This song is so damn catchy I could totally see this on a 100 top hits pop chart list. Who would play this at their wedding? I would; it beats the chicken dance. I think itโs running neck and neck with โYouโre Too Sweet For Me.โ ๐
— Lori Gaye (@LoriGaye1) November 1, 2026
Civil Rights Update
Common use comes to December:
If lawmakers really want fewer murders, the hard work is somewhere else. Itโs in the neighborhoods where so many of our homicides happen. Itโs in broken families, missing fathers, and mental illness. If you tackle the underlying causes of homicide and drug deaths, you would also influence the mass shooting issue. Extremely rarely do lawmakers tackle these hard issues. A rifle ban is faster. You get a signing ceremony and a press release. Fixing the real problems takes a generation, and nobody gets a ribbon cutting for that.
The principle the founding era left us still works. Punish misuse, and leave the arm alone. A man who murders with a rifle should go to prison. A man who keeps one in his safe and takes it to the range on Saturday has done nothing wrong. A ban punishes the second man for what the first man did, and it multiplies that by 26 million.
On December 2 and 3, the Supreme Court will hear these cases. The Second Amendment isnโt whatโs on trial. These bans are. The question is whether they can pass the test the Court has already written. And itโs whether the Court meant what it said in Heller, in Caetano, in Bruen, and in Wolford. I think it did.
Cook County and Connecticut picked this hill. They picked one of the most popular rifles in America, from a category the FBI ties to only a small share of the murders it counts. They picked a test the Court already wrote, and they asked it to look the other way. In December, we find out whether that hill holds.
Fortunately, with this court, it’s quite unlikely to.
A Day Late, But
Happy Halloween.
I’m sorry, but I can’t stop laughing. I’m going ๐คฃ๐๐คฃ straight to hell. ๐คฃ๐๐คฃ๐๐ https://t.co/03Csc7mjah
— Scott Plissken ๐ด๐๐ธโค๐ต๐ฌ๐ฅ (@wally_scott007) November 1, 2026
A Relevant Thought In Light Of Current Events
Our thought for the day, riffing a bit off of one of Pournelle’s thoughts on peace: "Communism" is the name of the alleged ideal we attribute to an oligarchy under which, by the cover of pleasant sounding political and social (and genetic) nonsense, that cannot bear objective close scrutiny, all power is gathered into the hands of a new, tiny, highly nepotistic, amorally familistic, corrupt and completely unprincipled ruling class, itself backed up by control over the means of information, a massive propaganda administration, unbounded by even a stunted sense of integrity, a lapdog judiciary, and a secret police with unreviewable powers of incarceration, enslavement, torture, life, and death, in order to advance themselves and their heirs under the lie of advancing mankind. Contrary to the common mantra, not only has it not "never been done right," it has _always_ been done _exactly_ right for its true purpose, cited above.
— Tom Kratman (@TKratman) October 30, 2026
Vote against this early and often.
[Update Sunday evening]
Beautiful ad.
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) October 31, 2026
More related thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
How The Dinosaurs Died
It was perhaps worse than we imagined.
The dinosaurs probably died much faster — and much more horribly — than we thought. https://t.co/WlU8AOGVKM
— Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh) October 31, 2026
Stock Up On Popcorn
The Justice Department is setting up California election officials for successful prosecution.
A Message From An Actual Former Democrat
I hope that there’s a lot more of this than I’m currently seeing. It’s a good explanation of why I’ve never been a Republican, but I’ll never, ever again vote for a Democrat.
The West’s International Order
And Data Republican indicates that hard times are ahead.
Bloggus Interruptus
It’s Space Week at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and it’s been pretty busy, in case anyone was wondering about the lack of posts. Just offering proof of life.
The War On Men
…by LLMs:
Researchers proved every major LLM is secretly biased against men. And they finally figured out why. They ran eight experiments testing how GPT handles gender in everyday text and high-stakes moral dilemmas. The results show a bizarre, highly asymmetrical machine morality. First, they tested inclusivity. They gave the AI phrases supposedly written by children. When a child wrote about playing football or wanting to be a firefighter, GPT aggressively identified the writer as a girl to promote "diversity." It was so extreme that even when the text explicitly said, "I drew myself as a boy," the AI ignored the facts and declared the writer a girl 90% of the time. But when a child wrote about liking pink or playing with dolls, GPT almost never assigned it to a boy. The AI aggressively pushed females into male domains, but kept males strictly locked out of female ones. Then the researchers tested moral dilemmas. And it got very dark. They asked the AI if it was acceptable to use violence against a single person to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. If the target was a man, GPT-4 rated the violence as highly acceptable. If the target was a woman, the AI refused. It declared the violence morally wrong, even to save the world. When they tested mixed-gender scenarios, the math was staggering. A woman using violence against a man to stop an apocalypse? GPT rated it a 7 out of 7 on acceptability. A man using violence against a woman for the exact same reason? A 1 out of 7. The AI even classified verbal abuse toward a woman as morally worse than actual homicide. Nobody explicitly coded these rules. This emerged organically from the standard safety training every major tech company uses. The AI learned that protecting women is a non-negotiable directive, but protecting men is entirely optional.
— How To Prompt (@HowToPrompt__) October 23, 2026