MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Media manipulates economic gloom — and it’s all about the midterms.

MARTIN HACKWORTH: Ask not for whom the AI bell tolls, educators and journalists, it tolls for thee. “The academy and the media have, for some time now, worked overtime to position themselves beyond parody. It’s paid off.”

ICYMI: Starship Just Became a Money Making Machine.

THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOR IS INVITING VIGILANTISM.

"The problem isn’t that a judge cut him loose early. It’s what happened after the door opened. Nothing in the public record I could find shows anyone kept watching a man a Florida judge had called a likely danger without treatment, or that anyone passed that warning to…

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) September 28, 2026

I can guarantee you, though, that they will crack down on vigilantes harder than on the criminals who spark vigilantism. The next stage in that process is vigilantes targeting police and prosecutors. It’s much better to prevent such a downward spiral by making the justice system do its job.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Clash At Harvard: Steven Crowder Debates Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy On What’s Wrong With the Liberal Bias At Harvard (Video).

Here’s a highlight:

LIGHTS OUT. Total Crowder victory. This is one of the most decisive blowout debate wins I’ve seen in recent memory. Definitely worth watching the full thing. https://t.co/RzIL2szcoE

— Rachel Wilson (@Rach4Patriarchy) September 29, 2026

AT AMAZON, Shop Prime Big Deals on Amazon Brands. #CommissionEarned

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS. AND SOMETIMES CAN’T SHARE IT TILL MONDAY:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

On the good side, the death march with moving boxes should end tomorrow. G-d willing and the creek not rising.

EXPERTS: AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.

In “The Early Impacts of AI on Employment Among Recent College Graduates,” researchers Robert Fairlie and Jane Wu said they decided to focus on recent graduates “because changes in labor demand may first appear through reductions in hiring.” As AI gets good enough to at least perform the “relatively standardized tasks” in many entry-level office jobs, they argue, firms could reduce new hiring for simpler roles rather than laying off more experienced long-term employees.

There’s some reason to believe 2026’s graduating job seekers might be more at risk of AI displacement than those graduating just a year or two prior. The CESifo researchers point to a recent sharp increase in the number of firms “replacing a large number of employee tasks with AI” in a Census survey, as well as broad increases in AI spending per employee and ChatGPT Enterprise token use in the last 12 months.

Anecdotally, some major names also think that this is the year AI is finally capable enough to start replacing the jobs of some recent graduates. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said earlier this year that “AI literally until December [2025] was not actually good enough to do any of the jobs that they’re actually cutting.” And BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said in March that “the speed at which AI is changing” led him to worry that “when this year’s college graduates enter the workforce, we could see the highest unemployment rate among them in years—even without a recession.”

Innovation typically destroys existing jobs, but is a net job creator in new fields. Maybe AI really is different and will drive millions out of work permanently.

I’m not sure anybody really knows.

TOO MANY OF THESE STORIES HAVE BEEN OUTRIGHT FABRICATIONS. AND A GALVANIZE-WOMEN STORY THAT COMES OUT A MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTION IS DOUBLY SUSPICIOUS.

It’s not 2014 anymore. Heck, it’s not even 2017 anymore. The “believe women” bandwagon ran into the ditch about the same time that feminists decided we must believe Christine Blasey Ford.

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 28, 2026

WELL, OF COURSE: Violent History of Criminal Illegal Aliens in Jersey Ignored by Democrats and News Media. “Democrats and news media” — have those terms ever been more redundant?

CHRIS QUEEN: Virginia Pastors Sound the Alarm Over Ballot Amendments on Abortion and Marriage.

TRULY FASCINATING HISTORY:  History Weekend – The Barbary Coast.

A WEAKNESS OF LIBERALS IS THEY ARE TOO ACCUSTOMED TO GETTING BY WITH LAME EXCUSES:  Liberal Podcaster Had the Lamest Excuse for the Alaska Dem Who Called Her Staffers F****ts.

