THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Toyota delays Lexus EVs until 2027.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
December 21, 2024
ALMOST AS QUICK AS A TESLA: 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Claims BONKERS 0–60 Time!
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 10mm vs .45 ACP for Self-Defense.
DOES THE SUN MAKE NOISE? In space, no one can hear you beam.
PROTECT YOUR HEALTH, DRINK COFFEE AND WHISKEY: Commercial tea bags release millions of microplastics, entering human intestinal cells.
NO CRIME IS TOO HEINOUS IF WOMEN FIND YOU ATTRACTIVE:
Meet the besotted groupies sending love letters, commissary money to accused United Healthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione https://t.co/XNpeEfQKFC pic.twitter.com/0GLIg4YJdK
— New York Post (@nypost) December 21, 2024
UPDATE (From Ed) To be fair, the Luigi Mangione fan club accepts members in all sizes — including supersized, as well:
Regarding the latter image, if you’re asking, “Why do they always look like this?” Ace of Spades has some thoughts.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: George Mason student plotted ‘mass casualty’ attack on Israeli consulate. “A freshman at George Mason University is in federal custody after he allegedly plotted a ‘mass casualty attack’ on the Israeli consulate in New York, according to the FBI. The student, Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan (pictured), 18, faces a number of federal charges and is being deported back to his home country of Egypt, CNN reports.”
THEY SHOULD BE: Gen Z is on board with DOGE.
MAKE MONEY WHILE YOU SLEEP, by having an AI Influencer post content on social media. “Your influencer will do it by themselves while you’re not around – chatting and selling exclusive content, so you don’t have to.”
Have I mentioned that the 21st Century isn’t turning out as I’d hoped? In a few years, of course, people will have their personal AIs skimming social media and giving them a summary, meaning that it will mostly be bots talking to bots.
YEP:
Never forget that they just blatantly lied this whole Presidency.
"They" is the entire media. https://t.co/yEKTh4wPpf
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) December 21, 2024
STANDARDS:
No legal note or apology from Whoopi Goldberg about her claims yesterday that Elon Musk and JD Vance were plotting to assassinate Trump.
Instead, she's wearing a clown bow on her head and asking if you have "resting gift face." pic.twitter.com/jrfbJL2FYe— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 20, 2024
For months, Brazilian leaders have thrown almost everything they have in an effort to stop the country’s currency from a precipitous yearlong plunge. But nothing had worked, including hiking its benchmark interest rate above 12%.
Now, as the Brazilian currency, the real, slipped in recent days to its lowest level against the dollar since its introduction in 1994, lawmakers rushed to do something that’s anathema to leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: cut government spending.
Da Silva and his leftist allies in Congress have spent lavishly on pensions and social benefits since he defeated the far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 election. But worries over Brazil’s soaring deficit have torpedoed the currency of Latin America’s biggest economy, just as this country of more than 200 million faces the prospect of a trade battle with President-elect Donald Trump that could weaken the real further.
Just copy Millei and you’ll be fine. It’ll only hurt at first.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Censorship at Georgetown: A departmental journal editor says the quiet part out loud, and the professors applaud.
It’s rare to see such overt ideological censorship in print. Most academics know enough to couch their partisanship in comments about the quality of citations or the need for more data. But Click is just a symptom of the wider problem. She has grown up in a department and in an American history profession where outright ideological fixations are considered good form. That a white woman was scolding a brown man for having unchaste thoughts about colonialism was especially delicious. . . .
Rather than apologize to Raghavan, the Georgetown history department chair, Adam Rothman, circulated an email to all department members calling our exposure of the act of censorship “a matter of concern.” “The History Department is aware of this situation, and we are working with partners at Georgetown to ensure the safety of our students and maintain a culture of academic freedom, professionalism, and civility in our Department,” he wrote. The head of Raghavan’s program, Ananya Chakravarti, followed up with another email offering counseling to those traumatized by the exposure of the department’s intellectual rot and “what it means to pursue academic inquiry in the age of social media.”
