Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution
Yves here. If you check Twitter, tweets about CRISPR are entirely positive, providing summaries of recent papers or other information about its potential or achievements,
Economic Questions: The Stephanie Kelton Question
Yves here. This Richard Murphy recap of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth is an opportunity to introduce friends and colleagues to Modern Monetary Theory, or
Top of the BoP and Other Trump Fantasies From the Battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza to the Shores of Pakistan and Venezuela – This Is How The US Is Retreating
Yves here. John Helmer provides some background below on the back and forth over draft texts on the UN resolution that attempts to put lipstick
Godzilla v. Mothra: How Google Is Winning Struggle Among AI Giants to Control News Flow
Yves here. This article describes some very important effects of the current direction of travel of AI Western-style, as in large language models, on news
Social Reuse of Seized Assets
Conor here: Naomi Fowler and Leo Schick detail missed opportunities when tax officials and law enforcement do manage to recover assets and money from criminals.
Links 11/15/2025 | naked capitalism
Seal hunted by killer whales escapes by jumping onto photographer’s boat Associated Press (Dr. Kevin) German scientists discover that rats hunt bats in the dark
Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
Yves here. BWAHAHA. There is so little good news on the mass surveillance that every win ought to be celebrated. And the precedent here is
More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
The Financial Times has a new piece on a growing social problem in many countries: the fate of young adults who fail to land jobs
Has Ed Zitron Found the Fatal Flaw with OpenAI and Its Flagship ChatGPT?
Ed Zitron has been relentlessly pursuing the questionable economics of AI and has tentatively identified a bombshell in his latest post, Exclusive: Here’s How Much
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Future of Elite Forces
The New Landscape of War The battlefields of Ukraine have revealed a transformation unprecedented since the mechanized wars of the twentieth century. As Baluyevsky and