Note: This week’s review is incomplete. Typepad, the old system MoA was running on, is so far failing to export MoA post’s from September 6 to September 23. If that failure continues I will add those posts ‘by hand’. But the comments to those posts would be lost forever.
Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Sep 24 – Welcome At The New Home Of Moon of Alabama
Related:
– There is still some background work ongoing to clean-up the appearance and functionality of MoA at its new home. Please bear with me for another week or so.
- Sep 25 – Why Trump’s Alleged Shift On Ukraine Isn’t One
Related:
– Fixing the rot in Ukraine (archived) – Economist
– Ukraine faces deepening military, political and economic problems (archived) – Economist
– Why Ukraine is winning the war – Russia has failed to achieve its core aim – the destruction of the Ukrainian nation (archived) – FT <– For laughs
- Sep 26 – Another Crazy Idea On How To Steal Russia’s Assets: Make EU Taxpayers Pay For It
Related:
– Brussels eyes loophole to isolate Hungary, send billions in Russian assets to Ukraine – Politico
– Europe’s boneheaded sanctions regime Moscow and Beijing are laughing at Brussels – Unherd
– Crisis Escalation Becomes Euro-Cabal’s Final Meal Ticket – Simplicius
– Escalation trap for Europe (in Russian) – Strana
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Other issues:
Gaza:
- Who profited off 7 October? – Electronic Intifada
- Israel Is Destroying Palestine — and Itself: Leaders Condemn Generations on Both Sides – Elijah Magnier
- Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital – Reuters
- Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé – 972mag
- How Israel Captured TikTok – American Conservative
Europe:
- A Europe of Nations? Again. – Aurelian
- Europe’s future depends on dismantling the EU — part three – Thomas Fazi
- The Soviets Defeated Nazism, but Western Fascism Lived On – Black Agenda Report
- Everything that doesn’t add up about the EU’s next ‘success story’: Signs Moldova’s election was decided before the first vote – RT
Empire:
- The Return of Geopolitical Gravity – Arnaud Bertrand via Ron Paul Inst.
- The Genie of ‘Israeli First’ Dominance Is Out of the Bottle – Alastair Crooke via UNZ <– Important
- Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” – Ken Klippenstein
New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
U.S. Economy:
- Trump Again Applies His Tariff Wrecking Ball to US Citizens and Businesses with 100% Levy on Imported Patented Drugs, 25% on Imported Trucks, 30% to 50% on Furnishings – Naked Capitalism
- What Declines in Reading and Math Mean for the U.S. Work Force (archived) – NY Times
- Trump’s trade battle with China puts US soybean farmers in peril – AP
- US debt investors raise alarm over lending standards (archived) – Financial Times
LLM Bubble:
- Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? – WSJ via MSN
- Many employees are using AI to create ‘workslop,’ Stanford study says – The Register
- Oracle Stock Crashes 16% from Peak – Is the AI Bubble Finally Bursting? – Technobezz
- Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus. – Gary Marcus
- America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides (archived) – Financial Times
- The AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes ‘parabolic,’ Deutsche Bank warns: ‘This is highly unlikely’ – Fortune
Others:
- Why Warm Countries Are Poorer – Unchartered Territories
- In the valley of the vampires – Epizode Zero. – Yasha Levine
The internet has pacified us. It has robbed us of our agency… taken away our ability to act in the world.
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
