Rob Urie: To End Oligarchy, End Finance Capitalism
One prescription for rolling back oligarchy.
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What Just Happened to UK TBTF Lender Barclays’ Online Banking Services, and What Could It Mean for the Wider World?
“[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’s Impending Information Crisis
AI coverage whistles past the graveyard of its lack of enough content to generate good output, assuring garbage in, garbage out.
Read more...Tankus and Kelton on Musk’s DOGE Seizing Treasury’s Payments Chokepoint. But Where Are The Lawyers?
What attack surfaces does DOGE present?
Read more...How Do We Get Competent Politicians?
Richard Murphy argues that all prospective UK parliamentarians and councillors should have to take an exam to prove their competence.
Read more...Meditation and Mindfulness at Work Are Welcome, but Do They Help Avoid Accountability for Toxic Culture?
An update on corporate efforts to deploy seemingly beneficial practices like meditation for their benefit.
Read more...Will It Matter Who Wins Germany’s Upcoming Election or Will Country’s Fate Largely Be Decided in Washington?
If Germany stays under the thumb of Washington and living standards continue to decline under a new government, what happens then?
Read more...Migrant Vendors Park Carts as Their American Dreams Slip Away
Enforcement was already rising. Under Trump, street vendors have gone into hiding to avoid criminal tickets that could make them ICE targets.
Read more...Book Bans
A look at a historical example of a concerted book ban to assess its effectiveness and long-term impact.
Read more...Kelp Farming Isn’t As Green As It Seems
Why kelp, hyped as a carbon sink, does not live up to its promise.
Read more...Links 1/31/2025
Remember Ukraine’s “Diia” Digital Governance System? Russian Hackers Brought It Down in December, and It Is Still Partly Down
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...Should the Government Be Allowed to Hold Bitcoin?
A terse debunking of the idea that governments holding Bitcoin or other private currencies is good for anyone other than their touts.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/30/2025
~ 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 ~
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