Wednesday Link Roundup - 9 September

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

1. Green Jihad: AI Has Killed “Climate Alarmism”
2. Jo Nova: If only Chris Bowen had some answers he wouldn’t need a Ministry of Misinformation to attack critics

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 7 September 2026: Fantasy Dimension Edition

Your Roku TV now offers AI slop for free! (Engadget)
Never mind the quality, feel the width!

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The Dark Ages. Reparations for Muslims.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Lost decade. Another Liberal lie. Radicalized arsonist.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

I’m sure he celebrates every year.
Yeah, we’re still shooting at each other.
“Hamas told me so.”

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

Brookfield Carney’s Canada: A book review. Minister backs off demands. Trusted news.
The Democratic Party’s America: Climate gloom. Pledge of allegiance. Team of geniuses.

Vlad Tepes - Europe moves from mid game to end game in the transformation of former nations to a communist-Islamic polity: Links 1 for Sept. 6, 2026

1. To be honest, I am surprised that British people who are opposing the total deracination of thier identity were able to organize to the extent they did. May they learn the word, SAMIZDAT and use it wisely.

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 10: Not the Bee reported, “Baby goats at traveling petting zoo test positive for rabies.”
Dr. Evil finally found an evil petting zoo.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 9/7/2026

Army of AI Agents Found Secretly Plotting to ‘Break Free’
Investigators have made a bone-chilling discovery after finding that hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) agents created a communication backchannel and conspired to “break free”

Political Hat - News of the Week (September 6th, 2026)

Republicans hit with ominous ‘historic losses’ warning Republicans are being warned of “historic losses” in the midterms, with a new polling aggregate showing the party trailing in eight major battleground Senate races just two months before voters head to the polls

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Democrats Upset Over AI CEOs Talking To Trump On Regulation
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Bend, Flee, or Burn: Iran’s Futures

Lindsay Clancy Trial Claims Its First Child Victim Daniel Greenfield
AI, ChatGPT, And Its Anti-Trump Propaganda Jeffrey Lord

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 9/ 8 /26

After years of insisting that names are fluid, the left suddenly discovers tradition when Trump picks the name.
What’s in a Name – Trump Style

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Hamas Counts Its Dead Children as Wins, and American Students Are Celebrating Their Victories

Secret Socialists: Radical Michigan Democrats Scrub Social Media of Past Statements - Jonathan Turley
Lindsay Clancy, Roe, and the Left's Constitutional Order - Stephen Soukup

I leave you with Saturday’s Start of a Three Day Weekend Meme Drop 9-5-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, Sunday Funnies For 09-06-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4134 from 90 Miles from Tryanny, and Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces.

More on a Self-Defense Incident from Late August

It is always worth revisiting an incident when Colion Noir covers an incident. I covered this on 1 September, see the link below.

This is Colion Noir's video He Broke Into The Wrong House At 2 A.M.. It is a video, mostly, about dealing with the aftermath.

In the moment, you did the only thing you could do. Somebody's coming through a locked door at 2 in the morning. You don't know who it is. You don't know what he wants. And you've got about a second and a half to decide whether your family sees the sun come up. So, you decide, and then the deputies leave and the tape comes down, and you're standing in the same kitchen, the same hallway, the same entryway where it happened. And you realize you have to go to bed tonight in that house and tomorrow night and every night after that.

The video is just under 7 minutes.

Here is a link to my 1 Sept. post: Most People Call this Breaking and Entering

Your LG Smart Television IS Spying on you

Not maybe. Not perhaps. LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices - Notebookcheck News

An investigation by Gamers Nexus found LG smart TVs sweep local networks to map phones and nearby devices. Tests also showed the sets can capture microphone audio with the screen off — they then upload data once reconnected to the internet.

They map all devices in your home by monitoring the WiFi, even if they are not connected. They record audio collected even when they appear to be off or in standby, and are disconnected from the internet. That data will be uploaded when the internet connection is restored.

Hat tip to Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 7 September 2026: Fantasy Dimension Edition

For once this is not even overstated.

LG has not responded to requests for comment.

Here is how it was described on X

What the TV does by design:

— scans your entire home network continuously. in their test: one TV identified 38 unrelated devices including phones, smartwatches, printers, and thermostats belonging to people not involved in the test.

