When Science Meets the Supernatural: The Strange History of the Fourth Dimension Public Domain Review
Mushrooms hold promise as memory chips for future computers Phys.org
Constructing the risk threshold E-Flux
Climate/Environment
Melissa is one of the most powerful late season Atlantic hurricanes Balanced weather
See that purple color? This corresponds to incredibly cold cloud tops around minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit). For it to be this cold, the clouds must be about 52,000 feet high (or higher).
The fact that Melissa has such a tall and cold CDO, or central density… pic.twitter.com/ilvNjhfmVc
— Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) October 28, 2025
A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa
In this first photo, we are coming in from the southeast just after sunrise, and the bright arc on the northwest eyewall is light just beginning to reach the summit from behind us. pic.twitter.com/qGdpp7lbCN
— Dangerous Tropical Cowboy (@FlynonymousWX) October 27, 2025
Hurricane Melissa hits U.S. military mission in Wapo, Caribbean
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Increasing atmospheric dryness could reduce global vegetation production this century Nature
Indian farmers struggle as climate change distorts foreign policy landscape
India’s forests are visibly shrinking carbon copy
EPA plan to override key climate change rules worries business leaders New York Times
Private equity veteran goes all in on extreme weather bets Business Times
pandemic
A grim future: Infectious disease control, emergency management, safety, and general thinking
Africa
US launches two more airstrikes as it continues airstrikes in Somalia at record pace
South Korea
South Korea, US unlikely to finalize customs agreement during APEC meeting: Yonhap presidential official
Japan
President Trump calls “Mussolini corporatism” behind his demand for $800 billion from Japan and South Korea Japan Economy Watch
Japan’s rearmament will rebuild security in Southeast Asia East Asia Forum
President Trump praises Japan’s ‘great’ female leaders, signs rare earths agreement Channel News Asia
China?
China, ASEAN hit by US tariffs sign improved free trade agreement The Straits Times
New phrase, new phase? People’s Bank of China adjusts language on renminbi internationalization South China Morning Post
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Will China be able to destroy the US without firing a single shot? gary marcus
Keen on rescuing China’s economy, Beijing plays chess, leading to $1.2 trillion global tariff collapse Sean Hu (Video)
Germany is sabotaging relations with China on behalf of the Washington Geopolitical and Economic Report
Berlin urges ‘dialogue’ with China after EU trade bazooka threat Euractiv
First US heavy rare earth separation facility planned for Louisiana Asia Times
President Trump to host US-Central Asia summit on November 6 Times of Central Asia
syrakistan
Palestine and the Making of a New New World Steve Salaita
Israel Defense Forces commander in Gaza says: “The war is not over yet”
IDF disposes of huge pile of construction waste and rubble from Israel in Gaza Haaretz
Leak: How British Intel invaded Lebanon Kit Clarenberg
discord in europe
EU takes tough stance: If you don’t want to seize Russian cash, open your wallet Politico
Belgium is “becoming a drug state,” judge says in furious open letter Brussels Times
The ticking time bomb of European rearmament Middle East Eye
Consequences of military buildup: German foreign policy
Why Germany’s rearmament is not progressing: Responsible National Strategy
A new war that’s not so cold war
Russian envoy concludes that President Trump is fully co-opted by neocons and Europeans (video)
President Trump reacts to Russia’s unlimited-range cruise missile RT test
Belgium’s defense minister has threatened to “wipe Moscow off the map” if Russia fires a missile at the Brussels-Anadolu Agency. What is happening in Belgium?
Big Surge lives dangerously
SITREP 10/27/25: Russian bulldozers advance Simplicius, Pokrovsk reaches final arc
Zelenskiy warns Russian oil industry will ‘pay even more’ as Ukraine plans to step up attacks on Kiev post
Russia’s Lukoil to sell international assets following new US oil sanctions Intellinews
US increases pressure to halt Russian oil supply to Hungary
south of the border
Republican Sen. Rick Scott warns Maduro should ‘go to China or Russia’: ‘Something is going to happen’ Latin Times
Venezuela exposes CIA “Casas Belli” conspiracy, arrests suspected operative Orinoco Tribune
🚨Dragon Field Fallout: 🇻🇪 President Maduro suspends all energy agreements with Trinidad and Tobago amid 🇺🇸 U.S. military buildup.
🧵 https://t.co/OfMGtZAIgA pic.twitter.com/N1DP7NQEaD
— Francesco Sassi (@Frank_Stones) October 28, 2025
One week left until the US invasion of Venezuela? Ian Welsh
Lafaire Epstein
Lawsuit against Epstein-linked bank could shed new light on financial institutions’ crimes The Guardian
Trump 2.0
Treasury Secretary Bessent says he is a “soybean farmer” who “felt the pain” of Trump tariffs – A common dream
Trump confirms secondary physical exam includes MRI and cognitive testing
It’s not a ballroom. It’s a bunker. jessica wildfire
Trump is a fucking coin president Gizmodo
Deshabille Democratic Party
Left-wing ideology damages Democratic Party brand, new report warns Semaphore
Graham Platner’s campaign appears to be in decline with the resignation of another key aide Main Wire
Matt Taibbi, the great left wing ignorant scammer. It probably says as much about Taibi as it does about Platner. Even if all the politicians on Taibbi’s list were indeed frauds, we should be careful about throwing out the baby (working class struggle) with the bathwater (liberal identity politics). It’s easy to make fun of the fake left, but limiting the “leftist movement” to electoral politics and the many flaws of these politicians ignores the many struggles happening across the country right now using tactics long favored by progressives. They may include culturally conservative and culturally liberal people, but they are overwhelmingly concerned with class struggle. Looks like Taibi needs to think about which side he’s on.
Karine Jean-Pierre is peddling pro-Biden books. pushed by @AymanM As for whether she regrets supporting Biden’s funding and arming of Israel, she said, “As a gay black woman…”
Jean-Pierre begins many sentences with this word, even if it has nothing to do with the subject matter. https://t.co/krQeEhcJNB
—Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 26, 2025
police state surveillance
CAIR demands the release of British journalist Sami Hamdi, who was abducted by ICE for criticizing Israeli atrocities CAIR
ICE hiring surge is already a doomsday scenario
ICE tear gas disrupts Halloween parade as President Trump’s Chicago crackdown spreads a common dream
President Trump plans to create Border Patrol agents to lead more aggressive immigration enforcement NBC News
A real-life “RoboCop”? Chinese police officer overcomes paralysis with spinal interface implant South China Morning Post
accelerationist
“Affluence,” deregulation, and the destruction of democracy Anne Pettifor
imperial collapse watch
Trump has not learned the lessons of America’s “Forever War” WPR. This is probably a lesson the ruling class will never learn.
Tennessee munitions factory explosion: 24,000 pounds of explosives go off – more powerful than the ‘mother of all bombs’ WSWS
The Pentagon is reportedly angry about the mission and purpose of Netflix’s nuclear war movie ‘A House of Dynamite’
A.I.
Jet engine shortage threatens expansion of AI data centers as expected until 2030 – Rush to strengthen AI construction continues Tom’s Hardware
a16z-backed startup sells thousands of ‘synthetic influencers’ to operate social media as a service 404 Media
Exclusive: Amazon aims to cut up to 30,000 jobs, sources say Reuters
economy
First Brand: Will cockroaches come home to roost? Racket News
class war
Library administrators are using public funds to hire union busters to fight against worker truth.
Eugene Debs and All of Us Hamilton Nolan
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