DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

New York Post.

A Cornell University student who applied for a summer internship with a Jewish-owned NYC startup rejected the opportunity with a hateful message: ‘Not interested in working for a Jew,” the shocked CEO posted on X.

Austin Franco put his antisemitism on full display when he passed up an interview with VryfID because its co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn are proudly Jewish.

Franco, 19, delivered the message to both brothers via job board site Handshake after applying for a summer role at the company, which pairs renters with landlords and verifies their identities to prevent fraud.

The concept of freedom of association has been so expunged from American life that this will shock a lot of even un-Woke people.

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Pick & Place is a core building block of how C12 envisions the scalable manufacturing of carbon nanotube quantum processors. A carbon nanotube is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. Placing one on a chip is like placing a hair on a surface the size of Paris, accurate to within a few streets. By introducing an intermediate assembly step that decouples nanotube growth from chip fabrication, the process brings significantly more flexibility and modularity to C12’s fabrication flow, while addressing one of the hardest challenges in quantum hardware manufacturing: qubit variability.

The Foundry.

Children of married parents with high education levels are more likely to be healthy and succeed in school and life than their peers. Children from these families are also more likely to live above the poverty line and benefit from extracurricular activities such as music lessons, sports, and summer camp. These activities offer students prized background knowledge.

Students from families with lower education levels must rely more on schools to provide information. Poor reading and math scores nationwide do not give confidence that schools in low-income areas are bridging the gap. Many schools have reduced time spent on history, science, geography, literature, and civics in favor of generic reading strategies, so-called social-emotional learning, and “gender” studies. Schools often cut the very subjects that help students.

Differences in background knowledge have enormous implications for teaching reading. Two students can read the same paragraph and perform differently on the test, not because one is more intelligent, but because he knows the topic better.

For decades, researcher and former professor E.D. Hirsch argued that literacy is connected to content and vocabulary. Hirsch has argued that “broad general knowledge” is essential for reading comprehension because students need prior knowledge to understand what they read.

Likewise, professor of cognitive psychology Daniel T. Willingham, who researches reading comprehension, has also found that background information is important for students to understand text.

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The era of unchecked “activism” that masks itself as science while practicing inhumane sabotage is reaching its end. We are witnessing the slow, painful process of reality catching up to the Greenpeace propaganda. And frankly, it’s about time.

The Foundry.

For years, most Americans’ retirement savings plans have been locked out of certain investment choices, including some of the market’s best-performing assets. That makes it harder to save for retirement. Fortunately, though, this is about to change, giving savers new—and better—options for their investments.

At issue are not only the many rules and regulations surrounding what can go into 401(k)s and similar savings plans, but also the flimsy legal framework governing fiduciaries—the ones who manage your money. Many investment options are excluded, either by law or by common practice, as fiduciaries try to avoid both legitimate and frivolous lawsuits.

Asset classes like private equity, digital assets, and real estate effectively became the purview of “accredited investors” with very high net wealth and government workers with public pensions. Most Americans—those private-sector workers on Main Street—were left out.

For folks with a typical 401(k) retirement plan, this meant lower returns on their investments. U.S. private equity has delivered the highest long-term returns compared to public equities and other asset classes—even after fees—averaging 3 percentage points (about 20%) better annual growth than the S&P 500.

The Poster Child here is Social Security, which BY LAW has to put its money in U.S. Treasury debt, which famously pays the worst return on the planet because it is also popularly believed to be the most secure investment you can make Supposedly Social Security payments go into a ‘trust fund’, but that fund consists of U.S. debt, which means that the money has already been spent. Social Security is depending on the ‘full faith and credit of the United States’ to get its money back, which means that the situation is no different than if the SS system depended on current tax revenues for its payments. It is, in short, a Ponzi scheme.

Quillette.

In February 2022, Tyler Cowen made a prediction that sounded premature to many people: wokeism had peaked. At the time, this seemed far from obvious. The elite institutions most associated with wokeness as a kind of new moral politics—universities, media organisations, nonprofits, foundations, publishing houses, museums, professional associations, and large corporations—still seemed firmly under its grip. DEI bureaucracies were still expanding. “Cancellations” still carried real social and professional force. Corporate America still spoke the language of “equity” with missionary confidence.

