I checked the unofficial candidates list this morning (as I often, but not always, do while drinking my coffee) and noticed a bunch of new potential candidates (remember - they are not official…

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is simple : Palestinian liberation is right & necessary the history is complicated: I have a…

 A Russian surface drone (USV) has been found off the coast of Romania, drifting close to the Neptun Alpha drilling platform. As the vessel began to drift away…

Two of the world’s most influential regulatory bodies picked the same day — August 2, 2026 — to tell you the same thing: you have a right to know when the thing in front of you came out of a…

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A late-Tang shipwreck exposed by a 2013 storm off Binh Chau, Quang Ngai, Vietnam, carried a Yue celadon fragment bearing the 'Qianfu' reign mark (874-879 CE). Its cargo was primarily Changsha ware,…

​We have covered this before, so I will only mention briefly that Eric Davis went vial on social media over the last 24 hours after he claimed once again that the United States possesses the…

So, I found this worth commenting on. Here you can see the percentage of all energy used derived from wind and solar in the Netherlands: [...]

After eight months of obstructionism from the Labour Friends of Israel government of the UK, tomorrow is the day on which the Scottish Court of Session will finally decide whether to go ahead with…

The image above appeared on the front cover of the Sunday National on 16 August 2026. The story highlighted the ongoing charges faced by the Isle of Skye Ferry CIC, the community company that…

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People are talking about socialism because current Democratic Socialists have won primary votes, some municipal elections, and are likely to win some congressional seats. But these are accusations…

Executive Summary: Improved buses to major shopping centres are the 'low hanging fruit' of the bus world. They have high patronage gains relative to their cost and often do not need network reform or…

More than a half century ago California passed New York to become America’s most populous state. It was not only first in population, but an industrial, agricultural and technology behemoth […]…

From the Perspective of Our Ancestors (and Their Modern‑Day Descendants) Gather ’round the digital fire, friends, and hear the tale of the newest “cultural defense” saga, straight…

Warning, this post is probably not going to sit well with outsiders to my blog. Don't read if you consider yourself a feminist or an "ally" to women. Not because what I say is insulting. It's not.…

James Carville on a DSA candidate winning in the NY primary: Lady,” said Carville on his podcast, Politics War Room, I ain’t in the same party as you. I’m sorry, I’m just not…. It’s time for…

Moral collapse came long ago. Now, physical collapse is coming to this modern Western civilization that white male supremacy built. Every government—Left and Right—every agency, every organization,…

How America inherited European colonialism and its contradictions

New US sanctions against the ICC will lead to anonymous judges, a la Peru. Continuing to weaponize the US monetary system will promote financial alternatives, ultimately killing the US dollar.…

What Happened Recent operational successes by UK law enforcement have exposed sophisticated domestic carding networks and the growing threat of youth-targeted money muling syndicates. In June 2026, a…

Einleitung: Wird der Rechtsruck zum Wirtschaftsproblem? Es ist ein Jahr her, da gab es diesen Moment in Indien, der Außenminister Johann Wadephul wohl ins Nachdenken brachte. Eine Veranstaltung der…

The Cascade Policy Institute has published the Antiplanner’s policy brief about Portland’s War on Cars in three parts: How Portland is losing the war; The benefits of automobiles that…

Mark Zuckerberg of Meta fame posted a manifesto. He lays out an idea of a "future for everyone", although I don't think his group of everyone comprises those outside his tax bracket. The screed…

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<p>Strap in, this story involves a cheese fortune teller, the department of war, and nearly every other government department in…

A technical and institutional analysis of Jacob Tsimerman’s account of AI-driven mathematical change, Timothy Gowers’s recent reflections, the Leiden Declaration, frontier-model access, and the open…

spotify is trash! [YouTube embed] spotify took money from ice! you know, that organization tearing families apart? spotify took money from israeli prison companies! you know, like the ones doing...

Mood: Tired. Just tired of it all. The air always tastes of exhausted ozone and venture capital these days. It's a cloying stench that's polluting the beautiful bedrock of society. Tech Bros are…

Under Schedule III marijuana products and state‑licensed medical marijuana become federally recognized goods possessing the same legal protections under the commercial product libel laws as other…

I have taught several different courses on law and AI at Emory Law, and I’m currently teaching “Current Topics in the Law and Policy of AI.” I’m not wild about any of the Law…

Yeah, hi, Carlo here. Good on you for being able to overlook all the racism; the “LOL fascism” attitude promoted by both the network’s owner and his algo; the white supremacy shit;…

Normally feckless U.S. media giants are starting to vaguely demonstrate something vaguely resembling an actual backbone.

When I first signed up for the YLAC High School Achievers Program, I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to get out of it. I was interested in learning more about civic responsibility and finding…

I came across a pretty alarming video about a study that goes over how Starlink and other satellite company debris will eventually destroy the ozone layer. Basically, most of these low earth orbit…

New on the site this time, installment 2 of Gan Yang's interview with Zha Jianying in her classic volume The 1980s.  Gan's interview is lively and revealing, but extremely long (35,000 words in…

It is hard to talk about alternatives to capitalism without hints of socialism or communism. You could argue that economic systems are organized based on individuals (capitalism), collectives…

Capitalism is a class system, and in recent years billionaires and their retainers have grown more brazen in asserting this basic social fact. Wherever the extreme right have assumed government, the…

Hey, Bear. Getting deployed soon. For the first time I'm feeling really anxious. I really don't want to go. Not sure why, after the trip back home this military service kinda washed off me. We don't…

When the Coal Strike of 1902 turned violent, Pennsylvania sent armed troops into its mining towns. This photograph from Leslie's Illustrated captures the 8th National Guard patrolling the streets of…

Like most people working in higher ed, I was horrified by the treatment and death of Professor Jason Arday. It was naked racism, purely and obviously. As a white man, I don’t have the voice to…

The government sent a noisy alert to every mobile phone in Britain on Friday to tell us not to light a barbecue. I have written about it for Spiked ... The nauseating thing about the national alert…

This is pretty basic economics but apparently it needs spelling out… Sponsorship deals go to the highest bidder. If the highest bidder is excluded from the process then the organisation that is…

 Russia’s new Pr. 09851 class submarine, _Khabarovsk_, has started sea trials after fitting out and degaussing in Severodvinsk in the Russian Arctic...[Read…

Digging into the details of NSW’s new data centre guidelines that were announced today. These are for a ‘go faster’ process as opposed to minimum standards of the sort being…

"The scriptwriters obviously decided to introduce Natalie Harp to spice things up in season three of 'Trump.' Viewers were getting bored by Vance, Miller, Hegseth, Blanche et al. The question: Is…

I feel bad for Bill Cassidy who, if you were casting a movie, looks exactly right for the part of the honorable senator who stands up for principle against a powerful bully, and who knows that the…

Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator On October 23rd, 2025, the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York indicted five people as part of a sports gambling conspiracy. From the…

Disclosure: this research was conducted using an ANY.RUN account provided as part of a collaboration. All analysis and conclusions are my own. TLDR Found an unreported Silver Fox campaign serving…

A proved gate is only as good as the policy it enforces, and the policy is the part that changes while the agent is running. What OSCAL and the agent-authorization drafts both assume, and what breaks.