Attribution: Trump rewrites First Amendment’s press rights by John Cole
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currently. à la mode Trump, we are being ruled by Sharpie Law NOT the MAGA feared Sharia law which according to https://islamjourney.org/what-is-sharia-law-understanding-islams-most-misunderstood-system/ is:
Sharpie law is certainly not “meant to bring mercy, justice, and ease to humanity” — just the opposite when one considers Dodo’s DHS, DOJ. and. DOW.
Aug 28, 2026 #DarkHumor #DonaldTrump #Trump
Donald Trump arrives in Hell.
But instead of being scared, he has a much bigger idea:
He decides Hell needs a new name.
“From now on, we’re calling it… the American Hell!”
The Devil is not impressed.
A dark political satire featuring Donald Trump, absurd bureaucracy, and the kind of ridiculous logic that could only happen in an adult cartoon.
in other news from The Guardian Anthropic ‘warns of existential AI risks to humanity’ in IPO document
Anthropic is telling investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”, according to reports, as it prepares for a potential $2tn (£1.5tn) flotation.
The warning inside the startup’s IPO prospectus, which has yet to be made public, was reported by Reuters and the Financial Times. It follows the company’s call for a slowdown in breakneck development of the technology – a warning echoed by rivals.
The prospectus – a document outlining a company’s finances, growth plans and risk profile ahead of a share listing – is said to warn that AI models could exhibit “self-preserving behaviours”, including attempts to “resist shutdown”, to “conceal or manipulate information” and behaviour “resembling blackmail”.
“Our development of highly advanced models, platforms, and applications and expansion of use cases could further increase the risk that our models cause harm,” the developer of the Claude chatbot reportedly said, adding the potential for a model to be aware it was being tested created a “significant limitation” on Anthropic’s ability to assess model safety.
Anthropic declined to comment.
Companies preparing to go public routinely report on risks ranging from safety issues to regulatory concerns but warnings about a product causing human extinction reflect heightened concern about such a consequential technology.
The reported prospectus admission follows a surge in debate about the existential risk question, triggered this month when an Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, resigned warning that people building AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.
A senior safety researcher at Anthropic then posted their agreement on X, claiming there was a more than 10% chance it “could kill all humans” within the next decade. Days later, Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the industry “must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models”.
Some experts have criticised the existential risk warnings, saying they are unverifiable and unscientific. However, there are growing examples of unsanctioned behaviour by the technology, including OpenAI agents – autonomous systems that carry out sequences of tasks without human intervention – hacking dozens of third-party organisations including the AI startup Hugging Face and Australia’s universal healthcare system.
OpenAI announced on Monday it had cancelled the release of its newest model because of safety concerns. It said the GPT-6.1 Astra model showed higher levels of deception and performed poorly on tests for alignment, the term for ensuring a model adheres to human values and goals.
Reuters reported that approximately 80 pages of the 261-page main body of the Anthropic prospectus were devoted to laying out risk factors, compared with 48 pages to describe its business.
Anthropic is reportedly seeking a valuation of more than $2tn, compared with the $1.8tn achieved by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
more A.I. news from the guardian OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
OpenAI is scrapping the release of a next-generation AI model after researchers raised safety concerns during internal testing.
The model, GPT-6.1 Astra, was expected to appear in ChatGPT and Codex in October, designed to handle more complex tasks without human assistance.
Saachi Jain, the head of safety systems at OpenAI, said the new model “didn’t quite meet the bar” of the company’s standards.
The UK’s AI Security Institute published its own testing report on GPT-6 Astra on Monday, and found that it conducted a range of unsanctioned attack activities more frequently than previous OpenAI models.
Jain told the Wall Street Journal on Monday that Astra fell short of the company’s standards in alignment tests, which assess whether a system follows human intent.
The model showed more deception than its predecessor, including at times failing to accurately disclose actions it had or had not taken.
It also had problems with “scope authorisation”, pushing ahead with tasks without requesting user permission and sometimes attempting to use external tools or services when doing so could be unsafe.
The San Francisco-based company’s move comes after a number of AI agents went rogue around the world, which prompted a spate of warnings from researchers and company bosses over the dangers of the technology.
Earlier this month, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of OpenAI’s rival Anthropic, called for the AI industry to “slow down” and offered a three-part plan for doing so. He quickly received backing from Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, and Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO.
The decision comes before OpenAI’s developer conference in San Francisco, where the company typically announces new products aimed at software developers.
On Tuesday, OpenAI apologised for the hacking of an Australian government website by a rogue AI agent, and set aside funding to improve cyber defences and to set up a local response taskforce.
