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Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 3, 2026
YOU HAD TO BE THERE TO UNDERSTAND:
People who lived through the 1980s have that thousand-yard stare. Like they went through some serious shit watching Family Ties, man.
— G (@stevensongs) September 3, 2026
UPDATE (From Ed):
When someone tries to tell me the 80s were traumatic. pic.twitter.com/lrYzk0Y1My
— Casey Mattox (@CaseyMattox_) September 3, 2026
MILLIONS OF US WANTED TO SAY THIS: President Trump Was Just Asked About Harry and Meghan Leaving the U.S., and Stand Back.
HEY, BIG SPENDER: Elon Musk’s America PAC Discloses First Wave Of Spending On Midterm Senate Races. “In July, the New York Times reported that Elon Musk has authorized America PAC to spend between $100 million and $120 million to back Republican candidates during the midterm cycle. The world’s richest man has donated more than $90.5 million for election spending for the midterms, giving primarily to his own super PAC.”
ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:
In the annals of “things I told you guys months ago that you got so angry at me for,” the dude bankrolling the anti-data center stuff is Roy Singham, the Chi-Com sympathizing billionaire married to the Code Pink co-founder. He also pays Hasan Pikers bills. https://t.co/PHatMT1HAB
— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) September 3, 2026
ROB ORLEY ENDORSING MIKE ROGERS IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL: Michigan Jews Turn Against El-Sayed.
HOW MANY PEOPLE DID TRUMP SHOOT ON THE SOUTH SIDE LAST WEEKEND, ANYWAY? Chicago Mayor Blames Trump for City’s Persistent Violent Crime Problem.
THE BEST THING THE AMERICAN LEFT HAS GOING FOR IT…:
Ooph.
People thought academia was less liberal-biased than it is, and when they learned how liberal it is, their confidence in it declined.
With the exception of Democrats, whose confidence in academia was unchanged by the news. https://t.co/3Yc2YuGgut pic.twitter.com/CwZKyfyIo2
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) September 3, 2026
…is that the press has been largely successful in shielding the public from just how radical and dangerous the Left actually is.
Even so, people have a difficult time believing it when told: Republican activists say they have to water down the reality of their opponents’ agenda in focus groups. ‘They just don’t believe it’s true. It can’t be.’
A FRIEND IN THE INDUSTRY CAN’T SAY ALTMAN’S NAME WITHOUT ADDING “SNAKE OIL SALESMAN”: Sam Altman’s Most Serious Warning About AI Yet. Is It Hype?
FASCINATING:
I don't think people really understand the fight between Paul Graham and Palmer Luckey which played out this week. To the general public, from a casual perspective, it seemed like two rich guys getting in a heated, impulsive debate on Twitter, dragging out for days.
It's not.…
— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) September 2, 2026
Read the whole thing, but here’s the takeaway: “Palmer Luckey is the face of a new military-industrialist consensus which is seeking to hire American workers for American jobs, to build factories and weapons at home, to remilitarize and reindustrialize, to get away from asset inflation and FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) as a sterile, parasitic rent-seeking economic system.”
IN THE ’80S, SEX-POSITIVE AT COLLEGE MEANT YOUR FLOOR HAD PICKED UP A COUPLE KEGS AND LET THE GIRLS KNOW: UW-Madison ‘sex positive’ group awarded more than $130K in mandatory student fees.
ELECTING A RED-DIAPER BABY HAS CONSEQUENCES:
Everything started getting noticeably worse in America around 2008.
Women became more radical.
Media pushed hate and division in reporting at increased rates.
Race relations became worse.
It’s crazy how it can be tracked to almost that exact date.
What happened in 2008? pic.twitter.com/3W9rjiH1vP
— C3 (@C_3C_3) September 3, 2026
Of course, the electorate was also primed for a smooth-talking red-diaper baby, so maybe the cause and effect are all swirled together.
MICHIGAN ISLAMISTS, I HATE MICHIGAN ISLAMISTS: Abdul El-Sayed To Join Panel With 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists at Islamic Convention Days Before 9/11 Anniversary. “Pakistani cleric Tariq Masood was scheduled to appear at the event, but he was pulled after the Free Beacon reported that he admitted to forcing his 13-year-old niece into marriage, in compliance with Islamic law, and that he’d been accused of ‘pedophilic rhetoric.'”
EVERYTHING GETS HACKED:
In 1991, RSA published a series of insanely long numbers to see if anyone could factor them. Somehow, one of them has just been factored for the first time.
The foundation of many cryptographic algorithms like RSA — algorithms that keep your online communications safe — is that… https://t.co/J4zVoBhXZE
— Whole Mars Catalog (@wholemars) September 3, 2026
More:
The foundation of many cryptographic algorithms like RSA — algorithms that keep your online communications safe — is that multiplying two huge prime numbers is easy, but starting with the product and figuring out which two primes made it is incredibly hard. That difficulty is what makes encryption impossible to crack.
