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India's Solar Demand Set For 22% Annual Growth Through 2035 Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com India’s solar capacity is set to surge by 22% each year by 2035 as the data center boom will drive increased power consumption, a new report by Nuvama showed on Monday.   The consultancy estimates that India’s total power demand will rise by 6% every year over the next decade, “driven by economic growth, rising urbanis....
Refried Tip of The Spear by Pilli of Republic of Aztlán June 2026 permalink Tip of the Spear Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt Orisanmi Burton (Author) University of California Press October 2023 Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear is groundbreaking, so we wanted to review this book through Chican@ lenses. The concentration kamps are a weapon the oppressed nations need to analyze and r....
A new cross-platform printing API hands PDFs and images to the native print dialog on every port, and iOS builds can now generate Apple Wallet issuer-provisioning extensions from build hints with no native code.
This post was automatically generated. Chess For the Day Record: 1-0-6 Net Elo Change: -28 Games Played ojuanjose - LOSS syhrn - LOSS Sergey_SA - LOSS Denis_pl - LOSS BobDylanOrNot - WIN piszner - LOSS Garofis - LOSS Blog Posts On This Day June 15, 2025 (1 post) June 15, 2024 (1 post) June 15, 2023 (5 posts) June 15, 2022 (1 post)
How The World Added Decades To Life Expectancy The average person today can expect to live far longer than someone born in 1960, regardless of where they live. This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, tracks life expectancy at birth across four World Bank income groups. While high-income countries still have the longest lifespans, the biggest gains have come elsewhere. Upper-middle income countries have added more than t....
Domesticating AI - It's Not Coming, It's Already Here Authored by Howard Armitage via New Atlas , When my neighbor wanted a vision of what his fence could look like, I didn't hesitate to ask ChatGPT to create a mock-up. I took a photo of the fence and asked it to overlay a potted Jasmin espaliered to it, after a couple of tweaks, and all of about one minute later, it gave me this: AI-generated mock-up created from the author’....
Final Ivy Folds As Columbia University Abandons Test-Optional Admissions Policy More than three years after adopting test-optional admissions, Columbia University is reversing course and will once again require standardized test scores from prospective students. Columbia announced on June 13 that, beginning in fall 2027, first-year and transfer applicants will have to submit either SAT or ACT scores to be considered for admission. Th....
Most applications eventually need a lightweight way for users to respond to content. A single like button works for some flows, ratings work for others, but there is a useful space in between: reactions. The dereuromark/cakephp-reactions plugin adds that layer to CakePHP applications. It lets users react to any model record with emoji literals such as 👍, ❤️, or 🚀, […]
Looks like Monday is ..… Yeahhhh. quoting the Uruk-hai isn’t going to work out so well today. It is. after all. rather a depressing day. We are in the middle of. as Ann Barnhardt likes to call it. [[[pri DEMON th]]] – think it through. it does make sense – and (…) The post Monday morning extra strength espresso appeared first on Didactic Mind.
Power Transformer Lead Times Hit Record Highs As US Grid Equipment Shortage Deepens By West Garrett of Industrial Sage Summary: Power transformer lead times now average 128 weeks — nearly 2.5 years — with generator step-up transformers averaging 144 weeks Prices for power transformers have risen 77% since 2019, driven by surging demand and constrained raw material supply Cleveland-Cliffs is the only domestic producer....
Newsom Announces He's Being Investigated By Trump Justice Department California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into him and his wife, claiming the probe is political retaliation as he weighs a bid for president in 2028. "In recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees, not because they found a crime, because they're simply....
An Open Letter To Elizabeth Warren About Trillionaires And Inequality Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Dear Senator Warren, When I  watched your recent video on X  about Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire, I found myself in the unusual position of agreeing with you—at least in part. That is not a sentence I write often. You see…you are correct that something has gone profoundly wrong in an economy that can produ....
A while back I posted a list of my fifty favourite poems. and this was one of them. It's one of the more obscure poems on the list [most of them are not obscure at all]. And even this isn't all that obscure. because I encountered it in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. Still. it's not a poem you ever hear quoted.I have a strange kink whereby I don't want to know too much about the context of my favourite poems. I've read about Sir Thomas Wyat....
