BRENDAN O’NEILL: Revenge of the feudalists: COP28 confirms that environmentalism is an ugly revolt against modernity.

GOOD: New York County Exec Launches Primary Campaign Against Anti-Israel Democrat Jamaal Bowman.

MAYBE LETTING THE ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION EDUCATE OUR KIDS WAS A MISTAKE: Is Gen Z turning against Western civilisation? Youngsters are losing faith in freedom and democracy.

NEW MEDIA TAKE: TRUMP IS “SOPHISTICATED.” “Trump is no longer a wild crazy idiot. Pay attention to the reframing.”

THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF THE WEST DON’T SEEM TO CARE MUCH ABOUT PROTECTING THE WEST: After another Paris attack, the French are no longer fooled by their government’s excuses.

HISTORY HAS AN IDEOLOGY PROBLEM: A recent fracas over a widely publicized article in an academic journal shows the damage that progressive bias has done to the profession.

Why would such a strong step be taken to defend a paper that is clearly lacking in historical rigor? The answer lies in politics.

The History and Technology editorial focuses on the paper’s usefulness in “decentering white actors in formative technology developments of the early British industrial era,” and its problematization of “the concepts of modernization and industrialization . . . help show the close ties between these aims and colonizers’ assertions of geopolitical, racial, and religious supremacy.” Bulstrode’s work is valuable in its argument against “a schema which valorizes EuroAmerican intellects and disallows for non-European peoples as the creators of novel technological practices,” helping to displace “narratives that center the agencies and experiences of white capitalists.” According to the editors, “she brings to this literature an agile analytic by which ‘invention’ and ‘innovation’ must be detached from pre-existing ideas of where a particular technology begins and ends.” This is politics, not scholarship.

Americans were told that supporting higher education would support a search for truth. It’s done the exact opposite.

PROGRESS: Curbing DEI in Ohio.

LIKE JOURNALISTS, MANY ACADEMICS HAVE ISSUES: Academics Thrill to Rape and Murder.

OPEN THREAD: I mean, why not?

GOOD: Douglas Mackey’s Meme-Related Prison Sentence Halted By Federal Court.

THESE ARE THE CRAZY YEARS: Public School Puts Boy and Girl in Same Bed on Field Trip. It was okay, though, you see, as the one with the penis identifies as a girl.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission.

HMM. I HAVE THOSE OCCASIONALLY: ‘Halo’ Device Coming in 2025 Is Designed to Induce Lucid Dreams.

WELL, YES: Climate summit leader said there’s ‘no science’ behind need to phase out fossil fuels, alarming scientists.

I mean, don’t be silly: Climate science is every bit as solid as the public health science behind the Covid response!

WELL, THROUGHOUT THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD, THE LEADERSHIP CLASS SUCKS LIKE A BILGE PUMP: It’s not just Biden: Incumbents everywhere are unpopular and losing elections.

Related: The B-Team: What happens when entire intellectual movements are led by mediocrities. None of our institutions excel at attracting or cultivating talent.

IT’LL WORK:

Bill Cosby Joins Hamas So Feminists Will Stop Condemning Him For Rape https://t.co/Xllnzhxesp pic.twitter.com/YuutvWpkP4

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 4, 2023

EARTHSHATTERING ELECTION NEWS: North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum Ends Long-Shot 2024 Presidential Bid.

DR. SUSAN CALVIN, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Amazon’s AI chatbot, Q, might be in the throes of a mental health crisis.

MISSING FROM THIS STORY OF “GUN VIOLENCE:” Any information on who fired the shots. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with whether there were guns in the home, but that’s what doctors want to ask about:

Dr. Chethan Sathya, a pediatric trauma surgeon and the director of Northwell Health Center for Gun Violence Prevention, has been screening every ER patient who comes in for their exposure to guns and collecting the data.

“Even if you come in with a headache, a urinary tract infection, you’re going to get these questions because we want to normalize the way that we talk about gun injury risk. It shouldn’t be a taboo topic,” Sathya said. “It needs to be something that’s part of our medical vocabulary that patients expect us to ask, and we find that most patients are extremely receptive to the conversation.”

Frost said he wanted young gun violence victims like Aalayah and their families to know that there are people who are fighting for them and won’t stop.

Want to do something about kids being shot under circumstances like these? Do something about (mostly black) urban street gangs. Will the medical profession commit to eradicating those? Of course not, that would be racist.

FLASHBACK: POLITICIANS IN BED WITH THE GANGS: One More Time: It’s Not ‘Gun Violence’ It’s Gang Violence.

BEAR GUN: First Look: SIG Sauer X-Ten Comp Pistol: A full-size carry gun with a 10mm kick.

SPACE: NASA Says Up to 20 SpaceX Starship Refueling Launches Per Moon Mission.

SIXTH SENSE: Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields, study shows.

THE OLD RESPONSE TO PIRACY INVOLVED “BURNING OUT A NEST OF PIRATES.”

Houthis firing at shipping connected to more than a dozen nations in the Red Sea.https://t.co/P1AeNSln5n

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 4, 2023

YES, WE NOTICED THIS IN FEBRUARY/MARCH 2020: Research shows that being overweight hampers the body’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2. In fact, I remember my yoga teacher saying that her son-in-law, an ER doc in New Orleans, had observed that everyone in the ICU with Covid was morbidly obese.

Though some people have claimed otherwise:

BUT THEY WANT US ALL TO RENT: Research finds that renting ages you faster than smoking, obesity.