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May 31, 2022
OKAY, SUDDENLY NOW I’M WORRIED: WHO says it’s ‘not concerned’ about monkeypox outbreak turning into pandemic.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (UK EDITION): Millions warned of power cuts this winter. “A minister said the briefing suggested that electricity could have to be rationed for up to six million homes at the start of next year, mostly at peaks in the morning and evening. The curbs could last more than a month, causing energy prices to rise again and leaving GDP lower than forecast for years to come.”
Now, let’s take a look at Legend’s numbers, shall we? In his first tweet, he’s linking to the CDC’s stats on “Firearms Mortality” which shows Wyoming (death rate of 25.9/100,000) is more dangerous than Illinois (death rate of 14.1/100,000.)
But if you look at the CDC’s stats on “Homicide Mortality by State,” you find — not surprisingly — an entirely different picture than what Legend suggested. Illinois, with just gun homicides, has a death rate of 11.2/100,000 (1353 homicides) compared to Wyoming’s 4.9/100,000 and 29 homicides, which is the opposite point he was trying to make about Illinois.
Evergreen:
SALENA ZITO: People, places and politicians: Abstract rhetoric doesn’t respond to voters’ real concerns. “Mr. Mikus said in places like Braddock, the dominant values are centered on neighborhood, ethic group and smaller community — something his party has struggled to communicate in recent years, largely because the national party’s messaging has been geared to a coalition of elites, academics and young people whose concerns are often more cultural than communal.”
AN ALGORITHM FOR PLANETARY DEFENSE: Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them.
On Tuesday, B612 Foundation, a nonprofit group that Dr. Lu helped found, announced the discovery of more than 100 asteroids. (The foundation’s name is a nod to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s children’s book, “The Little Prince”; B612 is the home asteroid of the main character.)
That by itself is unremarkable. New asteroids are reported all the time by skywatchers around the world. That includes amateurs with backyard telescopes and robotic surveys systematically scanning the night skies.
What is remarkable is that B612 did not build a new telescope or even make new observations with existing telescopes. Instead, researchers financed by B612 applied cutting-edge computational might to years-old images — 412,000 of them in the digital archives at the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, or NOIRLab — to sift asteroids out of the 68 billion dots of cosmic light captured in the images. . . .
Today, of the estimated 25,000 near-Earth asteroids at least 460 feet in diameter, only about 40 percent of them have been found. The other 60 percent — about 15,000 space rocks, each with the potential of unleashing the energy equivalent to hundreds of million of tons of TNT in a collision with Earth — remain undetected.
B612 collaborated with Joachim Moeyens, a graduate student at the University of Washington, and his doctoral adviser, Mario Juric, a professor of astronomy. They and colleagues at the university’s Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology developed an algorithm that is able to examine astronomical imagery not only to identify those points of light that might be asteroids, but also figure out which dots of light in images taken on different nights are actually the same asteroid.
In essence, the researchers developed a way to discover what has already been seen but not noticed.
Faster, please.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: After Uvalde, California’s Open Invitation to School Shooters.
Plus:
- The Left can’t meme (the first in a continuing series)
- Nancy Pelosi finally found a news story she didn’t want to get out in front of
- Out: Race-based admissions. In: Race-based grades
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
FALLOUT: ‘China in mind’: Japan mulls beefing up military as Ukraine war rings alarm. “Yet it is under Kishida, and not his hawkish predecessor, Shinzo Abe, that Japan is undergoing a dramatic shift in its strictly defensive postwar posture in which the country could double spending on its military and edge closer to acquiring a “first-strike” capability.”
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Woke Have Confused Sword and Sorcery. “The most singular aspect of the rise of Woke mumbo jumbo is its relationship with the astonishing technological development that sustains it; enabling what may be called a ‘sword and sorcery’ regime. Quasi-theocracies are upheld by technology so advanced it appears to be magic, at least to the general public, who have only a vague and awestruck knowledge of the mechanisms involved. ‘This man is woman,’ a counter disinformation bureaucrat might intone, and all would nod in assent. Those in the virtual crowd who disagree will remain mute, for they know that with a gesture, the functionary can zap any dissenter with cancelation, so that he can be excluded from the metaverse entirely, through a process few understand but all fear.”
