Yet More AI Bubble Worries, Now on Debt Side, with Wall Street Journal Featuring AI Datacenter Borrowing “Frenzy”
Peeling back another layer of the AI onion, today on datacenter financing.
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Links 11/15/2025
This Car-Free Neighborhood Was Designed to Revolutionize American Cities
A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable neighborhoods.
Read more...Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock.
Read more...MAGA Is a NATO Racket – Trump’s 5% Military Budget Hike to Fight Russia Stokes Corruption In Estonia
Yapping dog Estonia is out to take the lead among NATO members not only in arms spending to GDP but also in open corruption.
Read more...More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Unemployment among young graduates has hit a sustained high level in many countries, which will produce further social and economic harm.
Read more...Ever Be Escalating: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump
The twisted history of the US war on drugs shows how failed policies come to have a life of their own.
Read more...Paying for Euroskepticism
A new data analysis shows that Euroskepticism, as in regional voting for nationalist/anti-European Union policies, produces lower growth.
Read more...Has Ed Zitron Found the Fatal Flaw with OpenAI and Its Flagship ChatGPT?
The Financial Times has re-reported cautious but devastating-looking findings by Ed Zitron on OpenAI’s inference costs and truthfulness.
Read more...Tom Ferguson and Nick French: Red Tech’s Political Power, Its War on Labor and the Environment
An in-depth talk between political scientist Tom Ferguson and Jacobin’s Nick French about recent big shifts, above all the rise of red tech.
Read more...What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
Why it behooves you to care about air quality, specifically PM2.5 pollution.
Read more...‘An Indictment of the Trade Union Movement’: Why No One is Organising Seasonal Workers
Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership
Read more...Links 11/12/2025
Why Trump’s 50 Year Mortgage Scheme Is an Even Worse Idea Than You Imagined
The Trump/Pulte 50 year mortgage scheme is indeed really bad even before getting to the fact that it would probably increase home prices.
Read more...“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage and Chaos
A sadly necessary reminder of what US regime change operations are about. Hint: nothing good.
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