OPEN THREAD: Go for it.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Explained: What is China’s ‘near-space command’ and why should the world be alarmed?

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Lockdowns’ evolutionary pressure made Covid virus more transmissible earlier.

THE PRESS CAN’T REPORT ON THEM BECAUSE IT DISTORTS THE RACIAL / THIRD-VS-FIRST WORLD NARRATIVE:

Jimmy, somewhere in Gaza. One of the forgotten Filipino hostages scattered all over the pages of MENA history, to which the crew of a ship hijacked by Houthis must be added.https://t.co/CXCZmiyCvc

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 21, 2023

So here's to all the Mexicans, Filipinos, Thais, tortured and beheaded African Christians and all the other bit players, unbilled victims in this great war of civilizations that no one in the media remembers. The extras in the movie.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 21, 2023

HMM:

"OpenAI employees were pushed out of the company to facilitate its transition to a for-profit model. This is evidenced by the fact that OpenAI's employee attrition rate between January 2018 and July 2020 was in the order of 50%.

Throughout our time at OpenAI, we witnessed a…

— Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) November 21, 2023

21ST CENTURY QUESTIONS: It’s Thanksgiving. Will Ozempic Make It Better or Worse?

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Doubts surround European sturgeon caviar’s authenticity, legality.

WALKING BACK, TOO LATE: Nikki Haley walks back ‘verify everybody’ social media proposal, wants free speech for ‘anonymous Americans.’

FORGET, REENACT, WHATEVER: China’s Cultural Revolution: The horror Western elites want to forget.

BASICS: 7 Things Every AR-15 Owner Needs to Know How to Do.

THE LONELY LIVES OF SCIENTISTS: Scientists are confounded by the sex lives of serontine bats. “We are trying to develop a bat porn box, which will be like an aquarium with cameras everywhere.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: AI finds formula for how to predict monster waves by using 700 years’ worth of data. “Stories about monster waves, called rogue waves, have been the lore of sailors for centuries. But when a 26-meter-high rogue wave slammed into the Norwegian oil platform Draupner in 1995, digital instruments were there to capture and measure the North Sea monster. It was the first time that a rogue had been measured and provided scientific evidence that abnormal ocean waves really do exist.”

I love how eyewitness reports of rogue waves from sailors were dismissed until there was a digital record. Sort of like sprites and pilots. “Although sporadically reported for years by airline pilots, only in the past decade or two has there been enough evidence to convince atmospheric scientists to investigate the phenomenon.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, ANTI-SEMITIC PRIVILEGE EDITION: Columbia Administrators Stand By as Anti-Israel Protesters Overrun Law School. “Administrators at Columbia Law School stood by for hours on Thursday as anti-Israel protesters took over the law school’s lobby, refusing to shut down an unauthorized demonstration that disrupted nearby classes for nearly three hours and violated several school policies. The law school has said nothing about whether the demonstrators will suffer any consequences.”

PRIORITIES: U.S. government offers new round of free COVID-19 tests.

MARK PULLIAM: The “Insurrectionist” Smear.

IT’S A PARTY LED BY STRULDBRUGS, WHOSE FOOTSOLDIERS ARE MONSTERS: Democrats Have a Youth Problem. “The people at the top seem helpless to do anything about it. In the tradition of the newsrooms where radical reporters demand that management do their ideological bidding, young activists in the Democrat Party (same thing, really) refuse to follow policy.”

USC SIDES WITH TERROR: USC professor banished from campus after anti-Hamas comments go viral. “An economics professor from the University of Southern California is required to teach via zoom for the rest of the fall semester after a heated exchange with a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, prompting an academic freedom group to demand his full reinstatement. Tenured Professor John Strauss, who is Jewish, ‘will be teaching his two classes remotely for the rest of the semester,’ USC said in a statement to The College Fix.”

Of course there are what, like two weeks left in the semester?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-Madison DEI forum ‘triggered’ black woman during racism discussion: Another session discussed ‘Christian privilege.’

MAYBE WE SHOULD REMOVE ALL TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR UNIVERSITIES WITH ENDOWMENTS OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS: Cornell needs to pay ‘fair share,’ prof writes: David Bateman, an associate professor of government at Cornell, called out his employer for not paying its ‘fair share’ of fees to the city of Ithaca in a recent article.

MAKE THEM PAY: Doctor Sues Mayo Clinic Claiming Retaliation For His Public Comments On Transgender Sports. Complaint: “Mayo . . . warned [Joyner] that going forward he must ‘discuss approved topics only and stick to prescribed messaging,’ a demand anathema to both academic freedom and to the scientific process itself.”

PAR FOR THE COURSE: FBI Miami Field Office Chief ‘Vocally Anti-Trump.’

The whistleblower disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee, obtained by The Washington Times, said FBI Director Christopher Wray, Deputy Director Paul Abbate, and Executive Assistant Director Jennifer Moore ordered Veltri to scrub his “adamantly and vocally anti-Trump” remarks from his social media accounts in order to get a promotion.

“The home of President Donald Trump is located in the area of responsibility of the Miami Field Office,” the disclosure obtained by the Times read. “It was well known that Veltri was adamantly and vocally Anti-Trump.”

Sure, that’s why he got the job. They just don’t want you to know it.

Flashback: Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Dishonour in Denmark.

AN ARGENTINE FRIEND WRITES: “Dear stupid media: ‘far right’ are the fascist thieves that ruled Argentina for (give and take) 75 years, and who turned a country which was once the 3rd wealthiest country in the world into the ruin it is today. ‘Far right’ is NOT the libertarian candidate who won today with the promise of ending the kleptocracy. That doesn’t mean he will succeed, but you, the media, have all your values turned upside down.”

THAT LOSER: Fauci is singing a different song on vaccine mandates. “Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is now a professor at Georgetown University. But the man who was the architect of the government’s pandemic response still occasionally moonlights as a pundit on the television circuit, and in recent months, Fauci’s policy prescriptions have taken a stark turn.”

These are my scientific conclusions. If you don’t like them, I have others.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘This Was In Fact a Victory’: Inside an Ivy League Student Group’s Private Response to Hamas’s October Attack: Brown University’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter called an ’emergency’ meeting to defend terror group’s massacre.