Adult-Child Genius Sam Bankman-Fried Opts for “I’m Hopelessly Stupid and Confused” Defense
Sadly, the press is eating up Sam Bankman-Fried’s not-remotely-credible defense of ignorance and addlebrain (as opposed to Adderall brain)
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Gates Foundation-Sponsored Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Gets Make-Up, Not Make-Over
The Gates Foundation has tacitly admitted the failure of its “green revolution” in Africa. Yet it is still following Big Ag approaches.
Read more...Michael Hudson Answers Questions on Europe’s Self-Immolation, Fed’s Malpractice, Changing World Order
Michael Hudson covers a wide range of topics, including the decline of Europe, the Fed’s mismanagement, the rise of new economic blocs
Read more...Is Science Really Self-Correcting? Yes, But the Mechanism Varies
cience, or here, scientific journals do have their problematic papers caught out. But oddly they are not delisted or deplatformed.
Read more...COP27’s Loss and Damage Deal Isn’t a Win. It Committed Us To Devastation
COP27 made no clear commitment to decarbonisation and stopping climate-change-induced loss and damage
Read more...A Quick Note About Additional FTX Sleaze
Some shady FTX behavior that hopefully won’t be lost in the shuffle of new revelations.
Read more...University of California Comes to a Standstill as Academic Workers Strike
Workers at 10 UC campuses struck after the university system failed to offer compensation commensurate to the cost of living in California.
Read more...The Only Crypto Story You Need? A Response to Matt Levine’s The Crypto Story
A wide-ranging discussion of why defenses of crypto don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Read more...Tom Ferguson: Worker’s Wages & Leverage are the Real Targets
Why did Corporate Democrats “cede” the economic argument? Are they really fighting inflation or trying to weaken workers’ bargaining power?
Read more...You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?
Nomi Prins warns that central banks’ strategies are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.
Read more...FTX: New Ex-Enron CEO Finds “Complete Absence of Trustworthy Financial Information,” $3.3 Billion Loans to SBF, Customer Deposits Not Recorded on Balance Sheets; Confirms Software Backdoors, Auto-Deleted Communications
FTX is an even bigger mess than someone with a creative streak might have imagined.
Read more...Book Review: The Surpisingly Imprecise History of Measurement
Why measurement is hard!
Read more...Knowledge Overconfidence: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”
Some studies seek to understand why some dogs won’t eat the dogfood, as in accept what is considered to be scietific knowledge.
Read more...U.S. to Announce Plan for Private Companies to Fund International Renewable Energy Transition
Yet more proof that the US is far more inteested in green energy profiteering than doing the hard work to reduce the pace of climate change.
Read more...Limits to Growth: Inconvenient Truth of Our Times
Before the first UN environmental summit, The Limits to Growth showed Earth’s finite resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.
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