Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 7, 2025
OUT: LEARN TO CODE. IN: Pity the Harvard Undergrad: AI is taking their jobs. “Remember the three types of jobs: working with things, working with people, and working with symbols (writing, calculating, programming). College is supposed to help you get into the latter. For Harvard graduates, this means management consulting (McKinsey), finance (Goldman Sachs), or law school. The entry-level jobs in management consulting, finance, and law all pay well, but the work is often quite routine.”
“One way to be employable is to look for jobs that combine working with symbols with other skills. For example, a nurse has to work with people, things, and symbols. I know that when you got into Harvard your parents did not think you would become a nurse, but they did not anticipate that AI would take away so many other options. . . . My prediction for Harvard undergrads? Pain.”
LOL, DAN RATHER:
A CBS News report by Dan Rather warns that if we don’t stop digging up ancient carbon and burning it, 25% of Florida will be underwater.
This was broadcast 43 years ago.
I suspect Florida will be underwater any day now. pic.twitter.com/xErwx1kNBO
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) August 3, 2025
It’s been over 20 years since he tried to swing a presidential election with forged documents.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: MIT professor says she spends ‘a third’ of ‘working hours’ fighting Trump ‘terrorism.’
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Perhaps those blue states shouldn’t have counted on illegal immigrants to inflate their census numbers, huh, Ron? https://t.co/U8wnb5Pl3s
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) August 7, 2025
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
This story is not getting talked about enough
Five Colorado Law Enforcement officers are facing unpaid leave, demotions, forced counseling, lawsuits, and fines for alerting ICE about an illegal alien
Attorney General Phil Weiser is personally overseeing that they get punished. pic.twitter.com/zZ7oOYppqS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 7, 2025
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT:
WNBA Warns If You Throw Anything On The Court, You Will Be Forced To Attend 10 More WNBA Games https://t.co/OFhb8cQhZW pic.twitter.com/HEDUC0Hz8B
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 6, 2025
MATT TAIBBI: Open Letter to the Columbia Journalism Review, on the Atrocious New York Times. “That attitude only works if the facts are on your side. On this story, they aren’t, and it’s not close.”
Related:
Trump was never supposed to be reelected. If he hadn’t been, none of this would ever have seen the light of day. https://t.co/PLJ0Yzhx0T
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) August 7, 2025
KEITH WHITTINGTON: On The Politics of University Autonomy. “No matter how normatively attractive an independent judiciary or an independent university might be, institutional independence is a political construct and must be maintained through political effort. And ‘independent’ institutions are always politically vulnerable to being rendered less independent if they become too politically costly. Strategic university leaders should recognize that university autonomy is politically contingent and cannot simply be assumed. Unfortunately, university faculty and administrators have become forgetful that university independence, like judicial independence, rests on political foundations.”
A number of years ago I had to explain to our then-Faculty Senate President that the legislature could do whatever it wanted with the University. She objected that they only provided a fraction of our funding. Yes, I said, but they effectively own the University. They could close it, turn it into a clown college, or make it a branch of Hamburger University if they wanted. Normally they leave us alone, but that’s contingent on not being provoked. The provocation at the time, if I recall correctly, was a number of faculty (mostly graduate assistants) who told their freshmen that their parents were dumb hicks and that they were going to help them unlearn all the dumb crap their parents had taught them. Weirdly, this was poorly received by the parents, who were voters. The legislative hearing on the subject was lit.
And it’s not as if our “independent” institutions have actually been lit. They’ve been fully captured by the Democratic blob, and if anyone in them dared to deviate an inch they were mobbed and often ruined. So small loss.
SCIENCE: Who’s Gerrymandering Whom?
WHAT “SAVING DEMOCRACY” LOOKS LIKE:
The whole internationalist liberal elite gave up on the need to win at the ballot box sometime after the Euromaidan Revolution of 2014. Since then, it’s been intelligence community tricks, street shenanigans, and judicial interference all the way down. It’s all they do now. https://t.co/MwbQW9yC3v
— Yoram Hazony (@yhazony) August 6, 2025
#JOURNALISM (CONT’D):
David French is dumb, lazy, and dishonest, so he’s obviously ignorant of the facts that 1) Durham never said it was “fake,” 2) Durham never “dismissed” it, 3) both CIA and FBI believed the intel to be authentic, 4) Brennan briefed Comey on it, 5) and Comey testified repeatedly… https://t.co/8r4z8gG00R
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 6, 2025
#JOURNALISM:
Four reporters on this story and not one of them seems to be aware that California's constitution bans mid-decade redistricting. https://t.co/CU8QDvRU7p
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) August 6, 2025
August 6, 2025
THIS:
"Dildos are the language of the unheard."
— Gandhi https://t.co/OuVnWHV190— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) August 7, 2025
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.
HMM:
Ft Stewart Shooter ID’d
Quornelius Samentrio Radford
Booked earlier in May (seen here) for a DUI in Liberty County pic.twitter.com/aj0pqjHyTL
— Avion 🤍 (@AvionLukas) August 6, 2025
HMM: The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Suggests Key Differences. “We found that, on the whole, those who made it to their hundredth birthday tended to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from their sixties onwards.”
But could we extend lives by driving those down? Or are they just markers for some other process that’s going on?
ANYTHING TO HELP THE SAGGING BIRTHRATE: Why Alcohol, Not Cannabis, Is Fueling Surprise Pregnancies in Young Women. “According to a new study, women who strongly wanted to avoid pregnancy were significantly more likely to become pregnant if they engaged in heavy drinking.”
In vino, veritas. At some level, are these “undesired” pregnancies really undesired?
THE PROBLEM IS, PEOPLE DON’T TRUST THE EXPERTS: Kennedy ends federal mRNA vaccine projects over experts’ objections.
A SIGN OF OPTIMISM? July Gun Sales Dip Below 1 Million for the First Time in Over Five Years. Or just a sign Americans’ gun safes are full?
“FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:” The Daily Beast Fabricated Scientific Findings to Pathologize ‘Homophobia.’