Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

THE PROBLEM IS THE MOM, NOT THE AI: “Here’s the mother’s Instagram post showing the child’s illustration of herself in the future as a nurse and the photographic AI image that bothered the mother so much. By the way, the child loved it.”

JOHN HINDERAKER; Kristallnacht Revisited. “In Philadelphia, liberals are celebrating the anniversary of Kristallnacht by attacking Jewish-owned businesses in an attempt to drive them out of the city.”

Remember when they told us to punch a Nazi. Well . . .

NEWS FROM MY HOMELAND:

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

ELECTION THOUGHTS FROM JOHN LUCAS. It’s an old-fashioned Fisking of Ken Burns election thoughts in the Times.

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.