SCIENCE: ‘AI Slop’ Is Flooding Science Publishing, And One Major Site Is Fighting Back.

YOU CAN’T ALWAYS BE YOUNG, BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS BE IMMATURE: Scientists Discover “Immature” Brain Cells That May Defy Alzheimer’s.

ME ON FEDERALIST RADIO: The Dangers Lurking Within ’Seductive AI.’

DON’T BUBBLE WRAP YOUR KIDS: Kids who take risks at play make faster, smarter decisions in traffic.

And probably elsewhere in life.

SPACEX STARSHIP V3 LIFTOFF SKED FOR 6:30 PM TOMORROW.

HOW LITTLE THEY CARE ABOUT YOU: Automakers Risked Driver Privacy For Pennies Per Car: Selling driver data is reportedly generating little profit for carmakers, with Honda reportedly making less than $1 per vehicle.

I THOUGHT THE RIGHT WAS ON THE ROPES WITH VOTERS: Conservative Candidates Sweep Georgia Supreme Court Elections.

YEAH, MASSIE TURNED INTO A COMPLETE DISAPPOINTMENT:

I live in KY4 and that is exactly what happened

— Kirk (@kirk_bridgers) May 20, 2026

GOOD: East Texas Homeowner Stops Violent Attempt to Enter His Home. . . Decisively.

HMM: Live chicks hatched from artificial eggshell, biotech company says.

PEOPLE LIKE HUNTING AND FISHING: Ancient Danes kept hunting and fishing for millennia even after farming spread, study finds.

IF THIS FLIES, CAN WE REQUIRE 4 HOURS OF BASIC ECONOMICS AND CIVICS BEFORE PEOPLE CAN REGISTER TO VOTE? Bill Would Mandate 4-Hour Course for Those Moving to California Who Own Guns.

SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE: Pompeii Victim Found Holding ‘Medical Kit’ Was Likely a Doctor, New Research Suggests.

HMM: GLP-1 weight-loss drugs can do more than shed pounds – here are some of the surprising health benefits.

IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN SOME SORT OF WARNING: “They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.”

Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded.

In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S.… https://t.co/0tI8qYNR94

— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) May 19, 2026

OH, DRY UP: NAACP demands boycott of college sports in 8 Republican states.

NOW ARM YOURSELVES AND FORTIFY: Jewish students flee campuses citing antisemitism, transfer to Yeshiva University: Students describe pressure to hide identity after Oct. 7 attacks.

DON SURBER: Democrats are blowing it. Taking back the House should be a gimme. It isn’t.

STATE-BACKED RACISM AND PROMOTION OF VIOLENCE: JB Pritzker Admin Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness:’ The training from Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights—offered to ‘private-sector, government, and public participants’—also shows a black woman torching the mosquitoes with a flamethrower.

DEI’S COSTS: The “Pipeline” Problem That Medical Schools Don’t Want to Discuss. Demographic disparities in medical and scientific knowledge show up long before admissions time. DEI manipulation at the end of the process doesn’t solve the problem.

SEDUCTIVE AI: “Instead, Claude Just Made Up More Stuff.”

JEFFREY CARTER: The Coming Boom — If We Let It Happen. “They have used all the various platforms, but they use Anthropic’s Claude the most. I relayed a story to them. An entrepreneur I backed to a successful exit in a company told me he programmed 8 AI agents to program a company. He then programmed an AI agent to oversee the 8 AI agents. He built an entire company in one week that would have taken him a year. The computer guys were not surprised at all by that. One of them told me that they were getting almost 5x more output from engineers and programmers in their firm after utilizing and implementing artificial intelligence.”

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: SpaceX Has Picked a Date for Its IPO. Here’s Everything Investors Need to Know Before What Could be the Biggest IPO Ever.

GOOD FOR THEM: Lost Parchment Reveals People Who Survived The Black Death.