What Has Happened to Our Grand Experiment, the Internet?
With AI threatening to crapify online life and even generate geopolitical chaos, Congress needs to reinstate the Office of Technology Policy
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NYT Readies Terrain for Incoming Trump Administration’s Long-Telegraphed Intervention in Mexico
The media’s role in selling the next military adventure should never be underestimated, even in this media-skeptic age.
Read more...DOGE: Nations Aren’t Corporations and ‘Efficiency’ Means Austerity
Why DOGE, if implemented on the scale intended, will be a train wreck for the great majority of Americans.
Read more...Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity
Another type of example of how health insurers screw patients.
Read more...How Is It That xAI’s (Naïve) Grok Does Not Reveal that xAI is a Public Benefit Corporation?
Lambert annotates a Grok transcript.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/6/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Read more...Who Benefits from Russia’s War in Ukraine
Contrary to plans, Ukraine war sanctions against Russia enriched many of Russia’s top businessmen, including those sanctioned personally.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Cracks in the Empire – Is the American Superpower Fading?
Michael Hudson provides a new, wide-ranging talk on the US hegemony-preservation efforts and what they mean for Europe, Russia, and BRICS.
Read more...The Earthquake Environmental Justice Advocates Aren’t Talking About
Why are US environmental groups so silent about the empire’s global warmaking?
Read more...Links 1/4/2025
Michael Hudson’s Introduction to Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics
Michael Hudson introduces anthropologist Giorgio Buccellati’s fascinating book on the political evolution of earlier societies.
Read more...Tech Law in 2025: A Look Ahead at AI, Privacy and Social Media Regulation Under the New Trump Administration
Team Trump’s tech industry regulatory plans have gotten less attention than some other initiatives. An overview helps fill this lapse
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/3/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts drop, with Christmas hospitalization up in New York; Mike Benz: X censorship and deplatforming; Mangione: murder and social murder; Teen Vogue on “salting” ~
Read more...Links 1/3/2025
Just Like Clockwork, the Propaganda Push for Digital ID Kicks Into Gear in the UK
After avoiding the issue for years, the legacy media are now trying to manufacture public complacency and consent for the government’s digital identity — and by extension, CBDC — agenda. On July 5, the day Keir Starmer became UK prime minister, we wagered that a Starmer government would intensify the push to roll out a […]
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