GO KETO: Can eating refined carbs make you appear less attractive? Yes, according to a new study.

WOEING: Dish soap, hotel key cards, and confusion: Boeing FAA audit unearths dozens of issues.

SPYING: Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies. “In recent years, insurance companies have offered incentives to people who install dongles in their cars or download smartphone apps that monitor their driving, including how much they drive, how fast they take corners, how hard they hit the brakes and whether they speed. But ‘drivers are historically reluctant to participate in these programs,’ as Ford Motor put it in a patent application that describes what is happening instead: Car companies are collecting information directly from internet-connected vehicles for use by the insurance industry.”

The Internet Of Things really is hot garbage.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Constitutional Carry Is Now The Law In 29 States.

WE’RE STILL A WAYS FROM FULL SELF-DRIVING, REALLY: Big Tesla FSD Version 12.3 Releasing Now.

SO GLOBAL WARMING COULD ELIMINATE SLEEPING SICKNESS? Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heat wave, study finds.

WELL, GOOD: A sprayable gel could make minimally invasive surgeries simpler and safer.

“I’M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM EVEN THOUGH JESUS WAS BORN NOT THAT FAR AWAY FROM HERE.” Netanyahu responds to Biden’s hot mic vow to have ‘come to Jesus’ meeting with Israeli PM.

I missed this the other day. Hilarious.

CDR SALAMANDER: What War, Exactly, are we Preparing for? Ignore the hype men, follow the money. “Fewer things in life are more true than the simple fact that if you really want to know what an organization values, look at what it spends its money on. By that measure, I’m not sure fighting and winning a war against our most capable adversary is really the priority. Something is – most likely the process – but few things are more clear in outlining the dead hand that is on the tiller of our national strategy than what we pulled across the transom this week.”

HAHAHA: Lawsuit Against Society for Creative Anachronism Thrown Out Because It’s Untimely. I mean, that’s the point of SCA, right?

“PRIVILEGE” IS JUST AN EXCUSE TO TREAT THOSE SEEN AS CLASS ENEMIES WORSE: Colleges Got Comfortable Talking About Privilege. Now It’s Being Scrutinized.

The newsletter seemed innocuous. In January, the chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine kicked off her “Monthly Diversity Digest” with a list of nearby events for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Then Sherita Hill Golden outlined a “diversity word of the month”: privilege.

“Privilege is a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group,” Golden wrote. “Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups.” Privileged groups, she continued, included white people, people without physical disabilities, men, Christians, and English-speaking people.

Administrators and faculty members have been parroting similar definitions for years. This time, however, it struck a nerve online.

“John Hopkins just sent out this hit list of people automatically guilty of ‘privilege’ whether they know it or not,” wrote an account on X called End Wokeness, which has over two million followers. The post included screenshots of Golden’s newsletter. Powerful voices soon chimed in, such as Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr.
A Republican congressman even called on the university to fire her, saying her behavior was “not expected from an institution that receives hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the federal government — including dollars to fund that office of Chief Diversity Officer.”

Last week, Golden resigned as chief diversity officer. She remains at Johns Hopkins as a professor of endocrinology and metabolism.

Treating people differently on the basis of race, sex, religion, disability status, etc. is in violation of federal law, even though universities pretend it’s not.

BLOWS AGAINST BIGOTRY: MIT hit with lawsuit, demands from Congress for allegedly condoning rampant antisemitism.

MIT president Sally Kornbluth has managed to hang on, unlike her counterparts at Harvard and Penn, but for how long?

THAT’S NOT THE KIND OF LOCKDOWN ACCOUNTABILITY WE NEED: Harvard epidemiologist in Chinese dictator hat wants ‘accountability’ for anti-lockdown academics. “After months of harsh COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, the country has slowly begun to reopen. While many scientists have come out in support of the return to normalcy, epidemiologist and Harvard Fellow Justin Feldman has been an outspoken proponent of the lockdowns to the point of calling for scholars who disagree with him to face ‘accountability.'”

This is basically a spoiling attack, designed to deflect demands that lockdown and mandate proponents be held accountable for their real, as opposed to imaginary, wrongs. The people who opposed them should be held “accountable” with prizes and cash awards.

PROF. JACOBSON: Medical School DEI Crisis: “It’s up to us to fight these battles . . . It’s not the students’ fault.”

WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA? Bands Pull Out of SXSW Because of U.S. Army Sponsorship. “They are also taking a pass on performing because of America’s support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war.”

Good riddance.

STANDING UP AGAINST ABUSE OF POWER: NYC lawyers offer to rep firefighters for free if they’re disciplined for booing AG Letitia James. Meanwhile the suits seem to be backing down over threats to “hunt down” the booers: “Nobody is hunting anyone down.”

I HAVE A CHAPTER IN THIS BOOK EDITED BY MICHAEL WALSH: Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You.

IT’S A BAD YEAR FOR HARVARD: Harvard Grad Student Who Accosted Israeli Classmate and Supervised Undergraduate Students Glorified Convicted Palestinian Terrorist.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS U.S. ATTORNEY RACHAEL ROLLINS SUSPENDED FROM LAW PRACTICE. “Rollins, who worked as Suffolk district attorney before leaving to join the Biden administration as the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney, was found by the Department of Justice to have attempted to influence the outcome of the Suffolk DA race in favor of former City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, who lost the primary to Kevin Hayden. The violation was ‘among other’ instances of significant misconduct flagged by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz in his scathing report to Congress.”

She apparently let it lapse, possibly as a preemptive measure to avoid being disbarred.

LIES AND COVERUPS IN THE NAME OF “PROTECTING DEMOCRACY:” The Lies of the J6 Committee Are Adding Up.

SHADY ACTION FROM THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL: The Judicial Council Legislates From The Shadow Docket: The Chief Justice and his associates target only one type of forum shopping in response to political criticism through a secret policy that will not be released for months.

On Tuesday afternoon, a reporter from the Washington Post called to ask me about a new policy from the Judicial Council designed to limit forum shopping. I inquired if she had a copy of the policy. She said no, but there was a press release. I was tempted to reply, “Democracy dies in darkness.” Still, all we have is a press release. . . .

How will this policy operate? When does it actually go into effect? How are litigants to know what types of remedies will trigger the policy? Who the hell knows? Not even the district court judges have seen a copy of the policy. They learned about it when we did. Courthouse News reported that the policy will be circulated to judges later this week, and the chief judges will “have to meet to discuss the change.” You think?

After years of complaints about the secretive “shadow” docket, the Chief Justice of the United States, the Chief Judges of the Circuit Courts, and various District Court judges, have the temerity to announce a secret policy that no one can see that will fundamentally change the way litigation operates in federal courts. Maybe it is posted on top of a tall column, like in Nero’s day. Worse still, this policy change was plainly motivated by the same critics who harp about the shadow docket. The courts should resist the political currents, but here, the Judicial Council has kowtowed to Senators Schumer and Whitehouse, and some scholars. . . . As a general matter, the Judicial Council has remained silent about serious abuses of power (Judge Moore’s stealth impeachment of Judge Newman and Judge Sullivan’s sitting on the judicial selection committee). Meanwhile, the Judicial Council caves into criticism from Schumer and others, without even the courtesy of seeking comments from the District Court Judges nationwide. This is a body that operates in the shadows, and lacks fortitude.

The Chief Justice reminds me of what Teddy Roosevelt said about Holmes: I could carve a better backbone out of a banana.

Plus: “Fourth, the impetus of this policy was perceived abuses of the patent system. (Speaking of patents, I’m glad Chief Justice Roberts and Chief Judge Kimberly Moore found something productive to work on together, as Judge Pauline Newman remains trapped in Article III purgatory).”

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: West Point Deletes “Duty Honor Country” from its Mission Statement. “As you can see, an unidentified ‘Army Senior Leader’ has approved the change in the Mission Statement to remove the reference to West Point’s motto, ‘Duty, Honor, Country,’ and substituting a goal of graduating leaders committed to the ‘Army Values.’ West Point does not identify the current seven ‘Army Values’ in the new Mission Statement; you must navigate to another link to see them.”

DEI = DEATH. The US DEI regime failed Haiti. “Prior to the gang coup, Haiti became subservient to the U.S. government’s endless money spigot. In turn, the U.S. government wielded its considerable influence to export an agenda of diversity, equity, and inclusion that endangered the lives of the Haitian people and provided no tangible improvement to their security and well-being.”

MATHEMATICALLY SETTLED: Biden and Trump clinch nominations, heading to another general election rematch.

THAT’S WHY PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO BRIDLE IT: Jeffrey Carter: Unbridled Capitalism Works.