What’s the purpose of phrases? Sam Kriss. A enjoyable learn. The response from a buddy who says she has a PhD in Proust:
BAHAHA! The title dropping practice wreck and “ontological monovalence.” It took me straight again to creating enjoyable of the “autoreferential” mental wankery of some overzealous concept heads in graduate faculty. I’m solely in paragraph 1 and already cracking up.
Scientists discover poisonous metals hidden in fashionable plastic toys ScienceDaily (Kevin W)
Every day Espresso Habits Could Protect Your Liver Naveen Shankar
Calorie Restriction Attenuates Transcriptional Growing older Signatures in White Matter Oligodendrocytes and Immune Cells of the Monkey Mind Growing older Cell
#COVID-19/Pandemics
Chicken flu viruses are immune to fever, making them a significant menace to people MedicalXpress. Paul R:
Apparently flu is endemic in birds round right here. Individuals are instructed to maintain their cats indoors or “beneath supervision”, since in any other case the cats kill birds and produce them residence and infect their people. Yuck.
Chicken flu virus might danger pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France’s Institut Pasteur says Reuters (resilc)
World measles vaccinations are practically again to pre-pandemic ranges, WHO report finds STAT
South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Reveals Chilling Impact of Vaccine Misinformation KFF Well being Information. The US is once more distinctive!
Local weather/Setting
Africa’s forests remodeled from carbon sink to carbon supply, examine finds Guardian (resilc)
The deepest components of the Arctic Ocean are warming now too Barents Observer
Water
The worldwide menace of water shortage Counterfire
Violent battle over water hit a file final yr Los Angeles Occasions
North and Baltic seas present widespread contamination by MRI contrasting brokers PhysOrg
How the Nile Water Dispute Threatens Counter-Terrorism Efforts Nationwide Curiosity
China?
Hong Kong fireplace loss of life toll hits 128, standing of 200 unclear; ICAC arrests 6 extra South China Morning Put up. Reside updates.
How Xi Performed Trump International Affairs
* * * Taiwan raids former TSMC exec’s residence in commerce secrets and techniques probe Reuters
* * * Nexperia management battle rages as China’s Wingtech recordsdata attraction Asia Occasions (Kevin W)
The Dutch Enterprise Chamber (company court docket) has not restored Wingtech CEO administration of Nexperia NL, share possession, or company management.
Nexperia CN is ghosting Nexperia NL till it does. This public plea is determined.
Manufacturing shutdowns are imminent until corporations… https://t.co/LlUOJfbChM pic.twitter.com/jEc5gNzFqs
— Kathleen Tyson (@Kathleen_Tyson_) November 28, 2025
* * * China’s manufacturing facility exercise set to shrink for eighth month – Reuters ballot Reuters
Chinese language excavator makers go world with good equipment YouTube (resilc)
* * * China’s Safety Guards Reside Lives on the Margin Sixth Tone (resilc)
Japan
Russia warns Japan in opposition to deploying medium-range missiles on related islands China Every day
Southeast Asia
These Rip-off Facilities Had been Blown Up. Was It All for Present? New York Occasions (resilc)
South of the Border
It’s Not Solely About Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Impact Antiwar.com (Kevin W). And I need a pony.
Elliott Abrams returns, selling a Caracas cakewalk Accountable Statecraft (Kevin W)
Mega-blockades proceed into their fourth day as their results begin to harm Mexico Information Every day
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence Related Press
European Disunion
Larger authorities spending alone is not going to repair Germany, warns IMF Monetary Occasions
‘Time to behave now’: The push to develop Europe’s blockbuster uncommon earths discoveries CNBC. Kill me now. This might simply as simply have gone beneath The Bezzle. As we hold harping, 1. Uncommon earths aren’t uncommon; 2. It takes a good bit of ability to course of them, which the EU doesn’t now possess; 3. Residents in superior economies have little tolerance for the very excessive air pollution produced by processing and refinement.
France to intercept small boats after strain from UK BBC
Greater than 110 million euros in losses in Latvia: heavy rainfall and frost have destroyed crops BNN
Bulgarian authorities withdraws 2026 price range draft after mass protests Euronews
Previous Blighty
Britain threatened by fuel shortages as North Sea output plummets Telegraph
Money-strapped Britain to dump embassies – Politico RT (Kevin W)
‘Unelected energy’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims Guardian
In some unspecified time in the future within the problem to the ban on Palestine Motion starting on Wednesday, the co-founder of the direct motion group shall be requested to go away courtroom 5 on the Royal Courts of Justice, as will her authorized crew and most others current. Then the case will proceed… pic.twitter.com/EKaDJW48lk
— The Left Bible (@theleftbible) November 26, 2025
Choose in Palestine Motion case labored for Israeli spy Robert Maxwell Asa Winstaneley
Israel v. The Resistance
Horrible: Gaza’s well being system is collapsing even after the so-called ceasefire, with greater than 85% of important medicines lacking and virtually no medical provides, toddler or neonatal formulation coming into the Strip. pic.twitter.com/yfgCs2vU3r
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) November 28, 2025
Israeli police accused of executing unarmed Palestinians on the street Telegraph (resilc). Mainstream media lastly taking be aware.
Mired in monetary disaster, the Houthis resume threats to Saudi Arabia Economist
Stealth Bombers and Bunker Busters William Schryver
Syraqistan
Pakistan’s Quiet Coup International Affairs (Robin Ok)
Settler activists cross into Syria, are returned by IDF after transient pursuit Occasions of Israel (Kevin W). Settlers appearing like cockroaches.
We now have an Al-Qaeda–linked ruler in Damascus and Israel quietly increasing inside Syria beneath the slogan of “defending minorities”. This isn’t an accident.
Let me break down the technique behind it.
1/19 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Eta7wh9j71
— Kevork Almassian (@KevorkAlmassian) November 28, 2025
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Prime Zelenskyy aide quits amid corruption probe Monetary Occasions. A lot for Mercouris saying the Europeans had instructed NABU and SAPO to put off the investigations. Occasions in Ukraine reported that the omnipotent SBU was backing the 2 companies….which suggests not Zelensky.
Putin Lays Remaining Phrase on ‘Settlement’ Sham in Kyrgyzstan Convention Simplicius. Featured yesterday in Hyperlinks too, however loads of mainstream and even impartial media has not caught up with the implications of Putin’s remarks.
NABU and SAPO raid Yermak’s workplace in Kyiv’s authorities quarter New Voice of Ukraine (Micael T). Zelensky and Yermak are joined on the hip. Zelensky despatched Yermak to Geneva to barter to attempt to reaffirm that his place is crucial. Alexander Mercouris reported final week that European officers instructed the anti-corruption investigators at NABU and SAPO to again off on the investigation, IIRC in order to not destabilize Zelensky. They’ve a giant vote as a result of Europe is funding the federal government.
the POW problem Occasions in Ukraine
The EU’s Kaja Kallas is Unhealthy at Historical past Larry Johnson
Huge Brother is Watching You Watch
An open letter signed by 18 of Europe’s main cybersecurity and privateness lecturers warned that the most recent Chat Management proposal poses “excessive dangers to society with out clear advantages for youngsters”. The primary, of their view, is the growth of “voluntary” scanning, together with… https://t.co/Jqw2ZvYIFA
— Thomas Fazi (@battleforeurope) November 28, 2025
Imperial Collapse Watch
Michael Carley: Rewriting WW2 – Historic Revisionism in Geopolitics Glenn Diesen
New York’s BQE Is Falling Aside. The Metropolis Can’t Agree on Tips on how to Repair It. New York Occasions (resilc)
The Greatest Drawback With Air Journey: Pajamas? Atlantic (Micael T)
Baikonur’s solely crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight The Register (Kevin W)
Trump 2.0
Trump has rescinded all government orders signed by Biden utilizing the auto-pen TASS by way of machine translation (Micael T)
Immigration
Trump says US will pause migration from ‘third-world international locations’ BBC
Greater than 220 judges have now rejected the Trump admin’s mass detention coverage Politico
Woke Watch
Our No Longer Free Press
Listening to in Brussels on EU sanctions in opposition to German journalists: Large violation of elementary rights Nachdenkseiten by way of machine translation (Micael T)
A Go to by the German Thought Police Consent Manufacturing facility (AG)
Economic system
IMHO, this tweet misses the true level. That is massively stimulative fiscal motion, but job numbers are shrinking, and the financial system ex AI sucks:
BREAKING: The US Treasury posted a $284.4 billion deficit in October, the worst opening month to any fiscal yr in historical past.
This exceeds the earlier file of $284.1 billion in October 2020, in the course of the historic pandemic response.
Authorities spending jumped +18% YoY, to $688.7… pic.twitter.com/phxhjHkFRT
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 26, 2025
Yr-on-Yr Change in US Manufacturing Employment Joseph Politano (resilc)
Mr. Market is Moody
The European Central Financial institution (ECB) has warned that the worldwide menace of shocks to the financial system, monetary markets and banks is at an unprecedentedly excessive stage Inexperienced Central Banking
Hedge Fund Bond Market Bets Threat Yield Spikes, BIS Chief Warns Bloomberg
🚨Main traders are DUMPING Japanese authorities bonds:
The Financial institution of Japan, home banks, insurers bought -¥10.7 TRILLION in Japanese Govt Bonds (JGBs) in September, essentially the most EVER.
Demand for Japanese debt is falling; no marvel yields are rising.👇https://t.co/VO2K3zwQfl
— World Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) November 29, 2025
Yen Carry Commerce Collapse Threatens World Monetary Stability Discovery Alert
CME Futures Outage Disrupts Buying and selling Throughout World Markets Bloomberg
The US is deregulating banks. Will the remainder of the world comply with? Monetary Occasions. No archived model but.
SEC probes Jefferies over First Manufacturers Monetary Occasions. Operating this as sort-of compulsory protection. The SEC probes loads of issues. This doesn’t imply any motion shall be forthcoming. We noticed solely token motion versus personal fairness regardless of quite a few entrance web page Wall Road Journal and Gretchen Morgenson tales, and an SEC beneath comparatively tough-minded Gary Gensler. Having mentioned that, Jeffries, in contrast to PE, doesn’t have loads of paid-for buddies.
AI
Is AI On A New Trajectory? Colin W.P. Lewis I clearly have robust priors. And the papers referenced could ship the products. However, I see loads of assertions and bafflegab however no clarification from Lewis of how they go from the mannequin of scaling, which is already breaking down on account of changing into an increasing number of recursive (having to make use of a minimum of some flawed AI generated knowledge; additionally coaching units by no means having being screened for caliber of enter knowledge) to this supposed subsequent part.
Google’s AI recognized the daddy as a felony Aftonbladet by way of machine translation (Micael T)
A.I. and the Trillion-Greenback Query New York Occasions
Class Warfare
The housing disaster is pushing Gen Z into crypto and financial nihilism Monetary Occasions
Antidote du jour (by way of):
A unique form of antidote (Chuck L):
Gitchi Gumee pic.twitter.com/kw5plpagdZ
— KeriA (@KeriA1776again) November 28, 2025
A bonus:
Child bear studying to skip
pic.twitter.com/pE29VuGtwN— Science woman (@sciencegirl) November 28, 2025
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
