Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Muse -- META Surging -- Americans Love AI It Appears -- September 9, 2026

Locator: 51696AI. 

REMINDER: Apple special event at 12:00 noon today -- in about 20 minutes -- on Safari at the Apple.com website.  

WTI: now above $96.  

Pageviews: just went over 97 million page views. Page view run rate is currently 2.4 million page views / 24 hours.

This is how much Americans hate and/or are afraid to use AI. Link here. See previous note re: Andrew Ross Sorkin, link here. Andrew Ross Sorkin is also the guy that appeared to have agreed that we would all die due to global warming / climate change. It gets tedious.

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New Purchase

No plans to open it in my lifetime. LOL. 

In the "old" -- fifty years ago, I could buy "used," run-of-the-mill" Lego pieces for 5 cents apiece.

Some years ago -- maybe twenty -- the price for most sets, which included special pieces, ran 10 cents apiece.

This particular set is running 12 cents apiece, but with lots of special pieces. However, I still use 10 cents/piece to put new sets in perspective. 

Lego's Harry Potter Ministry of Magic, just released, 3,491 pieces, runs 14 cents / piece. Harry Potter sets are slightly more expensive due to licensing cost. I have never bought Harry Potter sets or Star Wars sets (one or two small exceptions).