{"id":60114,"date":"2026-09-17T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60114"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:34:40","slug":"open-thread-september-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/17\/open-thread-september-17-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 17 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Heather Cox Richardson announced what she calls the end of the first phase of 250 to 250. I still have a few pre-selected ones, and I may go back and pick up more, but today I&#8217;m running the closing video. To me, the whole series demonstrates why we need comprtent and accurate historians to keep a free society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/judges-rule-ai-child-abuse-161951440.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barf Bag Alert<\/a>. Yes, this is from last month. But I only just found it &#8211; in a footnote. Specifically footnote #3 out of 13. I thought it was the must disgusting, but it was close, and you might not agree. But I can&#8217;t link to the list, because it was in an email with no link to the conttent &#8211; only a link to a petition. If anyone cares to see the complete list, send me an email at jvdix@tutamail.com and I&#8217;ll forward it. I&#8217;ve put it into a temporary folder so I don&#8217;t have to look at it all day long.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1bkHb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huff Post<\/a>. Don&#8217;t say you haven&#8217;t been warned.<\/p>\n<p>Shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2026\/09\/russia-weaponizing-us-built-ai-make-killer-drones-cyberattack-bots-and-fake-news\/415949\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VoteVets<\/a>. I&#8217;m skeptical of anything said by any AI creator, including Anthropic. But it might be factual &#8211; it&#8217;s certainly consistent with Russian ethics (or the lack thereof.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-tBlDQYNms?si=FaZnSyQFmsW_1de9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uo9WUq6JcxY?si=Y7XBDTn_aSvsAWFn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/overlords-e1789453482460.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Heather Cox Richardson announced what she calls the end of the first phase of 250 to 250. I still have a few pre-selected ones, and I may go back and pick up more, but today I&#8217;m running the closing video. To me, the whole series demonstrates why we need comprtent and accurate historians to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/17\/open-thread-september-17-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4201,4384,7793,3811,3838,7524,7792],"class_list":["post-60114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-ai","tag-aliens","tag-child-srxual-abuse","tag-personal","tag-russia","tag-semiquincentennial","tag-various-animals","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60118,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60114\/revisions\/60118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}