DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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The €4 million ($4.36 million) EIC Pathfinder Challenge research project aims to develop a prototype for decentralized room air conditioning within three years. According to the research team, the technology is rated by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the “TOP Ten Technologies 2024.” The US Department of Energy and the European Commission have also declared it to be the most promising alternative to conventional heating and cooling.

The solid-state heating and cooling process is based on transporting heat into or out of a room by loading and unloading a so-called shape memory material, for example in the form of wires. The material absorbs heat when it is loaded, for example when it is pulled, and releases it again when the load is removed.

The researchers, led by elastocalorics pioneer Paul Motzki, are using the superelastic nickel-titanium alloy for this purpose. Materials made from this alloy return to their original shape after deformation because they have two crystal lattices and thus two phases. While water, for example, assumes the solid, liquid and gaseous phases, in nickel-titanium both phases are solid but merge into one another.

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The suspected drug-smuggling tunnel found last week in Tijuana, in northern Mexico, is so long that authorities haven’t been able to find the exit point without oxygen tanks. Baja California’s Secretary of Public Safety, Leopoldo Tizoc Aguilar Durán, said his team is in the process of getting the tanks to finish the investigation.

Aguilar did confirm that the tunnel is connected to another one found two years ago that does run into U.S. territory. American authorities have been notified of the finding and are looking for an exit point in the country, he said.

Previous tunnels found in the area could provide hints about the nature of this latest discovery. One found two years ago (although unclear if it’s the one Aguilar was referring to) had the length of six football fields and featured rail and ventilation systems, electricity and reinforced walls. Concretely, it was a third of a mile long, four feet in diameter and about six stories deep.

Thank you,  Joe Biden.

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A neo-Nazi from the country of Georgia was indicted on Monday for planning mass casualty attacks against Jews in New York City.

Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” planned to distribute poisoned candy to children at Jewish schools in Brooklyn and other attacks against minorities, prosecutors said

Chkhikvishvili, 20, a leader of a white supremacist extremist group known as the Maniac Murder Cult or MKY, was indicted on four counts at the federal Eastern District Court of New York in Brooklyn. He was arrested in Chi?in?u, Moldova, on July 6 on an Interpol arrest warrant.

Star Wars Actor Mark Hamill Mocked For Criticizing Size Of Trump’s Ear Bandage

Scarborough Airs Fury at NBC Executives Over Being Yanked—Threatens to Quit!

Trump’s Ugly New Post-Shooting Rant Instantly Wrecks His “Unity” Pivot (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trump (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)

This Is the Most Extreme Presidential Ticket in Modern American History (The Daily Beast)

J.D. Vance Wants Police To Track People Who Have Abortions (Veronica Riccobene/The Lever)

‘Blindsided’ Jack Black Ends Tenacious D Tour After Trump Assassination Joke (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)

Meyers Blames ‘Too Many Guns,’ Claims GOP Is ‘Choosing To Make Things Worse’

JD Vance Is The GOP’s Next-Gen Authoritarian (Christopher Mathias/HuffPost)

MAGA Turns on Trump for Platforming Amber Rose at RNC (Eboni Boykin-Patterson/The Daily Beast)

Worst Media Outburst of the RNC, Night One: Reid Calls Trump ‘Promoter of Political Violence’ 

It’s Time to Prepare for the Worst (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Thomas Matthew Crooks Had Donald Trump Signs in His Yard–Neighbor (Khaleda Rahman/Newsweek)  Sure, I believe that.

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller (ProPublica)

“This Is How Republics Collapse”: Another Adverse Decision Sends Press & Pundits Into Hair-Pulling Meltdown

The outlets blaming Trump for his own assassination attempt

Welcome to my world….

The Spectator.

“Did I just write the song of the summer?” twenty-seven-year-old Megan Boni, an aspiring New York-based singer-actress known on social media as “Girl on Couch,” asked her public a few weeks ago. Days before, she suggested that her TikTok followers set to music a thirteen-word satirical musing she had improvised about her undersexed Gen Z peeresses’ lofty romantic expectations. Known simply as “Man in Finance,” the song’s lyrics easily divide into four short verses that unfold like shallow ads in the “Personals” section of an old newspaper: “I’m looking for a man in finance/Trust fund/Six-five/Blue eyes.”