The fear is the point.
THERE HE GOES, UNITING THE COUNTRY SOME MORE: Joe Biden to College Graduates: ‘Get Goin’ for God’s Sake’ and Take Back Country from ‘Darkest Forces.’
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN has some questions about the Supreme Court leak investigation.
I’M COMFORTED TO KNOW THAT THE EXPERTS HAVE NOTICED THE INFLATION AT LAST: Fed Governor Christopher Waller says he’s prepared to take rates past ‘neutral’ to fight inflation.
I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: U.S. Prepares to Send Long-Range Rocket Systems to Ukraine.
MIRANDA DEVINE: New bid to spin Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Kevin Morris, the generous Los Angeles entertainment lawyer who loaned Hunter more than $2 million to pay off his tax debts, has launched a sensational public-relations campaign to discredit the laptop and divert attention from its damning revelations of the Biden family’s international influence-peddling scheme.
Morris, 58, has assembled a team of 30 lawyers and investigators to help his friend Hunter, 52, “blunt the impact” of the Delaware probe, according to CBS News.
But leaks from inside the Morris camp, and a hand-scrawled mind map he has shared with confidants, show a chaotic disinformation project attempting to rewrite the story of the laptop’s origins.
The counternarrative Morris is mounting on Hunter’s behalf has nothing to do with the damning contents of the laptop, which have been repeatedly verified as authentic by multiple media organizations since The Post broke the story in October 2020.
Instead, Hunter’s team is attempting to sow confusion about how the laptop became public, by denying that he abandoned his laptop in John Paul Mac Isaac’s Delaware repair shop on April 12, 2019, and claiming his private information was somehow stolen, “hacked” or “cloned.”
Read the whole thing, including the Post’s chain of custody.
MICHAEL WALSH: Forget Guns. Whatever Happened to Men?
Some thoughts here.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Babbling Biden Blurts Out Dems’ Gun-Grabbing Endgame. “Even the days that are supposed to be slow news days get a shot of newsiness in them. Yesterday should have been one of solemn remembrance for our military heroes who have died defending this great nation but President LOLEightyonemillion’s puppetmasters once again let him speak into a microphone.”
SHE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:
EH, IT’S ACTUALLY JUST AVERAGE. WORSE THAN YESTERDAY, BETTER THAN TOMORROW. SO AVERAGE. Biden’s Train-Wreck Economy.
THE HITS KEEP COMING: More Shoes Drop in the Paul Pelosi Arrest Story.
For some reason that hasn’t been fully explained yet, it took law enforcement officers more than four hours to book him after he was arrested. He wasn’t booked until 4:13 a.m. Was he resisting a breathalyzer? Causing a problem? Were they debating whether or not to charge him? It’s not clear. And if he was still blowing more than 0.08 after that time, what was he like at the time of the crash? He was released about three hours after he was booked on $5000 bail.
But now there’s more information on the accident. Pelosi was allegedly driving drunk when he piloted a 2021 Porsche through a stop sign while crossing State Route 29 and drove right into the path of an oncoming car driven by Jesus Lopez, 48, at about 10:26 p.m. So based on the report, Pelosi allegedly caused the crash. Notice he wasn’t driving an electric vehicle, but a nice gas-guzzling new Porsche. . . .
Nancy Pelosi isn’t talking about her husband’s arrest. She has no problem going after anyone and everyone else, but his arrest, she’s calling a “private matter.”
Well, unlike you proles she has that privilege. In Paul’s defense, if I were married to Nancy I’d drink heavily too.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S ONLY BECAUSE HE’S AWFUL: Slidin’ Biden hits 34% approval in latest Civiqs poll.
URBAN CAMPING: Boulder, Police Chief Hit with Lawsuit Over Camping Ban Laws. “Filed in Boulder County District Court, the lawsuit alleges that the ordinances and the enforcement of the laws violate the Colorado Constitution’s sections on cruel and unusual punishment, state-created danger and the right to use public space.”
“Urban camping” is a euphemism for “homeless encampment” which has become a euphemism for “24/7 opioid flea market.”
BECAUSE “ANTI-RACISM” IS A LIE: Why is it socially acceptable to ridicule white people based on their skin color?