AT LEAST THE AIPOCALYPSE IS AMUSING: Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case. “rustrated by fake citations and flowery prose packed with ‘out-of-left-field’ references to ancient libraries and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a New York federal judge took the rare step of terminating a case this week due to a lawyer’s repeated misuse of AI when drafting filings. In an order on Thursday, district judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled that the extraordinary sanctions were warranted after an attorney, Steven Feldman, kept responding to requests to correct his filings with documents containing fake citations.”
February 9, 2026
IF YOU WANT MORE BABIES, EXPOSE YOUNG WOMEN (AND MEN) TO MORE BABIES: Woman in Tears Declares Want for Eight Kids Holding Newborn.
I have a theory that many young women are indifferent towards motherhood simply because they’re hardly exposed to babies. Your heart melts when you hold a baby. https://t.co/GU5Q3uGyza
— Andrea D. Huberwoman, Ph.D. (@thegenesisbl0ck) February 8, 2026
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWER THEMSELVES:
— Political Blasphememes (@PBlasphememes) February 9, 2026
WELL, THAT’S BOTH FUNNY AND A LITTLE PATHETIC:
10 Downing Street threatens to sack all Cabinet ministers unless they tweet out their support for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer by the end of the day, a Scottish Labour source tells Channel 4 News.
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— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 9, 2026
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YEP.
Well, well, well. https://t.co/a1bv5Y8b56
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) February 8, 2026
AND TO THINK IT WAS LOS ANGELES TRAFFIC THAT INSPIRED MUSK TO LAUNCH THE BORING COMPANY:
California politicians will not let this tech happen in their state, because @elonmusk doesn't pay the going rate of baksheesh. https://t.co/YYPqLtLHbf
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) February 9, 2026
THE FRUITS OF COLLECTIVISM:
⚡️What this really is, beneath all social framing, is a signal that the American operating system is entering the tribal-logic phase of terminal democracy.
The republic only functioned as long as the founding myth – individual liberty under law, mediated through neutral… https://t.co/SpWXeRtd4X
— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) February 8, 2026
Read the whole thing.
21ST CENTURY LEGAL ISSUES: I Ask a Lawyer: If Your Car’s AEB Fails, Can You Skirt the Blame?
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Swarmbotics Wins US Army Contract for Swarming Ground Robots.
The award stems from Swarmbotics’ performance at last year’s xTechOverwatch competition, where its autonomous ground robotics technology competed against dozens of innovative small business teams.
Designed to operate as swarms, the sUGVs aim to create multiple dilemmas for adversaries at lower cost than traditional manned platforms, reflecting army interest in scalable force multiplication.
Soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division assessed autonomous capabilities across ground and airborne systems as part of the evaluation, which was facilitated by the US Army’s Transformation and Training Command and key stakeholders.
“Mass is our objective, by employing swarms of heterogeneous small sUGVs we create multiple dilemmas for our adversaries at fractions of the cost of exquisite platforms,” Swarmbotics chief executive officer Stephen Houghton said.
Great name for the company, too.
TAMARA KEEL: The Decision Cycle. “The people who do well in these situations not only see the situation developing, they recognize it for what it is, have a plan to execute in that situation, and the skills available to execute the plan.”
Plus: “Remember this: when you hear someone say, ‘They just came out of nowhere!’ well, ‘They’ really didn’t just come out of nowhere.”
STATE LAW MUST SUPERSEDE ACCREDITOR REQUIREMENTS. If a school can’t be accredited and also follow the law, it should take the conflict up with both legislators and accreditors, but it has to follow the law.
Ultimately, the solution may be that some state regulations against any concept even DEI-adjacent are loosened (Plato? Come on…), while accreditors dial back their DEI requirements. Both sides have something to lose if they don’t come to an agreement. But the major share of the blame has to be on accreditors, who should have understood that their power up until now relied on a nearly universal belief that their requirements weren’t used to play political games. But they played stupid games, and now they’re winning stupid prizes.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Commie China Condemns Pro-Democracy Jimmy Lai to Jail.
TRUMP JUST DOES THE JOBS CHICAGO MAYORS WON’T: Chicago Mayor Confesses to 30% Homicides Drop After Trump Crackdown.
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HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW NOBODY FROM THE PRESS ASKED CHINESE ATHLETES WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT JIMMY LAI’S PERSECUTION? China critic Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in jail after landmark Hong Kong trial. Given his age, that’s a life sentence.
CENSORSHIP: California Sues The Gatalog, CTRLPew for Distribution of Code for 3D Printing Guns. “Frustrated by the spread of 3D technology and their inability to nationalize their increasingly oppressive gun control laws beyond a few like-minded blue states, politicians in California have looked for ways to spread their tentacles into free America. They took a big step toward doing exactly that on Friday when Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed suit against two popular repositories of 3D printing files, The Gatalog and CTRLPew.”
MIDDLE EAST: Uncle Sam Assembles Big Stick For Iran. “The U.S. military has some of the biggest sticks in the world, and right now a lot of them are Voltroning together within striking distance of Iran.”
CULTURE ISN’T JUST SOMETHING YOU CONSUME, IT’S SOMETHING YOU MAKE:
🚨BREAKING: Music Industry is Shook as Kid Rock OVERTAKES Bad Bunny for the Top Song in the World.
This is despite Apple’s nonstop promotion of Bad Bunny.
We have the power to change culture 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/iMbCOLi5cA
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 9, 2026
To be fair, vastly more people had heard of Kid Rock prior to the Super Bowl than had heard of Bad Bunny: HALFTIME S***SHOW: Even NFL Players Have No Idea Who Bad Bunny Is (Just Like the Rest of Us).
MAJA: Japan’s Iron Lady Took a Risk — and Won Big. “Takaichi is also eager to align with other nations that have conservatives in leadership. You could almost say that her slogan is 日本を再び偉大にする — “Make Japan Great Again.” What makes Sanae Takaichi interesting isn’t any slogan, though; it’s the snap election gamble she took and how decisively it paid off.”
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LOVIN’ IT: McDonald’s Sales Jump 2.4% After They Revived This Old School Strategy.
With its consumer sentiment on the decline (and a U.S. sales dip of 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024), the fast-food giant refocused its efforts on offering more choices at affordable prices.
In January, McDonald’s launched McValue, a new menu and platform that offers popular $5 Meal Deals along with exclusive and local discounts, as well as a “Buy One, Add One for $1” offering, available all day.
“When it comes to value, we know there’s no one-size-fits-all,” Joe Erlinger, president of McDonald’s USA, said in a press release. “We’ve worked closely with our franchisees to create a new platform that will let our customers define value on their own terms.”
It never ceases to amaze me that even large corporations forget that what their customers value most is… value.
UPDATE: Sorry, had the wrong link before. Fixed now.
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy: The automaker follows Ford and GM in writing down huge sums after betting wrong.
