How Epstein Channelled Race Science and ‘Climate Culling’ Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite [BYLINE TIMES] #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpstein #ImpeachTrump

December 2025—The Bulletin Looks to the Future: 80th Anniversary Issue [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]

Recette de hachis parmentier de ma grand-mère avec les restes de pot-au-feu ! [Ouest-France] #foodist

Why many Asian megacities are miserable places — And why Shanghai and Tokyo are not [The Economist]

The year in photos 2025 [The Economist Podcasts]

Mama drama: the row over China’s “mum jobs” — Our weekly podcast on China. This week, what are “mum jobs”—and why don’t Chinese women want them? [The Economist Podcasts]

Bring EIU’s award-winning experts to your audience [The EIU]

How Zak Brown Led the Revival of McLaren Racing [Harvard Business Review]

Manhunt continues after two killed in US university shooting (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [BBC]

The US Is Scrambling to Catch Up in Small-Drone Warfare (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [Bloomberg]

Ukraine's Odesa suffers major blackouts after Russian attack (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [Reuters]

Virtual reality offers escape to Gaza children wounded in Israel’s war [AL-Jazeera News]

PLAYING NICE — In an age of inflamed political rhetotic, a new show on C-SPAN wants to bring back respectful dialogue and bipartisan coöperation. Jon Allsop on whether getting along is a worthwhile goal. [The New Yorker 100]

Markets end the week in the red as Broadcom and Oracle concerns drag the entire AI trade down [Sherwood News]

European Diplomats Are Dissociating in Trump’s Washington [POLITICO]

Taliban Have Crippled Services For Disabled Afghans, Says Tribunal Prosecutor [Afghanistan International]

This $1,500 robot cooks dinner while I work (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [The Verge]

Politics — Why America gave up on economists — Both parties have turned their backs on traditional economic advice. Is the country paying the price? [Vox]

With iOS 26.2, Apple lets you roll back Liquid Glass again — this time on the Lock Screen [TechCrunch]

Southeast Asia seeks its place in space (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [MIT Technology Review]

The Rise and Fall of Hooters [Business Insider]

United Launch Alliance announces the arrival of our Atlas V rocket at its Cape Canaveral pad to launch Amazon Leo 4 on Monday at 3:49 a.m. EST (0849 UTC). This will be ULA's fourth of 46 missions dedicated to delivering Amazon satellites into low Earth orbit for the broadband constellation to connect the world. bit.ly/av_leo4 [LinkedIn] #ULA

US Congress — Top Democrats call for investigation into share-buying spree by Trump allies [The Guardian]

Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [The New York Times]

Detail In 1 New Epstein Estate Pic Makes CNN Anchor Pause: 'Can't Believe I Have To Read This' [Huffington Post]

The Real Reason for the Hong Kong Fire (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [The Atlantic]

Belarus releases 123 prisoners in agreement with US, including Nobel Prize winner and opposition leader [FiveThirtyEight]

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [The Washington Post]

Paris region inaugurates its first cable car [Le Monde]

GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3 — How the two heavyweight models compare on benchmarks, price, and feature set [Mashable]

The Strippers of New York City, 2025 [VICE] this article was written by Emma Garland. Please understand that you’re better off listening to BENKYO RADIO (LOFI) and do your homework, Get an education then get a job. You don’t want to spend your 20s on the pole and increasing your bodycount of sexual partners.

“Trump Has Appointed Himself Judge, Jury, And Executioner” [The Intercept_]

The Geminids are one of the best meteor showers of the year—and the weirdest. Here’s how to see them [National Geographic]

What to know about the Brown University shooting [NPR]

Vega Farms eggs recalled after dozens sickened in salmonella outbreak [Cap Radio News]

Même les Américains se lassent d’Israël [Le Monde diplomatique]

Soccer Still Has Some Explaining to Do — Re-read today, Franklin Foer’s 2004 classic inadvertently suggests where globalization went wrong. (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [Foreign Policy]

How Europe Lost — Can the Continent Escape Its Trump Trap? [Foreign Affairs]

Chinese Electric Buses Are Thriving in Europe – Despite Security and Forced Labor Concerns [The Diplomat]

Can Europe Survive the New Multipolar World? [The Cipher Brief]

Spy Way of Life | Switzerland — Geneva's InterContinental Hotel, the setting for tense US-European talks on Ukraine (paywall, cannot read the story, problematic) [Intelligence Online FR]

String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof [Quanta Magazine]

[Information presse] La stratégie européenne pour la physique des particules passe un cap important — En savoir plus : [CERN_FR]

NASA’s Webb Identifies Earliest Supernova to Date, Shows Host Galaxy [NASA]

30,000 live animals seized in global operation against wildlife and forestry crime [INTERPOL]

Snakes, Sharks, and Ghosts: Space Force Reveals Themes for Naming Platforms [Air & Space Forces Magazine]

2025 BMW M5 Touring vs. Audi RS6 Avant Performance: Comparison Test [MotorTrend Channel] #TheDecision #WaitingOnDonations

What’s up, everybody! It’s Monday, December 15th, 2025! Due to the fact it’s Monday, it’s Major Content-Curation Day. There will be a “Coffee With Zack” in English tonight, hopefully.

Until Next Time!