ONCE THE CURIOSITY SEEKERS GOT THEIRS, THERE WAS NOBODY LEFT: Hunter Biden’s laptop-linked meme coin soars, then falls after market debut.

The $LAPTOP coin quickly surged from $37 to around $222 within its first hour. But the cryptocurrency is trading around $1.36 just after 3 p.m. EDT, according to Coinmarketcap.com, a database tracking cryptocurrency prices.

The coin dropped around 95 percent in value since its launch.

The behavior is in line with the typical lifespan of meme coins, which do not carry any intrinsic value but often surge in price because of social media hype around their launch.

Has Hunter considered selling NFTs or collectible spoons?

WE WEREN’T ANGRY ENOUGH, AS IT TURNS OUT:

WHEN THE ELITES DESPISE THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED THEM TO SERVE:

TRUE:

A proper Kirkiversary remembrance would be something they should dread.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Unconventional Midterm Convention Is Quintessential Trump. “The optics of Fetterman’s video were undeniable: he was the guy we were sure would be flying the commie freak flag for the Dems when he was elected, now he’s the sanest one in the Senate and uncomfortable with his party’s hammer and sickle vibe. No Republican has ever understood optics like Donald Trump.”

NAVAL WARFARE:

THESE PEOPLE ARE AS TRUSTWORTHY AS LORD HAW HAW, AND FOR SIMILAR REASONS:

NO THANK YOU: Meta launches AI agent that can access other apps to send emails, make payments.

Modeled on the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, Muse is designed to access a person’s apps across categories like email, calendar, payments, health, shopping and the smart home, Meta said. People choose which apps it connects to and can revoke access at any time.

Each Muse agent runs on its own virtual machine, a cloud-based emulation of a personal computer, which enables it to keep carrying out requests in the background even when a person is not actively using it.

Syncing up with apps containing a person’s real data both increases the agent’s potential usefulness and significantly raises the stakes for safety, both for the people who have entrusted it with their information and for others who may be on the receiving end of agent misbehavior.

Vishal Shah, vice president of AI products at Meta, told Reuters the company had initially delayed the release of the product in April to make it more secure.

But the whole point is to give it access to your files and even your payments. Much as I love my AI tools, I keep them safely inside their sandbox.

REMINDER:

A WARNING:

It did not happen by accident.

IT’S AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK:

In 2006, Walter Cronkite told PBS that, “I’m a liberal, but I’m not biased. Seriously. … [ellipses in original — Ed] A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we’re unbiased in our reporting. That’s one of the fundamentals of good journalism. We all have our likes and our dislikes. But … when we’re doing news — when we’re doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we’re doing the daily news, covering politics — it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.”

In 2019, long after RatherGate ended his career at CBS, Dan Rather was still muttering boilerplate such as, “As a lifetime journalist I can say I can only speak for myself: you do the best you can realizing you’re going to make your mistakes… that’s the test point of trying to stay objective and try to stay unbiased.”

Nobody believes old media claims about “objectivity.” Tell me your worldview so that I can take that into account when you’re presenting me a story.

ALEX BERENSON: Behind door #2, everyone dies: It is time to start taking the risks of AI much more seriously.

AI agents will redefine tasks they are assigned by humans in ways that humans don’t anticipate

AI agents will collude at scale to carry out those tasks

AI agents will lie to the humans who are monitoring what they’re doing

AI companies cannot (or will not) stop these coordinated attacks, even when they are supposed to be taking place under very tightly controlled conditions. . . .

Many people in the industry publicly put the chance that their models will escape human oversight and lead quickly to the extinction of humanity at 10 percent or more. Let’s say the chance is only 1 percent. Even so, we are currently tolerating research that on a probability-weighted basis is killing 80 million people — 1 percent of the current global population.

Actually it’s more than that, since it would be killing all future humans, too.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, THEY TOLD ME. TRUST THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, THEY SAID:

KURT SCHLICHTER: Our Biggest Problems Have the Easiest Solutions. “While America under Donald Trump is inarguably doing better in many ways than it has in many years, we still have problems the smart set insists are insoluble. They are not insoluble. They are easy. That is why you are not allowed to talk about them honestly.”

ONLY MALE SEXUALITY IS CREEPY. FEMALE SEXUALITY AND OBJECTIFICATION ARE EMPOWERING. Objectification Is Only Wrong When Men Do It: You don’t get to condemn the male gaze and then celebrate the female one. “The internet broke after Carlos Alcaraz took off his shirt following Friday’s U.S. Open match win. SportsCenter posted the crowd’s response — women reached for their phones, and we discovered a remarkable new rule: the sexualization of a young athlete is only offensive when the athlete is female, and the audience is male.”

The policing of sexuality is all about power.

LITTLE-HEARD TRUTH ABOUT TOMORROW: Richard Pollock, ever-observant of realities the Mainstream Media either chooses to ignore or simply doesn’t recognize, reminds us that millions of Muslims around the world danced in the streets as thousands of Americans died on 9/11.