FASCINATING:

ロシアがウクライナのデータセンターを相次いで攻撃
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ゼレンスキー大統領が報復を宣言。Yandexのデータセンターを相次いで攻撃
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サービスが一部停止。経済制裁により新たなGPUの入手難しく、復旧は絶望的
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この攻撃によりなぜかロシアのbotの半分が活動しなくなり、Xが少し平和になる←ｲﾏｺｺ https://t.co/ZxH7cgEbk1

— 篠原 修司 (@digimaga) October 10, 2026

And here’s X’s auto-generated translation, which for whatever reason doesn’t embed:

Russia successively attacks Ukraine’s data centers
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President Zelensky declares retaliation. Successively attacks Yandex’s data centers
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Services partially shut down. Due to economic sanctions, acquiring new GPUs is difficult, and recovery seems hopeless
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For some reason, this attack causes half of Russia’s bots to stop functioning, making X a bit more peaceful←NOW HERE

Did anyone have “Russian drone strike sets off a small chain of events resulting in cleaner X timelines” on their 2026 bingo card?

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).”

FLY THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES: EgyptAir pilot posts video of Israeli plane, with audio saying ‘eye for eye, tooth for tooth, violence for violence.’ “Osama Mansour should be grounded immediately, but in America itself, pro-jihad pilot Ibrahim Mosallam is still flying for United Airlines. So why should anyone expect EgyptAir to do anything about Osama Mansour?”

WHAT DID Y’ALL THINK GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA MEANT? VIBES? PAPERS? ESSAYS? LOSERS.

❌ The Flydubai co-pilot was radicalized in Qandahar, Afghanistan.

✅ The Flydubai co-pilot was radicalized in Melbourne, Australia by a mosque linked to the Muslim Brotherhood organization.

Let that sink in.

People of Australia, wake up 🙏🏼♥️ pic.twitter.com/yMrYArf39C

— Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف (@lalshareef) October 10, 2026

Classical reference in the headline.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: Britain is Heading Towards Blackouts. “No large grid anywhere has yet run mostly on wind, solar and batteries with so little spinning plant behind it. NESO’s Chief Executive calls its stability programme ‘world-first’, and means it as praise. Britain is running a colossal experiment on a system that cannot be allowed to fail.”

Fascinating look at what makes grids work, and why Net Zero doesn’t.

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.

WHERE’S WALDO TALARICO: Talarico Has Been Spotted. His Appearance Creates More Questions Than Answers.

SHOOTING NEWS INTERVIEW: SNW Talks With ATF Director Robert Cekada About Jensen, Firearm Records and Much, Much More.

I KNOW, I COULDN’T STAND TO WATCH HIM, EITHER:

In other Colbert-related news, the Critical Drinker fires up the Dacia Sandero:

LIMITED TIME DEAL: AVID POWER 20V Rechargeable Cordless Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned

#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.

SHE’S BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO LIKE:

Sophie responds to the article from @TheAthletic demanding Fever to drop her

"If you're going to live by the praise, you'll die by the hate…..I'm going to continue to do me…..suck it"

This is the appropriate response. We should all be more like this. pic.twitter.com/kfQuNw89dQ

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 10, 2026

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.

MY FRIEND DAVID BUTLER IS HAVING A VERY SUCCESSFUL KICKSTARTER. HELP HIM HIT ANOTHER STRETCH GOAL:  The Witchy War.  The award-winning epic American fantasy trilogy.

I WAS STANDING ON THE CORNER MIND MY OWN BUSINESS (NO WORD ON WHETHER i WAS READING MY BIBLE) WHEN SUDDENLY…  Coming Down With Novel.

TOUJOURS LES HOMMES DE GAUCHE!  France is Burning But Macron Blames Too Much ‘Free Speech’. 

PRECISELY THIS. LETTING NON CITIZENS VOTE DILUTES CITIZENS VOTES:  Election Protection helps prevent legal votes being cancelled by cheaters and elections being rigged by powerful interests.

THE NOBEL COMPLETES ITS FULL TRANSFORMATION INTO THE IGNOBLE:  Harvard Celebrates Its Boycott-Israel, Blood Libel Nobel Laureate. 

Harvard was also already almost there.

I DO HOPE IT’S A MERE CASE OF:  Nerves.

AS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE, NO?  Hegseth Puts Warfighting Skills at the Center of Military Promotions.

GO MARCO:  Rubio Sanctions ICC: The Court ‘Will End Its Threats or We Will End the ICC’.

SERIOUSLY? CONSIDERING HOW MUCH THE LATEST WAVES OF ILLEGALS WERE DRAWING ON THE SYSTEM THEY NEVER PAID INTO: because they were being signed on for disability and other benefits at the border, this is highly improbable:  NEW REPORT: Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Could Cut Social Security Retiree Benefits by $2,152 a Year, Economists Find.

And if you dig to find who these economists are…  A brand new firm this year that is apparently all about enforcing immigration is bad for the economy?
All 3 (three) of them?  I’d bet money they’re ex-government employees!

There are days when I love the internet. Back in the eighties you just had to assume that whatever the press was quoting was an actual professional whatever.