THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blowing up: Inflatable space habitats could be key to exploring the solar system.

#JOURNALISM:

They write this as the Harris campaign is lying and saying that Trump is hiding and has dementia.

We don't hate the media enough.

These people have to lose. https://t.co/boYEjDDQas

— RBe (@RBPundit) October 21, 2024

NICE RESTAURANT CHAIN YOU’VE GOT HERE: “You can tell how badly Trump’s McDonalds coup worried Democrats by the fact that they immediately threatened the fast food chain. Senators Ron Wyden, Bob Case, and Elizabeth Warren sent this letter to McDonalds CEO Chris Kempczinski.”

“I’M NOT DEAD YET! I THINK I’LL GO FOR A WALK!” “SHUT UP, YOU’RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE.” Man Declared Brain Dead Wakes Up as Organs About to Be Removed. “That’s everybody’s worst nightmare, right? Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open and take your body parts out?”

BETRAYALS:

🚨 BREAKING: Biden-Harris’ Department of Veterans Affairs has offered reinstatement to 1,700 disgraced employees who were fired under Trump for mistreating veterans. Altogether, they will receive $134 million in back pay from taxpayers. Our investigation reveals that number could…

— Chad Wolf (@ChadFWolf) October 22, 2024

IT DID FOR AMY WAX AND SCOTT GERBER: Speaking Out against Law Schools’ Discrimination Comes with Severe Consequences.

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING HERE: Los Angeles Times won’t endorse for president. “The paper’s editorial board, which has endorsed Democratic candidates in every presidential race since it first endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, was preparing to do so once again this election. But according to two people familiar with the situation, executive editor Terry Tang told editorial board staff earlier this month that the paper would not be endorsing a candidate in the presidential election this cycle, a decision that came from the paper’s owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a doctor who made his fortune in the healthcare industry.”

HMM: Hidden Vitamin B1 Deficiencies: How Common Drugs May Be Starving Your Brain. “Brain-specific deficiencies are especially dangerous because they can occur even when our blood levels of B1 are normal, making them undetectable by standard blood tests. This hidden deficiency can quietly lead to serious, potentially fatal brain dysfunction.”

OPENAI: The Mask Comes Off: At What Price? “The Information reports that OpenAI is close to finalizing its transformation to an ordinary Public Benefit B-Corporation. OpenAI has tossed its cap over the wall on this, giving its investors the right to demand refunds with interest if they don’t finish the transition in two years. . . . The $37.5 billion question is, what stake will the non-profit get in the new OpenAI? For various reasons that I will explore here, I think they should fight to get quite a lot.”

SHOT:

The lawfare against @elonmusk, as gleefully described by the New York Times: pic.twitter.com/jPLtLyaYaK

— Stephen Pimentel (@StephenPiment) October 21, 2024

“Toe the line,” they explained.

Chaser:

THE E.V. BUBBLE NEEDS INFLATING: Ford is paying dealers $20K+ to order 2024 F-150 Lightning trucks.

LIST: Every Hands-Free Driving System Available in 2024.

HICKOK’S MISTAKE: There’s a time to lower your defenses, and it’s not when you’re out and about.

FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to “Kill Musk’s Twitter.”

NAPOLEON SYNDROME: Flies with shorter eye-stalks act aggressively because females are less attracted to them.

FASTER, PLEASE: Solar power from space? Actually, it might happen in a couple of years.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Microbes in environment drove methane emissions more than fossil fuels between 2020 and 2022, analysis finds.

PANDER: Biden proposes rule change that would make OTC contraceptives free.

WELL, NOT WHEN MUCH OF OUR GOVERNING CLASS IS ON THE CHINESE PAYROLL: A Larger Navy is Not in the Cards. “Should the Great Pacific War come in the next decade—which I believe has a better than even chance—we will either have to decide to pass on the fight and resign ourselves to decline, or fund the fight that will find ourselves as bankrupt as the British Empire was in 1945, with a decline to follow. These debt levels simply are not economically, culturally, or morally sustainable.”

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Only 8% of faculty will vote for Trump: survey.

IT’S NOT LIKE THEY’RE PRAYING GRANDMAS: FBI urged to investigate Columbia student group for allegedly endorsing violence.

OUR AGE IN A NUTSHELL:

Who would have guessed that you'd wake up one day and find that all the conspiracy theories have turned out to be true.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 20, 2024

CHARLIE MARTIN NEEDS HELP: I’ve donated $500.

THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT MUST TREAT CENSORSHIP AS A TRADE BARRIER AND RESPOND WITH TARIFFS: Race to the Censorship Bottom.

AMY WAX UPDATE: Suspended Penn Law Professor Says She Has No Regrets. They used a lot of adjectives to describe what she said about their affirmative action programs, but I don’t remember them actually showing that it was incorrect.