DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Katherine Dee:

The premise that everyone wants and is owed a Princeton seminar is itself a fiction. An educated, literate public is a fiction. Most of human history, including the history that produced most of the literature and music and political theory we still draw on, took place in societies where the deep reading of difficult texts was the practice of a small, privileged minority. The first novels were written for an audience that, by our standards, barely existed.

In a perfect world, the world I hope for for my children, the university will get smaller, weirder, more expensive and – if can you excuse my elitism – probably much better. It will look more like Oxford in 1890 than Stanford in 2025. In 1890, universities such as Oxford and Harvard had fewer than 3,000 enrolled students. In those days, undergraduates spent a few years studying Greek and Latin philology followed by Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Tacitus, Kant, Hegel, Hume, and Mill. They read an essay aloud once a week to their tutor and defended it in conversation. That model is what the university will rediscover, by necessity, over the next decade – that is, the life of the mind. The life of the mind that so few of us really need, or frankly want access to. (Embarrassingly, I include myself in this.)

The Spectator.

College is extraordinarily expensive and becoming less useful, and those who insist otherwise are working from a model of the labor market that stopped describing reality sometime in the 1990s. Four-year courses at private institutions often cost more than $70,000 a year, and it should come as no surprise that student debt has tipped over $1 trillion .

This situation is ridiculous for a film student, but it is also ridiculous for a computer science graduate whose program could not keep pace with the industry it was preparing him for – and who learned more in four months on GitHub and dicking around on X and Repl.it than in four years of lectures.

It’s sad, but how many people were attending school for “the life of the mind” to begin with? The work is and has been purposeless for most of the people doing it for decades, and they know it, and the professors surely know it, and the institutions have responded by pretending otherwise. When an assignment has no purpose, copying the answer from a machine is not a moral failure, at least from my vantage point. It’s more efficient than googling it, or asking the kid next to you, or buying the answer.

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Karmelo Anthony, who is black, was arrested in 2025 after he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, who is white, at a track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.  Karmelo has been charged with first-degree murder: the unlawful killing of another, with malice aforethought and specific intent.

In the past several days 600 people were reviewed to generate a potential pool of 250 jurors.  The 250 were further whittled down to 12 with six alternates.  The jury selection is over and the opening statements in the trial will likely begin tomorrow.  The jury will not be sequestered during trial.

The killing is not being disputed by the defense, there were dozens of witnesses to the murder.  However, the defense is claiming ‘stand your ground’ and ‘self-defense’ as justification for the killing.  The defense is also promoting a motive of racism for everything surrounding the event between Metcalf and Anthony and throughout the pre-trial motions and public positioning.

The New Neo.

Although California is doing its usual counting of votes in geologic timeframes, it looks as though Republicans Steve Hilton (governor’s race) and Spencer Pratt (LA mayor’s race) will be on the ballot against Democrats Becarra and Bass, respectively.

In the blue state of California, one can assume that the Democrats will win (by hook or crook, as it were). But hey, you never know.

The Other McCain.

Perhaps, once Jews have been treated like Republicans long enough, they’ll wake up and make the switch. Perhaps.

The Foundry.

What are California values? Are they sprawling homeless encampments, public intoxication and drug use, and naked people walking through the streets? Are they rising crime rates, small businesses closing, families being driven out of their communities, and parents who cannot safely take their children to a park?

Those were the questions the Daily Signal’s senior national security and legal analyst Mehek Cooke raised during ABC News’ coverage of California’s primary elections Tuesday night.

The answers are already visible on the streets, she noted. The Daily Signal recently sent reporters into Skid Row, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for having one of the highest homeless populations in the United States. Residents described a city in crisis and demanded accountability from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. One military veteran who spent 26 years in Skid Row told the Daily Signal, “The whole city of LA is now Skid Row.” Another resident called the city’s homelessness spending scandal the “biggest rip-off in history.”

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The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid at least three people who wanted to leave the white supremacist movement not to do so, according to the Justice Department’s superseding indictment handed down Tuesday.

