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😳👇🏾🧐OMG!! These car stunts are insane!
📹 pardeshirider | Insta#stunts #drifting #drifts #driftlife #cars #racing #driving #Auto #automobile #Supercars #car #viral #tiktokhot #instagood #driftcars pic.twitter.com/39LENzj7vI
— Catherine Adenle (@CatherineAdenle) June 17, 2024
AggreBots: Tiny living robots made from lung cells could one day deliver medicine inside the body Pys.org
Einstein Was Right Again: Ripples in Space-Time Confirm Century-Old Theory SciTech Daily
New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems Quanta
Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions The Conversation
Singing bird boxes were extremely popular in Europe starting from the 18th century.
This video shows a singing bird box made by Frères Rochat, Switzerland.pic.twitter.com/hjHdIkbsGo
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 27, 2025
COVID-19/Pandemics
Most people never fully recover their sense of smell after COVID Earth.com
US COVID declining after reaching peak CIDRAP
After the Pandemic ‘Reset Button,’ Downtowns Reinvent Themselves Bloomberg
Climate/Environment
China pledges to cut emissions by 2035: what does that mean for the climate? Nature
Fewer hailstorms but bigger hailstones: Climate change shifts Europe’s severe weather risks Phys.org
Earth fails another critical health check, but scientists say it’s not too late RFI
Rivers are heating up faster than the Air − that’s a Problem for aquatic Life and People The Conversation
South of the Border
US military ‘preparing to strike inside Venezuela’ in move that would mark major escalation Daily Mail
Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose Using Military Force for Regime Change in Venezuela ScheerPost
Argentina gets $20 billion in US aid, hands over control of economic policy Argentina Reports
China?
fully autonomous bus in China, which operates without a steering wheel or a driver’s cabin, running 24/7 on urban roads,
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) September 22, 2025
As Gold Keeps Setting New Highs, China Reportedly Wants to be Its Custodian for Central Banks CoinDeskTrump’s trade battle with China puts US soybean farmers in peril AP
The Pentagon’s Missing China Strategy Foreign Affairs
More US tariffs? China’s ‘Furniture Kingdom’ says it’s already moved on Reuters
India
India and the Rebalancing of Asia Foreign Policy
India throws BRICS at the US wall Times of India
Africa
The Multipolar World Demands a New African Strategy News 24
Why Does Africa Thrive More in Words Than in Actions? Modern Ghana
European Disunion
An Election That Could Redraw Europe’s Map Persuasion
How is France’s budget crisis affecting the EU? Concerns mount over French instability France 24
Euromedicine is not for everyone: Medicine shortages reach record levels across Europe Euro News
Old Blighty
Budget blow for Reeves as UK’s growth forecast slashed The Independent
More than 1.6m sign petition opposing Starmer’s plan for digital ID cards The Guardian
BREAKING: @georgegalloway and his wife have been detained at Gatwick Airport, no doubt under counter-terror powers. Just like me, @Tracking_Power, @SweeneySteve and countless others. The British state is out of control. Get out while you still can! pic.twitter.com/z40u0FW8hs
— Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 (@KitKlarenberg) September 27, 2025
Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran
⚡️Greta Thunberg declares from a Gaza-bound boat:
“I’m not scared of Israel—I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.” pic.twitter.com/w9SVJ87ZYT
— S2FUncensored (@S2FUncensored) September 27, 2025
Israel wiped out Maysara and her four children today in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/XbZKtWa24e
— sarah (@sahouraxo) September 26, 2025
JUST IN: Mass walkout at the UN as Netanyahu takes the stage to Speak
It’s a disgrace he’s allowed to speak at all. pic.twitter.com/KUqcQtu967
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) September 26, 2025
When I defended my Master’s thesis under the bombing and rubble of Gaza, the very first question I was asked was:
“Why defend it under these circumstances? What benefit will it bring you now?”I smiled and answered:
“Maybe I will die holding this degree, maybe it will be a… pic.twitter.com/xtTStCT3mr— mohammed hussein~Gaza 🇵🇸 (@mohammedIhysse) September 27, 2025
Netanyahu admits using social media as weapon to influence US opinion amid Gaza genocide Andolu Agency
Netanayahu's government is trying to drive the Christian Armenians out of their quarter of Jerusalem https://t.co/7Bzos7OgTj
— William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) September 27, 2025
A year after losing its longtime leader, Hezbollah is beginning to regroup AP
Yemen : Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa leave 9 killed, 174 injured YemenOnline.info
New Not-So-Cold War
Where ‘Democracy’ Goes to Die: ‘Rule of Law’ Again Rears its Head in Hysterical Europe Simplicius
Hungary says Ukraine’s Zelenskiy ‘losing his mind’ after drone comment Reuters
Russian Strikes Pound Ukraine As Kyiv Disrupts Russia’s Major Pumping Station Radio Free Europe
Ukraine received Patriot system from Israel Euractiv
Ukraine and Russia Point Fingers After Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Offline for Days The Moscow Times
The End For Kiev : NATO Backs Down, Ukraine Disintegrates | Col Douglas Macgregor AzizGaming, YouTube. Early on, confirmation of drone incursion into Poland as false flag. Downed drones had Swedish, Polish, other European SIM cards.
