I BELIEVE IT’S CALLED “JUDGMENT DAY.” OpenAI And Anthropic Are Planning For ‘The Day After.’ The Fear Is A Major AI-Driven Crisis.

RESURGENS: Audi A8 Isn’t Dead After All, May Share Porsche Panamera Platform.

I REMEMBER WHEN BILLIONAIRE MONEY IN POLITICS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD: Everytown Pumps Another $10 Million of Michael Bloomberg’s Cash Into the 2026 Midterms.

A KISS IS STILL A KISS: Why did kissing evolve? If we want to find out, we’ve got to decide what counts as a kiss first.

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: A teen used AI to plan a hiking route. It trapped him on a cliff.

FASTER, PLEASE: Stanford Scientists Identify Enzyme That May Promote Cartilage Regeneration in Arthritis.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Salmon vs. Fish Oil Supplements: Which Is Better for Brain Health?

CHANGE: University of Kansas removes menstrual products from men’s bathrooms.

THUG NATION: Conservative student says he was threatened after pressing El-Sayed on Iran. “A conservative student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor says he received threats and harassment after questioning Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about his refusal to directly condemn Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Genius Behind Trump’s Art of the Deal.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: SNW Talks With ATF Director Robert Cekada About Jensen, Firearm Records and Much, Much More.

#JOURNALISM:

Editors need to stop assigning political reporters to do finance and economic stories.

The WSJ now employs a bunch of former Politico and Huffington Post bloggers who don’t understand basic finance issues. https://t.co/c5ygtN4aO4

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 9, 2026

The Wall Street Journal is having a bad decade.

BOB GRABOYES: “Occasionally, I discover that I’ve never heard of someone whose work I’ve known in depth and loved dearly for most of my life.”

WHEN THE WITCH HUNT IS CONDUCTED BY WITCHES:

"Never give up": A sex investigation found a male professor innocent, so the college just kept redoing it with new investigators as activists fished for a different result. A different result never came, but the college paid the accusers $10M anyway.https://t.co/ToRnle3p2O

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) October 9, 2026

RISE OF THE MACHINES: Grok Wrote Me An Essay. And it’s pretty damn good. “The idea and thesis is mine, the writing is Grok’s. It is about 80% something I would have written myself. Compare it to things I wrote 10 years ago, it sounds quite similar.”

The machines get better all the time. Human capabilities stay about the same.

I GET IT:

I'm opposed to the death penalty, because I want to allow governments as few pretexts for murdering people as possible. Criminals should be executed by their intended victims at the time of the intended crime.

On the other hand, I'm hearing so much butthurt screaming about the…

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 10, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

CRUNCH ALL YOU WANT, WE’LL MAKE MORE: ELON CAN LITERALLY LAUNCH THEM FASTER THAN PUTIN CAN SHOOT THEM DOWN:

SpaceX satellites to "drop like flies" should they interfere with Russia says Medvedev.https://t.co/STfWIlvrgy

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 9, 2026

IS THAT THE ONE WHERE THE NAZIS AND ALIENS HAVE THEIR SECRET BASE? NASA’s hunting for a secret underground cave on the moon.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Sexually Transmitted Diarrhea Is Exploding in The US. And It’s Growing Resistant to Medicine.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: A Giant Diplodocus Just Turned Up Where Scientists Never Expected.

JOHN HENRY FROWNS: California Athletic Officials Issue Letter Terminating Man Versus Robot Matches.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 7 Stroke Warning Signs People Often Mistake for Something Else.

IT LOOKS GOOD: 2027 Jaguar Type 01 First Look: 1,016 HP, 400 Miles of Range, and Still Shocking.

AMERICA’S NEWS SOURCE OF RECORD:

Democrat Strategists Remove James Talarico From Campaign Trail To Hide The Fact That He's James Talarico https://t.co/7AmHsxISij

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 9, 2026