It’s coming up next week, with significant upgrades to both booster and Starship.
Category Archives: Business
Three-Year Med Schools
This is long overdue. As Robert Shipley notes, in theory this might lower standards, but I think that in practice, many of the standards are unnecessary (particularly since the wokification of medical education). I’ve never been impressed by doctors myself qua doctors.
The Largest Cover Up In US History
Make the media pay.
[Update a while later]
What will you miss the least about Joe Biden?
I can’t wait another two and a half weeks, when I can start not missing anything about him.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“I can’t wait for all that Biden ‘decency and dignity’ to go away.”
The Global Launch Industry In 2024
Bob Zimmerman lays out the highs and the lows.
It really is amazing, and it’s about to become much more so.
About Yesterday
Do not allow the usual suspects to do the standard Jihadi circle jerk.
I think there will be a new sheriff in town for this BS when Patel takes over the FBI.
Irony
It’s refreshing to see trash that takes itself out.
Let me get this straight… a white FBI Director (Chris Wray) gets fired and replaced by a brown minority Director (Kash Patel) and members of the FBI's DEI office are now protesting and threatening to resign? 🤡
— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) January 1, 2025
The irony is ALMOST too good to be true. 😂 pic.twitter.com/7jcWkzpiPl
What Culture Can You Trust?
Thoughts from Robin Hanson.
Leaders In Higher Ed
…are starting to realize their entire industry is worthless.
There are certainly some things of value, but they may be offset by all of the negative value.
A Massive Civil Rights Victory
Looks like we’re on the verge.
NEW: Marc Andreessen reveals how Trump's DOJ appointee, Harmeet Dhillon, is poised to demolish corporate DEI policies.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2024
🔥🔥🔥
Dhillon, a fierce critic of woke corporate culture, is now leading the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
"The Justice Department's Civil… pic.twitter.com/mqMAJg1Ybb
Tech, And Immigration
Thoughts from Eric Raymond:
Today's big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don't want to pay competitive wages to Americans.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 26, 2024
To be honest, I think both sides are making some…