21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Morgan Stanley Agrees SpaceX Can Deploy 8 Gigawatts of AI Data Center by 2028.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 9, 2026
HE’S RIGHT:
The Times won’t tell you this but I will: Yale Law has been violating federal law in its admissions policies well before SFFA, literally for decades. Despite Dean Rodriguez’s remonstrations, the law school is in no position to resist a settlement with the government. pic.twitter.com/xvRL3Wo0Qt
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) July 8, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Brown University professor bans take-home exams after mass cheating.
PEOPLE HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT IT MAKES YOU UNEMPLOYABLE OUTSIDE THE BLOB: North Carolina university gender studies minor sees enrollment decline.
TRANSLATION: CORRECT.
"As long as I am Governor, you will not be able to have a job unless you pay your dues to the unions that then give me millions of dollars every year." https://t.co/R83AD1Culp
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 9, 2026
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Tinder activity surges by 34% in NYC, NJ during World Cup — and most lovebirds are international.
STACY MCCAIN: The Politics of Unquestioned Assumptions: Democrats made the wrong bet with Graham Platner, and can’t understand why. “Did everyone really make mistakes about Platner? Or by that sweeping categorical statement, did Litman mean just the Democratic campaign operative class of which she is a member? Because I am pretty sure there weren’t many Republicans who were mistaken about what a complete dirtbag Platner is. Certainly I was not.”
SUICIDAL EMPATHY:
Why do Israelis always do this? It has never helped them in the long run — ever. They save the enemy and the enemy tries to destroy them. Their enemies aren’t normal people who feel a sense of gratitude yet they keep pretending. Leftism is dangerous. https://t.co/eIQH0ocJiE
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) July 8, 2026
ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT:
This is treason and they should be dealt with accordingly. https://t.co/IfqYfxSo6i
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) July 8, 2026
WEIRDLY, THIS COINCIDES PERFECTLY WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S PRIORITIES: “AI Is the Democratic Party’s Next Villain:” “We analyze roughly 280,000 candidate fundraising emails to trace the rise of anti-billionaire populism in the Democratic party and see how it is slowly merging with a new kind of anti-AI populism.”
COMMIE REVOLUTIONS ARE GARBAGE MOVEMENTS LED BY GARBAGE PEOPLE.
Franco was right. https://t.co/pcTOLido2c
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 7, 2026
July 8, 2026
OPEN THREAD: You go back, Jack, comment again.
I WOULD HAVE NAMED IT BASIDIUM: Did you know Earth has a ‘minimoon’? It’s known as asteroid 2016HO3, or Kamoʻoalewa.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Scientists Thought Royal Jelly Made Queen Bees. They Were Wrong.
I’VE BECOME SUSPICIOUS OF HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL: Not all birth controls are equal, some are linked to higher risk of brain tumors, study finds. Though, as is often the case with these studies, the increase in risk isn’t huge.
AN EXCELLENT QUESTION: Why is Gun Rights the Only Civil Right With a Federal Bureaucracy Purpose-Built to Regulate Its Exercise?
And a good reason to abolish the ATF.
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE. YET. Are we being assimilated?
HMM: Could Creatine Boost More Than Muscles? It May Also Help Depression.
It’s found in red meat, and it’s hard to get depressed with a big steak in front of you. . . .
WE’D BETTER HOPE THERE’S NOT ANOTHER PANDEMIC ANY TIME SOON: The Terrifying New AI Map Exposing the True Roots of the Next Pandemic. The public health establishment demonstrated itself to be incompetent and untrustworthy. Hardly anyone will listen next time.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: 13,000-year-old bones found near SoCal coast could rewrite human history. “Evidence found on the Channel Islands suggests humans could have arrived via boat instead of crossing an inland ice corridor. If true, it would overturn the conventional thinking that Americans crossed a land bridge from modern-day Siberia and traveled south.”
I SURE HOPE SO: Why Heavy Lifting Is the Best Anti-Aging Medicine You Can Use.
SENDING FEWER PEOPLE TO COLLEGE MIGHT HELP: College sex imbalance is hurting family formation, expert says.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse chancellor launches task force in wake of enrollment declines and financial deficit.
Instapundit readers may be able to think of some reasons why Syracuse is in trouble.
CORN, POPPED:
OK, rift between DSA and Dems. This keeps getting better https://t.co/JSiPfUrZMV
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 8, 2026
But watch them turn on a dime again if they can’t threaten him into quitting:
At which point the resanitization begins. Again. Consider it like the routine pumping out of a portapotty. https://t.co/ffFnjUI0NE
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 8, 2026