Adaptations have gone viral on social media, gathering more than 80 million hits and earning Boni more than $300,000 in revenue. She has reportedly landed brand promotion deals, received a contract offer from Universal Music and quit her 9-5 corporate sales job. Variations of the song are thumping in DJ sets all over the world. Mainstream electronic music superstar David Guetta remixed it to the 2010 anthem “Like a G-6” in a recording with more than16 million plays on Spotify alone. Parody videos have already appeared, using the basic beat to list purported characteristics of traditionally minded wives (“Trad wife/Sourdough/Eats meat/Wants kids”), less appealing New York romantic prospects (“Freelance/Five-six/Tattoos/Bushwick”) and other types who fall outside the desired milieu.

At first hearing, the song comes across as a toxic artefact of a debased society and a misandrist objectification of men. Boni delivers the lyrics in the slack-jawed vocal fry of a narcissistic female who is obviously only interested in men with lucrative careers, independent resources and two superficial physical characteristics. All other traits are unspecified and presumably unimportant. She sounds like the type of woman wise parents warn their sons to avoid, giving off a Meghan Markle-ish “ick” and willing to trade whatever she imagines love is for otherwise unobtainable financial security provided by a reasonably good-looking man.

The American Mind.

The number of knife-related deaths in England and Wales in 2022 was the highest since records began 77 years ago. Since 2010, the number of knife offenses in this region has risen by 34 percent. But the capital has seen the largest annual increase of any area.

London has a serious problem with knives—almost 30 percent of the 50,000 knife-related offenses in England and Wales last year occurred there. The Metropolitan Police recorded 14,577 knife offenses in 2023—a 22 percent rise from the previous year.

The case of Daniel Anjorin is illustrative. In a quiet suburban neighborhood of northeast London, the 14-year-old schoolboy was attacked by a man with a machete and fatally stabbed at the end of April this year. In Redbridge, the borough in which Anjorin was killed, knife crime increased by 22 percent last year—its highest level since 2018.

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I’m sure it’s somehow Trump’s fault.

Washington Examiner.

“Squad” Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) recently cut more checks from her campaign to her husband and longtime security guard — payments that came after the Justice Department opened an investigation into her major spending on private security.

Bush dished out $15,000 between April and June to Cortney Merritts for a “wage expense,” adding on to the more than $137,000 she has paid her husband since 2022, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The new payments come months after Bush noted she is “fully cooperating” with a DOJ investigation into the private security disbursements, which are north of $750,000 combined, documents show.

The new filings show that Bush separately spent $16,720 on security services, paying two men named Joseph Walter and Joel Beard.

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Three Beaver County police snipers were reportedly stationed inside the building used by the shooter in Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with ‘direct knowledge’ of the incident tells CBS News‘ Anna Schecter, and as first reported by the Beaver Countian.

A sniper, stationed on the second floor providing overwatch, saw the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, outside the building and looking up at the roof. He then walked away, returned, whipped out his phone, when one of the snipers took the first of two pictures of him.

Crooks then took out a rangefinder – at which point the sniper radioed to a command post. Crooks then disappeared again and came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in once again with information that he had a backpack and that he (Crooks) was walking toward the back of the building.

You can’t make this shit up.

Chris Williamson.

“Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by incompetence.”

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Weeks after musician and actor Jack Black appeared at Joe Biden’s Hollywood fundraiser to tell people “democracy is at stake,” he’s canceled the rest of his Australian tour after bandmate Kyle Gass said on Sunday that his birthday wish would be “don’t miss Trump next time.”

Fuck around and find out.

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So, the truth has come to light: the European Commission offered social media platforms secret illegal deals in the run-up to the recent European elections, that if they censored speech without telling anyone, they would be immune from prosecution under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

This claim, made by X owner Elon Musk in a tweet on Friday, in which he revealed X had refused to cooperate with the deal but that Facebook and Google had, is extraordinary. It is remarkable because, throughout the recent elections, Brussels was constantly warning of Europe being under threat of fake news, disinformation, and hate speech emanating from Russia, while in reality, European citizens were under attack from the anti-democratic and hateful censorious attitude of EU elites.

Musk has exposed the arrogant hypocrisy of the Brussels elite and their so-called allegiance to defending European values like democracy and free speech.

Geez, you’d think they were Democrats or something.

“We live in an age where it is unclear who is in charge. The magic of democracy is it tells people that they are in charge, but that is impossible, and people sense it, so without a clear shot caller responsible for what is happening, people naturally look for an explanation that provides that shot caller. Every conspiracy theory assumes that there is someone, or a small group, who has the power to affect the course of history and the foresight to alter those events to their liking.”