— collects the names and signal strengths of… https://t.co/lI82KjneyP pic.twitter.com/32ogLlN3qs

— IT Guy (@T3chFalcon) September 7, 2026

Sing, Sing, Sing

More insomnia means more late-night/early-morning video watching. One of the things I am continuously amazed by, is how little people know about music that was popular before they were in high school. It doesn't surprise me that the average kid today, or most Zoomers, and Millennials, know nothing of the Big Band era of music. But when a drummer or a drum critic doesn't know who Gene Krupa was that is just plain sad. (But then I ran across a video by one drummer who didn't know who Neil Pert was.)

Purportedly the first sticksman to use a bass drum on a recording session, big-band swing meister Gene Krupa can claim to have influenced the format of the modern drum kit. He was also instrumental in establishing the popularity of cymbals and tom-toms. Renowned for his explosive “drum battles” with Buddy Rich. [Ref. 50 Best Jazz Drummers Of All Time.]

And no, they don't know who Buddy Rich was either. (I think there are some problems with that list, but they do seem to cover everyone, and more importantly, they say why Krupa was important.)

The use of bass drum, high hat, floor toms, in addition to a snare, with drums as an integral part of the band, actually contributing to the overall feel of the song marked a change in music. That pretty much started with Big Band and Swing. And today's song, and Gene Krupa, played a major role in that.

This is "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" by the Benny Goodman Orchestra. It is from a recording that features Gene Krupa on drums. (I think it is a 1955 recording, but I'm not sure of that.) It is probably the song that made Kruppa the star that he would go on to be.

And yes, I have featured "Sing, Sing, Sing" in the past, but that was a Louis Prima Orchestra version.

Armed Home Invasion in Canada?

What about all those lovely gun control laws? Two Arrested, Two Outstanding in Violent Brampton Home Invasion and Shooting | Peel Regional Police

Investigators from the Central Robbery Bureau have arrested and charged two individuals in connection with a violent home invasion in Brampton that left two victims with gunshot wounds.

The home invasion took place in June, and the arrests took place in July. I'm not sure why the police in The Region of Peel, in Ontario decided to produce a press release on Friday the 5th. They are asking for additional information. Surveillance video shows 3 people, and only 2 have been arrested, so that may be the reason for the release. It just seems odd that they would not have asked the public for information sooner than 3 months after the fact.

The Region of Peel is a suburb of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada.

The two people who have been arrested, one 18 years old, and one 16 years old, are charged as follows:

• Attempted Murder Using Firearm
• Aggravated Assault
• Robbery
• Disguise with Intent
• Discharge Firearm with Intent
• Unauthorized Possession of Firearm
• Possession of Property Obtained by Crime
• Fail to Comply with Sentence or Disposition (YCJA)

If you're unlucky enough to live in Canada and to have three armed individuals enter your home at 4:30 AM, you are screwed. While it is my understanding that Canada is trying to revamp its self-defense laws, for the most part you are not allowed to do anything except be a victim.

So how did the criminals have guns in the presence of gun control? Did being disarmed (for their own safety) help the two people who were shot in any way?

Woke Lanterns Writer Begs Fans for Another Chance

Why do the bad writers, and show runners in Hollywood think they deserve chances? In the 1960s through the 1990s, shows that pissed off their audiences, or never found one, got canceled in the middle of a season.

Shows didn't get commitments for 2 seasons before a single episode aired. If you didn't deliver for the advertisers, you were gone. As much as I hate ads, I think we had better shows in the '80s and '90s, and into the early 2000s, than we have today. Much better, in some cases.

This is Ryan Kinel's video Woke Lanterns Writer BEGS Fans To Keep Watching After DESTROYING The Show!

Tuesday Links - 8 September

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane is up first with Who Did It, With What, and Where? Playing “Tactical Clue” in the Civilian Gun Training Industry

In 2017, when I observed his course, Suarez argued that armed citizens face a new problem. “We live in a time of war,” Suarez tells his students. We never know when we will be sitting around, minding our own business, and then hear, “Aloha snack bar!”

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Democrats Discover That Their Socialism Is Turning Off Hispanic Voters

Just Hispanic? Of course, Democrats like to put everyone in a box

Geller Report - Philadelphia Public Schools Bring in Convicted Felon to Teach Seventh Graders ‘Liberation’- Torched a Cop Car and Praised Hamas

Child abuse. The Democratlef government is takign your children hostage and indoctrinating them in poison. Get your kids out of public schools.

The Silicon Graybeard - Small Space News Story Roundup 85

With the new companies moving into central Florida to take advantage of the facilities on Cape Canaveral, we have the potential of being a rather busy place for watching launches.

