LEARN TO CODE:  BuzzFeed News Shuts Down After 11 Years, Parent Company Laying Off 15% of Staff.

WAR ON COMPETENCE:  ‘Diversity in Recruiting’: LinkedIn Implements Feature Allowing Recruiters to Find People by Their Demographics.

WHEN CHINA IMPLODES, WE’LL FIND OUT WHO WAS BEING BRIBED:  Michigan’s Democrat-Led Senate Approves $175 Million for a Chinese Battery Plant.

THIS HAS BEEN THE KIND OF WEEK WHEN I DO MY PROMO POST ON TUESDAY, AND DON’T REMEMBER TO LINK TILL TODAY:  Rare, Collectible Tuesday Book Promo and Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike be the First In Your Neighborhood to Have One.

IT’S NOT “IN THE US” — IT’S THAT THE US AT LEAST TRIES TO MAINTAIN EQUIPMENT:  Pushing a Rope.

This is astonishing to the rest of the world.

YOU ARE THE CARBON THEY WANT TO ELIMINATE:  NYC Mayor to Cut Carbon Emissions by Cutting Off Food.

THE WAY TO STOP RACISM IS TO STOP OBSESSING OVER RACE:  How accusations of racism help actual racism.

I UNDERSTAND. I’M STILL STEWING OVER THE CREATOR OF THE BRIDGERTONS SERIES THINKING THAT QUEEN CHARLOTTE IS BLACK BASED ON A BAD PORTRAIT AND A MISUNDERSTANDING OF “MOOR”:  Egyptians complain over Netflix depiction of Cleopatra as black.

Hollywood being ignorant of history is one thing. Being maleducated and indoctrinated is another.

SAME AS IT EVER WAS:  Former Los Angeles county sheriff explains who is perpetuating the homelessness problem in LA: those whose continued plum jobs depend on its existence.

PRETTY MUCH: ChatGPT and similar generative text models: the mother of all digital parrots?

THIS EXAMPLE OF RESISTANCE IS IMPORTANT TO NEVER FORGET:  80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Joint Israeli-German-Polish ceremony.

ALL RENEWABLE IS. WHEN YOU COUNT THE MONEY TO CREATE THE APPARATUS, IT NEVER EVEN PAYS FOR ITSELF:  Dept of Defense Suddenly Realizes Wind Power Is Bad.

When the climate alarmists throw everything at nuclear power I’ll start to believe they’re sincere. Still dumb, but sincere.

CNN. BROADCASTING FROM AN ALTERNATE REALITY FAR FAR AWAY:  CNN: The Biden Family Are Wonderful, Tax-Paying Citizens.

CONVINCE ME CHILD LABOR IS MORE HARMFUL THAN PUBLIC EDUCATION:   Let’s Blame Everyone Else For Increase in Migrant Child Labor.

I’m more worried about kids being used as drug mules or trafficked.

DEMOCRATS, FINANCING OUR ENEMIES? WHY, THAT’S…  DAY ENDING IN Y?  Afghanistan Fallout: IG Says US Money May Be Funding The Taliban.

THE HUMANOID MOP LIVES IN AN ECHO CHAMBER:  Karine Jean-Pierre Stumbles When Asked if Biden Will Invite the Nashville School Shooting Victims and Their Families.

THE REDISTRIBUTION WILL CONTINUE TILL THE ECONOMY IMPROVES:  California Power Companies Proposing Income-Based Rates for Electric Bills.

Or everyone is dead. The left is actually more at home with the second.

OF COURSE. THE KING’S SON CANNOT BE TOUCHED:  Hunter Biden Reportedly Getting Preferential IRS Treatment, Per IRS Whistleblower.

FROM J. L. CURTIS, CONTAINING FICTION BY CEDAR SANDERSON, MONALISA FOSTER, TOM ROGNEBY AND MORE:  Twisted Tropes.

Things are never what they seem, and on the other side of this cover, what you know isn’t so!

Plunge into eight tales of that will feel familiar, only to careen through more twists than a country road at night, and stranger turns: From noir private eyes, to Fae battles, to the cookies of the dark side, you’ll find a surprise in every story!

DOING THE WORK THE SUN WON’T DO:  Scientists create first solar flares inside a laboratory.

NO REAL MATH WAS HARMED BY THIS BS:  Modern bigotry in Canada: Simon Fraser University declares math “racist”.

People, OTOH….

CORRECT. DON’T DEMONIZE THEM. LOCK THEM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY*:  Chicago’s mayor-elect warns against ‘demonizing’ rampaging teens after unrest.

*Revisit the parable of training the dog in Starship Troopers. It’s not fair, no, but when teens are already weaponized to destroy society, it might be too late to integrate them into anything useful.

Alternately ship them somewhere in the world where they’ll have to work for survival.

IT’S TOO LATE TO WAVE THE FLAG AFTER YOU’VE USED IT TO WIPE YOUR CORPORATE BEHIND:  Budweiser releases new pro-America ad with iconic mascot in wake of Anheuser-Busch Mulvaney controversy.

MOST FAIRY TALES WERE CAUTIONARY HORROR:  Disney’s financial fairy tale in Florida is coming to an end thanks to Ron DeSantis.

NO DOUBT THEY DO … SHAME THEY HAD SO LITTLE CONCERN ABOUT UNLEASHING THAT DISEASE ON THE WORLD:  Chinese Embassy Expresses ‘Grave Concern’ Over Upcoming Hearing on COVID-19 Origins.