— ZMan

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

Before anyone was sure what happened to Donald Trump on that stage in Pennsylvania, the conspiracy theorists were hard at work. It is reaching the point where conspiracy theories are the primary driver of public discourse. No one can accept the official version of things, so we are left to create our own versions. Throw in the fact that it is easy to manipulate digital images, video and sound and we will soon doubt what our senses tell us about anything in the digital space.

It is fair to say we are living through the conspiratorial age. Fifty years ago, the only people who trafficked in this material were the people who lined their clothes with aluminum foil and vacationed at Dallas. Today, no one believes official narratives, so everyone has their own theory of reality. If not for conspiracy theories, no one would have any idea what is happening in the world, as the official narratives often sound less plausible than the so-called conspiracy theories.

The term conspiracy itself is a conspiracy of sorts. Many people think it was created by the CIA as a way of tarnishing those skeptical of official narratives. In reality the term existed as far back at the 1860’s but was popularized by Karl Popper in his book The Open Society and Its Enemies, published in the 1940’s, which was long before the Central Intelligence Agency existed. Even so, the term is primarily used as a way to discredit people who question the official story.

Richard Epstein.

One reason the Democrats are so panicky is that they fear they cannot count on Trump to defeat himself in the upcoming election—even more so now that images of a bloodied, defiant Republican candidate have been dominating news pages this week. But there is another narrative even more dangerous to the Democrats’ re-election story that needs airing. Biden and his administration have been far from blameless on key issues of public affairs. Indeed, their deeds are a far greater threat to democracy than Trump’s ill-chosen words. (Despite Trump’s improbable denial that he ever led chants of “lock her up” against Hillary Clinton, for instance, while in office Trump never sought to indict her or any other Democratic insider.)

Mark Steyn.

Let’s cut to the chase – the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap?

Well, I’ve thought the Secret Service were rubbish not just since we learned of the Cartagena hookers but for at least another decade before that. And increasingly, when it comes to American officialdom – from Kabul to Uvalde – to modify Henry Ford, you can get it in any colour as long as it’s bloated, lavishly over-funded and entirely dysfunctional.

And yet and yet… it’s hard to believe even these guys (plus their bevy of five-foot-two-eyes-of-blue Keystone chorus girls) could be this crap. Assuming for the purposes of argument that the body on the roof is actually that of the perp, a goofball barely out of high school hatched a plan to have Donald Trump’s head explode in close-up on live TV – and, wittingly or otherwise, the world’s most flush money-no-object security state did their best to help him pull it off.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law barring school districts from passing policies that require schools to notify parents if their child asks to change their gender identification.

Time to leave.

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The philanthropist and billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman cut off millions of dollars in funding to Columbia University citing the school’s failure to address rising anti-Semitism, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Zuckerman pledged $200 million in 2012 to endow an institute focused on interdisciplinary neuroscience research. But the billionaire owner of U.S. News & World Report began questioning Columbia’s handling of rampant campus anti-Semitism following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and ultimately halted funding after several months of discussions, according to a Zuckerman Family Office spokeswoman.

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After energetic talk over the weekend that no one should blame President Biden or the Democrats (or the media) for inspiring violence against President Trump and his supporters, we need to remind you of the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, where the liberal media decided to accuse conservative talk radio for domestic terrorism that destroyed a federal building.

Specifically, Bill Clinton blamed Rush Limbaugh.

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Inflexible Secret Service protocols, overworked special agents, and a decision against deploying more counter snipers to President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania all contributed to creating the opening for a gunman to wound Trump, kill a bystander, and seriously injure two others, according to several sources in the Secret Service community.

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The founding fathers of the Green revolution are not well-known. Despite their instrumental role in environmental catastrophism and the Net Zero imperative, mention their names on the Clapham Omnibus and you will get a blank look. They have mostly worked off the margins of public attention to instil the structures and systems of a global coup d’état. Their project was never really about science, or nature conservation, but a technocratic power quest profoundly influenced by eugenics. These men (and a few women) were of the liberating twentieth century, but they prepared the ground for a totalitarianism in the twenty-first.

ZMan looks ahead.

