VICTORIA TAFT: The Space-Time Continuum You Must Live in to Believe NYC Trump Prosecutors. “I know next to nothing about string theory, but it looks like the prosecutors in the Trump trial in Manhattan are hoping the jurors do. They want them to join the prosecution’s time-space continuum — that’s the only way to make sense out of how trying to kill a bad story in 2011 and again in 2016 turned into 34 alleged bookkeeping errors in 2017, and how those misdemeanors magically elevated into felonies in 2024 — including stealing the 2016 election.”

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: NHTSA Investigating Waymo for Bad Driving. “Waymo is under investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said its preliminary evaluation into an estimated 444 Waymo vehicles follows 22 reports of 22 incidents including 17 collisions. The agency said in some of those cases the automated driving systems appeared to disobey traffic safety control devices and some crashes occurred shortly after the automated driving systems exhibited unexpected behavior near traffic safety control devices. This is the latest in a series of investigations opened by NHTSA into performance of self-driving vehicles after initiated probes into General Motors Cruise and Amazon.com’s Zoox.”

OH, IT’S NOT JUST NOW. THE LEFT HAS BEEN TRYING TO IMPUGN FREE WILL FOREVER:  Free will itself now under assault.

And I had a knock-out drag-out fight on a panel with Robert Sawyer almost 20 years ago, as he was trying to claim everything was predestined. Bah.

TEACH TEACHERS NOT TO RAPE:

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

MAKE THEM PAY: