WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: First ‘smart,’ wearable, pediatric soft exoskeleton provides mobility for children with motor difficulties.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 30, 2025
TO BE FAIR, WITH THAT PENCIL NECK HE’S JUST BARELY THE LATTER: Democrats May Kick Out David Hogg Because He Is a White Male. “Semafor has the scoop on an upcoming meeting of the Credentials Committee that will consider a complaint about the election of Hogg not complying with DNC rules about race, gender, and sexuality regulations the party uses to ensure “equity” in the party. Hogg, who is a heterosexual (I think) white male, won his slot as DNC Vice Chair of the party, doesn’t qualify–they say–to win his slot despite having received the votes to win. You do have to admit that it is pretty funny that the most racially obsessed political party in the Western world managed to elect two white men to lead the party–and not just white, but marshmallow white at that. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that a rainbow coalition of race-baiters wants Hogg thrown out of his leadership position. . . . The DNC poobahs may seize this opportunity to overturn the election of the candidate the voters chose and install a more pliable Vice Chair. Which, when you think of it, is on-brand. For three election cycles in a row, they did the same thing with their presidential candidates. “
DEMOCRATIC “JUSTICE:”
The Obama administration literally had an (unannounced) policy that it would not take cases in which the victims of civil rights laws violations were white. It stacked DOJ's CRD with lawyers who were on board with this. Good riddance. https://t.co/ciMtzADQKv
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 29, 2025
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Yale revokes SJP chapter’s status after anti-Semitic encampment.
Netanel Crispe, a Jewish senior at Yale, described his experience to The Washington Free Beacon, saying, “Last night, when I should have been completing my senior thesis, I instead found myself being physically blocked—along with other Jewish peers—from walking through sections of Yale’s Beinecke Plaza.”
“Our non-Jewish classmates were allowed to pass freely through the newly formed pro-Palestinian encampment while we were shoved, pushed, and called ‘scum,’” he added.
What about explulsions?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
Ivy League protestors deface a building, hide behind anonymity, refuse to take accountability for their actions, and working class crews clean up their mess. It's a mystery why confidence in higher ed is plummeting. pic.twitter.com/VgjpQzI8IW
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) April 29, 2025
HE’S A FUNNY GUY, BUT NOT IN THE WAY HE USED TO BE: Seth Rogan’s Self Own Continues: Is it now ok to laugh at diversity dogma?
It was always okay. It just wasn’t always safe.
CALIFORNIA IS A SAD JOKE: California Bar May Delay Release Of Results Of Catastrophic February Exam, Further Punishing Applicants.
THINK HOW MUCH BETTER OFF THE PLANET, AND THE PUBLIC, WOULD BE IF THEY HADN’T LISTENED TO THE GREENS: 40 Years Ago, Denmark Banned Nukes – There’s Been a Change in the Wind.
THEY CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE US: The Main Attraction at Vietnam’s New War Museum: Anyone Who Looks American: Children mob U.S. visitors for selfies and handshakes outside, while displays inside condemn Yankee ‘imperialists.’
David McCaskey visited the new war museum here to see the American planes, helicopters and tanks from the Vietnam War.
But the 33-year-old graduate student from Buffalo, N.Y., quickly realized those exhibits were playing second fiddle to the museum’s star attraction: David McCaskey.
As soon as he entered the gates, about 30 schoolchildren in identical tracksuits swarmed him. They wanted a photo. Then another group did. And another. After 20 minutes of smiling for more than 100 children, he put on a face mask and sunglasses and finally slipped away.
“It’s the closest I’ll ever get to being a celebrity,” McCaskey said.
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago Wednesday when North Vietnamese tanks rolled through Saigon, capital of the U.S.-backed South Vietnam. Today, tourists visiting the land of their onetime enemy are discovering that Americans are by and large beloved here.
We can’t help being lovable. Also, they’re next door to an expansionist China and need allies.
IF YOU BUILD IT (SOCIALISM) THEY WILL GO:
“Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated.”
Walter Wriston, American banker pic.twitter.com/VQk2ZonjCA
— Ronnie Stoeferle (@RonStoeferle) April 29, 2025
April 29, 2025
THIS IS TRUE OF A LOT OF UNIVERSITIES, AND EXAMPLES NEED TO BE MADE:
Princeton president Chris Eisgruber oversees systemic racism. https://t.co/f26M5Utr3Z
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) April 29, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches third batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites.
SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Scientists Just Confirmed a 67-Year-Old Hypothesis About Vitamin B1.
