ELON MUSK JUST TWEETED THIS STALIN MEME ABOUT JACK DORSEY: “Can we please take a moment to appreciate how Elon continuously picks fights with other powerful billionaire magnates without regard for social propriety?? The madman just does not care, and it’s so entertaining!”
I WANT ONE THAT MAKES THE JETSONS-CAR BLEEBLE NOISE: Study: Sound improves detection of electric cars for pedestrians.
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Biden Family Christmas Stocking Photo Leaves Out Hunter Biden’s 3-Year-Old Daughter, Born Out Of Wedlock.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Monty Python Is the Nostradamus of Our Ridiculous Times.
IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee may help lower odds for Alzheimer’s disease, study suggests.
DOZEN FACTS ABOUT A 15-WEEK OLD UNBORN YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Given these 12 facts, it’s hard to see why there is much to debate about regarding the Mississippi law now under review by The Supremes. That said, if you believe in prayer, ask that these nine black-robbed judges will have discernment and courage.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: ‘To The Left Of Lenin’: Elizabeth Warren Associate May Serve As Top Fed Official.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Kyle Rittenhouse Can’t Sue The Kenosha District Attorney’s Office, But He Should Be Able To.
Prosecutorial immunity — along with judicial immunity and qualified immunity for other government officials — should exist, if at all, only via legislation. And that legislation should limit whatever immunity it exists much more strictly than the current judge-made immunities are limited.
Personally, I think immunizing government employees from accountability for their actions is a due process violation, and possibly a violation of the Titles of Nobility clauses, too.
¡NO PASARÁN!: Puzzling Out the Puzzle Pieces.
The puzzle pieces of what has gone wrong are enormous, so much so that fitting two or three together is unwieldy, while attempting to piece all the pieces together is both a fantastical and terrifying project, overturning long-held dearly held assumptions about government, public safety, human worth, personal liberty, and the dignity of our lives. Simply put, piecing together the bigger picture puzzle is traumatizing. To protect ourselves, the puzzle pieces are commonly processed separately, which is to say without correlation.
Read the whole thing.
THE GUILD PROTECTS ITS OWN: MSNBC avoids breaking news of Chris Cuomo’s suspension, refrains from criticizing rival CNN anchor.
“Rival?” Cuomo Adviser Bragged That MSNBC Host Was ‘Saying My Spin Live.’
Even CNN is memory holing its latest modified limited hangout: CNN Gives Chris Cuomo’s Suspension One On-Air Mention, Under One Minute.
Flashback: Jennings and Brokaw Defend Rather Who Sees Effort to “Smear” Him.
STANDARDS: ABA Permits Law Schools To Accept GRE Scores In Lieu Of The LSAT. The goal here is to be able to admit warm, tuition-paying bodies without hurting your US News ranking by driving down your average LSAT score. I wonder how long before US News closes this loophole.
ERROR-CORRECTION UPDATE: I’m wrong above — this has already been taken account of. Paul Caron writes: “Your comment isn’t right — U.S. News takes GRE scores into account.” Here’s how:
Median Law School Admission Test and Graduate Record Examination scores (0.1125; previously 0.125): These are the combined median scores on the LSAT and GRE quantitative, verbal and analytical writing exams of all 2020 full- and part-time entrants to the J.D. program. Reported scores for each of the four exams, when applicable, were converted to 0-100 percentile scales. The LSAT and GRE percentile scales were weighted by the proportions of test-takers submitting each exam. For example, if 85% of exams submitted were LSATs and 15% submitted were GREs, the LSAT percentile would be multiplied by 0.85 and the average percentile of the three GRE exams by 0.15 before summing the two values. This means GRE scores were never converted to LSAT scores or vice versa. There were 60 law schools – 31% of the total ranked – that reported both the LSAT and GRE scores of their 2020 entering classes to U.S. News.
My mistake. I’m bumping this up so that people will see the correction. And thanks, Dean Caron!
HMM: China’s disappearing ships: The latest headache for the global supply chain.
Analysts think they’ve found the culprit: China’s Personal Information Protection Law, which took effect November 1. It requires companies that process data to receive approval from the Chinese government before they can let personal information leave Chinese soil — a rule that reflects the fear in Beijing that such data could end up in the hands of foreign governments.
