CAN YOU BLAME THEM? Half a dozen mainstream Jewish advocacy groups took early leave of a digital meeting with two senior Biden administration officials when they learned of the inclusion of anti-semitic Left-wing advocacy outfits, including one linked to anti-Israel activists, according to Jewish Insider.

 

 

NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME: Study: AI is unreliable in assessing heart risk in emergencies. Though after Helen’s heart attack, the ER EKG’s expert system flagged her as “likely recent MI” and the cardiologists looked at her, a fit, slender young woman, and said “naaah.” It was a couple of more months before she was diagnosed.

NO, SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT INCREASING: It’s not every day that a conservative think tank like Canada’s Fraser Institute and the National Geographic Society agree on a major issue in the climate change debate. Plus, have a look at my latest PJMedia column to learn more about what growing up in Tornado Alley in the 1950s and 1960s was like.

A TIKTOK RANDO NAMED ANNA KEEPING YOU BETTER INFORMED THAN NEW YORK TIMES NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING COLUMNIST PAUL KRUGMAN IS THE 21ST CENTURY IN A NUTSHELL:

You can watch Anna’s viral video here.

UNFIT TO PRACTICE LAW:

But: “Columbia Law School told the Free Beacon it had no plans to cancel exams.”

Good for them if they stick to it.

WARNING: THE PUBLIC-HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH: Medscape Gets Smoked. A once-reputable platform providing information to physicians caves to woke activists by censoring accurate information about nicotine vaping — the most promising tool yet developed for getting smokers to quit.

GOODER AND HARDER: ‘Disturbing news’: San Francisco restaurants dread new state law banning service fees.

George Chen, chef and owner of China Live, levied a 20% service fee on customers upon reopening in 2020 after a temporary pandemic closure to sustain livable wages for his staff amid widespread industry layoffs.

Chen said the extra money has helped maintain salaries across the board at the sprawling Chinatown restaurant, and he’s seen 95% retention among his staff since he instituted it.

But a new state law slated to go into effect on July 1 would effectively outlaw such surcharges, doing away with what has become an increasingly common method of boosting restaurant wages amid rising costs and creating pay equity among front- and back-of-house staffers.

“It’s disturbing news,” Chen said. “They’re trying to change something that’s actually working.”

That’s why they changed it.

CORRECTION: I completely misread the law which, as Eugene Volock was kind enough to point out, is more like a truth-in-advertising regulation and is not an outright ban.

I COULD CARVE A BETTER BACKBONE OUT OF A BANANA: Brown University caves to pro-Hamas mob, promises to consider cutting ties with Jewish State: Students who violated the school’s rules and regulations will ‘not be subject to suspension or expulsion, provided they abide by the terms of the agreement.’

Hey, they just disrupted campus and destroyed university property — it’s not like they were a fraternity that served a 20 year old a can of Keystone Light.