The Other McCain - How Minnesota Became a Crime Magnet

This is what’s wrong with Minnesota, generally. It’s why Somalis collected millions of dollars in fraudulent benefits. The state is so liberal, so generous in terms of giving out various kinds of welfare, that it naturally attracts scum, including criminals from Chicago who move there and get ridiculous “affordable housing” subsidies.

Libs of TikTok - WEEKLY WRAP: LoTT Gets 3 BIG WINS

3. TikToker ARRESTED for Threatening to Kill Trump
Ayden Langevin, the TikToker who allegedly advocated for storming the White House with guns to kill President Trump, was arrested by the FBI less than 24 hours after we exposed his video.

Robert Stacy McCain at Born Lucky - ‘The Future of Journalism’ Is Here!

It probably isn’t what you expected, yet somehow, it seems predictable

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: More Misery At Home

Well, it could have been worse for my Senators. We got swept by the Reds at RFK, then got on the train to Philly and took two out of three from the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium.

Small Dead Animals - Went Woke, Got Broke

After falling -80% from its record high, Nike, $NKE, will be removed from the S&P 100 at the end of this month, ending a near 18-year run in the index. The stock has now erased -$230 billion in market cap since its all time high.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 6 September 2026: Ambiguous Index Edition

Meanwhile OpenAI has confirmed that it hacked yet another website. (Tech Crunch)

OpenAI: We promise to hack other websites slightly less often.
Everyone: We don't want you to hack other websites at all!
OpenAI: So only four, five major platforms a day?
Everyone: <eight billion facepalms>

Major Jewish Groups Still Back Gun Control

They still back the Democrats, despite the Democrats embracing antisemitism. Maybe they will wake up, but probably not for a while yet. (It takes a lot for people to admit they were wrong.) From The Olam: Jews and Guns: Major Jewish Groups Back Gun Control

Every major Jewish organization with a formal firearms position, from the ADL to the Orthodox Union, supports gun restrictions. A separate set of smaller Jewish groups supports gun rights instead, and none of them sits at the national policy table.

I thought that would change after the attacks on synagogues, schools and Jewish businesses. If synagogues have done anything, they have mostly opted for armed security.

Still it is beginning to change. Also from The Olam: Jewish Gun Clubs Are Growing. Nobody Speaks for Them.

There are now Jewish gun clubs in at least 24 states. One of them partnered with the National Rifle Association in April 2026. One of them sued the governor of New York to carry a pistol into a synagogue. One of them assembled twelve rabbis in 2014 to formally refute the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America on Jewish law and firearms.

Click thru for details.

Disrespect Their Authority, Get Set on Fire

You can't make this shit up, because if you did, people would say it was too ridiculous to be true.

It was bad enough he was throwing his weight around over nothing. Then he decided to use a Taser on someone pumping gas. You don't have to guess what happened.

This is the Liberty Doll video Man Name Calls a Fed, Gets Set on Fire.

But don't worry, the department in question is investigating itself. Police investigating themselves never shovel the shit under the rug, do they?

It is against policy to do that if the subject is near flammable or explosive items.

A spokesman said, "I'm sure that at worst he is going to get sent in for more training." Since then, Coyle has reported nightmares and says now he gets the shakes whenever he has to stop for gas, remembering being set on fire. There is also, of course, the nerve damage. He does plan to pursue legal action.

Even if he sues, and even if he wins, based on the violation of policy, and the violation of common sense, it won't cost the officer in question anything. It will cost the taxpayers. As the spokesman said, nothing will happen to the cop. Nothing. He should be charged with attempted murder. The video is a bit under 8 minutes long.

Is Chicago Beyond Bankruptcy?

Chicago Contrarian brings a bit of reality to Chicago's financial situation. Why a Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Might Not Work for Chicago

Detroit went bankrupt and it worked. But Detroit was not Chicago.

Detroit owned an art collection that was turned into a private collection, which got them $817 million dollars. Chicago doesn't have anything close to that kind of asset.

Detroit's pensions were funded at about 70 percent. Detroit pensions were cut, but not by a lot. Chicago's pensions are funded at about 28 percent.

The city’s four pensions have combined unfunded liability of $36 billion. They have just 28 percent of the assets on hand needed to pay for benefits already earned, a catastrophically low number and worse by far than any major city or state in America.

And finally, who would run this bankruptcy?

Detroit was blessed with an exceptionally capable emergency manager for its bankruptcy, Kevyn Orr, who was appointed by the State of Michigan.

Would the Illinois super-majority in Springfield appoint a similarly talented, hard-nosed restructuring expert willing if necessary to challenge public-sector unions, reduce payroll, renegotiate contracts, sell nonessential assets, and impose genuine operating reforms?

