PRETTY IMPRESSIVE TO BE ABLE TO REPAIR A SPACECRAFT THAT IS NEARLY 50 YEARS OLD AND HAS LEFT THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Voyager 1 resumes sending readable status updates after 5 months of repairs.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 23, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES INFORMS ITS READERS OF MILITARY INTRICACIES: “The war has often revolved around artillery, which are large guns that armies use to fire explosive shells and hit targets from a great distance.”
“ELITE HIGHER ED IS CRINGE.” Yep.
Just go to a state school. The premium you're paying for elite private colleges vs. the better public schools is for social clout and not the quality of the education. And that's worth a lot less now that people have figured out that elite higher ed is cringe.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 21, 2024
Related: Just go to a state school. “Even in a period when nearly all American institutions are losing public trust, the decline in confidence for higher education stands out. In 2015, 57 percent of Americans had a ‘great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in higher education, according to Gallup polling. By summer 2023, that number had declined to just 36 percent. . . . These polls, furthermore, preceded the December 2023 congressional hearings that eventually led to the ouster of Penn president Liz Magill and Harvard president Claudine Gay (though in Gay’s case, it was more because of credible allegations that she was a serial plagiarist). They also preceded the recent wave of protests on the campuses of Columbia and other elite schools, variously described as pro-Palestine or anti-Israel depending on the news outlet.”
Conclusion: “So fuck Harvard and fuck the rest of these schools — the correction in perceptions is long overdue. By all means go if it’s in your best interest to do so. But state colleges and institutions are much better institutions for society — one of the things that truly make America great — and often offer a more well-rounded experience and a comparable education at a lower price.”
Related: Ed Morrissey: Once Again, With Feeling: Decolonize Academia Now! “I wish to offer this essay again to remind us that we could force these schools to recognize the damage they are doing by restoring proper market signals to the education industry. And until we do, American Academia will continue to operate as a toxic and destructive element in our society, imposing indoctrination rather than education and producing generations of moral failures and petty totalitarians. And as the past six months have demonstrated, other approaches simply aren’t working.”
IN PRAISE OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS. “Acknowledging the people whose way of life we have appropriated.”
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Driving Dystopia: Connected Vehicle Data Now Up For Grabs By Intelligence Agencies.
Also, the Internet Of Things sucks.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT THERE ARE NO MEDICAL REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULDN’T BE COMBAT SOLDIERS: Active military service may heighten women’s risk of having low birthweight babies.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA to launch solar sail, navigate space using sunlight.
IT’S COME TO THIS:
Comrades: Welcome to Harvard freshman orientation – a Chinese Cultural Revolution struggle session, with American characteristics. 🤡
Inspired by the opening scene of 3 Body Problem and Downfall parodies.
A Yuri original subverting subversion ;) pic.twitter.com/5dWn7HgrnJ— Yuri Bezmenov Subversion 🤡🌎 (@yuribezmenov22) April 15, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College hosts professor who calls for ‘defending democracy from its Christian enemies.’
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: AYFKM: Columbia president told Congress this prof was ‘terminated.’ Now it appears he’s ‘holding class’ INSIDE Columbia’s gates among pro-Hamas camp. “Meanwhile, Shai Davidai, a pro-Israel Columbia professor, reported Monday that his key card wouldn’t work to access campus.”
THE JEWS WHO DIDN’T LEAVE EGYPT, and their modern analogs. “For American Jews, our addiction to being insiders is especially dangerous at this moment, because it means siding with people who don’t like Jews very much, and in some cases actively wish us harm. But it’s more than that, for everyone: When status becomes the reward for serving those in power, who in turn reduce the rest of the population to forms of abject powerlessness, then seeking it out becomes toxic.”
LOL, THAT’S WHAT WE HAVE NOW: Whatever you do, don’t vote for Trump because we will then have Nazis in the streets. “Now consider these two photographs. No further comment is necessary.”
IS ANYONE REALLY SURPRISED AT THIS POINT? Dem Minnesota State Senator Arrested for Burglary.
DO WE HAVE TO TAKE HIM? Prince Harry officially renounces British residency, lists US as his ‘new country’ on documents.
IT’S TIME TO BRING THE WOKENESS FAD TO AN END: DEI Official At UCLA School of Medicine Massively Plagiarized Her Dissertation On DEI: Uber-woke UCLA says Natalie Perry’s job is to teach med students to “do what’s right.” Her academic career is built on fraud.
To be fair, DEI itself is built on fraud.
OH, COLUMBIA: Columbia Professors Declare Solidarity With Student Protesters and Call for Shafik’s Resignation. “A group of Columbia University professors held a rally Monday to express solidarity with the anti-Semitic students suspended for holding unauthorized protests on campus and to lambaste university president Minouche Shafik for cracking down on them.”
Related:
Columbia University is seemingly letting students do whatever they want on campus as long as they oppose Israel but they just deactivated a Jewish professors access card @ShaiDavidai because apparently being on campus while Jewish breaks the rules. pic.twitter.com/d1i78arQ4p
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 22, 2024
WELL, THE FBI:
You'll never guess which one is on the FBI domestic terror watchlist: pic.twitter.com/cK6J22k6Ex
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 22, 2024
IT’S AN ORGANIZED CAMPAIGN BY PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA. THAT’S NOT ME TALKING, THAT’S THEM.
These pop up encampments on campuses all over America aren’t "pro Gaza" — they’re pro Hamas. These are the flyers being distributed at the University of Michigan encampment that just popped up.
They say "Freedom for Palestine means death to America" and they argue that the Oct.… pic.twitter.com/bRs9nUSsKq
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 22, 2024
Related: Why are tent cities springing up at elite colleges?
It’s an organized campaign by people who hate America.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Outspoken Jewish professor barred from Columbia campus — but administration turns blind eye to even bigger tent city springing up.
Related:
The people that stabbed a Jewish woman in the eye with a Palestine flag have been calling Trump supporters nazis for 8 years. https://t.co/kJRfhPbX48
— Salty Cracker (@SaltyCracker9) April 22, 2024
A Jewish Yale student stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag, then protestors actually block Jewish Students from entering in a scene that mirrors 1938 when Nazis blocked Jewish Students from entering Vienna University. The Democrat Party has literally become the Nazi Party. pic.twitter.com/ShNjEDhkYv
— 🇺🇸🇺🇸Red White and True News🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@RWTNews) April 22, 2024