CONSEQUENCES: Rapist of 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for abortion gets 25 years in prison.

THIS WILL END WELL: Netflix gives Narnia to Barbie, Little Women director, who sees her work as “the opposite of the creation myth in Genesis” and strips away “the pre-Victorian morality” of characters 🫠.

ELECTRIC NEWS: 2025 Tesla Model S: Everything You Should Know About the Electric Sedan.

YES, I AM DOING THE ANNUAL BLOG FUNDRAISER: Blog Funding Day 3.

READER FAVORITE: MyPillow Premium Bed Pillow Queen. #CommissionEarned

I THINK WE CAN BLAME THE MEDIA AND THE LEFT — BUT I REPEAT MYSELF — FOR THIS: Philadelphia Shooting Perp Says He Opened Fire to Help the City Do Something About ‘Gun Violence’.

LUCKILY, THE PRESS WILL COVER FOR THEM: Holy Coke: The White House Cocaine Story Changes Yet Again.

Related: White House Refuses To Say Cocaine Did Not Belong To Biden Family, Refuses To ‘Commit To Transparency.’

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Learning Anew (Innocents No More Book 6).

INSTAPUNDIT: STILL 100% HUMAN! Liberal media company’s AI-generated articles enrage, embarrass staffers : ‘F—ing dogs–t.’ “It’s WILDLY inaccurate. Just complete dogs–t. Even straight up plagiarizing Forbes’ list would have been preferable, because at least then the numbers would have been right.”

GOOD: New genetic technology developed to halt malaria-spreading mosquitoes.

OK, GROOMER: Guess What Teachers Union Groomers Are Assigning as Summer Reading.

PHARMA: Fewer than half of new drugs add substantial therapeutic value over existing treatments, study finds.

ROBERT BRYCE: The Energy Transition Isn’t.

The numbers from the just-released Statistical Review of World Energy show, once again, that despite rapid growth in wind and solar, those two forms of energy are not even keeping pace with the growth in hydrocarbons. That’s true both globally and in the U.S.
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In 2004, hydrocarbons provided 86% of global primary energy. The balance came from hydro, nuclear, and biomass. By 2022, hydrocarbons’ share of global primary energy had dropped by four percentage points, to 82%, wind and solar made up 5%, and the balance came from hydro, nuclear, and biomass. But in absolute terms, hydrocarbon consumption grew by 110 exajoules, (EJ), while wind and solar grew by just 32 EJ. Thus, the growth in hydrocarbon use over that time frame was 3.4 times faster than what was seen in wind and solar.

And here’s the key point: hydrocarbons are prevailing despite staggering amounts of spending on wind and solar. According to a January report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, some $6.7 trillion was spent on alt-energy globally between 2004 and 2022, with the vast majority of that, some $4.8 trillion spent on renewables. And the vast majority of that $4.8 trillion — about $4.1 trillion — was spent on wind and solar.

Yes, but all the right people got their cut of the $4.1 trillion.

FIVE REASONS TO SEE ‘THE SOUND OF FREEDOM:’ The Washington Stand’s Meg Kilgannon didn’t want to go see this latest release from the folks behind “The Chosen.” But after seeing Jim Caviezel’s portrayal of Tim Ballard, the man who refused to look the other way from the child trafficking horrors exploding across this nation, she’s glad she went. I suspect you will be as well.

AN ODYSSEY LIKE NO OTHER: Remember Odysseus? Took him 10 years to make it home to Ithaca from the Trojan War and he was the only one of his mates to make it. Being the sole survivor was one thing Greek king had in common with the lone sperm cell from your father that helped make you you.

But the Cyclopes in “The Odyssey” were nothing compared to the giant challenges faced by sperm cells seeking to fertilize an egg and start the creation of a new human being. You need not agree with everything in this HillFaith post to appreciate the incredible complexity of becoming a baby human, as depicted by the Nucleus Medical Media and evolutionary biologist Jonathan McLatchie.

WHEN THE SUN GOES NOVA, IT’LL BE 100%: 99% of humans about to experience sunlight at same time.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: I Just Figured Out How to Fix Disney.

SORRY, GUYS, JOE’S BEEN PAID TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY: At White House, Uyghurs protest Chinese ‘genocide’ on anniversary of massacre.

YOU CAN CHECK OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE…: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says. “Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is drawing users at an astounding pace, amassing 10 million signups in just seven hours, according to co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. But the highly-anticipated new service, which requires an Instagram account for onboarding, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads account requires deleting the linked Instagram account.”

KRUISER: NY Times Continues to Report on a Joe Biden Who Doesn’t Exist. “The alternative reality accounts of who Joe Biden is that I’ve read since 2020 have been like nothing I’ve ever seen, even during the eight years that these people were swooning over His High Holiness, the Lightbringer Barack Obama.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Military Recruitment Challenges Show American Leadership Failures.

THAT’S A BIG HAUL: Trump Raises $35 Million In Second-Quarter Fundraising.

LIGHTNING DEAL: ITAZERO Men’s Wide Width Shoes. #CommissionEarned

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The New Information World Order.

Meta has decided to launch its own social media app in a direct challenge to Twitter. The WSJ writes: “Let the battle begin. Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Wednesday announced the launch of Threads, a stand-alone microblogging app that takes direct aim at Twitter as user unrest in that platform has grown since Elon Musk took the company over in October.”

The rise of social media as a news source and opinion shaper is eating away at the influence of traditional media platforms. Fewer people, mostly oldsters, still watch TV. Already, “almost half of Americans use social media as a news source, according to the Pew Research Center.” With the 2024 elections right around the corner, Musk’s acquisition of Twitter cannot go unanswered.

But the phenomenon is larger than just confirming the increasing importance of social media for news. Many separate pieces are moving toward what might be called a new information system that will have far more potential impact than the old tube. Social media, AI and even crypto are converging in as yet poorly understood ways to comprise an emerging environment.

All the players are still trying to build silos though, which do no favors to the free flow of information that the internet originally promoted.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RULING GETS QUICK RESULTS: Looks like somebody at Columbia University wants to appear to be complying with the Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ruling.