(I take 2 capsules of Green Tea extract every day.)
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*What if one tiny gut bacterium could help strengthen your immune system?*
Research on *Akkermansia muciniphila* is changing how scientists think about gut health, inflammation, and even cancer immunotherapy.
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South Korea stock bubble explodes as leveraged gamblers get crushed in 8% KOSPI crash and SK Hynix 15% wipeout.
Classic leverage-fueled bubble where easy credit and FOMO turned a sector rally into a national gambling frenzy.
KOSPI trading halted for 20 minutes after 8% plunge — 7th halt of 2026.
SK Hynix down 15% in single day, on track for biggest monthly drop since Oct 2008.
Koreans poured wealth from memory stocks into 3x leveraged positions and got liquidated hard.
Major banks already burned through 85%+ of yearly household loan growth limits (mostly mortgages used to buy stocks).
Banks now facing “lending cliff” in H2 as they must restrict new loans and force repayments.
Heavy leverage + emotional retail gambling created classic bubble setup.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/south-korea-stock-bubble-explodes-as-leveraged-gamblers-get-crushed-in-8-kospi-crash-and-sk-hynix-15-wipeout/#more-227985
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Encampment growing to 12 blocks right by major tourist spot with open drugs and prostitution proves the city completely lost control.
Cops driving by without doing anything and mayor ignoring complaints shows leadership that cares more about optics than fixing the streets. This kind of lawlessness spreads fast when no one stops it early.
NY Post article on lawless 12-block encampment near Intrepid
A grotesque homeless encampment continues to expand on Manhattan’s West Side and now covers 12 city blocks with theft, drugs and prostitution flourishing in broad daylight, The Post has learned.
Dozens of tents and makeshift shelters now extend from 34th Street to 46th Street along 11th Avenue, a worrisome eyesore for local workers and residents as well as tourists lining up to visit the popular Intrepid Museum — with City Hall turning a blind eye and NYPD cops zipping by and doing nothing.
“We cant get rid of them,” one city parks enforcement officer said Sunday. “These ones here are stealing everything. They stole our key for the hose. They stole our ladder. They take what they can. And there are escorts in there too. Prostitutes. I see them, they’re right there.
“Definitely getting worse,” she said. “People stopped parking here. People are scared to park here.”
https://citizenwatchreport.com/encampment-growing-to-12-blocks-right-by-major-tourist-spot-with-open-drugs-and-prostitution-proves-the-city-completely-lost-control/
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Brent and WTI up about 3.5% today so far.
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ICE builds own deportation airline to ramp up removals quickly.
Government finally gets serious planes under its own control so deportations do not depend on slow or expensive outside help anymore. This fleet build-up will crank up the numbers way higher than before because they can fly whenever needed without waiting.
DHS signed big contracts for Boeing 737s and other jets to create dedicated deportation fleet.
Goal is to own and operate planes instead of paying charters every time.
Plans include multiple 737s and high-end Gulfstreams for faster round-the-clock operations.
Deportation flights already hit record highs in 2026 with big jumps from previous year.
Part of broader push to deport more people quicker without depending on outside companies.
Total spending on aircraft runs into hundreds of millions across deals.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/ice-builds-own-deportation-airline-to-ramp-up-removals-quickly/#more-227953
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11% Of All Cardiac Arrests Happen On The Toilet
Everything there ever was to know about toilet deaths is in this video: The Disturbing Reality of Toilet Deaths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoVqOaRpQXI
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Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds,
Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs.
What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity and requires such an immense scale of costly processing and memory capacity can be low-cost, never mind free.
The major AI platforms and vendors are subsidizing corporate and individual users in the hopes that they can achieve AI sector dominance –and the pricing power that comes with it–via the network effect, the dominance generated by having the majority of users bound by habit or dependence to your platform or tools.
This battle for network effect dominance is playing out in full view:
AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share: (wsj.com) Pitched battle for business users comes as AI companies seek lasting streams of revenue.
Hans Ibarra, a founder building an AI-voice startup, has found himself on the receiving end of a big opportunity: Top artificial-intelligence companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and others desperate to win his business are ramping up discounts.
