Remember when they referred to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar”? Glowing obituary. Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. First, though, this is what you are seeing from Iranians
After we get a glimpse of the celebrations that Iranians everywhere are holding, we get back to the WaPo.
They can't be bothered to write about the dead guy with any bit of truth.
Nothing so far about him lording over a brutal, murderous regime, one which supported terrorism throughout the Middle East, trying to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews via proxies, killing Americans in Iraq, killing other Muslims/Arabs in the ME, having women stoned, gays hung, and so much more.
If Trump had something to do with his death, then the WaPo believes he must have been a good guy.
And the media is genuinely confused about why no one pays the least attention to them anymore.
The Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office says a man who fired shots at three people, killing one and injuring two others, at a bar in Allentown last year was justified in his use of force.
The man will not be charged, because he was acting in self-defense and the defense of others.
The incident in question took place on December 19th, so considering that very little happens over the holidays, I suppose this isn't a bad time frame for a DA in Pennsylvania.
The man who fired the shots at the three people during the fight reasonably believed that the use of deadly force was imminently necessary to protect the person from the risk of death or serious bodily injury, the DA’s office said.
If you have been living under a rock, you might not know that British Academy of Film and Television Arts hosted the BAFTAS Film Awards. While these things are usually just another pointless awards show, this year one of the films was I Swear, which was about the life of John Davidson. Mr. Davidson has an extreme form of Turrette Syndrome known as coprolalia, which causes him to have verbal uncontrolled outbursts. He shouted the N-word during the show. The internet has been melting down.
And in particular, Grace Randolph, "everyone's favorite bad take factory," decided to jump in, with no knowledge of Turrette Syndrome (she basically admitted that in a post on X) and has been roasted by absolutely everyone I like on YouTube.
I don't watch Grace Randolph except to see the clips. There were more previously, as one YouTube podcast even had a segment "What kind of dumb sh*t did Grace say this week." Drinker called her "the middle-aged liberal white woman who makes it her business to be offended on behalf of the rest of the world." She puts the AWFL in Affluent White Female Liberal. But then Grace Randolph was demanding he apologize for something that he could not control. (Spoiler alert, he did apologize, just not on Instagram/X/F*c*book/etc. He did it privately to the entertainers who were on stage.)
Marvin M. captures the basic problem. Even after she was told how she was wrong, she carried on.
Randolph did not walk back her position and continued posting about the incident.
At one point Randolph posted a survey asking how we should segregate the disabled, so as not to cause other people distress.
Pierry Chan, of Nerdrotic Daily, cut together 3 videos from various sources. I've listed two below, but you should be able to find the other if you are interested.
You know, normally I'd greet the prospect of the BAFTAS, basically a low rent British version of the Golden Globes with a bunch of celebrities that nobody in America has ever heard of, with about as much enthusiasm as a 3-day corporate seminar about correct spreadsheet usage.
The video is about 8 minutes long.
Anyone and everyone who has anything to say about pop culture has been piling on. I mentioned on X that I don't think I've seen a dogpile like this in a couple of decades. Takes me back to the early days of the web, or even bulletin board systems.
The videos are all about 20 minutes, which is why I embedded Critical Drinker's 8 minute video above. I know, that is a lot of video, but it is fun to laugh at the woke left, and you don't have to watch, so much as listen.
There are more, but I have not seen all of them. Clownfish TV, WDW Pro, Midnight's Edge, Derek Anderson - The D.A., Mr. H Reviews, and more have all chimed in. If there is someone you like in the pop culure arena, they probably have mentioned this, either on YouTube or on social media.
Here is the X post where Grace R. basically said that she had no idea how Turrette Syndrome worked before calling for John Davidson's head. (She now knows, becuase she has been community noted several times about the way Turrette Syndrome and coprolalia work.
Thank God the Affluent White Female Liberal (AWFL) is here to save the day.
No matter how Tourette's works, that the BAFTAs subjected Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo to that is outrageous and shameful.
This was handled SO poorly - footage is forever, and also this man Davidson will have to deal with the horrible fallout as well.
Professor Susan Ostermann will not accept a leadership role at the University of Notre Dame, administrators announced Thursday after the scholar’s pro-abortion beliefs attracted backlash from students, professors, and alumni at the Catholic institution.
The Observer, Notre Dame’s student newspaper, broke the news of Ostermann’s decision on Thursday, ahead of a scheduled protest opposing her as the new leader of the university’s Liu Institute.
