The Israeli Minister of National Security says he is proud that the members of the Greta Thunberg flotilla that was bringing food and medicines to Palestinians, who are being deliberately starved and denied medical assistance by Israel, are being punished as terrorists and subject to harsh treatment. The minister, Itamar…
At Naked Capitalism Yves Smith published a paper by Servaas Storm: The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last? Yves writes: This is a devastating, must-read paper by Servaas Storm on how AI is failing to meet core, repeatedly hyped performance promises, and never can, irrespective…
Republican strategist Roger Stone asked bluntly on Twitter on Saturday, “Who at the DOJ is blocking the prosecution of the entire Russian Collusion cabal as well as crooks like Letitia James and Adam Schiff?” President Donald Trump has echoed similar frustrations on Truth Social, demanding action against New York Attorney…
Gaza City is a ghost town. Darkness, smoke, and shadows hang over it, illuminated only by the red glow of explosions. The city resembles scenes from apocalyptic films—stories of the end of the world, of human catastrophe, of global wars. Homes stand deserted, streets are emptied, and death encircles…
Teilhard de Chardin and the Technological Matrix. Richard Heathen argues that Pierre de Chardin’s distortion of Christian theology laid the groundwork for modern techno-spiritual and transhumanist dystopias ready to replace the divine with AI, representing a “Counter-Tradition” that leads to a deified, totalizing technological order which enslaves rather than…
This could most significantly provide the domestic political basis for reviving the Visegrad Group. Populist-nationalist politician Andrej Babis is poised to return to the premiership after his party’s victory in the latest elections. They lack a majority but are expected to build a coalition with some of the smaller parties…
Among the arguments of those who seem to be pushing for expanded war with the Russian Federation, one of the strangest is that Russia is a weak, third-world country and a “paper tiger.” Those who make this argument point to the protracted three-year conflict in Ukraine and scoff at the…
The battle for the legacy of Charlie Kirk continued this week with the publication of a long letter from the late evangelical activist to Benjamin Netanyahu last May. Kirk professes love for Israel and the Jewish people, then warns Netanyahu that Israel is getting “CRUSHED” on social media in…
Strange times, indeed, folks. Strange times. Should we be concerned? I think so. In the end, I am sure it will work out, but there will likely be a lot of time between now and the end. So, we will have to endure some pretty radical changes during that…
Is this finally the end of Hollywood? OpenAI this week unveiled Sora 2, a video generator app that many analysts are warning could spell the end for Hollywood and the wider film industry. “Sora 2 can do things that are exceptionally difficult — and in some instances outright impossible…
