What do words mean? Sam Chris. A fun read. Here’s the response from a friend who said he got his PhD on Proust:
Bahaha! A train wreck and a name that drops “ontological monovalence.” It quickly brought me back to making fun of the “self-referential” intellectual shenanigans of some overzealous theorists in graduate school. I’ve only read paragraph 1 and I’m already lost.
Scientists find toxic metals hidden in popular plastic toys ScienceDaily (Kevin W)
Your daily coffee habit may protect your liver Naveen Shankar
Calorie restriction attenuates transcriptional senescence signatures in monkey brain senescent white matter oligodendrocytes and immune cells
#New Coronavirus Infection/Pandemic
Avian influenza viruses pose a major threat to humans because they are resistant to fever. Paul R:
Apparently, influenza is prevalent among birds around here. People are being told to keep their cats indoors or “under supervision”. Otherwise, cats will kill the birds and bring them home to infect humans. Hi.
France’s Pasteur Institute says mutating avian influenza virus poses a greater pandemic risk than the new coronavirus Reuters (resilc)
Global dietary vaccinations are almost back to pre-pandemic levels, WHO report finds STAT
South Carolina measles outbreak shows the chilling effect of vaccine misinformation KFF Health News. America is also special!
Climate/Environment
Guardian study finds Africa’s forests have turned from carbon sinks to carbon sources (resilc)
Even the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean are currently warming, according to Barents observer.
toilet
The threat of global water scarcity Counterfire
North Sea and Baltic Sea show widespread contamination with MRI contrast agent PhysOrg
How the Nile water conflict threatens counter-terrorism efforts
China?
The death toll from the Hong Kong fires has reached 128, and the status of 200 others is unknown. ICAC arrested six more South China Morning Post workers. Live updates.
How did Xi Jinping play on President Trump’s foreign policy?
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Taiwan searches former TSMC executive’s home in company secret investigation Reuters
Taiwan’s President Lai slams China, promises $40 billion in additional defense budget CNBC
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China’s Wingtech file appeals, battle for control of Neexia intensifies Asia Times (Kevin W)
The Dutch Chamber of Companies (Corporate Court) has not restored control, share ownership or corporate control of Nexperia NL to Wingtec CEO.
Nexperia CN will ghost Nexperia NL until it does. The people’s appeal is hopeless.
Production shutdowns are imminent unless companies respond… https://t.co/LlUOJfbChM pic.twitter.com/jEc5gNzFqs
— Kathleen Tyson (@Kathleen_Tyson_) November 28, 2025
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China’s factory activity shrinks for 8th consecutive month – Reuters poll Reuters
Chinese excavator maker goes global with smart machines YouTube (resilc)
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Chinese security guards live in Margin Sixth Tone (resilc)
Japan
Russia warns Japan of deploying intermediate-range missiles on related islands China Daily
Southeast Asia
These fraud centers were blown up. Was it all a sham? new york times (resilc)
south of the border
Not just Venezuela: Trump intends a broader domino effect Antiwar.com (Kevin W). And I want a pony.
Elliott Abrams Returns to Promote Caracas Cakewalk Responsible National Strategy (Kevin W)
Massive lockdown continues into fourth day, impact begins to worsen Mexico News Daily
President Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez on drug trafficking sentence in 2024 Associated Press
discord in europe
Increased government spending alone won’t solve Germany, warns IMF Financial Times
‘Time to act now’: Europe’s blockbuster rare earth discovery pushed towards development CNBC. Please kill me now. This could easily have fallen under The Bezzle umbrella as well. If we keep bickering, 1. Rare earths are not rare. 2. Handling them requires considerable skill, which the EU currently does not have. 3. Citizens of developed countries have little tolerance for very high levels of pollution caused by processing and refining.
France to seize small vessel after pressure from BBC
More than 110 million euros in losses in Latvia: heavy rain and frost destroy crops BNN
Bulgarian government withdraws 2026 budget plan after mass protests Euronews
old blighty
UK faces gas shortage as North Sea output plummets Telegraph
Reeves’ tax hike budget crash-landes in an economy struggling to grow The Guardian
a href=”https://www.rt.com/news/628635-uk- Selling-embassies/” rel=”nofollow”>Fund-strapped UK to sell embassies – Politico RT (Kevin W)
The Guardian claims that the ‘unelected power’ of the ultra-rich is reshaping British politics
The co-founder of the direct action group will be asked to leave Courtroom 5 of the Royal Court of Justice, as will her legal team and most other attendees, midway through a challenge to the ban on Palestinian action that begins on Wednesday. The incidents continue after that… pic.twitter.com/EKaDJW48lk
— The Left Bible (@theleftbible) November 26, 2025
Judge in Palestine case worked for Israeli spies Robert Maxwell and Asa Winstanery
israel vs resistance
Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says in The Guardian (resilc)
Horrifying: Even after the so-called ceasefire, Gaza’s health system is collapsing, with more than 85% of essential medicines in short supply, and the Gaza Strip has almost no medicines or baby formula. pic.twitter.com/yfgCs2vU3r
— Rami Abdul | और देखें November 28, 2025
Israeli police accused the Telegraph (resilc) of executing unarmed Palestinians on the streets. Mainstream media is finally paying attention.