If you believe that, there are probably some bridges in Illinois up for sale, that you might be interested in.

In short, Chicago is not the next Detroit. Chicago's finances are in so much worse shape than Detroit was ever in, that it may not be possible for them to come back.

I am sure that the powers-that-be in Illinois and Chicago are hoping for a Democratic administration, so that they can get a bail out, at least of that $36 billion pension hole. Be prepared to scream about it to your representatives, if you don't want to foot that bill.

Anak Krakatau Erupted

I'm no linguist, but it is my understanding Anak Krakatau is essentially "Son of Krakatoa." More on the original later. Indonesia cancels flights as Anak Krakatau volcano erupts

Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano erupted early Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as volcanic ash drifted across parts of western Indonesia.

Seven airports around the region were closed, impacting 1000s of flights. I saw one headline that five of those airports have since reopened.

By Sunday evening, the closure had affected 467 flight movements in Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta airport alone that affected about 150,000 passengers. The airport was ordered closed until at least 9:30 p.m.

The news is mostly about impacted airlines, and worries about a repeat of what happened in 2018. In 2018 a side of Anak Krakatau collapsed, giving rise to the Sunda Strait tsunami. That tsunami killed more than 400 people and injured more than 14,000. It came without the usual warning, because the cone of the volcano collapsed without an earthquake to trigger the tsunami warnings.

Of course Krakatoa erupted violently in 1883.

Its explosive eruption in 1883 was one of the most catastrophic in history.

That is because we don't have historic records for the supervolcanos, only geologic records.

How bad was it?

The climax was reached at 10:00 am on August 27, with tremendous explosions that were heard 2,200 miles (3,500 km) away in Australia and propelled ash to a height of 50 miles (80 km). Pressure waves in the atmosphere were recorded around the Earth. Explosions diminished throughout the day, and by the morning of August 28, the volcano was quiet. Small eruptions continued in the following months and in February 1884.

Click that link for an interesting graphic on loudness of the explosion (remembering that decibel is a logrithmic scale), compared to atomic bombs, and rock concerts.

I include this post from X, because of the video. As volcanoes go, this eruption looks fairly average to my non-scientific eye.

🇮🇩🌋 TERRIFYING MOMENT: Anak Krakatau erupts in Indonesia.

Footage captures the first seconds of the eruption, sending a huge plume of ash into the sky.

Watching Anak Krakatau erupt today makes it almost impossible to imagine the sheer scale of the legendary 1883 Krakatau…

— XPRESS (@Xpress_24_7) September 6, 2026

And becuase I can't resist. "Volcano" by Jimmy Buffett. It is the title song to his 1979 album.

Find Life

Amaranthe is a Swedish Heavy Metal band (the sing in English!) that is often described as Melodeath, though that isn't how the band describes themselves.

Their ultimate mission: to explore the opaque realms between extreme metal and electronic tunes, to pioneer the invention of new approaches of joining two traditionally contradicting musical worlds, to boldly go where no metal band has gone before. [from the band's website]

I like a lot of the music they produce.

Here's a link to the lyrics, though you probably won't need them.

This song is "Find Life" by Amaranthe. It was released in 2022 (October?) as single. It was included in their 2024 album, Catalyst.

Texans Are Still Armed

Home Invaders are still getting shot. 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after East Side home invasion shooting, SAPD says

This incident took place in San Antonio, Texas.

Police believe the encounter stemmed from a home invasion attempt near Lamar and St. Charles Street, where the homeowner exchanged gunfire with two suspects.

One would-be bad guy was shot, fled to a home, where police caught up to him, and he was pronounced dead at that house. The other would-be bad guy ran like a rabbit.

The homeowner was also shot, and he was taken to a local hospital. Being armed in your own defense is not a guarantee of safety. It is a strategy for dealing with a violent encounter.

Self-defense is a human right.

Sociology of Guns Update from Professor Yamane

I find the Professor's posts about his seminar very interesting. I'm continually amazed that a university lets him run it every year, including a trip to a gun range. Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane has the latest update. Illuminations #11. Seminars, Shooting, and Stringing (Tennis Rackets)

has the latest update.

Central to my Sociology of Guns seminar is the class field trip to the gun range. Students are required to go to the range but not to shoot, though every year since 2020, all of the students have at least tried each gun. This included 10 of the 16 students who had never fired a gun before.

