tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34525582024-03-18T11:23:49.885-07:00Singular ValuesNunquam praescriptos transibunt sidera finesRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger5630125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-35359401370047462822024-03-18T06:00:00.000-07:002024-03-18T06:00:00.153-07:00California Governor tries to undo an ElectionPolitico reports:SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom is embarking on a last-minute scramble to correct rejected ballots as his prized $6.4 billion mental health and housing bond maintains a razor-thin lead.
The governor’s federal PAC, Campaign for Democracy, sent an urgent volunteer request to supporters Thursday night, asking them to help reach out to Democrats who have had their ballotsRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-65047535071928643452024-03-17T06:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T06:00:00.241-07:00Ireland Reaffirms MotherhoodIreland just rejected proposals to amend these constitutional clauses: In Article 41.1.1° “The State recognises the Family as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.”
In Article 41.3.1° “The State pledges itself to guard with special care the institution Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-42940942494332325342024-03-15T06:00:00.000-07:002024-03-15T06:00:00.140-07:00Migrant Measles Outbreak in ChicagoMeasles was once eradicated in the USA, but we have occasional outbreaks. The officials always blame vaccine hesitancy.
There is an outbreak in Chicago.
Most of the cases are at the Pilsen migrant shelter.
Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-77707146820064560182024-03-14T06:00:00.001-07:002024-03-14T06:00:00.258-07:00Trying to debunk the Racialist HypothesisNews: The NAACP called on Black student athletes to boycott Florida universities in light of the Sunshine State’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
NAACP leader Derrick Johnson on Monday announced that they told Black NCAA prospects via a letter to reconsider playing for "PWI" public colleges and universities in Florida. PWI is typically referred to as a "predominantly White Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-21497699526876705432024-03-13T06:00:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:00:00.186-07:00AAAS Science goes Woke on GeneticsAAAS Science magazine reports:
For as long as the concept of race has existed, racial prejudice has been justified on hereditary grounds (1, 2). Justifications of prejudice often misappropriate the work of Mendel, who first expounded a scientific model of inheritance by breeding peas (3). Today, our understanding of inheritance has moved far beyond Mendel, and insights from genomics refute Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-33190928692973945482024-03-12T06:00:00.000-07:002024-03-12T06:00:00.242-07:00Poor Things is a Trash MovieEmma Stone just got an Oscar for starring in Poor Things, so I watched it.
I was expecting a feminist role, but it was the most misogynist movie I have seen. I guess it was trying to show that a woman could escape Victorian morality by exploring her sexuality. Actually, Stone's character is given the mind of child, and she behaves very badly and is promiscuous. It is quite explicit, and much Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-72222158987572807852024-03-11T06:00:00.001-07:002024-03-11T06:00:00.280-07:00Apple Bans Epic GamesApple Computer became the world's most valuable brand name by delievering phones that people like, but not everyone likes them.
Apple has now banned Epic Games, maker of Fortnite, because one of its executive criticized Apple in this tweet:
Apple leadership faces some massive decisions in the coming weeks as the contradictions between their stated principles and the intended and actual Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-68400416123930874872024-03-10T06:00:00.001-07:002024-03-10T06:00:00.338-07:00Oscars so BlackThe NY Times page 1 top left side column story is this The Oscars Now Have D.E.I. Rules, but Some Say It’s Just a Performance
How “Oppenheimer,” a movie about the men who developed the atomic bomb, met the new standards.
The national reckoning over racial justice after the killing of George Floyd ...
The article is a long complaint that George Floyd hysteria is not stopping a movieRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-51904993910003044542024-03-09T06:00:00.000-08:002024-03-09T06:00:00.142-08:00Musk: Never Went to TherapyBusiness Insider reports: Elon Musk doesn't see a therapist and he wants you to know about it.
The billionaire Tesla cofounder wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday: "Put 'Never Went to Therapy' on my gravestone."
It's not the first time Musk has brushed off therapy — or discussed his hypothetical grave marker. In the past two months, on January 8 and January 29, he posted some Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-68958904639531158412024-03-08T06:00:00.001-08:002024-03-08T10:40:30.572-08:00Tucker Carlson interviewed PutinQuillette publishes some worthwile essay, but not it posts an unhigned rant: Carlson is the latest in a long line of credulous partisans so fixated on domestic political vendettas that they wind up as a humiliated mouthpiece for vicious propaganda. In this case, Carlson’s attempts to secure endorsement of his parochial obsessions with a series of leading questions went nowhere.
By all Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-16564935345174544912024-03-07T05:00:00.000-08:002024-03-07T05:00:00.248-08:00Mark Cuban Endorses BidenBusiness Insider reports: "I don't want a snake oil salesperson as president. I'm voting for Biden/Harris over Trump all day every day," Cuban told Axios on Tuesday.
Cuban responded to Axios' questions after he voiced support for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. Cuban told Bloomberg on Monday that he'd still vote for Biden even if the president "was being given last rites."
Cuban toldRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-14253032650057610732024-03-06T06:00:00.000-08:002024-03-06T06:00:00.146-08:00Canada is in a Population TrapCanada news: Much has been written of the negative impacts of rapidly rising immigration on the housing and the affordability crises and on essential services like healthcare. Now, the negative effect on the economy is being analyzed, and a previously unfamiliar term is appearing to describe it – “population trap”.
Appropriately, two economists from the National Bank of Canada (NBC) begin a Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-91601356476966323602024-03-05T06:00:00.000-08:002024-03-05T06:00:00.151-08:00CDC say Covid is just the FluEver wonder why covid was treated any differently from the annual flu? It turns that they were functionally the same,
and public policy could have just considered covid to be the flu.