In Cowen’s original 2022 formulation, he suggested that the movement would survive as a subculture: educated, affluent, disproportionately white, and institutionally influential. But no longer commanding the country’s morality. The pendulum, he thought, had begun to swing. School-board revolts, growing impatience with cancellations, the backlash to progressive overreach and lawlessness in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the sheer unattractiveness of the movement’s cultural style all suggested that wokeism had passed its high-water mark.

Paul Graham.

Since this is apparently the future prime ministers’ club, I’m going to tell you about something it would be good if more politicians understood: I’m going to tell you how people become billionaires. I hope this will be useful to you even if you don’t plan to go into politics. Those of you who don’t become prime minister can become billionaires instead.

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Starting a successful startup is the most common way to become a billionaire, so in effect I’ve spent the last 21 years training people to become billionaires. So far about 30 of them have, but there are many more in the pipeline.

So you can imagine how astonished I was last month when an American politician said that it was impossible to earn a billion dollars. I felt like a skating coach hearing someone say that it’s impossible to do a triple axel. Of course it’s possible. It’s hard, but it’s possible.

The politician in question was, of course, Alexandra Occasional-Cortex. (My guess would have been Bernie, but I’m old-sch00l.)

It’s all about priorities.

The Telegraph (UK).

In a six-hour operation in the early hours of Sunday morning, Royal Marine Commandos and law enforcement officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) boarded the Smyrtos, a Russian tanker operating off the south coast of England.

The vessel, which was sailing under the flag of Cameroon, will now be moved to an anchorage off the south coast of England and will be monitored for any environmental or safety concerns, officials said.

The operation, ordered by Sir Keir Starmer, comes after months of warnings that Russian shadow tankers, which are used by Vladimir Putin to trade sanctioned oil across the world, were sailing with impunity through the Channel.

The Telegraph previously revealed that tankers had been escorted through the Channel by Russian warships in open defiance of UK sanctions.

Judge orders Trump officials to re-install signs and exhibits at national parks on topics like slavery and climate change (Reuters)  Because, as we all know, every judge knows more abcut what the Exccutive Branch ought to be doing than some silly President.

Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing ‘Negative’ Signs (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)

At 80, Trump Is Everywhere and Showing Signs of Age (Annie Linskey/Wall Street Journal)  Come and get your Narrative, righ here.

RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)  Melts down! Well, maybe not, but that’s the Narrative and we’re sticking to it.

Trump Is Losing Ground With White Working-Class Voters on the Economy (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times) We hope we hope we hope….

Furious Lawrence O’Donnell Makes Secretary Rubio’s UFC Remarks All About Trump

CNN Locates Trump-Trashing ‘Fact Checker’ Daniel Dale on L.A. Vote-Counting Delays

The New Neo. Especially, watch the videos.

Enoch Powerll was the first Woke cancellee.

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Don’t go away mad … just go away.

I think they’d soon regret leeaving America for the Turd World.

I’m the one in the middle.

Sounds like something one might do for great profit on OnlyFans.

Newsbusters.

Imagine being so mentally polluted (no pun intended) by your disdain for people who disagree with your climate fanaticism that you turn them into carbon footprint monsters in their obituaries? That’s exactly what leftist media outlets did writ large upon the passing of legendary former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond.

Outlets like Bloomberg News, The New York Times, the Houston Chronicle and the Australia-based Sydney Morning Herald all took aim at Raymond following news of his death at age 87. They all turned Raymond into Mother Earth’s archnemesis by making him the face of Big Oil and the so-called climate change denier movement.

Some even went as far as to compare Raymond to one of the most notorious Sith Lord villains in Star Wars. Never mind that the “unrelenting” Raymond’s life could be seen as one of America’s great success stories in turning ExxonMobil into the world’s most profitable company for a time, as The Wall Street Journal highlighted. But when do we expect the lefty journalists to purely celebrate anything Americana?

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After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K-12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent, or 1.18 million students, and schools show no signs of rebounding. Lower birth rates are the primary driver of the downturn. The number of births has decreased steadily in recent years, with 690,000 fewer children born in 2024 than in 2007.

You can believe that if you want to. I suspect it’s more being driven by parents realizing that if they want an educated child they’re going to have to do it themselves rather than hand it off to the government. Roman Catholics have been doing this for centuries and the cost-effectiveness and superiority of that education over what one gets at a government school is common knowledge.

The loss of enrolled students has prompted some desperate measures. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is offering “free” childcare for 2-year-olds regardless of their parents’ income. In 2024, parents of toddlers spent an average of more than $23,000 on center-based childcare, according to the NYC Comptroller.