Anthropic Accused In Lawsuit Of Lying About $200 Per Month '20x' Plan A federal class-action lawsuit filed Monday accuses Anthropic of misleading customers about the real usage limits on its high-end Claude AI subscriptions. The suit, brought on behalf of Washington D.C. subscriber Karl Kahn and others who bought the Max 5x and Max 20x plans since April 2025, claims the company oversold how much computing power buyers would actually r....
RFK Jr. Warns Vaccine Committee Not 'Functioning', Asks Court To Accelerate Decision Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times , The committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines has been paralyzed by a March ruling by a federal judge , leaving it unable to carry out work ahead of the upcoming respiratory virus season, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has warned. Health Secretary R....
B-52 Bomber Crashes After Take-Off From Edwards Air Force Base In California A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Edwards Air Force Base in California, the base said in a statement Monday. “A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff on the Edwards airfield at 11:20 a.m.,” the base said in a post on Facebook. “Emergency crews immediately responded to the....
Monsters Far And Near Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “We used to say that we don’t know what 2050 will look like. Now it’s more like we don’t know what 2030 will look like.” - Jesus Enrique Rosas You must be thinking that reality is pushing its luck with the president bringing this Iran business - a war, actually, let’s face it - to a favorable conclusion around dinner time Sunday evening (yawn) and then Mr. DJT ....
Saylor's Strategy Buys Another $100 Million Of Bitcoin Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, added to its cryptocurrency reserves last week as BTC continued to trade below the company’s average cost basis of about $75,700. Strategy acquired 1,587 Bitcoin (BTC) for $100 million between June 8 and Sunday,  according  to Monday's 8-K filing with the ....
US Property Foreclosure Filings Increase 14% Year Over Year Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, There were a total of 40,355 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in May—down 5 percent month-over-month but up by 14 percent compared to the same period in 2025. “The increase marks the continuation of a trend of rising foreclosure activity on an annual basis,” real estate analytics company ATTOM said in a June ....
On 14 June, as diplomats edged towards what could have become the most consequential US–Iran understanding in years, a bomb fell on Beirut’s Ghobeiry neighbourhood. Buildings collapsed. Civilians were killed. Families who believed they were living through a fragile ceasefire window suddenly found themselves once again digging through concrete and dust. The strike was not [...]
Three Factors Leave Salty-Snack Demand Stale UBS analyst Peter Grom, who covers U.S. consumer staples including packaged food, beverages, and household products, served up a sour outlook for the salty-snack category , warning that the recovery investors had hoped for remains further out than expected. "Despite recent optimism around a potential recovery in salty snacks, our analysis would suggest the category remains challenged. While....
Original essay, Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund, by Leivick Hodes. Translation and commentary by Madeleine Cohen. INTRODUCTION Polish Bundist Leivick Hodes published “Facing the Future: Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund” in late 1947 in the New York–based Bundist newspaper Unzer tsayt, of which he was an editor. 1 1 Leyvik Hodes, [...]
I thought I let you know that SKY(BSB now Comcast) ISP blocks AirVPN website now in the UK so now they are starting to stop you trying to use a VPN now when Windows supports you using one in Windows, wow no freedom ... 😞 You get a website has timed out error. I had to use a VPN extension in Google Chrome to load the AIRVPN Website then I could sign up again.
I thought I let you know that SKY(BSB now Comcast) ISP blocks AirVPN website now in the UK so now they are starting to stop you trying to use a VPN now when Windows supports you using one in Windows, wow no freedom ... 😞 You get a website has timed out error. I had to use a VPN extension in Google Chrome to load the AIRVPN Website then I could sign up again.
Trump Details Iran Deal At G7: No Nukes, Conditional Sanctions Relief Summary: Iran will not have a nuclear weapon under the new deal. The agreement includes strong policing and enforcement powers. Trump: Obama’s JCPOA was a horrible deal that led toward a bomb. Past U.S. payments to Iran were a failed bribe attempt. Sanctions relief will only happen if Iran complies with terms. Iran gets no money or relief just for s....
