Kamala — after spending 30+ minutes in her vehicle preparing — opens her binder to read prepared remarks in front of the press.

She hasn't taken a single question since she forced Biden off the ballot.
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A woman is stabbed 20 times, including twice while dead

Coroner ruled it a homicide, then changed it to suicide

This week, the PA Supreme Court announced it will investigate why Attorney General Josh Shapiro upheld the lie

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This seems like an oddly specific prediction for former President Gerald Ford to make on how the first female President will come to hold the office.

If I was Biden I might be a little worried right now just sayin.

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First Impressions: Netflix’s Sandman

UPDATE: 8/2/24 (At the end of this post I predicted that Gaiman would one day be torn apart by his fans for a failure in political fashion. I now feel rather foolish for not suspecting that the creepy-looking dude who looked and dressed like the owner of a windowless van, and frequently wrote about sexual […]

https://arkhavencomics.com/2024/08/02/first-impressions-netflixs-sandman/

This is so unreal

As @treeofwoe observes, "GDP" is a classic example of optimizing the metric and not the underlying phenomenon the metric is supposed to score. The result is the real economy suffers while the GDP by which it is scored soars sky high. The same thing happens in science.

We want to know how good a scientist is. Hard to do, but we can count how many papers they produce, and more papers correlate to more science and more productivity. In response to this metric, scientists shave their work down into tinier and tinier slivers. We have more papers than ever, but they are of lower quality and arguably less real science is done because more effort is diverted into the overhead of producing, reviewing, and publishing all the extra papers.

So, we change the metric to take into account how many people CITE the paper (h-scores and similar measures). The result? Scientists make a point of referencing each other as a way to curry favor with the important, well-cited scientists on peer-review committees while paying less attention to the innovative newcomers who aren't getting citations. Less scrupulous scientists completely game the system by forming cliques that mutually cite each other and boost their scores sky-high.

We were arguably all better off under a system where a few elite gatekeepers were doing the gatekeeping. Sure, they had biases and oversights, but at least we weren't wasting all this bureaucratic effort optimizing the metric.

The bottom line is: you always get more of what you score, not more of what the score is trying to measure.

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/gross-domestic-fraud

"The vaccines prevent the contraction and transmission of COVID-19, except that they don’t, and whoever said they did anyway? The ruble will be rubble in a month, but then, everyone knew the war would last a long time; Putin is after all both losing to Ukraine and a threat to the rest of Europe. To pull Joe Biden from his re-election bid would be undemocratic, almost as much so as questioning the ascent of Kamala Harris to replace him, and even though she was an excellent border czar she was also never the border czar and has nothing to do with the massive invasion currently taking place that she stopped years ago."

https://librarianofcelaeno.substack.com/p/le-cirque-du-sogay

Oh. THAT'S a relief. It's totally not demonic and there is in fact a natural and scientific explanation for the red glowing eyes:

"Mythmakers suggest the rearing horse is cursed after killing its creator, Luis Jiménez, in 2006. Jiménez was a famed artist who did, in fact, die building the statue — but not in the way conspiracists think.

"Stegman said Jiménez was killed in his New Mexico studio after a piece of the sculpture fell on his leg and severed a vital artery and noted the glowing eyes didn't come about because of it.

"The artist's father was a neon sign maker, so the red eyes were a tribute to his father," she said. "It's really a beautiful story, not something demonic."

https://www.businessinsider.com/denver-airport-conspiracy-theories-horse-gargoyle-behind-the-scenes-tour-2024-7

What Brings a Man Down

How women perceive the hierarchy

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/what-brings-a-man-down

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"As Great Britain descends into chaos after the stabbing deaths of three innocent young girls in Southport, a sensational video is making the rounds of Canadian singer Kelly Lamb performing [Owen Benjamin's] “How They Rule Ya” at Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” protest at Trafalgar Square July 27 to a crowd of 100,000."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/sensational-hymn-100-000-sing-this-is-how/

"Now, scandal is rocking SFWA and threatening to destroy the club entirely as their president stepped down and the SFWA board issued a strange statement trying to ease members’ concerns."

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/sfwa-rocked-by-rumors-of-scandal