THE END OF JANUARY IS A HARD TIME [VIP]: Heavy History on Sky Candy Today.

I usually concentrate Sky Candy on astronomy and space photographs with a little bit of space history. But all of NASA’s major losses of astronauts happened in the last part of January or the first of February.

AYN RAND WROTE ABOUT THE “RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE”: STUDY: Objectivism and Rationalism Now Signs of “White Supremacy”.

In some sense, she’s right: it’s not exclusively white by any means, but the sense of rationalism and science writ large is what has been supreme.

ANOTHER PERFORMATIVE PALESTINIAN FIRED: 2 High School Basketball Coaches Fired for Antisemitism and Pro-Hamas flags: Denver.

This was at the Lotus School for Excellence, a STEM (or STEAM) charter school that’s actually in Aurora, a Denver suburb. The website shows a number of girls wearing headscarves and a thoroughly mixed student population. Denver has a pretty substantial Jewish population, so the odds are good some of the students there are Jews.

REDUCE REGULATION, PRIVATE FUNDING [VIP]: Trump’s Stargate initiative to Support AI Development.

I HAVE A GUEST POST UP AT SARAH HOYT’S BLOG: Today Is Not That Day.

I WANT TO BELIEVE [VIP]: Sky Candy and the World of Tomorrow.

And yes, I know it’s behind the paywall. That’s what “VIP” means.

BIG SURPRISE: Lawsuit: Meritocracy abandoned to hire transgender, gay, black faculty at Northwestern University.

It’s an interesting experiment:

The lawsuit cites three white male law professors applied to Northwestern. This includes First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, Ernest A. Young of Duke University’s Law School, and Ilan Wurman, a distinguished professor at The University of Minnesota Law School.

“As a result of the mandate, Northwestern University School of Law refuses to even consider hiring white male faculty candidates with stellar credentials, while it eagerly hires candidates with mediocre and undistinguished records who check the proper diversity boxes.”

Well, maybe not that big a surprise.

AND THE CELEBRATION CONTINUES: LIVE: Inauguration of Donald J. Trump, 47th President of the United States.

WHAT IF YOUR AUTISTIC SON IS ACCUSED OF HARASSMENT? Biden was Horrific for Students Falsely Accused of Sexual Misconduct: Here’s Why.

At some point, we’re going to need to distinguish between being a dweeb and being an abuser.

IT’S MORNING IN AMERICA: LIVE: Inauguration of Donald J. Trump, 47th President of the United States

MATH IS HARD! Math classes cause “intellectual trauma” to minorities: STUDY.

I wrote a piece a while ago: Why Affirmative Action May Be Doing More Harm Than Good for Black Americans. The gist is that if you and everyone around you believes you can’t learn something, you won’t learn something. This, and other arguments like this, just reinforce that “fixed mindset”.

PLANETS, AURORAE, AND ELON PUTS ON A SHOW: Spectacular Sky Candy [VIP]

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“WE REALLY IDOLIZE SOMEBODY… WHO ACTUALLY GOES TO A PLANE AND HIJACKS IT”: The Anti-Israel Institute Critics Call a ‘Terrorist Think Tank’: Inside the ICSZ Controversy.

AND HERE IT COMES AGAIN: Day 3: Trump Cabinet Nominees Face Off Against Senators. Yesterday turned out to be quite entertaining. Well, for a hearing anyway.

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WE’RE BA-ACK: LIVE: Six Trump Nominees Head to the Hill for Confirmation Hearings.

Watch for the excitement as we try to cover six simultaneous hearings.

A FEEL GOOD STORY FROM X: Crying In The Target Parking Lot.

JEWS AND POWER? ‘Jews and Power’ Course at Oberlin College Ignites Controversy.

Toni is covering the anti-semitism beat pretty thoroughly. I don’t quite know what to make of this course. On the one hand “Jews and Power” sounds only about a half-step back from “the Rothschilds control the world.” On the other hand, in general professors ought to be able to teach what the want. On the gripping hand, Oberlin.

Have a look and see what you think.

AI CAN BE USEFUL: Using Grok As A Second Brain.

LIVE NOW: LIVE: Trump’s Cabinet Confirmation Hearings Begin.

It’s pretty exciting so far.

WOW, WAS THERE A LOT OF COOL STUFF THIS WEEK: Great Gobs Of Sky Candy.

SOMETMES YOU WIN: JewHateDatabase Deletes Post on Falsely Accused Boca Professor: “I am innocent”.

I linked Toni’s earlier post on this. She tells me the earlier story got results.

WILL TRUMP, MUSK, AND ZUCKERBERG GET GOOGLE’S ATTENTION? Google Vs. the World.

SOMETIMES ANTISEMITISM ISN’T: “I am innocent” says Boca Raton Professor Accused of Living a “Nazi Fantasy”.

BREAKING NEWS — MUSK AND TRUMP WIN AGAIN: Meta Announces Reduced Censorship and Elimination of ‘Independent’ Fact Checkers as Too Biased.