By now, everything that can be said about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump over the weekend has been said in every way that can be said. Thanks to cameras being everywhere all the time, most facts were known in real time. It did not take long for the internet to identify the shooter and then for the authorities and their media platforms to confirm the details. An iron rule of life is that it is better to be lucky than good and Trump is the living embodiment of it.

Of course, the same is true to a degree for the shooter. The official story will be that he was a loner, a victim of bullying, who just snapped. Just as the FBI swears every serial killer is a middle-aged white guy, they swear ever assassin is a loner. Regardless of his motivations, many things needed to fall into place for him to get on that roof and get a chance for the glory he was seeking. Ninety-nine percent of the time these guys are caught before they get out of the car.

Putting that aside, what matters right now is the politics of this event. Sensing that this was not good for their side, the regime rolled the dice and sent Biden out to “address the nation” from the Oval Office. Anytime they put him out for public view there is the risk he reminds the world that he is a desiccated husk. Even when he avoids looking like a nursing home patient, it is clear that it is taking all of his remaining energy to get out the words they have on the screen in front of him.

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New for Playstation and the PC.

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A Southern California school district trains counselors to help students hide their transgender identity from their concerned parents, according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal.

Capistrano Unified School District in southern Orange County, California, allows students to change their name and gender in school records without parental permission.

The Individual Transition Plan, obtained by the nonprofit law firm Center for American Liberty through a California Public Records Act request, asks the counselor filling it out whether the child’s parents “need to know” about their child’s transition. It later asks the student to respond with “yes” or “no” to the statement: “My parents/guardians are aware of my transition.”

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The White House hosted anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour in May 2023, three years after then-candidate Joe Biden publicly disavowed the prominent Jew hater, citing her long record of anti-Israel incitement and support for boycotting the Jewish state.

Sarsour—who has compared Zionism to “white supremacy in America” and questions Israel’s right to exist—appears to have attended a White House celebration of Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Ramadan fasting period. Sarsour joined around 400 others at a White House event that day, visitor logs show. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), the Squad member who also has trafficked in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and championed anti-Israel priorities in Congress, attended as well.

Sarsour’s appearance at the White House, which garnered little attention at the time, occurred just three years after the Biden campaign publicly cut ties with her over support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and long history of anti-Israel advocacy.

StrategyPage.

In the United States the army is having major problems maintaining its strength. Since the 1970s the army has depended on volunteers, not conscripts. The army was always able to get all the volunteers although it occasionally had to tinker with recruiting standards to make its numbers. In the last four years the usual methods have not been working. In 2021 the army had its authorized 485,900 personnel, a number that was expected to remain the same for the foreseeable future. Then problems with recruiting began and got worse and actual strength declined. By 2023 there were only 473,000 soldiers and the recruiting problems continued.

This time the usual explanations did not apply. This was discovered by asking a sample of military age men eligible to volunteer or be conscripted about their attitudes towards the military. Potential volunteers had been influenced by a reduction in motivation among military age men. This is defined as healthy men aged 18-35. There was a similar decline in their opinion of military service and this could be measured.

I certainly wouldn’t want to join today’s American military.

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Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pushed a false “safe and effective” COVID vaccine narrative by underreporting adverse events. The mRNA shots “never should have been mandated,” Redfield told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday.

God forbid we should let people decide for themselves based on accurate evidence.

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Minnesota Vikings star wide receiver Jordan Addison was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after being found asleep behind the wheel near Los Angeles International Airport, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Sunday.

Not what I think of when I think Viking.

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But you knew that.

The corporate media, whose 21st-century raison d’etre is propping up the Regime Party (Democrats) and punishing the Deplorable Party (Republicans), often joins the fray. The Russia-collusion delusion disinformation operation was laundered by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to seedy “intelligence” firm Fusion GPS and law firm Perkins Coie LLP. For years, the corporate media then dutifully pushed the false narrative. Indeed, it is unclear to this day whether MSNBC has ever read the Mueller report.

But after last Thursday’s CNN presidential debate in Atlanta, in which President Joe Biden delivered a catastrophic performance for the ages, there is only one conclusion: The yearslong effort by Biden administration flunkies, Democratic Party poohbahs and pro-Regime media stenographers to forcefully deny Biden’s obvious physical and mental decline will go down as the single greatest lie in American history.

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A NEARLY COMPLETE digital library of Whole Earth publications—including the famed Whole Earth Catalog founded 55 years ago by counterculture icon Stewart Brand—has been made available online for the first time. A curious reader can now flip through all the old catalogs, magazines, and journals right in their web browser, or download entire issues to their computer free of charge.