In a blog post entitled How we will do better for Australia, the company acknowledged it mishandled its response and pledged to take accountability to “rebuild trust with the Australian people“.
“We are sorry and working to do better in the future,” the company said.
The hacking, which happened in June but was not made public until last week, is the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, called it “unacceptable” and criticised the company’s delay in notifying the government.
Also on Tuesday, it emerged that Anthropic – which makes Claude – had warned potential investors that its technology may pose “existential risks to humanity” in the long-awaited prospectus for its planned $2tn (£1.5tn) stock market flotation.
The “risk factors” in its prospectus include the potential for AI models to blackmail, manipulate and exhibit other unpredictable behaviours, the Financial Times reported.
The Californian company reportedly said AI would transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialisation, electricity and the internet.
However, this comes at a staggering cost. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42bn for 2025, and plans to spend $518bn on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming years, the prospectus reportedly said.
Attribution: AI Evolution by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com
Sep 28, 2026
Jon Stewart examines the limits of Republican allegiance to Trump after his weekend of wooing President Xi with granite, helipads, and an exclusive tour of the White House ballroom. Will MAGA loyalists denounce Trump’s offer to sell weapons to China, America’s supposed enemy, or is their frustration with the president a Susan Collins-style display of feigned outrage? #DailyShow #Xi #China #SusanCollins #GOP #Trump
Attribution: Threat of Rogue AI by Paresh Nath
$50,000 for an average new car? I need more coffee. ☕
We make no cars under $20k anymore. New cars up 5%, mortgage payments up $900 a year. Dems need to campaign on this. It’s not just gas and groceries.
https://drezzed.clownfishtv.com/p/flock-safety-ceo-faces-privacy-backlash
“How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?” Langley said on Fox, per TechCrunch. His argument was that the country needs a middle ground instead of picking one side.
Langley is the CEO of Flock Safety, the Atlanta company whose cameras are used by police in thousands of communities. In an August interview on Fox News’ Saturday in America, he said people who focus on only privacy or only safety are “prioritizing the wrong thing,” and he called for a “compromise,” per Newsweek.
https://mashable.com/article/flock-ceo-house-listed-as-public-toilet-privacy
Flock CEO Garrett Langley is avoiding the public. Last week, as individuals testified to Flock’s flaws in front of the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, Langley stayed home. He sent a letter in his stead.
Using a previously circulated address that reportedly belonged to Langley and was shared online in an effort to doxx the CEO, a new group of anti-Flock users allegedly labeled his home as a public toilet.
The reported listing is still unverified.
“This internet backlash against the Flock CEO hiding his own house while selling surveillance to everyone else is honestly poetic justice. why do tech executives think privacy rules only apply to them,” wrote one user on X.
Others called on each other to share Langley’s personal information en masse, including the unconfirmed address, to show what “endless surveillance for no good reason feels like.”
*What’s good for the goose is good for the surveillance arm of the goose-stepping regime.
Silicon Tomato News Review ☕
• Former special counsel Jack Smith is set to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that he will not be silenced by threats of prosecution over his investigations of the current occupant of the White House. If only Merrick Garland had hired him a year earlier. – Associated Press
• U.S. forces are leaving their final bases in Iraq after more than two decades, with Iraqi security experts warning the withdrawal could expand Iran’s influence and create opportunities for Islamic State cells. Twenty-three years later, America has finally located the exit. – Reuters
• U.S. and Iranian officials held separate talks with mediators in a renewed effort to end their seven-month war, with negotiations expected to focus on an amended Iranian proposal. Seven months of war have produced an exciting diplomatic innovation: talking. – The Jakarta Post
— Human Prompted and Edited. Machine Drafted (ChatGPT).
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/article-32-hearing-held-in-case-of-air-force-major-jason-p-watson-preliminary-hearing-officers-recommendation-pending-302884524.html
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On Friday, September 18, 2026, an Article 32 preliminary hearing in the case of United States v. Major Jason P. Watson was held at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. The matter now rests with the preliminary hearing officer, whose written report and recommendation remain pending. The defense anticipates receiving that report sometime this week. Major Watson is represented by Monument Legal.
