This is nice to see, but in practice all that will happen is that the hiring committees will expect teaching statements, research statements, and cover letters to include diversity paeans. No instructions to this effect will be given, but their absence will be noted, and those who fail to make the necessary noises will quietly be dropped from consideration.

https://unherd.com/newsroom/mit-becomes-first-elite-university-to-ban-diversity-statements/

"The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine. These troops are being posted directly in a hot combat area and are intended to help the Ukrainians resist Russian advances in Donbas. The first 100 are artillery and surveillance specialists."


https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/

WWIII and the Élefsiton

Andrei Martyanov corrects some comments by Jeffrey Sachs: Martyanov is entirely correct. WW3 technically began back in 2014, but will probably be recognized as starting in 2022, just as WWII began in 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, not the 1939 German invasion of Poland. It’s not over yet, obviously, but the eventual outcome […]

https://voxday.net/2024/05/10/wwiii-and-the-elefsiton/

"Scholars of fascism have noted both a “mysterious proximity and distance between Mussolini and Lenin.” In the 1920s Mussolini was constantly glancing in the rearview mirror at Lenin as a rival revolutionary in a kind of mimetic dance. In his will to dominate, Mussolini spontaneously identified himself with the Fatherland and with his own people; however, there was no trace in this of any tradition that he affirmed and defended."
https://simoneweilcenter.org/publications/2021/2/14/the-latent-fascism-of-todays-anti-fascists#:~:text=Scholars%20of%20fascism,affirmed%20and%20defended.

Dominic Cummings Smells the Coffee

One of the UK’s top political minds has finally figured out that the UK is not going to win WWIII: Former Downing Street chief advisor Dominic Cummings says Ukraine is a “corrupt mafia state” and that the west “should have never got into the whole stupid situation.” Cummings made the comments as he unveiled plans […]

https://voxday.net/2024/05/10/dominic-cummings-smells-the-coffee/

Check out this informative chart detailing when various animals were domesticated—a true narrative of human civilization. Each new domesticated animal marks a technological breakthrough for humanity.

@science

"That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer– no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.

"A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope."

https://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/why-we-dont-domesticate-deer/

He's back!
https://twitter.com/Nero

However...
"I didn’t ask for my Twitter back and I don’t want it."
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MiloClinic/42329

Ever wonder how big an Eagle talon is?

Jerm's recent interview with Roman Bystrianyk is superb. The biggest mistake I have ever made made as a parent and as a scientist was trusting pediatricians on vaccines instead of checking out the history and the data for myself.

https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/roman-bystrianyk-vaccine-history

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The American publication Real Clear Investigations published a shocking confession by former Ukrainian diplomat Andrei Telizhenko: the punitive operation against Donbass in 2014 began under pressure from the CIA. Due to his status, Telizhenko was present at the negotiations.

Delingpole and Dr. Mike Yeadon. If you can make it to London, this would be amazing.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-delingpod-live-in-london-2024-james-delingpole-x-dr-mike-yeadon-tickets-881849604907