I MISS THE INNOCENCE OF THE INTERNET’S EARLY DAYS: The Truth Costs Money.

YES: Help boys aspire to ‘heroic masculinity.’ “Heroic masculinity ‘is almost entirely taken for granted, even reviled, until trouble comes and it is ungratefully demanded by the very people who usually decry it,’ she writes. As a group, men ‘are larger, faster, and stronger than women.’ Each man is faced with a moral question: How will he use his strength?”

“NICE TIMING”: Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

Real Estate Industry in Panic Mode:

45% Drop in Home Purchases – Bigger Than '08! Home sales are now down 31% in 2023.

Without transactions, many jobs that are commission oriented are seeing huge declines in incomes. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, title insurance, home… pic.twitter.com/PfIMwaQ7X2

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) September 4, 2023

Plus: “We went into a recession after two back to back quarters of -1.5 over a year ago. When this happened, the establishment changed the parameters that define recession. We’ve remained at a net loss with job creation and ‘Bidenomics.’ This isn’t recovery and everyone knows it.”

Everyone does know. But as the wise man once said of the very first country to go full-bore leftist and stay that way, “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying.”

HISTORY: A Forgotten Christian Warrior Saves the West From Islam.

I missed this one on the actual anniversary over the weekend, but it’s the usual good stuff from Raymond Ibrahim.

NICE, BUT WHERE’S THAT ROBOT LIVER I’VE BEEN COUNTING ON? Scientists develop artificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis.

DAVID SOLWAY: Is Justin Trudeau the Worst Prime Minister in History?

AGING: Older adults who regularly use the internet have half the risk of dementia compared to non-regular users. “Our findings show evidence of a digital divide in the cognitive health of older-age adults. Specifically, adults who regularly used the internet experienced approximately half the risk of dementia than adults who did not, adjusting for baseline cognitive function, self-selection into baseline internet usage, self-reported health, and a large number of demographic characteristics.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: How About We Just Say ‘No’ to the Fauci Fascism Revival? “Read the room, tyrants, even your gullible lefties have moved on from the COVID protocols madness. Sure, the occasional ‘ZOMG WHY AREN’T PEOPLE WEARING MASKS?!?!?!?’ loons will show up on social media, but it’s tough to keep the crazy cousins from wandering into the reunion in a big family.”

EVEN APPLE FINALLY GOT ON BOARD WITH RIGHT TO REPAIR: Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists.

404 Media reported on a letter sent on August 10 to the US Copyright Office by Ryland Hawkins of Author Services Inc. The company, its website and letterhead say, represents the “literary, theatrical, and musical works of L. Ron Hubbard, the late founder of Scientology. Author Services, according to records archived via the WayBackMachine, is owned by the Church of Spiritual Technology, which describes itself as a church within Scientology.

The letter addresses Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which “makes it unlawful to circumvent technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works.” The Scientology group’s letter seeks to alter exemptions granted for self-repairing some consumer electronics, like video game consoles, laptops, home appliances, and farming tractors.

Author Services’ letter argues that while that exemption works for the “many consumer devices” that include “unilateral ‘shrink-wrap’ licenses governing the terms of use of the software,” they shouldn’t apply to devices that “can only be purchased and used by someone who possess [sic] particular qualifications or has been specifically trained in the use of the device.”

More: “Why would Scientologists object to right to repair? Those familiar with the organization might also be aware of the ‘E-meter’, a device that Scientologists claim can read people’s emotional state, which is used in ‘audits’ of its members.”

The auditors might not want their tools audited.

TO BE FAIR, LEFTY PITY PARTIES ARE PRETTY MUCH THE ENTIRE POINT OF MSNBC: ‘Trans’ Man Who Invaded Wyoming Sorority Plays Violin for Himself on MSNBC.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Tencent, others begin enforcing China’s new oversight move on apps.

Mobile app stores in China run by Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), Xiaomi (1810.HK) and others have started to bar app publishers from launching new apps if they do not make all the disclosures required by authorities, documents seen by Reuters showed.

The moves comply with new rules introduced last month as Beijing tightens oversight of mobile apps in the country. The rules are causing consternation in the industry that publishing apps in the world’s second largest economy will become very difficult and many apps may need to be taken down.

The new rules, which require mobile app publishers to file business details with the government, gave app stores in China until the end of August to establish their filing systems to oversee new apps.

“The Android app stores have confirmed that new apps require the app filings from Friday onwards, and existing apps must have it from March 31 onwards,” Rich Bishop, CEO of app publishing firm AppInChina said.

“It forces all global apps on these app stores to either establish a local entity or work with a local partner.”

What I’m reading into this is that the CCP will have the ability to get access to anyone’s source code.

THIS IS CNN? CNN Host Stuns Viewers by Doing His Job and Confronting Fauci on Mask Efficacy.