A federal grand jury in April had indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. The SPLC has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

While the organization “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”

The charges revolve around the SPLC’s program paying “field sources” inside white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. The organization has maintained that it paid these informants in order to alert law enforcement to extremist violence before it happened, and some of the informants’ information did lead to prosecutions.

However, the indictment claims some of the SPLC money actually went to prop up the organizations—and the superseding indictment reveals more details of the allegations.

It’s also excellent practice. You know, just in case.

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

Except that it’s not ‘American capitalsm’ but rather ‘American semi-socialism’ that’s the problem.

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In a shock to absolutely no one, Minnesota continues to be a national embarrassment.

While the feds have done their diligence and charged 39 of the activists who stormed Cities Church in St. Paul back in January, including Don Lemon who did us all a favor and recorded his crimes, the City of St. Paul has declined to do anything to the rioters.

They won’t even call them rioters.

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The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons. That number appears in almost every popular account of memory and intelligence, and it tends to carry an implicit argument: that the scale of human cognition follows from the scale of this cell count. What is less often mentioned is that the brain contains a roughly comparable number of a different cell type entirely, one that researchers have treated, for most of the history of neuroscience, as little more than biological scaffolding.

A paper published on 23 May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesputs forward a new hypothesis about what those cells, called astrocytes, might actually be doing. The work comes from a team at MIT: lead author Leo Kozachkov, Jean-Jacques Slotine, a professor of mechanical engineering and brain and cognitive sciences, and Dmitry Krotov of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, who is the paper’s senior author. Their claim is not that astrocytes have been misunderstood in any dramatic sense; it is the more careful suggestion that they may be doing computational work that neurons, on their own, cannot account for.

This is a hypothesis supported by a mathematical model. The experimental work needed to test it has not yet been done.

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In 1999, after twenty years and many tens of millions of books sold,[1] Bantam Books announced that it would no longer be publishing its Choose Your Own Adventure line of children’s paperbacks. So, since these histories currently find themselves in 1999, this seems like a good time to look back on one of the formative influences upon the computer games I’ve been covering for so many years now, as well as upon the people who played them — not least, yours truly. Or maybe that’s just an excuse for me to finally write an article I should have written a long time ago. Either way, I hope you don’t mind if I step out of the chronology today and take you way, way back, to steal a phrase from Van Morrison.

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ou might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

However, after decades of fraught relationships between the nuclear industry and communities in many parts of the U.S., building these tiny reactors requires reckoning with the complex history of nuclear technology and rebuilding public trust.

Microreactor technology for use in towns or cities hasn’t been developed yet, but many researchers have been building the case for its use.

Good luck with that. Between the Mountain of Red Tape imposed by modern micromanagement government and the dementia of modern Leftists activism, I will bet you it won’t happen, if an all, until we are all dead.

And of course it would do absolutely no good to point out that U.S. Navy ships have been running nuclear reactors that would fit into a Chipotle (and have never had a shred of trouble with them) for over sixty years.

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Picture this: eight men in their seventies arrive at a New Hampshire retreat in 1979. But something strange awaits them. The magazines are from 1959. The radio plays twenty-year-old news broadcasts. Ed Sullivan flickers on black-and-white television screens. Even the mirrors have been removed.

These men aren’t here for nostalgia therapy. Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer has something more audacious in mind. For five days, she wants them to live as if it’s 1959. Not remember it. Not discuss it. Live it.

What happened next should have revolutionized how we think about aging, health, and the stories our bodies learn to believe.

By week’s end, the men had measurably improved. Their hearing sharpened. Posture straightened. Grip strength increased. Memory and cognition perked up. Most remarkably, independent judges looking at before-and-after photographs rated the men as looking younger.

No drugs. No surgeries. No medical interventions at all.

Just a shift in context. A different story to inhabit.

Sometimes the old ways are best. I remember 1959 (back when Disney animated films were worth watching) and in many ways I prefer it to what we have today.

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The team came nowhere close to meeting them. Infighting broke out between two factions—while Gregory simply wanted to patch together his old C code, insisting his product “was within six months of shipping,” the whiz-kid Mark Miller came back from his new job at Xerox PARC, alongside a half-dozen of his closest friends, and insisted on a perfectionistic rewrite in a more flexible language, Smalltalk.

