Monday, October 13, 2025

Coffee Break: Bad Jacketing Katie Porter

Last week, California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter got the bad jacketing treatment after a snippy interview with CBS.

Looking to Türkiye For Clues About What’s Coming in Western Asia

US-Turkish-Israeli Axis remains intact and with Syria as takfiri staging ground aims to spread chaos to Lebanon, Iraq, and ultimately Iran. 

Links 10/13/2025

Crypto Crash Leads to Customer Bail-Ins to Prevent Some Exchanges from Failing

Yet more reason to be leery of crypto: even when you have won on a leveraged bet, you can be haircut to help rescue the exchange.

How Technology Shapes How We Move, Speak, and Think

Is technology expanding or contracting our horizons? 

AI: Is it Really Different this Time?

AI is huge. But so is the hype, hocus-pocus deals, and piles of real money fortified by leverage that caused stock prices to explode.

Links 10/12/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Moscow, My Love (1974) Run Time: 1H 29M

Moscow My Love is a bittersweet tale of love and loss set in Soviet Russia.

Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup

The so-called opposition, with a much-needed rebranding assist from the Nobel Committee, proposes total economic surrender to US oligarchic interests.

Links 10/11/2025

What Version of Democracy Will Prevail?

Speculation about the future of the endangered species known as democracy.

Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

The Trump Administration is eager to integrate AI into military operations, even as experts warn: “The AI is always playing Curtis LeMay.”

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