Monday/Lundi December/Decembre 15th, 2025
ZAKI QAYOUMI AKA ZACK IS CURRENTLY WRITING AS HE HAS BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST 14 YEARS. HE HAS NOT RECEIVED PAYCHECKS FOR THE LAST ALMOST 8 YEARS IN THE BIG TECH NOR STARTUPS INDUSTRIES THEREFORE HE HAS NO SORROWS BY THE MASSIVE LAYOFFS THAT EVERYBODY IS FACING. THE REPORTS THAT HE WRITES ARE OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, DUE TO PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS, WHICH CAN HELP VARIOUS IMPORTANT PEOPLE MAKE EXECUTIVE DECISIONS, ESPECIALLY IN THE WORLD OF TECH, THE ECONOMY, WORLD AFFAIRS / AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES / DIPLOMACY, AND THE WORLD OF MUSIC AND THE WORLD OF GAMING. HE HAS PERFORMED OVER 25 YEARS OF WORK, INCLUDING THESE LAST ALMOST 8 YEARS UNPAID AND WAITING FOR HIS FIRST NEW CAR PURCHASE EVER OR CAR DONATION. HE ABSOLUTELY NEEDS A SALARY ASAP. LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT ZAKI AKA ZACK IS A COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY GRADUATE OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WITH A B.A. IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, ALONG WITH TWO CERTIFICATES, ONE IN DATA ANALYSIS FROM CRC, AND THE OTHER IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT FROM FLC. LET’S BE REAL, IF ZAKI’S NAME WAS NOT FOREIGN, HE WOULD HAVE IMMEDIATELY RECEIVED HIS PROJECT MANAGER JOB OFFER IN TECH WORLD. YOU ARE ALL COMPLICIT IN THIS DISASTER AND WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES, MORE MASSIVE LAYOFFS UNTIL I RECEIVE A SALARY. THERE WILL BE A NEW SEASON OF UNDERCOVER BOSS ON CBS. THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY HAS BEEN A TOTAL DISASTER AND MORE DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS MINORITIES TOOK PLACE. YOU ARE ALL GAMBLING WITH OUR LIVES, OUR SALARIES, OR LACK THEREOF, I DEMAND COMPENSATION, AS SOON AS HUMANELY POSSIBLE. ZAKI AKA ZACK LOST HIS MARRIAGE DUE TO FINANCIAL STRUGGLES. HE WAS DEVASTATED.
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]
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]