March 27, 2026

EVERYONE WHO’S READ A COMIC BOOK KNOWS RADIATION GIVES YOU SUPER POWERS: Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability. I mean it’s just science.

Though a colleague at UT who researches arachnids and was bitten by a radioactive spider at Oak Ridge told me that she was very disappointed not to develop the ability to walk on walls.

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

I TOO HAVE SUSPECTED FOR A LONG TIME THAT STARMER ISN’T JUST COWARDLY, BUT COMPLICIT:

Posted at 7:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT’S AMUSING IS THAT THIS ENTHUSIASM FOR BARBARIC SAVAGERY COMES FROM THE FINEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD. The barbaric savages are just copying it.

It’s also revealing that the savages are reduced to using First World creations like AI video to produce their propaganda from whatever basement they’re hiding in.

And maybe those fine universities aren’t so fine.

Posted at 6:35 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LOL, MAMDANI IS SUDDENLY ANTI-TERRORISM:

But it’s really just an excuse to go after the Jews.

Posted at 5:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FACE, MEET PALM:

Posted at 4:28 pm by Stephen Green

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: This Is Exactly What I Said Would Happen if They Shut Down TSA. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the number airplanes you can break into in a single day, how to piss off an Airbnb owner, and what they think of modern art Down Under.”

Posted at 4:23 pm by Stephen Green

WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF NYC WERE AS CLEAN AND WELL-RUN AS [CHECKS NOTES] SAN SALVADOR?

Posted at 4:07 pm by Stephen Green

UNEXPECTEDLY: Colleges drop remedial math, students drop math courses. “Starting all students in college-level math was supposed to speed their path to a degree, writes Katherine Mangan in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Instead of starting in no-credit remedial math, poorly prepared students are placed in college-level classes and offered a corequisite ‘math lab’ or extra catch-up class to learn missing skills. But the short cut is not working for many unprepared students, she writes. They end up taking longer because they keep flunking math.”

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green

READ THE WHOLE THING:

Excerpt: “This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They’re now locked into the US energy system.”

Posted at 3:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HMM:

We’ve seen the mullahs squash every other popular revolt, but there’s never been a popular revolt backed up by US/Israeli airpower.

Stay tuned.

Posted at 3:36 pm by Stephen Green

HMM:

To be fair, LLMs are programmed to say what users want them to say in pursuit of increased “engagement.”

On the other hand, positive feedback loops are more dangerous than the unlikely event of an LLM killing to get a human body.

Posted at 3:05 pm by Stephen Green

SO MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

Posted at 2:34 pm by Stephen Green