Why the ‘desperation’? Because all public schools depend for their funding on Federal ‘education’ programs, such as free breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner, which money is shelled out based on enrollment.

For those still attending public schools, chronic absence—the percentage of students missing 10 percent or more of a school year—is a growing problem. As of January 20, the latest data show that chronic absenteeism, which surged from 15 percent pre-COVID to 28 percent in 2022, remains elevated at 24 percent.

The assumption here, of course, is that when a child is ‘absent’ from the local government school, they are wandering the streets getting into mischief. That’s certainly a possibility in The ‘Hood, but more and more it reflects homeschooling and other alternatives. But no—if the government is not ‘educating’ your kid, your kid is not getting educated. QED.

Marc Oestreich, an education policy consultant and strategist, writes that in many cases, students are responding to schools that fail to teach them to read, fail to adapt to their needs, and fail to demonstrate that another day in the building is worth their time.

Oestreich asserts, “The honest version of the absenteeism story is not that American parents have suddenly become uniquely irresponsible, or that students have collectively misplaced their work ethic somewhere between TikTok and the bus stop. The honest story is that a substantial number of families, concentrated among the poor, the male, and the badly served, have concluded from direct experience that what their local public school offers is not worth the time.”

And there you have it. Markets work even when you don’t want them to.

While public schools are struggling, private school attendance has remained steady. However, as more parental choice bills advance, the number of children attending private schools will very likely increase. There are currently 75 private school choice programs in 34 states, serving more than 1.5 million students.

Also, the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program, which takes effect on January 1, 2027, is likely to substantially increase the number of students leaving public schools for private schools.

A step in the right direction.

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After nearly eleven years in the making, the EU’s flagship asylum and migration management legislation, commonly called the Migration Pact, entered into force on June 12th. Implementing the law is now mandatory for all EU countries (except for some provisions in the case of Denmark, which has a broader opt-out from common EU home affairs legislation).

The main objective of the Pact was to introduce a single, harmonized asylum procedure that would ensure that refugees get the exact same treatment, regardless of which member state they apply to for asylum, as well as to make both entry and return procedures more streamlined. The EU Commission is celebrating this milestone as something that will finally solve all of Europe’s migration woes and put the decade-old conflict about border control and illegal entries to rest.

But that’s just wishful thinking, as national conservative parties across Europe have never accepted the Pact and will keep on fighting against its implementation for the foreseeable future. Their criticism targets not only the so-called solidarity mechanism and its mandatory migrant relocation quotas but also the fact that the Pact fails to strengthen external borders and prevent illegal entries in any meaningful way; in fact, it forces member states to allow more migrants in.

Cutting their own throats, slowly.

ATQUE: ‘The Suicide Of Europe’: Historic EU Migration Pact Goes Into Force Today As Fracture-Lines Grow

New York Post.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for itl.

The Telegraph (UK).

A Green councillor who compared gender-critical authors to Holocaust deniers has been forced to study the Equality Act.

Helen Elliott-Boult, a Green councillor for Stroud district council (SDC), justified the cancellation of an event featuring two authors critical of transgender ideology, set to take place at Stroud Brewery in the Cotswolds.

The event was cancelled because of fears for “the safety of members of our trans community”.

Council officers have mandated that Ms Elliott-Boult attend training, reinforcing that gender-critical views are protected by law in the UK.

I guess some views are more equal than others.

The Telegraph (UK).

Gazans are preparing for public protests against Hamas in what is being touted as a grassroots “revolution” against the terror group.

Good luck with that.

The movement, which appears to have been started by Gazans in exile, is calling for surviving residents in the enclave to gather en masse.

Wonder how many will die?

The Times (UK).

Police officers were given anti-racism training featuring clips of Nigel Farage and an image of white people in chains and black people holding guns, The Times can reveal.

Training material seen by The Times shows the mandatory session, delivered to officers and staff at North Yorkshire police, was linked to the Police Race Action Plan and asked officers to reflect on “what anti-racism means” to them personally and professionally.

A serving officer who attended said trainers showed an image reversing the racial roles of slavery and asked officers to imagine how they would feel if they had been taught that version of history at school.

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Actions have consequences. Democrats never seem to understand that.

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Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) points out how deranged American African culture is.