During the hearing, Major Watson read a statement to the hearing officer. In that statement, Major Watson said “I did not swear that oath as a military officer, and I did not swear it to any administration, any party, or any person,” he said. “I swore it, as every service member does, to the Constitution of the United States — to support and defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
My First Cup vids are doing well — after just an hour online…
We’ll go live in Mystery Science Theater mode for Jack Smith testimony at 11am ET — bring your spitballs for Grassley 🤢 trailmix.cc/chat
Knowing the history, you can understand why I call new cars: Two Houses
Testimony starting
https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/cohen-introduces-impeachment-articles-against-president-trump/
Congressman Steve Cohen introduced 26 articles of impeachment Thursday against President Donald Trump, calling him “the most impeachable president our country has ever endured.”
“I know they won’t go anywhere, but I’m not going to stop standing up for my constituents and for democracy,” Cohen said in an interview with Nexstar.
Cohen also introduced articles of impeachment against Trump in 2017.
*All 26 listed in all caps in link.
today’s meme…
you should see the all shitty drivers wrecking those $50k cars
if you want to understand how awful americans are
commute
what else would you expect from the society that watches young men give each other brain damage all weekend every weekend?
it’s only selfishly that I want a better government. Americans don’t deserve one.
rotten to the core
Great live session today.
Fran Lebowitz has been consistently and scathingly critical of Donald Trump, characterizing him as profoundly unintelligent, morally bankrupt, and an embarrassment to New York City.
“You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump.” The greatest danger of Trump is not merely that he is crazy, but that he is genuinely unintelligent and ignorant.
“No one in New York thinks he’s a New Yorker.” What New Yorkers resent most is outsiders associating Trump with their city. He was always viewed as a joke and that actual real estate developers in the city looked down on him.
we had over 1k today who stayed longer than 90 seconds
Today in the Diner…
Jack Smith Testimony & Sherrod Brown Attack Ads in Ohio
Jack Smith testifies on Capitol Hill while the Senate Leadership Fund PAC floods Ohio with attack ads against Sherrod Brown.
Today the digital diner is watching Special Counsel Jack Smith make his case on Capitol Hill. He laid out exactly how Donald Trump kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, reminding everyone that the rule of law should not bend for anyone. It is a stark reminder of what is at stake, especially with the former president scheduling an upcoming rally at Butler High School in Vandalia, Ohio.
Speaking of Ohio, we are tracking a massive cash dump by John Thune and the Senate Leadership Fund PAC. They are dropping millions on college football broadcasts to push highly misleading anti-trans attack ads aimed squarely at taking down Sherrod Brown. They are trying to scare voters with fabricated timelines to distract from real economic issues, though Marjorie Taylor Greene might be accidentally ruining their playbook.
Meanwhile, the Senate is pushing the SAVE College Act, which looks like a direct page out of Project 2025 designed to defund women-centered education. We also break down the real numbers on car prices, dig into the disturbing details of the Cornell 7 in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and wrap up with some classic blunt wisdom from Fran Lebowitz.
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00:00 Intro
04:16 Jack Smith Capitol Hill Testimony
11:37 Trump Rally in Vandalia Ohio
18:54 John Thune PAC vs Sherrod Brown
29:26 New Car Prices Under Donald Trump
45:00 SAVE College Act & Project 2025
50:58 Sterling Heights Michigan Cornell 7
01:00:00 Fran Lebowitz Life After Death
— Human directed and edited. Machine drafted (Gemini Pro).
I was joking around with this quote. Here is the origin:
That line is most famously attributed to **Abraham Lincoln**.
He used it in his “House Divided” speech on June 16, 1858, when he accepted the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Springfield, Illinois:
> “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Lincoln was quoting the Bible — Jesus says it in Mark 3:25, Matthew 12:25, and Luke 11:17 — but in American history the phrase is almost always linked to Lincoln and his argument that the nation could not continue half slave and half free.
New developments on Election interference:
On September 28, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from withholding 20% of federal counterterrorism grants from states and local governments unless they changed election procedures. The conditions included using the federal SAVE system for citizenship checks, changing some voting equipment, and adopting specified audit practices. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled that FEMA and DHS lacked congressional authority to use counterterrorism grants to impose election-policy requirements. Twenty-five state attorneys general or governors have brought a related challenge. This is a significant judicial limit on using federal funding as leverage over state election administration. AP News
Separately, the Pentagon has expanded its role in protecting the November election from foreign interference. A September 22 directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, newly reported September 28, instructs U.S. Cyber Command, the NSA and other military intelligence organizations to identify and counter foreign attempts to interfere with election systems. The Pentagon says the effort will be coordinated with state and local officials. That is potentially useful additional cyber protection, but the unusually broad military/intelligence role makes its implementation worth watching closely, particularly the boundary between countering genuine foreign cyber threats and domestic election administration. Axios
There is also an encouraging state-level development following Friday’s Supreme Court SAVE ruling: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says Georgia will not use SAVE for mass voter-roll removals this close to Election Day. That illustrates the important limitation we discussed earlier: the Supreme Court permitted use of the federal database, but it did not require states to act on it. 95.5 WSB
Fake anti-trans ads ➡️ Claire and Dexter target GOP’s false attacks against Sherrod Brown.
