July 27, 2026

COLOR ME DUBIOUS: Is Alpha School for real? “Alpha School claims that students can master academics in two AI-powered hours a day, equaling the achievement at elite schools, writes Robert Pondiscio. He wants it to be the ‘educational breakthrough’ we need. But he wonders: Is Alpha School for real?”

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: The Woman Who Wasn’t There. “Lots of women evidently like looking at middle-aged Instagram/TikTok/YouTube ‘influencers’ who have managed to stay young and trim. One influencer’s secret? Not existing.”

What really stood out is how Instagram chooses to deal with the problem of AI-generated influencers: “Every time their algorithm suggested some ‘popular influencer’ for my feed I merely blocked them. After a few weeks Instagram killed my account because it said I was ‘violating site rules’ or something.”

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

SAD, BUT TRUE:

And here’s the meaty part of what Northern Barbarian replied to:

But the fact that the people who worshiped him in the first place are not going to take in any of this information nor get angry or upset.

Their worship of Fauci, and all the lies, he told about:
-masks,
-the infection fatality rate of the virus,
-the vaccines stopping transmission, stopping contraction,
-the toxic side effects that are off the chart,
-the excess deaths caused by the vaccine,
-the damage to children’s hearts, kidneys, neurological disorders from the vaccine,
-the lies about NOT inventing the virus in the first place

Will still be ignored by the people who most ardently enforced the Fauci Covid narrative because to admit to themselves, all these lies, would mean that they were monsters acting in an evil way and poisoning themselves and their own children, and they just can’t live with that.

Yes.

Posted at 2:54 pm by Stephen Green

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: U. Florida ‘early childhood education’ professor scrubs ‘anti-racist’ readings after inquiry.

A University of Florida professor scrubbed optional readings on “anti-racist” and “anti-bias” education from her syllabus after receiving inquiries from The College Fix.

In this class, “students develop and/or implement instructional strategies consistent with their personal philosophies of early childhood education,” according to the course description.

The original version of the “Early Childhood Curriculum” syllabus, available in early July, offered students two different writing options.

Option A would require students to read articles such as “Creating anti-racist early childhood spaces” and “An Inclusive, Anti-Bias Framework for Teaching and Learning about Race with Young Children. Young Exceptional Children.”

The latter reading states that because picture books feature white characters, “a trip to the public library may implicitly communicate to young children that ‘whiteness’ is superior.”

To be fair, even the Smithsonian says that the “written tradition” is part of icky “white culture.”

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

TWO FAUCIS IN ONE, PART DEUX:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

DSA’S SOLEMN VOW: We Win an Election, You Lose a Country. “The Democratic Socialists of America mean to end the United States — and if you don’t believe me, take a look at what DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer had to say about it this weekend.”

Posted at 2:15 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: The money train: Colorado’s Front Range rail a looming debacle.

Early this week, Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail District released its Plan for Colorado Connector – CoCo, the name it has given to a proposed passenger train between Fort Collins and Denver.

The plan calls for spending $332 million in phase 1 (three trains a day each way), $1.7 billion for phase 2 (extending trains to Pueblo), and $2.7 billion for phase 3 (increasing frequencies to up to 10 daily roundtrips).

My first thought is that, as someone who actually went to planning school for a year or so before becoming disillusioned by the profession, I resent it when government agencies call documents like this “plans.” A real plan considers a wide range of alternatives, carefully evaluates the benefits and costs of each alternative, and then, as a part of implementation, sets up targets and a monitoring process so that it can change or cancel the plan if it fails.

This document contains none of that. Instead, it simply proposes to spend a lot of money, after which it would spend a lot more money, and then spend even more money. No alternatives are considered and there is no suggestion that if the first step in the project fails in some way they will modify or abandon later steps.

In short, this is not a plan; it is a sales brochure designed to convince legislators and the public to pay for expensive train service that few people will use.

Democrats couldn’t figure out how justify California-style high-speed rail in Colorado, so we’ll get the smaller scale “CoCo” grift machine, instead.

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green

TWO FAUCIS IN ONE! Fauci, CNN Condemned ‘Small Household Gatherings’ Week Before Fauci-Tapper Dinner.

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Tweet concludes, “While he was going on TV saying the opposite to terrify the public into shutting down the economy. It was all a lie designed to take out Trump’s most formidable weapon for reelection: his booming economy.”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

HEH: Bring Back the Hollywood Asshole!

And that is the ultimate lesson here. We do not need a new Coppola. We need a new Robert Evans. We need a studio head constructed out of parties and vice, with infinite taste and style. Someone artists feared and loved, who may not have had a soul, but had the genius to find the people who did.

So this is what we need you to do with your elite MBAs and high SAT scores: Get back to being a meritocracy. Drop the affectations. Best, most profitable idea wins. Hire crews and staff based on excellence, not what your favorite Harvard admissions counselor would love. Build movie stars. Learn what the poors want — people in flyover states who make less than $300,000 a year. Make sure those movie stars do not offend those poors by insulting Jesus or Tom Brady.

You are part of a great legacy. The Movies. You know: the great American cultural export created by Jewish Eastern European garment tradesmen. Honor them by wearing expensive clothes, making expensive movies, entertaining as many people as possible and selling millions of electric Hulk toothbrushes.

The executive’s job is to be the brilliant, greedy, tasteful money animal who funds the dream, and pretending otherwise is what broke the business. The business forgot it is supposed to be a hit-driven, star-driven, spectacle-driven machine, not a lifestyle brand for coastal creatives.

They have been calling you a suit like it is an insult.

It isn’t.

It’s the job.

Wear the suit. Be a suit.

Beginning in 2010, Hollywood rejected lucrative DVD and Blu-Ray sales for streaming, ending the ability for movies that didn’t make at the box office to earn a second chance in home distribution. From 2017 to 2019, powerful Hollywood execs were routinely #metoo-ed into oblivion. In 2020, Hollywood shutdown the movie business to curry favor with Fauci and Birx. In 2022, L.A.’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures tossed the Jewish founders of Hollywood right down the memory hole.  Then in 2023, the Writers Guild went on strike. The product became increasingly weird and woke. Going to movies went from being a near-weekly experience to something families did once or twice year to see event movies such as Top Gun: Maverick, “Barbenheimer,” and The Odyssey. No matter how big of a schmuck he is, the Hollywood asshole has his work cut out for him to turn the industry around.

UPDATE: The movie industry is broken. “Last year, just three studios – Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney and Universal – accounted for nearly 70 percent of domestic box office takings. Hollywood’s share of what Americans actually watch is around 95 percent plus in theaters (by revenue) and 85 to 95 percent in streaming viewing time. They own your butt and your eyeballs and that’s not changing anytime soon. But behind the rosy headlines and inside the plush boardrooms in Beverly Hills and Century City and Burbank, the hope of 2026 looks more like cope. A lot is going wrong all at once, and a huge transition is not-so-quietly under way. The agent did not mince words. ‘Streaming has ruined the business. It’s the reason Shari Redstone sold Paramount for peanuts. It’s why Warner Bros. was forced to sell. It’s why Comcast is looking to exit streaming.’”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

AND WE WONDER WHY SO MUCH FRAUD: New GAO report examines 20 of the biggest federal benefit programs that rely on state administration and finds only five have solid anti-theft procedures in place.

Posted at 12:57 pm by Mark Tapscott