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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Remember.

DON SURBER:

BBC led with “Donald Trump was booed repeatedly during an appearance at the Libertarian Party’s national convention on Saturday as he asked members for their support,” because that was the news.

The Biden campaign tweeted, “A seething and unpopular Trump lashes out and belittles the audience as they boo him.”

There’s your left-wing media spin.

Angela Elise McArdle, chairwoman of the Libertarian National Committee, tweeted back, “You didn’t even show up. You have zero credibility.”

There’s your story.

Biden can’t talk to a kindergarten class without embarrassment. And everyone knows it.

THE OLD GRAY LADY IN DISTRESS: “To be clear, I am referring to the New York Times.” “When Jodi Kantor of the New York Times published her story about the Alitos’ flag flap from 2021, I wondered why it took more than three years for the story to surface. Turns out a reputable journalist, Bob Barnes of the Washington Post, investigated the issue at the time, and realized there was no story there. And Barnes was right. . . . Why did the Post have enough sense sit on the story in 2021, but the Times ran it in 2024? I think the Times had a serious lapse in judgment. Indeed, there was wall-to-wall coverage about a non-story. Here Kantor was so, so eager to make a story happen that she stitched together random tweets and social media posts about the upside down flag, in order to disregard the most likely and natural meaning of Mrs. Alito’s acts. To this day, I’ve not seen a single conservative who had any idea that the upside down flag had anything to do with ‘Stop the Steal.’ Even Ann Coulter had no clue!”

Plus: “There is no story here. There never was a story here. How much time have we all wasted on this non-story.”

The point isn’t whether there’s a story here, the point is to convince low information voters that there’s so much smoke there must be a fire somewhere, when it’s really just the Democratic Party’s disinformation apparatus — that is to say, the New York Times — operating a smudge-pot. This is all in service of delegitimizing the Supreme Court so that Democratic policy initiatives won’t be constrained by the Constitution.

STACY MCCAIN: Why Memory Matters.

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NBC NEWS IS STILL PUSHING THE “PUTIN’S STOOGE” BIG LIE: Are Russia and North Korea planning an ‘October surprise’ that aids Trump?

The shameful report includes this line: “U.S. intelligence officials accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 election to help elect Trump. The Biden administration had tense relations with Russia, which collapsed after it invaded Ukraine in 2022.”

At no point do reporters Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee note that the accusation was thoroughly discredited.

DEFUND THE EPA: The EPA Gives Funds to a Group That Claims Palestine is a ‘Climate Justice Issue.’

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT INFLATION WAS ILLUSORY, TRANSITORY, A HIGH-CLASS PROBLEM, AND BASICALLY OVER ALREADY: Memorial Day cookouts are hit by sticker shock as inflation makes family holiday more expensive than ever.

Previously: President Gaslight Assures You That Your Rising Food Prices Are Down.

IT’S A PURGE. NOW WE NEED A COUNTER-PURGE. Cornell’s use of DEI statements indicates weeding out of overqualified, older, white STEM professor applicants, group alleges.

The weeding of “overqualified” candidates appears to be well underway.

HMM: Special Ops Soldier Shoots Illegal Chechen Photographing His Kid, Then it Gets Weird. “Reports say two Chechen men who spoke only broken English were on the property in two locations. A scuffle broke out between the colonel and Ramzan Daraev, 35, of Chicago. The Army officer fired at and killed Daraev at close range. The other Chechen was located in a vehicle elsewhere on the property. He was interviewed and, somewhat astonishingly, released by law enforcement. The FBI was called (uh-oh) and offered linguistic help.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: My Decision to Leave Academia: Their reality is so different from the rest of the world’s, and it has been for a long time.

AI ISN’T VERY SMART: Google’s ‘AI Overview’ can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers.

After looking through dozens of examples of Google AI Overview mistakes (and replicating many ourselves for the galleries below), we’ve noticed a few broad categories of errors that seemed to show up again and again. Consider this a crash course in some of the current weak points of Google’s AI Overviews and a look at areas of concern for the company to improve as the system continues to roll out.

