Daniel Davis on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Daniel Davis on What’s Been Happening in Ukraine.” (05/05/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/4-30-26-daniel-davis-on-whats-been-happening-in-ukraine/
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
The Enemy of My Enemy Is a Really Big Dragon
Source: Liberalism.org
by Sarah Skwire
“I read some really great political theory this week. And unlike Plato’s Republic or Aristotle’s Politics, this book had a dragon. Joe Hill’s most recent novel, King Sorrow, takes its main characters and its readers on a scary and suspenseful exploration of the dubious wisdom of the claim that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend.’ That old political saw gets hauled out from the back corner of the basement whenever it seems expedient to make a morally dubious alliance with a stronger power. Hill’s novel, a deliciously gory and smart bit of horror in its own right, exposes the ethical void at the center of such alliances.” (05/05/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-a-really-big-dragon
Israel: Court extends caging of activists abduced by pirates
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“An Israeli court on Tuesday extended the [caging] of two foreign activists [abducted] from a Gaza-bound flotilla by six days, a lawyer representing them said. Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian Thiago Avila appeared before a court in the southern city of Ashkelon for their second hearing, after being brought to Israel for questioning last week. … The two, held in a prison in Ashkelon, were among dozens of activists aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters off the coast of Greece early on Thursday. The other [abducted] activists were taken to the Greek island of Crete and released.” (05/05/26)
The Good Fight, 05/05/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Laurenz Guenther on the Representation Gap in Politics.” (05/05/26)
How the waste in healthcare drives the US debt
Source: Los Angeles Times
by James Weinstein
“Washington treats healthcare spending like a moral obligation and interest payments like an accounting nuisance. They’re linked: Federal spending that is wasted in the healthcare system forces higher taxes or more borrowing, leaving less money for Medicare, defense or anything else. To slow deficit spending and the ballooning costs of the national debt, policymakers should start by eliminating a large preventable expense: waste in U.S. healthcare.” (05/05/26)
Demographics, not the Supreme Court, are killing racial gerrymandering
Source: The Hill
by Merrill Matthews
“There’s been no shortage of expressed outrage from the left in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly limits states’ efforts at racial gerrymandering. A Salon headline captures the progressive indignation: ‘Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act in ‘Jim Crow 2.0 ruling.’’ The left can never be accused of understatement. But the change needed to happen because U.S. demographics are making racial gerrymandering increasingly difficult. And that’s a good thing.” (05/05/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5862711-voting-rights-act-challenges/
Microsoft, Google, xAI give US regime access to AI models for security testing
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Tech giants Microsoft, Google and xAI say they will allow the United States federal government access to their new artificial intelligence models for national security testing. The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Department of Commerce announced the agreement on Tuesday amid increasing concerns about the capabilities that Anthropic’s newly unveiled Mythos model could give hackers. Under the new agreement, the US government will be allowed to evaluate the models before deployment and conduct research to assess their capabilities and security risks.” (05/05/26)
Capital Record, episode 297
Source: National Review
“Two Bankruptcies for the Price of One?” (05/05/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/two-bankruptcies-for-the-price-of-one/
Synformation: Epistemic Capture Meets AI
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Robert Malone
“In my role as Co-chairperson and member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, I have been participating in a training course regarding the GRADE methodology for public health decision-making. The acronym stands for Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation, and this methodology is intended to provide a structured, transparent framework to evaluate the quality (certainty) of evidence and the strength of recommendations derived from that evidence. … The GRADE approach assumes that, in the case of peer-reviewed clinical and epidemiological data (otherwise referred to as ‘evidence-based medicine’), individual studies will reflect various forms of bias (structural, intentional, or unintended), but when systematically analyzed as a collection of information, these biases will either cancel each other out or (if bias is detected) can be statistically compensated for. What could possibly go wrong? Clearly, something did.” (05/05/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/synformation-epistemic-capture-meets-ai/
Rising, 05/05/26
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on a report from The Daily Wire that alleges widespread welfare fraud in Ohio.” (05/05/26)