THERE ARE NO WORDS:
It's obvious that the heuristic I used to mine quotes from the 1.5 million or so forum posts & comments by Effective Altruists was leaving a lot of insanity on the table.
Thanks to prompting from @perrymetzger , I found Yudkowsky talking about baby-eating, BSDM-theorizing, and… https://t.co/ZKTKuKQPqy pic.twitter.com/E7N9TRiIs4
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 24, 2026
THE PREDICTIONS FAILED BUT THE GRIFT GOES ON: Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore still believes in the climate fight: ‘We are going to win this.’
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Hawaii Vampire Gun Restrictions Just Won’t Die. “Unfortunately, a Ninth Circuit en banc panel just reversed this lower court’s decision and has found that these ridiculous hurdles to firearm ownership are perfectly fine.”
SUICIDAL EMPATHY OR SUICIDAL INTENTIONAL IGNORANCE?
The West: Why did you commit the terror attack?
Terrorist: My religion dictates it.
The West: So climate change?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
The West: So beard bullying?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
The West: So, violent video games then?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
The West:…— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) September 24, 2026
More:
The West: So, American imperialism then?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
The West: So the Zionist entity forced you to defend yourself?
Terrorist: FFS, it’s MY RELIGION.Conclusion from the West: Terror attacks stem from a confluence of paleo-botanical-sociocultural-ethnopolitical forces that requires a nuanced analysis. What is absolutely clear though is that this has nothing to do with religion.
The Left’s ability to deny agency to anyone they think is inferior — in ostensible solidarity! — is a virtual trapeze act of cognitive dissonance. Yet they pull it off reflexively and seamlessly.
Truly a marvel to behold.
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INCENTIVIZING TERRORISM: Pay-For-Slay in Action: Israeli Dad’s Murderer Was in Debt, Wanted Jihad Payoff.
I WATCH ALL THIS STUFF ON X:
I hate to tell you, Brian, but everything President Trump did yesterday was live streamed all over the internet just like it always is.
No one watches TV.
No one misses the press pool.
You are extinct, you just haven't realized it yet.
— Whale Psychiatrist ™️ (@k_ovfefe2) September 23, 2026
#METOO: CNN Has Had a Rough 24 Hours and I’m Here for It.
This display of solidarity and media muscle in their name had to warm the cold cockles of whatever passes for hearts at CNN headquarters.
Yeah, buddy -they’d show the orange man that he’d messed with the wrong gladiators.
The warm glow and phony ‘boycott’ lasted all of the twenty-four hours it took President Trump to storm into New York City and the UN General Assembly like a force of nature.
The first appalling crack appeared when the president spotted CNN’s rude Oval Office newshound Kaitlan Collins in the press scrum. He didn’t waste a moment and went in for the rhetorical kill.
Schadenfreudelicious.
SINCE YOU ASKED, YES:
Evangelicals, Catholics and Baptists whose support for the Jewish people is rooted in distinct theological frameworks, historical developments & biblical interpretations.
Also normal people who had a decent high school education. https://t.co/yptilAMzU1— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) September 23, 2026
REQUIRED READING:
BEFORE YOU BURN THE HOUSE
I keep hearing people talk about civil war like it’s weather coming over the ridge. “Burn it down! Let the whole thing break! Start again in the ashes!”
Reckless words from folks who still have a ballot sitting on the table.
Before you speak of…
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) September 24, 2026
“Before you speak of rifles, use the piece of paper men once crossed oceans and battlefields to earn. If you curse the Republic as dead, make damn sure you showed up while it was still breathing.”
THE EUROPEAN CENTER CONTINUES ITS COLLAPSE: Frau Merkel Has Destroyed Her Own Party.
Merz indeed seems unequal to the moment, but he’s not the one who has consigned his own party to the dust-bin of history. That dubious honor belongs to former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel.
An East German-born politician who came to lead Germany’s staunchly anti-communist, “mainstream” right party, Merkel, a protege of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, had a reputation as a colorless functionary, but in one of her first prominent roles, as Minister for the Environment and Nuclear Safety, she pushed for climate change legislation to limit greenhouse gases.
But her biggest mistake was throwing open German borders to accept huge numbers of unassimilated Muslim illegal aliens into the country.
Honestly, between reckless immigration and just-as-reckless over-dependence on Russian energy, you have to wonder if she wasn’t an SED plant all along.
DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE:
The new radical leftist Prime Minister in Britain, Andy Burnham, has announced his plans to create a "Ministry of Truth" to control news media and eliminate news or opinions that the government disagrees with.
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) September 23, 2026
1984 wasn’t a guidebook, fellas.
I SAW THEM OPEN FOR PANIC! AT THE DISCO: Mutiny at the #ZeroCOVID Lesbian Dive Bar!
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Plaque Remover for Teeth. #CommissionEarned
IT’S A BAD IDEA, AND IT’S GOOD TO SEE THE ADMINISTRATION GET OUT IN FRONT OF THE RUMORS ABOUT IT: US Energy Secretary Wright says diesel export ban won’t work.
“The blunt tool of banning diesel exports definitely doesn’t work,” Wright said at an event hosted by the Economist in New York.
Average US diesel prices were $6.52 a gallon on Wednesday, up 76% from a year ago, according to AAA, a motorist advocacy group.
“If you can’t export the diesel that comes out of our refineries, you run out of places to store it, and you have to reduce US refining, which would put upward pressure on gasoline prices and jet fuel prices,”
Wright said. The Trump administration is open to any ideas on lowering fuel prices and will make policy announcements in coming days, he said.
A crash program to build new refineries or reopen old ones would be nice.
POKER WARS: Philip Guitar Talks ‘Poker Wars,’ the Bloody Battles that led to the World Series of Poker.
My latest, over at Ed Driscoll.com.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: U. Idaho graduate certificate has students ‘decolonizing’ research.
HE GETS RESULTS — HE HAD TO BE DESTROYED:
Ah yes, the awesome Roland Fryer, the man Claudine Gay tried to destroy after he debunked some DEI dogmas she held so dear. https://t.co/vZz3XHmS3a
— Richard McGough ✝️ Bible Wheel (@RichardAMcGough) September 23, 2026
Epic callback — thank you, Richard.
POORLY, ONE HOPES: How Will History See the Life and Works of Anthony Fauci?
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: A Tale of Two Centuries.
EARLY PRIME DEAL: Early Deals on Amazon Devices. #CommissionEarned
ZAP! The US military has been deploying lasers in the Strait of Hormuz to knock out regime hardware, taking out “drones and incoming cruise missiles at a much lower cost than using more expensive kinetic weapons like missiles,” the Department of War recently confirmed. “Somewhat surprisingly, the laser weapons are operated by soldiers using reconfigured Xbox game console controllers.”
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