How to run an election, pro-EU edition: ban the party, jail the governor, block the observers RT
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Vitalik slams EU’s Chat Control: ‘We all deserve privacy and security’ Cointelegraph
Senate Bill Seeks Privacy Protection for Brain Wave Data Bank Info Security
Imperial Collapse Watch
I’ve already mentioned it, but I really believe that people don’t fully grasp what a revolution this is going to be. You need to imagine a society where everyone is profoundly retarded and by that I mean a lot more than they already are. https://t.co/2RTTNLEiuy
— Philippe Lemoine (@phl43) September 26, 2025
FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene Pro Publica
Trump 2.0
Hegseth Mocked for Generals’ Meet: ‘Could’ve Been an Email’ Daily Beast
Lawfare Makes Us All Less Free Yascha Mounk substack
NPR-Ipsos poll: Americans don’t broadly support Trump’s National Guard deployments NPR
Trump orders troops to takeover ‘war ravaged’ Democrat-led city to handle ‘domestic terrorists’ Daily Mail
Why Donald Trump is obsessed with Portland Politico
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” Ken Klippenstein. A must read.
Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship AP
Musk Matters
Epstein calendar released by Democrats mentions Elon Musk, who denies visiting his island NBC News
Elon Musk gives update on Tesla Optimus progress Teslarati
Shooting for the moon. How Elon Musk’s SpaceX is faring Los Angeles Times
Democrat Death Watch
Democrats race to embrace swearing and angry comebacks – but will it work? The Guardian
Shutdown fight leaves Democrats with no good options The Hill
Immigration
In ICE Detention, Rising Deaths and Neglect: ‘They Wouldn’t Really Do Anything’ The Marshall Project
Our No Longer Free Press
Hegseth calls mysterious meeting on heels of limiting press access. Coincidence? | Opinion USA Today
Column: Democracy dies when speech and the press are suppressed The Enquirer Journal
Mr. Market Is Moody
Dollar Retreats as Inflation Concerns Ease and US Consumer Sentiment Slips Nasdaq
The U.S Stock Market Cools as Earnings Season Looms and October Turbulence Looms TradeAlgo
AI
‘Power without conscience’ is a warning we can’t ignore. We are calling for urgent regulation and human-centred control of military AI systems.@CDroegeICRC, ICRC chief legal officer, shared at the UN Security Council #UNGA80
Read more 👉🏽 https://t.co/2f6Voz47FF pic.twitter.com/rpi5qyLDRK
— ICRC (@ICRC) September 27, 2025
Oracle Stock Crashes 16% from Peak – Is the AI Bubble Finally Bursting? TechnobezzA Diverse World Of Sovereign AI Zones Noema
Beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘workslop’ TechCrunch
Sam Altman predicts AI will outsmart humanity by 2030 Straigh Arrow News
Hollywood Is Planning To Sign Their First AI-Generated Star Screen Rant
The Bezzle
At least 260 suspects in online romance scams arrested across Africa, Interpol says Euronews
‘I’ve never guessed I’d be duped like this’: Lovelorn dater loses $1.4 million in romance scam The Independent
Guillotine Watch
The Most Expensive Fruits In The World
Lost Gardens of Heligan Pineapple
Pineapples grown in Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan, in the Southwestern part of England, sell for roughly $15,000 each. 🧐That’ll be one helluva tasty pineapple upside down cake!” pic.twitter.com/aR3dz9lZcy— Sumner (@renmusb1) May 30, 2023
Most Expenslve Macaroons Haute Couture by Pierre Herme – $US7,000 a kilo pic.twitter.com/gCYUHrNaOO
— Expensive Things (@MostExpenslve) February 1, 2015
Antidote du jour (via)
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
‘William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Netanayahu’s government is trying to drive the Christian Armenians out of their quarter of Jerusalem’
Being the Chosen People means never having to say that you’re sorry.
Re AI workslop: my employer was using AI generated medical records summaries. They were horrible. AND they regularly hallucinated heart attacks that never happened. We made a big fit, and mgmt backed off, learning they were spending $30k month on the AI slop. We won, but this is actually pretty responsive org. I hope more thoughtful folks can be successful in their endeavors to beat back AI
Maybe management woke up to the fact that if somebody is injured with medical treatment based on hallucinated heart attacks in those medical record summaries, that it would they and not the AI that would be sued into the ground.
You do have to wonder what liability insurance these scribble bot vendors have.
Billable interventions for non existent conditions, though, must be attractive. Who cares about the ones that are missed.
You ran the “application/acceptance” test for the SW which the vendor neglected.
The vendor should pay you!
“Argentina gets $20 billion in US aid, hands over control of economic policyArgentina gets $20 billion in US aid, hands over control of economic policy”
According to the guys at The Duran, that $20 billion is a pretty substantial amount of money that is equal to the current reserves of the Argentine central bank so a really big deal. But hey, anything for a MAGA bro in need, right? But it does not help when all those American soybean farmers who voted MAGA know that Argentina is selling their own soybeans to China and pushing American farmers out of the competition-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59dnsYybt-o (10:27 mins)
Make Argentina Great Again, right?
Socialism for Nationalists?
we live in a political system where it’s: socialism for globalist elites (with libertarianism for everyone else) versus socialism for nationalist elites (with libertarianism for everyone else).
aka neo-feudalism
I love spotting Kingfishers, especially if you see them dive into the water after a patient wait. However, it was somewhat deflating to hear one time BBC nature programme presenter Bill Oddie (also of the Goodies comedy prog if that crossed the Atlantic) saying ‘kingfishers are far more common than people imagine’. Yes they probably are, I have seen them in several parts of Europe, but still a thrill every time.
‘kingfishers are far more common than people imagine’
Bill Oddie has a point. When I checked the Wikipedia entry for these birds, they are damn near everywhere unless it is too hot or too cold. Check the map on the right side-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher