FOREIGN INTERFERENCE: Some of Those Pro-Palestine Protests Are Co-Organized by a Wealthy American Marxist Living in China.

READER FAVORITE: Calphalon Premier Nonstick 5-Quart Saute Pan with Lid. #CommissionEarned

HMM. I DON’T THINK I LIKE THIS: Goodbye match, hello retirement benefit account? What IBM 401(k) change means. “Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, companies must fund 401(k) matches with real dollars. If IBM’s ‘credit’ is just that, with ‘no cash in there, and it’s just listed on the books, if something bad happens, and IBM couldn’t make good on its liabilities,’ employees would be on the hook, Hulme said.”

BIG STUPID GOVERNMENT: The Very Stupid Reason for That Devastating Los Angeles Freeway Fire.

HMM. IT SEEMS LIKE THIS MIGHT IMPLY SOMETHING USEFUL. Flashback: Climate change is making horses fat as it’s causing an abundance of grass to grow, top vet warns.

IT’S BASICALLY A TOOL FOR LAUNDERING CENSORSHIP: NewsGuard: A Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth.

DULLES BUS DRIVERS REPORTEDLY OUT PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: Hundreds of Pro-Israel Demonstrators Left Stranded on Tarmac after Bus Drivers Coordinate ‘Antisemitic’ Strike.

Hundreds of Jewish Americans, on their way to Tuesday’s March for Israel at the National Mall in D.C., were left stranded on the tarmac of a local airport after their bus drivers coordinated a “mass sick out” day to prevent the travelers from attending the rally.

Around 300 of the 900 passengers flown in by the Jewish Federation of Detroit were left on tarmac of Dulles International Airport for nearly eleven hours, causing them to miss the entire March for Israel event before being sent back home. When several buses failed to appear upon their 10:30 a.m. landing, many travelers had no way to leave the tarmac.

David Kurzmann, the senior director of community affairs at the Jewish Federation of Detroit, had “learned from the bus company that this was caused by a deliberate and malicious walk-off of drivers.”

According to Kurzmann, the bus company told the federation that a “significant number” of drivers called out sick when they learned they would be taking hundreds of Jewish Americans to the pro-Israel rally. The federation has not named the bus company, and has refused to do so.

Jonathan Kaufman had flown in from Detroit eager to attend the rally — he was one of the hundreds left stranded.

Developing, as Matt Drudge used to say. Including whether or not there will be mass layoffs as a result of the apparently coordinated effort to strand the protestors:

Every single one these drivers should be fired, today, and never allowed to work at the airport again. @Dulles_Airport

Deadline Detroit | Bus Drivers Refuse to Transport Hundreds of Metro Detroiters to Pro-Israel Rally in D.C. https://t.co/HyflHTi2xY

— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) November 14, 2023

WEAPONIZING REFUGEES: Finland considers closing border crossings with Russia to stem an increase in asylum-seekers.

Interior Minister Mari Rantanen said the number of migrants at Finland’s southeastern border crossings has risen substantially since August due to what the government suspects is a change in Russia’s border policy and enforcement.

Finnish and Russian border authorities have for years cooperated in stopping people without the necessary visas or passports before they can attempt to enter either of the two countries. But Russia has started allowing undocumented travelers to access the border zone and enter crossing stations where they can request asylum in Finland, Rantanen said.

“It is clear that these people get help to get to the border. This seems like a very conscious decision,” Prime Minister Petteri Orpo told reporters. “The government’s message is clear: We must take this seriously and safeguard the security of our border.”

Makes sense. Maybe we could try that here — again.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Another Gay Superhero Comic Reboot Obviously Tanks.

Superhero comics are supposed to be about heroes battling villains in stories aimed mostly at boys and young men, featuring almost impossibly well-built women in Spandex.

For decades that formula was a sales winner but then comics went woke — and now they’re going broke.

HOW IT STARTED: Hamas kills 40 babies and children — beheading some of them — at Israeli kibbutz.

