Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 20, 2026
STATE-BACKED RACISM AND PROMOTION OF VIOLENCE: JB Pritzker Admin Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness:’ The training from Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights—offered to ‘private-sector, government, and public participants’—also shows a black woman torching the mosquitoes with a flamethrower.
ME ON FEDERALIST RADIO: The Dangers Lurking Within ’Seductive AI.’
SEDUCTIVE AI: “Instead, Claude Just Made Up More Stuff.”
JEFFREY CARTER: The Coming Boom — If We Let It Happen. “They have used all the various platforms, but they use Anthropic’s Claude the most. I relayed a story to them. An entrepreneur I backed to a successful exit in a company told me he programmed 8 AI agents to program a company. He then programmed an AI agent to oversee the 8 AI agents. He built an entire company in one week that would have taken him a year. The computer guys were not surprised at all by that. One of them told me that they were getting almost 5x more output from engineers and programmers in their firm after utilizing and implementing artificial intelligence.”
May 19, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.
GOOD FOR THEM: Lost Parchment Reveals People Who Survived The Black Death.
MY EXPERIENCE IS THAT IT DOES: New Study Reveals How Vitamin D Could Calm Gut Inflammation.
SOUNDS LIKE A WINNER: Ford Wants Bumpers That Start Soft And Get Stronger On Impact.
HMM: Pakistan deploys jet squadron, thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia. “Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a squadron of fighter jets and an air defence system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defence pact, ramping up military cooperation with Riyadh even as Islamabad serves as the main mediator in the Iran war. The deployment, the full scale of which is reported here for the first time, was confirmed by three security officials and two government sources, all of whom described it as a substantial, combat-capable force intended to support Saudi Arabia’s military if the kingdom comes under further attack.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Circuit Court Strikes Down New York’s Post-Bruen Vampire Rule Carry Ban.
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED: Why airplane toilets are tiny engineering marvels.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Could A Simple Lab Mistake Lead Scientists to Over-Estimate Microplastics?
VICTIMS OF GOVERNMENT ABUSE SHOULD BE MADE WHOLE: Trump admin creates $1.776 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund. How it might work and who could get a payout.
AND THAT’S JUST FOR THE HUSBANDS: Living with PMDD is like having the Grim Reaper visit every month.
HASN’T THERE BEEN ENOUGH TERRORISM AIMED AT TPUSA? Students for a Democratic Society releases detailed blueprint on how to ‘smash’ TPUSA.
WTF HAPPENED TO THE HARDY, PRACTICAL SCOTS? Transgender Indian migrant without work visa who got elected to Scottish Parliament wants locals to pay reparations to Palestinians.