MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: This Is How You Get More Ants: Student protests and college administrators.

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ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES:

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Whistleblowers’ emails reveal John Kerry blocked the FBI and DOJ from arresting Iranian terrorists and agents on U.S. soil in order to protect his Iran deal.

He even ran away from a White House meeting to avoid getting confronted by the Attorney General. pic.twitter.com/MuPUqWOA4n

— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) May 22, 2024

If, as seems increasingly plausible, we face a Kurt-Schlichter-type scenario, he should be hanged.

Flashback: Of Course: Biden Was Plotting With Iran Against Israel.

MAKE THEM PAY: A List (with Links) of Antisemitism Lawsuits Filed against American Universities.

IT’S HARD TO BLAME THEM GIVEN WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING ON CAMPUSES: Companies Want Fewer Grad Hires This Year: Companies are hiring fewer fresh graduates and rethinking their needs for entry-level talent.

Employers plan to hire 5.8% fewer new graduates than they did last year, according to a spring survey of 226 employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. And what those bosses want from entry-level workers is changing, students and recruiters say, from years of experience to sophisticated artificial-intelligence skills. Some companies say AI is taking over part of the work fresh graduates used to do.

It’s just the latest challenge for the graduating seniors who began their studies with Covid-19 lockdowns and Zoom classes and finished them amid protests that disrupted campus life nationwide. . . .

HealthEdge, an insurance-software company, is among the companies hiring fewer new graduates this year. It’s bringing on five new graduates in the U.S. compared with 20 in 2023. Overall, it’s hiring fewer entry-level employees, and a greater share of them are in India, said Stefani Coleman, who leads early-talent recruiting and programming.

Demand for such jobs, meanwhile, has been overwhelming, she added. At one point, she received about 2,000 applications within 24 hours for an associate software-engineering role.

“The market has changed so drastically,” she said.

The supply of computer-science majors continues to grow as hiring demand for software programming roles appears to be cooling. Two other major campus job recruiting sectors—consulting and finance—are also retrenching after pandemic hiring sprees.

Graduates looking for jobs must meet a higher bar because the market is already crowded with junior workers who recently lost jobs, says Jay Killough, who leads Texas Tech University’s career center.

“Learn to code” turns out to have been bad advice.

Plus: “Some career advisers are also advising graduates to refrain from opining about campus protests if asked in job interviews.” That seems like good advice.

JOHN LUCAS: “Once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.” Spain, Ireland and Norway throw their support to Hamas by paying more Dane-geld.

To be fair, those countries were all on Hitler’s side, more or less, during the Holocaust. Ireland even sent condolences after his death in 1945. So, you know, playing true to type.

Related: Rewarding Fascism: “So now we know what it takes to become a state: the murder of Jews. Rape, kill and kidnap Jews and seven months later, the leaders of Ireland, Spain and Norway will recognise your statehood. That’s the lesson of today’s coordinated spectacle of virtue-signalling in Dublin, Madrid and Oslo: pogroms work. The butchery of civilians gets results. Fascism has its rewards. This is ‘diplomacy’ at its most dangerous.”

THE PROSECUTORS SHOULD BE DESTROYED OVER THIS: ‘Fat Leonard’ Scandal Felony Convictions Thrown Out Over Prosecutorial Misconduct. Either they prosecuted innocent people, or they’ve let guilty people get away.

THE DISGRACE THAT IS TODAY’S CANADA: This Is What State Harassment Looks Like.

ROBIN HANSON: How Long Will Population Fall? “Many, including my colleague Bryan Caplan, are confident that the widely forecasted world population fall based on fertility trends won’t last long, because: selection. Many papers that make this point. . . . Another set of papers cautions that, sans heritability, fertility may continue to decline to far below replacement levels, and that selection effects may not be strong enough to counter such culturally-induced decline. For example, a 2022 Demography paper titled ‘Intergenerational Transmission Is Not Sufficient for Positive Long-Term Population Growth.’ I find it suspicious that though we didn’t see such selection effects over the many centuries decline of the Ancient Greek and Roman empires, nor in other ancient empires, nor over the last few centuries of declining fertility, we are just now about to see it kick in strong enough to reverse fertility decline.”

Related: Free Will, Children, and the Great Filter: Thoughts on the Population Implosion.

BECAUSE DEMOCRATS LOOK AFTER THE GENTRY CLASS FIRST:

EQUITY: Democrats like NBC's @PeterAlexander are starting ask the right questions. Why is it okay for Biden to give $35K to people who went to college and not give $35K to people who became janitors, plumbers, or electricians. Why should workers pay for college graduate's debt? pic.twitter.com/645P8Lp5vq

— @amuse (@amuse) May 22, 2024

COLLUSION: Of Course: Biden Was Plotting With Iran Against Israel.

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MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: This Is How You Get More Ants: Student protests and college administrators.

YES:

The proHamas protestors: a rundown:

1. Delusional naively-compassionate childless women
2. Men who hope to prey on them by pretending to be allies
3. Resentful leftists, pushing a self-serving victim/victimizer narrative and willing to be useful idiots for
4. A psyops…

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 22, 2024

Related:

The heroes of the deluded progressive mob

The moderate @TheDemocrats have been enabling this for decades and will not draw a line

Unforgivable https://t.co/q4zmTDTdbA

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 22, 2024

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX nears next Starship test flight as Starbase expansion continues.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: The Solar Storm Was So Intense We Felt It Even at The Bottom of The Ocean.

RAT FLEAS HARDEST HIT: How Body Lice Could Rewrite the History of the Black Death.

GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: One in 5 adults in Canada without access to primary care.

IT’S AN EASY GUESS: Guess Which State Is Exploring Replacing Gas Taxes With Surveillance.

Flashback: Don’t Track Me, Bro!

THEY DO A LOT OF STEALING: OpenAI pulls ChatGPT voice that’s totally ‘not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson.’

WOEING: The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely: “NASA will share more details once we have a clearer path forward.”

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Regular fish oil supplement use might increase first-time heart disease and stroke risk.

WELL: Pedestrians may be twice as likely to be hit by electric/hybrid cars as petrol/diesel ones.

THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS ARE DOING PRETTY WELL THIS DECADE: Fluoridated drinking water during pregnancy may raise health risks for baby.

END SOCIALIST EXPLOITATION OF WORKERS!

Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps. https://t.co/jScx1YdJ07

— Jacobin (@jacobin) May 20, 2024

UPDATE: A friend texts: “Free the Jacobin writers! Solidarity!”

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