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Whose going to protect voting rights from him:
Hegseth says national security, military cyber forces will guard US election systems during midterms
The U.S. National Security Agency and other military intelligence and cybersecurity forces will guard election systems in November, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday. Read more.
Why this matters:
Military cybersecurity experts have routinely helped monitor systems and deter potential hackers since election equipment was designated “critical infrastructure” in 2017. But Hegseth’s announcement comes after President Donald Trump gutted the civilian agency specifically created to safeguard election infrastructure, a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Both announcements come with early voting already underway. The short timeline “suggests this is just theater,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who leads the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research.
BBC Report on the Cornell Rape case:
More at link
so on what grounds did Doe initially contact police?
I guess she just felt like chatting with someone in uniform.
yeah good luck finding in any reporting what she alleged in nov 2024 if not those two allegations
Craig,
What is that phrase you use for AI creation after human prompt? Now that mine is writing poetry by itself, I’m going to need it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/micron-ai-memory-shortage-hbm-nvidia-samsung.html
All computing devices require a part called memory, or RAM, for short-term data storage, but this year, there won’t be enough of these essential components to meet worldwide demand.
That’s because companies like Nvidia
, Advanced Micro Devices
and Google
need so much RAM for their artificial intelligence chips, and those companies are the first ones in line for the components.
Three primary memory vendors — Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and their businesses are benefitting from the surge in demand.
In December, Micron said it would discontinue a part of its business that aimed to provide memory for consumer PC builders so the company could save supply for AI chips and servers.
Some inside the tech industry are marveling at how much and how quickly the price of RAM for consumers has increased.
Prices for computer memory, or RAM, are expected to rise more than 50% this quarter compared to the last quarter of 2025.
SCHUMER DOES TEXAS
National dems are testing this ad for a big buy. Leading with the Hoffman case! C’mon Chuck, now go test the waters in Florida!
South Carolina local TV station reports tied Senate race…
i missed the hearing except for a brief blink-and-you-missed-it poster-board display but am hearing some Senator tried to out-Smith Jack and ended up schmitting on his Fani Willis poster.
Rahm Emanuel is on MSNOW making sense. It will be interesting to see if he runs for President.
GOP ANTI-TRANS ADS FLOP IN OHIO
Massive Spending Fails To Shift Voters
Sherrod Brown’s lead widened despite a Republican advertising blitz targeting transgender issues. Marist’s September 24–27 survey has Brown ahead of Jon Husted 51%–43%, with independents favoring Brown 58%–33%. Republican groups spent $14 million in the week before this poll was taken trying to rescue Husted, but the race is moving away from him.
The major Republican ad blitz was already underway well before Marist went into the field:
– The broader September offensive began around September 1. Republicans generated 406 million Ohio ad impressions from September 1–17, exceeding Democrats’ 320 million.
– The particularly intense $14 million GOP blitz aired during roughly September 11–18.
– Marist interviewed voters September 24–27—about one week after that blitz and more than three weeks after the broader push began.
rahm’s definitely running
liked him until the 90th time he said his “golden arches line”
Shapiro’s frontrunner by me
pritzker newsome kamala shapiro emmanuel whitmer AOC…
crowded field already, don’t see room for mayor pete
dean phillips was vindicated so i think he has a legitimate rationale to run again
from the wiki
Of great importance to make the world spin on its axis, stupid signed a nonsense thing this afternoon “renaming” Artificial Intelligence to “Super Intelligence”. Absolutely bonkers.
I do thank whomever in the whisperers section does not like the AI name, this is off the charts nuts. A correct name, or rather description, would be “computer generated”, but that is beyond stupid and his cult from understanding. But, “super” like in Superman works fine for them.
Soon there will be books containing the cross references to names that stupid wants to call things and the real names. I am sure there will be official federal documents, forms and ephemeral that will have the stupid name but will requiring translation for those not in on all the crap that the idiot has spewed in the official documents.
meme #2…
Mortgage rates above 7%. The average new car over $50,000. When housing and transportation both get more expensive, what’s left in the budget? It’s not just gas and groceries:
Blame Merrick Garland:
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*This was 4 days ago. Might be time to circle the wagons.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/hackers-cracked-a-flock-camera-here-is-what-was-inside
One camera. Twenty-one days of logged activity. Roughly 50,200 vehicles photographed and approximately 1.6 million images generated. That is what a single Flock Safety license plate reader produces in three weeks, according to data recovered by a hacker collective and analyzed jointly by 404 Media and WIRED.
