April 1, 2026

BRIDGET PHETASY: Leave Me Behind.

My grandparents were Depression-era kids and survived World War II. Big deal, I thought at the time. They don’t know what I’m going through now. I was so certain their experience had nothing to teach me. And they had the grace not to argue about it. They just waited. Because they knew something I didn’t: That wisdom isn’t persuasive to people who haven’t earned it yet, and that trying to make it persuasive is a fool’s errand.

I was a fool. Now I’d give anything for their wisdom and it’s too late.

The part the platform-chasers don’t understand: You cannot reason a twenty-three-year-old out of positions they were algorithmically radicalized into. You’re not going to win them over by learning their dumb slang and nodding along with their worst impulses. All you’re going to do is lose yourself. And your audience—your actual audience, the people who showed up because you had something to say—will watch you do it in real time.

I never peaked. I say that without self-pity. I got a late start, I never had the massive Fox show or the viral Comedy Central moment, and for a while, that bothered me. But it turns out never peaking is a kind of freedom. There’s no high to chase, no glory days to recreate, no slide into irrelevance to panic about. There’s just the work. Territory, not hierarchy. You do it because it’s yours to do, and you hope the right people find it, and if the coveted demographic thinks you’re an oldhead who doesn’t understand the vision—good. I only want to do my work.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOLLYWOOD FOR UGLY PEOPLE: Op-ed: Let’s talk about TMZ turning its sights on DC politicians, and why that’s a good thing.

To be fair, they’ve been there before, sans the traditional Hollywood ending: Ex-DEA public affairs chief pleads guilty to brazen scam. “A former head of public affairs for the Drug Enforcement Administration who later worked as a producer for TMZ has admitted to a fraud scheme that involved posing as an undercover CIA operative in order to swindle government contractors out of over $4 million. Details of the complex scam carried out by Garrison Courtney, 44, became public Thursday morning as he pleaded guilty to a felony wire fraud charge in Alexandria, Va., before U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady.”

 

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

BEFORE THE ADVENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AMERICA WAS AMONG THE MOST LITERATE NATIONS ON EARTH:

Posted at 12:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ICYMI:

Posted at 12:36 pm by Stephen Green

INSIDE EVERY “PROGRESSIVE” IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: ‘F*ck Him To His Face:’ Democrat Lawmaker Deletes Unhinged Late-Night Post About Trump.

Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) deleted a profane X post about President Donald Trump after it drew backlash online.

Lee made the comment early Wednesday in response to reports that Trump planned to attend Supreme Court oral arguments in a high-stakes birthright citizenship case.

“So f*cking f*cked up. I’ll pray they f*ck him to his face,” Lee wrote at around 1 a.m. Eastern Time Wednesday in the replies to an Associated Press story about the visit. “Sorry, I say f*ck a lot these days.”

The post was later deleted, but she appeared to defend herself in a subsequent post on Wednesday morning.

“Clearly my language touched a nerve — my nerve was touched by the attacks on our Constitution and its separation of powers. I took an oath to protect and defend it,” Lee wrote.

The posts were both made from her personal account, where the banner touts a claim that she is “America’s #1 Most Bipartisan Member of Congress.”

Past performance is no guarantee of future results:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

And Hitler was an animal-loving vegetarian bohemian artist.

Posted at 11:57 am by Stephen Green

GOOGLE: Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear.

Google’s introducing a 2029 timeline to secure the quantum era with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration.

Last month, we called to secure the quantum era before a future quantum computer can break current encryption. This new timeline reflects migration needs for the PQC era in light of progress on quantum computing hardware development, quantum error correction, and quantum factoring resource estimates.

As a pioneer in both quantum and PQC, it’s our responsibility to lead by example and share an ambitious timeline. By doing this, we hope to provide the clarity and urgency needed to accelerate digital transitions not only for Google, but also across the industry.

Quantum computers will pose a significant threat to current cryptographic standards, and specifically to encryption and digital signatures. The threat to encryption is relevant today with store-now-decrypt-later attacks, while digital signatures are a future threat that require the transition to PQC prior to a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC). That’s why we’ve adjusted our threat model to prioritize PQC migration for authentication services — an important component of online security and digital signature migrations.

On a long enough timeline, everything gets hacked.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

AMAZED? REALLY?

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

PRIORITIES:

Posted at 10:55 am by Stephen Green

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE: BBB warns of surge in sophisticated tax scams ahead of April 15 deadline. “Tax scammers are using AI to be even more convincing, realistic and effective… In just a few minutes, a phony website or scam email can wipe out your bank account. Fraudsters are hoping people will be so rushed to file their taxes on time that they will disregard key red flags. Ignoring these is dangerous to you and your family.”

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Supergirl Adopts Insane ‘Lady Ghostbusters’ PR Push.

The finished film even included a scene where the Lady Ghostbusters deal with online trolls.

Perhaps the key players realized they had a turkey on their hands, and it was time to do some creative marketing to deflect that sad truth? Or, they figured the Victimhood Card would rally progressives to movie theaters nationwide.

Are you sure about that?

The film dramatically underperformed. Sony later re-rebooted the franchise with modest success.

The “Supergirl” rollout feels very similar. But this isn’t 2016. Movie fans smell this desperation a mile away, and it’s already building bad buzz on the project.

This film exists in Superman’s corner of the DC universe, but Alcock’s strategy sounds awfully reminiscent of a line spoken Batman’s nemesis Bane at the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises: “Crashing the plane — with no survivors!!!”

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ON THE FRONT BURNER:

“Two years ago no one would have even imagined this issue would be before the Supreme Court. But Pres. Trump FORCED it there.”

Turns out, you can just do things.

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

BUT WILL THEY LISTEN? Europe Needs to Hear This Harsh Truth. “The self-styled sophisticates in Brussels and Europe’s capitals remain remarkably provincial in their outlook, and that’s why today we will speak some harsh truths to our friends in Europe — not because the truth is harsh, but because they believe that we naive Americans don’t recognize it.”

Posted at 10:09 am by Stephen Green