BILL ACKMAN HASN’T BACKED DOWN:
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How’s this for irony? https://t.co/cvG29DQFUq
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 13, 2024
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January 13, 2024
SHRINKING IN FEAR: Shrinking in Fear: How PTSD Physically Alters the Brain’s Cerebellum.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Scientists discover dopamine at the heart of desire.
Well, in voles, though they make a pretty good model.
BIG BROTHER STRIKES: The Drunk-Driver Detection Tech That Could Soon Take Over Your Car.
WOEING: Cockpit window crack forces ANA Boeing flight in Japan to turn back. “A domestic All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight in Japan has returned to its departure airport after a crack was reported on the cockpit window during the flight. . . . The plane, a Boeing 737, landed back at Sapporo’s New Chitose airport at around 12:10 local time (3:10 GMT).”
THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS, YOU GOTTA BRING THOSE NUMBERS UP: 2023 Gun Sales Fourth Highest in History. “December was the 53rd straight month with 1 million or more background checks.”
CRIMSON ON CRIMSON: Harvard Prof: On Second Thought, Our Extension School Doesn’t Suck. “Yeah, bull****. Hochschild let everyone know exactly what she thinks of HES students in her sneering and ad hominem rejoinder to Christopher Rufo’s legitimate criticisms of Harvard and Claudine Gay. The school’s HES Association certainly heard that message too despite Hochshild’s backtracking in the wake of criticism over her comment, and demanded a more formal and complete apology on Monday.”
UPDATE: From the comments: “What’s great is that what’s going on in the Gay humiliation, the Hochschild backtrack, and the Ackman/BI feud is going to result in the same outcome: the meltdown of prestige credentials, as the gas is let out of the soufflé and it’s all just a runny, messy puddle.”
Plus: “Harvard could have moved on from this weeks ago, but it’s Harvard people prolonging this, giving it more hang time, aggravating the embarrassment and damage. It’s a damn shame.”
BRAINDEAD BIDEN: There Is No Debate—There Will Be No Debates. “The Biden White House is already floating the trial balloons for refusing to debate Trump while concealing the real reason—they know Biden is not longer up to it. He can no longer do press conferences or one-on-one interview with friendly reporters.”
WELL, YES: Boeing faces FAA audit after its 737 Max 9 plane’s door plug blew off mid-air: The FAA announced it is ‘increasing oversight’ of the company, a week after the incident. I mean, not super quick off the mark, but . . .
NOW OUT FROM ROGER SIMON: American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Blue to Red States.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Vanderbilt has 1 administrator for every 2 students: analysis.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Only ‘students of color’ are eligible for new USC and Compton College ‘Faculty Prep Academy.’
GOOD: Taiwan voters rebuff China and give ruling party third presidential term. “Taiwanese voters swept the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te into power on Saturday in an explicit rejection of China’s warnings not to vote for him in an election Beijing framed as a choice between war and peace. Current Vice President Lai’s DPP, which champions Taiwan’s separate identity and rejects China’s territorial claims, was seeking a third term, unprecedented under Taiwan’s current electoral system.”
#JOURNALISM:
Taylor Lorenz really made a four minute TikTok about some guy named Dick Stroker lmfao https://t.co/jKq9xAnig2
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 12, 2024
#JOURNALISM: “On the Ballot in Iowa: Fear. Anxiety. Hopelessness.” “But isn’t it this fearful fragility the real threat to democracy? Why do mainstream media stoke despair and anxiety? Why don’t they — why don’t we — build our resiliency and optimism?”
Because they want us to be weak, frightened, and easily led.
THAT SEEMS RIGHT: Employers’ Talking “About Race—Any Race—With a Constant Drumbeat of Essentialist, Deterministic, and Negative Language” Risks Racial Harassment Liability.
Shut up and let people do their jobs.
AND THERE YOU GO: Democrats: We Need Illegals to Do Menial Tasks.
STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY AND HATE: National Paramedic Association Hit With Lawsuit Over Scholarship Discriminating Against White Students.
LOL, THE MEDIA SAID A LOT OF THINGS: Media Said Biden’s Election Meant ‘Competence Is Making a Comeback.’ So How Did the Defense Secretary Go AWOL?
I REMEMBER WHEN CENSORSHIP WASN’T A JOURNALISTIC PRIORITY: New York Times journalist rage quits Substack over inability to censor everything he deems ‘hate speech’ and ‘extremism’: Major publication tried to hoax Substack into proactively censoring newsletters.