The News I'm Reading, #3

Sunday 

Against Black Women: https://fortune.com/2025/11/22/the-exit-economy-black-women-labor-force-participation-inequality/ 

Anti-women? https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-degrees-professional-trump-administration-11085695

Can this be done without China's authoritarianism? (Which the U.S. is definitely trying to emulate at this point in time.)  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/china-us-poverty-income-inequality?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

 

And a math thing I might want to think more about later (infinity and computers, really?) https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science-20251121/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOP_PBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR6oCMibcmfN1_w5llVVAuhvfNWORUJhd9OkmvmPu6GBkyH3haOlpEZchR-uEQ_aem_mKFOy4pKwhFcXo3DI_lPWA 

 Howard U on Anit-Black (etc) aspects of AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtcSL4S3HQ

CRISPR unlocks a new way to defeat resistant lung cancer CRISPR disables a key resistance gene, making tough cancers vulnerable to chemotherapy again.   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251117095637.htm

 

Monday

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/

 

Tuesday

Rebecca Solnit, best post in a long time. https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/revolutionary-weather-and-the-baboon-in-the-ruins/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter 

Sadly, Noam Chomsky (on the left) was not mentioned in this important but very incomplete analysis: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/25/anand_giridharadas?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=3ec0421961-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-3ec0421961-192566082

 

Wednesday

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/georgia-prosecutor-drops-trump-election-interference-case

 

 Wed, Dec 10

Saving this to read later: https://ambrook.com/offrange/supply-chain/food-sovereignty-meat-processing