Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 17, 2026
CAUSE AND EFFECT, WHICH ORDER DO THEY GO IN?
The timing on this story is interesting because Trump *actually* canceled this contract with CC two weeks ago, before the kerfluffle with the pope took place.
Kinda makes it seem like the kerfluffle is a *response* to Trump taking steps to stop the flow of "refugees" https://t.co/vJOy8q00ws
— Theophilus Chilton (Scots-Irish Supremacist) 🇺🇲 (@Theo_Chilton) April 16, 2026
We don’t just have the worst media; we have the worst of all possible media.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: How Dangerous is Mythos? Why Did Anthropic Decide Not to Release the New Model?
Anthropic’s Mythos has been able to independently complete a whole set of attack processes. From discovering zero-day vulnerabilities, writing exploit code, to linking multiple steps to access core systems, tasks that originally required top hackers to collaborate for long periods have been compressed to hours or even minutes.
This is also why, at the moment the model was disclosed, Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell would convene Wall Street firms to ask them to conduct ‘self-checks.’ When the ability to discover vulnerabilities is released on a large scale, the financial system faces not sporadic attacks, but continuous scanning.
The deeper change lies in the supply structure. In the past, vulnerability discovery relied on the experience accumulation of a few security teams and hackers, which was slow and non-replicable. Now, this capability is beginning to be output in bulk by models, lowering the threshold for both attacks and defenses. A metaphor from an insider is very straightforward: giving the model to an ordinary hacker is akin to equipping them with special operations capabilities.
Developing…
THE SAME COULD BE SAID ABOUT THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE MED, SAVE ISRAEL — AND THERE’S A LESSON IN THAT:
In 1955, Algeria had 1 million Catholics and 140,000 Jews. Today there are 8,000 Catholics in Algeria and fewer than 200 Jews.
Christians and Jews had lived in Algeria since Roman times. Now they’re gone.https://t.co/BvwwQ15dYk
— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) April 16, 2026
JOURNALISMING: WaPo Mystified About Why No One Ever Noticed That Swalwell Was a Creeper. “One thing that modern ;journalists; do very well is blame other people for their propaganda-fueled derelictions of duty. The Jake Tappers of the world insisted that they were kept in the dark about Biden’s condition by his staff and the Democratic National Committee. Apparently, none of them owned televisions or had internet. Tapper even wrote a book about it. Bonus money for being awful at his job, then lying about it — not a bad gig if you are free from the burden of integrity.”
Read the whole thing.
CRUEL BUT FAIR:
This is a bit like my wife and me meeting to discuss the unsuitability of a particular lunar landing location. https://t.co/OYM8Avtb54
— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) April 17, 2026
CARE TO HELP US SPEED THINGS ALONG IN IRAN YET, FELLAS? Europe has ‘maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,’ energy agency head warns. “If we are not able to open the Strait of Hormuz … I can tell you soon we will hear the news that some of the flights from city A to city B might be canceled as a result of lack of jet fuel.”
What do you mean “we,” Kemosabe?
Related:
But remember, Iran is not Kier Starmer’s war. https://t.co/b56IYJAIBD
— Victoria Coates (@VictoriaCoates) April 16, 2026
It’s been the Islamic Republic vs. the West for 47 years.
OL’ BLUE EYES NEVER LEFT, AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED:
This is wonderful, a young Sinatra on anti-semitism in what is really the perfect YouTube short.
Frank Sinatra Teaches Kids About Religious Tolerance – The House I Live … https://t.co/Pc9otbYdCu via @YouTube
— Mark Simon (@MarkSimonHK) April 17, 2026
THIS SCAM LONG PREDATES GAVIN NEWSOM:
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Gavin Newsom has just been caught spending $1.5 MILLION of his OWN PAC money to buy his OWN book, artificially boosting sales
He then USED those sales to ask for donations 🤡
A whopping TWO THIRDS of his book sales came from himself
You can't make this crap up 😭 pic.twitter.com/fwtr934m2H
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 17, 2026
I’m not sure exactly when the political memoir industry turned into another lefty grift operation, but it’s hardly anything more than that now.
Seriously, does anyone read these things?
