The leaders of the three largest countries in Western Europe (excluding Russia) are acting like tyrants as their economies implode.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Trump’s Neverending Tariffs War? Proposes 100% Tariffs on Foreign Movies; De Minimus Exclusion Ends, Hurting the Poor; Financial Times on Tariff Evasion, Official and Via Trans-Shipment
A battlefield update on Trump’s tariff wars.
The EU Zombie Uses Trump as Cover to Further Feed on Citizens
Ursula and company are inching towards using emergency powers for first installment of 900 billion ‘rearmament’ because Trump.
How the State Sent Californians’ Personal Health Data to LinkedIn
The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.
Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Humanitarian military intervention sounds like an oxymoron and often winds up being one. Nevertheless, there are rules of engagement.
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000) Run Time 1h 20m
The Sunday Morning Movie presents The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000) A wonderful little movie about an intelligent robot and its very human relationships.
Underage Workers, Millions of Dollars and Trucks Full of Dead Chickens — Inside the Business of Killing in Response to Bird Flu
The federal government has a single contractor to assist with killing infected flocks, leading to delays and the use of controversial culling methods.
The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
Three Mind-Blowing Indie Film Festivals That Show Actual Good Movies
For reader delectation, some promising indie film venues.
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 Hall Jamieson believes that scientists need to talk…about convergent evidence. “Unlike declarations that a consensus exists, a claim that convergent evidence exists honors science’s norms of critique and correction by […]
Complacency, Denialism and the Risk of an Economic Trumpocalypse
Why the downside to Trump economic policies are far greater than the press and pundit class are willing to acknowledge.
