Sunday, July 12, 2026
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Hószakadás AKA Snowfall (1974) Run Time: 1H 33M Plus Anil Seth On Why AI Is Not Conscious Plus Bonuses!
Hószakadás is a movie about life and death on the fringes of war.
Machine Gun-Toting Israeli Settlers Detain Ro Khanna During Trip to Occupied West Bank
“These hoodlums come in with machine guns—M4, an American-made machine gun—and they detain us. They block off the road.”
Iran War: Iran Rejects Trump 24 Hour Ultimatum; US Launches Intense Attacks With Kuwait and Bahrain; Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz, Starts Counter-Strikes; Rumors of Mining of Oman Channel
Today’s Iran war news: It looks as if a full-bore war, now over control of the Strait of Hormuz, is on.
The Graham Platner Affair
A post mortem of the successful effort to end Graham Platner’s Senate bid and any future in politics.
How Stories Change the Human Brain, Empathy, Memory, and Behavior
Yves here. Stories are integral to decision-making. Prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys know well that juries reach their verdicts not on weighing evidence but on constructing the story that seems to them to fit the evidence best and then see what that means in terms of a ruling. It’s thus disconcerting to see how tech […]
Coffee Break: More on American Science, Thomas Jefferson and AI, and Natural History for the Ages
Part the First: Beware of Resting on the Shoulders of Atlas. Dr. Scott Atlas is a radiologist who is now ensconced in the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford (naturally, and in the tower, no less). One can only surmise from the general run of their work product that (true) Revolution and […]
Cloudflare Threatens to Cut Google Off From Their Publishers in Searches Due to AI Scraping
AI is destroying what is left of search, as Cloudflare plus big publishers implement the nuclear option of cutting off Google indexing.
Iran War: Conflicting Reports on Momentary Pause – Restart of Talks or Iran Readying Big Strike? Russia Diesel Export Halt and Qatar LNG Pullback Increase Energy Pressure
Today’s Iran war news: Information fog is thick –yet more peace deal happy talk as underlying disputes fester and energy stresses worsen.
Europe’s Gathering Backlash Against Palantir Hits NATO Resistance
The AI systems managed by Palantir are becoming even more embedded in the collective West’s war-waging.
AI Investment Mania Has Begun to Percolate Through the Economy, and the Fed Has Begun to Fret About the Effects
AI dominated the Fed’s meeting as a driver of “persistent inflationary pressures” and demand growth.
How Winning Became the Shared Ethos of the US Oligarchy
Winning seems to be all that matters to Donald Trump, because it is the only thing left to legitimize America’s oligarchic rule.
How Unions Pave the Way to the American Dream
Even with rising inequality and weak labor rights, unions secure enough improvements in pay and conditions to provide some class mobility.
