~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; DOGE as a revolutionary NRx (neo-reactionary) project; DOGE seeks to avoid FOIA; DOGE given sysadmin privileges at Office of Personnel Management with days of the Inaugural; An atmospheric Turner ~
Read more...On Tony West as intellectual leader and major implementer of the similar Uber narrative-driven strategy and the failed Harris campaign.
Read more...On the high odds of winding up with the Peter Principle of AI implementation in financial institutions, and what to do to prevent that.
Read more...A fresh sighting on the relentless march of climate change, with the January just past the warmest on record.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; DOGE: New lawsuit from Public Citizen on DOGE data “access”; DOGE goons have write access to Treasury’s payments system (Tankus, Wired, Marshall, but not Taibbi) ~
Read more...Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for rough treatment of illegal immigrants, growth of the deportation industrial complex has been a two-party affair
Read more...Michael Hudson and Ben Norton take a deep dive into Trump’s contradictory and potentially disastrous economic plans, starting with tariffs.
Read more...Trump and Netanyahu have gone all in on ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Read more...One prescription for rolling back oligarchy.
Read more...“[W]e have this house of cards where you’ve got an awful lot of institutions working co-operatively with each other, but if one messes up the system, then the whole system fails.”
Read more...AI coverage whistles past the graveyard of its lack of enough content to generate good output, assuring garbage in, garbage out.
Read more...What attack surfaces does DOGE present?
Read more...Richard Murphy argues that all prospective UK parliamentarians and councillors should have to take an exam to prove their competence.
Read more...An update on corporate efforts to deploy seemingly beneficial practices like meditation for their benefit.
Read more...If Germany stays under the thumb of Washington and living standards continue to decline under a new government, what happens then?
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