MICROSOFT RARELY GETS IT RIGHT BEFORE VERSION 3.0: Bing’s ChatGPT experiment is deeply flawed, and is the future of search.

MERDE: U.S. Ambassador to France Replaces Embassy’s Historic Portraits With Those of Woke Heroes.

JOANNE JACOBS: ‘Challenging’ students with disabilities are sent home (but not suspended).

Schools aren’t supposed to suspend special-needs students if their misbehavior is related to their disability. But some schools use “informal removals” to send challenging students home early or limit their school hours, writes Erica L. Green in the New York Times.

Another tactic is “transfers to nowhere,” charged the National Disability Rights Network in a report last year. Students are sent to programs that don’t exist, have no seats or won’t accept them.

Read the whole thing.

WHY IS THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Black students call white people ‘maggots’ and ‘vermin’ in multi-university group chat.

PAULA BOLYARD: Important Takeaways from Ohio Gov’s Train Derailment Briefing, Including a Shocking Revelation. “One of the most astounding revelations from the press conference (watch below) was that the train was not classified as carrying hazardous chemicals.”

WELL, YES: Equity is Marxism re-branded.

WE KEEP DEMONSTRATING THAT THE PEOPLE RUNNING THINGS ARE BOOBS AND WORSE: Important Takeaways from Ohio Gov’s Train Derailment Briefing, Including a Shocking Revelation.

CDR SALAMANDER: We Should be Brave Enough to Say Hard Things: None of our problems are accidental, nor surprising.

HMM: Taiwan’s Tech King to Nancy Pelosi: U.S. Is in Over Its Head.

Chang, the 91-year-old founder of the chipmaking goliath TSMC, used a luncheon at Taiwan’s presidential palace to deliver a biting soliloquy to Pelosi and other visiting American lawmakers about the new industrial policy emerging in the United States. In comments that have not previously been reported in detail, Chang took aim at the CHIPS and Science Act and its $52 billion package of subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing.
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With Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, looking on, the billionaire entrepreneur pressed Pelosi with sobering questions about the CHIPS law — and whether the policy represented a genuine commitment to supporting advanced industry or an impulsive attempt by the United States to seize a piece of a lucrative global market.

Chang said he was pleased that his company could benefit from the subsidies; TSMC already had a major development project underway in Arizona. But did the United States really think it could buy itself a powerhouse chipmaking industry, just like that?

To be fair, we used to have one. But Intel infamously took a pass on powering the original iPhone, and ended up ceding the entire silicon growth sector — low-power/high-efficiency mobile CPUs — to rivals like Taiwan Semi and Samsung.

SO WE’RE TESTING THE INSTAPUNDIT UPDATE NOW, which means that the PayPal donation link (“Make a Donation” button at the upper right) will very soon turn into this Stripe donation link.

If you want to donate via PayPal, this is pretty much your last chance. Just FYI. (Bumped).

DON SURBER ON THE SPY BALLOON CLOWN SHOW: The rest of the media is doing “What we know so far” stories, which really mean “what we are allowed to say.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Parents Should Be Able to Sue Public Schools for Malpractice. “The familiar refrain from the teachers’ unions is that everything can be fixed with more money, as if all districts were operating on shoestring budgets. As Athena notes in her post, Baltimore public schools aren’t exactly searching the couch cushions for loose change.”

‘SCIENCE’: FILTERING REALITY THROUGH BELIEF. Apparently even zookeepers have to be politically correct nowadays: “Zookeepers have to manage the reality of animal aggression, even as they hate to acknowledge it. Zookeepers are eager to protect their animals, which puts them in the awkward position of taking precautions but not wanting to say why.” I learn something new every day.

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Unchastened by Russiagate, the NY Times Doubles Down in Its Special Counsel Coverage.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools.

Spry Community Links High School, in the Heart of Little Village in Chicago, says its vision is to “provide a challenging and supportive environment…to enable our students to succeed in the 21st century.” Number one on the school’s focus list? “Increasing reading and math scores to or above grade level.”