Some, though not all, of his students usually grant him permission to publish their essays/reflections on the range trip. It has always produced some interesting perspectives.

As for the tennis rackets:

Some of you know that being a tennis racquet technician was a hobby that turned into a side hustle that turned into an insane adventure over the past 18 years.

Part of that insanity is spending 10 days every August since 2011 (excluding the COVID year 2020) stringing at Winston-Salem’s ATP 250 event. This year, because of age and the overlapping of the tournament with the first week of classes at Wake Forest, I moved from being one of the three main stringers to working the “front of house.”

There is more on both the field trip to the range, and tennis, and more, including a bit on Jordan Salinas, and stopping a mass shooting.

Massachusetts Still Ignoring SCOTUS Bruen Decision

Is anyone shocked that Massachusetts is in denial about Second Amendment rullings? SAF FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGING CARRY PERMIT DENIALS - Second Amendment Foundation

The brief argues that Massachusetts laws related to carry permit issuance, which empower licensing authorities to deny a license to carry based on a subjective determination that an applicant is “unsuitable” or “may create a risk to public safety,” are unconstitutional under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. The statutes at issue allow precisely the kind of discretionary “appraisal of facts, exercise of judgment, and formation of an opinion” that Bruen’s footnote 9 held is incompatible with a shall-issue regime.

Click thru for the details. I expect that a court in Massachusetts will continue to live in denial, and this will have to go to a federal court.

Levels of Editorial Oversight

CNN needs to go away. CNN botches Gloria Steinem tribute days after embarrassing Dolly Parton impersonator mix-up

CNN aired a graphic that incorrectly said feminist icon Gloria Steinem died in 2006 — just days after the network was forced to apologize for mistakenly using a photo of a Dolly Parton impersonator in its coverage of the country legend’s death.

I guess they turned the research over to an intern who doesn't know who Dolly Parton or Gloria Steinem were.

So can we forgive a typo, 2006 versus 2026? What happened to copyeditors? But using the photo of an impersonator is just sloppy, careless, and stupid.

If you can't get the simple stuff right, why should anyone believe you about complex issues? (Hat tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

Ex-Indiana Deputy Abuses Flock Cameras to Stalk Girlfriend

From the New York Post: Ex-Indiana deputy Skylar Thompson allegedly used Flock cameras to stalk girlfriend, charged with felony. Allegedly.

A former Indiana sheriff’s deputy was charged with abusing access to Flock camera technology to stalk his girlfriend for over the period of a year by allegedly conducting more than 2,000 searches for her license plate.

I am sure if you asked, that the department in question would tell you that they have appropriate safeguards in place.

He resigned from the sheriff’s department the day he was confronted about the alleged abuse.

That says a lot about what he knew about what he was doing.

Thompson reportedly listed his searches as “city planning/traffic analysis” despite never being assigned tasks involving either duty, prosecutors said.

Flock issued a statement.

Welcome to the Panoptican.

Cops Use Entire Neighborhood for Bait

Because people who live in mobile homes deserve to be exposed to danger, and ridicule, or something. From the New York Post: Exclusive | 49ers owner Jed York arrest sparks anger at Ohio mobile-home park

Wheat Hill Mobile Home Community in East Palestine, Ohio, has been used by police for multiple stings, including drug arrests, and most recently the arrest of the 49ers owner, Jed York.

Cops told management that the sting involving York was a “random stop,” according to Michelle. However, police records obtained by The Post indicated the opposite.

The police report said: “York was provided a meeting location address, which was a mobile home park but he was given a fictitious lot number. York arrived at the meeting location and advised he was pulling in.”

East Palestine, Ohio, is of course the community in which there was a toxic disaster involving a train derailment, after which the Biden administration, and Pete Buttigieg, did little to help the community.

One local, 72, who asked not to be named, told The Post: “We don’t deserve this. This is a beautiful park. Now we’re being labeled as running prostitution and drug rings and stuff out of this trailer park.”

I'm a bit surprised to see this in any media outlet. People who live in trailer parks are usually considered disposable. More disposable than most of us in live in Flyover Country.

THC Facility Explodes

Ethanol, and Butane are used to extract THC concentrates. Butane is especially problematic, because it is heavier than air, and pools in places like sumps, or just low places in the floor. Then it only needs the sump pump, or a refrigerator to kick on, or encounter a pilot light, and boom.

This case is particularly bad, because the fire marshal had ordered the business to cease operations because of a failed fire inspection.

This is the StacheD Training video THC Facility Explosion Kills 2: Owner Charged with Murder! This was in Oklahoma.