Consumers Are Footing the Bill for AI’s Insatiable Appetite for Energy
The energy cost of AI is probaby vastly higher than you realized, and will be showing up soon in your power bills.
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Long-COVID, Viruses and ‘Zombie’ Cells: New Research Looks for Links to Chronic Fatigue and Brain Fog
A theory of what might cause the many symptoms of Long Covid, which if proven further, should help in developing treatments
Read more...South America’s Sovereignty Is Being Lost in Big Tech’s Clouds
How South America and the Global South generally are selling out their automony and the promise of multipolarity for Big Tech convenience
Read more...Can States Reinvent U.S. Healthcare? This Expert Thinks So
Trump has sent a wrecking ball through US healthcare. Can states team up to preserve some measure of the old normal?
Read more...The Post-Pandemic Disinflation: Low Sacrifice, High Prices
Central banks in advanced nations really do believe they did a masterful job of managing the post-Covid inflation. This article explains why
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Money Weapon
Let’s talk about money, specifically the use of bribery as a weapon in war and geopolitics. Like any weapon, it has technical characteristics and operational effects. In the ancient world bribery was practiced openly in the form of tribute paid by subject states to dominant powers. Masters were bribed to “protect” their subjects. In the […]
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Airlines Get Passengers to Accept AI-Driven Personalized/Surveillance Pricing?
Delta has fevered dreams of AI-engineered individual pricing to boost revenues. But would this work in practice?
Read more...Plastic Surgery Mills, Many Owned by Private Equity, Sued for Producing Disfiguring Injuries and Deaths
The rise of private-equity-owned plastic surgery mills has produce patient litigatation, often with damning details.
Read more...Colombia Looks to Tighten Its Sanctions Against Israel As Europe “Loses Its Soul in Gaza”
“Nobody is going to listen to us ever again when we go around telling others to respect human rights and international law”: the EU’s former chief diplomat, Josep Borrell.
Read more...Iran Refuses to Blink as Europe Eyes Snapback Sanctions
urope is allegedly threatening to launch the JCPOA snapback, which would re-institute tougher sanctions on Iran. But is this threat real?
Read more...The EU-US Trade Deal: Von der Leyen Just Subordinated the EU as the US’ Largest-Ever Vassal State
The EU submits to Trump on trade and accepts further insult via required US investment and energy purchases
Read more...Fed’s Rates Not Restrictive for Markets. Financial Conditions Ultra-Loose. Manias Form, Margin Debt Blows Out, Junk Bonds Party in La-La-Land
Despite the Fed depicting its current rate policy as restrictive, manic pricing in many financial markets says otherwise.
Read more...As White House Touts ‘Economic Boom,’ Americans Say They’re Barely Scraping By
Despite Trump’s economic claims, with rising tariffs, just 30% of Americans say they can meet their costs per a poll from Data for Progress.
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Master Of The Flying Guillotine (1976) Run Time: 1H 33M
Master of the Flying Guillotine is a movie about a martial artist facing down an implacable foe bent on vengeance.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Church and Finance – From the Crusades to World War I
Michael Hudson extends his historical review from debt in antiquity the role of the Catholic Church in the rise of banking and war finance.
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