“[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?
Read more...Enforcement was already rising. Under Trump, street vendors have gone into hiding to avoid criminal tickets that could make them ICE targets.
Read more...A look at a historical example of a concerted book ban to assess its effectiveness and long-term impact.
Read more...Why kelp, hyped as a carbon sink, does not live up to its promise.
Read more...The Zelensky government’s “state in a smartphone” model of digital identity and governance, once a source of pride and inspiration for other countries, has become a source of derision.
Read more...A terse debunking of the idea that governments holding Bitcoin or other private currencies is good for anyone other than their touts.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; The Rescinded OMB “freeze” memo: after-action reports and interpretations; Beware the so-called “buyout” scheme; Tulsi Gabbard nomination for DNI ~
Read more...Why the problem a rising level of bogus scientific papers exists in the first place and is proving difficult to combat.
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