“[Nicholas] Polson suggested that criticism of his work might stem from jealousy …”

Envy has eaten up critics of the U Chicago business professor who has published 257 articles in nine months.

They’re seething at the guy’s hypersonic output. In as short a time as it takes a woman to drop just one child, Polson has pumped out close to 300 contributions to business scholarship.

“Polson will be immortal, like the deadbeat fathers of 20 children who, almost by definition, are more biologically fit than those of us with just a few,” snipes a spiteful peer. “[I]t’s all AI slop,” says another. A bitter statistician at Columbia comments that this is “not the sort of thing a non-bullshitting academic might write.”

A businessman called Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected the mayor of a remote district in the Peruvian Andes, according to local election data.

[A] film review and two op-eds arguing that AI cannot replace human “judgement” and “responsibility” in the domains of Catholicism and academia — returned “75%,” “96%” and “100% AI-written” respectively.

He was just appointed Dartmouth’s provost…

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Excellent journalism from The Dartmouth, reminiscent of Stanford’s newspaper uncovering President Tessier-Lavigne’s bullshit.

She is the voice of America, the Kate Smith of our time.

Her $25 million Hamptons estate recently sold for 5.8 mill at auction. She refuses to leave it. God Bless America.

Police say Corey B. Ward pointed a handgun at people on College Street before officers found the weapon buried in mulch.

Another fascinating auction, this one Michael Dell’s never-used Boston penthouse, bought ten years ago and empty all that time. He can’t unload it, so the opening bid is 6.5 mill – a forty percent discount over the asking price all those years ago.

The use of pejorative terms here (‘severely rat-infested’) by Berkeley health officials is both insensitive and offensive. The hundreds of rats in the RV mentioned were pets that the two occupants (one died of leptospirosis; the other almost did) bred; their chosen form of animal companionship, while not perhaps yours – or the larger society’s – is neither illegal nor immoral. It is a free choice. Recall Nellie Bowles:

Policy makers and residents largely embraced the exciting idea that people should be able to do whatever they want to do, including live in tent cities and have fun with drugs and make their own medical decisions, even if they are out of their mind sometimes. But then fentanyl arrived, and more and more people started dying in those tents...

[It’s] a sort of progressive-libertarian nihilism, …the belief that any intervention that has to be imposed on a vulnerable person is so fundamentally flawed and problematic that the best thing to do is nothing at all. Anyone offended by the sight of the suffering is just judging someone who’s having a mental-health episode, and any liberal who argues that the state can and should take control of someone in the throes of drugs and psychosis is basically a Republican. If and when the vulnerable person dies, that was his choice, and in San Francisco we congratulate ourselves on being very accepting of that choice...

I would urge SFGate, in its next article on the outbreak, to try phrases like lively melange of rats, or bustling brood of rats.

I was minding my own business, following a big ol’ fraud story, when I stumbled on Acting Deputy Executive Associate Director on Homeland Security Investigations Matthew Millhollin, and my eyes just POPPED at all those adjectives…

Round and round they go about what an absolutely irresistible thing the property is.

But it hasn’t sold; and they’re auctioning it off for (relative) peanuts, and maybe even the auction will fail.

Strange.

New term for shooters “trigger-pullers.”

… in Palm Beach.

UD covers fraud on this blog, but is madly selective, since everyone’s always stealing everything.

Here’s one that caught her eye – the president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) local 2419 – which represented 500 federal employees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – simply stole every single penny.

 [E]vidence presented at trial established that there had not even been a meeting of local 2419 since 2020, and that local 2419 ran out of money and went into receivership in 2022.

In this instance, it’s not so much that she bought a $7,400 massage chair with union funds – that purchase pales beside the standard embezzlement package of a condo on a golf course plus a Cadillac Escalade IQL. It’s that she just went ahead and took everything until she had to go to jail for taking everything.

In February 2011, fashion designer John Galliano made antisemitic and racist remarks to patrons at a Paris café, including yelling “I love Hitler,” telling individuals “your mothers, your forefathers” would be “gassed.”

There were actually two – recorded – instances of Galliano screaming this stuff in cafes, and UD feels certain there are more, unrecorded.

Once caught on tape, Galliano went the Mel Gibson route, whining about how his many drug and alcohol addictions make him a bad boy. But Youth Wants to Know: How do you be the head of Dior and a totally out of control addict screaming Hitler shit in cafes? UD understands how you can be the head of Dior and a murderous anti-semitic drunk … times being what they are in France… But if you are so unwary as to get filmed shrieking about gassing Jews? That’s what’s running Dior?

Anyway, the Met was well on its way to rewarding Haute Hitler with a solo show, but then a bunch of New York Jews decided this was all a bit much.

But did they drag his body to the roof, pour petrol on it, and burn it to a crisp? There’s a right and a wrong way to do things.

If there’s Hebrew writing visible on your car, you can expect a friendly salute and sieg heil from one of our employees!