Thursday, May 22, 2025

New SEC Chief on Board with Letting Retail Chumps Invest in Private Equity Even as Pros Like Kuwait Sovereign Wealth Fund Sound Red Alert

The SEC, in its munificence, is planning to allow more retail investors to be fleeced by private equity.

Links 5/22/2025

Thinking Being Offloaded to AI Even in Elite Medical Programs

The use of AI is severely degrading competence in advanced medical/biomedical degree programs in elite universities. Patients be warned.

A Harbinger? Tech Jobs Plunge in San Francisco & Silicon Valley Brings Condo Prices Drop Back to 2015, Single-Family Home to 2018

Software hiriing has been falling for years, and is finally affecting the economies in its heartland, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

Debating Trump “Ambush” of South African President With “White Genocide’ Lies

n the consternation over Cyril Rhamposa’s failure to rebut Trump’s disgraceful diversion tactics regarding of Israel’s Gaza genocide

Rising Seas From Fossil Fuels Threaten Inland Migration ‘Never Witnessed in Modern Civilization’

A new study in Nature looks at one of the baked-in effects from just our current level of temperature increases: mass migration.

Links 5/21/2025

Whither mRNA Therapeutics Under the Current Regime and Beyond?

One of the more remarkable things I have ever seen has been the demonization of the middle component of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology in the past four years.  The Central Dogma was formulated in late-1950s by Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA with James D. Watson:  DNA makes RNA […]

Ideology-Driven, Inflationary Trump Tax and Tariff Policies Losing War With Bond and Currency Markets

ump’s trade, tariffs and tax schemes are already starting to come apart. And he seems to have no Plan B.

“Updating the Constitution”

On changes in the US governing regime, depicted as revisions to the Constitution.

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Missile Misfit

There are 400 nuclear missile silos in the central United States that constitute the land-based component of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. The Minuteman III missiles in the silos are roughly 50 years old. Although they have been repeatedly upgraded over the years, the Air Force decided a replacement should be developed. The new missile under […]

Chemical Exposure from Ultra-Processed Foods May Contribute to Health Issues

Another line of thought on why consumption of ultra-processed foods is correlated with poor health outcomes.

Links 5/20/2025

Russia’s Attritional Approach to Ukraine Negotiations Shows Gains in Trump-Putin Phone Call

Despite the tendency to see the Trump-Putin call as a nothingburger, it added to the exposure of uncomfortable truths for the West.

Is UK Creating a Giant Bonanza for Hackers and Nation-State Adversaries With Its “One Login” Digital Governance System?

The government’s cavalier approach to security for its digital governance and identity systems should be enough to give all UK citizens pause — if only they knew about it!