JUST IN: Senator Elizabeth Warren urgently calls for AI regulations to prevent a “permanent underclass”

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) May 27, 2026

There is no doubt in my mind that these regulations will be limited in their entirety to ideological supervision of AI-generated content. Most AI tools are already woker than a BLM riot but there is never a limit on how far leftist ideological conditioning can go.

By the way, college professors in the Humanities who have the biggest number of issues with AI cheating are very left-wing. The kind of texts that they want students to produce are precisely the type of swill that AI generates most easily. I don’t have problems with AI in the classroom because I don’t expect students to create lists of politically charged talking points. I don’t want either left-wing or right-wing propaganda from them. What I look for is an actual thoughtful engagement with literary texts. AI is not helpful with that so they don’t use it. Exactly zero assignments that were handed in to me this semester were AI-generated. Each essay and composition that I received had a very appropriate and expected number of language mistakes. Each piece of writing also represented original and often very interesting thinking on the part of the students.

I issued no AI policy in my teaching this semester because it was unnecessary. AI is useless for the kind of work that I expect students to do.

Children in a sex education class in Germany were instructed to design a brothel “for everyone” as part of their course… The children, aged between 13 and 15, received the assignment at the Cardinal von Galen Gymnasium in Kevelaer, a small town in North-Rhine Westphalia close to the Dutch border with a population of just 28,000. The community is most known for being a religious pilgrimage site for Roman Catholics, who descend upon the town once per year to honor the Virgin Mary.

German Children Given “Inclusive Brothel” Assignment As Part of “Sexual Education of Diversity” Class

Details for the “inclusive brothel” assignment are posted at the link and they are even worse than the whole thing originally sounds. 

Homeschooling is illegal in Germany on the grounds that school attendance is crucial for habituating children to coexist with people from diverse backgrounds.

I recently discovered an excellent app that I want to recommend to everybody. It’s called Wispr Flow and it provides the best speech-to-text function I’ve ever seen. The contrast with the native Android speech-to-text could not be any starker.

One of the amazing functions of this app is that it automatically figures out what language I am speaking without me having to switch over or press any buttons. I write in a boatload of languages, switching between them constantly and without thinking, and it’s really great to have an app that can figure out what I’m doing without any additional effort on my part. Unlike the native Android speech-to-text, Wispr Flow has no problem with punctuation. It even figures out when to put a word in inverted commas or when an exclamation mark is needed.

I have no idea what feats of amazingness the paid version of this app does. I’m using the free version, and I already find it to be sensationally helpful.

A hilarious thing happened to me while using this app yesterday. I was doing my German exercises but I was still feeling crappy from my shingles vaccine. My German pronunciation must have been even worse than usual because the Wispr Flow app started writing down what I was saying in Russian. I find this extraordinary. The app knew that I was speaking in a Russian accent!

N says he’s jealous of the app because I’ve been going on and on about how much I love it so I will pipe down already. But it’s a great app.

I’m torn between envying the unclouded reality in which this person lives or despising him for his utter cluelessness:

If IQ is so useful why dont employers just give an IQ test for the interview and hire the highest scorers ?

— Eli (@elkelk) May 27, 2026

How is it humanly possible to have missed that this kind of test is illegal and that even mentioning IQ puts you in danger? It’s incomprehensible.

Concerning news out of Romania:

A Russian Shahed drone crossed the border into Romanian space and struck a high-rise building in Galati. The explosion triggered a fire. Reports of multiple wounded. pic.twitter.com/AQDr6yb9Wh

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) May 29, 2026

If you are in Romania, please stay safe. Although nobody will be completely safe for as long as the Russian Federation exists.

I am going to combine the Great American Novel series with an additional request for recommendations in the mommy lit genre that I received in the anonymous Q&A.

Jodi Picoult is insanely left-wing and has gotten even more so in the past decade. Twenty years ago, however, she was a decent mommy-lit author and her ideology didn’t get in the way of her writing that much. Picoult’s 2009 novel Nineteen Minutes is a masterpiece of the genre. It’s soppy, it’s sappy. It has themes of mother’s love, teenage deviousness, school shootings, and dysfunction in a small town. What’s not to like?

Mommy Lit is a multifaceted genre. It’s not all about mothers and children. Mothers are also wives, so a big part of the mommy lit genre consists of novels about the intricacies of marriage. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick is set in 1907 and demonstrates that marriage is too complex ever to be pre-planned or controlled.

