How Polymarket traders using tools like “insider finder” to identify positions that look based on special intel can be fleeced.
Monday, January 19, 2026
Greenland and Irrational Responses to the Crisis of Capital Accumulation
The case that the tech bros desire for freedom cities and need for AI energy is driving the Greenland obsession.
“We Are Watching Critical Thinking Disappear in Real Time” Due to AI Addiction: 40% of Kids Can’t Read, Teachers Quitting in Droves
How AI and device overstimulation are producing students with severe deficiencies in reasoning and information processing skills.
‘Could I Be in Their Cabinet?’: Big Business Eyes Up Reform
How Nigel Farage’s ‘anti-establishment’ party began a love affair with lobbyists and industry leaders.
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Ballad Of Orin (1977) Run Time: 1H 58M Plus Bonus Jazz!
Ballad of Orin is a movie about brief flashes of beauty in an ocean of despair.
What Can We Do for the 250 Million and Counting Displaced by the Environmental Crisis?
A call for a new comprehensive legal framework for climate refugees to safeguard vulnerable populations and protect those who may be at risk in the future.
1 Year Into Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration Is in Disarray
If you are so unfortunate as to need assistance from the Social Security Administration, good luck with that.
Book Review: A Portrait of the Arctic World in Flux
Neil Shea’s “Frostlines” captures the terror and beauty of the Arctic, a region often dismissed as “big, cold, white, and far away.”
Coffee Break: The President Fixes Health Care While Unfixing the Air We Breathe, Among Other Things
Part the First: The President Fixes Healthcare. Oh, joy! A very long time ago I told myself that, surely, by the time I was eligible for Medicare the United States would have fixed our healthcare system so that job lock and other assorted problems would have vanished. Silly me. I have been eligible for Medicare […]
The Day of the Dollar: Is It Over?
More on the prospects for the dollar. Even under Trump, it remains the cleanest shirt in the laundry bin.
Why Keir Starmer’s Partial “U-Turn” on Mandatory Digital IDs Is Merely a Symbolic Victory
The UK government has no intention of changing course. But can the resistance grow?
