ISN’T THE ORIGIN IN MYTHOLOGY: We’re (probably) wrong about origin of griffins.

WATCH: CNN Anchor Has Tantrum After Trump Spokeswoman Calls Out Jake Tapper’s Bias.

DON’T TRUST COLLEGES ON RACE-NEUTRAL ADMISSIONS. “This spring, University of Chicago law professor Sonja Starr reported in the Indiana Law Journal that, of the U.S. News and World Report’s top 65 colleges and universities, 43 had essay prompts addressing diversity, identity, or adversity in the latest application cycle, 31 of which mandated responses from students.”

Why exactly are college admissions such a closely-guarded secret anyway?

I REMEMBER 2016 WHEN THE INTERNET ARCHIVE WAS USING THE FEAR OF “TRUMP CENSORSHIP” TO RAISE MONEY. NOW: Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win.

THE EV BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: Nearly Half Of US EV Drivers Consider Switching Back To Gas Vehicles: McKinsey Study. “Thirty-four percent noted that the total costs of EV ownership were ‘too high.'”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX deploys another round of Internet satellites.

WOEING: NASA Pushes Back Starliner Return Date to [SHRUG EMOJI].

HMM: Study: Brain and gut hold clues to resilient people.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Having a Salena Zito Moment.

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FROM BOB GRABOYES: Post of Ripostes: Droll responses to comments on war, bigotry, astronomy, moonshine, and music.

CENSORSHIP, STRAIGHT UP: Biden Admin. Asked Amazon To Hide Vaccine Critical Books During The Pandemic.

The findings were presented by the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in documents that show Amazon reduced the visibility of titles that the government deemed overly critical of big pharma shots.

The documents show that some books were simply generally critical of vaccines, with several written by medical professionals. Some were even just reviews of scientific studies.

The Federal government compiled a “Do Not Promote” list, to which more than 40 titles were added.

In a series of X posts, Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan explained how internal emails from Amazon contain employees revealed that “the impetus for this request is criticism from the Biden Administration.”

There’s a word for Big Government and Big Business colluding to silence speech and stifle opposition — it starts with an F and it’s one the Left always accuses the Right of being, even as they act increasingly fascist themselves.

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: The Day After Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow…

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Time to pull the fire alarm. Jamal Bowman “will be remembered for pulling the fire alarm next to an emergency exit in one of the House office buildings in order to delay a vote on the House floor. That was a crime. Pulling the fire alarm on this guy now would be a blessing:”

Jamal Bowman is upset that a religious minority wants to live in a place where they can be close to synagogues, kosher grocery stores, and where they can raise their children with Jewish identity. This is the sort of thing you say if you want American Jewry to disappear. pic.twitter.com/q4sbmfoAp9

— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) June 23, 2024

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Uh…What? WV Mayor Says He Wants To Take ‘Pride’ Mural Vandal ‘Over My Knee and Wear Him Out.’

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: The Democrats Claim There Is No Lefty Pedo Cabal. Roll the Tape. “I’ve been informed by the few liberals utopian socialists who still deign to speak to me that there is no secret confederacy of left-wing pedophiles ravaging hordes of children and that this was just a conspiracy theory whipped by tobaccy-chawin’, trailer-dwellin’ whackjobs. So I thought I’d pour some bourbon over an ice cube the size of the Death Star, gather some clues, and see what we can learn.”

THE EV BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: As Fisker heads toward liquidation, creditors fight over assets: Fisker does ‘not currently anticipate being able to obtain financing.’

USA TODAY: Is Joe Biden’s bizarre behavior a GOP ‘cheap fake’? It’s up to him to prove that he’s OK. “Despite evidence that all is not well with the president, the White House is demanding the American people suspend reality and believe that Joe Biden’s decline is a GOP conspiracy.”

The same people telling us the video is fake told us the laptop was fake.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chang’e-6 heads for Earth with first-ever lunar far side samples. “The Chang’e-6 service module likely fired its engines for a trans-Earth injection around June 21. The spacecraft is now on the final leg of its complex, 53-day voyage involving a lunar landing, sampling, ascent and docking. A reentry capsule containing the unique samples will be released from the service module shortly before arrival at Earth early June 25.”

ANTISEMITIC MOB FORMS OUTSIDE OF LOS ANGELES SYNAGOGUE, VIOLENCE ENSUES: Yes, It Can Happen Here. “The fundamental issue isn’t about the so-called genocide of the Arabs of Gaza, Israel, Zionism, or even the Jews.”

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YOUR DEVELOPERS WERE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH WHETHER OR NOT THEY COULD, THEY DIDN’T STOP TO THINK IF THEY SHOULD: Microsoft’s Copilot will let you join 3 meetings at once, but experts say it misses the point: ‘No one has ever wanted to be in a meeting.’

In the ad, a user brags: “Can I be in three meetings at once?” “Watch me,” complete with a frowning woman at a computer. Actual office workers were not sold on the function.

“I’m not an expert on Microsoft Copilot, but what feature specifically is enabling this to work?” one tech worker said in an Instagram video reacting to the ad. “This is implying they got the AI sitting in the meeting for her, but I haven’t heard about that feature.”

“They are marketing this like crazy and I’m like how on earth is it going to be productive if like a third of the meeting attendees are just these AI stand ins,” another user commented. “Most meetings could be a well written email.”

“Copilot, enabling burnout, overwork, underpay and untimely death of people,” another said.

Meetings should be as short, small, focused, and infrequent as humanly possible.

On the other hand, if we wanted to cripple Skynet before it has a chance to get started, just keep all the AIs bogged down in artificial meetings.

GOODER AND HARDER: Illinois Bleeding Tax Payers Dry with $100K+ Salaries, Education Waste, and More.

“LIBERATION” FROM PARENTS IS SUBJUGATION TO THE STATE: Children need ‘liberation’ from parents, scholar argues.

AMERICANS WHO WON’T VOTE FOR BIDEN: DHS Docs Reveal Who the Biden Administration Really Sees as Terrorist Threats.

SNOBBERY GETS YOU NOWHERE: Maybe it was just “one of those days” and noted New Atheist Richard Dawkins just didn’t feel like responding to a sincerely posed inquiry. In this case, in HillFaith’s latest Testimonies post, Dawkins’ evasion was a crucial step in Peter Byrom’s journey from atheism to Christian faith.