September 11, 2026

THE ENEMY WITHIN (CONT’D):

The Economist used to be one of — if not the — best English-language news magazines. Now it’s propaganda.

Posted at 12:32 pm by Stephen Green

ROGER SIMON: Quit Whining About AI. Do Something—Yes, You!

Interestingly, when I first broached this subject to ChatGPT, it responded with a series of questions to ask the public about AI. The last one read: “What wisdom from Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, classical philosophy, and other traditions should survive inside it?”

What other traditions? I think we know one that ChatGPT notably omitted and is problematic—the one that caused 9/11. Unfettered, its use of AI could be disastrous or work in tandem with the feared self-interested system. Stopping an Islam-AI alliance or misuse will not be simple since, as we have seen from the failure to learn the lessons of 9/11, much of the public is reluctant to act through, among other explanations, what Gad Saad has labeled “suicidal empathy.” (Imagine what bin Laden would have done with AI.)

Still, we can only soldier on, pushing AI toward the good as much as we are capable. I remain optimistic that we will succeed and might even live happily ever after with our robots.

UPDATE: Apropos of my aside about bin Laden and AI, Anthropic is now reporting extensive use of Claude by actors close to or within the Iranian regime.

“The report covers malicious activity Anthropic said it disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across several areas, including cyber operations, influence campaigns and surveillance.

In one set of influence operations, Anthropic said it identified and removed three Iran state-aligned accounts linked to government propaganda institutions. The accounts used Claude to develop campaigns intended to shape opinion inside and outside Iran while disguising state-backed narratives as independent content.”

Iran International has much more evidence of Iranian use of Anthropic that underscores that we MUST teach AI to be good.

Roger also writes, “For the last few days, we have been bombarded with warnings that AI is about to take over the world and destroy the human race. Some, in positions to know, claim we have only ten years.”

Say, where have we heard that phrase before?

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

RADICALISM AMONG HILL STAFFERS: Not sure whether this means more or fewer than expected of the congressional aides working on Capitol Hill view themselves as holding more radical views than their bosses?

Posted at 12:14 pm by Mark Tapscott

GAYLE KING WAS SHOOK WHEN SHE HEARD THE HOLDOUT CLANCY JUROR IS A BLACK GUY:

King: Is the holdout a person of — a black man?

Juror: Yes.

King: A black man is the holdout juror?

Juror: Yes.

King: Well, I have to sit with that for just a second.

Nine white ladies and two beta white men spent a week badgering a black man to get him to change his mind so they could protect a mom who strangled her kids!

Good news, though:

Bari Weiss has a lot more work to do to reform CBS News though:

Tweet concludes, “Clarence Thomas spoke about exactly this mindset during his confirmation hearings 35 years ago, i.e. the idea that a black man is expected to think a certain way, hold certain views, and arrive at certain conclusions. And when he doesn’t, a lot of people simply cannot compute it. 35 years later, here we are again. A black man thinks for himself, reaches his own conclusion, and the reaction is disbelief.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

SHANA TOVA:

Posted at 11:55 am by Charlie Martin

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

CHINA IS ASSHOE: Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models.

Anthropic on Thursday said it had disrupted several alleged malicious uses of its Claude models over the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign and ​efforts by Chinese AI firms it accused of trying to extract and replicate Claude’s ‌capabilities.

Cybercriminals and state-backed hackers were increasingly using AI not just to assist with tasks but to orchestrate and execute large portions of cyberattacks, Anthropic said in its latest Threat Intelligence report, ​adding that humans were often overseers rather than hands-on operators in the campaigns.

“A ​majority of the operations … were enabled by AI via direct execution ⁠or orchestration. The use of AI went beyond simple questions and responses from ​a chatbot but rather involved the use of multi-agent frameworks executing” tasks, Anthropic said.

Anthropic ​said it had disrupted what it described as attacks from seven China-based labs during that period. Among the labs Anthropic named were tech giant Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Xiaomi.

More: “Anthropic said it ‌observed ⁠more than 151 million exchanges it attributed to Alibaba between May and July 2026, peaking at nearly 3 million per day from more than 3,500 accounts it described as fraudulent.”

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

‘A GENTLE AND GENEROUS SOUL:’ X Pays Tribute to Andrew Wimsatt.

Related:

Tweet concludes, ” A civilized society can only exist if the monsters are put away; if the monsters are not allowed into your midst;if the monsters know that there are astoundingly severe consequences for their monstrosity. Please stop swimming in the infinitely pool of suicidal empathy. The line between a civilized society and barbarity is very thin.”

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

ANOTHER FEDERAL WELFARE PROGRAM?: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins cautions Trump administration against expanding eligibility for the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)  that provides cash assistance to working lower income families for child care.

Expanding CCDF eligibility to include married Stay-at-Home-Spouses (SAHS) taking care of children — as in a draft regulatory proposal at the White House — has a solid intention behind it, but, Perkins points out, why expand the number of dependents on tax dollars when the government is $40 Trillion in debt? Better to expand the Child Care Tax Credit.

“Historically, we have addressed these issues through tax credits. If you fall below the threshold of paying taxes, it can be a refundable tax credit. We championed the Child Tax Credit at the FRC. We’ve long been a champion of trying to encourage family formation, parent-child bonding. But government direct payments, government programs, is a step that Republicans have not really taken. That’s been Democratic, that’s been socialistic,” Perkins warned.

Posted at 10:07 am by Mark Tapscott

NOT UNEXPECTED: US Treasury yields surge as $6 billion bond buyback disappoints markets.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose above 4.85%, its highest level in nearly three years, before easing slightly.

The yield on the 30-year bond stood at 5.29%, up from 5.26% a day earlier. It reached 5.33% in August, its highest level since 2007.

Treasury yields influence interest rates across the US economy, meaning sustained increases can make mortgages, business loans and other forms of borrowing more expensive. Higher borrowing costs can also slow economic growth and weigh on share prices.

The rise came after the Treasury Department said it would buy back up to $6 billion of bonds maturing in 10 to 20 years on Thursday. This is three times the size of its previous long-dated buyback operation.

Bessent can play around on the margins — or maybe “rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic” is more apropos — but it’s hard to see rates coming down so long as Congress adds another two trillion dollars to the country’s MasterCard every years.

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green

BURN DOWN PUBLIC EDUCATION:

Posted at 9:24 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Any Moral Equivalence About 9/11 Is Pure Evil. “I’m glad I’m on the side that remembers the horror of 9/11 and still calls it a horror. The side that’s not electing politicians who think we had it coming. The side that doesn’t have Palestinian flags displayed in their United States congressional offices.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

OMG, THIS STORY JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER:

Posted at 9:07 am by Glenn Reynolds

I’VE POSTED A LOT OF STUFF ON SEPTEMBER 11TH OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS. But this year, it’s just this: Brad Todd’s 109 Minutes essay. “Just 109 minutes after a new form of terrorism — the most deadly yet invented — came into use, it was rendered, if not obsolete, at least decidedly less effective. Deconstructed, unengineered, thwarted, and put into the dust bin of history. By Americans. In 109 minutes.”

Ordinary Americans have tremendous skill and ability. That’s why people who want to rule over them hate and fear them.

Posted at 8:46 am by Glenn Reynolds