Hawaii’s iconic Hōlei Sea Arch collapses into ocean after standing for 500 years

A mandatory 8:00 AM leadership course required cameras on for the entire 2-hour session. I work from home on Fridays. 8:00 AM is not a camera time. So I recorded 45 seconds of myself looking attentive. Nod. Type something. Sip coffee. Nod again. Then I looped it as my virtual camera. I attended the first 6 minutes and went back to bed. The company had also enabled an AI meeting tool that scored participation. At noon I got the report. ATTENDANCE: 100%. VISUAL ENGAGEMENT: HIGH. DISTRACTION EVENTS: 0. My manager sent me a screenshot. He said I was one of the most engaged people in the session. The training team asked permission to use my score in their next presentation. I said absolutely. I was asleep for 94% of it. Finally, AI is improving productivity.

#BREAKING: Lab technician dies of suspected pneumonic plague in Russia after breaking test tube.

Restaurants are warning that Trump's tariffs on tomatoes could end free chips and salsa.

How it feels after you calm down

🚨 GOLDMAN SACHS DROPS DOOMSDAY STATEMENT: U.S. BONDS HAVE NO BUYERS Goldman Sachs just admitted the long end of U.S. Treasury market is “totally bidless.” Translation: almost nobody wants the 10- to 30-year debt the U.S. is trying to sell. No buyers. None. Zero. While Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Congress we’re in an “illiquid period,” doubles then triples long-bond buybacks, taps the General Treasury Account to fund it and openly says “I am the house.” Yields are surging anyway. The 10-year has pushed toward 5.3% and the 30-year is even higher, levels not seen in years while Japan, one of the biggest foreign holders, keeps selling Treasuries and bringing money home. This was exactly warned by Japan’s @yutokanzakireal that the measures being prepared by Bank of Japan will affect the lives of billions of people and apologized to people of the West. Soon after, Scott Bessent intervened and effectively took over BoJ operations which Japanese policymakers heavily criticized. If the same ”bidless” condition hits the short-dated treasuries market, the entire U.S. debt market (and global) collapses. The U.S. debt crisis will turn into a global liquidity crisis.

Pacific Resource Partnership set up RISE Together Hawaiʻi and put about $200,000 into September TV ads that talk about bridges, pipes and roads. What voters are being asked to approve is a new county borrowing tool: “resilient infrastructure for shelter and equity” bonds for public improvements in designated districts, repaid only by future property-tax growth inside those districts and kept outside the counties’ debt limit. Excuse me but Hawaiʻi needs tighter audits before it creates another pot of money. Borrowing outside the debt limit is another avenue for funds to be misused. Have we not learned anything? 🙄 civilbeat.org/2026/09/slick-…

will AI kill us in 10 years… buddy, the bond market is going to kill us next week.

I have been photographing fall foliage in New England for 20 years and I have never seen the foliage this vibrant. I took this today from Crawford Notch in New Hampshire (Thursday, October 1, 2026)

BREAKING: White House lawyers are warning that if a blue wave occurs in the midterms, the stress of being investigated, impeached, and turned into a lame duck on the global stage could give Donald Trump a heart attack or stroke.

NEW: Pentagon now reportedly increasing nuclear options available to President Trump according to US Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby.

No edits needed. Craziest foliage colors I’ve ever seen in my life. 📍Pinkham Notch NH

UAE is in serious trouble. Israel is now suspecting the direct involvement of certain UAE officials in the attempted hijacking of FlyDubai Flight FZ1073. Without several deliberate security violations, the hijacking would have been impossible. To make matters even more suspicious, UAE and Saudi officials still refuse to release the name of the suicidal Omani pilot. The pilot went through 2 body scanners, a metal detector and an X-ray scanner with a knife. No alarm went off during the screening. Another suspicion is that an influential airport official may have already placed the weapon inside the cockpit. Things get even stranger. Yesterday, Flight FZ1073 suddenly departed from a different terminal than usual. It used Terminal 3 instead of Terminal 2. Security screening is also much tighter at Terminal 3. So there are questions over how the pilot could have taken a knife onto the aircraft without inside support. Pilots on the flight are also required to be nationals of countries with diplomatic relations with Israel. The pilot is from Oman. And Oman has no diplomatic relations with Israel. This is another major security breach. The nationalities of the pilots were initially released as Russian and Ukrainian. But later that turned out to be false. The Omani pilot was being protected from the very beginning. Now the pilot is being escorted to Abu Dhabi in an emergency move by Saudi authorities. This is happening right after several questions were raised about the UAE. All FlyDubai flights to Israel have been suspended. Israel now wants its domestic security service, Shin Bet, to investigate the UAE. Trump has announced that Iran was behind the hijacking. He has promised severe retaliation against Iran after the midterms. Things are getting catastrophic.

Autumn really does make a strong case for being the best season. 🍂

Give us money and leave us alone.

A Cheetah and her little Cheetos

NEW: Dan Bongino podcast viewership down 62% since 2024 according to Edison Metrics data.

I don’t think anyone understands the significance of the disaster that’s occurring in the real world. The news no longer reports anything of significance.

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