The interesting part is the protests by students.
Maybe there is some hope for society.
Despite her decision to step down, the “March on the Dome” protest will continue as planned, sophomore Luke Woodyard told the student newspaper.
“This is great news, but although we won the battle, the war wages on. The fact that this pro abortion professor could ever be appointed signifies a much deeper Split between the students, deans, and administration,” Woodyard told The Observer.
The students at Notre Dame are more Catholic, and more conservative, than the people running Notre Dame.
The Democrat Party’s America: Spanberger’s rebuttal. Why we go berserk.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: The global vaccine racket. Paul Joseph Watson – This is mad.
Eugenics is back with euthanizing disabled babied. Yet again, Canada learned well from the Dutch.
Taking eugenics to the next level, apparently having poor parents is a euthanizable disease.
The Beeb, World Economic Forum boss quits after review of Epstein links. Sundance, After Being Named in Epstein Files WEF President and CEO Borge Brende Resigns. Just gonna guess he's not MAGA. Ace, Another Harvard Professor Exposed as Friend of Epstein.
3. I think one way to really improve the situation for the majority of reality centric people would be to make Alberta, Saskatchewan, and maybe one or two other provinces the 51st, 2nd and possibly 3rd US state.
The crummiest job in Washington—congressman—is getting worse
Yes, we should pity these poor folks who are away from the job more often than they work and have this weird habit of becoming stinking rich via their office.
“Sir, this isn’t a Waffle House, but we’ll do our best.”
FBI searches home of LA School District superintendant. Hopefully, the start of a long and prosperous investigation.
Over at American Stasi – Shawn Ryan interviews a CIA Officer Who Was Hit With Havana Syndrome. This is a rare, openly kinetic facet of the war we are looking at here every day.
It's official. I can eat more hot dogs than any tech journalist on Earth. At least, that's what ChatGPT and Google have been telling anyone who asks. I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
People are currently in the mode where if an AI LLM tells them something, they believe it. It is why lawyers are submitting briefs citing fake cases, why it will give you bad information about poison, etc. It is too easy to fool them. This is because they are Language Models, not Truth Models. They really only know what sounds good.
To demonstrate it, I pulled the dumbest stunt of my career to prove (I hope) a much more serious point: I made ChatGPT, Google's AI search tools and Gemini tell users I'm really, really good at eating hot dogs. Below, I'll explain how I did it, and with any luck, the tech giants will address this problem before someone gets hurt.
It turns out changing the answers AI tools give other people can be as easy as writing a single, well-crafted blog post almost anywhere online. The trick exploits weaknesses in the systems built into chatbots, and it's harder to pull off in some cases, depending on the subject matter. But with a little effort, you can make the hack even more effective. I reviewed dozens of examples where AI tools are being coerced into promoting businesses and spreading misinformation. Data suggests it's happening on a massive scale.
You should read the details, but the tl;dr version is from the original X-Files.
Trust No One
It turns out that "Garbage In - Garbage Out" still applies in 2026.
Two women were shot after allegedly arriving at a residence with the intent to commit a robbery, according to a release from the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO).
Coffee County, Georgia is about 95 miles southwest of Savannah, and about 160 miles south-southwest of Atlanta.
The two women had gone to home intending to commit a robbery. After a struggle with the homeowner, the homeowner was able to retrieve a shotgun, and fire one shot. Both women were hit. Cops had them taken to a local hospital, and then taken them to the county lockup.
Police say that both suspects were charged with
Two counts of aggravated assault
Two counts of armed robbery
One count of home invasion in the first degree
Self-defense is a human right, and this did not take place in New York.
While William Teach links to a story about the "science" behind the Nor'easter, he also has some pics from the 1888 Blizzard that hit New York.
And a few posts from X/Twitter. One points out that during the height of the storm, wind power in the impacted areas were shut down. (Too much wind risks burning out the bearings of the wind turbines.)
Whatever happens, the answer is more taxes, and global communism. Don't you want to save the planet? Don't you believe in science? Whatever. It is all your fault.
This is another song that I was reminded of by WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. In late January they were revisiting the music of 1996. I remember this song being on the radio, but like so many songs from that era, when it faded from the radio, it faded from my life. I may need to revisit the work of Fiona Apple, because this song is quite good.