The law doesn’t mention shipping data. But Chinese data providers might be withholding information as a precaution, according to Anastassis Touros, AIS network team leader at Marine Traffic, a major ship-tracking information provider.
“Whenever you have a new law, we have a time period where everyone needs to check out if things are okay, ” Touros said.
Other industry experts have more clues of the law’s influence. Cook said that colleagues in China told her that some AIS transponders were removed from stations based along Chinese coastlines at the start of the month, at the instruction of national security authorities. The only systems allowed to remain needed to be installed by “qualified parties.”
Unintended consequence of Beijing’s new privacy law, or another power play by Xi?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This seems potentially much more nefarious to me.
TOP SELLER: Gamma Ray Blue Light Blocking Reading Glasses. #CommissionEarned
THE CONSTITUTION TAKES IT OFF THE TABLE: Domestic Travel Ban for Unvaccinated ‘Not Off the Table’ Says Psaki.
STILL POPULAR: The Double Dangerous Book for Boys. #CommissionEarned
THE FAKE FACT-CHECKERS AT FACEBOOK AND TWITTER: Fact-BLOCKERS. John Stossel shows how social-media platforms, with the aid of the supposedly non-partisan media watchdogs at the Poynter Institute, are censoring inconvenient — but accurate — scientific information about climate change and Covid. He interviews Michael Shellenberger, Bjorn Lomborg and me. (For those who don’t want to watch on Facebook, here’s a link to it at YouTube.)
BUILD BACK BETTER BUT NOT IF IT’S A TESLA: Elon Musk’s Tesla operation is non-union. Hans Bader notes that His Fraudulency’s Build Back Better bill will give you a $7,500 tax credit for buying an Electric Vehicle, and add another $4,500 to it if your new EV was made in a unionized factory. Teslas are not made in unionized factories.
ROGER SIMON: Now More Than Ever Conservatives Must Get Off Twitter.
Now, however, Jack Dorsey has resigned and a new CEO installed, the company’s former CTO, Parag Agrawal.
After only one day of the new regime—what breitibart.com aptly calls “Gulag Parag”—Twitter has actually made a turn to the worse, taking it further toward the fascistic.
The platform has issued new rules banning the sharing of images or videos without, in most cases, the explicit consent of those being photographed.
In other words, good-bye the victims of Waukesha because there was no time to ask people questions, let alone get the consent of the mass murderer.
Good-bye, Antifa burning buildings. (Can you imagine getting their permission? You’d probably get bashed over the head with a skateboard, if you were lucky.).
Good-bye, virtually anything that reflects poorly on the left or their ideologies. BLM riots and similar are unlikely to appear again.
What was most interesting about Twitter was its immediacy. No more. We are now in the era of “selective immediacy.”
Twitter will only show what the new regime wants it to. How neo-Stalinist. No wonder Dorsey wanted to beat it and turn over the reins before the inevitable pushback.
Speaking of which, who is Parag Agrawal? He has been accused of racism for, you guessed it, an ancient Tweet.
I’ll give him a pass on that, largely because Twitter itself, through its telegraphic form that rewards the clever put-down over the substantive, consistently brings out the worst in people. Social media, as I implied above, is misnomered. It should be called anti-social media.
I won’t, however, give Agrawal a pass on his new regulations. He comes from the tech world and it seems increasing numbers of techs are skeptical of free speech, perhaps because they study technology, not history. Technology has the illusion of being definitive when it’s not. (Remember “garbage in, garbage out.”)
This is a moment of change toward the further totalitarian at Twitter and, as is written in the I-Ching, “Change… Opportunity.”
The opportunity here is for conservatives to finally get off. Agrawal and company have provided an excuse for those who need it. To remain on a platform that has ramped up its already significant censorship capabilities to such a degree would be a new level of hypocrisy.
And toward what end? Is anybody really listening, anybody who might be convinced of something? Will the gang at CNN finally admit their constant prevarications? Hardly.
Abandoning the decentralized Blogosphere for the walled gardens of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was a huge mistake, particularly for conservatives. Somebody should write a book about the reasons why.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! University offers racially segregated ‘processing space’ after Rittenhouse verdict. “The school says this is a ‘proven educational strategy.'”
LOYALTY OATHS USED TO BE BAD: Nearly 20 percent of faculty jobs require diversity pledge: report.
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