Sunday Overnight Open Thread - September 6, 2026

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Glad you could stop by! Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

[Top photo: One more from the Northern Command area before I head back to the Main Command tomorrow. This one is from off the coast of Naushon Island.]

Flock Segment of the Night

All from the great folks at Orwell Day on X

"Why now? Why do you care about surveillance now but didn't care as much about it before?"

When they say, "Why now? Why do you care about surveillance now but didn't care as much about it before?"

Tell them it's AI.

AI has changed everything.

Imagine Flock cameras without AI. They could put cameras everywhere they wanted, and it would be essentially meaningless because they would never have the manpower to watch all the footage. So, in effect, the surveillance of those cameras was never actually there.

Before AI, they only called upon footage if an actual crime was committed and the footage was believed to be relevant to that crime.

Now, with AI, they can effectively watch all the footage, pull all the data they want from it, and compile a record of where every person has been for as far back as the data goes.

That wasn't possible before AI.

The AI we know today didn't start until 2022; that's just a few years ago, and it hasn't been able to track and build profiles on each of us until the past year or so.

So AI is what has changed.

AI is why things are different now.

AI is why they should care about surveillance now, too.

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A Flock salesman tried to sell the city of Sheboygan 5 years' worth of data on traffic speeds and movement captured by the city's Flock cameras, which the city was never told about.

This proves Flock controls and stores data without the city's knowledge and for periods well over 30 days, in contrast to all public statements and promises about how they handle data.

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If you're grabbing a hot dog from a convenience store, don't you want it to come right off one of those roller grills? If so, don't go to Kwik Trip

Kwik Trip is getting rid of its hot dog roller grills

A popular gas station chain across the Midwest is saying goodbye to one of its store staples.

A Kwik Trip representative tells Bring Me The News that roller grills will be removed for all of its store locations as of September 21.

For years, the chain’s roller grills have featured hot dogs, cheddarwurst and brats, and tornados, the fan-favorite rolled tortillas that are filled with cheese and meat.

The beloved snacks aren’t going away entirely, though.

“The items that were on the Roller Grill will now be on our Hot Spot moving forward,” a spokesperson confirms, adding the food will now be individually wrapped or packaged and will be more of a grab and go item moving forward.

Stupid. The person who made this decision probably doesn't even eat hot dogs.

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Speaking of Kwik Trip - This happened in Kansas City yesterday

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Big deal -we can all do this, right?

'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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White after Labor Day!?!

The old commandment “never wear white after Labor Day” once felt iron clad. Now it is American style’s most cheerfully ignored relic. White is a year-round color: winter-white coats, ivory knits, cream trousers, and crisp shirts show up on runways, sidewalks, and red carpets in October as easily as they do in July. So where did this bossy little rule even come from? It was a social signal born of Gilded Age leisure, filthy cities, and a whole lot of class anxiety.

In the late 19th century, wealthy New Yorkers and other urban elites fled the summer heat for Newport, the Hamptons, or mountain retreats. There they lived in lightweight white linens, cottons, and tennis whites. Practical, because white reflects heat and hides sweat. Luxurious, because keeping it pristine required staff and time most people simply did not have. Labor Day, made a federal holiday in 1894, became the official last call for that season. Back in the city, it was time for darker, heavier clothes that could survive soot, mud, rain, and streets that were, frankly, grimy.

Those reasons evaporated ages ago. Air conditioning arrived. Modern detergents and fabrics made white far less terrifying. Coco Chanel treated white as a year-round staple in the 1920s; American Vogue started showing “winter whites” around the same time. By the 1990s, major fashion authorities had already declared the rule obsolete. Today the only distinction that actually matters is weight and texture: a slubby linen dress still screams summer, while a white cashmere sweater, wool trousers, or structured ivory coat reads autumn and winter like it was born for it.

The smarter question is not whether you can wear white after Labor Day. Of course you can. The fun question is how to make cream and ivory look intentional next to this season’s colors. Three unexpected palettes do that especially well.

Cream, olive, and cobalt blue
Cream and olive are already a classic fall pairing. See? Perfectly safe.

Want to amp it up? Cobalt is the unexpected voltage. That blue makes the cream look graphic instead of bridal and keeps olive from disappearing into “just another green.”

Brown, cream, and tomato red

This is the most immediately autumnal of the three. Cream keeps the look from turning into a pumpkin-spice cliché; tomato red keeps the browns from going muddy.

Lilac, olive green, and cream

This combination feels slightly off-script in the best way. Olive and cream ground the outfit in fall utility; lilac keeps it from looking like a field-jacket convention; cream is the quiet connector holding the whole thing together.

So wear the white. Wear the cream. Wear the ivory coat like you meant it. Labor Day is not the boss of your closet, and the best outfits this season are the ones that look like you already knew that.

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Thanks, Piper!

The rest of you - Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.

DJ Doof - Random Stuff Edition

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