Houthis in financial crisis summarize threat to Saudi Arabia The Economist
Stealth Bomber and Bunker Buster William Shriver
syrakistan
Pakistan’s quiet coup diplomacy (Robin K)
Settler activists enter Syria, returned by IDF after brief pursuit Times of Israel (Kevin W) Settler acts like a cockroach.
Damascus now has an al-Qaeda-linked ruler, and Israel is quietly expanding into Syria under the slogan of “protecting minorities.” This is not an accident.
Let’s break down the strategy behind it.
1/19🧵 pic.twitter.com/Eta7wh9j71
— Kevork Almassian (@KevorkAlmassian) November 28, 2025
A new war that’s not so cold war
President Putin makes final remarks on fake “reconciliation” in Kyrgyzstan at Simplicius meeting
NABU and SAPO raided Yermak’s office “New Voice of Ukraine” (Mikael T.) in Kiev’s government district. Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Yermak join at the waist. President Zelenskiy dispatched Yermak to Geneva for negotiations to reaffirm the importance of his position. Alexander Mercursi reported last week that European officials had instructed NABU and SAPO corruption investigators to halt the IIRC investigation to avoid destabilizing Zelenskyy. They have a big vote because Europe funds the government.
POW Challenge Event in Ukraine
EU’s Kaja Karas is bad at history Larry Johnson
big brother is watching over you
An open letter signed by 18 of Europe’s leading cybersecurity and privacy academics warned that the latest chat control proposals pose “high risks to society with no clear benefits for children”. The first, in their view, is the expansion of “voluntary” scanning to include: https://t.co/Jqw2ZvYIFA
— Thomas Fudge (@battleforeurope) November 28, 2025
imperial collapse watch
Michael Curley: Rewriting World War II – Historical Revisionism in Geopolitics Glenn Diesen
New York’s BQE is collapsing. The city can’t agree on how to fix it. new york times (resilc)
The Biggest Problem of Air Travel: Pajamas?Atlantic (Michael T.)
Baikonur’s only crew pad destroyed after Soyuz flight The Register (Kevin W)
Trump 2.0
President Trump revoked all executive orders signed by Biden using automated pen TASS with machine translation (Michael T.)
immigration
President Trump says US will suspend immigration from ‘Third World countries’ BBC
More than 220 judges reject Trump administration’s mass detention policy Politico
wake watch
Would you go to jail for free speech? Unchecked
Our press is no longer free
Hearing in Brussels on EU sanctions against German journalists: Massive violations of fundamental rights Nachdenkseiten (Machine translation) (Michael T.)
Visit to the German Thought Police Consent Factory (AG)
economy
The US economy faces its most dangerous period ever…US growth is losing momentum despite outpacing stagnant Europe Telegraph
In my opinion, this tweet misses the real point. This is a massive fiscal stimulus, but job numbers are down and the economy is terrible because of AI.
BREAKING: The U.S. Treasury posted a $284.4 billion deficit in October, the worst month to start a fiscal year in history.
This is higher than the $284.1 billion recorded in October 2020 during the historic pandemic response.
Government spending jumped +18% year over year to $688.7. pic.twitter.com/phxhjHkFRT
— Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 26, 2025
Year-on-year change in U.S. manufacturing employment Joseph Politano (resilc)
Mr. Market is in a bad mood.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that the threat of global shocks to economies, financial markets and banks is at an unprecedented level. Green Central Banking
Hedge fund bond market bets on risk yields soar, BIS chief warns Bloomberg
🚨Major investors are dumping Japanese government bonds:
The Bank of Japan, domestic banks, and insurance companies sold 10.7 trillion yen of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) in September, the highest amount ever.
Demand for Japanese government bonds is decreasing. No wonder yields are rising 👇 https://t.co/VO2K3zwQfl
— Global Market Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) November 29, 2025
Collapse of yen carry trade threatens global financial stability; discovery warning
CME futures trading suspension disrupts global market trading Bloomberg
The United States is proceeding with bank deregulation. Will the rest of the world follow? Financial Times. There is no archive version yet.
SEC investigates First Brand’s Jefferies Financial Times. We do this as a kind of mandatory compensation. The SEC investigates many things. This does not imply that any further action will be taken. Despite numerous front-page Wall Street Journal and Gretchen Morgenson articles, and the SEC under the relatively tough-minded Gary Gensler, we only saw token action and private equity. That being said, unlike PE, Jeffries doesn’t have a lot of friends willing to pay for it.
A.I.
Is AI on a new trajectory? Colin WP Lewis I obviously have a strong criminal record. And the paper references may offer the goods. However, I see a lot of claims and confusion, but no explanation from Lewis about how to move from a scaling model that is already breaking down by becoming increasingly recursive (requiring the use of at least some flawed AI-generated data, and the training set is not screened for the quality of the input data) to this supposed next stage.
Google’s AI uses machine translation to identify father as criminal Aftonblade (Micael T)
AI and the trillion dollar problem New York Times
class war
Housing crisis pushes Gen Z into virtual currency and economic nihilism Financial Times
Subprime mortgages are on the rise again
Antidote (via):
Another kind of antidote (Chuck L):
Gitch Gume pic.twitter.com/kw5plpagdZ
— KeriA (@KeriA1776again) November 28, 2025
bonus:
baby bear learning to skip
pic.twitter.com/pE29VuGtwN
— Science Girl (@sciencegirl) November 28, 2025
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