DON’T BET ON IT: Is Mark Cuban FINALLY Figuring Out His Side Is Nuts?

NOT EVEN A GENTLEMAN’S C: Harvard Professor Faces Backlash for Allegedly Using AI to Draft Anti-Trump Op-Ed.

A Harvard professor is facing scrutiny after critics alleged that a Financial Times opinion piece he authored criticizing President Trump was largely produced with artificial intelligence, with some online commentators dismissing it as “slop.”

The column, written by Ricardo Hausmann, a former Venezuelan government minister and Harvard Kennedy School academic, was published Thursday and has since been updated with an editor’s note from the FT.

“It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT and our own editorial involvement,” the note at the top of the article states.

“The FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,” the statement adds.

The disclosure followed a wave of criticism on social media, where readers flagged the op-ed — which took aim at Trump’s tariffs — for prose they described as awkward and unnaturally polished.

“Gotta be the worst AI slop I’ve seen in a major publication,” one user wrote on X.

But did it contain any references to Madagascar?

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB:

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.”

“But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy,… pic.twitter.com/K4PHXZBbmG

— Documenting Saylor (@saylordocs) August 16, 2026

OH: Expert and FDA Commissioner Flagged Adverse COVID Shot Events for Fauci in Early 2021.

RACISM IS SUCH A RARE COMMODITY DOMESTICALLY THAT WE HAVE TO IMPORT IT:

Why are we bringing foreigners to our country to break our civil rights laws? https://t.co/ksyDWujl3d

— Katya Sedgwick (@KatyaSedgwick) August 16, 2026

HE’S JUST DOING THE HIT-AND-RUNS AMERICANS WON’T DO:

This story gets crazier. The Mayor of Lawrence, left court today in a Dodge Charger and rammed into another car and left the scene. Same Mayor that can't speak English, and stole $1.5M in covid money. https://t.co/kGWRp0O6o5 pic.twitter.com/JvoCF11yJo

— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) August 15, 2026

Oh, and also the theft.

HE LEFT OUT “POWER MAD,” BUT YEAH:

In fairness, starting with the socialism, you already know you’re dealing mostly with low intelligence, low historical or geopolitical literacy, and basically bumper sticker levels of logic and reasoning. So there’s that.

At the higher levels, simple manipulative deception, but… https://t.co/h6KR5ibqFr

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 15, 2026

THERE’S REALLY NO OTHER CONCLUSION TO DRAW — AND IT’S BEEN OBVIOUS FOR YEARS:

The British ruling class hates their own nation. https://t.co/TBZTabaU6j

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) August 15, 2026

TRANSPARENCY:

Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible https://t.co/eQMdoYlhkA

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 15, 2026

SPAIN: Forgot About Ceuta? These Latest Videos Look Pretty Third World.

OPERATION ECONOMIC FURY: US will hit Iran economically in ways ‘that have never been seen’ next week: ‘One-two punch.’

INDEED:

There's a bill sitting in the Senate that would address this problem. https://t.co/Pi3Hxde7td

— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) August 14, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Wet the Cop, Not the Bed. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn a brand-new way to fail the field sobriety test, what’s on the other side of that pond, and how Wyoming Man pretty much arrested himself.”

IT HELPS TO THINK OF THE MEDIA AS A NARRATIVE-ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM AND LITTLE ELSE:

🚨 Fmr. ABC News’ Terry Moran Says Fauci Shut Down Their COVID Lab Leak Story

“The day that it's supposed to air, it gets reviewed and it comes back to me — it is incomprehensible … I was told ‘Fauci’ … There was an organized campaign … to say there's no way there's a lab… pic.twitter.com/FM2Q6oe3m8

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) August 14, 2026

BECAUSE OF COURSE:

BREAKING: 15 Democratic Attorneys General are attempting to block Trump’s FERC energy reforms that would streamline infrastructure approvals and lower electricity costs, even as the states they represent have seen prices rise between 20% and 73% since 2020 due to left-wing green…

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 14, 2026

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Is It the End of the Line for Gavin 2028? “Gavin Newsom and his political party have been the ruination of California. Of course, you’ve been reading this for years in your West Coast, Messed Coast™ update, but now Newsom is taking his act to a national audience, and it’s not going so well.”