Full disclosure: Mark Miller was a friend of mine at Yale, and you could not get him to shut up about Xanadu.

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In March 2025, an anonymous buyer purchased the 1715 “Baron Knoop” Stradivarius for $23 million (U.S.), making it the most expensive violin ever sold. (The seller, the American stringed-instrument collector David L. Fulton, had purchased it for a more modest $2.75 million in 1992.) Previous record setters have included the 1721 “Lady Blunt,” which fetched $15.9 million in 2011, and the “Joachim?Ma,” which went for $11.25 million in February 2025.

All three of these models were made by Antonio Stradivari, a Cremonese luthier whose output in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is said to epitomize perfection in violin manufacturing. Depending on your point of view, they may indeed be examples of flawless human handiwork. Or they might be, as the fiction writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce once put it, objects that “tickle human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat.” Either way, where do these exorbitant value judgments come from?

Tom Wilder looks for the answers through the wider cultural world that brought the violin to prominence after its development in the sixteenth century and laid the stage for it to become the most iconic instrument of Western music: a physical manifestation of “taste, refinement, and wealth.” The guitar may exist on a similarly high level of symbolism, but the appraisal of an individual six-string turns more on its provenance and on any alterations by famous owners than on the maker. As two examples, an acoustic Gibson owned by John Lennon sold for $2.4 million in 2015, while the 1959 Martin D?18E that Kurt Cobain used on Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York album went for just over $6 million in 2020 (he had picked it up for just $5,000). Pricey, but not near the numbers a Stradivarius commands.

The War Zone.

A new type of submarine that appears to lack a traditional sail has emerged in China. The same shipyard launched a smaller ‘sailless’ submarine — a technology demonstrator — eight years ago. More recently, a top Chinese shipbuilding conglomerate put forward a concept for an uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) with a broadly comparable hullform. Designs of this kind can offer benefits in terms of speed, maneuverability, and reduced acoustic signature, but also have major drawbacks.

TWZ has obtained imagery of the submarine in question at JN (Jiangnan) Shipyard in Shanghai on June 1, as seen at the top of this story and below, from Vantor (previously Maxar Technologies). The boat, the name and/or designation of which are currently unknown, first appeared there sometime at the end of May, according to Naval News. That outlet was first to report on this development.

From the imagery, the submarine does not have a traditional sail. However, the exact shaping of what is present is also not entirely clear from the view that is currently available. As noted, JN Shipyard is known to have built at least one other ‘sailless’ submarine in the past, which we will come back to later on.

Trump Throws 1 A.M. Temper Tantrum Over How Innocent He Is (The New Republic) Because, as we all know, Trump throws tantrums—just ask the Narrative Media.

The true meaning of Trump’s choice for America’s new top spy (CNN) Because, as we all know, you, the reader are too fucking stupid fo figure it out yourself, without us holding your and and leading you to the Narrative.

How Trump has used the presidency to benefit himself and his allies (ABC News) Because, as we all know, Trump is a crook, and crooks do that sort of thing. (Hunter Biden, call your parole officer.)

Jeffries: Democrats aren’t focused on Trump impeachment ‘at this moment’ (Justin Papp/CNBC)  Because, as we all know, they’ll impeach him when they get around to it. It’s what they do.

Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders for DHS (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico) Because, as we all know, it’s not enough to submit to the Deep State, you have to say that you submit to the Deep State. You have to say ‘uncle’ to acknowledge that you’re beaten.

Trump loyalist Pulte gets oversight of vast U.S. intel (Josephine Walker/Axios)  Loyalist! Vast!

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job (Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, anybody who was convicted in the witch-hunt for Jan. 6 is ipso facto unqualified for anything anywhere.

NPR Plugs ‘Pride Month,’ Laments Trump Is Curbing Corporate Donations  Because, as we all know, it’s not that Trump doesn’t have Pride, it’s that he has the wrong kind of Pride.