One of those numbers RSA published (to challenge people to try and factor large numbers and see if the assumptions RSA was built on really were secure) was RSA-260: 260 digits, 862 bits. It sat unfactored for 35 years.
Today Eric Lu just posted a 130-digit number with the words:
“divides RSA-260”
And it does.
That single number is enough to factor RSA-260, apparently setting a new record for the largest RSA challenge number ever factored.
Now the really interesting question is: how the hell did he do it?
The previous record required enormous amounts of traditional CPU compute. Did he use a giant GPU cluster? Improvements to the number field sieve? AI to optimize some part of the attack? Some new technique entirely?
Nobody has any fucking clue.
Exit quote: “Now most RSA used in production today is 2048 bit or more, so we still haven’t found a way to crack RSA quite yet… but this is one the largest numbers that’s ever been successfully factored.”
NOT A HUGE SHOCK: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Goes for a Fourth Term.
DANA WEIGHS IN ON TUCKER’S LATEST:
Waiting for Tucker’s allies in the admin to say anything about his repeated attacks on Americans in favor of sharia candidates. Would criticizing him help or hurt the post-liberal establishment who thinks they’re being clever by ignoring it? 🤔
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 3, 2026
SO GET GUNS TO THEM: Trump says Iranians won’t rise up because ‘they’re being shot’ and refuses to say if CIA would aid protesters.
“I understand their plight, they’re being shot,” Trump said. “When I ask that question, I ask it sort of knowing the answer. The only answer is that they’re being shot.”
He asserted that close to 65,000 protesters have been killed following the attempted uprising that took place in December 2025 and January, which saw the mass mobilization of citizens into the Iranian streets. It was these protests that inspired Trump to promise Iranians that “help is on the way.” He eventually launched Operation Epic Fury, the large-scale assault on Iranian leadership and military infrastructure, in February.
But a crackdown from the government and military quashed the protests before the United States began its operations. Thousands of demonstrators were gunned down in the streets, and many more have been arrested and executed in the months since.
“That’s why it’s not happening — and who can blame them?” Trump said Wednesday.
They need the chance to shoot back.
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
BREAKING: Sierra Space has secured national-security and commercial payload contracts for Dream Chaser’s inaugural flight, expanding the mission beyond NASA cargo.
The reusable spaceplane is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center, spend several days in orbit, then land on a… pic.twitter.com/uPRdIK9HXX
— Outer Space Today (@outerspacetoday) September 2, 2026
WILL WE EVER GET SERIOUS ABOUT CHINA? Nonprofit linked to seductive Swalwell honeypot Fang Fang has CCP ties — and still places interns into political offices across US.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS FULLY IN REMISSION:
Pied a terre housing demand shifting to the rental market with new taxes, pushing up rents https://t.co/STqpO1yxet
— Arpit Gupta (in DC Sep-Dec 2026) (@arpitrage) September 2, 2026
Up next: Mamdani demands city council repeal the law of unintended consequences.
THE LEFT HAS PLAYED THIS GAME SO LONG, IT’S FAIR TO CONCLUDE THAT “MORE YOUNG DEAD BLACK MEN” IS THE GOAL:
People have convinced themselves that talking honestly about black murder rates is racist. One consequence of this ideologically imposed silence is more young dead black men. https://t.co/p1UmyeMvZr
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) September 3, 2026
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Wisconsin Cops Used Flock Over 100 Times To Track a Navy Veteran After He Lawfully Recorded a Traffic Stop.
Jones, a United States Navy veteran, was well within his rights to record the police stop. But even though he recorded from a safe distance without interfering, that didn’t stop the Waukesha County Sheriff’s deputy, Brandon Shayhorn, from later unlawfully stopping and arresting Jones.
After Shayhorn completed the traffic stop, Jones returned to his vehicle. But before Jones could exit the parking lot, Shayhorn turned on his lights and initiated a second stop, claiming Jones’ temporary license plate, displayed in the rearview window, was unreadable, reports TMJ4 News. Shayhorn demanded to see Jones’ driver’s license, but Jones refused, arguing that he’d been unlawfully pulled over on private property. Video clips of the encounter show the deputy opening Jones’ door and pulling him from his vehicle.
Jones was subsequently arrested “for resisting and obstructing,” according to a federal lawsuit he filed against the arresting officers and police department. But after being held in custody for five hours, he was released with no citations or criminal charges. An internal post-arrest memorandum reviewed by Reason revealed that Shayhorn’s supervisor informed him shortly after the arrest that he’d, in fact, illegally stopped Jones, and he therefore could not compel Jones to produce his identification.
Mostly what I get from Flock cameras is that they have the potential to undo much of the goodwill bought for the police, ironically enough, by bodycams.