. The San Jose startup says its ferroelectric memory approach can raise SRAM density, lower operating voltage and make high-bandwidth memory easier to build with existing semiconductor equipment. If it works, you get relief in a market where AI server demand is already pulling memory and storage supply away from almost everyone else.

That’s a large if.

According to Wired’s report on Kepler, the company was founded in 2018 by CEO Debo Olaosebikan and CTO Sasi Manipatruni, and the team went through 35 versions of its composite material before settling on the class it now plans to take into production. Manipatruni told Wired, “We came up with a material innovation that helps with the amount of memory you can have between chips.” The line is technical, but the business point is plain enough: Kepler is trying to put more memory closer to compute without asking the industry to build an entirely new kind of fab.

Material science breakthroughs are common in slide decks. They are rarer in fabs.

But: “Kepler’s pitch is stronger than the usual lab-result story because GlobalFoundries is already involved. Wired reported that Kepler and GlobalFoundries converted a fab line to next-generation status in eight months, compared with about 24 months for a typical conversion.”

I’ve had the upgrade itch for a while now, but RAM prices have kept me from scratching it. A little price relief would be welcome all around, provided they can pull this off.

HOW DARE YOU SHARE MY PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF A MURDER:

🚨 WTF?! The University of Utah student who CELEBRATED Charlie Kirk’s assassination in a viral photo is now trying to get Rylie, the patriotic student who called her out, EXPELLED@UUtah better choose their next steps WISELY unless they want DOJ involved

Support @Rylieparis05!… https://t.co/gNE2tnGCp0

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 15, 2026

INDEED:

If cars were invented today, there's no way in hell the establishment would let ordinary people own or drive them.

— texel (@TexelElf) September 16, 2026

If the proles can’t be trusted with something by today’s elites, that’s all the more reason they should have it.

MOOD INDIGO: Getting used to tyranny.

Just now, in the California gulag, a law was enacted to forbid the watering of “decorative” grasses, regardless of drought conditions. But it’s okay. We’ve become sort of used to it.

My sense of self-worth, however, resents being told what to do with my water. Sometimes I think of sustaining other non-essential plants…and even taking a shower or washing dishes. But the self-anointed geniuses have already enacted a statute that limits household daily water consumption to 55 gallons per resident for “internal” use, not including landscape irrigation. Since nobody knows how many residents are at any particular address, let alone what water is used indoors versus in the garden, the same “rulers” put the burden of enforcement on the local water districts. Thus far, such authorities have looked the other way.

All this has been done in order to compensate for avoiding the most obvious way of dealing with this issue: increasing reservoir storage capacity and building coastal desalination plants next to nuclear power generating facilities, as has been done near Carlsbad.

Why are we being governed by such stupid jerks? Answer: because we allow it.

Read the whole thing.

HMM:

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese criminal gangs with links to the CCP have built an illegal cannabis empire in Siskiyou County, California. They're generating $2 billion a year in revenues and criminal growers are now 20% of the entire population.

Gavin Newsom is doing nothing to stop them. pic.twitter.com/w4hdf9VyEs

— Christopher Rufo (@christopherrufo) September 16, 2026

As an old internet acquaintance asked, “Maybe Gavin is on commission?”

INCREASINGLY: Midterm Polls Come With an Asterisk.

THAT CERTAINLY SEEMS EXCESSIVE: A $95,000 Fine for Transporting a 6-Pack of Beer Defies the Eighth Amendment, a Supreme Court Brief Argues. “State troopers discovered the beer before the plane took off, and Jouppi was convicted of a misdemeanor. The trial court, which concluded that Jouppi had been ‘willfully blind’ to the six-pack, sentenced him to three days in jail and a $1,500 fine. But state law mandated another punishment that was 63 times as severe: forfeiture of Jouppi’s $95,000 airplane. Although that penalty seemed grossly disproportionate, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that it did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines.”

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS TEACHING REMEDIAL ALGEBRA:

Today in things literally nobody could possibly be surprised about if they have been paying even the slightest bit of attention. https://t.co/12euyfz4id

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) September 16, 2026

IT’S RARELY THAT SIMPLE, BUT THIS IS AN EXCELLENT RULE OF THUMB: AI Regulation: If Bill Gates Is for It, I’m Against It. But Is It That Simple?

CORN, POPPED:

The intent to violate the statute is there. THis is no different than the use of straw donors in making contributions.

I think this guy and his group have a bigger problem than he imagines. Creating "evading" of federal law is just another word for "conspiracy."

This might… https://t.co/YDApahhVN4

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) September 16, 2026

SOMEHOW, THIS FAILED TO GET MUCH COVERAGE LAST WEEK: RFK Jr. Indicts Modern Democrat Party. “So I’m 72 years old, and for 70 years of my life, I would have bet any amount of money that I would not be addressing a Republican convention. The irony of my presence here is inescapable.”

