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The public health establishment lost America’s trust during the COVID-19 pandemic with its bureaucratic incompetence, “noble lies,” and authoritarian mandates. It was about time. Agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been failing the American public for decades. But the agency with the worst track record is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which, long before COVID, caused Americans to lose hundreds of thousands of life years by slowing down drug development. After COVID, the American public had finally started to catch on. President Donald Trump put a new…
John and I continue the reading and commentary on Rules for Radicals Source link
The pale-throated sloth, from Marshall, Annales du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, via Wikipedia. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), whose newsletter I very much recommend, writes about this: Tonight brings huge news out of Sullivan & Cromwell. We can add now add S&C, truly one of the world’s most prestigious and profitable firms, to the AI “Hall of Shame”: the list of law firms that have submitted court filings containing AI-generated “hallucinations.” … [Ironically], as noted by Joe Patrice of Above the Law, Sullivan & Cromwell is the law firm that … advises OpenAI on the “safe and ethical deployment” of artificial intelligence (a representation S&C…
Donald Trump sure has a strange approach to making housing more “affordable”. He apparently wants lower costs for buyers and higher prices for owners and sellers! “I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own their homes.” Needless to say, as the Donald’s scrambles about seeking housing affordability “solutions”, we’d rather suspect that higher house prices are not quite what the economic doctor ordered. That is to say, during the last 55 years the number of hours an average worker needed to put on the clock in order to afford a median…
From today’s by Judge George C. Hanks, Jr. (S.D. Tex.) in Patel v. Figliuzzi, which stemmed from his exchange on MSNC’s Morning Joe with defendant Cesare Frank Figliuzzi, Jr., “the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI”: Host: “So, Frank, let’s turn to FBI Director Kash Patel, who has sort of taken a surprisingly backseat role—at least to this point, in the first 102 or 103 days, wherever we are right now. What do you make of that, that he’s just been a little less visible than I think a lot of people and Trump observers expected him to…
I believe that the Democratic Party’s hostility to Israel represents a deeper and more dangerous shift away from the center and toward a radical approach that is bad for America and the free world. Source link
And there you have the twisted logic. Source link
A New Era for the Federal Reserve Source link
A 77-year-old retired pastor will be tried in court for the second day on Wednesday after preaching a sermon near a hospital in Northern Ireland. Despite not mentioning abortion in his sermon, the retired pastor, Clive Johnston, is being accused of violating the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act (Northern Ireland), which outlaws actions aimed at “influencing” or “preventing or impeding” people seeking abortion services within 100 meters of eight abortion service providers in Northern Ireland, a barrier known as a “safe access zone.” The sermon, which took place across the street from the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, on…
I used to think it was because I wanted to tell stories, invent characters and worlds. To steer these imaginary depictions of who and what I know, into a creative realm to share it with familiars and strangers. It was a way to express philosophy and values, to insert self into different characters and as I came to learn over time, to learn about myself through these characters. As I wrote more non-fiction and revealed a real world as I saw it, the story telling lacked a narrative. There was no template, not a heroes journey, villains were layered and…