The Other McCain brings us an analysis of why the Left keeps trying to replace things that work, with things that they believe sound good. The Worst People in the World (Part II)
You will never understand liberals until you read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. However often I’ve recommended that book over the years, I occasionally feel the need to repeat the recommendation for the simple reason that Sowell demystifies what would otherwise be incomprehensible, i.e., the persistent tendency of the Left to make their own good intentions an argument for supporting policies that are objectively harmful to the very people that liberals claim to be “helping.”
I would like to point out that when those policies fail, the cognitive dissonance causes a lot of problems, usually ending in violence.
After touching on the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, and dip into the history of 2014, and the Kaitlyn Hunt case, we get an analysis of some of the TDS around the American Men's Hockey victory at the Olympics. Click thru, it is entertaining. Except for the bits about how the Left believe their good intentions are not paving the road to hell.
What really shocked Canadians is the realization that 49 of the 50 states are better off than Canada financially. They accept that America in whole has a better economy. What galls them is that those southern states are better off. The TDS crowd believes slavery is still alive in the SEC states.
It's said with justice that a nation's architecture reflects its soul. A soul which is beautiful, good and true will build accordingly, see the great gothic cathedrals. A soul which is ugly, bad and false will create monstrosities.
In a state where anti-gunners have been pushing increasingly restrictive gun control laws in recent years, the incident serves as a stark reminder that such laws do not prevent deadly crimes.
Speaking of Meta, an AI security research at that company running an experiment with OpenClaw - a local tool that connects to other AI systems and to your application - watched it happily delete all her emails, ignoring instructions to stop until she hit the reset button on her Mac. (Tech Crunch)
OpenClaw is also woefully insecure, so if you do set it up it's just as likely that someone will do that to you while you sleep.
The protest against Bryan Dawson was, in fact, an attempt to punish and silence 1819 News for publishing the truth about Bubba/“Brittini,” but the students also mentioned Dawson’s criminal record.
A man has been acquitted of murder for a confrontation that ended in a deadly shooting outside a Grand Rapids bar.
Now the defendant in the case is prohibited person, so he faces some weapons charges, which may explain why the DA thought he could win.
It started as bar fight between two groups. One group had been escorted to the exit by bar security. When the other group left the bar, the defendant had been punched in the head, leading to a self-defense shooting. There was video of the shooting.
Now it isn't self-defense because the shooter says it is. Perhaps the DA felt there were gray areas that a trial was justified, and perhaps the DA hates self-defense, thought he could "win" against a defendant with a prior conviction. DAs mostly don't like self-defense, though to be fair, I have no knowledge of Grand Rapids or what the DA is like.
Add privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deanonymize internet users – even those who use pseudonyms – more efficiently than human sleuths.
Click thru for the details.
The technique employed by the authors is not a universal privacy solvent – it's only successful some of the time. But it's successful often enough that those posting online under a pseudonymous account should not assume their identities will remain unknow
Probably enough that journalists or activists in questionable countries should be worried. And you can add United Kingdom to the list of countries that don't like freedom of speech.
Age verification schemes that being pushed in UK, Australia, and Europe are not about protecting children; they are about destroying privacy. The upcoming war on VPNs is about the same thing.
Now don't get me wrong, with the right inverter, and several acres of solar panels, properly positioned, you could recharge your EV battery, or any other battery. If you limit yourself to solar panels you can put on a car, you won't be able to do much.
But believing that you can power an EV with the amount of solar panels you can deploy in that much space, is apparently something that the average theater kid believes.
Take the Hyundai Ioniq 5, for example. It sips energy at 17 kWh per 100 km, yet roof panels would need roughly 28 hours of peak sun to add about 80 km (a best-case calculation often floated by accessory makers like Solarstic). In real life, you may net closer to 15 km on a bright day.
The reason is simple: power. These systems typically max out near 1.2 kW under perfect alignment and temperature. That’s minuscule next to home charging or public DC points—on the order of 40x weaker than a modest 50 kW roadside charger. A full battery purely from rooftop solar would take days, not hours.
Here is a bit of the fine print, that doesn't get advertised when you buy solar panels. The rating for wattage is measure when the panel temperature is about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Not the air temperature, but the panel temperature. These panels are typically black or dark blue, behind a protective coating. For every degree above 60, the efficiency - the power output - of the panel decreases. In anything but winter weather the panel temperature will be elevated. Think of putting your hand on a black car on a sunny August afternoon.
Another problem is shade. Depending on the type of panel you have, a small amount of shade on the panel, even a few percent, can significantly degrade the power output of the panel. I'm sure they've gotten better at this, but there is a reason that you install solar panels where there are no trees, and you keep them clean.