I sincerely hope that the Metcalf family sue this kids parents for wrongful death and strip them of every cent they have.

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There is a reason pepole are leaving such places rather than moving to such places.

The U-Haul was later found, but it was completely empty. After the fundraiser hit its target amount, a thank-you update was added.

Maybe they could open a lemonade stand….

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Countries whose Wokerati ruling classes are more insulated from their real-people population are more apt to have Narrative Media that will more readily say the quiet part out lout.

If you’ve ever met me,
You will not forget me.,

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Much like the feminist movement (or any leftist movement), black rights activism in America has mutated from its original form into something bizarre and monstrous. Civil rights conflicts tend to be born from legitimate grievances if a society’s intention is to create general “equality” under the law. But this is only the surface view, the lipstick, the young and naive version of what these movements are all about.

They appeal to the western sense of honor, reason and fairness. However, there is such a thing as suicidal empathy. The western world has become so infatuated with the idea of total equality that many people are willing to overlook the undeniable and sometimes dangerous differences between ethnic groups and their subcultures.

Lacking the ability to discern and yes, discriminate to a logical degree, is not something the west can afford to do. What happens when civil rights become a license for cultural elimination? White people, a minority in decline with 11% of the global population, have to stop exercising empathy and start exercising caution.

The Karmelo Anthony case is just one of many examples of expansive minority violence against white Americans being justified in the name of civil rights. To be sure, there are many black conservatives out there who do not agree and they are being targeted by left-wing activists for speaking out. But sadly, a vast majority of blacks in the US are captured by the far-left plantation.

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t least seven states have withdrawn from participating in the Great American State Fair, a 16-day celebration tied to the festivities on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., surrounding the nation’s 250th anniversary.

The governors of the seven states — Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington — are all Democrats.

Massachusetts and North Carolina said they declined to participate in the fair, set to begin June 25, because of budget constraints, The New York Times reported. Some states are instead holding celebrations of their own, many years in the making.

Sure. I believe that.

The New Neo.

Astounding facts can be found here about the demographic transformation of Western Europe. An excerpt:

Between 2010 and today, in only 16 years, the number of foreign-born residents in Europe rocketed from 40million to more than 64million. In other words, Europe’s ruling class added 24million foreign-born residents in only 16 years, with nearly three-quarters coming from radically different cultures and nations.

It’s that last bit that’s of great import: “from radically different cultures and nations.” Not just “radically different,” either, but a significant number of the newcomers are also uninterested in assimilating to their new cultural surroundings and in some instances they hate them and actively wish to change them.

The US does – or used to do – somewshat better at assimilation, but Europe historically has been much less interested in that process. Perhaps that’s because European nations are more based on a shared physical (genetic) and historical heritage and less based on shared principles (or at least overtly stated shared principles rather than subtly understood ones), whereas the US has always been composed mostly of people “from away” who have come because they are interested in liberty and opportunity.

The advent of the welfare state, both in Europe and in the US, has diluted that motive.

The New Neo.

Some people consider Karmelo Anthony the innocent victim here. My sense is that the people reacting this way to the Anthony verdict are a relatively small group, but they’re very vocal and getting a lot of media attention. The group is composed of extremely angry black people and virtue-signaling white “progressives.” But even one person reacting this way is one too many.

Quillette.

Human evolution, particularly of the brain, ended a long time ago—at least that is what many educated people, wary of claims about biological differences between human groups, prefer to believe. For much of the postwar era, it was widely assumed that natural selection had largely ceased to shape human populations and that any evolution during the past ten millennia was too slow or too slight to detect. That view was partly shaped by evidence and partly shaped by history. After World War II, the horrors of Nazi racial science made claims about human biological variation radioactive, and for good reason. But a justified rejection of racial typologies often hardened into a broader assumption: that natural selection had lost its grip on humans, and that differences between populations were mostly superficial.

A landmark study published in Nature in April has complicated that narrative. Drawing on ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 West Eurasians spanning 10,000 years, Harvard geneticist David Reich and colleagues found evidence that directional genetic selection is not only widespread but accelerating. Rather than stasis, evolution has continued to act on hundreds of genetic variants associated with traits ranging from disease risk and body composition to complex behavioural measures, including intelligence.