NIFTY: We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked.

Spacecraft designers have spent decades weighing shielding options, from aluminum hulls to water-filled walls to superconducting magnets that would deflect charged particles before they reach the crew. All of them run into the same challenge. “The question was how to use mass in a very efficient way,” Milstein says. “Mass is really the bottleneck—every gram counts.”

A shielding garment an astronaut could wear is simultaneously sensible and ridiculous. The ridiculous part was that, for a long time, people thought that a protective garment would need to look like full-plate armor in order to offer meaningful protection. It would presumably need to be made of lead or other high-density materials that would add mass and make moving around nearly impossible.

StemRad engineers, though, figured dressing as a medieval knight doesn’t really get you all that much. The human body, Milstein explains, isn’t uniformly vulnerable to radiation. “Tissues like the bone marrow are a lot more sensitive to radiation compared to the brain,” he says. Following this idea, StemRad developed a belt for nuclear first responders, worn around the hips, which hold roughly half the body’s bone marrow, the tissue that makes blood cells. Protecting even a fraction of the bone marrow lets a person regrow it and survive a high-dose exposure.

So, StemRad, working with Lockheed Martin, expanded this idea into a female vest that, aside from the hips, also covered the breasts, stomach, colon, and reproductive organs. These are all less immediately life-threatening when irradiated, but carry a long-term cancer risk.

The details are intriguing.

THANKS, FELLAS: One Year Later, Washington, D.C. Is a Safer Place Thanks to the National Guard.

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING: Armed Good Guy Successful in Miami Gardens When 2 Street Entrepreneurs’ Business Plan Goes Badly. “The pair approached the driver and tried to rob him at gunpoint. The driver, who just wanted to deliver an order of banana pudding, apparently unimpressed with their career choice and professional skills, produced his own firearm and abruptly ended the negotiation.”

KRUISER: WaPo’s Assessment of Potential 2028 Dem Field Reads Like a Program for a Sad Circus. “There are no centrists in the Democratic Party, not even relative to the Democratic Socialists of America. Also, as I’ve been writing all summer, the only real difference between the establishment Dems and the DSA upstarts is the average age of the people claiming to be one or the other. What WaPo is trying to do here is make it seem as if there has been some sort of Dem course correction by asserting that there are objective ideological differences in a party that hasn’t allowed them since Lyndon Johnson was a young racist.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Plaintiffs in NFA Challenge Press DOJ for Clarification After Injunction Takes Effect.

As of Thursday, certain people could buy suppressors and short-barreled long guns without a Form 1 from the ATF. While the tax stamp died, we still had to have those products registered with the feds to avoid breaking out in handcuffs. However, a federal court ruled that with the tax gone, the registration is unconstitutional, and a temporary stay in that ruling’s impact expired at midnight Wednesday. Thursday was a brand new world.

At least, it’s one on paper.

Right now, no one seems to know precisely what the hell any of it means. The people covered are numerous, but the people who aren’t covered are also numerous. Some gun stores aren’t covered, but individuals are. Then there are affiliated groups that have an exemption because they’re affiliated with a plaintiff organization, even if they weren’t part.

In theory.

What a mess.

BANK ON IT: ‘Woke 2.0’ Will Be More Radical, More Antisemitic, and Even Less Tolerant.

DUCT TAPE? After 50 Years, Physicists Find Strong Evidence For What Really Holds Matter Together.

WE’LL HAVE TO SMUGGLE THEM ARMS:

A civil war seems imminent in the UK. https://t.co/gUu2Z7TxHh

— Leo Knight (@primetimecrime) August 14, 2026

HMM: Another Country Turns on Cuba As Delcy Goes Rogue With Fidel Tribute.