The Whole Earth Catalog was the Sears Catalog for the boomer generation. People of my generation would spend hours ‘shopping with a highlighter’ in our leisure moments, and dreaming.

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Colleges offer phantom scholarships for the same reason car dealerships offer discounts: to close the sale. But even as this practice has become too obvious not to notice, families still orient to college prices as though they are real. Why is this?

Professional marketers have long known that people are attracted to expensive things?—?and we have a special fascination with things we cannot afford. Teenage boys hang posters of Lamborghinis, not Toyotas, in their bedrooms. Unattainable products also generate free media: Journalists and bloggers write about the new Rolex, not the new Timex.

At the same time, we are highly responsive to the belief that we are getting a deal. In consumer markets, this practice of creating the appearance of a high price paired with a large discount drives purchase behavior so reliably that it works even when everyone knows what’s going on. Retailers, to take one example, routinely pre-print price tags with a struck-through “original” price that buyers never pay and a “marked down” price that was always the real price. Everyone knows what’s happening, but the practice continues because we respond to it anyway.

One of the ways colleges get around prohibitions on having quotas for racial and other Fashionable Minorities is by setting outrageous tuition-room-board fees and then quietly handing compensating ‘scholarships’ to the favored groups.

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A common way of building a tunnel today is with a tunnel boring machine (TBM), particularly in urban areas where other construction methods such as drill-and-blast or cut-and-cover would be too disruptive. Of the 89 transit projects around the world that required tunneling in a dataset compiled by Britain Remade, 80 of them used TBMs. But tunnel boring machines are a comparatively modern construction technology. The first successful rock tunneling machines weren’t invented until the 1950s, and into the late 1960s most tunneling was done using other construction methods. But as TBMs have improved, they have increasingly been the method of choice for tunneling through a wider variety of ground conditions. And while many construction tasks have resisted automation and mechanization, tunneling machinery has steadily gotten more automated, to the point where a modern TBM is akin to a mobile factory that burrows through the earth and constructs a tunnel behind it.

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Which I am perfectly prepared to do.

There ought to be an opening in major media for an American Cicero or Cato the Elder, but our elite is dominated by unoriginal, zeitgeist-surfing zombies, like David Frum (another symptom rather than an exception).

David Frum, like Conor Friedersdorf, was once an intern at National Review, and then discovered that the money was greener over on the other side of the fence. It took him less time to turn his coat than it took Bill Kristol, but I’m sure he’s never regretted it.

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What makes metric time so cool is that would make all the mental math we have to do when adding and subtracting time so much easier—especially when it comes to different timezones. Working with base-10 numbers is so much easier than trying to think in base-60, base-12, and base-24.

Unfortunately, just being “cool” is not enough to motivate people to change how they live. And, because time is a coordinated cultural practice, everybody has to change at once, and ain’t nobody got time for dat (otherwise Americans would be using metric measures like the rest of the world).

New Atlas.

It’s an unfortunate irony that while many regions struggle to find enough water, there’s trillions of liters of the stuff floating around in the air everywhere. A new water harvester design from MIT can pull enough fresh water out of the air to meet the daily needs of several people.

LifeHacker.

I’m not being hyperbolic when I say salt is the most important seasoning of all time. It makes things taste salty, sure, but it also makes things taste like better versions the themselves, and more importantly, salt is a powerful preservative and natural anti-microbial. Long before refrigeration—all the way back to ancient Egypt—salt kept meat from spoiling which, in turn, kept people fed longer. And though salty processed foods don’t have the best reputation, sodium is an essential nutrient, needed to keep your fluids balanced and muscles and nerves working smoothly. Salt is important.

We don’t live in ancient Egypt, and it’s currently quite easy to keep your electrolytes where they need to be for normal brain and bodily functions. So while the modern eater may be a little blasé about salt, flavor is not trivial. Chef-y types have strong opinions about brands and crystal size (and so do I), but the salt you stock your kitchen with should be the salt that fits your culinary needs.

Here’s what you need to know about salt, from the standard iodized table variety to the various Kosher offerings.

The New Yorker.

Every now and then the New Yorker will turn from Wokery and do what it used to do best, some interesting and very well written piece that leaves you better for having read it. This is one such.

