Rob Urie: No Path Forward, No Way Back, Imperial Decline Edition
Decades of misuse of US imperial advantages, malinvestment, looting produce hopium for destructive AI deployment as a rescue for the rich.
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How Apocalyptic Worldviews Are Moving from the Fringes to the Corridors of Power
Why apocalyptic concerns seem fully warranted, officials and prominent figures can use them to manipulate the public.
Read more...Big Money and the Maine Election: Round 2
Despite Maine Democratic Party claims that outside interests won’t influence who replaces Platner, the money trail suggests otherwise.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Déjà Vu All Over Again! Are Stock Markets Repeating Dot.com Mistakes?
AI valuations make the dot.com era look pale. Yet genuine excitement seems to be wanting.
Read more...Senators and Representatives Block $1.15 Trillion Pentagon Bill Over Trump’s Illegal Iran War, Israel Integration
A preliminary success in blocking Trump’s plan to supersize the Pentagon budget and integrate the IDF.
Read more...Should BRICS+ Lead the Global South?
BRICS seems destined never to live up to hopes for it. Is strengthening the Non-Aligned Movement a better strategy?
Read more...Hochul Temporarily Bans New Data Centers in NY Amid Scrutiny of Climate Impacts
Mirabile dictu! New York intends to make data centers hew to more stringent pollution, water use and energy cost/impact rules.
Read more...Knee Pain? Ragged Cartilage? Research Suggests Surgery’s Not the Best Answer
Some news you can use: on a dodgy knee procedure that while deservedly falling in popularity, is still being practiced.
Read more...Will the Bank of England Ever Give Venezuela Back Its Gold?
It’s already been more than seven years since the UK confiscated Venezuela’s gold reserves, which have since more than doubled in value.
Read more...On the US-EU Productivity Debate: James Galbraith Responds to Paul Krugman
An exchange about American versus European productivity is really about the US need to substantiate its superior status.
Read more...Trapped at Home: Climate Stress Is More Likely to Immobilize the Poor Than to Move Them
A new study argues that climate change will not produce mass migration of the poor, using debatable assumptions.
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Hószakadás AKA Snowfall (1974) Run Time: 1H 33M Plus Anil Seth On Why AI Is Not Conscious Plus Bonuses!
Hószakadás is a movie about life and death on the fringes of war.
Read more...The Graham Platner Affair
A post mortem of the successful effort to end Graham Platner’s Senate bid and any future in politics.
Read more...How Stories Change the Human Brain, Empathy, Memory, and Behavior
Yves here. Stories are integral to decision-making. Prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys know well that juries reach their verdicts not on weighing evidence but on constructing the story that seems to them to fit the evidence best and then see what that means in terms of a ruling. It’s thus disconcerting to see how tech […]
Read more...Europe’s Gathering Backlash Against Palantir Hits NATO Resistance
The AI systems managed by Palantir are becoming even more embedded in the collective West’s war-waging.
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