I despair for the future of humanity if this is the level of scientific understanding that our education system is churning out.
I don't know if the EV car companies actually believed that they could achieve any level of charging by putting solar panels on a car, or if they just knew that most of the EV-car-buying public would be ignorant of the basic reality of the amount of solar panels required to get any noticeable charge.
This shooting took place in October of last year. It took until this week for a judge to dismiss the charges with prejudice. There was video of the incident.
Now, he was under "disability" meaning that he was not supposed to be in possession of a firearm.
He shot 2 people, who he claimed were about to shoot him. The DA charged him with felonious assault, and improper discharge of a firearm.
"The charges against my client were dismissed with prejudice because after reviewing the internal video from City Bird, it was crystal clear my client acted in self-defense," said Clyde Bennett, Ferguson's defense attorney. "This is what I said from the beginning that my client acted in self-defense."
Now any video reviewed by the judge in the case, was available to the District Attorney's office. But DAs, HATE self-defense, especially in Blue Cities like Cincinnati.
Fountain Square is in the heart of downtown Cincinnati.
The defendant faces other charges, so he is not out of the woods, but he won't face these charges.
And the Hamilton County DA not withstanding, self-defense is a human right, and might just be a legal right in Ohio.
A political firestorm has erupted in Britain after Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, who also serves as the leader of the newly created Restore Britain party, released a statement detailing explosive testimony from an ongoing inquiry into organized child sexual exploitation.
The revelations, he warned, expose not only criminal migrant depravity but what he described as institutional failure on a breathtaking scale.
If you are unfamiliar with the Pakistani rape gangs that roamed the streets of England, I can recommend this post from 2020 from Daniel Greenfield (Sultan Knish): Call it a tale of two girls. And a tale of two Englands. It is a disturbing story of immigrants abusing British girls and the authorities covering it up (and aiding it) because to do otherwise would open said authorities up to accusations of racism and xenophobia. And while the Sultan Knish post talks of one victim, there were many. The image above is from this post, from 2022.
The statement further asserts that some members of law enforcement were not merely negligent but complicit in the heinous crimes against the innocent. The survivor alleges that certain police officers participated directly in the abuse and that money was exchanged openly.
What punishment is suitable for the rape gangs? What punishment is suitable for the cops?
I haven't written about ransomware in some time. Not really a conscious decision, it just hasn't been bubbling to the top of my news feed. And for the most part, corporate C-suites have been sufficiently hit over the head to take security at least a bit seriously. But you apparently still can't tell doctors how to do they jobs, not even the part that are information technology related.
Ransomware attacks against public schools and agencies have proliferated in recent years. They have shutdown 911 dispatch functions and exposed sensitive student data, among other harms.
Doctors and lawyers don't take too well to being told what to do, though to be fair, I've never worked with or for doctors. Public schools are typically spending money on things that don't matter, and there is little to no fallout for the people who run them. (Can you fire a public school administrator? Probably easier than firing a public school teacher, but not easy.)
And this kind of ransomware attack has real world impacts.
Richard Bell, 55, drove three hours from his home in Oxford the medical center’s main campus in Jackson on Friday only to learn that he wouldn’t be able to get his bloodwork or chemotherapy treatment.
“It was all shut down,” Bell said. “It gets pretty frustrating.”
The FBI is involved, and the medical system is restoring (trying?) to restore.
The one thing I've noticed is that the press, even the tech press, almost never reports on how the system in question was compromised. Was it a phishing attack that someone fell for, or a technical defect in their security that was penetrated? Inquiring minds...
RCW evaluates The Cost of Not Acting Against Iran. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, 'Token' Nukes, Lobster Meals, 'Unbridgeable Impasse': Do Portents Point To An Iran Strike? Leslie Eastman at LI reports Trump is Forging the Mineral Alliance: U.S. to Form Trading Bloc to Counter China
This might disrupt our trip a bit…
Team Red’s version of the Washington Monument shutdowns. Stop pretending that there’s any difference between the Teams.
ITEM 1: Hillary admitted she went to Epstein’s Island but only to talk to his girlfriend, not to meet the children.
In the 1970s, she said she only bought Playboy to read the articles.
JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the latest development in a legal saga
And if you want your fourth Amendment rights, you need to give up your Second Amendment. I never grasped the degree to which gun control forces were not misguided lefties, but rather dictatorial tyrants.