Category Archives: Guest Post

As More Patients E-mail Doctors, Health Systems Start Charging Fees (and Using AI for Responses)

Will doctors feeling the need to bill for e-mail service wind up having perverse side effects?

Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition

Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2023

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Yanis Varoufakis: TECHNOFEUDALISM – What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”

DJG, Reality Czar: Help Naked Capitalism Keep Spoiling You

Naked Capitalism does a lot for all of us. So time to donate to keep this good thing going.

The Reported Russian-North Korean Military Deal Is All About Geostrategic Balancing

Looking at the logic of the Russian deal with North Korea.

The South China Sea’s Resource Wars

Taiwan is only a part of the ongoing conflict between Chana and America plus its Asian allies.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2023

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In Search of Safer Shelters: The Challenges of Replicating Nature

Human-made shelters don’t always keep creatures out of harm’s way. Can technology help design a better birdhouse?

G20 and World Bank Reaffirm Their Commitment to Harnessing Power of “Digital Public Infrastructure” (DPI)

“Everybody should have a digital ID; everybody should have a bank account; everybody should have a smartphone. Then, anything can be done. Everything else is built on that.”

How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure

New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed shareholder value ideology.

At What Level Will Saudi Arabia And Russia Stop Pushing Oil Prices Higher?

Russia and Saudi Arabia seem finally to have gotten the oil price increases they wanted. How much higher might they go?

15 Dad Jokes that Are Actually Funny

“A horse walks into a bar….”

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/11/2023

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