IT’S ALMOST AS IF THE CIA IS DEEPLY CORRUPT, POLITICALLY COMPROMISED, AND NOT VERY GOOD AT WHAT IT DOES: Former CIA official arrested after feds find $40M worth of gold bars stashed at his home.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 28, 2026
I’M OKAY WITH THAT, IF THE REST OF US — INCLUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP — ARE FREE TO DISREGARD LOWER COURT ORDERS WE DON’T LIKE: KBJ Says It’s ‘A Legitimate Question’ Whether Judges Should Defy Emergency SCOTUS Orders.
HIGHER EDUCATION AS MONEY LAUNDRY FOR THE LEFT: Harvard Gives $90,000-a-Year Fellowships to Four Anti-Israel Activists.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SO FULL OF EXCLUSIONARY BIGOTRY? DOJ: By Its Own Admission, Yale Med School Illegally Discriminates.
WHENEVER THEY TRY TO BE NORMAL, THEY FAIL.
Reporter: "What do you say to President Trump saying he's a lifelong Knicks fan?"
Hochul: “I’d ask him to name the starting lineup of the 1993 Championship team and see how he does."
The last time the Knicks won a championship was 1973.pic.twitter.com/9kDmA2Iziq
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 27, 2026
IN MANY FIELDS, THEY WERE DRIVEN OFF BY HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENTS: Honey, Where Did All the Male Workers Go? As so often, it’s a bit complicated. But for sure we need more men in healthcare.
I think the advice for men to go into healthcare jobs is going to turn out like ‘learn to code’ — justified by current numbers but bound for destruction by technological change. Though the job loss will probably start at the top and work down, until we get robots that can handle bedpans. And it’s well known — and reinforced by interviews in the InstaWife-s book — that men in, say, nursing are treated badly because of their sex.
Related: Doctors, This Is Why Our Patients Are Using ChatGPT.
Several months ago, I got the results back from some routine blood tests, and let’s just say several numbers were a tad too high. My doctor advised “continued diet and exercise” and signed off on the results.
For the past couple of years, though, my numbers had been inching up, and I was frustrated that I couldn’t seem to do much about them. I requested a phone call from my doctor — surely, she had better advice than what she wrote — but she messaged back that if I wanted to discuss my results, I had to set up another appointment.
So, I did what everyone does in this day and age: I turned to artificial intelligence. With low expectations, I typed my lab results into ChatGPT.
As both a physician and a patient, I found the experience startling. Not because ChatGPT dazzled me with its scientific knowledge, but because it behaved the way I wish modern medicine, and its practitioners, still would. . . .
The chatbot didn’t just spit back generic advice. It asked questions about my daily life and figured out what I could realistically change. It suggested a short walk immediately after eating, something I’d never taken seriously. When I inquired about doing a longer activity, it told me that would likely offer only marginal benefit. Its recommendations were manageable and easy to follow.
When I sheepishly asked a silly question — if eating my vitamin gummies after my post-meal walks would raise my blood sugar — it asked me to upload the link to the specific product, and it did a close analysis of its ingredients. (No, it would not.)
I felt comfortable telling it that there was no way I was taking some of its suggestions — consuming Metamucil drinks or another psyllium husk powder concoction, no thank you — and it responded with understanding and offered me alternatives. (No offense taken.)
Of course, as a doctor, I know when to question the chatbot and when to ignore it. Many other patients don’t. . . .
As a doctor, I was a little embarrassed to be using ChatGPT. But every interaction with, say, OpenEvidence, a professional medical A.I. tool, felt cold and sterile. It referred to me as if I were a case report, not a person with preferences and habits. I realized what was winning me over about ChatGPT wasn’t its ability to sift through the latest studies, or diagnose my ailments; but its unwavering messages of empathy and encouragement, and its endless willingness to listen and its patience. It’s not human, but it can model some traits we value most in human interaction.
I followed ChatGPT’s advice, and when my blood work improved, ChatGPT affirmed my progress and urged me to keep going. I doubt I would have made those changes — much less stuck with them — without that sustained back-and-forth. I certainly hadn’t before.
Yes, that kind of think can be seductive.
May 27, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Physicists Have Measured “Negative Time” in Bizarre Quantum Experiment.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE (CONT’D): Married teacher from quiet SoCal suburb accused of several lewd acts with student.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Analyst on China’s spent rocket stages: “Things only continue to get worse.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base.
