September 7, 2026

UM…: US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why.

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-NC) on Friday asked for an investigation by the Defense Department Inspector General into policies that have only partially stanched the flow of location data that allows military personnel to be tracked and targeted.

In May, Wyden, Harrigan, and a bipartisan group of 12 other members of Congress released details about how commercially purchased location data – often captured by mobile apps and advertising SDKs – can be used to identify where US military personnel gather and to target those locations. They noted that the DoD has been aware of this threat since at least 2016.

The lawmakers urged Defense Department CIO Kirsten A. Davies to take steps to mitigate this risk, including turning off advertising identifiers on DoD smartphones and issuing a policy requiring the disabling of advertising identifiers on all personal devices brought into DoD facilities or overseas.

This seems like no-brainer stuff, and the DOD has sat on it for a decade?

Posted at 7:32 am by Stephen Green

NOW THAT WOULD BE SOME CHANGE:

Posted at 7:16 am by Stephen Green

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  The Universal Sexual Politics Decoder Ring: *I, a member of the [sane sex], look upon the effects of [opposite sex hormonal makeup]* All of you who are under the influence of that are insane dangerous subhumans who need to be controlled or you will destroy all of civilization. The worst of [my sex] would *never* do [things which my sex routinely does in a slightly different way which I’m therefore not counting] that [your sex] does. Since [my sex] are the only sane ones and are never hormonally compromised we must be the ones to enforce the greater good.

X-cancel.

Posted at 4:32 am by Sarah Hoyt

THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE CAMERAS. THE PROBLEM IS THE DATA BASE THEY’RE FEEDING AND THE ACCESS AND USE POLICIES:  Good Point.

Posted at 1:32 am by Sarah Hoyt

SORRY I DIDN’T SHARE THIS HERE YESTERDAY:  The Memes must go on.

For family reasons, we’re moving. It’s a long and complicated story, but it looks like end state will be better for us, and better for the rest of the family too. Anyway, the move must be completed this month, which means I’ve barely been online enough to check the email and often collapse before I can post here. That was the last week and a half. This week should be a little better.

Posted at 1:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

THE GOAL IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE: TO USE IT ONLY FOR EXCEPTIONAL CASES:  Trump wants to increase fees for this visa. It could top $200,000. Critics of the visa program lauded the move to reduce competition for U.S. jobs. But opponents of the higher fee say it will devastate the program and question whether the goal is to abolish it.

The goal was never supposed to be replacing all American workers with cheaper labor that couldn’t talk back. And it’s time to stop that already. I see the President is giving his attention to this matter. This is what I voted for.

Posted at 12:43 am by Sarah Hoyt

September 6, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE ABOLITION OF BRITAIN:

Posted at 9:15 pm by Ed Driscoll

GET WOKE, GO…: Nike To Leave the S&P 100 on September 21.

Nike is set to leave the S&P 100 before U.S. trading opens on September 21, 2026, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. The change was announced on September 4 as part of the index provider’s quarterly rebalance.

The sportswear company joins Honeywell Aerospace, Simon Property Group and Colgate-Palmolive on the list of S&P 100 departures. Dell Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, Arista Networks and Sandisk will enter the index.

Nike will remain in the S&P 500; S&P Global describes the narrower S&P 100 thusly:

The S&P 100, a sub-set of the S&P 500®, is designed to measure the performance of large-cap companies in the United States and comprises 100 major blue chip companies across multiple industry groups. Individual stock options are listed for each index constituent.

As legendary fictitious rock manager Ian Faith would say, their appeal is becoming more selective: Nike Stock Is Down 78% From Its All-Time High. Is This the Once-in-a-Decade Setup for Patient Investors?

But why did Nike stock drop so precipitously? Former Levis president Jennifer Sey has some flashbacks:

Prior to Mulvaney, Nike had few other missteps as well:

In 2025, Nike displayed this billboard at the London Marathon:

The previous year, Nike was all too happy to dial the War of the Sexes up to 11: New Ultra-Woke Nike Ad Says WNBA Dynasty ‘Makes Men Look Like Amateurs.

In November of 2021, as the world emerged from a pandemic during which numerous publications wrote that obesity could greatly increase the effects of Covid-19, a manufacturer of athletic footwear released this showstopping image:

Things began getting awfully weird at Nike in 2019, starting most prominently when they issued a pair of Betsy Ross-flag embedded sneakers, likely only so that uber-woke Nike endorser Colin Kaepernick could dunk on them, to coincide with the Fourth of July. In Nike’s collective mind, this was evil and “offensive:”

In 2018, Kaepernick was Patient Zero in Nike’s collapse: Colin Kaepernick part of Nike’s 30th anniversary of ‘Just Do It’ campaign.

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File.

UPDATE:

MORE: “Now what’s the next step in your master plan?” “Crashing the plane… with no survivors!”

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

PLANE WITH AMAZON LOGO CRASHES IN MIAMI; ‘MULTIPLE PATIENTS’ REPORTED: “Five are confirmed dead, and five are confirmed injured. Please keep the victims and their families in your thoughts and prayers:”

UPDATE (NSFW language in first video):

 

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll