Links 5/10/2025 | naked capitalism
Dear patient readers, We have a lot of links today due to including Victory Day coverage. Enjoy! * * * Former Supreme Court Justice David
Coffee Break: More on the Disruption of American Science and Good News on Intranasal Viruses to Combat Respiratory Viruses
Part the First. A Few Words in Response to the Excellent Commentariat of Naked Capitalism. No one knows better than I that funding of science
Palantir Revisited: Who’s Us in Us vs. Them?
Yves here. Tom Neuburger looks at how Americans are being indoctrinated to accept even more state spying…because, of course, baddies. It is striking that the
Predictive Policing AI Is on the Rise − Making It Accountable to the Public Could Curb Its Harmful Effects
Yves here. This post describes one predictive policing experiment gone awry….and then makes positive noises about one that has not yet started, merely based on
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. Defense Racketeering
As the Trump administration prepares to increase the enormous U.S. defense budget to over one trillion dollars, it is an appropriate time to describe how
Coffee Break: Across the Pond, Tyrants Edition
The leaders of the three largest countries in Europe (excluding Russia) are behaving in an increasingly tyranical way as their ineptitude is starting to severely
Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Yves here. This post describes the framework for international humanitarian military intervention, as in military action to stop genocide, war crimes, crime against humanity, and
Links 5/3/2025 | naked capitalism
The female falcon was equipped with a GPS tracker during its journey from South Africa to Finland, covering about 230km per day. It flew in
Coffee Break: The Attack on Scientists and Scientific Research Continues, Plus One Great Result on a Vaccine that Prevents Cancer
Part the First. Convergence and Consensus in Science, or and how to interpret scientific results in context. From Holden Thorp, the Editor-in-Chief of Science: Kathleen