September 23, 2026
THE ART OF THE DEAL:
Ok, we now have the actual text of the Greenland deal (https://t.co/HwqZT6CGb2), so we can say how it compares to the existing 1951 arrangement and who, between Trump and Denmark, lied the most in their framing of it.
Long story short – which may surprise some – the Danes lied… https://t.co/DPM2iFkN4v
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 23, 2026
“It even survives a hypothetical future independence of Greenland: in that event, Denmark and Greenland must ensure that the independent Greenlandic state ‘affirmatively assume[s] all of the rights and obligations of the Kingdom of Denmark specified in this Agreement.'”
GET RID OF PESTS: Dr. Killigan’s Premium Clothing Moth Traps with Pheromones. #CommissionEarned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Pentagon taps Northrop Grumman, True Anomaly for recon satellites that can monitor other space systems. “Specifically, officials involved in the GHOST-R effort want to use commercially developed space vehicles, buses, and electro-optical payloads to deliver ‘high-resolution space-to-space imagery for characterizing resident space objects’ in geostationary orbit, according to a joint DIU-SSC press release.”
I’M NOT USUALLY MUCH FOR CONSPIRACY THEORIES, BUT…:
I'm very fascinated with why Western countries almost simultaneously decided to open their borders and commit civilisational suicide.
What was the moment that started it?
What happened in modern history where everyone lost their damn minds and decided "You know what? What we…
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) September 23, 2026
MAKE HIGH-TRUST GREAT AGAIN:
Libertarianism has disappeared because it is a sub-species of liberalism, and liberalism is disappearing across the West because people only feel the liberal impulse within the context of a high-trust society (which liberals have destroyed). https://t.co/ToYFtCjuJF
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) September 23, 2026
A good first step is to stop importing people from low-trust societies with no intention or desire of assimilating.
GO AWAY: California Wants to Write America’s AI Rules.
The order cites the need for more stringent regulation following the Hugging Face attack and industry leaders’ call to action. It also accelerates the implementation of Senate Bill 813 and Assembly Bill 1405, which create a state framework for certifying and registering independent AI auditors but do not require developers to submit to audits.
The announcement describes California’s AI framework as a “guidebook for the nation.” Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, sees it differently.
“It’s not a guidebook,” he tells Reason. “It’s a rule book.”
AI systems transcend state borders, and given California’s outsized role in the market, working around its laws is hardly an option; therefore, California law effectively becomes the national standard. This phenomenon is known as the “California effect,” and it has reared its ugly head in labor and environmental policy.
The last thing we need is a one-party kleptocracy that can’t even build a railroad writing regulations for the entire country on bleeding-edge tech.
NOPE, STILL NOT TIRED OF ALL THE WINNING:
We’re getting wins we didn’t even know we were getting
Fergie Chambers, a communist failson heir to the Cox Enterprises fortune, is under federal indictment and is being extradited from Spain
He was a big time funder of Antifa https://t.co/dIZ79nkPtR
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 23, 2026
MAYBE JUST DON’T WORRY SO MUCH? A Popular Plan To Fix Climate Change Could Have An Unexpectedly Disastrous Effect.
HEIGHTENING THE CONTRADICTIONS INHERENT IN THE COMMUNIST SYSTEM: Hey, Xi — Good Luck Keeping AI on a Communist Leash. “Beijing is ‘pushing cheap, capable open-source models around the world’ and Xi wants AI ‘never so powerful that it slips beyond the control of the Communist Party.’ Which is like giving your teenage son a 1,000-horsepower Ferrari, but insisting that he keep his speed to 55 mph.”
IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee Drinkers May Have More Muscle, Less Body Fat and Unexpected Hormone Differences, According to a New Study.
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Oopsie! Democrat Convicted Felon Drops Bid. “This is a blow to Democrats, because Lomick actually received a few hundred more votes in the primary election than the two Republicans candidates, indicating the new district might possibly be competitive.”
THIS IS TROUBLING: Sober drivers arrested for DUI in 22 states, investigation finds. It is well known that field sobriety tests are utterly unreliable. I would never take one.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: 4K Night Vision Binoculars for Adults. #CommissionEarned
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is just like you and I!
As American as baseball and apple pie. https://t.co/bGrHSgxWua
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 23, 2026
Remember over the next few years, Los Angeles, that Pratt is the mayor you could have had.
THE QUIET DISSIDENCE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE:
Mastio notes that the fear-mongering about a nonexistent trans murder “epidemic” is being driven by queer activists. He doesn’t call this out for the cynical power politics and moral blackmail that it is, but he does note, “What LGBTQ rights groups are doing to these folks with this unrelenting message that death is waiting for them around every corner is not healthy. They have their constituents living in fear when the best numbers we have show that the supposed ‘epidemic,’ ‘onslaught,’ or ‘genocide’ against trans people is not as potent as they suggest and is, in fact, lessening.”
The second Globe piece is a dispatch from a western Massachusetts lesbian bar, detailing how the recent(!) relaxation of the establishment’s N95 mask mandate led to a complete meltdown among the regulars. The pleasures of the piece are many, from one patron’s accusation that management is “complicit in a mass disabling event” to another’s that the move could “kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” to a third’s more simple wish that the bar be “firebombed” for its policy toward the immunocompromised. Distressed by the backlash and the bar’s struggling finances, one of its founders has, I jest you not, enrolled in clown college.
What both pieces have in common is understatement and restraint as editorial strategy. They both simply take the left-wing milieus they examine seriously, present the claims these people make in their own terms, even sympathetically, and then apply only basic empirical scrutiny to them, unladen by invective or antagonism. The results are nevertheless devastating, a kind of reductio ad absurdum of a whole worldview, the way many see the HBO show Girls as in fact subtle critique of a lifestyle it superficially valorizes.
I wonder how these articles are playing to the Globe’s core subscribers? Are they shocked that there isn’t an “epidemic” of anti-trans violence? Are they shocked that there’s still a bastion of mask obsessives even in 2026? But kudos to the Globe for exposing their perilously left-leaning readers to a fair amount of cognitive dissonance.
MAKE OF THIS WHAT YOU WILL: Mark Kelly Says US military ‘doesn’t need more testosterone.’ “The retired Navy captain rebuked the secretary as ‘a guy who runs around on the stage, yelling about killing people and maximum lethality and testosterone’ during an appearance on MS NOW’s ‘Morning Joe’ show.”
Tell that to these guys: Airmen can’t get enough of new, warlike basic training, leaders say. “It used to be, [trainees] would ask you those very simple questions about, you know, when will I get to fly home and see my parents next,” she continued. “Now it’s the really tough questions … ‘Ma’am, if they’re targeting us so closely and we’re actually hunted out there when we go out and deploy, how do we work through that? What tools are we going to have for that?’”
GEORGIA TECH BRINGS CIVICS ED TO STEM. “Simply put, society needs the creators, users, and regulators of future technologies to be not just savvy but wise.” Of course, we could always let the “effective altruists” have this field to themselves, but they might kill us all to spare the bugs.