But a look at state data that tracks reading and math scores for each Illinois school reveals two frightening facts about Spry. Not a single one of its 88 kids at the school can read at grade level. It’s the same for math. Zero kids are proficient.

Spry is one of 30 schools in Illinois where not a single student can read at grade level. Twenty-two of those schools are part of the Chicago Public Schools and the other eight are outside Chicago.

Elsewhere: Outrage on Twitter after Baltimore reveals zero students proficient in math across 23 schools.

“EQUITY” IS JUST A LEFTY SLOGAN FOR “BECAUSE WE WANT TO.” SBA Won’t Even Try To Collect On PPP Loans That Are Supposed To Be Paid Back, Citing ‘Equity’: Inspector general says SBA is disregarding guidance and setting a precedent that will encourage fraud.

MARK JUDGE: How Pat Buchanan and the Catholic ghetto conquered America.

ANOTHER LEFTY LIKE HER GRANDFATHER: Benito Mussolini’s Granddaughter Does LGBTQ+++™ Propaganda Now.

HOT! HOT!:  Pete Kirsanow, Dan Morenoff and I explain why the argument that Title IX and Title VII require that transgender individuals be assigned to the bathroom, locker room and shower that they “identify with” is … well … just plain wacky and not in keeping with the law.  (It’s an amicus curiae brief that we filed a few days ago in the Sixth Circuit.)

DO THESE MORONS THINK PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE THAT THEY JUST GOT AROUND TO MENTIONING THEY WERE MISQUOTED IN 2020? Intel Officials’ Fresh Laptop Baloney: After calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation in 2020, Jim Clapper and co. set about restoring their tarnished reputations.

DEAL OF THE DAY: MILAOSHU Rechargeable Flashlights. #CommissionEarned

SBA WON’T GO AFTER UPAID PPP LOANS: Hey, if we loaned you $100,000 to help get you through the Coronavirus Pandemic and you haven’t yet paid it back, don’t worry about it, we aren’t coming after you. Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire has the details. It’s all about “equity.”

IT’S DIFFICULT TO JUSTIFY “DENAZIFYING” A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY WHEN YOU KEEP ACTING LIKE NAZIS: Russia deports thousands of Ukrainian children. Investigators say that’s a war crime.

The Russian government is operating a systematic network of at least 40 child custody centers for thousands of Ukrainian children, a potential war crime, according to a new report by Yale University researchers in a collaboration with the U.S. State Department in a program to hold Russia accountable.

The report, “Russia’s Systematic Program for the Re-Education and Adoption of Ukrainian Children,” describes a system of holding facilities that stretch from the Black Sea coast to Siberia.

“This is not one rogue camp, this is not one rogue mayor or governor,” says Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab. “It is a massive logistical undertaking that does not happen by accident.”

Raymond’s team of researchers is tackling one of the most explosive issues of the war. Ukrainian officials say Russia has evacuated thousands of Ukrainian children without parental consent.

Russian officials do not deny Ukrainian children are now in Russia, but insist the camps are part of a vast humanitarian project for abandoned, war-traumatized orphans and have been surprisingly public with social media messaging aimed at a Russian audience. Russia does not, however, acknowledge how many children are in Russia or where they are housed.

Potemkin childcare.

Previously: Hitler’s Lebensborn Children: Kidnappings in German-Occupied Poland.

BIDEN’S GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: I’m leaving the FTC — and Biden’s radical chair is why.

We all know the simple rule: If you see something, say something. As an antitrust lawyer, I counseled clients to avoid trouble by knowing when to object and how to exit. When my clients attended trade association gatherings, I advised them to leave quickly if discussions with competitors took a wrong turn and raised alarm bells about price fixing or other illegal activity. Make a noisy exit—say, spill a pitcher of water—so that attendees remember that you objected and that you left. Although serving as an FTC commissioner has been the highest honor of my professional career, I must follow my own advice and resign in the face of continuing lawlessness. Consider this my noisy exit.

If only there were journalists to report on this.

CHANGE: Ford Is Cutting Thousands of Jobs in Europe Due to the Electric Vehicle Push.