AMERICANTHINKER - America’s Golden Age: Trump sows seeds of economic prosperity
By Joseph Ford Cotto The harvest is set to be great.
AMERICANTHINKER - A slip of the mask
By Greg Maresca There’s a monster beneath this shiny “Islamic scholar” exterior.
AMERICANTHINKER - Even as Mamdani ignored Little Italy on his NYC map, he added an imaginary country
By Susan Quinn This was a deliberate move intended to erase Jews from New York as surely as the world’s Mamdanis intend to erase them from Israel.
NYTIMES (Lisa Friedman) - Clock Ticks Down to Europe’s Ban on Russian Gas Tankers
Europeans say they fear a rising dependence on American energy even with a looming Jan. 1 deadline to end liquefied natural gas imports from Russia.
NYTIMES (Keith Bradsher) - China Wields Its Rare Earth Leverage Over Europe With New Export Controls
Beijing banned shipments of important supplies to 14 companies on the cutting edge of chemicals processing, electric motors and defense.
NPR (Terry Gross) - A former nun explains why she ran away from her 'Cloistered' life
Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery at age 24, and lived a life of prayer and obedience for 12 years. Her memoir is Cloistered: My Years as a Nun. Originally published March 20, 2024.
REDSTATE (Susie Moore) - Morning Minute: No, Freddy — Thank You!
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Suspect in Central Park Double Stabbing Shouted ‘Allahu Akbar!’
A suspect has been arrested following a double stabbing near Manhattan’s Central Park, with victims reporting the assailant shouted “Allahu akbar!” during the attacks.PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Two men, one Asian and one Jewish, were stabbed near Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, on Thursday, in a possible anti-Semitic attack. The suspect, Raul Morales, […]
A suspect has been arrested following a double stabbing near Manhattan’s Central Park, with victims reporting the assailant shouted “Allahu akbar!” during the attacks. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Two men, one Asian and one Jewish, were stabbed near Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, on Thursday, in a possible anti-Semitic attack. The suspect, Raul Morales, 51, allegedly shouted “Allahu akbar!”—an Arabic phrase meaning “[Our] God is greater!” —during the attacks, according to victim and witness statements. WHO WAS INVOLVED: The victims, an Asian man and a Jewish man, are in stable condition. Raul Morales was arrested in connection with the stabbings on Thursday, and police are investigating his motives, including…Open
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - The people testing AI for danger are having a hard time keeping up
The pace of AI development combined with soaring compute costs is squeezing the AI researchers responsible for evaluating frontier models — just as those models' capabilitie s are becoming harder to measure. Why it matters: When safety testing can't keep pace, models capable of hacking companies or aiding in the development of bioweapons could reach the public before anyone knows what they can do. - Last week's breach of Hugging Face, carried out autonomously by OpenAI's models in the middle of safety testing, shows that some of the highest-risk behaviors can emerge during pre-release testing itself. Several challenges are tying up AI safety and security researchers just as U.S. frontier AI companies race to get new models to market: …
AXIOS (Ben Geman) - Drones have created a new energy security landscape
The wars in Iran and Ukraine show how the drone tech revolution makes it easier — and cheaper — to interrupt energy supplies by striking refineries and oil tankers. Why it matters: It's an important reason why oil traded at $100 per barrel this week and gasoline and diesel fuel are so expensive these days. - Looking ahead, the way drones are reshaping modern warfare has high stakes for how policymakers and companies view new and existing power grids, pipelines, liquefied natural gas ports and plenty in between. The big picture: "Anyone building energy infrastructure in any area where kinetic conflict is even remotely possible is going to have to think about drone defense," said Gregory Brew, an analyst with the Eurasia Group, a…