Monthly Archives: January 2026

Moltbook

January 30, 2026 – 9:18 pm

If you don’t already know what the title of this post refers to, you soon will. It is the name of a social-media network for AI agents, which, in the first day of its existence, has already created its own “religion“. It consists of a network of personal AI agents called “clawdbots“. A great many […]

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Service Notice

January 27, 2026 – 11:07 am

We are out of the country for a few days, back this weekend. (Barely managed to escape; we were the last uncancelled flight out of Boston on Sunday as the blizzard moved in.) Back soon. Much to talk about.

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Scorching The Earth

January 22, 2026 – 6:05 pm

From X poster Christian Heiens: I can confirm that the list he has posted here is accurate. At this point, I shouldn’t think it a good idea to “go long” on peaceful coexistence.

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One Screen, Two Movies

January 16, 2026 – 3:42 pm

The editor of my local paper has just published an opinion piece saying that the shooting of Renee Good — whom he describes as “calmly trying to drive away” — “tells us that we have landed in a new and terrifying landscape, governed by people whose enemy is the truth and who are ready to […]

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Where Does The Time Go?

January 11, 2026 – 3:09 pm

Readers of a certain age will be saddened by the passing of Bob Weir, who died yesterday at the age of 78. I remember when the Grateful Dead were just getting started (and were all very much alive). What happened? “Everyone is but a breath”.

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George Foid? I Don’t Think So

January 10, 2026 – 4:06 pm

We’ve all been watching the nation react to the shooting, by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, of a 37-year-old woman named Renee Good. MS. Good had been in her car, blocking the road while protesting ICE operations — and when the car was surrounded by agents, and she was told to get out, she hit […]

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Kino In Caracas

January 3, 2026 – 11:38 am

Well! It was a big night on the world stage: the U.S., in an impressive blitzkrieg, has deposed the mephitic Maduro narcocracy in Venezuela. (So much for Nothing Ever Happens™!) As I’ve been saying for a year now about the Trump administration’s foreign policy, I see the invisible hand of Michael Anton at work here, […]

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When In Doubt, Say Nowt

January 2, 2026 – 12:54 am

From a popular TV series of my youth: “People yakkity-yak a streak and waste the time of dayBut Mr. Ed will never speak unless he something to say! Be like Mr. Ed.

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