How it’s going:

They murdered our babies while they are sleeping on their beds, we are providing their babies Incubators.
Never been prouder to be an israeli. pic.twitter.com/3KKajYWEzG

— raz sauber – רז זאובר (@raz_sauber) November 14, 2023

Meanwhile, this CBS News headline spins the news as something Joe Biden did.

RED STATE UNIVERSITIES DO NOT RESPECT RED STATE VALUES: Even red state colleges are folding to antisemitism. I experienced it firsthand.

Red State legislatures need to insist that that change.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Nikki Haley: Enemy of Free Speech? “If Haley hadn’t already fallen off my list of candidates I might possibly vote for in Colorado’s Republican primary next spring, she removed herself from it with extreme prejudice on Tuesday when she came out against free speech on the internet.”

ABOLISH THE IVY LEAGUE: Hamas extremism, Anti-Semitism continue on Ivy League campuses: A Harvard University proctor has reportedly been fired and evicted from his housing after being identified as a key member of a mob caught on video harassing Jewish students.

It’s a toxic industry.

WELL, GOOD: Catholic University Hosts Symposium Today On Free Speech And Civility in American Law Schools.

‘CANCEL CULTURE IS HAPPENING ON A HISTORIC SCALE, PART 1‘. Part 2 coming soon!

OOPS: Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal.

Google and Apple objected to making this key detail public from their long-running default search deal. But their closely held secret came out on Monday during testimony from Google’s main economics expert, Kevin Murphy, during the Department of Justice’s monopoly trial examining Google’s search business.

“Probably the biggest slip of the entire trial,” Big Tech on Trial, an account dedicated to providing updates from the Google trial, posted on X (formerly Twitter).

According to Bloomberg Law, Google attorney John Schmidtlein “visibly cringed” when Murphy revealed the confidential information, which Google had initially claimed needed to be kept secret because otherwise it “would unreasonably undermine Google’s competitive standing in relation to both competitors and other counterparties.”

Having that kind of cash to keep Google as Safari’s default search engine certainly doesn’t “undermine Google’s competitive standing.”

LEADERSHIP: Yes, Obama’s famous “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” was a reaction to a question about Hamas.

READER BOOK PLUG: From C. Bradley Thompson, What America Is: The Moral Logic of the American Revolution and Other Essays.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Republicans Had a Goofy, Feisty Day on Capitol Hill. “I may occasionally get frustrated when the GOP can’t get together for simple things like impeaching loathsome Democrats, but I never want to see the party go all hivemind like the Dems.”

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: More on Donna Adelson’s Airport Arrest.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The US Army discovers woke doesn’t win wars — but is it too late?

THE FUTURE USUALLY ARRIVES SOONER THAN YOU’RE READY FOR IT: A Scientist Says the Singularity Will Happen by 2031.

There’s at least one expert who believes that “the singularity”—the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses the control of humans—could be just a few years away. That’s a lot shorter than current predictions regarding the timeline of AI dominance, especially considering that AI dominance is not exactly guaranteed in the first place.

Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET—who holds a Ph.D. from Temple University and has worked as a leader of Humanity+ and the Artificial General Intelligence Society—told Decrypt that he believes artificial general intelligence (AGI) is three to eight years away. AGI is the term for AI that can truly perform tasks just as well has humans, and it’s a prerequisite for the singularity soon following.

Verner Vinge pegged it as happening in 2025. When — if? — it arrives, few will be prepared for it because we still don’t really know what it is or how it will behave.

THAT’S BECAUSE THEIR STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY THERE TO LEARN STUFF: Community colleges and trade schools are largely void of Israel-Hamas protests.

The dirty not-so-secret is that elite schools have so much social activism because they’re easy. If they were academically demanding, they’d have a lot less.

DON SURBER: Greg Abbott is beating DC’s open borders policy one bus at a time.

THEY DON’T COVER THE LEFT, THEY COVER FOR THE LEFT: Alphabet Networks Ignore Leftist Groups Funneling Money to Pro-Hamas Groups.

Related: Biden: Biden: Another $10 Billion for Iran? Sure, Why Not?

It’s as if our institutions are in the hands of people who adhere to our enemies.