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May 20, 2025
NEWS YOU CAN USE: New Shotguns for 2025: The defensive scattergun continues to be popular.
WRAP AND PACK CAREFULLY: CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe.
AT LEAST IT’S NOT MONKEYPOX: Genomic analysis shows widespread mpox transmission in West Africa prior to 2022 global outbreak.
GET THEE BEHIND ME, CHAT GPT: ChatGPT shown to be more persuasive than people in online debates.
I LOST AN EX-GIRLFRIEND TO “THE NONSMOKER’S LUNG CANCER.” Lung cancer risk in never-smokers predicted by AI tool ‘Sybil:’ An estimated 57% of Asian-American women diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked, compared to only about 15% of all other women. She was Japanese.
WOW:
Waymo now does more rides than Lyft in SF.
There are only 300 Waymos. Lyft has 45,000 drivers. Every Waymo is doing more rides than 150 human drivers.
— Sam (@futurenomics) May 19, 2025
THE THREE CONSERVATIVE PROFESSORS ON YOUR FACULTY LAUGH AT THE TURNABOUT: ‘New McCarthyism:’ Professors investigated by their own universities speak out. But this book tells the story about conservatives who were “investigated,” too.
WE ARE NOT LED BY THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST:
These people truly believe they are entitled to permanent power, wealth, and job security via federal government employment. After reading this ridiculous article, the only logical conclusion you can reach is that fed layoffs need to be way higher. https://t.co/xusLtXV7NS
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 20, 2025
HMM: LSU names new president who has long history of Critical Race Theory publications. Seems like a poor choice.
Related:
[Buzzer] WRONG! This will get them in legal jeopardy. https://t.co/ZSsvjnkhAd
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) May 19, 2025
#JOURNALISM:
2020: JUST BEING SAFE BC COVID
'21: COVID
'22: JUST A STUTTER
'23: SHARP AS A TACK!
5/2024: BEST HEALTH EVER!
6/2024: WE'RE REPLACING HIM BC A BAD DEBATE
2/2025: He wasn't mentally fit
5/2025: He wasn't physically fit, stop talking about the past— Razor (@hale_razor) May 19, 2025
"Just because we've lied to you over and over doesn't mean we're lying about THIS," explained the journos https://t.co/APX1vgt39h
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) May 19, 2025
Daily Beast: The Pope snubbed JD Vance and didn’t hold a private meeting with him
The Vatican: The Pope held a private meeting with JD Vance
The media is pure trash. pic.twitter.com/5VdxaDKtZA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2025
MARRIAGE MYSTERY: AOC’s Engagement Ring Disappears From Her Hand As Fiancé Reaps Benefits.
DON SURBER: It is not Trump they fear, it’s you.
SALENA ZITO: The Future of A.I. is in Western Pennsylvania.
At EQT Corp., the country’s largest independent natural gas producer, business is good — and it’s about to get better thanks to a surging local industry that needs all the Appalachian energy it can get: Artificial intelligence.
“I mean the size of this thing, it’s crazy,” Rice says. “We are hearing estimates for power demand for AI that’s anywhere [from] 50 to 75 gigawatts of power, which is the equivalent of the power needed to power 10 to 15 New York Cities.”
As David Friedman keeps pointing out, A.I. isn’t like the software revolution, it’s more heavy metal. “If you want to understand where AI is really going, ignore the hype cycles and product demos. Watch the grid.”
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Is there a long German word for regret over rejecting nuclear energy?
ALL IS PROCEEDING AS I HAVE FORESEEN: America’s College Towns Go From Boom to Bust: Many state universities are losing more students every year, failing the local economies they once fostered.
If only there had been some kind of warning.
I should note that not all schools are failing: “At the University of Tennessee Knoxville, the state’s flagship school, enrollment jumped 30% in 2023 compared with 2015.”
May 19, 2025
PLAUSIBLE:
I'm slowly becoming convinced that a majority of the opposition to Trump are boomers who think Trump is cancelling social security because the TV told them so. https://t.co/rJ2yA0RcfY
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) May 19, 2025
WELL SAID:
Congress is like a wedge salad. Less work to produce yet it costs more money.
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) May 19, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.