Friday Links - 5 September

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with WWIII Watch: Ukraine Big Wigs Want Massive Military Vs NATO Security Guarantees

So, instead of EU and American security guarantees, they just want to keep the money train going, and at a much higher level? What happens if they have all these weapons but do not have the people to use them?

Miguel Gonzalez - Give them what they want: One Big Beautiful Sanctuary City.

Basically to declare that section of Illinois a Sanctuary and anybody who makes it within its borders will not be seek for any criminal enforcement or deportation procedures.

Kevin Trainor at Wombat Rampant - The 1973 Washington Senators In (Several) Boxes

As you may be aware, I spend a fair amount of my time playing Dynasty League Baseball, an online version of the old Pursue the Pennant tabletop baseball game.

NewsBusters - Why Can’t CBS Stop Deceptively Editing Interviews with Politicians?

Yet again, the propagandists at CBS have found themselves in the midst of another deceptive editing scandal. On Sunday, the network was caught editing out the substantive portion of one of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s responses to a question on Face the Nation.

Again from William Teach - More Than 85 Climate (cult) Scientists Whine About Trump Admin Climate Report

Suddenly, it is not OK to have some errors and “cherry picking” and stuff

Hannah Nightingale at The Post Millennial - Brandon Johnson appears to call for insurrection against federal government

Just days prior, Johnson signed an executive order that said the Chicago Police Department will "remain a locally controlled law enforcement agency" and urged Trump to "stand down" from sending in National Guard troops like he did with Washington, DC.

Greg Collard at RacketNews - The UK Earns Status as a Censorship State

Linehan is now proof of that. He was arrested Monday at London’s Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence for social media posts that were critical of transgender activists. Linehan says police told him that these April posts on X are why they were waiting for him at the airport.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 3 September 2025: Modeling Modelry Edition

Do AI systems need world models to augment their knowledge with facts rather than just stories? Yes. Duh. (Quanta)

Although the answer is painfully obvious and we have covered it here many times, the article is worth reading. Worth reading because it covers SHRDLU, a classic AI system from the 1960s that notably included a world model with impressive results, and also because it goes into the difficulty of scaling this to modern AI systems, such as nobody having the faintest bloody idea how to do it.

Flopping Aces - Chicago’s blood runs because Democrats hate Trump more than they love people

Watching the circus in Chicago is appalling. Week after week people are dying in the streets. democrats seem so inured by the violence and death that it’s all normal to them.

The past weekend saw 54 people shot and 8 killed. To Gov. “JBeefy” Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson it’s another day at the office.