Sunday, July 13, 2025
Stop Israel’s Dystopian “New Improved” Concentration Camp Plan—Before It’s Too Late
Israel keeping finding new lows in depraved behavior. Now we have Israel trying to brand a concentration camp as a “humanitarian city”.
Satyajit Das: On Cinema – Francis Ford Coppola’s Operas & Chamber Pieces
A break from our regular programming in the form of revisiting some of Francis Ford Coppola’s classics.
Coffee Break: AI in Healthcare and Science, the Nature of Charisma, and a Cure from a Mouse to a Patient
Part the First: Algorithmic Intelligence in Clinical Medicine. From the article This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it went. As the subhead notes: Summa Health’s experience highlights the challenges of AI adoption, especially at community health systems: Across emergency departments around Akron, Ohio, physicians were getting overwhelmed. In […]
Billionaires Flail About Trying to Beat Mamdani; Wall Street Journal Describes Shambolic Plan to Spend $20 Million
What fun! Billionaires running around all hair on fire over their inabilty to do much to check Mamdani.
Trump (Probably) Just Did Lula a Massive Favour With His 50% Tariff Threat Against Brazil
This has little to do with trade — in fact, the US had a $6.8 billion annual trade surplus with Brazil last year — and everything to do with geopolitics.
That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too
How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.
Food Giants Graded a “D” on Sustainable Farming Practices
More fiddling as the planet burns and soil quality degrades, as big agricultural buyers give lip service to regenerative farming.
BRICS 2025: Propaganda and the Illusion of Change
How the propaganda machine behind the BRICS 2025 summit works—told from the inside, it reveals that nothing truly new is happening
Del Monte Foods Goes Into Bankruptcy: A Trump Tariff Casualty
Struggling Del Monte Foods keeled over due to its exposure to steel and aluminum cost increases from ‘Trump’s tariffs.
Genius Act: This New US Crypto Law Could Pave the Way for the Next Global Financial Crisis
On top of the leverage bombs in the US and other financial systems, the embrace of crypto, specifically stablecoins, is another systemic risk
Early Job Mentoring, Placement, and Training Boost Refugee Integration Without High Costs
Like it or not, advanced economies are committed to immigration to counter low birthrates. Better refugee integration reduces the friction.
The Inevitable Militarization of Space?
A high level review of the US efforts to project power in space and the actions/reactions of Russia and China.
