AND BLEND RULES, AND REFINERY CLOSURES, AND DRILLING BANS:
Sir, you are literally the Governor of California, have you considered doing something about your state’s insane gas taxes?
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 25, 2026
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 26, 2026
THESE KIDS WERE RAISED RIGHT: High school students use outdoor skills training to make a makeshift stretcher to rescue hiker with a broken leg.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND: ‘His Side’: New book debunks male privilege, gives platform to men in a women’s world.
The book is here.
MAKES ME THINK OF PRINCE BEFORE HIS MIAMI HALFTIME SHOW: “CAN YOU MAKE IT RAIN HARDER?” These Tennessee high schools held graduation in the pouring rain and you gotta see it to believe it.
SEDUCTIVE AI: The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends.
Related: Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows. “A new study in the journal Science found that AI models are far more sycophantic than a human friend or stranger. . . . ‘People who interacted with this over-affirming AI came away more convinced that they were right and less willing to repair the relationship, whether that meant apologizing, taking steps to improve things or changing their own behavior,’ Cheng said. Participants also preferred sycophantic AI, judging it to be trustworthy, no matter their age, personality or prior experience with the tech.”
If only there had been some sort of warning.
Related: AI and the Screwfly Succession.
DON SURBER: Ti-i-ime is on Trump’s side: The artist of the deal negotiates with the American people and Iran.
The Iranians are getting weaker, America is taking a minuscule number of losses, and the war is out of the headlines. Why rush things?
IT’S LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A KURT SCHLICHTER NOVEL: ‘Culturally Specific Corrections Counselors,’ a ‘Construction Diversity and Equity Fund,’ and Race-Based Shelter Referrals: Portland Proposes Budget Larded With Racially Discriminatory Programs.
HONESTLY, I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE BEING TOO HARD ON THIS WOMAN: NBC reporter dragged for clueless on-camera reaction to shots fired at White House.
She didn’t panic and drop to the ground or run away. But the shots were “distant’ and she was told at first that they were fireworks. Honestly, I don’t see anything to criticize here, really.
May 25, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the long weekend.
THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE: Shakeup at JPL? Control over iconic NASA center could change for 1st time in nearly 100 years.
THE PRESS CALLS HIM “CONTROVERSIAL,” BUT HIS POWER IS THAT HE’S CALLING FOR THINGS LIKE CLEAN, SAFE STREETS THAT AREN’T CONTROVERSIAL AT ALL EXCEPT AMONG CORE DEMS:
They are absolutely furious that Spencer Pratt is demonstrating to millions of people the complete failure of progressive politics https://t.co/WGkNouUAXI
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) May 25, 2026
I FEEL THIS WAY TOO, ABOUT MASSIE AND A NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE FORMERLY ON THE “RIGHT” WHO ARE SIDING WITH ANTI-SEMITIC COMMIES NOW:
For the record I liked Massie for years. Tucker and others too. But my common sense forces me to be wary of those attempting to sabotage the mandate Trump was given in ‘24.
Jumping ship at the very moment real change was possible stinks. Sorry, it just does.
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) May 25, 2026
LOVE IN THE BRAIN: Fatherhood Dramatically Rewires Your Brain, Scans Reveal.
DATA CENTERS: SPACEXAI HUGE Build Speed Advantage. “XAI AI data center economics are better when you can start a project and finish it in 12 months and get it rented and paid off while competitors are still building. An active AI Gigawatt of data center in the hand is worth $20 billion per year while an under construction Gigawatt data center is bleeding $5-15 billion per year of cash. XAI is building them for about $30-40 billion per gigawatt while competitors need $50 billion and add on another $10 billion or more in extra financing costs for a multi-year project.”
DRIVING BEHIND A TESLA:
In upstate New York, there is a general speed limit of 55 mph where no other limit is specified. And thus 55 was the speed limit for most of our time on this road. As all normal people know, at least in this area, 55 does not really mean 55. The most common speed of traffic on this road is between 60 and 65, and you will not get a ticket even up to 70. But this Tesla was going exactly 55. Not 56 or 54, but 55.
Then we approached an area with some population and businesses. Heading into that area, the speed limit dropped to 45, although the speed limit sign came several hundred yards before the buildings. Right at the sign, the Tesla slowed down to precisely 45. That’s when my daughter remarked that this car had to be operating in self-driving mode. . . .
Then, back at 55, we could see in the distance a school bus approaching from the opposite direction. Several hundred yards ahead, it stopped. Its red lights began flashing. A “STOP” sign swung out on its driver’s side toward our lane of traffic. Its door opened. There was plenty of time for cars going our direction to stop. A couple of little kids came out the door.
And then the Tesla blew by at full speed!
Oops. I guess they haven’t programmed the school bus thing into the operating system just yet. Fortunately the kids weren’t trying to cross the highway at that moment.
Very surprised that the Tesla wasn’t programmed to stop for a school bus — or that even if it wasn’t, it wasn’t triggered to stop by the stop sign that swung out. Obviously someone at Tesla needs to fix this bug ASAP.
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THEY’RE THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL: Mitochondria may control immune cell activation and the effectiveness of immunotherapy.
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