While the paper itself is technical and cautious, its implications are explosive. Importantly, the selection identified in the study occurred within populations inhabiting distinct ecological and cultural environments, suggesting that recent human evolution has been shaped by local selective pressures rather than a uniform global process. That, in turn, raises the possibility of ongoing regional divergence between different human groups. This has already dragged an older, more troubling word back into the discussion—“race”. This is not the sloppy popular notion based on skin colour or a rigid biological essence. Human genetics substantially overlaps among groups, rendering classical racial categories obsolete. But this provocative research does underscore that many human differences may not be simply skin deep.

Evolution never stops, in the same way that markets never go away. Humans can affect evolution, chiefly by preserving the lives of people who would otherwise die before they reproduce, but also by aborting babies for convenience (and we have no idea how THAT will work out….).

Ars Technica.

Antares is one of a number of companies that is basing its design on a new fuel system called TRISO that takes some of the complexity and safety out of the reactor design and places them in the fuel design. The fuel design is based on tiny pellets with a uranium oxide core. The pellets are surrounded by several layers of carbon that can moderate the energy of both the neutrons and lighter nuclei that are released by fission reactions. All of that is encased in a hard ceramic shell that’s designed to withstand the highest temperatures that can be produced by the encased uranium.

As long as your reactor can keep the TRISO pellets contained, then there should be no risk of meltdown or even the release of the most dangerous isotopes produced from the reactions. There are still some safety concerns, as neutrons will still escape and can potentially convert some of the surrounding material into unstable isotopes. But the Antares design surrounds the TRISO with a graphite sheath, which should slow most of these neutrons down.

To mitigate non-radioactive risks, the Antares design uses sodium to take heat from the reactor to a heat exchanger. The heat is transferred to pressurized nitrogen, which then drives a turbine in a closed Brayton cycle setup.

This appears to be a form of the pebble-bed reactor, although it’s difficult to tell from the bare-bones description in the article.

Pebble-bed reactors strike me as the best and safest form of small reactor we can build.

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“My son was defending himself.”

All the evidence to the contrary. He rammed this blade two inches into Austin Metcalf’s heart after making violent threats to Austin and his friends.

“All-white jury.”

No it wasn’t.

Media reports indicate “Asian, Hispanic, and Middle Eastern individuals” on the jury, including a woman in a hijab. Other reports indicate at least one of the Asian individuals was Indian.

But think about what she is saying. Her worldview seems to be obsessed with skin color. She’s implying that white people are automatically going to be racist simply because their skin is white.

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If you’ve got children who live in a Democrat-run city, have them set up a lemonade stand so they can learn a valuable lesson just like these Boston kids did!

In Boston, there’s nothing a future business owner needs to learn more than how to give away all their money when a “teen” with a gun approaches the register.

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Angelenos are still very upset about the Palisades Fire and the city’s horrible response to the disaster (although if you believe the election results, it doesn’t seem that way) and a new lawsuit is being filed against the city by one Kenneth Bass.

He’s the biological brother of LA Mayor Karen Bass.

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government bill that will eliminate the possibility of permanent residence permits for asylum seekers and certain other groups of immigrants.

The legislation, passed on Tuesday, will come into force on July 12th. From that date onward, only temporary residence permits can be issued to those falling under the new rules.

Temporary residence permits are already the norm in Sweden. The new law, however, removes the possibility for these groups to eventually obtain permanent residence status. Individuals who already hold permanent residence permits will not be affected by the change.

The move comes as Sweden continues to grapple with serious problems related to gang crime and violence, much of which authorities have linked to criminal networks with immigrant backgrounds. Over the past decade, the country has struggled to contain shootings connected to rival gangs involved in the drug trade and their violent feuds.

According to police data from May, 23 innocent bystanders have been killed and another 30 wounded in gang-related shootings over the past three years. Authorities said the victims were not the intended targets but were instead hit by stray bullets, mistaken for someone else, or targeted because of links to individuals involved in criminal networks.

Police have also warned that gangs increasingly recruit teenagers through social media and encrypted messaging services, often offering money to carry out attacks. Many recruits are younger than 15, the current age of criminal responsibility in Sweden, making them particularly attractive to criminal organizations because they cannot be prosecuted under the criminal justice system.

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Four teenage suspects caused one synagogue explosion and attempted to cause a second—all for a €3,000 payment—a court in the Netherlands heard.

The quartet, all between 17 and 19 years old, was arrested on the night of March 13 outside a synagogue on Mozartlaan in Hillegersberg. Previously, an explosion had occurred at the Jewish house of prayer on ABN Davidsplein in Blijdorp. It is alleged that footage of this blast—started with gasoline and a firecracker—was sent to a handler using a messaging app.

