Mathematics is out there<\/a> Aeon<\/p>\n The unexpected science hiding in Dante\u2019s \u2018Inferno\u2019<\/a> Popular Science<\/p>\n Scientists create miniature nuclear fireball to understand how radioactive dust is born<\/a> Interesting Engineering<\/p>\n Study Finds Pro Chess Players Make Better Moves When They Decide Faster<\/a> StudyFinds<\/p>\n I Went Looking for the Origins of Clothing and Nearly Got Hypothermia<\/a> ZME Science<\/p>\n Climate\/Environment<\/p>\n National drought severity and coverage index reaches highest level in more than a decade<\/a> Balanced Weather<\/p>\n Heat Dome Update: Europe Braces for Record-Breaking Late May Heatwave<\/a> Severe Weather Europe<\/p>\n Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change<\/a> Futurism<\/p>\n Skeletons in the permafrost: Exploring climate-driven heritage loss and occupational health at the early modern whaling burial site of Likneset, Svalbard<\/a> PLOS One<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Airborne Toxic Events<\/p>\n Why experts, emergency crews haven\u2019t been able to find a solution to Garden Grove chemical threat<\/a> Orange County Register<\/p>\n Garden Grove chemical crisis: Live evacuation maps, closures and updates<\/a> Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ebola<\/p>\n Attacks on Ebola centres intensify in eastern DRC amid outbreak fears<\/a> Al Jazeera<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Over 1000 cases barely a week past detection.<\/p>\n Soon to be the 2nd largest Ebola outbreak ever, and echoing the 2014 mega-outbreak in all the worst ways.<\/p>\n A thread outlining the huge challenge that looms, and some thoughts on what must be done:https:\/\/t.co\/Ig3tjEZsDW<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ebola: The disease of compassion, and the price of when \u201cwe\u201d became \u201cme\u201d<\/a> Your Local Epidemiologist<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Hantavirus<\/p>\n Has everyone seen this new NHS UKHSA guidance for ANDV?<\/p>\n ***FFP3 RESPIRATORS ***<\/p>\n For EVERYONE in Healthcare<\/p>\n Patients & Staff<\/p>\n In contact w suspected cases<\/p>\n And contacts<\/p>\n I kid you not<\/p>\n Hell hath frozen over<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4fhttps:\/\/t.co\/efMMEZqf9H<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/H3PYwW2R53<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Barry Hunt (@BarryHunt008) May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n China?<\/p>\n Iran war, China thaw complicate U.S. support for Taiwan<\/a> WaPo. \u201cU.S. arms sales to Taiwan have been \u201cpaused,\u201d a senior U.S. military official said\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Huawei Touts Chipmaking Breakthrough to Shorten Gap With TSMC<\/a> Bloomberg<\/p>\n At Least 90 Dead in China\u2019s Worst Coal Mine Disaster in over 16 Years<\/a> Yomiuri Shimbun<\/p>\n You Don\u2019t Understand China!<\/a> Sinocities<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Southeast Asia<\/p>\n This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines.<\/p>\n They did so under the so-called \u201cPax Silica\u201d initiative, the brainchild of \u2013 surprise, surprise \u2013 an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic \u201cdiplomacy\u201d from the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/RRIT5nvgpO<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) May 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n India<\/p>\n Why has India\u2019s \u2018sweet spot\u2019 turned into so bitter?<\/a> India Inside Out by Rohan Venkat<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Syraqistan<\/p>\n Malaysia prepared to take Israel to ICJ over treatment of Gaza flotilla activists<\/a> Anadolu Agency<\/p>\n Two Years after Biden Sabotaged ICJ Orders, Imperial Israel is Violating the Gaza \u201cCeasefire\u201d, Grabbing More Land and Flouting International Law<\/a> Sam Husseini<\/p>\n Serious scabies outbreak in Israeli occupation prisons is part of the policy of torture and slow killing used against Palestinian political prisoners<\/a> The Canary<\/p>\n After Netanyahu, the System Remains<\/a> Savage Minds<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n 250,000,000 Reasons Why Trump is Backing Away From a Deal with Iran<\/a> Larry Johnson<\/p>\n Sen. Lindsey Graham Backs Trump\u2019s Suggestion To Tie Any Iran Deal To Expanding Abraham Accords<\/a> Antiwar<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n MAJOR!! \u2014 Hadi Hoteit | \u0647\u0627\u062f\u064a \u062d\u0637\u064a\u0637 (@HadiHtt) May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Old Blighty<\/p>\n Revealed: Palantir\u2019s NHS tech is ten times slower than current system<\/a> Democracy for Sale<\/p>\n Labour\u2019s summer cost of living policies reduce it to the Groupon administration<\/a> The Canary<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n European Disunion<\/p>\n Major EU countries push for tougher China policy ahead of Brussels debate<\/a> South China Morning Post<\/p>\n European Gas Storage Can\u2019t Survive 3 More Months of Hormuz<\/a> OilPrice<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n New Not-So-Cold War<\/p>\n Oreshnik Post-Strike Analysis<\/a> Simplicius<\/p>\n Rising Ukrainian losses<\/a> Events in