Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 15, 2024
I THINK WE’RE DOING TO BE HORRIFIED ABOUT HOW WE’VE BEEN TREATING UNCONSCIOUS AND COMATOSE PEOPLE: International study detects consciousness in unresponsive patients with severe brain injury.
Related: “I wonder if it’s because of the emerging technology that this research on unresponsive persons is happening. Are we just now learning things we could have learned before but those who control the research didn’t want to know?”
MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE OLD ENOUGH KNOW THIS FIRST-HAND: Study: Your body experiences ‘massive’ biomolecular changes in your 40s and 60s.
GOOD SUM-UP:
REREAD S.M. STIRLING’S Island In The Sea Of Time and stayed up finishing it last night, inspired by his latest, To Turn The Tide. Held up well, starting the sequel tonight.
THEY BELIEVE THAT RIGHTS AREN’T ABSOLUTE, BUT POWER IS:
What we are seeing is precisely why the West was such an anomaly in the history of mankind. Specifically, the reflex to suppress speech with which the rulers/elite disagree is the default reflex, and we are seeing a return to it. The West is facing the classic Herculean fork in… https://t.co/oW1oxraPkQ
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 10, 2024
Related:
Wokeism is a psyop designed to destroy basic definitions to undermine rational discourse and divide people. When people are unable to use speech to resolve conflicts, then their only alternative is force, and in the domain of force The State is unrivaled.pic.twitter.com/G9WliqF3fI
— Robert ₿reedlove (@Breedlove22) August 13, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A Conservative Professor On Academe’s Political Conformity.
IT’S JUST THE NEIGHBORLY THING TO DO: Tax Harvard to pay for trade jobs, experts say.
GOOD QUESTION: Did Biden Send Officials to Tehran and Reveal Mossad Agents Who Killed Hamas Leader?
If true, this would be a shocking betrayal of our ally in uncountable ways. And unfortunately, while the accusation is so shocking that we should maintain a healthy skepticism, I believe it is quite possibly true.
Iran, of course, has very good reasons to lie, and they are hardly a trustworthy source for news about the United States or Israel. Convincing the Israelis that the United States betrayed them and has helped roll up an Israeli spy ring would be a very useful bit of disinformation, creating an almost irreparable split between the US and Israel.
The two countries share intelligence, and if the Israelis believe that the United States would give up Israeli intelligence assets to the source of most of the evil in the region and the deadliest enemy of the Jewish state, the damage would be incalculable. . . .
Unfortunately, a Biden move like this is at least credibly possible because the Biden administration has funneled billions of dollars to Iran and has been trying to forge an implicit alliance in the region. It is not a military alliance, of course, but a security understanding of how relations get more normalized.
They have, in the process, given Iran carte blanche to attack US troops and interests in the region and allowed Iran great latitude to attack our allies, including Israel, without serious consequences.
So, is this report possibly accurate? Of course, it is.
Is it accurate? I have no idea, either whether it is true or how we could ever find out.
Someone knows, but they’re not telling.
RIGGED:
Every popular AI chat system leans politically left, reflecting the Leftism of the AI industry. https://t.co/1Q2RU3jEmz pic.twitter.com/PgAplYA8Av
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) August 14, 2024
IT’S ENOUGH THAT ELON MUSK HAS BEEN DECLARED AN ENEMY OF THE REGIME: “Fintan O’Toole’s solution for what ails these islands is that Elon Musk be ‘held personally to the same standards of criminal justice’ as others. Here, O’Toole recommends state imposed criminal sanctions for Musk’s speech and for Musk’s permitting others to speak on Twitter (now X). But O’Toole never explains what specific speech by Musk is at issue, and more importantly, what specific Irish or EU law was violated by that speech.”
THE GENTRY CLASS BUREAUCRATS ARE TRYING TO FORTIFY THEIR POSITIONS HERE AND ABROAD: America is turning into the EU: Democrats are steering the US towards European-style censorship, technocratic rule and economic decline.
HAHA:
Why wouldn’t a press conference help Kamala win?
After all, she has a flawless record, superb and wide-ranging policy, a sophisticated understanding of geopolitics, a profound comprehension of economics,
And wit, charm, intelligence and charisma
Am I missing something? https://t.co/0XI5Ppmzhb
— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) August 14, 2024
Related: Biden Answers More Questions Than Kamala – His Response Gives You a Clue About Who’s Running Things.
AS SHOULD ALL AMERICANS: Gun Owners Should Be Worried That Tulsi Gabbard Was Put on a Secret Government Watchlist.
BEING INTERVIEWED USED TO BE A ROUTINE PART OF RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT:
Serious advice for Kamala: Do the presser/live interview. The longer it's pushed off, the more anxious she will become & the more weight will be attached to it b/c of all the avoidance. Speaking of pushing off, her body language is all "Back off, stay away." Not a good look. pic.twitter.com/dHn1gUUa3f
— Elizabeth Scalia (@TheAnchoress) August 14, 2024
August 14, 2024
SADLY, THIS IS BELIEVABLE:
"Allegedly, the American delegation presented a list with the names of ten Mossad agents within Iran whom the Americans believed were involved in the assassination, directly or indirectly."
If this is true, if the Biden-Harris administration did this, then Israel should withdraw…— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) August 14, 2024
Wrecking intelligence cooperation with Israel, in order to suck up to the Iranians, while in consequence leaving the U.S. more vulnerable to a terror attack, sounds par for the course for this administration.
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
YEP. IN FACT, SEEING ROMNEY TREATED LIKE HITLER RADICALIZED A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WENT ON TO SUPPORT TRUMP.
Oh please. Romney visited a school in Philly and was met with vicious protests. This is revisionism. If he was the nominee today you and 90% of black voters would find an excuse not to vote for him. https://t.co/Mj8zR3NFNt
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) August 14, 2024
He was booed at the NAACP conference when he spoke. https://t.co/JL3tkoPg3y https://t.co/gy7TFUzhe2
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) August 14, 2024
COLUMBIA PRESIDENT SHAFIK RESIGNS AMID ANTI-SEMITISM FUROR:
"I write with sadness to tell you that I am stepping down as president of Columbia University effective August 14, 2024," Shafik wrote in an email to members of the Columbia community. "This period has taken a considerable toll on my family, as it has for others in our…
— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) August 15, 2024
IT ALSO MAKES IT EDIBLE: Sweetening Your Yogurt With Honey Could Boost Its Probiotic Benefits.
A DEBACLE OF OUR OWN MAKING:
Remember, this is the result of what Kamala described as Biden’s “extraordinary courage.” She said she was “the last person in the room” when Biden decided to pull all U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Their horrendous withdrawal left behind $7 BILLION in military equipment,… https://t.co/oRXDPa8ity
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) August 14, 2024
Well, of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s making, really.