In 1966, at a meeting remembered in anthropological lore as the beginning of hunter-gatherer studies, seventy-five experts assembled in Chicago to synthesize our knowledge about foraging peoples. More than ninety-nine per cent of human history was spent without agriculture, the organizers figured, so it was worth documenting that way of life before it disappeared altogether. The symposium—and an associated volume that appeared two years later, both titled “Man the Hunter”—exemplified an obsession with hunting, meat-eating, and maleness. “Man” was meant to cover all humans; “hunter” was shorthand for anyone who subsisted on wild food. The book devoted an entire section to the role of hunting in human evolution. “Hunting is the master behavior pattern of the human species,” a chapter began. “It is the organizing activity which integrated the morphological, physiological, genetic, and intellectual aspects of the individual human organisms and of the population who compose our single species.”

The meeting also revealed problems with the meat-centric story. Dart had asserted that “all prehistoric men and the most primitive of living human beings are hunters, i.e., flesh eaters.” But contributors to “Man the Hunter” showed how one-sided this perspective was. The anthropologist Richard Lee reported that the !Kung, one of the so-called Bushman people of Southern Africa, got two-thirds of their calories from plants. Nor were they an exception. When he compared fifty-eight foraging societies from around the world, Lee found that half got the majority of their calories from plant foods; another eighteen relied mostly on fishing. Only eleven—less than a fifth—relied on hunting as their primary means of subsistence, and all but one were limited to either the highest or the lowest latitudes, far beyond our African homeland.

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twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection.

The trial tested whether the six-month injection of lenacapavir would provide better protection against HIV infection than two other drugs, both daily pills. All three medications are pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) drugs.

Physician-scientist Linda-Gail Bekker, the principal investigator for the South African part of the study, tells Nadine Dreyer of The Conversation what makes this breakthrough so significant, and what to expect next.

Steve Graham.

Sixty years ago, Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK and John Connally from an elevated position. He used a mail-order military surplus rifle, and he still got impact with two out of three shots. Clearly, the Secret Service has learned absolutely nothing since then. They let a man climb onto a white roof in broad daylight, carrying a rifle, and shoot a former president a couple of Frisbee throws away.

David Frum, in The Atlantic.

So you can see where it comes from.

Newsbusters.

The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening reminded some news watchers of what President Joe Biden said to Democratic donors six days ago, as reported by the New York Times: “During a video call with top donors on Monday, Mr. Biden told them: “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.”

When you wish upon a star….

One may scoff at the idea that a metaphorical comment like Biden’s “bulls-eye” could possibly lead to an attempted assassination of Trump – yet, in 2011 the New York Times bizarrely blamed a campaign map issued by former John McCain running mate Sarah Palin’s political action committee for the attempted assassination of Democratic Rep. Giffords of Arizona.

What does around, comes around.

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A now-deleted Facebook post by a staffer of Mississippi’s lone Democrat congressman appeared to support the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.

The deleted post by Jacqueline Marsaw, a field director for U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, said “I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops [sic] that wasn’t me talking.”

Jacqueline Marsaw:

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The Sacramento City Attorney’s Office allegedly warned Target, located in Land Park, that it could face public nuisance charges if it continues to call the cops when its merchandise is stolen, according to the Sacramento Bee.

An official with the Sacramento Police Department confirmed the location to the publication. But the City Attorney’s Office denied that it was aware of any litigation threats.

However, city officials reportedly met with Target during a meeting following the report to come up with a “safety plan” to mitigate future retail theft. During the meeting, city officials allegedly aired their grievances against Target, which agreed to beef up its own security measures—including “alarms, cameras, and security personnel” along with the implementation of “light fixtures, landscaping, wayfinding and space activation measures,” according to the Bee.

Associated Press.

Secret Service agents fatally shot the suspect, the agency said, after he opened fire from the roof of a building about 150 yards (140 meters) from the stage where Trump was addressing supporters. An AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle used in the shooting was recovered near his body, according to sources.

That’s pretty good shooting for that distance by a kid with no background in shooting. Well, he fucked around and found out.

UPDATE: “Malice Or Massive Incompetence”: Erik Prince Gives Detailed Assessment Of Secret Service Failure

UPDATE: Trump Blesses GoFundMe Page for Shooting Victims

UPDATE: Sniper Victim at Trump Rally Identified, Died Shielding His Family

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The FBI says the shooting by the 20-year-old gunman was an attempted assassination against the former president and Republican candidate.

No shit?