SADLY SHE STILL LOOKS LIKE ROSIE O’DONNELL: Rosie O’Donnell got a facelift after losing 50 pounds on Mounjaro. How GLP-1s are fueling a rise in plastic surgery.
WHY ARE CAMPUSES SUCH CESSPITS OF ANTISEMITISM? San Jose State U. police arrest suspect in terroristic threats, ‘Kill all Jews’ vandalism.
WHO CARES WHAT STUDENT GOVERNMENT THINKS? Stanford student government outraged after university makes mandatory ‘Beyond Sex Ed’ consent program optional.
College students are adults. Their sex lives are none of the university’s business.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Bye-bye, HR — Let’s hope Bolt Financial CEO Ryan Breslow starts a trend.
DON SURBER ON THIS YEAR’S PRIMARIES: Well, bye.
For RINOs this year, May was the cruelest month as MAGA voters primaried those who defied their orders.
In Indiana on May 5, Republican voters rejected six of the seven incumbent state senators who defied the desire to redistrict the state’s congressional map to send two more Republicans to Washington.
In Louisiana on May 16, Senator Wild Eyes Bill Cassidy finished third in the primary meaning he won’t be in the runoff primary that will decide the nomination. Cassidy voted to convict Trump in the second impeachment. MAGA impeached and convicted Cassidy.
In Kentucky on May 19, MAGA voters sent Congressman Thomas Massie packing. He’s headed to the Libertarian Party where he belongs. He’ll replace Jill Stein as their perennial losing presidential nominee.
In Texas on May 26 (last night), MAGA voters toppled Senator John Cornyn in a runoff against primary against Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general. The race was close until Trump endorsed Paxton. That blew Cornyn off the map as Paxton beat him by 27 points.
The media is lying when it frames the issue as Trump’s revenge against perceived enemies.
This is MAGA voters flushing the commode. The electorate has had it with politicians who promise voters everything but give them Dem Lite.
Democrats are on the 20 side of every 80/20 issue and yet Republican representatives and senators keep blocking action on those 80/20 issues.
Yes.
Again:
You all still don’t get it.
Sure, Trump’s endorsement matters but this is much more than that.
The Republican voter is fed up. They keep electing majorities that do nothing.
For examples, 85% of the country wants some form of voter ID and they can’t even pass that.
And the…
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) May 27, 2026
Hey, even Texas Democrats have started taking out the smelliest trash: Sex therapist who vowed to put ‘American Zionists’ into ‘castration’ centers loses Texas Democratic primary.
UPDATE:
Senate Republicans had two options to save Cornyn:
1) Pass the SAVE Act
2) Blow $100 million on a primary electionWhy they chose door number two is beyond me. As long as I can remember the NRSC has made decisions that are at odds with voters and reality. https://t.co/D3g54xEiBS
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) May 27, 2026
#JOURNALISM:
“Claimed she supported Fidel Castro” is a weird way to phrase it when Bass was a member of the Venceremos Brigade and, as he says, is on record as having gone to Cuba in various efforts to support and receive training from the Castro regime more than 20 times. She very much…
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) May 26, 2026
Related:
Rule number one, if they lie, omit or spin the facts in only one direction, ask yourself why.
If these people are journalists, I am the freaking Queen of England.
So here is what really happened.
Ori Solomon, is a 55-year-old Israeli/French dual citizen on an E-2 visa. He… https://t.co/YrbvQzhVYc
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) May 26, 2026
LEFTISTS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT WANT MAGA TO BE ALL ABOUT TRUMP, BECAUSE THEN WHEN HE’S GONE, IT’S GONE.
You all still don’t get it.
Sure, Trump’s endorsement matters but this is much more than that.
The Republican voter is fed up. They keep electing majorities that do nothing.
For examples, 85% of the country wants some form of voter ID and they can’t even pass that.
And the…
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) May 27, 2026
But Trump is an effect of widespread sentiments among the normals, not the cause.
AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN: A Senator Got Pepper-Sprayed, and Greg Gutfeld’s Response Was Brutal.. “It took place on Memorial Day. The message is clear. Illegal immigrants, no matter how criminal they are, take priority over dead soldiers.”