Part the First: Paper Mills and the Corruption of Research. No not Hammermill. I don’t think I have actually known of someone buying a “scholarly” paper for publication, and I remember reading (a few paragraphs) only a few that seemed to be purpose built. But following up on The Credibility Crisis in Science from earlier […]
Read more...As the new elite is merging with the power structure, expect more feuds; if they stop being public, then we should know why.
Read more...The Trump regime’s flagrant corruption and obvious irrationality beg the question, ‘Are there any rational actors in power today?’
Read more...Naval point defense is often described as a layered shield. In reality, it is a capacity-limited system operating under severe time constraints. As missile and drone attacks become more numerous and persistent, saturation emerges not as an anomaly, but as a predictable outcome. This article analyzes the structural limits of modern U.S. naval air defense and their implications for future naval warfare.
Read more...Part the First: The Attack on American Science Continues, Unabated. A few days ago the president fired the National Science Board (NSB), all twenty-two members of a statutory twenty-five, who served staggered six-year terms that preserved institutional memory. The NSB was created pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to “recommend and encourage […]
Read more...The Islamic Republic of Iran puts the law of the state above canonical Islamic law and hence inverts the source of sovereignty.
Read more...SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is getting his day in court against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman as both men aim for record-setting IPOs amid scrutiny and skepticism over revenue.
Read more...The U.S. Navy’s difficulties are often treated as separate problems—shipbuilding delays, readiness shortfalls, troubled procurement, and operational strain. This article argues they form a self-reinforcing system of converging constraints, exposing deeper weaknesses in force structure, logistics, and strategic planning.
Read more...The future of U.S. dominance relies on making governments dependent on technology companies that have effectively become part of the State
Read more...The Ellison infotainment empire financed by father Larry and nominally helmed by son David, may have peaked with the shareholder approval of Paramount-Skydance’s purchase of WBD (Warner Bros Discovery).
Read more...Part the First: Anti-amyloid Antibodies and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). A Cochrane review of monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid plaques in AD has found that these drugs have little to no effect on cognitive function of AD patients. Cochrane reviews are, to use one of the favorite tropes of the current administration, considered the “gold standard” of […]
Read more...Palantir’s manifesto is the stated agenda of a new class within the system’s power structure, driven by a binary worldview of 0 and 1
Read more...Michigan is on the frontlines of the American Democratic Party’s internal battles over Israel with a competitive U.S. Senate primary and lingering fallout from the suppression of Pro-Palestine campus protests.
Read more...Israel’s pursuit of territorial expansion is driven by persistent security and ideological pressures, but the conditions required for successful consolidation are increasingly absent. A dense web of constraints—geographic, demographic, legal, and geopolitical—prevents expansion from producing durable stability. The result is a pattern of recurring conflict and bounded escalation without resolution.
Read more...Palantir, the ontology company, has dropped a new manifesto, and co-founder Peter Thiel has a scary new company called Objection.
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