The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message

Article 5 Looming: NATO Shoots Down Iranian Ballistic Missile Fired At Turkey There's looming fear that Trump's Operation Epic Fury is fast spinning into a broader regional war, even a possible WW3 scenario - though large powers like Russia and China are expected to remain on the sidelines.  Illustrating this potential, on Wednesday a ballistic missile launched from Iran and tracked across Iraqi and Syrian airspace before heading toward Turkish territory was shot down by NATO air defenses, according to Turkey's Defense Ministry. Open source file image: Launcher for Iranian Zolfaghar ballistic missiles NATO...

Visualizing Data Center Power Surge Before White House Meets With Big Tech Ahead of tomorrow's White House meeting, where representatives from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI are expected to pledge that their data-center buildouts will not drive higher power bills for households near those facilities, UBS analyst Arend Kapteyn has published a new note featuring a chart of the day that visualizes the rapid growth in data center power demand on the grid. After staying mostly flat for years, data center electricity demand has been surging since 2017,...

They’re not even trying anymore. US middle east envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Saturday that Iran is “probably a week away” from having the materials necessary to make a nuclear bomb — a line that Iran hawks have been falsely repeating for over three decades. It’s such a transparently bogus claim that even The Jerusalem Post dunked on Witkoff for […]