WELL, GOOD:

BREAKING: The US is seeking to join Elon Musk’s court fight over the EU’s €120 million fine on X.

The Trump administration has applied to support X’s challenge, arguing that the European Commission overstepped its authority.

Washington is now standing with Musk. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/SINQBYboKp

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) September 24, 2026

Say, how’s that Brussels-friendly European alternative to X coming along?

Here’s what Grok had to say: “At beta launch they talked ~55,000 users and a year-end target of 100,000, a million in 2027. An August interview still cited a 120,000 waitlist. A mid-September German write-up of the project noted a blogger’s claim that 90%+ of accounts were idle and that interaction numbers looked cooked. Treat user counts as marketing until someone independent audits them.”

Treat that as yet another reminder that extorting from American innovators is what Europe does now instead of innovating.

CALIFORNIANS CHOSE THE FORM OF THEIR DESTRUCTOR YEARS AGO: California Says Becerra by 25, but History Says That Polls Aren’t Election Results.

FROM HOLLY CHISM:  A Sunny Day on Ganymede.

Imagine growing up in a colony. No, not one on Earth–one in space. On one of Jupiter’s moons, or maybe on a station…or an asteroid! What would it be like to be a kid in a research station on Io, or Ganymede? What would it be like to grow up inside tunnels dug into an asteroid? Or on a station floating in fixed orbit somewhere? Join Jack, Sean, Raffie, Jake, and Chris in this collection of stories…where one of the biggest differences a kid can make is by asking the right questions.

LET’S NOT BE STUPID ENOUGH TO LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS:  Fool Us Once. A Trojan Horse effort to place RCP8.5 back at the center of climate science and policy.

A LOT OF THINGS DON’T NEED THE INTERNET:  Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges.

IF YOU EVER WORK WITH AI, THIS BECOMES PAINFULLY OBVIOUS:  AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them.. The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR MOSTLY INDY AUTHORS:  And sometimes forget to share it till… Friday. Look, it’s been a difficult week. Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

EVERYTHING MILEI SAID WAS CORRECT. AND I HAVE SLIGHT PRESIDENT-ENVY:  WOW!! Argentina President Javier Milei just walked up to the mic at the United Nations and RIPPED THEM TO THEIR FACES “It’s become a USELESS organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatefully arrogant PARASITES masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats!”

BECAUSE OF COURSE IT DID:  STEVE MOORE: The IRS went after honest landowners. It’s time to end this tax nightmare. The IRS is finally rethinking its conservation easement crackdown. Now it must deliver justice for law-abiding Americans.

AT LEAST IT’S SOMETHING:  Marco Rubio begins yanking visas of birth tourism enablers: ‘Sending a clear message’.

IMPORTANT TO KNOW THIS:  A.I. Deems Author Names Worth Stealing.

THEY CAN’T HELP THEMSELVES:  Those wonderful leftists strike again.

EXCEPT GOVERNMENT, WHERE THE INTELLIGENCE IS OFTEN LACKING:  Intelligence of All Sorts.

So, one form of intelligence is knowing what’s going on elsewhere, before expressing your ignorance. For example, my cousin was talking about how her house, having multiplied many times in value, is taxed based on that value as if she had sold it that year… instead of based on how much she paid for it, and was basically railing about property taxes in general.

This earned her the typical “Concerned, uninformed neophyte: Troll” (CunT) wanting to know how she proposes to fund things like roads and schools.

SO MUCH ECO FREAKING, SO LITTLE MIND:   EU Ship Recycling Fight Escalates Over Indian Beaching Yards.

A fight over whether Indian shipbreaking yards using the controversial beaching method should qualify under European environmental rules is widening, with steelmakers, recyclers, trade unions and environmental groups now urging the European Commission to withdraw its proposal.

GOVERNMENTS HAVE ONLY ONE ANSWER: KILL THEIR OWN PEOPLE IN BATCH LOTS:  The Problem of Suffering.

OPEN THREAD: It’s all you.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX stacks massive Starship rocket ahead of 1st orbital launch attempt (video).

BEWARE OF CAT: The ‘Mind Control’ Cat Parasite Manipulating You May Have a Simple Explanation.

MAYBE THE REAL MATHEMATICS IS THE FRIENDS WE MADE ALONG THE WAY: “This month, 27 Fields medalists — winners of mathematics’ highest honor — have signed a joint declaration stating that solving famous open problems is not, in itself, the goal.”

HMM: Ozempic’s Active Ingredient Shows Surprising Anti-Aging Effects.

ICYMI: Lovin’ It? Check Out McDonald’s $13.5 BILLION Modernization Plan.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Decades of aerobic exercise may help older adults age with more resilience.

WHAT A MESS:

Unsurprising to find out the demonic "it's not her fault" jury loons were rigging the system and breaking rules while they accused the lone sane voice of doing that https://t.co/jYdasXu2Y3

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) September 24, 2026

ICYMI [VIP]: Let’s Talk About the REAL ’80s.

THIS HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE RETHINKING A FEW THINGS, OR AT LEAST SHOULD:

I expected the Trump tariffs to be a disaster. I'm puzzled by what I'm not seeing.

They don't seem to have harmed the US economy in any way I can notice with my eyeballs or in the statistics. Business activity is booming, unemployment seems to be low, household consumption is…

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 24, 2026