Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
A look at some of the newest greenwashing phrases being road tested at COP30. The worst is many will go down easily.
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Links 10/26/2025
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Peppermint Soda (1977) Run Time: 1H 40M Bonus: Original Poetry!
Welcome gentle reader to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today it’s a tender-hearted coming of age story about two young French sisters set during the political turmoil of the early 1960s. Also, a bit of poetry, a dark image of modern America that seems even more relevant given the state of things. Diabolo […]
Read more...Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy
CPI for food at home has surged by 30% since January 2020.
Read more...Economic Questions: The E F Schumacher Question
E F Schumacher of Small Is Beautiful, appeared influential in his heyday, yet his precepts seem not to have gotten a durable following. Why?
Read more...Exposing the Hidden US History Fueling Tariffs, Shutdowns, and National Breakdown
Political slugfests and current controversies show how flattering tales from US history undermine the pursuit of its citizens’ interests.
Read more...Wall Street Banks Come to the “Rescue” of Milei’s Argentina Just Days Before Make-or-Break Elections
A government run by former JP Morgan executives takes out a loan from current JPM executives (and other US banks). What could possibly go wrong?
Read more...Brain Rot 2: Legal Corruption, Cuomo Rascist AI Slop Edition
The term brain rot has been applied to LLMs and long covid but it’s also a useful term to describe the American legal system in the Trump 2.0 era.
Read more...Rob Urie: Democrats Who Created the Bad Status Quo Won’t Become Saviors
The Democrats as a and even the reason US policies are so contrary to the interests of most of the public.
Read more...The Personal Is the Political for Publishers and Presidents Alike
To better understand Presidents and the publishing business, it helps to analyze events through a lens of personal interests.
Read more...Brain Rot: LLMs, Long Covid Edition
Brain rot explains a lot about LLMs, long covid, bad economics and polisci, or maybe it’s the other way around.
Read more...The American Augean Stables — How Corruption Has Amended the Constitution
The U.S. shadow government is not a big fan of democracy.
Read more...Whither Food in the Twenty-First Century?
Our so-called “food system” is a complete mess, one that must be set to rights if the people are to have a chance of thriving in the coming years, which are likely to be stressful because of other messes. This dire situation has been described in Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and […]
Read more...Generational Political War in a Hypernormalized Context
The hypernormalized state of 2025 America is dramatically impacting political campaigns in the U.S. as the empire rapidly loses hegemony.
Read more...OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats − Here’s Why That Matters
What happens when surveillance pricing meets the AI hype?
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