The CDC announces: CDC released today updated recommendations for how people can protect themselves and their communities from respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. The new guidance brings a unified approach to Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-7350045358294214112024-03-04T06:00:00.000-08:002024-03-04T06:00:00.147-08:00Jews attack Christian nationalismHere is a Jewish magazine reporting on a Hollywood treatment of Christianity: Rob Reiner, best known for his acting role in the 1970s sitcom All in the Family and for directing a series of beloved comedies — including This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally — is getting serious in his latest project.
God and Country, which hits theaters this week, examines what Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-75205917087936353552024-03-03T06:00:00.000-08:002024-03-03T06:00:00.136-08:00New Diverse DNA Database draws CriticismGenetics professor Lior Pachter complains that his fellows geneticists write papers about race.
The All of Us Research Program, whose mission is to “to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs, enabling individualized prevention, treatment, and care for all of us”, recently published a flagship paper in Nature on “Genomic Data in the All of Us Research Program“.
All of Us has Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-72643442843558696292024-03-02T06:00:00.000-08:002024-03-02T06:00:00.248-08:00California opens Transgender Voting Center KNX News reports:
If you are transgender or non-binary, you can cast your vote in the March 5th primary election at the Connie Norman Transgender Empowerment Center near West Hollywood.
As KNX News' Margaret Carrero reports, this first-of-its-kind voting center in the nation accommodates all people but will serve as a safe space for those who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community to vote Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-14658197772960283602024-03-01T06:00:00.000-08:002024-03-01T12:45:35.249-08:00Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s SchoolsAbigail Shrier writes: Most American kids today are not in therapy. But the vast majority are in school, where therapists and non-therapists diagnose kids liberally, and offer in-school counseling and mental health and wellness instruction. By 2022, 96 percent of public schools offered mental health services to students. Many of these interventions constitute what I call “bad therapy”: they Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-48798833349399027262024-02-29T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-29T06:00:00.132-08:00New Data on Neanderthal GenesThe Nobel Prize in Medicine was given to the men who figured out the Neanderthal genome. Not sure what that work had to do with medicine, but it was presumably good scientific work. Now the team
has a new paper on the subject: Modern human ancestors diverged from the ancestors of Neandertals and Denisovans about 600,000 years ago. Until about 40,000 years ago, these three groups existed in Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-23130151839839761652024-02-28T06:00:00.001-08:002024-02-28T06:00:00.135-08:00U Penn on Track to Fire Amy WaxThe U Penn president got fired fired for her lame answers to congressional questions about whether Penn allowed advocacy of exterminating Jews.
So does Penn have free speech? No.
It is still
trying to fire one of its distinguished professors, Amy Wax.
I think she is Jews, but her opinion about Palestinian Arabs is not the issue.
Here are her statements that are being used to fire her.
Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-14881075565054551982024-02-27T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-27T06:00:00.136-08:00Essays for and against Anti-SemitismThomas Dalton writes: And it’s not just Palestine. Jewish malfeasance around the world seems worse than ever, and with far greater consequence. Whether it is pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, the crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, war-mongering leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer, Jewish lunatic Volodymyr Zelensky destroying the nation of Ukraine, or any number of Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-71198127634625184792024-02-26T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-26T06:00:00.150-08:00Nate Silver demands HItler ComparisonsLeftists used to say they believe in free speech, but more and more they advocate one set of beliefs and values being imposed on everyone, and controlling information to achieve that.
That is why they are so upset by AI LLMs, and argue for AI alignment, even if it means regulating the LLMs.
This became apparent with the uproar over Google's latest chatbot, which replaced Whites with Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-68821949354801228502024-02-24T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-24T06:00:00.131-08:00Mammalian Sex is BinaryThe Harvard Crimson writes: “There are only two sexes.”
...The argument goes as follows: “Trans people can ask to be called whatever they want, but they can’t change the fact that there are only two sexes.”
The idea that sex is binary is presented as an irrefutable fact of life, the most natural truth in the world. Anyone who dares question this “fact” is quickly discounted as a “radical, woke Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-41863367551595011892024-02-23T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-24T18:15:04.794-08:00Great Replacement, Google StyleEver wonder what AI activists and ethicists mean by "alignment"? At first I thought it meant to make AI systems more like humans.
But why would anyone want that? Shouldn't we be making AI more useful, not more like humans?
Google just released its Gemini AI bot, after years of alignment training. And it turns out that they have systematically
replaced White people with non-whites!
For Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-385322461481057292024-02-22T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-22T06:00:00.151-08:00More Neanderthal Art DiscoveredSciAm reports: Over the past decade, increasing evidence suggests artistic expression emerged much earlier in human evolution than scientists once thought, and it's reshaping our understanding of the cognitive abilities of archaic humans, such as Neanderthals and earlier hominins. For instance, there's archaeological evidence that Neanderthals made abstract designs on cave walls long before Homo Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452558.post-16517322863540032212024-02-21T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-21T06:00:00.141-08:00Asking College to Cancel Civil War SoldiersA Princeton University alumnus is unhappy that another alumnus participated in a pro-Trump demonstration,
and wants to cancel him: Although I do not wish that the University rush to judgement about his criminal charges, I also do not wish to see the University condone Mr. Giberson’s actions by granting him a Princeton degree. Does one want Mr. Giberson to be able to crow about being a Princeton Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com4