We call that Liberal Privilege.

HELLO, I’M NOT DATA REPUBLICAN: But I would like to highlight a comment on my blog, because it’s something we each can and should do before the midterms. So listen to S. Nelson, please:

Now that SCOTUS is allowing the SAVE list of illegal voters to be used, even though you can’t purge before the election, I’m working with my county GOP chair to set us up to use it for challenges after Election Day. We can data mine it against the list of peopl ewho signed the voter roll in person, or to verify mail in ballots that are counted.

If you haven’t talked to your county GOP chair, NOW is the time.

YOUNG ME WAS ALSO WRONG ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS, AND HAVE HAD TO RECALIBRATE:  Chesterton’s Fence and iced coffee.

THIS I CAN AGREE WITH. ON THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP THING:  The Supreme Court’s Error in Trump v. Barbara: Citizenship, Consent, and the Self-Governing Republic – Linda Denno.

DEAR BOB. WHY? CAN WE SEND HIM AND OBAMA TO A DESERTED ISLAND AND LET THEM IMPRESS EACH OTHER, SAFELY AWAY FROM LIVING HUMANS?  The Blairite world of “policy based evidence making”.

I LIVE WITH A COMPUTER PERSON. NONE OF OUR STUFF IS CONNECTED:  Skynet is taking over our critical … refrigerators?

Some of our stuff is supposed to be connected. You have no idea the very strange workarounds we have to get around that. Though, please, explain to me why a cat litterbox no matter how automated its cleaning should be on the net. And imagine the horrors of a cat litterbox hacked by China. (Okay, I made myself laugh, but really.)

THE JAPANESE IS ONE THING, BUT ARE WE REALLY GOING TO LET THE ITALIANS JUMP AHEAD OF US IN WARSHIP PRODUCTION?  The Italian Navy Will Get a Cruiser …this isn’t impossible…

THIS IS UTTER NONSENSE. AI DATA CENTERS ARE NO WORSE THAN OTHER DATA CENTERS:   Data Centers Face Fines, Permit Delays as States Weigh AI Growth Against Local Impacts.

No, they don’t use more water (it’s recycled) or electricity than any other data center. If you think they do, you fell for a Chinese psy-ops to corner AI development. What have I told you about falling for psy-ops? And how many times must I tell you the same thing?

UP FROM THE ROCK:  Starship joins the small club of rockets that achieved orbit on their first attempt. Clowns would want you to believe that SpaceX has failed to reach orbit 13 times before this flight except you can’t fail at what you don’t intend to do in the first place.

DEMOCRATS CAN’T MEME. OR READ CHARTS:  Democrats can be Unintentionally Hilarious Sometimes.

CULTURES UNDER BREAKING STRAIN RETURN TO THEIR FUNDAMENTALS:  The Breaking Point.

This, at all levels, from party to country is going to be the tune of the next few decades. One way or the other is going to be a rough ride. We just can hope for not as rough….

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS HAMMER, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE A FINGERNAIL: BBC gets crushed over woke article claiming new fingernail trend is white supremacist ‘erasure.’

The woke intelligentsia has identified yet another seemingly innocuous instrument of white supremacist oppression that literally emanates from your fingertips.

A bizarre article published by the BBC claims that a trending practice in which women’s nails are left unpainted is actually a racist plot against minorities.

‘When I do get a manicure now, it’s no polish. Why? Because I’m old and tired. Not because I joined the KKK.’

The article cites Kristina Rodulfo, a beauty journalist, who links the bare-nail trend to racism.

“That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities,” she said.

“They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty,” Rodulfo added.

The article goes on to enumerate far less extremist reasons for the trend.

“It’s just really chic. And I love less is more, I love minimalism … less consumerism and just self-care things that you could probably do at home,” said one woman who chose the unpolished look.

Ladies, whatever you do, don’t actually chose the color white as a nail polish choice: Columbia professor wins award for book on ‘white paint’ being racist.