January 30, 2026

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Posted at 12:17 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ED MORRISSEY: Don Lemon Arrested On Federal Charges.

Lemon has hired Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell to represent him…Lowell is a very accomplished attorney, and if I were in this kind of trouble, I’d be lucky to have him (and very, very broke in the end). However, this defense is a loser for several reasons, the first of which is that Lemon wasn’t the only party to this incident that had First Amendment rights at stake. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of religious expression, the core of which is the right to worship in one’s own church in peace. Even people claiming to be journalists can’t interrupt worship services and demand impromptu “interviews” with the minister or celebrant, especially inside the church on private property. Lemon filmed himself preparing with the instigators outside before invading the church, and his “interview” consisted of demanding answers to the instigators’ claims and demands.

Next up, the criminal statutes involved do not have “journalist” exceptions. Neither the FACE Act nor the Ku Klux Klan act allow for disruption of church services for the purpose of “journalism.” Nate the Lawyer covered both of these statutes in the video below shortly after the crime occurred, mainly focusing on the Klan Act. Nate’s conclusion is that Lowell has his work cut out for him.

But he was just speaking truth to power…:

Related: I had no idea the iPhone contained a virtual “Get Out of Jail Free” card within it:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

TO BE FAIR, FAVREAU ISN’T JUST A HACK, HE’S A HAM-FISTED HACK WHO HELPED ESTABLISH CREATE THE CURRENT MESS:

More:

We warned the Left for 15 years that they wouldn’t like it when the Right started playing by their new rules, but they didn’t listen.

Posted at 11:59 am by Stephen Green

WHERE’S THE OFF SWITCH? AI’s HAL 9000 Problem, and What It Portends For the Future.

We are repeatedly told that large language models (LLM) will soon “plateau.” Likewise, we were repeatedly warned that “Moore’s Law,” the observation that microchip transistors double approximately every two years, was dying. But both claims miss the point.

Even as raw transistor scaling has dramatically slowed, real computing power has accelerated through architectural specialization, algorithmic efficiency, massive parallelization, and domain-specific hardware. AI supercomputer performance is currently doubling every 9 months, fueled both by increasing the number of AI chips and improving chip efficiency. A new chip from NVIDIA apparently will compress that, at least temporarily, to six or seven months.

Likewise, we will find a way around the LLM plateau. When one scaling regime saturates, engineers invent another. And even at a 9-month doubling, in 10 years the computers will crunch 10,000 times faster and a million times faster in just 15 years. Yet, it was beating us at GO a decade ago.

The implication is simple: AI won’t level off; it will change gears.

And once it changes enough gears, it stops being a tool and becomes a system, widely referred to as “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI.

That matters, because systems do not “obey.” They optimize.

I’m still dubious about AGI, but smarter people like Michael Fumento here insist it’s just a matter of time.

So here’s to hoping we don’t get “optimized.”

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

EVERYBODY LOVES THE FA, BUT THEN THE FO COMES ALONG:

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

WELL, GOOD: Meta Restricts ICE Agent Doxing Site Across Facebook, Instagram. “Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told the outlet the decision was tied to the company’s policy prohibiting the sharing of personally identifiable information or content that asks users to provide such information about others.”

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

GEORGIA 2020:

Posted at 10:13 am by Glenn Reynolds

BREAKING: Don Lemon Arrested by Federal Agents for His Role in Church Mob.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Plus:

When Trump was indicted it was treated as proof of guilt.

Posted at 10:03 am by Stephen Green

REID HOFFMAN IS A VERY BAD PERSON:

Posted at 9:56 am by Glenn Reynolds

THEY’RE SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND INCREASED TAXES IN THIS DEMOCRAT-RUN ESTABLISHMENT:

Gooder and harder, Virginia.

Posted at 9:55 am by Stephen Green

NASHVILLE’S POWER SITUATION IS A DEBACLE, AND MY FRIENDS IN NASHVILLE ARE SHOCKED THAT IT’S GETTING SO LITTLE NATIONAL ATTENTION:

Posted at 9:27 am by Glenn Reynolds

SHE IS A DREADFUL PERSON, AND THE STANDARD BEARER FOR AWFULS EVERYWHERE:

Posted at 9:24 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ICE Protest Teachers Are Trump’s Reminder to Shutter Dept. of Education. “Look, if the protest brats want to cut off their snotty noses to spite their stupid faces, I’ve got no problem with that. What’s really galling me is that there are schools closing here in Tucson to join the protest. It’s a perfect snapshot of all that is wrong in this country right now. It’s the public school union teachers who are the root of leftist evil in the United States.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green