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)  Because, as we all know, only Left-wingers are subject to dangers when they blow the whistle. (When the Right does it, it’s a ‘conspiracy theory’.)

Trump’s intel pick delights MAGA and shocks nation’s spies (Daniella Cheslow/Politico)  Because, as we all know, we MUST NOT shock the nation’s spies.

Leftists Try To “Cancel” Giants Quarterback For His Appearance At Trump Rally

Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts (Annika Hammerschlag/Associated Press)  Because, as we all know, observing the oceans and critical climate records are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Bill Pulte is Trump’s most dangerously sycophantic promotion yet (Hayes Brown/MS NOW)  Because, as we all know, nothing Trump does is anything less than a disaster.

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In the early days of the failed Moscow coup, one was bombarded by writing wherein the “conservatives” from the KGB and communist party wanted to block the path to a market economy and parliamentarianism. Many outlets that were once marked “Stalinist” or “orthodox communist” were attacked as “conservative,” blithely referred to as such often on the same page as political figures such as Reagan or Thatcher, Bush or Kohl. Thus the naïve reader, who wants to take the printed word at its nominal value, logically infers a common attitude and purpose among the previously named Western politicians and the soviet enemies of perestroika. Common sense could protect the sane man from such an absurdity, but this runs out of answers in the face of the schizophrenia of political vocabulary, proving insufficiently idiosyncratic; he seems to have resigned himself without grumbling. The common retort is that conservatives are defenders of the status quo, whatever that may look like in the particular case, so conservatives living in very different societies, unsurprisingly, advocate very different and even contradictory programs. But if political classifications are not backed by political substance, then these classifications must be grounded in psychological or anthropological factors, common attitudes towards life. Should one, in good conscience, impute commonalities among Helmut Kohl and the Russian putschists, this interpretational hypothesis brings little light to the concrete situations—because in such situations it is always about the implementation of particular matters or goals thereby defined, in view of the makeup of a national or international collective, wherein the friend-foe groupings are determined by the positions of each agent with respect to these matters and goals. The legitimation of political struggle often takes place by appeal to anthropological presumptions; political analysis, on the other hand, can infer no concrete substance from formal and inherently abstract anthropological constants without falling into bad metaphysics.

 

Bernie Sanders.

That is why I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies in our country. How? It would create a sovereign wealth fund through a one-time 50 percent tax — not on the profits of OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and other companies, but paid with something far more valuable than that: the stock.

In other words, he wants to confiscate half of the ownership of “the largest” (how do you calculate that?) A.I. companies and put that into a gigantic slush fund controlled by Democrats and their minions in the Deep State.

Whenever anyone says The Public, they mean The Government, and the government owns too much already. If the decision to control A.I. is between Jeff Bezos and Bernie Sanders—I’ll pick the founder of Amazon over the millionaire socialist career politician every time.

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The family of Vickrum Digwa has been accused of adding insult to injury after issuing a statement asking that Henry Nowak’s murder not be used to cause “further pain,” despite fierce public anger over the way the 18-year-old was stabbed, falsely accused, handcuffed and left dying in the street.

In a rightly-ordered society the killer would be executed and his family sent back to whatever Turd World shit-hole they came from.

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A violent assault in Lublin, Poland, has sparked widespread political outrage after a Zimbabwean immigrant who seriously injured a 40-year-old Polish man was released by police and now faces only a minor bodily harm charge, with no deportation proceedings.

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The Los Angeles Police Department has significantly reduced the availability and usefulness of public crime data during its transition to a new records system. Specifically, it removed block-level crime location information from its open crime data feed, making it effectively impossible for the public to determine where crimes occurred.

For more than a decade, SpotCrime has helped Los Angeles residents stay informed by turning public crime data into alerts, maps, and neighborhood awareness tools, Millions of alerts have been delivered to families, commuters, business owners, journalists, researchers, and community members trying to make informed decisions about safety.

Now, that flow of information is being restricted.

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Where do the Democrats even find these candidates?

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Yes, failing NPR had a whole division of reporters dedicated to reporting climate hysteria. It would have been fine if they’d stuck to conservation and science instead of the anti-human cult thinking that says we’re all gonna die if we don’t stop the farting cows.

