Trump Goes Full Biden, Insists No Inflation, Affordability a Con as Strained Consumers Know Better and Trump’s Polls Sink Further
Trump’s failing about, now on inflation and affordability, is becoming more desperate.
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Internet of Beings: The Dream of Digitising Human Bodies for Healthcare (and the Nightmare)
The logical conclusion of the intensive health monitoring fad: an internet of beings of continuous tracking and daily intervention.
Read more...Heavy Metals Contamination Fears Go Mainstream with Infant Formula and Protein Powders
Heavy metals are a legitimate food safety concern. That has created a mini-industry of conflicted measurement and certification players.
Read more...‘The Main Course Is Inflation’: Thanksgiving Costs Surge Under Trump
A much needed, detailed debunking of Trump’s claim that Thanksgiving meal costs, and by implicaiton inflation, are declining.
Read more...Sanders Denounces Trump-GOP Healthcare Proposal as ‘Absurd’—and Deadly
How Trump’s new healthcare gimmick would lead to more medical bankruptcies, more unaffordable care, and more Americans dying unnecessarily.
Read more...Yet More AI Bubble Worries, Now on Debt Side, with Wall Street Journal Featuring AI Datacenter Borrowing “Frenzy”
Peeling back another layer of the AI onion, today on datacenter financing.
Read more...More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Unemployment among young graduates has hit a sustained high level in many countries, which will produce further social and economic harm.
Read more...Has Ed Zitron Found the Fatal Flaw with OpenAI and Its Flagship ChatGPT?
The Financial Times has re-reported cautious but devastating-looking findings by Ed Zitron on OpenAI’s inference costs and truthfulness.
Read more...Another Shutdown Cost: Skewed and Limited Private Data as Economic Hazard
Due to the shutdown, official economic data has slowed to a crawl. Policymakers, markets, and citizens are turning to private-sector numbers.
Read more...Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy
CPI for food at home has surged by 30% since January 2020.
Read more...OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats − Here’s Why That Matters
What happens when surveillance pricing meets the AI hype?
Read more...Coffee Break: Politics and Science and Politics, a Coral Catastrophe, Mamdani, and the New ICE Age
Part the First: Politics and Science. It will be s surprise to no one that autism is somewhere nearby: Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work. The inquiry came in August and struck scientists at the Food and Drug Administration as highly unusual. The leader of the center that regulates […]
Read more...Winning with Misinformation: New Research Identifies Link Between Endorsing Easily Disproven Claims and Prioritizing Symbolic Strength
A new study probes attitudes that are correlated with receptivity to more extreme misinformation claims.
Read more...Financial Institution Leaders Issue More Warnings of Equity Market Froth, Dodgy Debt Bombs
Financial firm heads are making admissions against interest. Further discussion of apparent and potential risks.
Read more...Waiting for the Wheels to Come Off as Jamie Dimon, the IMF and Bank of England Warn of Damage of an AI Bubble Burst
A look at the increasingly expected AI bubble implosion and what the impact might be.
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