Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

NOT ALL DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH:

OLD-SCHOOL DOCTORS PAID ATTENTION TO THESE CUES. MODERN ONES NOT SO MUCH: Sniffing out the link between odor and disease. So we’ll have machines to do it.

My old doctor, now retired, complained that most people now take a pulse with a pulse oximeter, which just gives you a number for beats per minute. Taking a pulse manually gave you a lot more than a number: Was it bounding, thready, steady or irregular, etc. Useful information was lost in exchange for the convenience of sticking a small gadget on someone’s finger.

IT’S OUT TODAY: Kurt Schlichter’s American Warlord. I read it, I blurbed it, I recommend it.

LOL, TOM NICHOLS.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

OPEN THREAD: Yeah, the night’s not over. You’re not trying hard enough.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: The Eerie True Story of The Nightmare Face Haunting The Internet. “Among the hundreds of Loab iterations Supercomposite has summoned into being, many feature dismembered or screaming children in the background. Some AI-generated images were so grotesque that the artist decided not to share them publicly.”