THE PROTESTORS NEED GUNS: Iranian Security Forces Prepare for Anniversary of Anti-Hijab Protests

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Judge Blocks Maryland From Enforcing Prohibition On Concealed Carry in Silver Spring Synagogue. “The pair of decisions by Senior U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow came down last Thursday as another federal judge weighs the Department of Justice’s challenge to Montgomery County’s new gun prohibitions. The lawsuits are all challenging the county’s ban on sale, transfer, possession, or transport of firearms and ammunition within 100 yards of a ‘place of public assembly.'”

MESSAGE SENT:

Tak wyglądało wczoraj wejście do budynku Parlamentu Europejskiego w Strasburgu. Grupa rekonstrukcyjna z Polski przypomniała o tym, że 12 września 1683 r. Jan III Sobieski uratował Wiedeń przed Turkami. Tu mój tekst w @euronews o tym: https://t.co/zsz0iIXzbv pic.twitter.com/oJTft2o6q0

— Dominika Cosic (@dominikacosic) September 16, 2026

Translation: “This is what the entrance to the European Parliament building in Strasbourg looked like yesterday. A reenactment group from Poland reminded us that on September 12, 1683, Jan III Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks.”

But was the message received?

Also: X’s auto-translate feature is a marvel, but why doesn’t it work in embeds?

DON’T KNOW, DON’T CARE: Liberal Millionaires: Wait, What Is Free Speech Again?

PERHAPS, BUT THEY ALLOW THE HOUTHI PROBLEM TO PERSIST: Saudi pipeline closure is a brief interruption that will last days, U.S. Energy secretary tells CNBC.

CHANGE: Rubio Redirects Millions in Military Money Away From Europe and the Middle East.

SOME CULTURES FAIL TO MEASURE UP SO BADLY THAT THEY HAVE TO DENY THAT OTHER CULTURES EVEN EXIST:

I discovered that the lady who went on Australian national television the other day and said that white Australians have no culture is in fact the daughter of a Sudanese warlord who abducted and enslaved hundreds of child soldiers, dozens of whom starved to death

Human Rights… https://t.co/TEuOfPFJsX pic.twitter.com/2xcly4hwSp

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) September 16, 2026

YEAH, NO: Republican Rep. Massie moves to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth over Iran war.

Congressman Massie, a long-time critic of the Trump administration, read the articles of impeachment aloud from the House floor just after the chamber convened at noon. Massie alleges that Hegseth has waged the Iran war illegally, among other “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Massie alleges that Hegseth initiated the conflict unlawfully, defied Congress’ order to withdraw from the conflict and incurred unnecessary civilian casualties.

Massie has repeatedly clashed with members of his own party in recent years and is ending his time in office after losing his primary to an opponent backed by President Trump. Massie’s clashes with Trump extend beyond the war with Iran. Working alongside Democrat Ro Khanna of California, Massie led the successful effort to compel the Trump administration to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Republicans in theory have enough votes to defeat the proposal, though it could be a complicated vote for their members in competitive elections districts.

It’s weird how NPR’s Eric McDaniel put in that last point without ever mentioning that Massie just got primaried out by Republican voters fed up with his TDS.

THIS IS FINE BUT SYDNEY SWEENEY BEING PRETTY ISN’T?

If you’d like a preview of the 2028 Dem presidential debates, this is the hill AOC is currently defending https://t.co/79ocne2PWK pic.twitter.com/b5FYAdkkDX

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) September 16, 2026

For reference:

Sydney Sweeney phone wallpapers pic.twitter.com/BZHisafSYj

— Sydney Sweeney (@sweeneyllll) September 11, 2026

CATHERINE SALGADO: Ex-Muslim Exposes ‘Poison’ Now ‘Injected Into the West.’

IT’S THE SAME OLD SONG, BUT WITH A DIFFERENT MEANING NOW THAT THE CHANGE IS GONE:

As you get older, you become allergic to this doomer bullshit, because you’ve seen a million doomsday prophecies fail to ever materialize, and you realize…they’re just constantly lying. https://t.co/GlqrOTbpQO

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 16, 2026

I HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO, BUT…: Colorado’s aerospace industry fears it may be losing ground.

Colorado’s aerospace and defense industry has soared above other states for years but it may be losing ground and risks poachers, especially from the southern Sun Belt states, according to a new report commissioned by the Colorado Chamber Foundation.

“Stakeholders believe that we remain a globally influential hub (but) also say the industry is being taken for granted and that the state is coasting on momentum,” Rachel Beck, executive director, said at an event Thursday to share findings with local aerospace executives from firms like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. “And they warn that the state’s historical advantages are dissipating and that our business climate is eroding.”

The report, conducted by consulting firm Economic Leadership in North Carolina, was similar to past Chamber reports intended to spotlight how state regulations and policies are negatively impacting the business community. But this was different from the Chamber relocation report in April that cited 98 companies that have left Colorado since 2019. It noted the aerospace industry still punches above its weight.

But: “Colorado’s 14.4% aerospace job growth landed the state in the bottom half of the nation, as the 26th fastest growth rate last year. South Carolina topped the list at 37.4%, according to data crunched by consultants at Economic Leadership in North Carolina.”

Full background on my state’s rapid decline here: ‘F’ Is for Democrat: Colorado’s Collapse Under One-Party Rule.