HOW CONVENIENT: Boeing “Overwrote” Camera Footage Of Work On MAX Jet Door That Blew Out, Can Not Identify Employee Who Worked On It. “Wednesday we learned that Boeing – in a pure coincidence that Jeffrey Epstein would approve of – “overwrote”, i.e. deleted, security camera footage showing work being done on a door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines MAX jet in January. It’s not just the footage however: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said it is unclear ‘who performed the work to open, reinstall, and close the door plug on the accident aircraft,’ as Boeing is ‘unable to find the records documenting this work.’ In Homendy’s letter, she writes that despite requests to Boeing and interviews at the Renton, Washington factory where the panel was removed, the identity of the crew member that worked on the panel remains unknown. . . . It gets crazier: in her letter, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said she directly appealed to Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun for information on who worked on the faulty door plug, expressing frustration over Boeing’s claim of missing records and security footage. Even then, Boeing merely stonewalled and said it was ‘unable to provide that information and maintained that Boeing has no records of the work being performed.'”

Loss — excuse me, “loss” — of records in a case like this should be treated as an admission of wrongdoing. Because, you know, that’s what it is.

OPEN THREAD: Make it special.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russia and China announce plan to build shared nuclear reactor on the moon by 2035, ‘without humans.’

I WAS WRITING ABOUT THIS IN THE ’80S: Crimes in Space Are Yet to Happen. Here’s How We Might Solve Them When They Do..

THE SMELL OF BACON KEEPS YOU YOUNG, THOUGH: Shocking New Research Reveals That Certain Odors Can Accelerate Mortality and Aging.

WELL, YES: Big Tech’s Election Interference: Why Google and Meta Went Shopping for Former US Intelligence Officers. “The timing and staffing changes within tech giants like Google and Meta after the 2016 election raise important questions. It’s hard to believe it’s just a coincidence that several CIA officers were put in charge of content moderation departments in these companies. Given the increase in aggressive censorship, it seems unlikely these appointments were random.”

THE PHYSICAL LAYER REMAINS VULNERABLE: When the Houthis Found “the Cloud:” More than 20 countries are, in one way or another, involved in the four damaged undersea cables.

GO KETO: Can eating refined carbs make you appear less attractive? Yes, according to a new study.

WOEING: Dish soap, hotel key cards, and confusion: Boeing FAA audit unearths dozens of issues.

SPYING: Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies. “In recent years, insurance companies have offered incentives to people who install dongles in their cars or download smartphone apps that monitor their driving, including how much they drive, how fast they take corners, how hard they hit the brakes and whether they speed. But ‘drivers are historically reluctant to participate in these programs,’ as Ford Motor put it in a patent application that describes what is happening instead: Car companies are collecting information directly from internet-connected vehicles for use by the insurance industry.”

The Internet Of Things really is hot garbage.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Constitutional Carry Is Now The Law In 29 States.

WE’RE STILL A WAYS FROM FULL SELF-DRIVING, REALLY: Big Tesla FSD Version 12.3 Releasing Now.

SO GLOBAL WARMING COULD ELIMINATE SLEEPING SICKNESS? Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heat wave, study finds.

WELL, GOOD: A sprayable gel could make minimally invasive surgeries simpler and safer.

“I’M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM EVEN THOUGH JESUS WAS BORN NOT THAT FAR AWAY FROM HERE.” Netanyahu responds to Biden’s hot mic vow to have ‘come to Jesus’ meeting with Israeli PM.

I missed this the other day. Hilarious.

CDR SALAMANDER: What War, Exactly, are we Preparing for? Ignore the hype men, follow the money. “Fewer things in life are more true than the simple fact that if you really want to know what an organization values, look at what it spends its money on. By that measure, I’m not sure fighting and winning a war against our most capable adversary is really the priority. Something is – most likely the process – but few things are more clear in outlining the dead hand that is on the tiller of our national strategy than what we pulled across the transom this week.”

HAHAHA: Lawsuit Against Society for Creative Anachronism Thrown Out Because It’s Untimely. I mean, that’s the point of SCA, right?

“PRIVILEGE” IS JUST AN EXCUSE TO TREAT THOSE SEEN AS CLASS ENEMIES WORSE: Colleges Got Comfortable Talking About Privilege. Now It’s Being Scrutinized.

The newsletter seemed innocuous. In January, the chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine kicked off her “Monthly Diversity Digest” with a list of nearby events for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Then Sherita Hill Golden outlined a “diversity word of the month”: privilege.

“Privilege is a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group,” Golden wrote. “Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups.” Privileged groups, she continued, included white people, people without physical disabilities, men, Christians, and English-speaking people.

Administrators and faculty members have been parroting similar definitions for years. This time, however, it struck a nerve online.

“John Hopkins just sent out this hit list of people automatically guilty of ‘privilege’ whether they know it or not,” wrote an account on X called End Wokeness, which has over two million followers. The post included screenshots of Golden’s newsletter. Powerful voices soon chimed in, such as Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr.
A Republican congressman even called on the university to fire her, saying her behavior was “not expected from an institution that receives hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the federal government — including dollars to fund that office of Chief Diversity Officer.”

Last week, Golden resigned as chief diversity officer. She remains at Johns Hopkins as a professor of endocrinology and metabolism.

Treating people differently on the basis of race, sex, religion, disability status, etc. is in violation of federal law, even though universities pretend it’s not.

BLOWS AGAINST BIGOTRY: MIT hit with lawsuit, demands from Congress for allegedly condoning rampant antisemitism.

MIT president Sally Kornbluth has managed to hang on, unlike her counterparts at Harvard and Penn, but for how long?

THAT’S NOT THE KIND OF LOCKDOWN ACCOUNTABILITY WE NEED: Harvard epidemiologist in Chinese dictator hat wants ‘accountability’ for anti-lockdown academics. “After months of harsh COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, the country has slowly begun to reopen. While many scientists have come out in support of the return to normalcy, epidemiologist and Harvard Fellow Justin Feldman has been an outspoken proponent of the lockdowns to the point of calling for scholars who disagree with him to face ‘accountability.'”

This is basically a spoiling attack, designed to deflect demands that lockdown and mandate proponents be held accountable for their real, as opposed to imaginary, wrongs. The people who opposed them should be held “accountable” with prizes and cash awards.

PROF. JACOBSON: Medical School DEI Crisis: “It’s up to us to fight these battles . . . It’s not the students’ fault.”

WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA? Bands Pull Out of SXSW Because of U.S. Army Sponsorship. “They are also taking a pass on performing because of America’s support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war.”

Good riddance.

STANDING UP AGAINST ABUSE OF POWER: NYC lawyers offer to rep firefighters for free if they’re disciplined for booing AG Letitia James. Meanwhile the suits seem to be backing down over threats to “hunt down” the booers: “Nobody is hunting anyone down.”

I HAVE A CHAPTER IN THIS BOOK EDITED BY MICHAEL WALSH: Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You.

IT’S A BAD YEAR FOR HARVARD: Harvard Grad Student Who Accosted Israeli Classmate and Supervised Undergraduate Students Glorified Convicted Palestinian Terrorist.