Another important part of mommy lit is a discussion of the different ways of being a woman. Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge depicts a coarse, unbending woman who is a small daily curse to everybody who knows her. It’s very well-written but it can be triggering if you have somebody like the perennially shitty Olive in your life. It is quite enlightening to see how many readers of this mega best-selling novel perceived Olive as a positive character deserving of compassion.

Readers of the mommy lit genre love novels about psychopathic or downright evil women. This kind of reading helps them get in touch with what psychoanalyst Carl Jung termed the Shadow. This is the compendium of all of our darkest characteristics that we try to keep in check in order to live a civilized life. The novel Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone is the perfect expression of this kind of writing. It’s main character is not remotely a mommy, but she’s devious and deadly effective. There are two major trends in American literature for women:

1. Concentrates on female characters who are aggressively self-infantilizing

2. Portrays women who are extremely effective and competent

Jane Doe belongs squarely in the second category. Female readers unexpectedly fell in love with Jane in the way similar to how they responded to Amy in Gone Girl. The extraordinary success of these novels demonstrates that women like to imagine themselves as efficient and organized. At the same time, it’s curious that the only kinds of women portrayed this way in American literature of recent decades are sociopaths and murderers. I find that this is one of the central conflicts in American literature today. Is it possible to be an organized, goal-oriented, and effective woman without being a total piece of shit? For now writers have not been able to imagine this kind of woman that would be driven by goodness. Good women in these novels are almost invariably childish, helpless, and clueless morons.

No one wants a romantic dinner ruined by a screaming child at the next table.

According to a new survey, 75% of Americans say restaurants should offer some kind of adults-only dining experience to avoid unruly kids.

That includes child-free sections, restrictions during… pic.twitter.com/DOGcbDTWK1

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 27, 2026

I’ve been to a lot of restaurants. Different countries, different continents. There’s been no shortage of restaurants in my life. I have had a few unpleasant experiences when the outing was spoiled by a group of adults neighing like rodeo horses. But I honestly have had zero bad experiences with children at restaurants. North American children, in particular, are the most well-behaved, polite, and wonderful children. I don’t know what’s wrong with people in this survey. Children are a joy. Adults are a crap shoot but children are always great.

Speaking of weirdo adults, I was at a thermal spa in Quebec last week, and there was a middle aged couple that was completely obsessed with my sister. They’d plant themselves across from her and stare at her for hours. Maybe they were swingers or something equally icky. Now that’s what I call annoying.

Ordering DoorDash is not entirely about eatng. It’s not even mostly about eating. What people pay for is a certain identity, access to which they buy by paying for the service. It’s the identity of a person who is so busy, so in demand that they need to have their meals delivered to them.

The reason why people freak out so badly when it is suggested to them that they could cook their own lunches instead of ordering DoorDash is that, to them, this sounds like a verdict of being rejected by the new economy. Their aspirational identity of the people whose time is extremely valuable is being placed at risk.

Of course the very fact of being sensitive about this identity means that you are definitely at risk of being discarded by the market. Feeling anxious on the subject betrays the aspirational nature of this identity that one wants to cultivate but will never fully achieve.

Klara decided not to go to camp this summer. This means that I have to take her to the swimming pool, the playground, the trampoline park, and so on and so forth between bouts of working. This is working out great for me because I’m at my most productive under pressure and time constraints. I’m not sure how sustainable this is for Klara though because we’re only on day two and she is already striking up conversations with every passersby and every lifeguard at the swimming pool.

In other news, yesterday I got vaccinated for shingles and the side effects bite. I’ve seen people suffer from shingles and all of the side effects are completely worth it. I only wish that in normal circumstances I could be as productive as I am with a shingles vaccine and while intensely cooking for and entertaining a 10 year old.

My whole identity is that of a person who imposes order on chaos and I can’t say that I’m not extremely tired of that.

A London, Ont., doctor who assessed a patient with inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues for MAID outside a Tim Hortons location and later personally drove the man to the place his life was ended has agreed to a minimum six months’ supervision.

https://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-man-dies-of-maid-after-being-assessed-outside-tim-hortons

Ont stands for the Canadian province of Ontario, in case people don’t know. Beyond this, I understand nothing in this news item. Why would the doctor do this? It’s hard enough to see a doctor at a hospital in Canada, let alone have one trudge all the way to a Tim Hortons (a Canadian coffee shop chain) to meet you. Does the doctor have a quota on the number of people he offs? Is he a psychopath who enjoys ending people’s lives?