The video was then circulated on the Telegram channel Alfaqaar. From here onwards, the attack was claimed by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya. Despite this, the teens—three of the four of Antillean descent—through their lawyers argue that this is not a terror case.

Of course not. Perish the thought.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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The suspect in the 2024 murder of a Polish soldier, Mateusz Sitek, was named by Polish prosecutors as Moroccan migrant Mohamed Addamrou.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced a firearms manufacturer will leave the state of Virginia over new “anti-gun legislation” and relocate to Georgia, bringing a $22 million investment and employing hundreds of residents.

“Georgia attracts job creators from all over the country and world because we work with them, not against them,” Kemp said. “Our state’s pro-business approach, skilled workforce, and enduring support for constitutional freedoms make us an ideal home for manufacturers like Rideout Arsenal, and we look forward to their success here in the No. 1 state for business.”

Rideout Arsenal, the firearms designer and manufacturer launching the new facility, has announced it will be opening its doors in the south Georgia town of Thomasville.

“Today we welcome Rideout Arsenal to Thomasville. This includes new highly skilled jobs, new partnerships, new careers, and new momentum for our community,” Thomasville Mayor Scott Chastain said. “Most importantly, we welcome the Rideout family to our community.”

The new facility will be located within the Plantation Oak Industrial Park, with additional buildings planned throughout the next several years.

The company’s founders said the decision to locate in Georgia was made partly as a response to recent legislation in Virginia that could affect the business.

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The maximum was life or 99 years. The crime was a heinous one. And the carrying of the knife to a school track meet, plus witnesses saying Anthony kept his hand in his bag (apparently at the ready with the knife) during basically a verbal spat, indicates the murder was not a sudden “heat of the moment” thing. Premeditation can involve a short time; it doesn’t have to be hours or days. Also, a knife plunged that deeply into the chest would almost certainly be known to be a mortal blow, so it would be very difficult for Anthony to successfully claim that he didn’t mean to kill Metcalf.

Therefore there was a very good argument that Anthony should have gotten life. The death penalty is not allowed if a perpetrator is under 18 and without other special circumstances, and since Anthony was 17 at the time of the murder and the requisite special circumstances were not present, life in prison was the maximum allowed.

Why did Anthony not get a life sentence? The jury didn’t deliberate long, and I don’t think they explained their sentencing decision; at least, I haven’t found an explanation. But I think – as I wrote earlier – it was his youth. Also his baby face. He will have a long time in prison to think about what he did, especially if he ends up serving most of it. But even if he only serves half of it (the minimum, because he would be eligible for parole then), when he gets out he would be around 34 because he’s 19 now. That will have to do.

No, it won’t. He was raised to be a thug and that training was effective. He is a thug from a thug culture and won’t find any better culture in prison—prison is just a finishing school for thugs like him. The fact that his family are profiting from his situation and not even pretending that the money they are raising will be used for anything having to do with him illustrates it sufficiently well.

After the hearing, Anthony’s mother, Kala, and his brother blasted the killer’s conviction and sentence as “racist and biased” to cheering supporters who chanted “free Karmelo.”

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By all appearances, the Anthonys look like a typical family. Karmelo has several siblings and the family’s social media showed a comfortable life like vacations, a lavish home and expensive cars, per Distractify. Three years before the incident, they had relocated to North Texas. “Three years ago, my family moved to North Texas, searching for a better life,” Kayla said in a press interview after Karmelo’s arrest, she described their family as loving and said they had provided their children with opportunities to succeed.

Black people in the U.S. have been leeching off of White Guilt so long that it’s the foundation of everything they do.

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Well, Banana People’s Republic.

Historically, a “banana republic” is a derisive term for small, unstable nations in Latin America dominated by a corrupt ruling clique. These regimes maintained power through manipulated elections, suppression of opposition, crony capitalism, and the systematic looting of public resources, all while projecting a thin veneer of democratic legitimacy. The people suffered in poverty while the elite lived in ostentatious luxury.

Tragically, that archetype no longer belongs solely to distant tropics. It now describes California—the wealthiest subnational economy on the planet and America’s clearest example of institutional decay.