Newsbusters.

Insipid former New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman is batting a thousand with the level of maniacal things he’s spewed onto the internet within just a 24-hour window.

Krugman released a YouTube video of himself May 31 ironically calling President Donald Trump “mentally ill” before monotonously calling for a “thorough purging of the United States” tantamount to a “de-MAGA-fication” of the populace. He must have had some kind of inkling that what he said was cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs, because he had to assure viewers that he’s “not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the ‘de-Nazification’ that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany.”

Hey Krugman, calling someone “mentally ill” while simultaneously calling for a “purge” of your fellow Americans you disagree with is some insane work. Worthy of note is that Denazification involved prosecuting “war criminals.” Is that what Krugman is saying should happen to his MAGA detractors? It seems like it.

MAGA is the New Nigger. Progs gotta have somebody to hate or they’re not happy.

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As of Tuesday, the World Health Organization has cut its tally of suspected Ebola cases in Congo to 116, down from more than 900 last week, after testing ruled out hundreds of patients whose symptoms turned out to be other illnesses.

Oops. Never mind….

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In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those voters would have ended up with exactly one Republican district out of 11. Going from a 6-5 to a 10-1 split was what Democrats called “restoring fairness.”

To get it done, Democrats bypassed a bipartisan redistricting commission that Virginia voters had specifically created in 2020 to end partisan map-drawing. They drafted the new map behind closed doors. They passed a constitutional amendment on Oct. 31, 2025, even though early voting for the general election had been underway since Sept. 19 – violating the state constitution’s requirement that an intervening election occur between the two legislative votes. They missed the requirement that amendments be posted publicly 90 days before a vote. And they put a ballot question before voters asking whether they wanted to “restore fairness” – language a circuit court judge called “flagrantly misleading.”

Every step of this process required ignoring a rule or deceiving a voter.

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Meet John Elijah Matthews, who I’m sure had nothing to do with the attack.

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New York Democrats unveiled a proposed constitutional amendment Monday that could clear the way for a significant redraw of the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2028 elections, intensifying a growing national battle over redistricting and control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ? Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World 

Newsbusters.

The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times was graced with a profile of James Talarico, the elitist media’s newest hope to finally elect a Democrat in Texas: “Progressive Faith Powers Texas Democrat’s Run — Evangelicals See Threat in Talarico’s Pastor.”

The online headline and subhead was more provocative: “Are Texans Ready for Talarico’s Kind of Christianity? — Jim Rigby, a pastor who rarely uses the word “God,” is a key to understanding the Senate candidate trying to pull off something unusual in Texas.”

As usual, all concerns about mixing religion and politics evaporate once a Democrat seems in striking distance of winning a statewide seat in Texas.

The long profile by Ruth Graham (who covers religion for the paper) and Texas bureau chief J. David Goodman conveniently skipped over most of the theological complications that would render the pastor’s view, and by implication those of Talarico himself, contradictory and absurd.

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One of the two chaps pictured above is a racist. Can you guess which one it is? Yes, you’re right: it’s the white guy.

And how do we know whitey boy is a racist? Why, because woggy boy said so! How else could we possibly know?

UPDATE: Southampton Erupts as Fury Over Henry Nowak Case Grows

UPDATE: Henry Nowak: The Footage We Were Never Meant to See

UPDATE: STUDY: The American News Media Couldn’t Care Less About Murdered Teen Henry Nowak

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I often wonder, not enough to pursue it though, but who pays for all those ugly statues outside big banks, big offices, etc. I thought it was mostly an American thing, but it’s common in Korea too. They’re usually quite abstract and to my eye, quite shabby and ugly. I assume money is being laundered or the artist is well-connected.

Too many people believe that art is what artists say it is, and too few realize that art is what viewers say it is.