Ukraine<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n No EU membership for Ukraine; not even a quarter of one percent sliver of GDP from the rich European pie for Ukraine. Aside from that, Europe is bravely prepared to fight to the last Ukrainian male (and we\u2019re rapidly approaching that last Ukrainian male)https:\/\/t.co\/TtlsELhzPy<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ukraine\u2019s Secret Al Qaeda Invasion Of Africa<\/a> Kit Klarenberg<\/p>\n The Arctic & Baltic Fronts Of The NATO-Russian New Cold War Are Dangerously Merging<\/a> Andrew Korybko<\/p>\n RAF jet carrying defence secretary has signal jammed near Russian border<\/a> BBC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n South of the Border<\/p>\n Hasan Piker And Medea Benjamin Served Subpoenas For Their Trip To Cuba: Report<\/a> Huff Post<\/p>\n Bolivia: Working People Stay in the Streets to Protest Paz amid Labor Leadership Absence<\/a> Left Voice<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n all socialists should be learning from the tactics of the bolivian people and the indigenous communities there. they aren\u2019t just on strike, they\u2019re putting up roadblocks around the major cities, they\u2019re actually shutting the economy down.<\/p>\n \u2014 Monte\ud83d\udd3b (@bruegels_muse) May 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Remember that the Mexican working class achieved these real tangible victories by creating their own political party just over 10 years ago.<\/p>\n Not engaging in entryism into a neoliberal party. A fact that the DSA, Hasan Piker left refuses to reconcile with https:\/\/t.co\/1Z69BJ5m97<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nick Cruse \ud83e\udd4b (@SocialistMMA) May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Backlash Grows as Venezuela Approves Overflight of US Military Aircraft for Embassy Drill<\/a> Orinoco Tribune<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Democrats Suck<\/p>\n AOC takes more steps toward 2028 run for president<\/a> Axios<\/p>\n The liberal establishment doesn\u2019t take repression seriously<\/a> Alec Karakatsanis<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Accelerationists<\/p>\n The CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, admits that the trillions of dollars being used to build data centers and power grids will come from ordinary people\u2019s savings accounts and pension funds, and says it is mandatory.<\/p>\n He says America needs trillions in AI infrastructure spending,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/YFlKK8tVHw<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) May 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to the pope<\/a> Politico<\/p>\n JD Vance\u2019s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Tool of Antichrist<\/a> Letters from Leo. From November, still germane.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Screening Room<\/p>\n At the Cannes Film Festival, We Saw the Center of Gravity Shifting<\/a> IndieWire<\/p>\n \u2018We\u2019re expanding the cinematic toolbox\u2019: AI fault lines on show at Cannes<\/a> The Guardian<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n AI<\/p>\n Severe flooding in Mason County relating to data center construction, residents to be reimbursed for damages<\/a> WSAZ<\/p>\n Nintendo Is Completely Ignoring AI and Doing Fine<\/a> Futurism<\/p>\n State media control influences large language models<\/a> Nature<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Our Famously Free Press<\/p>\n The Digital Media Oligarchy: Who Owns Online News?<\/a>\u00a0 FAIR<\/p>\n The Feed Is Fake<\/a> New York Magazine<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Groves of Academe<\/p>\n California State University renews controversial systemwide contract with OpenAI<\/a> Long Beach Post<\/p>\n The Matthew effect in AI summary<\/a> London School of Economics<\/p>\n You\u2019ll never guess the university:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Am genuinely shocked by this anecdote. I cannot recall seeing this ever happen at college in the 1990s. pic.twitter.com\/vAfMt5M7FE<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Mr. Market Feasts on Societal Collapse<\/p>\n The Stock Market Has Never Been So Good When People Have Felt So Bad<\/a> WSJ<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Economy<\/p>\n Despite high gas prices, drivers aren\u2019t expected to hit the brakes on Memorial Day travel<\/a> The Hill<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Casino Nation<\/p>\n How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency<\/a> New York Times. Not archived yet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Class Warfare<\/p>\n Meat Packing Industry Wage-Fixing Continues with Cargill Lockout<\/a> UFCW 7<\/p>\n They just formed the biggest tech worker union in the US. The plan is to take on AI and industry layoffs<\/a> Blood in the Machine<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Antidote du jour (via<\/a>):<\/p>\n See yesterday\u2019s Links and Antidote du Jour here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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Hezbollah reveals its possession and implementation of night vision and thermal vision equipped fpv drones!
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