Sunday, July 13, 2025

Links 7/13/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Cloak And Dagger (1946) Run Time 1H 46M

Cloak and Dagger is a noir spy thriller about a physicist turned secret agent in WW2.

Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay

How the financialization of housing destroys the societal fabric and why we need to make housing public infrastructure—like schools or libraries.

Links 7/12/2025

Stop Israel’s Dystopian “New Improved” Concentration Camp Plan—Before It’s Too Late

Israel keeping finding new lows in depraved behavior. Now we have Israel trying to brand a concentration camp as a “humanitarian city”.

Satyajit Das: On Cinema – Francis Ford Coppola’s Operas & Chamber Pieces

A break from our regular programming in the form of revisiting some of Francis Ford Coppola’s classics.

Coffee Break: AI in Healthcare and Science, the Nature of Charisma, and a Cure from a Mouse to a Patient

Part the First: Algorithmic Intelligence in Clinical Medicine. From the article This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it went.  As the subhead notes: Summa Health’s experience highlights the challenges of AI adoption, especially at community health systems: Across emergency departments around Akron, Ohio, physicians were getting overwhelmed. In […]

Billionaires Flail About Trying to Beat Mamdani; Wall Street Journal Describes Shambolic Plan to Spend $20 Million

What fun! Billionaires running around all hair on fire over their inabilty to do much to check Mamdani.

Links 7/11/2025

Trump (Probably) Just Did Lula a Massive Favour With His 50% Tariff Threat Against Brazil

This has little to do with trade — in fact, the US had a $6.8 billion annual trade surplus with Brazil last year — and everything to do with geopolitics.

That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too

How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.

Food Giants Graded a “D” on Sustainable Farming Practices

More fiddling as the planet burns and soil quality degrades, as big agricultural buyers give lip service to regenerative farming.

BRICS 2025: Propaganda and the Illusion of Change

How the propaganda machine behind the BRICS 2025 summit works—told from the inside, it reveals that nothing truly new is happening

Del Monte Foods Goes Into Bankruptcy: A Trump Tariff Casualty

Struggling Del Monte Foods keeled over due to its exposure to steel and aluminum cost increases from ‘Trump’s tariffs.

Links 7/10/2025