Some of the funniest example of Google’s AI Overview failing come, ironically enough, when the system doesn’t realize a source online was trying to be funny. An AI answer that suggested using “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to stop cheese from sliding off pizza can be traced back to someone who was obviously trying to troll an ongoing thread. A response recommending “blinker fluid” for a turn signal that doesn’t make noise can similarly be traced back to a troll on the Good Sam advice forums, which Google’s AI Overview apparently trusts as a reliable source.

In regular Google searches, these jokey posts from random Internet users probably wouldn’t be among the first answers someone saw when clicking through a list of web links. But with AI Overviews, those trolls were integrated into the authoritative-sounding data summary presented right at the top of the results page.

I’ve found that the ad-free, subscription-only Kagi search engine is worth every penny.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Memorial Day Seems More Important With Each Passing Year.

WHEN EVEN “FACE THE NATION” IS DUBIOUS…: Buttigieg defends Biden’s EV strategy after question on how only 8 federal charging stations have been built.

Buttigieg appeared Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” where he tried to ease doubts about reaching Biden’s goal of 500,000 chargers by the end of the decade when asked why it wasn’t happening more quickly.

“Now, in order to do a charger, it’s more than just plugging a small device into the ground,” the secretary said. “There’s utility work, and this is also really a new category of federal investment. But we’ve been working with each of the 50 states.

“Seven or eight, though?” host Margaret Brennan said with a laugh.

“Again by 2030, 500,000 chargers,” Buttigieg maintained. “And the very first handful of chargers are now already being physically built.”

Previously: $7.5 Billion Later, Biden Is Up to 7 EV Charging Stations. “My back-of-the-envelope math also indicates that building seven stations every two years will get us to Biden’s goal of 500,000 no later than the year 144,881 AD. Assuming we’re still using AD by then. 2030 doesn’t seem that far away now, does it?”

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:

Europe's 🇪🇺 strategy for dealing with Jihadist immigrants:

1. Nothing is going to happen
2. Maybe something is going to happen, but there's nothing we should do
3. We should do something, but there's nothing we can do
4. Maybe we could have done something, but it's too late now pic.twitter.com/WasdvFibaG

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) May 26, 2024

NOBODY TRUSTS THESE BOZOS ANYMORE, AND WITH GOOD REASON: Nope: WHO Global Pandemic Treaty Rejected.

CORN, POPPED: Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is SO REAL It Will Be Used as Evidence in His Gun Trial.

MOST PEOPLE GO ALONG TO GET ALONG:

For reasons of morale it is important the activists and true believers banish all possibility of error from their minds when advancing their causes or else they might hesitate when calling for extreme measures that alone can save the world.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 26, 2024

Those who fail to go along, even in minor ways, are often reviled. And then, if they’re later proven to have been right all along, the revilers blithely pretend it never happened.

ICYMI: John Lucas: Memorial Day: A Time for Recollection and Reflection, not Celebration.

FLASHBACK:

My favorite Memorial Day cartoon, from Cox & Forkum in their heyday.

Consider reposting, if you find it as affecting as I do. pic.twitter.com/HfNCJgtRrx

— TheHistoryOfTheAmericans (@TheHistoryOfTh2) May 26, 2024

I miss Cox & Forkum.

THE MORE HIS BRAIN DAMAGE RECEDES, THE MORE HE DISAGREES WITH FELLOW DEMOCRATS: Fetterman, Flashing a Sharper Edge, Keeps Picking Fights With the Left: The first-term Pennsylvanian has battled with progressives on Israel, immigration and energy, adopting a more caustic political persona and alienating some supporters.

WELL, THERE YOU ARE: Dennis Quaid ‘really admires’ Trump for visits to New York neighborhoods after historic Bronx rally: Quaid says the events conspiring against Trump have made him ‘more human to people.’

NO, THE HOUSE SPEAKER’S STAFF IS NOT “REELING:” One of the congressional “insiders” digital newsletters even led its coverage of aides leaving Speaker of the House Mike Johnson with the familiar question: ” Will the last one left please turn out the lights?”

In fact, as I report this morning on The Epoch Times, Johnson has a low staff turnover rate, compared to all of his House colleagues, and he pays generously.

Happy Memorial Day! And big congrats to Joseph Newgarden for two in a row at Indy! Last-lap passes for the win two years in a row is simply incredible.