HOW EARTHLIKE COULD IT BE, THAT FAR FROM THE SUN? There could be an Earth-like planet hiding in the Kuiper Belt.

Far past the reaches of Neptune, two scientists suggest there could be a planet hiding in our Solar System.

This planet is not the hypothesised giant ‘Planet Nine’ far further flung, but instead an Earth-sized planet on a tilted orbit.

“We predict the existence of an Earth-like planet and several trans-Neptunian objects on peculiar orbits in the outer Solar System which can serve as observationally testable signatures of the putative planet’s perturbations,” the team write in their new paper.

The scientists – Patryk Sofia Lykawka of Kindai University in Japan and Takashi Ito of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan – have investigated trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and weird clustering behaviour.

The two authors have published their paper in The Astronomical Journal.

Past Neptune at around 30 astronomical units sits the Kuiper belt, a group of icy rocks and dwarf planets, including Pluto, Quaoar, Orcus and Makemake.

While Pluto was once a planet, it’s worth noting that dwarf planets are small. Pluto, which is the biggest, is just 18% the size of Earth, smaller than Earth’s Moon.

This new planet on the other hand (if it indeed exists) would be 1.5-3 times the size of Earth.

Fascinating, but still not very earthlike.

SCHOOLS COULD GO BACK TO TEACHING MATH WITH PROVEN METHODS AND HIGH STANDARDS… NAH, IT’D NEVER WORK: How can schools dig out from a generation’s worth of lost math progress?

PEOPLE ARE CATCHING ON: Oye, Biden’s Numbers Are Really, Really Bad.

SOYLENT GREEN WAS ALWAYS PEOPLE:

A part of the Green constituency will someday realize that environmentalism was always about giant geoengineering, replacement industries for sunsetting ones and herding people into nodes of the grid, so there could be no escape. But they'll realize it too late.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 4, 2023

One way or another, leftism comes down to deciding who gets to do what, including breathing.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Espionage? Chinese Nationals Gate-Crashed U.S. Installations 100 Times.

IT WILL BECOME THE PAYMENT METHOD OF CHOICE ON THE X “EVERYTHING” APP: Elon Musk Revealed To Be ‘Quietly’ Funding Crypto Rival To Bitcoin Amid Price Crash.

THE MORE, THE MERRIER: C’mon, Mr. Trump — Join the Primary Debates.

HMM: Barred from freezing their eggs at home, single Chinese women are traveling elsewhere. “Current law in China, where having children out of wedlock is frowned upon, prohibits unmarried women from using any assisted reproductive technologies, including egg freezing. Men are allowed to save their sperm regardless of their marital status.”

Maybe that’s just a holdover from the One Child Policy days but with the seriousness of Communist China’s fertility crisis, you’d think they’d have thrown out all the bathwater.

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Will Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex-Trafficking Clients Be Named?

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Schumer pledges ‘supercharged’ path to AI regulation when Senate returns from recess.

Schumer is planning on kicking off a series of bipartisan “AI Insight Forums,” he told Senate Democrats in a letter on Friday morning, in a bid to get lawmakers caught up on the rapidly advancing tech. His first, on Sept. 13, is expected to feature tech leaders like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman, among others.

“These forums will build on the longstanding work of our Committees by supercharging the Senate’s typical process so we can stay ahead of AI’s rapid development,” Schumer said. “This is not going to be easy, it will be one of the most difficult things we undertake, but in the twenty-first century we cannot behave like ostriches in the sand when it comes to AI. We must treat AI with the same level of seriousness as national security, job creation, and our civil liberties.”

If there’s anything I trust less than large language models and their ability to screw things up, it’s Chuck Schumer’s.

EVERYTHING IS RACIST: ‘Racist’ Is the Mainstream Media’s Latest Sad Attempt to Smear Ron DeSantis.

FALLOUT: Russia’s massive brain drain is ravaging the economy – these stunning figures show why it will soon be smaller than Indonesia’s.

Since Vladimir Putin launched the invasion in February 2022, emigration out of Russia has exploded, with some estimates putting the exodus at 1 million people. A recent analysis from the policy platform Re: Russia narrowed the number to 817,000-922,000.

That’s contributed to a record labor shortage, with 42% of industrial firms unable to find enough workers in July, up from 35% in April.

The composition of Russia’s exodus also points to the best and brightest fleeing the country. While a barrage of Western sanctions incentivized many to leave for economic reasons, others fled to avoid military service, skewing the numbers toward younger Russians.

Workers under the age of 35 now account for less than 30% of the labor force, the lowest on record going back 20 years.

More: “In fact, the Atlantic Council estimated that Russia’s GDP, as measured by purchasing power parity (PPP), will fall behind Indonesia’s in 2026, nearly two years earlier than would’ve been the case had Putin not launched his war on Ukraine. By then, they will switch places as the world’s sixth and seventh largest economies by PPP.”

“Banana republic with nukes” has never been more appropriate than right now.