Note that the impetus for the professors to act was not the evidence of censorship, which I had earlier shared with them in an email, but the panic of being caught with their pants down on X. In so responding, both professors completely missed the point. The “matter of concern” should be censorship and ideological monoculture at Georgetown. The only student whose safety is at risk is Raghavan, left out to dry by the faculty who should be supporting him. The lessons for academic inquiry in an age of social media is that it can no longer be rigged, censored, or just plain ignorant.
If, as I believe, this is an indicator of the state of freedom and intellectual diversity on American college campuses, then the new Trump administration cannot act fast enough to defund miscreants. Georgetown, which despite its Jesuit roots is today a Woke joke, might be chosen as the exemplar.
Use a broad brush.
IGNORE THIS STUFF, IT’S JUST MORE ANTI-SCIENCE CONSPIRACY THEORY: Why do so many people have ultra-high levels of anti-spike antibodies years after receiving Covid mRNA jabs?
It’s just a sign that the vaccines are working!
December 20, 2024
YEAH, WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Stunned Massachusetts educators, ADL call for MassCUE apology after ‘hateful’ anti-Israel and Holocaust rhetoric at conference.
MassCUE’s fall education tech conference — held in partnership with the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents at Gillette Stadium — apparently went off the rails during a panel on equity in education. That’s when the discussion reportedly delved into the current Middle East conflict in Israel and Gaza.
“Speakers leaned very heavily into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a very one-sided, dangerous rhetoric,” Uxbridge High School Principal Michael Rubin told the Herald.
That included references to “Israeli genocide” and “Israeli apartheid.”
A panelist also suggested that the teaching of the Holocaust has been one-sided, and “two perspectives needed to be taught,” recalled Rubin, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, during which the Nazis killed 6 million Jews.
“It was jarring, unexpected, and unprofessional,” added Rubin, who’s also the president of his synagogue.
If it was unexpected, it’s only because you haven’t been paying attention. Our institutions are infested with garbage people.
OPEN THREAD: Never give up! Never surrender!
THE NEW SPACE RACE: FAA updates Starship launch license for next flight.
THERE WILL BE SO MANY LAWSUITS: UCLA student sues California doctors, says she was ‘fast-tracked’ into transgender surgery.
TO BE FAIR, IT’S EASY TO FORGET:
Breaking: That guy from the WSJ story who hasn’t been able to do the job since 2021 is currently the president
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) December 21, 2024
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THIS NEVER HAPPENS:
🚨BREAKING: An employee of the far-left "New PA Project" was just charged for REGISTERING DEAD PEOPLE TO VOTE!
Voter fraud is REAL. I bet President Trump won by an EVEN BIGGER landslide than he did. pic.twitter.com/cBQQ7BeDVg
— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) December 20, 2024
NOT PERFECT, BUT MUCH IMPROVED:
This is great https://t.co/KnSwLEjvjd
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2024
🚨 JUST IN: Speaker Johnson says he was in “constantly contact” with President Trump throughout the day, and believes Trump is “happy.”
Johnson also said he spoke with @elonmusk,who acknowledged this may just be the hardest job in the world.
The House has now adjourned. pic.twitter.com/D01zZ21yXj
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 20, 2024
🚨 #BREAKING: The third spending bill has PASSED the House of Representatives, with Democrat support
A government shutdown has been avoided.
This bill was 118 pages. Down from over 1,500 pages.
𝕏 may have cut the pork out of this bill, but now we must get to work cutting the… pic.twitter.com/kwNmjKVmGk
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 20, 2024
THE CURRENT INTERGLACIAL PERIOD IS NEAR ITS END, OR AT LEAST WOULD BE WITHOUT MANKIND’S CARBON EMISSIONS: Arctic Siberia summers were up to 10°C warmer than today during the Last Interglacial, study finds.
Yes, that’s the Fallen Angels plot device, but I think it’s quite plausible.
GOOD NEWS FOR FATTIES, AND DIABETICS: FDA says shortage of GLP-1 drug tirzepatide is over.