21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Women on Bumble No Longer Have to Make The First Move. “Bumble received feedback from women who found that making the first move was ‘a lot of work’ or ‘a burden.'”
Do tell!
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 15, 2024
DON SURBER: How America came to hate FJB — Inflation, immigration, Afghanistan and Trump have done him in.
People forget that before there were chants of FJB, he was pretty popular. He had a plus 23 rating on job approval as his presidency began and six months later he was at plus 9.6, a very respectable score. Trump was never anywhere close to 9.6 — even on his inauguration day.
Biden was the most unknown president since William Howard Taft to the American people. Most people knew two things about Biden: 1) he was Obama’s VP and 2) he wasn’t Donald Trump. Three years ago, Americans saw No. 2 as a good thing. . . .
His haphazard surrender of Afghanistan did him in. The public saw that he left behind billions of dollars worth of military equipment in a manner reminiscent of Vietnam, a war that helped catapult him into the Senate as a peacenik.
The difference in 2021 was Americans didn’t much care about Afghanistan because no one was drafted to fight it, the protests were few, and the feeling was that we had won. Ditching Afghanistan did him in.
College football crowds began chanting Fuck Joe Biden. This shocked me because college students are supposed to be socialist tools who just repeat whatever their pinko professors say. The media tried to ignore the chants but when the chants hit NASCAR, the media had to notice. Instead of telling the truth, they lied.
The lie backfired.
Everyone hates the press now.
CHANGE:
AstraZeneca withdrawn after admitting blood clots, Pfizer are settling cancer cases out of court and former CNN anchors are taking Ivermectin. "Where's your Conspiracy Theory Now?!"
— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) May 9, 2024
Cuomo did a 180° on ivermectin. So much so that he says he takes it daily now.
Do you believe him when he says he didn’t know?
How come he didn’t know but we did? 🤔
pic.twitter.com/Dhmq6KYnRl— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) May 11, 2024
I MEAN, I KNOW WHICH WAY TO BET: Is Michael Cohen Still Committing Perjury?
Related, from Jonathan Turley: “No sane prosecutor would rely on Cohen, let alone make him the entirety of their case.”
Plus: Fixer-Turned-Felon Michael Cohen Testifies At Show Trial.
SCENES FROM A GLOBAL STRUGGLE: Elites still command the strategic heights, but their power and prestige are slipping like water through their hands.
Especially the prestige. Being revealed as incompetent, lying, morons will do that.
I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO FOSTER CIVIL, INFORMED DISCOURSE:
NEW: The pro-Palestine protester who told @bourne_beth2345 “put a gun in your mouth you piece of sh*t” has been identified as @ucdavis Professor Seeta Chaganti.
I wonder what @ucdavis thinks of their professor telling people to kiII themselves and behaving like this. pic.twitter.com/HdEzkC67a0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: If GPT-4o seems like ‘Her,’ it’s a welcome upgrade over ‘The Terminator.’ “After Monday’s announcement, one OpenAI employee posted, perhaps a bit ominously: ‘You are all gonna fall in love with it.'”
So maybe not a complete improvement. Flashback: Meet your new, lovable AI Buddy.
Also: AI and the Screwfly Succession.
Related: OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company.
OUT: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE. IN: WHAT SCIENCE? Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures: Wiley to shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud.
Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud.
In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals. It isn’t alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.
Although this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to journals, it threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole.
The discovery of nearly 900 fraudulent papers in 2022 at IOP Publishing, a physical sciences publisher, was a turning point for the nonprofit. “That really crystallized for us, everybody internally, everybody involved with the business,” said Kim Eggleton, head of peer review and research integrity at the publisher. “This is a real threat.” . . . World-over, scientists are under pressure to publish in peer-reviewed journals—sometimes to win grants, other times as conditions for promotions. Researchers say this motivates people to cheat the system. Many journals charge a fee to authors to publish in them.
Every successful system attracts parasites. Science has been very successful, so its parasite load is now unsustainably high. See also the United States of America.
THE “EXPERTS” HAVE FUMBLED THE BALL AGAIN: In Red Sea, US Navy paying the price of shipbuilding failures.
I THOUGHT IT WAS RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION, LIKE HUNTER’S LAPTOP. OH. Ashley Biden’s diary is the subject of public scrutiny again. This time around, it has been verified to be the real deal. That’s bad news for The Big Guy. “It isn’t me telling you that the diary’s content is real. This is left-wing fact-checker Snopes telling you the mention from Ashley that her father showered with her and other inappropriate things that happened during her younger days is true. Snopes quietly confirmed the claims in question after Ashley verified the information herself in April.”
Plus: “Don’t you think if it was Ivanka’s diary and she was talking about her father and incest it would be covered 24/7 on all networks? Of course it would.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: A Big Week for SCOTUS and the Second Amendment.
STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: NHTSA Investigating Waymo for Bad Driving. “Waymo is under investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said its preliminary evaluation into an estimated 444 Waymo vehicles follows 22 reports of 22 incidents including 17 collisions. The agency said in some of those cases the automated driving systems appeared to disobey traffic safety control devices and some crashes occurred shortly after the automated driving systems exhibited unexpected behavior near traffic safety control devices. This is the latest in a series of investigations opened by NHTSA into performance of self-driving vehicles after initiated probes into General Motors Cruise and Amazon.com’s Zoox.”
May 14, 2024
TEACH TEACHERS NOT TO RAPE:
BREAKING: Dontay Akeem Prophet, the principal of Destiny Leadership Academy in FL, was just arrested for false imprisonment and aggravated child ab*se.
He was caught on security video trapping a student in a classroom where he continuously ass*ult*d him.
Dontay had multiple… pic.twitter.com/fu9ZDRdxMF
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024
WELL, THEY’D BETTER GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER. OR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAD BETTER PUT IN ITS OWN PEOPLE: RNC Has Few Operatives On The Ground In Swing States, Local GOP Leaders Say.
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Starship’s next launch ‘probably 3 to 5 weeks’ away, Elon Musk says.
NATURE includes humans.
MAKE THEM PAY:
⚖️ VINDICATED! "The jury's verdict finally cleared our clients' names after four long years of repeated personal attacks from St. Francis High School." – @KarinSweigart
READ: https://t.co/hMWMucHWqt
— Dhillon Law Group (@dhillonlaw) May 13, 2024
It’s time to end the culture of impunity that leftists have enjoyed for decades.
STEVEN HAYWARD: Can Our Universities Be Fixed? “It is possible that the current moment, with the shocking anti-Semitism on display at leading universities right now, is an inflection point.”