Forget mysterious dark matter and the inexplicable accelerating expansion of the universe; the bicycle represents a far more embarrassing hole in the accomplishments of physics. (h/t jcd)
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I, Napoleon
Published this month in the Journal For The Academically Insane;
The editors of an influential feminist philosophy journal have denounced an academic research paper that argues racial identity can be just as fluid as gender, castigating its Canadian author for causing “harm” and ignoring “violence upon actual persons.”
Curiously, these editors run the journal that published the paper in the first place.
And by insane, I include all of them.
Le Vote
Marine Le Pen vs Emmanuel Macron:Live coverage at the Telegraph, and I would expect soon. at Drudge.
If Women Ran The World
“I am woman, hear me goo goo, ga ga.“
The Mark Steyn Club
It’s a weird thing to be told that you need to be out there saving western civilization – but only for premium subscribers.
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The Refrigerators Have Eyes
Why you should buy the dumbest appliances you can find.
“The world does not like miracles.”
Now that the State of Israel exists too many take it for granted. Others have unknowingly slipped into the narrative crafted by our enemies, whose goal is to portray the State as a terrible burden, both for the Jews and for everyone else. A burden that is best dismantled for a return to Egypt.
h/t Adrian
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer. (h/t Ed)
Not Watching For The Asteroid
We’ve stripped our cable subscription down to the bare minimum. When and if the CFL goes online, it’s gone.
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When The Democrats Do It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
During his final year in office, President Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.
Among those whose names were unmasked in 2016 or early 2017 were campaign or transition associates of President Trump as well as members of Congress and their staffers, according to sources with direct knowledge.
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In all, government officials conducted 30,355 searches in 2016 seeking information about Americans in NSA intercept metadata, which include telephone numbers and email addresses. The activity amounted to a 27.5 percent increase over the prior year and more than triple the 9,500 such searches that occurred in 2013, the first year such data was kept.
The government in 2016 also scoured the actual contents of NSA intercepted calls and emails for 5,288 Americans, an increase of 13 percent over the prior year and a massive spike from the 198 names searched in 2013.
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How High, Señor Maduro?
May there be a lamp post in his future.
It's not science fiction, it's the people of Venezuela rising up against the totalitarian socialists pic.twitter.com/rssR0tHU4n
— TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek) May 5, 2017
It’s Probably Nothing
North Korea condemned China in strong language, in the latest sign of a growing rift between Beijing and the Kim Jong Un regime over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
The statement from North Korea is unprecedented because it addressed China directly, and exposed the increasingly problematic relationship between the two neighbors.
Max, With Mark
h/t Midnight
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If Women Ran The World
Internet feminists are outraged after a scientific journal told a group of female researchers that their work on gender bias in academia was gender biased.
Two female evolutionary geneticists collaborated on the piece, which claimed that fewer women Ph.D. candidates were published by established scientific journals, leading them to believe, based on interviews with women across the scientific fields, that the publishing industry was biased against female scientists.
When they submitted their article to a journal that specializes in publishing research on diversity in the fields of science and medicine, a reviewer suggested that the women include a male voice in their study, just to show that they, themselves, were not coming at the issue from a position of gender bias.
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The journal, PLOS, was forced to say they were sorry and retract the critique; they now claim, also, that they’ve placed the reviewer on leave until they can determine exactly what happened.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether San Francisco-based Sunrun Inc. RUN -8.06% and Elon Musk’s San Mateo, Calif.-based SolarCity Corp. have adequately disclosed how many customers have canceled contracts after signing up for a home solar-energy system, the person said.
Investors use that cancellation metric as one way to gauge the companies’ health. Companies typically give customers a few days after signing a contract, or even up until the time of installation, to back out of a deal.
Some solar-energy companies have recently disclosed in public filings and earnings calls that increasing numbers of customers are canceling, but the companies have provided few details about the number of cancellations or their impact on the companies’ business.
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