CHANGE: Gov. Lee signs joint resolution to change ‘Pride Month’ to ‘Nuclear Family Month’ in Tennessee.
The WBIR News 10 report by Kaitlin Riordan in the link is one helluva smear-job.
MAKE THEM PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES:
Neve deleting this app 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/OFPNjXvsAS
— Yanky 🇺🇲 (@Yanky_Pollak) April 16, 2026
We need to have a talk about flight and electricity, too.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Chuck Schumer Is Now Driving His Own Clown Car. “Eric Swalwell’s protracted exit from politics has preoccupied the Democrats of late, which has pushed Schumer and his troubles into the background. One of my longstanding beliefs about Schumer is that, despite having risen to the top of Dem leadership, he’s one of the dumbest people in the Senate — think East Coast Mazie Hirono.”
SO LONG, CITI BIKE:
A Citi Bike ride shouldn’t cost a penny more than a subway or bus ride. We’ve got a bill to cap e-bike fees at $3 and end Citi Bike-flation. pic.twitter.com/LpVv5SmPDE
— Lincoln Restler (@LincolnRestler) April 16, 2026
When the bikes lack maintenance and eventually start disappearing, it will be just another case of “bad luck.”
Unexpectedly, of course.
TO BE FAIR, IT’S A THREAT TO PEOPLE ANYWHERE: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America.
WELL, THEY ARE:
You actually don't have to treat people who suggest that there was a genocide in Gaza as serious, reasonable people. You really just can call them retarded.
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 16, 2026
ICYMI: Sorry, Britain, but You’re Just Another Europoor Country Now.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Don Surber: Brits poorer than Mississippians. But the British refuse to believe they are poor.
If the Brits ever admitted what has been done to them, they’d have to do something about it.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:
Still blows me away the press held this until he wasn’t needed anymore. Really tells you how completely cooked we are as a country that it’s all this corrupt and fixed. https://t.co/PlnCUMkhhe
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) April 16, 2026
…it’s never enough.
HMM: Trump to sign executive order on psychedelic drug used abroad to treat PTSD.
The White House is drafting an executive order that would signal the Trump administration’s willingness to further U.S. research into a drug called ibogaine.
Ibogaine, a naturally occurring compound from a shrub native to Africa, is used to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and brain trauma.
Because it’s illegal in the United States, Americans have been traveling to unregulated clinics, often in Mexico or the Caribbean, to take the drug.
The Trump administration doesn’t plan to reclassify the drug for medical use at this time — it will remain a Schedule I drug.
President Trump intends to sign the executive order as soon as this week, two of the sources said.
Almost anything might be an improvement. There hasn’t been a PTSD drug approved by the FDA since Paroxetine (Paxil) in 2001.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
The "overlap" between Christianity and Islam is simply that Muhammad, in an attempt to give credibiilty to his degenerate "religion," appropriated some Biblical figures, often getting the key details wrong.
There is no actual overlap or spiritual relation between the two. https://t.co/HY8MkUwixD
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 15, 2026
Claude Lévi-Strauss took a lot of heat when he described Islam as “a barracks religion,” but broadly speaking, he pretty much nailed it.
AT THE PRESIDENTIAL LEVEL, IN 1992: When Did America Quit Electing Adults? “Here are some examples. This is Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, who’s in a panic because she never saw hail before, I guess.”
April 16, 2026
TEACHERS WHO TEACH? Train teachers to teach — not to be guides on the side. “For 30 years, teachers were trained to be ‘guides on the side,’ helping students ‘construct understanding,’ writes Chris O’Brien on Never Stop Learning. They weren’t trained to teach. Now teachers fear being replaced by robots who will explain, model and assess. Humans may be allowed to stick around as counselors.”
MOVING AT THE SPEED OF GOVERNMENT:
You could open 46 Aldi grocery stores for this amount of money and much, much quicker.
Government sucks.
It has no business opening a grocery store because it can't … government creates nothing.It only takes. https://t.co/3rdPBaNHk5
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 16, 2026
If you’re going to spend $30 million just to not open one grocery store for three years — assuming no delays! — then the money isn’t going to a grocery store.