OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 30, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Airbus wins contract for ExoMars lander platform.
WHAT ARE THE DEEP SEVENS UP TO NOW? NASA Is Watching a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Three Small Items: On Political Passion in Trump’s Second Term.
DOMESTIC TERRORISM:
The Weather Underground terror group has been reborn. We must not make the mistakes we made last time by giving light sentences or no sentences at all. Those terrorists became thought leaders on the left because of it. We must be relentlessly punishing. No mercy can be shown. https://t.co/quwgdwHA2n
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 30, 2025
THE SPAM AND TWINKIES WERE JUST FINE: Archaeologists Discover Forgotten Foods Hidden in 15,000-Year-Old Kitchens.
ANXIOUS PEOPLE BEWARE: FDA recalls thousands of pounds of ground coffee mislabeled as decaffeinated.
STAMP OUT BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION: Megacorporation Is Hit by Shock Trump Probe Over Its DEI Policies.
LEFTIST POLITICS EXPLAINED: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences for religious belief.
I REMAIN PUZZLED BY THIS: Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.
The answer provided here doesn’t actually explain why the models make up fake articles with fake citations, for fake books with fake ISBN numbers. I’m also troubled that we didn’t completely understand this from the beginning.
KINDA MAKES YOU QUESTION THE VALUE OF ACADEMIC POLITICAL SCIENCE, DOESN’T IT?
So, @DOGE has been uncovering a vast network of Leftist activist financing that, for decades, has taken taxpayer money from govt bureaucracies through NGOs to fund Leftist causes & propaganda.
Meanwhile, for decades, thousands of 'political science' professors have been studying…
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) March 29, 2025
I’D BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING THE SOURCE OF THE CO: Carbon monoxide killed 3 American tourists found unconscious in Belize.
THE GOP IS GOING TO HAVE TOO MUCH MATERIAL FOR MIDTERM CAMPAIGN ADS. HOW WILL THEY CHOOSE?
Jasmine Crockett was prank called by The Steve Harvey Morning Show on Friday morning.
She was too low IQ to realize it and started going off on how she worked hard to make sure white people were discriminated against by giving contracts to businesses only owned by black people. pic.twitter.com/C0CYhOCx8w
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 29, 2025
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia scholar: ICE detention of pro-Hamas student example of ‘white Christian nationalism.’ Well, “scholar,” I don’t think you meant to make white Christian nationalism look good, whenever you associate it with what normal, sensible people would want done, that’s what you’re doing.
NOW WATCH THEM CLOSELY TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN’T SPRING UP UNDER A NEW NAME: University of Michigan ends DEI office, cracks down on $250M DEI campaign after string of controversies.
LEFTIES SEEM TO DO THIS A LOT: Canada: Mark Carney Faces Plagiarism Accusations for 1995 Oxford Doctoral Thesis. “He’s just directly repeating without quotations. That’s what we call plagiarism.”
That’s right, Jack! says Joe Biden.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Married teacher accused of having orgy with students in ‘Scream’ masks hit with new charges, could die in prison. “In addition to five counts of level-one child molestation, she’s additionally facing charges of sexual misconduct with a minor, dissemination of matter harmful to minors and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the report said.”
THE MIDTERM POLITICAL ADS WRITE THEMSELVES:
Democrat leaders are heading to Gitmo to protest the detention of Tren de Aragua Terrorists.
Democrats are unAmerican.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 29, 2025
So sad🤔🤔😪😪 pic.twitter.com/u6GoG8T4vk
— HardHitter (@AweHaMoment) March 29, 2025
March 29, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Party on.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Artemis 2.0: A model for really winning the new moon race.
FASTER, PLEASE: Cancer’s “Master Switch” Blocked for Good in Landmark Study.