Category Archives: Guest Post
How Influencer Cartels Manipulate Social Media: Fraudulent Behaviour Hidden in Plain Sight
Influencer cartels can improve consumer welfare if they expand social media engagement to the target audience, but reduce welfare if they divert engagement to less relevant audiences. Rewarding engagement quantity encourages harmful collusion
Read more...Ready Reckoner For Killing – The Raisi Assassination
Why the death of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi looks more and more like an inside job rather than an accident.
Read more...The Twenty-First Century Executive Branch Is a Criminogenic Environment
Alexander Hamilton’s “energy in the Executive” has a downside.
Read more...Links 6/2/2024
Data Centers Set to Consume 9% of U.S. Electricity by 2030
Electricity demand is set to increase markedly thanks to uses like AI and cryptocurrencies.
Read more...Death and the Cinema
A discussion of film, even films about death, will hopefully come as a distraction from turbulent news.
Read more...Links 5/31/2024
From Debunking to “Pre-bunking”: EU Opens Up Another New Front in Its War on Information
“Perhaps if you think of information as a virus, instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold — that is, debunking — it is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated.” Welcome to prebunking.
Read more...Will Israel Kill Public Support for America’s Bipartisan Consensus?
Could there be a tiny silver lining in the Israel genocide in Gaza?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/30/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics, Trump convicted on all 34 counts, yellow waders for Merchan’s jury instructions, H5N1 breakout scenario, “Decolonize the gut!”, “They were careless people….” ~
Read more...Global South Suffering Due to Powerful Nations’ Elite-Serving Policies
The World Bank projects the worst slowdown in over four decades in 2024. This is mainly due to Western powers’ contractionary policies
Read more...Links 5/30/2024
Michael Hudson: Modern (Mis)interpretations of Ancient Debt Cancellation
Modern economists misrepresent how ancient debt cancellation worked, forcing it into contemporary neoliberal /creditor rights frameworks
Read more...Status of Banks’ Unrealized Losses in Q1: Worsened After Brief Rate-Cut-Mania Relief
US banks are still sitting on losses, with Fed relief nowhere in sight.
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