SEDUCTIVE AI: What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers. Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.

The photo does not reek of emotional maturity.

RAKE. STEPPED ON. AGAIN. “It seems less a matter of Trump managing to turn things around as the press behaving badly and suffering the predictable consequence.”

DOESN’T THAT MAKE A CIVIL RIGHTS CONSPIRACY CHARGE VALID? Unconstitutional ABA Accreditation Pressures Force Law Schools To Discriminate Against Faculty And Students.

SCIENCE:

Canada is dealing with a surge in thousands of cases of measles, far surpassing the U.S. raw numbers despite having a much smaller population. Canadian liberals have no RFK Jr.-style figure to place all the blame. https://t.co/JPDE6e8NYF pic.twitter.com/wOsWS4r9et

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2025

YEP:

I'm old enough to remember the Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Republican President there is a collective freakout in Europe for six months and it doesn't mean anything. https://t.co/hIWY3wUa72

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) July 21, 2025

GOOD REMINDER:

Well, Well, Well … What have we here. https://t.co/yNYKnsrUUH

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 20, 2025

EVERYTHING IS JUST A MONEY LAUNDRY AND JOBS PROGRAM FOR DEM ACTIVISTS UNLESS ACTIVELY SUPERVISED TO PREVENT IT: How Is It That The State Department Grew So Big And Almost No One Knew About It?

LOSING THE NEW COLD WAR:

A stark reminder of the problem America faces:

China's largest shipbuilder built more ships by tonnage last year than America has built in total since World War 2. pic.twitter.com/QGPUgGnqdz

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) July 20, 2025

AND ALL THE SINNERS, SAINTS: Criminals Hired as Cops in Major Democrat City.

LOL, TOM NICHOLS:

Is Tom aware that the plot of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is about a massive conspiracy and coverup happening in the highest echelons of British intelligence that ultimately destroys the careers of most of the entrenched bureaucracy of MI6 when it’s brought to light? https://t.co/BRl7hEDFnH pic.twitter.com/cfJ0BlXVoU

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) July 20, 2025

IT’S NOT A NATURAL PHENOMENON, IT’S A CONTRIVED ONE:

From the other thread – the more I think about this screenshot from International Organization for Migration (IOM), the more it disturbs me. I think the picture we had of migrants, is of desperate people fleeing war-torn countries on foot.

I don't think anyone of us thought of… pic.twitter.com/vGtQb4fTwF

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 20, 2025

A unified project of the managerial/political/academic class. Which, like most of their projects, will be hugely destructive and won’t work out for them either.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: How China will own the moon — unless we act now.

WORDS OF WISDOM AND NOT JUST ABOUT HOT DOGS:

HAHA:

Putting Tulsi on the terrorism watch list probably was not the best idea. pic.twitter.com/X3kYMw6dI9

— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) July 20, 2025

FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:” The Corruption of Scientific Journals Continues Apace.?

MICROBIOME NEWS: Intestinal flora works together with certain genes to aggravate ulcerative colitis, research reveals.

CHANGE: Uber Is Getting Back in the Robotaxi Game, With Help From Lucid Motors and Nuro.

TRAINING: The Evolution of Law Enforcement Revolver Training: It all began with Theodore Roosevelt.

I TAKE THEM, BUT IT’S AN ACT OF FAITH, TEMPERED BY SCIENCE. Can you hack aging with NAD supplements?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission: “One year ago, this was out of the discussion.”

SPACE: SpaceX sends Starlink satellites to polar orbit in late night launch.

BALTIMORE: Five hospitalized in another mass drug overdose incident in Baltimore.

HYPOCRISY ON PARADE:

Democrat women are most likely to support all-female spaces but are also most likely to NOT support all-male spaces 🤦🏼‍♀️

The hypocrisy and anti-male thinking is so frustrating. pic.twitter.com/rPtv6ohlcC

— Lisa Britton (@LisaBritton) July 19, 2025

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-Madison gives $1.1 million in student fees to club promoting ‘ethical porn,’ pole dancing class.