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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
AI Hyperscalers Crash the Grid as Big Tech Becomes a Power Trader
Topics: Energy markets, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:06 am | No Comments »
Even the Wall Street Journal’s Editors Have Had It With RFK, Jr.’s Anti-Vax Con Job
Even the Wall Street Journal has had it with RFK Jr. as he doubles down on lies to Congress , his campaign against vaccines, and corruption
Topics: Health care, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:30 am | No Comments »
Coffee Break: Flailing OpenAI Follows Meta’s Malignant Model
OpenAI may be following Meta’s malignant model by putting profits before user safety while hyping ambitious expansion plans.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 16 Comments »
“From ‘Mail-Order Brides’ to ‘Passport Bros,’ the International Dating Industry Often Sells Traditional Gender Roles”
A weird glamorization of sexpattery as “international dating”.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 19 Comments »
Links 11/24/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 86 Comments »
The Poison Pill in the US Peace Plan for Ukraine: Europe Written Into the Outline
Why the 28 point peace framework for Ukraine could never work due to explicit obligations for NATO and “Europe”
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:34 am | 53 Comments »
Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis
Greystar is penalized 0.002 percent of the $300 billion worth of real estate it manages, and must stop using collusion software—maybe.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Moral hazard, Private equity, Real estate, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 4 Comments »
Colorado Is Pumping the Brakes on First-Of-Its-Kind AI Regulation to Find a Practical Path Forward
AI: too big to be regulated?
Topics: Market inefficiencies, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 2 Comments »
Links 11/23/2025
A 21-year-old Japanese snowboarder, Kokomo Murase, just landed a backside triple cork 1620. She’s the first woman ever to do it. 📹Kokomo Murase pic.twitter.com/o5NI9P7xwJ — Science girl (@sciencegirl) November 20, 2025 The Math Shows Jackson Pollock Painted Like a Child Would Nautilus 13 dizzying and dazzling images from 2025 Drone Photo Awards Popular Science ‘Jmail’ […]
Topics: Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 131 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (1973) Run Time: 1H 44M
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a movie about high adventure and fantastical creatures.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 18 Comments »
Why Did Britain Stop Making?
And now how exactly does it plan to ready for war?
Topics: Banking industry, Doomsday scenarios, Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams, Russia, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, UK
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 4:00 am | 91 Comments »
Links 11/22/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 156 Comments »
The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney
Not surprisingly, the Cheney funeral confirmed a great deal about true loyalties in the political and media elite.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 17 Comments »
‘The Main Course Is Inflation’: Thanksgiving Costs Surge Under Trump
A much needed, detailed debunking of Trump’s claim that Thanksgiving meal costs, and by implicaiton inflation, are declining.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:25 am | 36 Comments »
Coffee Break: CDC – Vaccines – Autism, Oh, My!; Wellness; Prioritized Science; Very Ancient Art; and MAGA
Part the First: CDC Finally “Decides” that Vaccines Cause Autism. In news that will surprise absolute nobody, while pleasing some and causing despair in others, CDC says the mountains of data that show vaccines do NOT cause autism is not evidence-based: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday publicly reversed its stance that […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 23 Comments »