WHEN NARRATIVES COLLAPSE:
NEW: We @nypost have obtained court docs from 2018 showing
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was being accused of gang membership by his wife’s ex and the father of two of her kids.“She is dating a gang member,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura’s ex, Edwin Trejo Ramos alleged in a petition filed in… pic.twitter.com/2Vg1gTYGUf
— Jennie Taer 🎗️ (@JennieSTaer) April 29, 2025
I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW AI OVERLORDS: Today’s AI Risks Are Scarier Than Doomsday Predictions, Study Finds.
THE POLITICS OF LEFTY MOBS:
Notice as soon as Bolshevik Raskin says we have a right to protest, he points me out and calls for the crowd to attack https://t.co/x1D7kfhUYO
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 29, 2025
Compare the above to this:
Peter Doocy is in Michigan ahead of President Trump’s rally tonight, asking voters what they liked most about the administration’s first 100 days.
Their answers are pure nightmare fuel for the Fake News.
Just watch: pic.twitter.com/pMTqtuL8pH
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 29, 2025
Incredible. A Trump supporter just shut down a desperate MSNBC reporter:
REPORTER: “Are you prepared to pay higher prices for goods?”
“I’ve been paying higher prices, sweetie. Since the point Biden got in office, my groceries doubled. My gas doubled.”
pic.twitter.com/tnlUpAaZ30— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 29, 2025
UPDATE: Related.
Matt Taibbi: Are We In A Soft Civil War?
Since Trump’s second inauguration, these and other critics have been relentless in decrying an unprecedented “assault on norms,” which in their telling began in January and has been marked by such “dictatorial” severity as to require those “new solutions.” The White House obviously sees it differently. Current and former officials connected to the administration believe “norms” evaporated before Trump took office in 2016, with official spying via the Trump-Russia probe, the subsequent launching of multiple successful politicized investigations, the May 2017 opening of a second FBI probe into whether or not Trump was “working on behalf of Russia” after the firing of James Comey, the successful removal of Trump from Internet platforms, efforts to have lawyers who represented Trump disbarred, use of courts to try to remove Trump and other pols from the ballot, the censorship (and in cases like Steve Bannon, jailing) of media figures friendly to Trump, and countless other matters.
We forget how comprehensively institutional America became politicized before the arrival of this new administration. Never mind the prosecutions and investigations: officials from enforcement agencies issued so many warnings about “brazen” efforts by Russia and other countries to meddle in elections on Trump’s behalf that you could set your watch by them. Imagine if Kristi Noem or John Ratcliffe not only issued regular bulletins about Chinese efforts to buy American farmland or dominate “emerging technologies,” but every election season issued warnings about China seeking to “sow division” by “boosting Democrats” and “denigrating Donald Trump.” Op-ed pages would be full of frantic denunciations of the politicization of the DHS and CIA, news pages would be full of analyses correctly pointing out that intelligence can be manipulated in a dozen different ways, and newspapers would valiantly point out that they’re duty-bound to not repeat such assertions until proven. Ten minutes ago, of course, everyone in media felt differently.
Well, “we” don’t forget. Plus
Since November we’ve moved a highly lawyered group of habitual rule-breakers out of office, and replaced them with a payback-seeking group that is often more interested in big results than process. Another way to view it is that we exchanged a group of officials who used executive power in an unprecedented way but didn’t admit it, for a group that is freely admitting its novel and at times unsettling use of presidential authority. It all makes for a fraught, dangerous moment and my main emotion as a voter is hoping none of this devolves into open conflict. Can we get through this with something like an intact legal system in the end?
We may be better off if we bring these conflicts out into the open.
WHEN THE POWER GOES OUT, IT DOESN’T WORK VERY WELL: Sweden Turns its Back on Cashless Society.
THAT WAS FAST: Amazon: Uh … Never Mind On Those Tariff Breakouts.
I think they realized that it would tip people off as to how much of their stuff comes from China.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: SCOTUS Will Not Hear Minnesota Appeal On Carry Age Restriction.
The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear Minnesota’s appeal of the state’s carry age restrictions on 18 to 20-year-old adults, which were previously determined to violate Constitutional protections.
Minnesota enforced the now-defunct age restriction law throughout the appeals process, beginning in 2023 when a district judge sided with challengers, through 2024, when that ruling was upheld by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and right up until Monday, April 21, this year, when the case came to a sudden and decisive halt after being rejected on appeal by the Supreme Court.
The previous 8th Circuit decision cited the state’s failure to present evidence of a suitable historical analogue, making it clear that while a government is permitted to disarm individuals who threaten the safety of themselves and others, “Minnesota has failed to show that 18- to 20-year-olds pose such a threat.”
Freedom.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: New non-invasive brain stimulation technique shows significant reduction in depression, anxiety and PTSD symptoms.
I SEE A NEW MARKET HERE: What’s it like to be 70 years old in space? “All those little aches and pains heal up.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Fungi dwelling on human skin may provide new antibiotics.