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“Fare il frocio col culo degli altri”

The Italian proverb lands with earthy bluntness: it is easy to be generous with someone else’s backside. The costs are never yours. This single observation captures the heart of Gad Saad’s 2026 polemic Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. What masquerades as boundless kindness is often cheap virtue performed at someone else’s expense, luxury beliefs funded by taxpayers, institutions, or abstract “society,” never by the people waving the placards. The term Suicidal Empathy, therefore, requires a sarcastic interpretation, because the gesture is in reality neither suicidal nor genuinely empathic. It is a signal of virtue, which it self is a concept spoken out of the side of its mouth. This because a central component of virtue is that it bears a cost and that has to be by the one being virtuous. So the loan of someone else’s butthole for sexual gratification is easy virtue in more than one way.

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America’s missile production hinges on a small number of ammonium perchlorate facilities, meaning a single plant accident can bring output to a standstill; a concentration risk that has no real equivalent elsewhere in the defense industrial base. AP production relies on narrow workforce pipelines for specialized energetics handling, layered environmental and explosives permitting, and purpose-built manufacturing equipment. Each of these inputs is hard to duplicate quickly, even with dedicated funding, which is why decades of rhetoric about supply chain expansion have produced so few second sources in practice.

Notice the significance of ‘environmental and explosives permittint’.

Chronicle of Higher Eduction.

Funny how many articles in the CHE moan about how students can’t do this or that, but none mention how much teachers can’t teach.

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In a rigorous blind study, law professors overwhelmingly preferred AI-generated answers to student legal questions over answers written by fellow law professors—and flagged the AI answers as potentially misleading or harmful far less often.

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A new report argues that an independent Cyber Force should be staffed by only commissioned officers and warrant officers to better develop the highly technical skillsets that digital conflict demands.

Published Wednesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, two Washington, D.C. think tanks, the report proposes a blueprint for standing up a Cyber Force, should Congress decide to do so.

Policymakers in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill have debated for years whether the U.S. military needs an independent Cyber Force. Opponents say it would lead to unnecessary bureaucracy and confusion, but some current and former cyber troops say readiness suffers without a service that prioritizes recruiting, training, and equipping cyber troops above all others.

Naval News.

China is launching submarines at a pace unmatched by any other nation. Its latest design, a distinctive and innovative vessel that dispenses with the traditional sail, marks another step in the evolution of an increasingly capable and technologically advanced submarine force. With little official information available, understanding the purpose and capabilities of this new class depends largely on intelligence gathering and expert analysis.

As Western navies struggle to build more than one or two submarines concurrently, China continues to pump them out at an increasing rate. They have launched around 15-20 in the past five years, including at least 8 new classes.

The latest, a previously unreported and unexpected type, has just been observed in Shanghai. The large, streamlined boat is noteworthy for its futuristic ‘sailless’ design.

Guess which one is the Official Person of Color.

The Telegraph (UK).

When a keyboardist fell ill in the middle of a concert in Australia, it seemed that the performance would have to be abandoned.

That was until a young member of the audience came forward and offered to fill in.

The medical emergency happened during a screening in Sydney of La La Land, in which a live orchestra performed the film’s score as the movie played on a giant screen.

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Step forward, Sterling Nasa – a 21-year-old who plays organ and piano and also teaches bagpipes.

Once on stage, he took the place of the absent keyboardist and showed himself to be more than up to the challenge.

People can surprise you.

The Telegraph (UKO.

The Oxford Union president said Hamas would be “lauded as heroes” and claimed that their actions were “proportional”.

Arwa Elrayess also suggested that it was “quite rich” for people to “act shocked” by the October 7 atrocities, given the harsh treatment of Palestinians by Israel, according to leaked messages.

She made the remarks in a private WhatsApp group of around 100 students who were about to take up places at Oxford to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Ms Elrayess faced calls to resign as president of the prestigious debating society on Tuesday night, and Oxford University was urged to launch an investigation.

It is the latest scandal to engulf the union, coming just months after its previous president was ousted following comments he made that appeared to celebrate the shooting of Charlie Kirk, the Right-wing US influencer.

The Telegraph (UK).

Protesters have thrown bottles, bricks and wheelie bins at riot police in the wake of the murder of Henry Nowak.

Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox and other far-Right figures led the protests, which started outside Southampton Central police station on Tuesday night.

