FIGHT THE POWER: Christian college defeats Georgia in lawsuit, will participate in state financial aid program.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: DOJ holds University of Delaware accountable for failing to disclose professor’s affiliation with Chinese government in NASA grant.

ROGER KIMBALL: Musk Derangement Syndrome: Elon Musk’s push for transparency and fiscal responsibility has reshaped the debate over government spending, exposing inefficiency and forcing Congress to answer to the public.

Yes, that’s right, both Rogers — Kimball and Simon — are talking about Musk Derangement syndrome. Surely a sign that it’s a big thing.

JOHN LUCAS: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.“ Beware of the risks of miscommunications with different cultures.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

All communism is about destruction therefore all communism requires lies at all times. That’s why communists have been more obsessed with controlling information than anyone else in history. And it’s why our media is the devil.

Without lies, there is no communism. Anywhere. https://t.co/1DctSVmws7

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) December 24, 2024

AND YET THERE ARE STILL MORONS OUT THERE PROMOTING COMMUNISM:

Cuba runs out of sugar.https://t.co/U6VV1eNtGm

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 23, 2024

It’s not even, in Churchill’s words, the equal sharing of misery. The dictators and apparatchiks and nomenklatura — all of whom are invariably present in communist regimes — pretty much skip the misery. That part is reserved for the workers and peasants for whose benefits the regime allegedly exists.

Cuba is in fact a brutally exploitative slave state run by corrupt and incompetent slavers. And yet there are still some in America and elsewhere who pretend there’s something admirable about it, which in fact there never was.

FROM BRADLEY THOMPSON: More on Revolutionary Constitutionalism.

OUT: TRUMP WILL POLITICIZE THE COURTS!!! In: White House Vetoes Bipartisan Bill to Create Needed Judgeships: It is apparently unacceptable that some of the new judges would be appointed by a Republican.

LIST: Nominees for the 2024 Tillman Award. Can I just say that he’s annoyed all the right people?

SO WE’RE NOT EVEN GOING TO BE ABLE TO TELL JOURNALISTS TO LEARN TO CODE SOON: A fascinating thread.

Absolutely nobody predicted this: AI Code is the new NoCode.

Honestly, I like talking to AI more than to human developers when building small apps. It understands me better, even with half-baked specs.

I've literally tested all AI builders I could find 😑

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— John Rush (@johnrushx) December 24, 2024

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