Across Silicon Valley, startup founders like Ibarra are enjoying a wave of computing credits and fielding competing offers from AI-model makers racing to land new enterprise customers. Cursor, the AI-coding company bought by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, offered a 75% discount through July 5.
“If I’m choosing between a really cheap Chinese model that I actually have to pay for, and a very expensive Anthropic model that I don’t have to pay for, I’m going to pick the Anthropic model,” Acker said. “I’m always going to pick the one for which I have free credits.”
Meanwhile, back in the real world of costs, AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced (forbes.com)(via Tom D.)
It turns out that experienced human workers doing the work right in the first place is cheaper than having AI run a probability distribution process that needs vetting and corrections. And remember, AI isn’t actually “intelligent,” it’s just a probability distribution using natural language.
As management guru Peter Drucker observed, enterprises don’t have profits, they have costs. Purveyors of AI platforms and tools have costs, and so do their customers. Those costs are currently being funded by investors, who are in effect subsidizing the AI companies’ “free” giveaways of horrendously costly “tokens” in a manic, desperate attempt to grab the brass ring of network effect dominance before their cash runs out.
This raises a question: Is this any way to run a railroad? In other words, is this actually a viable business model, burning billions of dollars in cash to lock in network effect dominance in a field that is rapidly obsoleting every iteration of an innately limited mode of computation? Is claiming that a probability distribution is “intelligent” in the same way humans are intelligent a viable business model when there is ample evidence this simply isn’t true?
AI and human intelligence are drastically different–here’s how (scientificamerican.com)
What happens when enterprises have to pay the unsubsidized costs of AI is they immediately curtail their AI spending because the customer-facing / financial benefits of AI are at best elusive and often negative. Peter Drucker was onto something that is currently being lost in the PR-propaganda push of those trying to cash in on the AI euphoria: enterprises don’t have profits, they have costs, and the real-world costs of AI are extraordinarily high while the payoffs are ambiguous.
There are many other hidden subsidies within the AI machinery. There are corporate tax write-off subsidies, energy subsidies, tax credit subsidies for building data centers, and so on. If these were stripped out, what would the real unsubsidized costs of AI be? No one knows, but they would be higher than what’s presented as the cost now.
Then there’s the if it’s legal, it’s moral, and what’s legal is for sale subsidy: AI is built on the systemic theft of copyrighted content. Last month alone, AI scrapers gorged on 246,000 pages from my Of Two Minds server, and hundreds of thousands of pages of my copyrighted works on my mirror site and other sites posting my work.
See also UK bureaucracy threatens prison for hero who cleaned polluted river without permit.
This is legal, but is it moral? Nobody asks such questions because the important thing is to avoid saddling AI users with the real costs. So if all those content creators get nothing–in effect, subsidizing both AI companies and the users of their AI platforms and tools–well, so what, because if it’s legal, it’s moral, and what’s legal is for sale.
Well that’s just peachy, but let’s do a thought experiment where every creator of copyrighted work got paid for supplying AI with its database, and every user of AI had to pay us content creators. How about a penny a page / image / sound clip? so 246,000 pages per month (again, only a fraction of the total volume of my work that was scraped by AI companies for their “free” use in a single month) would be $2,460 a month paid to me by AI users benefiting directly from my copyrighted work. Wouldn’t that be fair, i.e. moral?
Recall that US copyright law is explicit: all creative content is copyrighted upon completion, period.
How many current users of AI are willing to pay the full unsubsidized costs for their use of AI? We can safely say far fewer than are using the tools for “free” due to subsidies both direct and indirect.
Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs. Once those subsidies end, what’s left are costs, not profits. Play that any way you like, but massive subsidies are not sustainable, though they generate a temporary illusion of viability that can be exploited by those selling a fantasy of future profitability to credulous investors and enterprises.
Left unsaid is a lot of money is being gambled on the illusion that subsidies are sustainable. They’re not. Enterprises don’t have profits, they have costs.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/without-subsidies-ai-is-unaffordable/#more-227876
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