In videos shared on social media, protesters can be seen chasing, goading and cornering police on a residential street in the St Denys area, near where the murder took place, while projectiles slam into the officers’ helmets.

Mr Nowak’s killing has prompted accusations of “two-tier policing” after body-worn footage showed police handcuffing the 18-year-old while the Sikh killer who stabbed him five times was treated as a victim.

The Foundry.

People talk about the California disaster, but I don’t think we fully appreciate the severity and the manifestations of it. And the best barometer to discover that is how many people are leaving. It’s estimated that somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 Californians left in ’25, ’26.

Now, the problem with that is they’re not leaving a barren state. They’re not leaving a cold Alaska. They’re leaving the most beautiful state in the country that for years under a bipartisan system of Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, and to some extent Arnold Schwarzenegger, it had wonderful governance.

So why are they leaving? Why have 11 to 12 million people, a quarter of the present population, left California?

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System (Eric Niiler/New York Times  Because, as we all know, climate and ocean research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Russ Vought is doing his part in the Trump administration’s war on scientific progress (Jessica Calarco/MS NOW)  I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a Trump administration war on scientific probress. (Because, as we all know, scientific progress is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal governmnt—and the Federal taxpayer.)

Melania Named in Bombshell New Epstein Claims (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, any allegation against a Trump is ipso facto true, and any defense by a Trump is ipso facto fase.

Republicans go all in on toxic masculinity in Texas (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Because, as we all know, ‘toxic masculinity’ is what the Narrative Media say it is.

Trump Rages over Fresh Iran Humiliation as GOP Angst Grows: “Screwed” (New Republic) Because, as we all know, Trump rages when the Narrative Media say he rages.

Why young America is trending socialist (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  Becaise. as we all know, Young America is always trending socialist, concerning which a British Voice of the Crust is the eternally reliable judge.

America’s Bipartisan Birthday Commission Is Losing to Trump (Anna Kramer/NOTUS)  Because, as we all know, ‘bipartisan’ is anything that doesn’t agree with Trump.

Trump Appoints Loyalist Bill Pulte as Acting Spy Chief (Bloomberg)  The not-so-subtle innuendo is that he is unqualified except in his loyalty to Trump.

Cartoonish Paul Krugman Compares Trump Border Control to ‘Pogroms, American-Style’  The Man Who Has Never Been Right is an infallible guide.

Trump taps FHFA’s Pulte for acting DNI in latest radical personnel move (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Trump appoints Bill Pulte, unqualified loyalist who targeted his foes, as acting intel chief (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket) Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Roger Stone helped Trump choose an unorthodox new intel adviser (Shelby Talcott/Semafor) Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Trump’s Corrupt IRS Shakedown Backfires Badly as GOPers Turn on Him (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent, one of the TDS Five, loses his shit.

Read it.

In Nantucket, there is an interesting conflict between churches after the Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) canceled its traditional celebration. In a letter from the church and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society, residents were told the traditional reading of the Declaration of Independence would be canceled to better focus on the “on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness.”

Said ‘whiteness’ appears to be in remission.

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Reading the list of performers who have pulled out of our U.S. 250th birthday party is a joke. These people insist that they thought they were signing up for a non-partisan celebration, but have now decided (without any evidence) that it is a partisan program.

Give me a break.

What’s really going on is that these performers are Lefties, and decided they wanted to stick it to Donald Trump, who initiated the event, by making up false excuses to bow out. They were probably getting flak from those people on the Left who don’t want anything to take place that is remotely connected to Donald Trump. They are all an embarrassment to this country.

What was the event supposed to entail? Here is a partial list of the activities that will take place. Here is another description of the events. There is nothing in these words that suggest partisan influence.

My biggest concern is that Leftist organizations may be determined to wreak havoc on the activities in June and July. They hate this country and would embrace any opportunity to denigrate it, our Founders and our legacy. I don’t know how far they would go in their disruption, but I expect huge crowds will be drawn to the grounds of the White House.

Let’s all hope and pray that people will rely on their patriotic conscience and honor this country for these events. It is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.