California’s gross domestic product exceeds that of all but a handful of sovereign countries. The state is the birthplace of transformative technologies and the global capital of entertainment. Yet beneath the glossy surface of Silicon Valley valuations and Hollywood glamour lies a political order that has grown increasingly authoritarian, opaque, and self-serving.

The state is no longer governed by competing visions of the public good. It is controlled by a single party that has captured every lever of institutional power.

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When the systems of a ‘law and order’ society find no intention, benefit or reasonable expectation of safety from their established construct of government -generally driven by an intentional willingness to ignore the demands of the citizens those officials are expected to represent- eventually people take matters into their own hands.

It is fair to call this the end of the “first follower” phase.

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Four Afghan nationals, including a 16-year-old boy, are on trial in Britain accused of repeatedly raping a 17-year-old girl over several hours after allegedly grooming her online and transporting her to Bristol in late November 2025.

Mehrab Safi, 21, Awal Ahmadzai, 19, and Salman Habibkheil, 19, along with the juvenile, allegedly groomed the victim after Safi approached her in Bristol’s Cabot Circus. Court proceedings at Bristol Crown Court heard that Safi added the girl on Snapchat and requested nude photos before organising a taxi to bring her from Somerset to Bristol in the early hours.

Once there, she was allegedly taken to a property in the St. Werburghs area, plied with vodka and cigarettes, and allegedly raped by all four defendants. Prosecutor Ed Hetherington told the court the girl was isolated, alone in an unfamiliar city at night, and subjected to repeated sexual abuse against her will over several hours. The alleged assault came to an end after the girl’s mother alerted police.

Three of the adult suspects fled the scene as officers arrived, travelling to London and Birmingham before crossing to France hidden in a lorry. French police detained them in Calais on 3 December 2025; they reportedly gave false names before being returned to the UK. Safi faces two rape charges and one of human trafficking. Habibkheil denies human trafficking and rape. Ahmadzai denies rape and assault by penetration. The 16-year-old denies rape. The trial is expected to last up to three weeks.

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There is great anxiety and uncertainty about AI replacing jobs. How can we move past vague warnings and bombastic predictions and bring data to bear on this question? One good way is to look at the profession where AI capabilities are furthest along and adoption has been exceptionally rapid: software engineering.

In this essay, we argue that there is enough evidence to reject the narrative that once AI capabilities reach a certain threshold, it will cause mass layoffs. Given that this is true even in a sector with very few regulatory barriers, most other professions are likely to be even more cushioned.

We also have a good understanding of why this is the case. We can think of many kinds of knowledge work, including software development, as a “decide-execute-deliver sandwich”. AI compresses the “execute” layer — the middle of the sandwich — but the other two layers resist automation in a way that will not be overcome by capability improvements alone.

We conclude on a note of cautious optimism about the future trajectory of demand for software engineering. This essay is the first in a series, and the next one will look at reasons why individual software engineers’ careers might be rocky even if overall demand is healthy. The series is based on the published literature in economics and software engineering, our own evaluations and observations of AI agents, and many software engineers’ reflection on the present and future of AI impacts on their profession, gleaned both from published writings and our interactions with the community.

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and media outlets are trying to scare people away from demonstrably safe and nutritious conventional food products.

Headlines about harmful pesticides in conventional foods are lying to you in order to create fear.

It is wildly irresponsible of supposed “journalists” to continue to platform this long-standing coordinated campaign by the EWG to erode science literacy and harm public health.

ATQUE: Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free

Cringely says the quiet part out loud.

There’s a reason your bank’s AI will tell you its branch hours but not your account balance. A reason the hospital lets it summarize the cafeteria menu and not the medical chart. A reason no airline will put a language model near a cockpit and no law firm lets one file a brief without a terrified associate reading every line. It isn’t the cost. It’s that the thing lies — confidently, fluently, without warning, and without any tell. In a chatbot recommending a taco place, a hallucination is a shrug. In a domain where being wrong gets someone audited, sued, sick, or killed, a hallucination is a wall. And behind that wall sit the most valuable AI markets on Earth — banking, insurance, medicine, law, aviation, defense — frozen, spending fortunes on pilot projects that might never ship, because the last mile is always a liability lawyer saying no.

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All they had to do was find a Democrat man who is somewhat masculine but doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo and never said he would rape home intruders but “not in a gay way.”

They couldn’t do it. They ignored the bad stuff and decided he was the manly man that Democrats needed.

There is something very Bernie-esque about the whole thing.