If you thought the DEI law dean exploding in front of a federal appellate judge was bad, I have some news…
Stanford is a fallen institution. It has gone insane since 2020. Here are the most ridiculous stories from the past few years, some of which I documented.
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Stanford’s IT department created a list of banned words and initiated purges of university websites (they didn’t finish)
Dec 2021: when Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted, the Stanford CS department denounced him. That same department encourages students to read the memoir of black nationalist terrorist Assata Shakur. stanfordreview.org/stanford-cs-go…
2022: Stanford threatens to withhold my completed degree from me because I didn’t take a “booster” shot.
Now: scandal currently embroiling Stanford’s president, who is accused of falsifying research data when he was a pharmaceutical scientist and executive. stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/int…
Finally: you must read the reporting of @StockJabber about the last decade in Stanford. Unbelievable numbers of student suicides and other misconduct. The university is being run like a clown show. theymustresign.substack.com/p/stanfords-pr…
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Thread: Amnesty International, which claims to support “human rights,” had nothing to say while thousands of people were murdered by gangs in El Salvador.
Now that @nayibbukele has ENDED homicide in his country for nearly a year, they are outraged. This organization is sick!
First up: hey @amnesty you morons should know by now that El Salvador now has basically the lowest homicide rate in the world.
Update your misinformation.
“Eviscerating human rights is not the answer to El Salvador’s gang problem”
Ummmm, reality would beg to differ. They literally solved the gang problem while doing what you call “eviscerating human rights” (eviscerating GANG rights)
In several years when I have time, I am thinking to host paid “founders retreats” or even startup team retreat at my farm in Iowa as personal business operation.
Much better than Miami Beach, and much cheaper! Very wholesome Midwest experience.
Learn more? Read on...
A few years ago in SF, I realized I have a "Catcher in the Rye" complex with my tech friends.
Maybe you remember this passage where the noble Holden Caulfield explains the metaphor?
I am Holden, and techies the children I must catch in the rye before they fall. I will remind them of all that is truly good in life (friends, warmth, home, shared food, nature, the countryside, simplicity) but is missing from crazy SF/NYC lifestyle.
AVIATION THREAD: the US should allow select foreign airlines “cabotage rights” i.e. the right to operate domestic routes in the US.
Imagine how great air travel would be if Emirates, Etihad, Singapore, Qatar, etc were allowed to compete here.
Take a journey with me...
You wake up at 4:30 AM in the Marina and Uber down to SFO. You’re going to “Miami” for “Tech” “Week”
You get to the gate and this is what you see. They smile at you and lead you onto the plane.
You may have paid $1,000 for a premium economy ticket but it was totally worth it.
SCENARIO: Sunday before Christmas in Chicago, -10 degrees out. You have 5 tickets on the “Singapore Airlines Disney World Christmas Special” from O’Hare to Orlando.
You board the plane and immediately these women help the kids into their seats and hand you a coconut water.
THREAD: The MonkeyCovid Delta Gamma Epsteinpox BA.10 Sub-sub-variant is spreading rapidly. This pandemic is NOT over, no matter what MAGAs tell you about "freedom"
Here are the best masks😷 to keep immunocompromised communities ALIVE.
1. The North 5400 full face respirator
2. The Venetian Leather 360 Plague Mask. Make sure it adheres full to your face for a good seal.
Vegan leather options also available
3. If you are in close contact with immunocompromised people, especially those with mental health issues stemming from long monkeycovid (which is real) a brass diving helmet is the safest choice. Make sure to wear a surgical mask underneath.
Thread: A Stanford medical professor, Dean Winslow, was so triggered by my tweet making fun of the masked medical graduation ceremony that he emailed administrators demanding they discipline me.
'What they did was not "free speech", but rather it was deliberate misinformation'
He doesn't just want me punished. Bizarrely, Winslow also called for a friend of mine at Stanford to be formally disciplined -- for my tweet!
Guilt by association. A classic tactic of authoritarians.
And speaking of authoritarians...
Here is the good professor Winslow with his friend Dr. Anthony Fauci. In addition to masks, they share a love of censorship and punishment of dissent.
I am beginning to feel that the Democrat collapse in 22 and 24 will be truly epic in proportion. It's like Biden is intentionally summoning the end of the liberal regime, yelling “racist disinformation!” toward the sea as Vesuvius rains hellfire on him and his country.
Energy providers all over the US are at this moment preparing for a summer crisis.
Republicans aren't blameless (see Texas) but the conservative explanations are beautifully intuitive: liberals hate cheap energy for environmental reasons, now it's 90 degrees in your house.
And you also can’t leave that house! The cost of gas has soared and they’re taking steps to make it worse.
The summer outdoors, on the road, is a quintessential American ritual, and it’s being made impossibly expensive.