DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: ‘Zionists are not welcomed’– UC Santa Barbara Multicultural Center displays litany of deranged anti-Semitic posters.

The University of California Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center (MCC) was recently photographed adorned with anti-Zionist signs, including targeted threats against a Jewish student leader.

“In case we aren’t clear, let’s spell it out,” read an MCC Instagram caption from earlier this week alongside a photo of the center’s entrance doors, which featured a sign saying “Zionists not welcome,” as seen on a story related by We Are Tov and Community News on Instagram.

The Instagram update also shows additional posters in the MCC, such as “When people are occupied, Resistance is justified,” “Zionists get 0 bitches,” and “Zionists are not welcomed! Stay away from our kitchen too!”

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UCSB Associated Students President Tessa Veksler, who describes herself as “unapologetically Jewish,” was personally targeted by some of the signs.

One placard labeled her a “racist Zionist,” another warned that “you can run but you can’t hide Tessa Veksler,” and at least two others accused her of “support[ing] genocide,” as seen in pictures she posted to her Instagram.

In another picture shared on her Instagram, “Zionists not welcome” is seen written on a door right next to a mezuzah (a small scroll with certain Hebrew Bible verses affixed to the doorways of Jewish homes) in a dormitory.

“Zionists,” eh? Everyone Knows What You Mean When You Say ‘Zionist.’

Yesterday, University of California, Santa Barbara, student president Tessa Veksler showed the many signs around campus aimed at “Zionists.” The formulation was generally some version of “Zionists not allowed” or “Zionists not welcome.” That “Zionists not welcome” message was also found somewhere else: carved into a door next to a mezuzah. In case the graffiti wasn’t clear enough, the scribbler drew an arrow pointing from the message to the mezuzah.

No one is just finding out that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Everyone already knew that. But many people were content to lie about this fact and claim ignorance. There is no real debate about what people mean when they say “Zionists.” There is only the low-rent kabuki theater that passes itself off as debate at various U.S. colleges and in the pages of the New York Times. Similarly, administrators at Harvard are not failing; they are succeeding wildly at what they believe to be their jobs. And that’s why competent members of their task forces keep resigning.

As Heather Mac Donald tells Brendan O’Neill of Spiked in a new podcast: ‘The left’s hypocrisy on free speech is mind boggling.’

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To be fair, that’s just higher interest rates doing the job they were intended to do — squelching demand to tame Bidenflation.

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BIG MEDICINE: I Pretended To Be ‘Nonbinary’ To Expose a Medical Scandal at Kaiser Permanente.

On September 6, 2022, I received mail from my Kaiser Permanente Davis Ob-Gyn reminding me of a routine cervical screening. The language of the reminder stood out to me: “Recommended for people with a cervix ages 21 to 65.” When I asked my Ob-Gyn about this strange wording, she told me the wording was chosen to be “inclusive” of their “transgender” and “gender fluid” patients.

Based on this response, several thoughts occurred to me. Could I expose the medical scandal of “gender-affirming care” by saying and doing everything my daughter and other trans-identifying kids are taught to do? Would there be the type of medical safeguarding and differential diagnosis we would expect in other fields of medicine, or would I simply be allowed to self-diagnose and be offered the tools (i.e. hormones and surgeries) to choose my own gender adventure and become my true authentic self?

If I could demonstrate that anyone suffering from delusions of their sex, self-hatred, or identity issues could qualify for and easily obtain body-altering hormones and surgeries, all covered by insurance as “medically necessary” and potentially “life-saving” care, then maybe people would finally wake up. I certainly had.

I was prepared for failure. I wasn’t prepared for how easy success would be.

I am a 53-year-old mom from Davis, CA. My daughter began identifying as a transgender boy (social transition) and using he/him pronouns at school during 8th grade. Like several of her peers who also identified as trans at her school, my daughter was a gifted student and intellectually mature but socially immature. This shift coincided with her school’s sudden commitment to, and celebration of, a now widespread set of radical beliefs about the biology of sex and gender identity.

Read the whole thing.

STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY: Wisconsin student pushes back against ‘blatantly anti-white’ assignment.

NATE SILVER: Google abandoned “don’t be evil” — and Gemini is the result. Don’t believe Google’s excuses. The political bias isn’t a glitch. It was built in.

THEY DON’T WANT TO FIX THEIR PLATFORMS; THEY WANT TO FIX YOU: Google Still Doesn’t Get It.

Google is now in full damage-control mode following last week’s embarrassing revelations about the Woke bias baked deep into the company’s Gemini large language model — aka, artificial intelligence.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote to employees in an internal memo, “I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias — to be clear, that’s completely unacceptable and we got it wrong.”

Pichai’s memo doesn’t address the root issue. The problem isn’t that users were offended. The problem isn’t that Gemini has “shown bias,” although that phrase is a tell. The problem is that Gemini is biased, and that the rot goes to the heart of its code.

To Sinchai, the problem seems to be that we’re offended because Gemini’s bias was shown — that we could see it.

Read the whole thing.

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It’s all a helluva lot more complex than getting an Apollo command module and LEM to the Moon — but it also allows for getting a helluva lot more mass to the Moon. And that’s how you establish a permanent presence.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Mitch McConnell Needs to Go Away Harder. “My suspicion is that McConnell wants to get out while he still has the political capital to orchestrate who his successor will be. There are a lot of favors that can be called in after two decades in leadership. It was this thought that kept my enthusiasm about McConnell’s news to a minimum. Getting an only slightly younger version of McConnell installed in leadership isn’t really going to be a boon for the GOP.”

A CLUE AS TO WHAT’S WRONG WITH AI: “High-quality data means a combination of sources such as Wikipedia, the news, code, scientific papers, books, social media conversations, filtered web pages, and user-generated content, such as that from Reddit.”

Well, that plus the deliberate lying.

And this is interesting: “We should expect closer scrutiny on the antitrust issues raised by exclusive access to expensive sources of data such as Reddit and Elsevier. Large tech companies, with their vast resources and access to enormous datasets, will further entrench their market positions, making it difficult for smaller entities to compete.”

YOU HAD ONE JOB, GOOGLE: More Google Shenanigans. “Google is a propaganda machine masquerading as a search engine. . . . As with Google Gemini, some patient internet sleuths have poked around to see how Google answers questions in order to see just how biased it is. In most cases, Google stacks the algorithm to ensure you get the kind of answers they prefer you see, but in at least a few they simply ignore your question and return results that are to a question you didn’t even ask.”

BECAUSE HIS AMBITION AND VANITY HAVE ALWAYS COME BEFORE THE HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC OR OUR NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS. NEXT QUESTION? Why Biden Is Letting Dearborn Extremists Influence American Foreign Policy.

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