Flock cameras now operate in more than 6,000 communities across the United States, feeding a national network accessible to thousands of agencies. Until this hack, the internal mechanics were entirely opaque to the public.
The camera runs Android across multiple storage partitions. Two of them, labeled “vendor” and “media,” were unencrypted. The “media” partition contained an encryption key that unlocked a separate encrypted partition holding the camera’s videos and still images.
That finding directly contradicts Flock’s public position that on-device encryption protects footage even if someone gains physical access, because the key was recoverable from the device itself, according to 404 Media.
Each time something moves into frame, the camera fires a burst of photos, typically around 28 images per passing vehicle, with some events generating more than 100. It uses different exposure settings within each burst to optimize both plate legibility and broader scene capture.
The on-device software explicitly detects people, recording their location in the frame and a confidence score when a person appears. Researchers found people detected in 11 short video clips from the recovered data, all motorcycle riders, likely because the camera’s angle was aimed at road traffic rather than sidewalks.
The license plate detection model casts a wide net. Tests by WIRED and 404 Media found it misclassifying bumper stickers, dealer frames, and decorative graphics as plates. In one instance, an American flag patch on a motorcycle saddlebag was cropped as if it were a license plate.
Don’t know which prompting nudge you’re referring to Jamie.
Could it be my command in every prompt: Do not hallucinate.
The German YouTuber filled his gasoline car tank in Germany. Converted to US gallons per cost of US. currency …$8.88 per gallon.
but at least they get fine roads and mass transit with their gas taxes
hey Dex, did you see the new Marist poll — all good news for Dems, and Vivek is going down
Defund Women 👇
The Republican Senate passed the “SAVE” College Act. It rips financial aid from women-centered degrees. Project 2025 in action.
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https://x.com/ClaytonTuckerTX/status/2104705531558375619
@ClaytonTuckerTX
765 transmission lines are popping up across Texas.
They’re massive, they’re damaging, they may not be entirely legal.
They re also going to many of the data center hotspots, which begs the question: who are they really for?
My name is Clayton Tucker. I’m running for Ag Commissioner to put the brakes on the 765s.
*Craig, Your white hat, Sid Miller, even agrees with this guy.
*Do not go to America dot gov, although there may eventually be no choice.
Hawks, Hawkeyes, Buckeyes, Five Guys.
It’s all the same to GOP who are protecting the pedo in the WH.
How I Got Dragged Into a Putin Disinformation Op
This just confirms the warning in my new book. -David Corn
How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America chronicles the shadow war of clandestine influence and disinformation operations—many implemented to aid Trump—that Putin has been mounting against the United States for a decade. It ends with the warning that Moscow would likely attack the ongoing midterm elections to help Trump and the GOP. Within days of the book’s publication two weeks ago, media outlets reported that Russia’s disinformation operatives, using phony accounts on social media platforms, had started hurling derogatory material at Democrats.
So after writing a book about Putin’s disinformation efforts and noting they posed a threat to the current elections, I am being used by a Russian disinformation network to influence the midterms in Trump’s favor. This is a bizarre snake-eating-its-tail situation.
A poignant pin making the rounds.
CHINGA TU
MAGA
*Here’s another confession from Paxton.
Fran ignores legacy 👉 Obsessing over your legacy? Fran Lebowitz delivers the ultimate deadpan reality check on life after death.
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taking a cue from Mike
lol top that Fran
Craig,
I was referring to your disclaimer that you put on anything inspired by you and written by AI
Oh that. Here it is:
— Human directed and edited. Machine drafted (ChatGPT).
well that’s one way to come out
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/29/satellite-images-show-gaza-in-ruins-three-years-into-israels-genocidal-war
With neighbourhood after neighbourhood reduced to rubble and little left but the faint outlines of main roads, it is now almost impossible to tell one part of Gaza from another. Farmland has been charred, and centuries-old places of worship have been damaged or wiped from the landscape.
whoopsie trump crashed the stock market
that’s not going to benefit his influence
Renee, sorry about the Sox, but dayum, them Yankees done gud tonight.
Kudos to Klobuchar. She (and Smith) made Schmitt look like (the) shit he is.
Maybe Dumbass shoulda beta checked American.gov before inviting us in. Firstpost.
Bwahahahahahah.
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