The 2016 Coup Attempt Revisited: Türkiye’s Transformation and Its Regional Impact
How the failed 2016 coup transformed Türkiye’s power structure under Erdoğan and reshaped its relationshio to the US and the Middle East
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Coffee Break: Elon Musk to Squeeze Tesla Shareholders to Juice xAI?
Elon Musk, Earth’s wealthiest human, is leveraging his business empire to invest in xAI with SpaceX and possibly Tesla putting in billions.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – AI Goes to War
A compact comprehensive discussion of the present state and future prospects of AI technologies applied to armed conflict is an impossible mission, but I will undertake it here. What gives me encouragement is the great difficulty of prognostication regarding AI. I believe AI will be the most profound transformation of human affairs in the history […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Texas Floods, Biblical Divorce Complicate US Senate Primary
Texas floods, Biblical divorce complicate US Senate race for Ken Paxton as Democrats search for a candidate.
Read more...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
Read more...Coffee Break: P. Diddy, RICO, Politicized Prosecutions
The Sean Combs trial provides a lens through which to look at RICO and prosecutorial overreach in an era of collapsing rule of law.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Stab in the Back
As the war in Ukraine moves toward an ugly conclusion unfavorable to the U.S., I anticipate the appearance of a common propaganda phenomenon following lost wars: the stab in the back. This is a propaganda tactic in which military defeat is attributed to domestic treachery undermining the heroic efforts of the military. The bellicose elements […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Loves To Throw Good Money After Bad
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is upping the ante in the AI business, triggering a bidding war for talent and he’s willing to poach from competitors.
Read more...Coffee Break: Ancient Food Facts, Cancer Therapy, the Conscious Brain, and Biohacking with Biotech…Plus Thomas Jefferson
On this Independence Day in one country in North America a few notes on life outside current politics, scientific and otherwise. Part the First: The Archaeology of Food Is Fascinating. Having read about Roman eating habits over the years I have wondered about two things, fish sauce and the dormouse. Now we know which fish […]
Read more...Palantir’s AI Justified Israel’s Attack on Iran — Will Tech Take Us Back to Irrational Beliefs?
Palantir’s AI justified Israel’s attack on Iran, marking a turning point where decisions are made based on algorithms we don’t understand
Read more...Coffee Break: Rahm Emanuel’s Kayfabe Candidacy
Rahm Emanuel is teasing a run for President in 2028. His brother Ari, a Democratic power-broker and a Trump insider will be a problem.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Are You Not Entertained?
We have entered an era in which warfare has departed from the conventional (Clausewitzian) concept of attaining clear objectives. Instead, modern armed conflict is characterized by limited and generally inconclusive military clashes motivated by factors disconnected from the practical concerns of the affected citizens. War has turned away from decisive conflict and embraced performative spectacle. […]
Read more...Coffee Break: OpenAI as The Money Pit
OpenAI’s fatally flawed finances reveal a company that presents no serious threat to any of the tech incumbents, including Google.
Read more...Coffee Break: Funding Medical Education, A Human Ancestor, Tardigrades to the Rescue, Trashing the Earth, Plus MAHA and Measles
Part the First: Financing Professional Education in the United States. College costs too much in the United States. Professional School costs way to much. Up until the present – who knows what will happen next as the broad attacks on American universities continue – graduate education at the PhD level in traditional disciplines in the […]
Read more...The Israel–Iran Conflict Tests “America First” and Redefines ‘Auctoritas’
Trump’s attack on Iran tests the limits of “America First” and reveals a deeper MAGA divide over who holds legitimate authority—auctoritas
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