THE NEW SPACE RACE: India targets uncrewed Gaganyaan orbital test mission in July, crewed flight in 2025.

SOONER OR LATER YOU RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Gavin Newsom’s California Model is Collapsing: California deficit soars to $73 billion. “In contrast, prime competitor states like Texas and Florida enjoy large budget surpluses.”

BOB GRABOYES: A.I. and Community (Double) Standards: Political bias? What political bias?

If it weren’t for double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

SHOUTOUT TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN 2020 WHO SAID “IT’S JUST A BAD FLU.” CDC COVID Guidelines Now Align With CDC Flu Guidance.

UPDATE: WSJ: It’s Official: We Can Pretty Much Treat Covid Like the Flu Now. “A case of Covid no longer means isolating for five days, according to the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday. It’s the latest sign of the virus’s normalization four years after it upended our lives. You should now follow the same precautions with Covid as you take with the flu, according to new guidelines from the CDC. That means staying home until you’ve gone a day with no fever and symptoms start to improve. Take other precautions for the next five days, including wearing a mask and limiting close contact with others. Those are the same steps the CDC recommends for other respiratory viruses.”

Related (From Ed):

The @CDCgov now says to treat Covid like the flu. Just a reminder… pic.twitter.com/iIxbD9cUXB

— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) March 2, 2024

SCIENCE: How Sweden proved the world wrong about lockdowns: The evidence is clear: authoritarian restrictions did not save more lives.

IT WAS THE BEST OF CARS, IT WAS THE WORST OF CARS. Why the Lucid Air Is the Best and Worst Car We’ve Ever Had.

NOW BLOCK IT: Team finds novel vehicle for antibiotic resistance.

HMM: An overgrowth of nerve cells appears to cause lingering symptoms after recurrent UTIs.

SPACE: NASA, SpaceX Crew-8 mission to launch Saturday night to space station.

“HEALTH CARE:” Walgreens, CVS to begin selling mifepristone abortion pill in some stores.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: University of Florida eliminates DEI office, DEI positions and DEI contracts.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: ‘Friends’ actor David Schwimmer sounds alarm on anti-Semitic posters at UC Santa Barbara: ‘ Happening on campuses all across the country.’

SHE’S NOT WRONG: MTG rips GOP ‘hypocrites’ in abandoning Jan. 6 riot suspects.

ANDREW SULLIVAN: Google’s Brave New Woke-AF World: When DEI merges with AI, the post-truth dystopia will become impossible to escape.

Since we probably can’t stop AI, it’s necessary to crush DEI.

SO BROKEN YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE IT: How Broken Is Academia? Misconduct is widespread and the academy may face a serious reckoning.

BANANA REPUBLIC:

Wow I can't believe Putin arrested another journalist.

I'm so glad we live in a free country where that never happens. https://t.co/5xVnckeiS2

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 1, 2024

Related:

Believe.https://t.co/Ietk21XjDy

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 2, 2024

He’s not the one losing dignity here.

HOW CAN WE MISS HER IF SHE WON’T GO AWAY? Having been walloped in her own state after finishing second in an unopposed race, Nikki Haley should be a historic punchline.

NARRATOR: BERKELEY DOESN’T. If Berkeley Wants to Protect Free Speech It Will Expel Its Rioters: Campuses must have the highest tolerance for expression, but no tolerance at all for violence like that exhibited by an anti-Israel mob this week.

OUR ENTIRE RULING CLASS HAS GONE BATSHIT CRAZY, AND IN A NASTY, STALKERISH WAY. THEY’RE OUT TO TERMINATE OUR CIVILIZATION.

"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever."

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 2, 2024

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Are people growing more optimistic about the future?

OPEN THREAD: Speak friend, and enter.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Starship docking system readies for moon missions in tests with NASA.

Related: China to debut new Long March rockets in 2024.

I SUPPOSE IT’S A TRIUMPH OF SORTS THAT OBESITY IS OVERTAKING HUNGER AS A GLOBAL PROBLEM. Scientists Confirm The World Now Has Over 1 Billion Obese People.

VISION: Unexpected Surprises Revealed: NASA’s Planetary Radar Images Asteroid As It Approaches Earth.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: My chat (+transcript) with James Walker of microreactor startup NANO Nuclear Energy.