September 4, 2026

2026, MAN: Fed Up With Flock. “If you’d asked me last year to guess what issues might be concerning the body politic in a midterm year, I might have answered ‘inflation, jobs growth, social justice madness, housing costs, and the Iran war.’ Not on my bingo card: Women cheering on a mother who confessed to killing her three children and the public uniting against Flock cameras, yet here we are.”

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

MORNING IN AMERICA: U.S. Adds a Whopping 162,000 Jobs in a Bright Spot for the Economy.

The U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, a much-stronger-than-expected result that suggested the labor market shook off its early-summer doldrums.

The numbers

The unemployment rate stayed steady at 4.1%. That leaves it at a historically low level that indicates the labor market remains generally healthy.

Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast the report would show the economy gained just 53,000 jobs. The unemployment rate was in line with their expectations.

What this means for jobs

The jump in jobs came in part from rebounds in restaurant and in local-education employment that many economists viewed as one-off factors. But the U.S. has added an average of 80,000 jobs a month so far this year, which compares with monthly growth of 10,000 jobs in 2025.

“We don’t have a problem in the labor market,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM.

Hiring had weakened considerably in June and July, and so the August job gains helped dispel concerns that the labor market had re-entered a period of cooling.

“Unexpectedly,” NPR adds: The U.S. unexpectedly added 162,000 jobs last month.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

MISTRIAL:

Plus:

It’s a fair cop.

Posted at 1:18 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FLASHBACK: Rural Trump Voters Already Live in the Safe, Tolerant Utopia Leftists Claim to Want.

Life in Rural America (where Republican Trump voters live and govern), is clean, safe, and racially tolerant. On the other hand, most of the places in America where life is dirty, polluted, dangerous, and violent, where people are plagued with racial hate and race riots, are cities populated by and governed by Democrats.

What’s more, if you remove Democrat-run cities from our national statistics, you will find an overall America that is overwhelmingly peaceful, safe, clean, and racially tolerant.

True. Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:50 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS? ‘F**k you..hurry up and die’: Swing-seat Democratic House candidate’s deleted tweets show far-left record.

William Lawrence, the Democratic nominee in one of the country’s most competitive House races in Michigan, deleted hundreds of old social media posts in which he embraced police and prison abolition, called for nationalizing fossil-fuel companies to end their production, attacked moderate Democrats and argued for a “fundamental overhaul” of the Constitution.

Other deleted posts show Lawrence writing “f**k” the nuclear-family home and calling it an “isolating, individualistic, violent way of organizing society,” envisioning “a world of free and open migration,” and calling to “Abolish the Senate.”

Lawrence even wrote a song inspired by moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s resistance to Democrats’ climate agenda: “Our generation says f**k you for everything,” Lawrence wrote in lyrics he posted in December 2021. “Hurry up and die so that we can get started.”

Now of course he claims he was just “thinking out loud” on the internet.

Posted at 12:46 pm by Stephen Green

RESIST:

Posted at 12:29 pm by Stephen Green

COLD WAR II IS FOUGHT IN REALMS THAT DIDN’T EVEN EXIST DURING COLD WAR I: Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road.

China’s open-weight AI models are sparking debates that echo the concerns the telecom buildout raised: How does the majority world access an indispensable technology without surrendering sovereignty, or in other words, without trading access today for dependency tomorrow?

China’s playbook appears virtually identical to its telecom strategy. Its AI buildout involves many of the same companies, the same countries, and the same vocabulary as its broadband strategy. And open weights play the role subsidized equipment once did: They are the keystone to an indispensable new technology that one country can provide to another virtually for free to get a foot in the door, but they are also useless without the intricate, interconnected stack of other components that, conveniently, are far more expensive.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

“THE HIT JOB WAS ON THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE. REAGAN WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE”:

Takeaway: “It’s time for a dissolution of the monasteries.”

Posted at 10:57 am by Stephen Green

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION, 21ST CENTURY EDITION: Ukraine Puts AI-Guided Machine-Gun Turret on Helicopter to Hunt Russian Shaheds.

What makes the Khyzhak particularly versatile is its modular architecture.

The system can be fitted to unmanned ground vehicles, installed in fixed defensive positions, mounted on conventional vehicles or integrated with maritime platforms. The version shown in the latest footage represents an airborne adaptation of the same basic concept.

The module also incorporates artificial intelligence-assisted target recognition and tracking.

As always, I have this one question: When can I get one for the hood of my car?

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT SOME RANDO ON X TOLD ME:

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Three hiking novices asked Gemini how to climb 14,179-ft Mount Shasta.

Three hikers were rescued on Monday after they became stranded on Mount Shasta near Clear Creek Route.

The hikers told the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office they relied heavily on Google’s Gemini, an artificial intelligence assistant, for information about the route and what to pack, which the sheriff’s office called a “critical misstep.”

“They were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required, especially when their planned 8 hour ascent became a multi-day ordeal,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

Congrats, they did the meme — but survived:

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll