Expensive affected person readers,
Thanks for bearing with us in the course of the Cloudflare outage yesterday. Sadly that additionally threw me off my rhythm, therefore an absence of authentic posts by me as we speak.
UC Berkeley Scientists Hail Breakthrough In Decoding Whale Communication SFGate
No free fucking play – then the youngsters’s occasion ends in chaos Aftonbladet through machine translation (Micael T)
Asymmetry: Some notes on vulnerability Samuel Kimbriel
Tremendous-recognizers pattern visible data of superior computational worth for facial recognition Proceedings of the Royal Society of Organic Science. I’m a brilliant unhealthy recognizer!
On a regular basis microplastics may very well be fueling coronary heart illness Science Direct (Anthony L)
#COVID-19/Pandemics
Generally I see considered one of these charts that simply stops me in my tracks.
Alzheimer’s.
Late onset.Don’t deceive your self about this one. pic.twitter.com/lXAJ8jbswf
— tern (@1goodtern) November 17, 2025
Why We’re Seeing Extra Hen Flu Infections Earlier AgWeb
Local weather/Atmosphere
U.S. rejection of local weather science is a name to motion for the remainder of the world Eugene Linden, Los Angeles Instances
Methane air pollution nonetheless rises, however UN reviews hope for close to future reductions Unbiased
‘We Are Forgotten Right here’: As NYC Builds Seawalls, This Queens Neighborhood Feels Left Behind NYSFocus
‘I couldn’t converse. I couldn’t breathe’ That is local weather breakdown Guardian
The Arctic as we knew it’s disappearing proper in entrance our eyes… loopy heat anomalies as much as ~20°C! 😱
Do you see the chilly anomalies that (based on local weather denials) counterbalance the nice and cozy ones?
No, as a result of they hardly happen…
Through @WeatherProf pic.twitter.com/GIEGhwTjYa
— Melaine Le Roy (@subfossilguy) November 16, 2025
Landslides kill dozens as heavy rains lash Southeast Asia Aljazera. Our wet season usually ends in October. It’s overcast, actually cool and raining ~ each different day, which needs to be over…significantly since excessive season has supposedly began. Not seaside climate!
Wheat may require dramatically extra water throughout future warmth waves, scientists warn Qazinform
The achievement of a degrowth future requires system change not inexperienced new offers Invoice Mitchell. As we now have been saying, however good to have firm.
Japan-China Row
China bans Japanese seafood as diplomatic dispute deepens Reuters
China-Japan Feud Escalates Overseas Coverage
Twitter embeds at present not working. This did embody a video:
China and Japan are in a vicious sport of rooster over Taiwan Economist
Japan’s now not ambiguous stance on Taiwan Asia Instances (Kevin W)
Africa
Nestlé accused of ’risking well being of infants for revenue’ over added sugar in cereals bought in African international locations Guardian (resilc)
Kenya faces a worsening starvation disaster The Star
South of the Border
Trump authorizes CIA to arrange plans for covert operations in Venezuela: Report Anadolu Company
Sheriff David Hathaway : Breaks Silence on Authorities-Sanctioned Killings Decide Napolitano, YouTube. Far more informative than I anticipated.
European Disunion
Mearsheimer: Europe’s Bleak Future American Conservative (Michael Hudson)
French winegrowers protest as disaster deepens The Drinks Enterprise
Islamists flee Sweden – abandoning tens of millions in unpaid tax money owed Expressen through machine translation. Micael T: “Aspect-effect of privatized colleges being funded by taxpayer cash and nil legislative management or enforcement. Neoliberalism! Yuhuu!!!”
Previous Blighty
UK Labour to Let Authorities Take Jewellery From Asylum-Seekers as A part of Sweeping New Immigration Crackdown Frequent Desires
NHS faces ‘doom loop’ with out AI, says Euan Blair Telegraph. Colonel Smithers: “The place there’s a trough, there’s a Blair.” From Ignacio of our Covid Mind Belief:
Holy Sh#t!
We’re surrounded by snake oil salesmen!
“Productiveness doom loop” sounds horrible! Although i consider that may be precisely the result if AI instruments get accountable for HC operations at NHS.
I discover all this practically unbelievable.‘Deeply stunning’: Nigel Farage faces contemporary claims of racism and antisemitism in school Guardian (Colonel Smithers)
Israel v. The Resistance
Okay, formally confirmed. X restricted Hebrew translation, so we dont see all of the open requires genocide. I’m stunned they let Grok admit this. https://t.co/O9oPjbq2xA pic.twitter.com/XyKCN9CFIh
— Ali Ahmadi (@AliR_Ahmadi) November 17, 2025
⭕️ Israel’s “Iron coffin” Torture
Palestine Prisoners Media has documented the testimony of a Palestinian man launched from contained in the Israeli jail system the place he describes being compelled to sleep 10-12 nights inside what’s generally known as the “coffin”, a slender iron cage, the place he… pic.twitter.com/KorTwDUgqX
— Drop Website (@DropSiteNews) November 18, 2025
Poland Repurposed a Nazi Manufacturing facility Website to Make TNT to Drop on Gaza DropSite (Robin Ok)
Iranian nuclear consultants held second covert assembly with Russian weapons institute Monetary Instances. Lead story. No archived model but.
Rainfall triggers flooding in western Iran after months of extreme drought Iran Worldwide
Iran’s snow cowl plummets 98.6% as water disaster deepens Intellinews
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Polish ‘Sabotage’ False Flag Churns Extra Threats In opposition to Russia Amid AFU’s Shock Collapse in Seversk Simplicius
Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to finish Ukraine conflict Axios. If that is right, it’s yet one more flip flop. Having successfully repudiated the Alaska place (accepting the Russian “no ceasefire”), this claims it’s again on and Ukraine goes alongside. I don’t see how Russia can do greater than play alongside given how completely untrustworthy, even by US requirements, that Trump has been. And the Ukraine entrance strains at the moment are cracking at many factors. Putin would face near a home revolt have been he to settle. And the Europeans are usually not able to agree both even when Ukraine is lastly sobering up as to how untenable its place is. However then once more, by the point the US, Ukraine, and the rabid EU faction led by Ursula von der Leyen, Mark Rutte, Kaja Kallas, and Freidrich Merz may probably agree on something, the conflict will over.
Ukraine’s Days are Numbered Larry Johnson
Large Brother is Watching You Watch
Google is accumulating troves of knowledge from downgraded Nest thermostats The Verge
Imperial Collapse Watch
Residing Backwards Aurelien
WHAT A CRANKY NEW BOOK ABOUT PROGRESS GETS RIGHT Atlantic (Anthony L)
Trump 2.0
Trump has ‘blurred’ line between army and politics, ex-officers warn Guardian (resilc)
Trump designates Saudi Arabia as a serious non-NATO US ally Anadolu Company
Trump Says Saudi Chief Knew Nothing of Journalist Homicide, Rejecting CIA Evaluation Wall Road Journal
Appeals courtroom panel mulls $1M penalty for Trump in lawsuit in opposition to Hillary Clinton Politico
The billionaire Trump selected to steer NASA has ties to Chinese language authorities Oligarch Watch
Immigration
EXCLUSIVE: How the Trump administration sparked a well being disaster for ICE detainees Common Info
Contractor Paying Random Individuals $300 to Bodily Monitor Immigrants for ICE 404 Media
L’affaire Epstein. Apologies for the YouTube embeds which you can’t play domestically, however Musk went to the White Home and abruptly a lot of tweets now not embed, significantly ones with juicy movies. So belief me, the 2 YouTubes under are very a lot value your consideration.
Senate Agrees to Go Invoice to Drive Epstein Recordsdata’ Launch, Sending It to Trump Time
Epstein’s Brother: GOP Is SCRUBBING Recordsdata Of Names Kim Iversen, YouTube (fk)
From a tweet by Ryder (hat tip Chuck L) on the trade under: “That is completely historic. Unbelievable. Take heed to what this president say. I actually assume this press assembly is the tip of him.”
A unique incident: “Quiet Piggy”: Trump Snaps at Feminine Reporter Asking About Epstein New Republic
Epstein Invoice Passes as High Official Circulates Plan to Block Transparency Ken Klippenstein (fk)
Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Financial institution to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire DropSite
GOP Clown Automotive
Federal courtroom blocks Texas Republicans’ redrawn congressional map NBC (Kevin W)
Mr. Market Is Having a Unhappy
Have the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Inventory Markets Peaked? Michael Shedlock. A technical take.
How the shutdown broke America’s meals chain — and what occurs subsequent Grist
AI
The Complete Monetary World Is Frightened of Nvidia’s Earnings Name Futurism
Click on by way of, this tweet is a should learn:
🦔CoreWeave is spending $310 million on curiosity expense in opposition to simply $51.9 million in working revenue, borrowing cash to pay curiosity on earlier loans. The AI information middle firm went public in March at $40 per share, peaked at $187 in June, and now trades round $75 whereas… pic.twitter.com/jRRvhkmJrJ
— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) November 17, 2025
Rampant AI demand throws the reminiscence chip market into turmoil Nikkei. Readers have stated that the price of RAM has skyrocketed.
America’s AI giants surging robust and swift into India Asia Instances (Kevin W)
The Bezzle
Nice Bitcoin Crash of 2025 Has It Lagging Bonds, Gold and Extra Bloomberg
How Hovering Power Demand Helped Push Bitcoin Under $90,000 OilPrice (resilc)
Tech Billionaires Discovered a New Method To Extract Wealth | Ft. John Russell YouTube (resilc)
Class Warfare
Elon Musk is ready to make greater than each U.S. elementary instructor mixed Washington Submit (resilc)
Antidote du jour (through):
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