In April 2026, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a group of individuals and entities that are involved in recruiting former Colombian military personnel to fight in Sudan on behalf of the Rapid Support Forces militia. According to an official investigation carried out by different US agencies, hundreds of Colombian mercenaries have travelled to [...]
Dangerous Precedent Of Censorship And Sanitization": Biden-Appointed Judge Enjoins Removal Of Slavery And Climate Displays Authored by Jonathan Turley, George Santayana famously said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. The same is true for judicial overreach. Those judges who yield to the temptation to counter policies that are not to their liking are likely to repeat such excesses of power. That is why the recen....
South Africans commemorated two significant events in May: Africa Day and Workers’ Day. These moments normally evoke political reflection on the importance of African unity and workers’ solidarity in challenging racialized capitalism over decades. Yet this year’s reflections were marred by Afrophobic and tribalist attacks on black African working-class migrants. The leaders and supporters of [...]
On 25 April 2026, Mali faced its most severe test in fourteen years. Coordinated JNIM and FLA attacks struck seven major population centres including Kati, Mopti, Gao, and Kidal, as documented in previous articles on African Arguments. Institutional silence is part of the structural picture. Inaction by the Alliance of Sahelian States (Alliance des états sahelien) is often [...]
Could Trump's Fable 5 Export Curbs Slow China's AI Model Race The biggest AI story to start the week is the Trump administration's decision to place export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, forcing Dario Amodei's frontier AI lab to restrict foreign access . The move comes as Chinese open-source models have been rapidly closing the compute gap with U.S. labs. Anthropic's latest release appears to have widened that ....
Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico, and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year.” Those were the words of FIFA President Gianni Infantino following a meeting of the 54 Confederation of African Football (CAF) member association presidents in Nairobi, Kenya, last year. For anyone paying attention, it is clear that Infantino’s words were [...]
On June 10, The Associated Press declared progressive Randy Villegas the winner after a tight race with moderate Jasmeet Bains, a California State Assembly member heavily backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and pro-Israel groups. Villegas will face Republican incumbent David Valadao in November. These were not the results the DCCC wanted. Hans Nichols of Axios reported that on June 9, when [...]
May Day, 2024, was a day of celebration for over 3,500 graduate student research and teaching assistants at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn): we had just won our National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election in a landslide and formed the largest new private sector union in Philadelphia in over half a century. By October, we [...]
Once I knew a women whom internet mountebank Eliezer Yudkowsky had convinced of the proposition that neither consciousness nor self identity existed. She told me she did not exist. She held that her viewpoint. perceptions. thoughts. habits. passion. volition. and memories were not caused by her nor owned by her nor related to her. These (…)
What Could Break The Bull Market This Summer Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Key Takeaways After nine straight up weeks, the bull market pullback we flagged finally arrived, and it stopped cold at the 50-day moving average. The selloff reset an overbought tape without breaking trend. RSI fell from above 70 to the low 40s, and Thursday’s bounce came on broad participation. Our Money Flow Bread....
Like most of America’s wars in West Asia, the current joint U.S.-Israel attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran is about securing control over the region’s energy resources and preserving oil currency policies; practices that have fueled its expansive economy since the end of the Second World War.    Ultimately, this conflict, which has sent shockwaves [...]
While technological successes are celebrated, the social fabric is progressively eroded, as if by a silent virus.” — Pope Leo XIV The artificial intelligence industry likes to refer to its massive “hyperscale” data centres as “campuses.” That’s complete bullshit. A data centre hosts no students, no laughter and no libraries. The poet William Blake would have [...]
Apollo Picks Austin Over New York As Wall Street's Migration South Continues It's not just Citadel that's moving out of New York. Apollo Global Management has chosen Austin, Texas, as its second headquarters, according to sources familiar with the decision. The firm, which manages about $1 trillion in assets, evaluated Austin, Miami, Palm Beach, and Nashville before CEO Marc Rowan selected Austin, according to Financial Times . The ....
Top Iran analyst Dr. Hassan Ahmadian tells Drop Site that Donald Trump was forced to seek a deal on Iran’s terms after meeting the “hard rock” of Iranian resistance. Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill spoke to Ahmadian, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Tehran University on Friday, following President Trump’s announcement that a deal with [...]
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